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Many viewers wonder:
Who is behind these
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Tomorrow's World telecasts?
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The most obvious answer is
found in what we say at the
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end of each program:
We are sponsored by the
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Living Church of God.
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But that brings up another question: Who or what
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is the Living Church of God?
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On this Tomorrow's World
telecast I'll be
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answering this question.
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I'll show you who we are,
what our mission is, and
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what we believe.
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I'll also be offering to
you a free publication--
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Restoring Original Christianity--
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so be sure to have writing material available so
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you can take down our
contact information.
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As with everything that we offer, this resource is
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given away free for the asking.
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Members and coworkers of the Living Church of God have
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already paid for it, and I'll explain on this program why
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it is that everything we have
is distributed free of charge.
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So stay tuned to learn about the church behind Tomorrow's World.
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I'll be back in five seconds
to give you the answer.
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♪
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A warm welcome to all of
you from all of us here
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at Tomorrow's World, where
today I'll be answering
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the question of who we
are--which Church is it
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that is behind these
telecasts, our magazine,
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and all of our free resources.
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I'll also explain
the mission of the
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Living Church of God
and what we believe.
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Simply put, we are
a remnant of first
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century Christianity,
but what does this mean?
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Jesus said He would build
His church and the gates
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of the grave would not
prevail against it.
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Yet, the record of the New
Testament and history
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show that the professing
Christian church
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veered off in a radically
different direction than
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the church started by
Jesus, His apostles,
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and first century believers.
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He warned us in the Olivet Prophecy that the first
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sign to watch for, regarding
His second coming and the
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end of the age, is
false Christianity.
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We must not take this
warning lightly.
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Look this up in your own
Bible and consider what it
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means for you--Matthew 24,
and verses 3 to 5...
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"Now as He sat on the Mount
of Olives, the disciples
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came to Him privately, saying,
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"Tell us, when will
these things be?
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And what will be the sign
of Your coming, and of
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the end of the age?"
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And Jesus answered and
said to them [here it is]:
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"Take heed that no
one deceives you.
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For many will come
in My name, saying,
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'I am [that is, Jesus is] the Christ,' and will deceive many."
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Yes, there would be those
who claim His authority,
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admit that He is the Christ,
but would deceive, not
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the few, but the many.
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Does history bear this out?
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The answer is absolutely.
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Highly respected historian, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
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in The Story of the
Christian Church,
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gives this title to Chapter 5--"The Age of Shadows."
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There he shows how dramatically the church changed over
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a relatively short
period of time:
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"We name the last generation
of the first century, from
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68 to 100 A.D., "The Age
of Shadows," partly because
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the gloom of persecution
was over the church;
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but more especially because of all periods in the history,
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it is the one about which
we know the least.
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We have no longer the clear light of the Book of Acts
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to guide us; and no author of that age has filled the
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blank in the history.
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For fifty years after St. Paul's life a curtain hangs over the
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church, through which we
strive vainly to look; and...
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[take note of this] when at
last it rises, about 120 A.D.
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with the writings
of the earliest
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church-fathers, we find a church in many aspects very different
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from that in the days of
St. Peter and St. Paul."
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Note that Hurlbut mentions
these changes occurred
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following the death of
the Apostle Paul.
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Is this not what Paul himself warned would happen?
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Acts 20, beginning in verse 29, records his warning to
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the elders at Ephesus...
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"For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will
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come in among you, not
sparing the flock.
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Also from among yourselves
men will rise up,
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speaking perverse things,
to draw away the
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disciples after themselves.
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Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did
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not cease to warn everyone
night and day with tears."
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Hurlbut chronicles some of the changes that crept into
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what became an increasingly very different church from that
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of Christ and the apostles:
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"The forms and ceremonies of paganism gradually crept
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into the worship.
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Some of the old heathen feasts became church festivals with
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change of name and of worship.
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About 405. A.D. images of saints and martyrs began to appear in
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the churches, at first as memorials, then in
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succession revered,
adored, and worshiped.
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The adoration of the Virgin Mary was substituted for the
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worship of Venus and Diana."
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Many historians agree that the church of today has little
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resemblance to that of the original church of God
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that Christ founded.
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Prolific writer and highly respected historian
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Will Durant, makes this insightful comment for
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anyone with eyes to see
and ears to hear:
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"Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it....
