Transcription of 
Sabbath Day Sermon 165
Given by 
Lawrence A. Nowell
On August 25, 2012

1.)	This is The Obedient Church of God.
2.)	“I can tell by your eyes you’ve probably been crying forever.” Yes, Father has been crying for six thousand years because you are still disobedient.
3.)	“And the stars in the sky don’t mean nothin’ to you, they’re just a mirror.” 
You refuse to set God’s Holy Days the way God stated: By the stars in the sky. [Genesis1:14]

4.)	“I don’t want to preach about it,  how you broke God’s heart, but if I preach to you a little bit longer, if I preach won’t you listen to God’s heart, God’s heart?”

5.)	The Obedient Church of God is broadcasting from www.forthenations.com and from www.theworldtomorrow.org. If you want a sign, how come we got that name The World Tomorrow.org? 

6.)	“I don’t want to preach about it, how you broke God’s heart. If I preach to you a little bit longer, if I preach won’t you listen to God’s heart, God’s heart, God’s heart, God’s heart?”

7.)	Yes. Bonjour Paree France sez six houres après midi le houre du dinier au France; 
6 P.M. suppertime in Paris; 
9 A.M. on the West Coast in Seattle, Los Angeles; 
12 Noon on the East Coast in New York City, Miami, Washington D.C. 
Suppertime, lunch time, breakfast time, the perfect time for a spiritual feeding today while we tell you that:

8.)	“We don’t want to preach about it, how you broke God’s heart, but if we preach to you a little bit longer, if we preach, won’t you listen to God’s heart, God’s heart?”

9.)	 This is The Obedient Church of God turning the heart of the Father to the children, and the hearts of the children to the Father. How do you turn the Father’s heart to yourself? By stop being a disobedient brat. 

10.)	What father of yours would love a child who was a rebellious, rebellious, rebellious disobedient brat; in particular moving Father’s day 2 days early, 1 day late, 1 day early, 2 days late with a phony Hillel II averaging calendar, when you can just go on the Internet with one click and know when the correct day was for God’s Holy Sabbath feast days are.

11.)	 And worse than that, every single church in the whole world, I’m telling you the whole wide world is celebrating the Sabbath on the wrong day, because they are moving the Sabbath in half of the world by the phony International Date Line that jumps the day ahead. As soon as you fly out of LAX, Los Angeles International Airport heading for Australia, bing! the day changes, jumps ahead. Well, that has been happening since 1883.

12.)	 Everyone has been deceived by Satan. You have to wait until the sun goes down [on the sixth day]. We in The Obedient Church of God are the only congregation in the world that is showing you the truth, and how you are not to work on God’s Sabbath Day.  

13.)	Yet you will work on the Sabbath by following the International Date Line because God said the seventh-day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God throughout the world and you wait until the sun sets in that part of the world.

14.)	 And if you think you are going to be able to change God’s Sabbath Day to Friday all you ministers out there: Meredith and Luker, Dankenbring and Brisby, you are headed for the Lake of Fire, and I’ll wave to you from the gulf.

15.)	Oh, didn’t we do such fine works, didn’t we preach in your name? Yeah, but why didn’t you obey? Why didn’t you obey? Obedience is better than sacrifice.

16.)	 We are continuing our pursuit of the truth. We are going to bring you dynamite information today about Herman L. Hoeh, Dr. Hoeh; and how Dr. Hoeh was the mastermind behind setting up Joe Tkach, Sr., Joseph W. Tkach. 

17.)	Dr. Hoeh was working behind the scenes supporting Tkach and how Dr. Hoeh was a “yes man,” who would twist his research to favor whatever the party line was. So we are going to expose Dr. Hoeh today as we have so adequately exposed others. 

18.)	Remember I told you that Raymond McNair, indeed, all of the McNairs are Masons; and that Meredith was of the order of the De Molay. That’s right, a young Masonic group.

19.)	We’ve got to get into the Throne Room first, but you are going to have a dynamite wake-up again. We are waking you up. And this is God’s Romans 9:28 work. We are the only ones that are keeping the Sabbath in the whole world, while the other liars say they are, but refuse to. 

20.)	Who are you going to believe, the liar or your eyes? Remember the Richard Prior joke where Richard Prior is caught in bed with another woman (the church is caught in bed with the devil—all the offshoot Churches are caught in bed with the devil, moving the Sabbath Day to the sixth-day in half the world). 

21.)	  Richard Prior said to his wife when she caught him in bed with another woman, “Are you going to believe your eyes or are you going to believe me?” Are you going to believe your eyes right now at The Obedient Church of God, the Romans 9:28 work, or are you going to believe ministers, “sinisters,” lying devils who move the Sabbath Day to the sixth-day in half the world, and claim to be God’s chosen Philadelphian work?

22.)	Well, we are going to expose Dr. Hoeh and we’re going to expose a number of the other ministers that were part of the movement to install Joseph W. Tkach, Sr. That’s it.

23.)	We have got to enter the Throne Room, and, of course, we are going to pray first before the songs, because we want to introduce ourselves to Father before we sing our songs of praise to Him. All please rise, face the North Heavens, raise your hands outstretched in humble petition of God, with your head bowed, and eyes closed.

24.)	“Almighty, merciful, loving Father we know that you are overseeing all of this, that you are in charge of the world and of the universe, and you allow this mess and the messes in the Worldwide Churches of God to continue so that you can see who is of the truth, and who will follow you and not follow any religion and not follow any man, but only follow every word of your Bible.

25.)	“Father we ask you for your blessing on The Obedient Church of God and all its members and on all its messages. Inspire this message, because as usual we’ve got too much material, so help us sort it out and give the salient points. 

26.)	“Please be with the 200 brethren of the Indian Church of God in Pakistan. Help them with their feeding funds. Help them find a way to help them, and indeed look after all the members of The Obedient Church of God and help them with their finances.

27.)	“Now Father there is more and more trouble going on that The Obedient Church of God is being oppressed with. One of our main workers from one country quit on us, the head man so we put that in petition to you. You work it out, but you take it all together in context, Father, and the only thing that matters is this broadcast. 

28.)	“So Father we ask you to look after us. Help all things work out to your glory, and give us the funds in order to buy advertising so we can advertise our sermons better now up on u-tube.

