Literature

A lady from the Worldwide Church of God (wcg) allowed me to read her notes from some messages on prophecy given back in 1984 by a few top wcg ministers. Most of the notes were from one minister. This lady is now a member of the Philadelphia Church of God (pcg).

As I reviewed these notes, two things struck me. First, I was very impressed by the detail in the ministers’ prophetic knowledge.

But something else disturbed my mind—a glaring problem in what I read. This was something consistent in the messages they were giving at the time. It was a problem that helped me to understand what caused them to rebel.

What went wrong? This is a critical question we have to ask ourselves continually. We must make sure we grasp the lessons of that failure.

God has helped me to understand a passage in Revelation more deeply, and I’d like to share that understanding with you. It is one of the most amazing prophecies in the Bible.

“And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space” (Revelation 17:10).

Here is what astounded me about the notes taken in unusual detail from messages by these men. In one message, a minister talked about this verse and made the statement that “Herbert W. Armstrong uncovered this prophecy.”