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Christianity became the
last and greatest of
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the mystery religions."
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History records two
paths for what is
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broadly called Christian.
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The first is the popular
and diverse forms of
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mainstream Christianity--
Catholic, Eastern Orthodox,
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and Protestant.
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And there is great
diversity among these.
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The second is minuscule
in comparison.
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It is the small, persecuted church that would not die.
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To learn more about that
church, and the Living
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Church of God, order
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This easy-to-read booklet
contrasts the church
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that Jesus built with the one
that Hurlbut, Durant, and
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many others tell us is
a very different form
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than original Christianity.
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Don't be fooled.
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And when I come back, I'll get specific about the history
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of Tomorrow's World and
the Living Church of God.
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♪
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Welcome back to Tomorrow's
World where I'm explaining
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who we are--who it is that
is behind these telecasts,
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what is our mission,
and what we believe.
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Simply put, our roots go back
to the first century.
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As our resource--Restoring
Original Christianity--
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explains, the Christianity of Christ and the apostles is
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different from what
most people think.
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Mainstream Christianity is
rife with non-biblical Greek
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philosophy and pagan doctrines.
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The church Jesus built is not and has been persecuted for
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rejecting non-biblical doctrines and following, not what people
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think He taught, but
what Jesus truly taught.
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The mainstream catered to
the masses and absorbed
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popular pagan forms of worship.
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From sun worship came a rejection of the seventh-day
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Sabbath, which was
established at creation.
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Sun-worshipping Roman Emperor Constantine, in 321 AD,
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commanded a different day
for rest, as shown in
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Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity:
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"When in 321 Constantine made
the first day of the week a
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holiday, he called it
the 'venerable day of
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the Sun' (Sunday)."
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Any who did not go along
with this law and other
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non-biblical doctrines
were stripped of
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privileges and persecuted.
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However, in Matthew 16:18,
Jesus declared...
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"I will build My church, and
the gates of Hades shall
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not prevail against it."
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No, the church that Christ
built never died.
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We read about it in the writings of those who hated it and
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tried to stamp it out.
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That church, which refused to compromise and introduce
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pagan doctrines as substitutes for the doctrines of Christ,
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was considered heretical.
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Nevertheless, one must compare what Jesus and His apostles
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taught to discover who
the real heretics are.
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The modern roots of Tomorrow's World and the Living Church
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of God are found in the Worldwide Church of God
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under the pastor ship of the late Herbert W. Armstrong.
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His wife, Loma, came in contact with a member from the Church
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of God, Seventh day (which
by the way is not associated
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with the Seventh
Day Adventists).
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That was in the mid-1920's.
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She became convinced that
the Biblical Sabbath was
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Saturday, not Sunday.
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Now this did not please
Mr. Armstrong, who viewed
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this as fanaticism.
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However, she would not budge unless he could show her
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from the Bible that
she was in error.
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He began an in-depth search
of the scriptures to prove
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her wrong, which at the
time he thought would be
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simple enough.
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After all, all these
churches could not be wrong.
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But, the end result was that,
as I personally heard him say:
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"It is a humbling thing to admit that your wife is right and
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you are wrong--especially when it is over the most important
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argument you ever had."
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In 1933 Mr. Armstrong
was offered a 6:00 a.m.
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time slot on the tiny
100-watt KORE radio
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station in Eugene, Oregon.
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His audience grew and he began publishing--if you could call it
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that--a mimeographed magazine called the Plain Truth.
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But from that humble beginning,
the work grew to where the
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Plain Truth was a modern full color magazine, with a monthly
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circulation of 8.4 million copies--covering virtually
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every country on earth.
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And it was given away
free of charge.
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The Living Church of God continues to follow Christ's
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instruction in Matthew 10,
and in verse 8, where He
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told His disciples...
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"Freely you have received,
freely give."
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And that's why today's
resource, Restoring Original
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Christianity, which explains who we are, can be yours,
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absolutely free of change.
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In 1952, Mr. Armstrong ordained five men to the rank
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of Evangelist.
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And among them was
Roderick C. Meredith.
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Mr. Armstrong died in
January of 1986 and in
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less than five years, his appointed successor took the
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Worldwide Church of God in a radically different direction.