29.)	“So Father now for this sermon we ask your inspiration both for the speaking and the hearing, and especially on the hearing of the video tapes when most people listen.

30.)	“Now we turn this service over to your hands, and ask this all in Yeshua ha Mashiach our soon arriving King and High Priest in whose footsteps we walk in humility. We ask this all in Yeshua’s name. Amen.”

31.)	Now that we have introduced ourselves to Father, and are in the Throne Room, take you beautiful 1934 hymnals—hold it up for camera one, camera two, and camera three—and give praise to our almighty Father, our great God, and turn to page number 113, “Give Ear to My Prayer, O God,” page 49 in other hymnals.

32.)	 Now please sing out. Don’t embarrass yourself, and worse than that, this is the “sacrifice of your lips.” So if you refuse to give a sacrifice, what is God going to write in the books if you refuse to sing hymns? Get off your chair and follow along, or else this will be written up against you. The Bible clearly says that in Revelation, and you will be judged by what is in the book, so give your sacrifice.

33.)	Now you sang out to Father and you said when I was faint I cried to God and He did hear my prayer, and that He is your dwelling place; now if you didn’t sing out, what’s the matter with you? Give your head a shake. Isn’t Father your dwelling place? So, tell Him. Tell Him. He likes to hear that. 

34.)	You like to hear that from your children. Don’t be a disobedient brat. Don’t just be sitting on the couch listening. And even if this is not the Sabbath Day and you are listening, give praise to Father. Give praise to Father on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, whatever day, even Sunday. But give praise whenever you listen to this tape.

35.)	Now turn to page number 114, “God is My Rock, My Salvation.” Hymns are supposed to be sung in order; that’s why they were put in this particular order. Page number 50 in other hymnals, “God is My Rock.” All sing out.

36.)	Yes, these hymns apply because we are going to be discussing the vain men that delighted in craft, and they set it up for Joseph W. Tkach, Senior, to get in.

37.)	Well, we want you to know that this broadcast will be very important to know the history. Mark this broadcast as special so you can know the history of how Tkach got in, and who was responsible for it besides Satan the Devil.

38.)	Now as praise to Father let’s change the mood and “Joyfully Sing and Praise God,” page 114, page 51 in other hymnals. And even in adversity we can joyfully sing and praise God. Our hope is in the future, not in the whole world right now.

39.)	Yes, joyfully sing and praise God. Just like when Paul was in prison they sang songs of praise. Our hope isn’t in this present evil world; we realize we are only going to be here in the blink of an eye. Therefore, we don’t worry about any of the problems or upsets in life at all because as long as we are in the faith that is all that matters, and the rest is just a learning experience. 

40.)	What this is all about is the trials we all go through are ways Father allows us to learn to control our temper, to learn how to manage properly through situations, to use wisdom and grow.

41.)	 If we didn’t have any trials, and we are just sitting around like bumps on a log eating ice cream all day, we wouldn’t be able to be used by God because we wouldn’t have developed character, we wouldn’t have gained knowledge, we wouldn’t have developed self-control, and we wouldn’t have developed discipline. 

42.)	So, we know the feast is coming up, and the feast days: I can give them to you right now again. We’ve got Trumpets on September 17th, which is Monday only three weeks away; then we’ve got At-one-ment, Atonement on September 26th, Wednesday, 
and then we’ve got the feast. 

43.)	The Feast of Tabernacles starts on October 1st, depending on when the New Moon is sighted, and that is a Monday. Then we have Shimini Atzeret, which is a totally separate day and that is on October 8th, Monday. 

44.)	Now we are looking forward to this feast, because no matter what the adversities, we can rejoice, and have our time with Father, just like New Moon Day is such a blessing. We can then have a day off and relax on New Moon Day, and indeed all of the Sabbath Days are days to relax on and not days to do our own pleasure. That’s pretty straight forward. We are not to do our own pleasure on the Sabbath Day. 

45.)	We want to draw closer to Father on the Sabbath Day. Now for those new listeners out there, the Sabbath Day has been sanctified by God. That means “set apart,” and you cannot do your own pleasure, like water skiing; you don’t do your own pleasure on the Sabbath Day. 

46.)	What you do is you stay within your gates, within your house, within your yard. You can have a nice time in your yard, and yes you can cool off in the pool in your yard, but you can’t travel a hundred miles, or thirty miles and fight traffic to the beach and slug it out down the boardwalk and be distracted by everything at the beach on Sabbath Day.

47.)	You are supposed to use the Sabbath Day for God. So don’t do your own pleasure on the Sabbath Day. It is coming up to the end of the season here, and we are looking forward to the Feast of Tabernacles, “the feast of booths,” “the feast of huts.” 

48.)	Now for those new listeners out there, during the seven days, you are supposed to sleep in a temporary dwelling. That means you sleep inside a tent or a temporary structure. You can have a heater in your tent, it is easy to do. I’ve done lots of camping. 

49.)	I’ve been out in the fall. I’ve been out camping in October, and I’ve awakened when there was snow on the ground, but I had a propane heater that was properly ventilated inside the tent. I was just fine.

50.)	Now we want you to look forward to the Sabbath Day and the Sabbath feast. There is a scripture that says to not do your own pleasure on the Sabbath Day. You are supposed to keep the Sabbath holy, and on the Sabbath Day you want to use that time to obey God.

51.)	The Sabbath Day is a day of rejoicing and it actually is a gift to you. In Exodus 20:8 you are to keep the Sabbath Day, and there remains a Sabbath [a rest] for the people of God, Hebrews 4:9 & 11. And don’t let anyone fool you and try to tell you that it is the rest of Creation. Let them be damned who change or pervert the gospel of Christ of the New Testament.

52.)	So in understanding the nature of the Sabbath Day, there are five essential truths, and these apply to the Holy Days, but let’s just stick to the seventh-day right now. 

53.)	I.) The Sabbath Day is sanctified by God. II.) It is given as a gift to you, to man.

54.)	Bear Note: III.) The Sabbath Day was instituted before the law was given to Israel, and it was enforced even before the law was given to Israel.

