ARMSTRONG cont. GREAT WORK ! Yes, F A R better we LEARN THESE LESSONS than to hamper God’s work so SER IOUSLY that these GRAVELY HEAVY BILLS CANNOT BE M ET ! TH IS GREAT WORK OF GOD COSTS PRODIGIOUS SUMS OF MONEY ! Let’s not forget God’s work during these Days of Unleavened Bread. T ry to make sure you send in MORE than usual — instead o f slacking off! (Anybody who reads Mr. Armstrong need not be told that all the capitals and italics are his.) Herbert W. Armstrong, virtually claiming to be the only true representative of Christianity to be found on this earth today, ignores Paul and goes back into the wilderness and hunts up the rags of ancient custom and uses them for patches on the arrogant, presumptu ous, contradictory, carnal system of religion he has concocted. Armstrong said in that letter: As I said then, this is frankly incomprehensible to me, as a servant and minister o f God that some o f the very PEOPLE o f God could FORGET the day which commemorates the very death o f their Saviour! That is completely false. The Passover doesn’t com memorate the death of the Saviour. The Passover testi fied to the coming and death of the Saviour. In its historical context, the observance today of the Passover doesn’t acknowledge the death of the Saviour; it denies that He was ever born, that He ever died. Herbert W. Armstrong, like the Seventh-Day Adven tists, demands that his followers keep the Jewish Sab bath. Here is what he says in the October-, 1962, issue of his magazine, on page 29: The “ Lord’s Day” is the day the Lord is the lord o f— the day that is His day— and in Mark 2:28 Jesus Christ said He is lord o f the Sabbath — not o f Sunday. In this present verse— Exodus 20:10, He said to all the people assembled, “But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God.” What is Herbert W. Armstrong’s gospel? What is the “ Good News” according to Armstrong? What is Armstrong’s basic message? What is it that converts men, according to Armstrong? Armstrong’s magazine, of course, carries nothing but what Armstrong believes in the way of doctrine and dogma. He ignores the spiritual and present Kingdom of God. His message is that men must be saved by believ ing the “message of God's coming world government” of which Daniel wrote. That’s Armstrong’s gospel. If that means anything at all, it means that men are saved by believing in something that is going to happen, not by believing in something that has already happened. And logically it means more than that. It means that men are not saved by believing in a Person; they are saved by believing in a government. They are not saved by grace through faith; they are saved by keeping the law. * These two articles are condensed from Mr. Smith’s 61- page booklet, H erbert A rmstrong and H is W orld T o morrow , obtainable from Baptist Bible Tribune, Spring- field, Mo. of which Mr. Smith is Editor. They are used by the kind permission of the author. Armstrong not only carried his Seventh-day Advent ism, with its law-keeping system into his new cult, but also he incorporated much of the teaching of British- Israelism which will be discussed next month along with Armstrong’s blasphemous view of Christ and the Gospel. DU IS
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