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By December 1992, it became abundantly clear to
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Dr. Meredith that the Worldwide Church had irreversibly
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changed or rejected all the major doctrines that
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Herbert W. Armstrong restored under the leadership
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of Jesus Christ.
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And, at age 62, Dr. Meredith
had to make a choice:
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either retire comfortably as that organization tried to
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get him to do, or set out and revive the Work and restore
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the Biblical doctrines of
original Christianity.
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He chose the latter and started the Global Church of God--
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later changed to the
Living Church of God.
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Dr. Meredith immediately followed Christ's instructions
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found in Mark 16:15...
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"And He said to them, "Go
into all the world and preach
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the gospel to every creature."
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He began to preach the gospel by going on weekly radio, writing
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booklets, and starting a bi-monthly magazine.
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He began with an informal meeting of only 19 members
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in his home in December 1992.
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But many church of God
members began to reject
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the apostasy and joined with
him in doing the Work.
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Today the Church has grown to encompass members all over
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the world, and a large percentage are brand
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new to the truths of original Christianity--having heard
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the true gospel for the first time at Tomorrow's World.
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The Work of Jesus Christ
is not over.
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From our "About Us" page at our TomorrowsWorld.ORG website
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we read the following, Tomorrow's World
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is sponsored by the Living Church of God, with active
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congregations in North and
South America, the Caribbean,
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Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia, with more than
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239 ministers serving over
401 congregations around
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the globe....
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Our flagship magazine, Tomorrow's World, is
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translated from English into French and Spanish, and we
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print booklets for distribution in the German, Dutch,
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Afrikaans, Chinese, Hindi, Portuguese, Urdu
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and a few other languages.
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Dr. Meredith set up a Council
of Elders--which is made up of
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seasoned ministers to advise him--and prior to his death in
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May of 2017, after consultation with the Council of Elders,
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he appointed me as his successor and as Presiding Evangelist
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of the Living Church of God.
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While this may all sound as though we are a mega-church,
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that is hardly the case.
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Most of our congregations
are small and close knit.
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We're a little flock as Jesus mentioned in Luke 12 and
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verse 32 where He said...
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"Do not fear, little flock,
for it is your Father's
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good pleasure to give
you the kingdom."
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However, our dedicated members and coworkers are doing a Work
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far greater than our
numbers would indicate.
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Many wonder how this is so and the answer is that we have
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loyal members and coworkers
who make it possible.
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Also, we do not build church buildings as a general practice
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instead we rent halls to
hold our services.
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Choosing rather to spread
the gospel on television,
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over the Internet and social
media, and in print.
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We'll look at that more in
a moment, but I want to
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remind you of today's
free resource--Restoring
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Original Christianity.
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Do you realize, dear friends, that you can worship Jesus
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in vain?
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That's what He tells us
in Matthew 15:7-9...
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"Hypocrites!
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Well did Isaiah prophesy
about you, saying:
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'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor
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Me with their lips, But their
heart is far from Me.
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And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the
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commandments of men.'"
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And in Luke 6:46, He chided
the people for calling Him
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Lord--meaning Master--but
disregarding what He said...
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"But why do you call Me
"Lord, Lord," and not do
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the things which I say?"
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Original Christianity--that
of Christ and the apostles--
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is what Tomorrow's World and the Living Church of God are about.
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Few people today know about first century Christianity
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and that is why we're offering this important resource--
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Restoring Original Christianity.
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So, pick up the phone, or go to our website--TWTV.org/Original
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to receive your free copy of
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And when I come back after this short break, I'll explain more
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about who we are.
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This clear and
straight-forward resource
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will help you understand
this vital truth--
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Today I'm asking and
answering the questions:
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Who is behind Tomorrow's World?
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What is our mission?
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And what are our doctrines?
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In the previous portions of this program, I've given you a very
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brief history of the modern era of the Living Church of God,
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but the story does not
begin in modern times.
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For a greater understanding of this subject, please order
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our free booklet--Restoring Original Christianity.
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The Living Church of God
believes Jesus of Nazareth
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came as God in the flesh.
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He gave His life in
exchange for ours.
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He is our Lord, our
Master, and Savior.
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And we are saved by
faith in His shed blood.
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However, we do not turn
God's grace into license
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to disobey His law.
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Jude, the half-brother of
Jesus, warns us against
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that error in
verses 3 and 4...