55.)	IV.) The Sabbath Day is a covenant sign between God and Israel. That is so important because all the Churches of God out there are breaking the Sabbath Day in half the world. So what does that mean if they are breaking the Sabbath Day in half the world? It means they don’t have a covenant with God. You can’t have it both ways, folks.

56.)	You can’t have it both ways; either you have a covenant with God with the Sabbath Day, or you don’t keep the Sabbath Day in half the world. Therefore, you don’t have a covenant with God, whether you say you have a covenant with God, it doesn’t matter what you say, it matters what you do.

57.)	Now we’ve told you over and over and over again that the basis is that the sign is that you keep the fourth commandment.

58.)	V.) There is no buying or selling on the Sabbath and that means no going to restaurants right after services because you obviously are buying.  And don’t give me that garbage about you saying that the restaurant workers are working anyway; therefore you could sell cocaine because someone would buy cocaine anyway. 

59.)	Now you need to learn to turn to the words of the Bible when it says no buying on the Sabbath; that means that you don’t take money out of your wallet and buy a meal at a restaurant. And you don’t put a cook to work, and a waitress, and a cashier, and a hostess; you don’t put forth people to work on the Sabbath Day. You tell them to stop working and come to services.

60.)	 That is so important for all the new listeners, because we are getting a lot of listeners from the other offshoot churches, and in order for you to be one of God’s and fulfill the sign, you want to be holy and the Sabbath is a sign.

61.)	Let’s turn to Exodus 31:17, and you will see the Sabbath Day ordinance, and you’ve got to notice that. It is a statute of God and you have to live by them because you want to have God’s mark on you.

62.)	 Verse 13 says, “My Sabbaths…are a sign between me and you…” and in verse 17, how long is the going to go on? It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever…” How long? Forever, “forever.” That’s pretty clear. 

63.)	Now let’s go to Numbers 15:32 where it says, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath Day. Those who found him put him under guard because it was not yet explained what was to be done with him.

64.)	So what did God say, “what did God say?” This man was working on the Sabbath Day; God said that the man must be put to death. [He was stoned without the camp.]

65.)	Therefore, all the people in Australia and New Zealand that are working on the Sabbath Day picking up sticks, doing their work on the Sabbath Day because they are jumping the day back to Friday. God says, Surely, they must all be put to death. 

66.)	You know A=B and B=C; therefore, C=A. What I said, the man must surely be put to death. Could it be any simpler than that to understand? 

67.)	The Sabbath Day is a sign forever between you and God who consecrates you. That’s so important.

68.)	Let’s go to Leviticus 20:8 and see what Father has to say, “And you shall keep my statutes, and perform them; why? because I am the Lord who sanctifies you.” Sanctifies means “set you apart.” Do you want to be set apart by God? Keep the Sabbath Day. 

69.)	If your ministers are telling you to move the Sabbath Day to Friday over the International Date Line, tell them that they are liars, and that you will keep the Sabbath Day the was the Bible says, and not go by the 1883 International Date Line.

70.)	You are responsible. Every man must work out his own salvation, “every man must work out his own salvation.” You can’t blame your minister if you know better; you have got to follow the truth. And if you don’t better, and you still break the Sabbath, even if you don’t know, you still are going to be beaten. You will be beaten with stripes. Look it up in your Bible.

71.)	In Ezekiel 20:12 the Sabbaths are a sign between you and God. Verse 20 says, “Hallow my Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.”

72.)	Well, the Living Church of God is rebelling, the United Church of God, the United Church of God Association, Triumph Prophetic Ministry, Church of God the Eternal, and they are all rebelling.

73.)	In Ezekiel 20:21 they didn’t walk in the statutes, they weren’t careful to observe, “careful, careful, careful,”  particular, “ particular, particular.” They know the International Date Line moved the day ahead, they know the sun hasn’t set for the seventh-day Sabbath to begin yet, they know that. 

74.)	 Better be careful, because which if a man does, he shall live by them, and “he shall live by them.” But they profaned my Sabbaths. What is going to happen to the Living Church of God? What is going to happen to Triumph Prophetic Ministry? What is going to happen to the United Church of God? 

75.)	In Ezekiel 20:21, “…then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them and fulfill my anger on them in the wilderness,” and today it is a spiritual wilderness. So they’ll keep wandering in the spiritual wilderness. And God’s anger will be fulfilled again in the spiritual wilderness. 

76.)	In verse 21 it said the word careful, particular, careful, not haphazardly, it has to be observed carefully. And in verse 13 it also applies to the feast days because Sabbaths is plural. Verse 12 says that my Sabbaths as a sign you shall keep them as a sign between me and you forever. [Exodus 31:17] 

77.)	So you want the mark of God on you? Then keep the Sabbath. You want the mark of the anti-Christ on you? Then move the Sabbath to the sixth-day in half the world. 

78.)	Ezekiel 20:27 says, “Therefore son of man, speak unto the House of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have been unfaithful to the ways of God, (the Sabbaths of God.)” It is going to be the same today and every day, and he is not going to change. 

79.)	So, you will suffer for your deeds, “you will suffer for your deeds.” We are in the end times, folks. You can’t repent at the last minute, because you can’t develop character at the last minute. You have got to repent now just before the seven years are starting.

80.)	No. The seven years haven’t started. They might start this fall. We’ll see what happens with the New World Order being set up. The way it is dragging its feet now because remember I told you that Russia said it would blow America off the face of the earth. Russia said don’t you dare use air power against Syria, or that’s the beginning of the end. And that’s why.

81.)	 Assad [of Syria] is still in and that’s why it goes on and on and on. And that’s why Syria’s government has gotten control of most of Damascus now, they control over 60%. And what if Syria decides to use chemical weapons to get rid of the rest in Damascus? Well, then the U. S. will go to war with Russia, because then the U.S. has an excuse to go in there with air power. And then we will see the beginning of the New World Order, because it has to come in out of chaos.

82.)	We need more chaos. There is not enough chaos in this world. You’ve got to have more chaos so you can have another excuse to bring in the New World Order. God gives us the understanding in The Obedient Church of God so we know what’s going on. So we are looking for more chaos.

83.)	We are looking for more shootings in the United States so that they can bring in the gun restrictions  and take away the guns from everybody. It will be just like Hitler took away all the guns from all the people. We’re looking for all the chaos.

84.)	Chaos is coming more and more in Iraq with more people being blown-up in Iraq. We’re looking for more chaos with HAARP being used to cause earthquakes, such as in Iran and we’re looking for more and more people, unfortunately, being slaughtered in Afghanistan because the bombings right now are way up. It is the time of chaos.

85.)	Even the Afghanis that they are training, as soon as they are trained, one of them immediately shot the Americans. As soon as he was graduated and given a gun immediately shot down the American trainers. So that is the reality of what we are about.

86.)	They want as much chaos as possible so they can bring in the New World Order out of chaos. And it is already written on your Satanic dollar bill, “order out of chaos.” And why don’t the American people say we don’t want “order out of chaos” written on our dollar bills? We don’t want an all-seeing eye on our dollar bills. Why?

87.)	Americans don’t say anything because we are dumb sheep, dumb sheep being led to the slaughter by the New World Order. You have got to realize that there isn’t hope at all until Yeshua comes back. And the only hope for you is to be clothed in white robes.

88.)	The only way to have white robes is to be spotless, and the only way to be spotless is to obey God. Go to the end of the book in Revelation 7:9. It’s very clear. As in the first century the people had palm branches in their hands, they’ve got palm branches in their hands again. 

89.)	Revelation 7:9, “After this I beheld, and, lo a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lord, clothed with white robes. 

90.)	So this is why we don’t worry about this present evil generation, because here is the gestalt: 

91.)	Bear Note: It says from all tribes and nations and peoples and tongues and they are clothed in white robes, which means they repented, “they repented.” 

92.)	Remember I just said that we’ve got the “all-seeing eye” on the dollar bill and nobody has the strength or the ability to change it, or speak out against it, or cause it to be a proper bill without an “all-seeing eye” on it, but there will come a time as it says here in Revelation 7:9 that all nations, tribes, people, and tongues will be clothed in white robes.

93.)	So you can either repent now, or you can do it later after you go through the tribulation.

94.)	If you want to be protected, go to verse 3 of Revelation 7, “Do not harm…until we have sealed the servants of God on their foreheads.” Therefore, you’ve got to be sealed, and the way you are sealed with the sign of God is with the Sabbath, which we read quite clearly in Exodus 31:13, “My Sabbaths…is a sign.” So there is the sign.

95.)	Verse 17 says it is a “sign,” so it says it twice so there isn’t any mistake. 

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96.)	So now we are going to tell you what really went on in the Worldwide Church of God, and it was a horrible, “horrible, horrible” deception when they brought Tkach. It wasn’t any accident, “it wasn’t any accident.” There was a bunch of lobbying that went on in order to bring in Joe Tkach.

97.)	Herman Hoeh, Dr. Hoeh, was one of the men behind it, and it was a conspiracy. We all like Dr. Hoeh and we thought positive things about him. Well, we’re to tell you how Dr. Hoeh used his scholarship to twist the data, “to twist the data.” 

98.)	I might as well tell you the truth about Dr. Hoeh before I tell you how he brought in Joe Tkach, Joseph W. Tkach. The W. distinguishes the senior from the junior Tkach. 

99.)	So let’s tell you about Herman Hoeh and what he was doing and what Dr. Hoeh was really like. This is some actual history that even the ministers don’t even know. Remember I said Dr. Hoeh set up Joseph W. Tkach in behind the scenes.

100.)	Now Dr. Hoeh actually disdained the doctrines of the Worldwide Church of God, “Dr. Hoeh actually disdained the doctrines of the Worldwide Church of God.” Dr. Hoeh had a strong leaning toward Buddhism.

101.)	 And, for insiders, Dr. Hoeh was an amateur photographer and he a collection personally taken of his dirty pictures. He especially enjoyed taking pictures of naked young men.

102.)	You see, when the truth starts to come out, you are going to be amazed at what was really going on behind the scenes. And Dr. Hoeh worked behind the scenes to keep his own personal views secret. Remember Dr. Hoeh supported Joseph W. Tkach in his succession bid. Dr. Hoeh assisted with the doctrinal change that took place after 1986.

103.)	Dr. Hoeh, leaning towards being a Buddhist, was always against the Worldwide Church of God doctrines. And the proof is that Dr. Hoeh assisted changing the doctrines of the Worldwide Church of God after 1986. And it was only a short time for Dr. Hoeh to do his lobbying and get Joseph Tkach in and by 1989 the move to change doctrine was underway with Dr. Hoeh right at the forefront.

104.)	Dr. Hoeh, just so you know, right from the beginning, would prepare data, he would prepare writings that would support whoever would butter his bread. Dr. Hoeh would write the way whoever would be buttering Dr. Hoeh’s bread, Dr. Hoeh would write it up that way.

105.)	I’ve got an actual admission here at a special ministerial conference in 1974 that Dr. Hoeh, Herman L. Hoeh, admitted that he had twisted the research even when he believed that Herbert W. Armstrong’s errors were errors.  

106.)	The exact quote is: “At that time HLH, Herman L. Hoeh, admitted that he had done this because he believed that HWA’s error was inspired truth.” So, what did Dr. Hoeh do? Dr. Hoeh deliberately, “deliberately” misinterpreted the term Sabbath in order for the Pentecost date to be moved around. He deliberately misinterpreted the Bible.

107.)	Now Dr. Hoeh was admired by all of us and we all thought he was such a wonderful man. We didn’t know that he liked taking pictures of naked men, naked young men, we didn’t know that he was so closely linked to the Buddhists, who by the way when he, Dr. Hoeh, died, the Buddhists all showed up.

108.)	The Buddhists even gave a eulogy at Dr. Hoeh’s funeral. Not only did they show up, but they actually gave eulogies and spoke about Dr. Hoeh during Dr. Hoeh’s funeral. I believe Dr. Hoeh died in April 2004, and it was a sudden death in April 2004.

109.)	If you look back at what was really going on in the Worldwide Church of God, and you find that Dr. Hoeh, evangelist Herman L. Hoeh, was instrumental in linking to the division of the church, and finally to the destruction of the church.

110.)	And that Dr. Hoeh refused to rightly divide the Word of God, and rather Dr. Hoeh twisted and distorted the views. And nobody challenged him because he was Dr. Hoeh. He had his reputation. Dr. Hoeh was one of those persons who did whatever the party line said. 