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"Beloved, while I was very
diligent to write to you
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concerning our common
salvation, I found
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it necessary to write to you
exhorting you to contend
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earnestly for the faith
which was once for all
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delivered to the saints.
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For certain men have crept
in unnoticed, who long
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ago were marked out for this
condemnation, ungodly men,
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who turn the grace of our
God into lewdness and
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deny the only Lord God and
our Lord Jesus Christ."
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This is why the Living
Church of God observes
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the seventh-day Sabbath,
from Friday sunset to
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Saturday sunset, as did Jesus, His original apostles,
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the apostle Paul, and first century Christians.
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We also observe the seven
biblically ordained
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annual festivals, rather than pagan observances with the
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name of Christ blasphemously attached to them.
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Dear viewers, think about this.
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Why are the days that Jesus and His apostles kept rejected
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by mainstream Christianity?
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And why is the most sacred day of mainstream Christianity
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named after a fertility goddess and celebrated with fertility
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symbols such as eggs
and rabbits?
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Does that really make any sense?
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Our mission was given to us by Jesus Christ and it's spelled
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out on our "About Us" page
at TomorrowsWorld.org.
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Tomorrow's World proclaims to the world the good news
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of Jesus Christ's coming
Kingdom and blows
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a bold "warning trumpet" of God's impending judgment,
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calling for repentance
and spiritual change.
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You may wonder what
is different about
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proclaiming the good
news of Jesus Christ's
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coming kingdom.
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Don't all churches do that?
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Sadly, the answer is, no.
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The word "gospel" means
good news, but do you
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realize that Paul warned
the church of God at
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Corinth for putting up with teachers who taught a
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different gospel, and yes,
even a false Jesus?
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Here it is in 2 Corinthians
the 11th chapter and verse 4...
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"For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have
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not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you
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have not received, or a different gospel which
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you have not accepted--you
may well put up with it!"
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A few verses later he called these false teachers,
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ministers of Satan...
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"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
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transforming themselves
into apostles of Christ.
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And no wonder; for Satan
himself transforms himself
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into an angel of light.
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Therefore it is no great
thing if his [that is,
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Satan's ministers] also transform themselves into
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ministers of righteousness; whose end will be according
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to their works."
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The Living Church of God
teaches the very same
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message Jesus proclaimed during His three-and-a-half year
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ministry--a coming kingdom, or government, to rule on this
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troubled planet.
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Read through Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John.
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You'll be shocked at how
many times Jesus referred
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to the Kingdom of God.
21:17.843 --> 21:21.079
Now, Matthew uses the term
"kingdom of heaven,"
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whereas the other writers
use "kingdom of God."
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But heaven is where God
dwells, so it is heaven's--
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that is, God's--kingdom.
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It is not a kingdom in
God or in heaven.
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Of indicates ownership,
not location.
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The Living Church of God
does not neglect Bible
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prophecy, including Jesus' Olivet Prophecy, the book
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of Revelation and other
passages scattered
21:45.537 --> 21:47.439
throughout the New Testament.
21:47.506 --> 21:51.276
Jesus explained to His disciples that unless He returns to stop
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mankind's madness, human extinction would occur--
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Matthew 24:21-22...
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"For then there will be
great tribulation, such as
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has not since the beginning
of the world until this time,
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no, nor ever shall be.
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And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be
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saved: but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened."
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God declares He will hold us accountable if we neglect to
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warn our fellow man.
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Read it for yourself in
Proverbs 24:11-12...
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"Deliver those who are drawn toward death, And hold
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back those stumbling
to the slaughter.
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If you say, "Surely we
did not know this,"
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Does not He who weighs
the hearts consider it?
22:40.459 --> 22:43.628
He who keeps your soul,
does He not know it?
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And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?"
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The Living Church of God rejects paganized Christianity
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and follows the example
of our Savior when He
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walked the earth.
22:56.141 --> 22:59.044
That's why we're offering
you our free resource--
22:59.111 --> 23:01.780
Restoring Original Christianity.
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I'll take a short break to give you a chance to take down
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our contact information.
23:06.485 --> 23:10.021
And when I come back I'll
give you a fuller picture
23:10.088 --> 23:13.291
of the Church behind
Tomorrow's World.
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23:57.369 --> 24:03.575
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The mission of the Living
Church of God is to
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proclaim the true gospel
of Jesus Christ and to
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warn the world of what
will surely happen unless
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we change course.