111.)	He wouldn’t go by the Bible. Dr. Hoeh would twist the doctrine to fit the party line, whether it was Herbert W. Armstrong’s mistakes or whether it was Joe Tkach’s mistakes, who Dr. Hoeh was putting into power. 

112.)	There’s so much more that we could say about Dr. Hoeh, but we don’t want to waste our time on a man who was taking naked pictures of young boys, and who was very, very closely tied to the Buddhists. He was a man who was changing the nature of God and of Jesus Christ.

113.)	Reading from notes I pulled up on the Internet, Dr. Hoeh falsified blank tape the new leadership of Joseph Tkach Sr. and Jr. who were introducing many false doctrines into the Worldwide Church of God. 

114.)	I’ll read it exactly the way it was written on a need to know basis, I’ll tell you who wrote this. We don’t give out the information because we don’t want you to start reading a whole bunch of other things from people who have the other things wrong, but they have got these things right.

115.)	So, it states here, “This error facilitated Tkach’s efforts to request the true teachings of the scriptures, and force the church to accept mainstream Protestant doctrines. This subsequently led to the total demise of the Worldwide Church of God.

116.)	“In a sermon Dr. Hoeh titled, ‘Unfinished Business,’ in July 1994, Dr. Hoeh falsely reasoned that in John 1:1 ‘The Word’ in Greek ‘ho-logos’ did not refer directly to Jesus Christ and that ‘The Word’ was not God as the Greek text clearly said. Rather Hoeh claimed that ‘The Word’ was a divine thought in the mind of God the Father who was the thinker. 

117.)	“And the one who became Jesus was in His thoughts. Hoeh’s reasoning was very twisted, and completely incorrect. His major contention to arrive at such a completely erroneous conclusion was based on a total fabrication, a concocted lie. 

118.)	“A claim that the Greek word ‘theos’ in the phrase John 1:1 and the word ‘ho logos’ does not mean Jesus, The Word, was the word god before he came in the flesh, rather Hoeh claimed that the one who became Jesus, was only a divine thought of the Father, and he did not come into existence until the Father uttered His thoughts and Jesus conceived in the womb of Mary.”

119.)	Now how did Hoeh arrive at such a false statement? He did so by changing the meaning of the Greek word “theos,” god, to meaning divine. However, the Greek word for divine is “theois,” not “theos.”

120.)	 So, in doing so, Hoeh claimed that The Word, Yeshua, was not god, but a divine thought of God the Father. Thus the divine thought of the Father became His utterance and Jesus was then brought into existence when he was conceived.

121.)	Did you know that from the foundation of the earth God, “elohim,” (plural) created the heavens and the earth. “Elohim”  in the first verse of the Bible, Dr. Hoeh contradicts.

122.)	So, we’ve blown Herbert W. Armstrong out of the water by showing you that it was Herbert the pervert who raped his daughter for ten years, fornicated with his daughter. 

123.)	There are all types of accounts from hotel managers saying what is all this commotion when she was resisting, and he heard Herbert say my new bride is uncooperative when talking about his daughter.

124.)	There was an account of Herbert ditching Dick Armstrong at the train station so Herbert could take off with Dorothy because Loma knew something was going on, so Loma would always put one of the boys with Herbert when Dorothy was around. So we exposed that one.   

125.)	We also showed you that God used Herbert W. Armstrong the same way that God used Cyrus though Cyrus was totally unconverted, and Herbert Armstrong was totally unconverted. Therefore, God can use totally unconverted people to set up the Word of God.

126.)	And we are continually telling you that this is the Romans 9:28 work of The Obedient Church of God, a short work, and it is just getting stronger because God is behind it.

127.)	Now we are destroying Herman Hoeh and his errors so that you know what was really going on. Now let me tell you about more ministers so that you know what was really going on.

128.)	Victor Kubic was in charge of ministerial services and he kept all the field elders in line by firing those who did not agree with now, “now, now” Satanic teachings. Victor Kubic was one of them.

129.)	Ron Kelly, a long-time minister, festival coordinator, writer for the magazines and chosen presenter of those who spoke in Pasadena. Ron Kelly became the controller of the Tkach team. The strong Tkach man, Ron Kelly.

130.)	By calling these guys out you know who to look out for who put in the Satanic doctrines.

131.)	Dr. Stavernides was the best scholar on the campus and I met him, a very intelligent man thought to be the best scholar on the campus. He often disagreed with Herbert Armstrong’s true teachings. Dr. Stavernides played an important role in changing the doctrines to evangelical mainstream doctrines.

132.)	Donald Ward, another one I got forced into meeting when I visited the campus. He was basically the president of A.C. [Ambassador College], and he was a teacher who got accreditation for Ambassador College. But Herbert Armstrong fired him as president of Ambassador College in Pasadena. 

133.)	Donald Ward went to Big Sandy and was reinstated under Leon Walker as an academic dean. So look at what happened. Joe Sr. brought Don Ward back to Pasadena in 1987 as vice chancellor of both campuses. Liberal Arts accreditation  turned once again, and they sent off promising elders off to Azusa Pentecostal College for indoctrination in evangelicalism.

134.)	They actually sent promising elders off to Azusa Pentecostal College for indoctrination. Unbelievable, “unbelievable.”

135.)	Michael Germano was at Ambassador College and was also evangelically- trained and he completed both graduate studies  in anthropology, archaeology, and theology at the Methodist University in Texas, AMF University at College Station. He was involved in the archaeology project and was highly critical of Herbert Armstrong’s teachings, and he was strongly evangelical.

136.)	I’m painting a landscape picture for you that these guys were all untrue ministers, wolves in sheep’s clothing for years: Victor Kubic, Ron Kelly, Dr. Stavernides, Don Ward, Michael P. Germano. That’s how Dr. Hoeh, that’s how Joseph W. Tkach got in.

137.)	Now you know the rest of the story, “now you know the rest of the story of how Dave Albert, Instructor in theology and degree in psychology and was an advocate of Pop, “It’s not your fault” psychology.

138.)	Norman Smith, Dennis Luker, and John Elliott also in the psychology added to  sin, “it’s not your fault.” This is denial of personal responsibility and a love, love tolerance. What I mean by that is that doctrines don’t matter, way of life don’t matter as long as you say you love everybody. 

139.)	David Hume, T.V. presenter, replaced Ellis LaRavia. Ellis was now out because David Hume was strongly into evangelicalism and Ellis was kicked out by Herbert W. Armstrong.

140.)	Paul Kroll was disfellowshipped by Mr. Armstrong for his ultra-liberal views. Guess who was brought back by Joseph W. Tkach? Paul Kroll was brought back to write articles for the literature.

141.)	Larry Salyer was the director of church administration. He left to join Global and then fell out with Rod Meredith, joined UCG [United Church of God], and then UCGWA [UCGWorldwide Association]. Now he was one of the doctrine manual group. 

142.)	An exact quote here is that “_______ was reconstituted in l989 with Larry Salyer leaving and Mike Frazel becoming head of theology at AC., and as such, head of the doctrine manual group. Now we’ve got Mike Frazel in there. 

143.)	 It wasn’t any accident that Joe Tkach got in. It was a big conspiracy inside the Worldwide Church of God, a dirty, rotten conspiracy that was started out by Dr. Hoeh, the Buddhist promoter. Now you know the rest of the story of what happened. How these lying wolves in sheep’s clothing [influenced things.]

144.)	And watch out! Dankenbring is an evangelicalist also because he told on his broadcast that Billy Graham is a good Christian man, and he said Bill O’Reilly was a good Christian man. Well, they are all “billy goats,” because Billy Graham is a Satanist; he is a 33rd degree Mason. He believes in Lucifer the Devil as God. That’s who Billy Graham is.

145.)	And he, Billy Graham, won’t be in the Kingdom of God. He is a Satanist. Let’s figure that one out. And Dankenbring is an evangelicalist who says that everybody who has his heart in it, heart in God’s work, will be in the Kingdom. Well, I’m telling you on the authority of the Bible that unless you obey the Bible you will not be sealed, you will not have the sign of God on you, you are not of His, Dankenbring. 

146.)	 You are none of His because you moved the Sabbath Day the same way the Pope moved the Sabbath Day. You moved the Sabbath Day to Friday in Australia and New Zealand, and caused some sheep to die because you moved the Sabbath Day to Friday in Australia and New Zealand, and you refuse to repent.

147.)	I tell you on the authority of the Bible that the Sabbath Day is the seventh-day, and you have to wait until the sun goes down [on the sixth-day.] And if you have the Sabbath Day on Friday and you are a minister, you are headed straight for the Lake of Fire, whether you think so or not, because the Bible says that Sabbath Day is the sign between you and Him.

148.)	 Dankenbring, Luker, and Meredith are causing everybody to sin in Australia and New Zealand and your [church] members are going to be put to death in Australia and New Zealand for “picking up sticks” on the Sabbath Day because God’s Word says so. 

149.)	And the blood will be on your head, Dankenbring, Luker, Meredith because you willfully move the Sabbath Day to Friday, just like the Pope, who will be thrown into the Lake of Fire, moves the Sabbath Day to the first day of the week. Don’t you dare play with God’s sign and seal on the people of God because the blood is on your head.

150.)	Well, the blood is on Herman Hoeh’s head. Herman Hoeh, the evangelical leaning Buddhist who took pictures of naked young men. And he engineered the establishment  of Joseph W. Tkach to take over [the Worldwide Church of God leadership].

151.)	We have named all the other men so you know who all were behind it: Victor Kubic, Ron Kelly, Dr. Stavernides, Don Ward, Michael P Germano, David Albert, David Hume, Paul Kroll, Larry Salyer. Now you know how Tkach got in. It was a conspiracy! That’s right. A conspiracy. It didn’t happen by accident. It was the lobbying of Dr. Hoeh.

152.)	And watch out! Did you know that all of the McNairs are Masons? All of the McNairs were Mason? Remember how I told you about Rod Meredith, how he was being groomed in the order of the De Molay as a youth. It is worse than that. 

153.)	Did you know that who was in charge of the Church next to Armstrong was Stan Rader? Stan Rader was a Jesuit. That’s right. So we’ve got all types of skullduggery and debauchery going on in the Worldwide Church of God that you didn’t know about.

154.)	The Obedient Church of God is being led by God to show you the truth, the truth about all those men and the truth about Dr. Hoeh. And if you want some more truth here, let’s tell you about Ambassador Hall Auditorium. What about it?

155.)	I.) It was constructed under the auspices Daniel Mann, Johnson, and Mendenhall. II.) The entire auditorium is built on Masonic symbolism. The Ambassador auditorium is based on Masonic symbolism.

156.)	III.) The Auditorium is a cube shape. Take away the two white pillars that disguised it as a cube shape. IV.) It faces East so that all worshippers in the building always face the rising sun. V.) There is a room in the ceiling area on the upper left side that is the same as the Masonic buildings.

157.)	 A room in the ceiling area. That’s where the hierarchy of the Masons, that are above the lower Masons, meet and construct their buildings. VI.) The colors that were used were Masonic, and VII.) the various shapes of design were Masonic. 

158.)	And, VIII.) Masonic coins were located throughout the building in different locations. They were placed there by the workers. Masonic coins were put into the structure of the building.

159.)	Now let me tell you the one that nails it here. IX.) The bridges over the lake intersect into a female sexual symbol with the fountain symbolizing the penis with its rigid shaft spurting water. Now you know the rest of the story. You don’t have to believe it, but you can’t change it, “you can’t change it.”

160.)	Why would they put a room in the ceiling of Ambassador Auditorium? Why would they do that? Why would they put the building in the shape of a perfect cube?  The point is Masonic symbolism is all over the Ambassador Auditorium, culminating with the fountain, not to mention the Masonic coins located throughout the building by workers.

161.)	Remember? I said Stan Rader was a Jesuit, and there is a heavily influenced scenario going on right down to the fact that most of the Worldwide Churches of God meet in Satanic Devil’s buildings, called Masonic Halls. How in the world can you meet in a Devil’s building? You are lining up with devils. You are aligning yourself with devils. 