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However, another part of our mission is to feed the flock,
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the little flock, that
God is calling.
24:30.135 --> 24:33.772
To do so we have more than
400 congregations around
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the world, ranging in
size from less than
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10 to over 300.
24:38.710 --> 24:43.448
Many are moderate in size between 50 and 125.
24:43.515 --> 24:47.452
In addition to meeting every Sabbath [that is Saturday],
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we meet on the annual festivals as spelled out in both the
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Old and the New Testaments.
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We observe the Passover,
as Jesus did with His
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disciples on the night in
which He was betrayed--
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Notice in Luke 22,
and verse 15...
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"Then He said to them,
'With fervent desire I have
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desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.'"
25:08.607 --> 25:11.743
Members bring their Bibles
and many take notes
25:11.810 --> 25:13.979
during our Sabbath and
festival meetings.
25:14.045 --> 25:17.849
Our services normally involve the singing of hymns, a
25:17.916 --> 25:20.619
shorter message followed by announcements, and then
25:20.685 --> 25:22.420
the main message.
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To serve our youth, the Living Church of God holds summer
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camps in North and South America, Australasia, Africa,
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Europe, and the Philippines.
25:31.763 --> 25:36.301
Even as I am recording this program, 37 teens, young
25:36.368 --> 25:38.904
adults and chaperones are experiencing an adventure
25:38.970 --> 25:42.274
of a lifetime on a week-long hike in the spectacular
25:42.340 --> 25:44.709
Eagle Cap Wilderness in Oregon.
25:44.776 --> 25:48.480
We also have a preteen
camp in Missouri this week,
25:48.546 --> 25:52.417
a two-week teen camp in
Texas in July, a teen camp
25:52.484 --> 25:55.053
in Belgium and others
taking place this summer
25:55.120 --> 25:57.055
in the Northern hemisphere.
25:57.122 --> 26:00.492
More programs to "feed the flock" are weekend retreats
26:00.558 --> 26:03.895
for young adults, Spokesman Clubs meetings for men,
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and a year-long onsite
Living Education program
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for highly motivated
young adults.
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A few young adults are chosen
to work a summer in Thailand,
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teaching English to Thai children, getting to know
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our members there,
and touring parts
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of the country.
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But whether it is a Sabbath
service, summer camps,
26:25.350 --> 26:28.520
weekend retreats,
Living Education, or
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International projects,
the focus is on restoring
26:32.257 --> 26:35.260
the way of life taught by
Jesus Christ and His
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first-century followers.
26:37.429 --> 26:40.398
We find that many people
ask about our services,
26:40.465 --> 26:43.835
but fail to follow through
out of fear of the unknown.
26:43.902 --> 26:47.439
So let me say emphatically,
I would not give up this way
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of life for anything.
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Our members are friendly, we're truly are one great family.
26:53.812 --> 26:56.881
We're not isolated members
who only know those in our
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local congregations.
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We often combine congregations on Feast days, hold family
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weekends and visit other Living Church of God congregations
27:06.391 --> 27:09.060
when traveling on
business or vacation.
27:09.127 --> 27:12.063
Members travel to other
countries to observe
27:12.130 --> 27:14.332
the eight-day Feast of Tabernacles and Last
27:14.399 --> 27:16.368
Great Day each year.
27:16.434 --> 27:20.238
So, if you'd like to learn more about the Christianity of
27:20.305 --> 27:24.442
Christ and His apostles, be sure to order your free copy of
27:24.509 --> 27:27.178
Restoring Original Christianity.
27:27.245 --> 27:29.581
And if you'd like to learn
more about keeping the
27:29.647 --> 27:33.318
seventh-day Sabbath, the annual festivals of God, about
27:33.385 --> 27:36.087
baptism or attending with
a Living Church of God
27:36.154 --> 27:38.390
congregation, just let us know.
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Remember to join us again next week when we'll bring you
27:42.660 --> 27:46.064
more good news of the coming Kingdom of God, end-time
27:46.131 --> 27:48.600
prophecies and their
meaning, and...
27:48.666 --> 27:50.602
original Christianity.
27:50.668 --> 27:52.037
See you next time.
27:52.103 --> 27:52.904
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The preceding program
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Living Church of God.
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