162.)	I’m not going to hold back. I’m going to tell them the truth about Dr. Hoeh, about Ambassador Auditorium; I’m going to cut, slice and dice- up, just like this sword over my shoulder is for. That’s what the sword, the Word is for to cut, slice, dice- up all these liars, all these game-players. You know, all these loud-mouth ministers showing off but not following God’s Bible. They can’t even keep the Sabbath Day on the seventh-day. You can now see that something is very wrong with the state of the Churches of God. 

163.)	Something is very wrong in Denmark. Something is very fishy in Denmark, and I can see a cadre of lies from everything about the past workers in the Worldwide Church of God. And our job is to do the Romans 9:28 work, and to expose the evil. You are supposed to expose and show the people their sins. That’s what the Bible commands you to do. You are supposed to show the people their sins. 

164.)	So we’ve got a heavy strong-connection. We’ve got Stan Rader, the second man in command, who ran the whole operation as a Jesuit agent. He was a Jesuit agent. And that was attested to by Chic Atwell in Chic Publications. I don’t want you to start reading these other publications, because they really have a lot of things that have to be sorted out

165.)	I’ll tell you why Stan Rader was in there. It was because the Jesuits have been sending out their Jesuit agents into churches to cause chaos. That’s right. The Jesuits have their “fingers” in everything. They are into all of the companies. We don’t want to do a sermon on the Jesuits right now. But, suffice to say, Stan Rader was a Jesuit.

166.)	The Jesuits run the “black” popes and the “black” popes kill the “white” popes when the “white” popes get out of line. [A pope wears either a black-robe or white-robe.]

167.)	Remember I said that Marion J. McNair was a 32nd degree Mason, and McNair, as a Church of God minister, said only good things about Masonry. I’m showing you that connection between Masonry and the insiders of the Worldwide Church of God, the founders that were the top lead executives of the Worldwide Church of God: Herman Hoeh, Stan Rader, Marion McNair, (I think I told you all of the McNairs are Masons).

168.)	So now you know why we need The Obedient Church of God; now you know why you need the truth.  Satan now has got everybody totally bamboozled. And what has happened now is that, as this truth comes out, none of the ex-members want to have anything to do with a Church of God, even an off-shoot Church of God. 

169.)	Satan is still winning, because now as the truth comes out, the ex-members don’t want to have anything to do with a Church of God because they have had it. All of their money has been taken; remember I showed you that Armstrong “stripped all the hooves off of the sheep”? And Armstrong was greedy, “greedy” shepherd.

170.)	Who keeps goldware? Not even the movie stars have goldware, not to mention Mr. Armstrong’s $10 million plane, not to mention his million dollar art collection—all paid for with our tithes, our offerings. He was the worthless shepherd. He set up the doctrines, but he stripped the sheep bare. 

171.)	He stripped the “fat sheep” by getting the fat sheep to sell their houses. That’s what it means, when you strip the fat sheep, you have the fat sheep sell their house. 

172.)	And we have here Satan still winning because now all the ex-members have had enough. They don’t want to ever have anything more to do with the Church of God. So therefore, it’s going to be a very small group that is going to be in a place of safety.
173.)	The Scriptures say do not forsake the assembling of yourselves, “do not forsake the assembling of yourselves.” And all these ex-Worldwide [Church of God] members are forsaking the assembling of themselves.

174.)	Now we’ll see where God leads The Obedient Church of God because I believe that we are just going to be a witness work against the offshoot Churches of God who are moving the Sabbath Day to Friday in half the world, who are celebrating the pagan days of the pagan gods and goddesses, who are celebrating Mother-goddess Day, Sky Father’s Day, and Turkey-god Day.

175.)	They are learning the way of the Gentiles, which is a direct contradiction to the Word of God. So we are just going to be a witness, and I haven’t got time to discuss all these things with a hundred thousand ex-members, so, therefore, it is going to be a witness work.

176.)	And remember, everything I’m telling you is making a broad description of how the Worldwide Church of God had Stan Rader as a Jesuit in there destroying it, and how they had Dr. Hoeh lining –up Joseph Tkach to destroy it. That whole list of ministers that were set just waiting, like snakes on eggs, “like snakes on eggs” they were just sitting, waiting for Armstrong to die. That was the truth about what was going on. 

177.)	Now you know the whole story. 

178.)	Bear Note: With Stan Rader in charge, that is why all the Churches of God met in Masonic Halls, because it was set up and influenced by Stan Rader the Jesuit.

179.)	 Remember I told you that one lodge number where the Worldwide Church of God met in was actually Lodge 666. Can you imagine that? It was in Resida, California. They met in Lodge number 666.

180.)	And where was Mr. Armstrong’s first office in Eugene, Oregon? On the second floor of an old Masonic Building. Interesting, “interesting, interesting.” I’ll have to verify that just so no one takes issue with that. And I do go to Oregon; so the next time I go to Oregon, I’ll trace that down for you.

181.)	 I also traced down where the original school house is. You’ll like that. The man who has the school house wants $325,000.00 for it, and he had painted it red, and he moved it. It is now in Veneta, about 12 miles west of Eugene.

182.)	So, we actually, The Obedient Church of God, have all the details, and know exactly what is going on. We’ll be able to help the Two Witnesses know exactly what is going on. 

183.)	I’ll bet that you didn’t know that Stan Rader was a Jesuit. Nobody knew that. 

184.)	You didn’t know that Herman Hoeh, Dr. Hoeh that we all respected and admired, took pictures of naked young men. Interesting. And he twisted the Bible and then made deliberate translations of the words of the Bible in order to fit whoever he was having his “bread buttered” by. You didn’t know that Dr. Hoeh brought in and lobbied for Joseph Tkach, Joseph W. Tkach.

185.)	You didn’t know that all of the McNairs were 33rd degree Masons. Jack Elliott, an executive many years ago was a Mason. 

186.)	I think you can see that God had to raise up The Obedient Church of God to help straighten up this mess and get some truth in because Satan has planted his seed in the Worldwide Church of God and Satan has destroyed the Worldwide Church of God. 

187.)	Our only hope is to get right with God and that we start obeying every jot and title; but only The Obedient Church of God, only the obedient [to the] Holy Bible (that’s the word that we are following, because we aren’t following any man) are following every jot and title of the Bible.

188.)	That is in our Constitution and By Laws, and if I was struck dead, or something happens to me, the By Laws state that anyone who carries on this organization, has to follow every jot and title [of the Bible] exactly as it is written without any additions or deletions, without any interpretation, without any changes from the First Century. 

189.)	If it wasn’t in the First Century, you can’t do it. And that is so Satan can’t get anywhere near The Obedient Church of God. 

190.)	Well, we are going to hammer away at this. We are going to get you to have pure worship of Father; we’re going to speak the truth going out, but we not be silenced, “we will not be silenced.” We are going to keep preaching the truth.

191.)	Do you want to hear some more truth? Guess what is happening now? You think all the problems are over? Ha! Problems are still going on in the Offshoots. Guess what is happening now. The United Church of God Worldwide Association has now put up a “Code of Ethics Agreement” that United Church of God ministers have to sign.

192.)	What this agreement says that if you are going to be a local elder or a pastor, you have to sign this Code of Ethics requiring ministers to abide by, that they will follow words that are not in the Bible, and the ministers have to promise in advance to support the decisions of the leaders of that fellowship without knowing what the future decisions will be.

193.)	Bear Note: There are applications of the Bible that are not in the Bible. 

194.)	These ministers don’t know what the future decisions will be, but they have to sign that they will obey whatever the future decisions are.

195.)	 So guess what?  If you [the minister] find something in the Bible that is contradicting the United Church of God [Worldwide Association], you can’t tell the members that because you signed a Code of Ethics Agreement that requires you as a minister to abide by the applications of the Bible that are not in the Bible, and you promised in advance to support the future decisions that you don’t even know they are going to say or do.

196.)	So, you have a problem here with a doctrine? And you find in the Bible it contradicts your doctrine, that it contradicts the Bible, you can’t do anything about it. Because you signed an agreement that says that you have to actively teach whatever doctrine the organization teaches.

197.)	 And that binding agreement, do you know what that binding agreement means? It means that you are going to have to lie to members that if you find something in the Bible that is contradicting the United Church of God, you can not, “you can not” tell your members the truth. You have got to lie and follow the “applications” of the United Church of God [Worldwide Association]. 

198.)	Well, I would never sign that agreement, I can tell you that. I am no “yes man,” I’m God’s yes man. That’s the only loyalty I have to God the Father and Yeshua at His right hand side.

199.)	So, there is a great danger now, “a great danger now.” You thought the mess was over? The mess is just starting again. Now we’ve got an application agreement that the ministers have to teach whatever decision is made, and what is not in the Bible, and to support the decisions of the leaders of the United Church of God Worldwide Association in the future and whatever they say now, whether it is in the Bible or it is not in the Bible.

200.)	Welcome to the tribulation, “welcome to the tribulation.” Luckily you’ve got The Obedient Church of God. All this is recorded on our Internet Site. 

201.)	You can go back to other sermons where we expose the “brain- washing” of the Worldwide Church of God and everything that is rooted in confidence, “confidence” and traditions of Herbert W. Armstrong and in the chronies of the Worldwide Church of God.

202.)	Issues of corruption. We could tell you more, but the point of all this is: who do you want to follow, God or men? So what are you going to do? Are you going to end up in the Lake of Fire because you are going to follow men or are you going to follow the Bible? 

203.)	It’s going to be even worse with these offshoot churches here.

204.)	Side Bar: In moving up to the split of 2010 of the United Church of God and the United Church of God Worldwide Association, there is information split surrounding an argument between the United Church of God leadership surrounding the ouster of President Clyde Kilough. And this information regarding the ouster of Clyde Kilough was perfectly suppressed by the ministry.

205.)	I’ve got a quote here, “Even those who disagreed with the official propaganda being distributed to the masses, out of fear of losing their jobs, they were just a bunch of ‘yes men.’ That issues regarding censorship, baseless rumors, and outright lies by the United Church of God ministers, elders, and lay members within the church were covered up.”

206.)	If I go to a source on this, there is a writer, an anonymous blogger, calling himself or herself, Abbigail Cartwright, and it says, “The lack of transparency around the split has caused many members confusion regarding what the schism was about, and revealed a poisonous ministerial culture of corruption.”

207.)	So a lot of this has been leaked out now. It was over the ouster of President Clyde Kilough. And how do you know? There isn’t any hope unless you stick with The Obedient Church of God because you are hearing all these things from right now. 

208.)	You want another tidbit here since we are on this? I was going to save some of this for the feast, but I’ll give it to you now.

209.)	 Remember the Kessler letter? The Kessler letter was an open letter to the Worldwide Church of God leadership in 1981 alleging systematic illegal and unethical conduct among church ministers, including wiretapping, harassment, evidence planting, silence of whistle blowers, and actual fraud and abuse.

210.)	The Kessler letter says, “This legacy of corruption trickled down into a new generation of Church of God leaders, which they took to their various splinter groups following the 1995 WCG schism.”

211.)	 The specific nature of their accounts and the authority which Jack Kessler lays them out and to their credibility along with the fact many of these allegations have been circulating around before he even produced the note. 

212.)	Now WCG never properly acted on any of these accusations. That’s all we are going to say.

213.)	Look, we are going to smash all of the corruption , we are going to smash all of the lies; we are going to uphold the truth, we’ll go back.

214.)	And if you want to know what the Worldwide Church of God did to you, there are the “man-power papers” from 1961. And this describes meetings, and minutes and summaries of the selection process of the WCG ministers, and reveals that the leadership kept profiles of each member.

215.)	 Each member, you have a file, including personal and sensitive information obtained from the supposedly private counseling sessions. And you could be disqualified for many reasons: such as the length of your beard, your physical stamina, speech patterns, and other personal mannerisms.

216.)	This is in the “man-power papers” from 1961when they went down and recorded everything about you and me, “everything about you and me,” and tracked it, closely tracked it. And this practice continues, especially in the Philadelphia Church of God. And also things are recorded in the United Church of God.

217.)	You are getting a lot of truth here today of what is really going on, “what is really going on.” And we The Obedient Church of God are the only ones who are telling you, we are the only church that is putting out the truth.

218.)	 And setting you straight about Sky Father’s Day, the longest day of the year; and leading to the longest day of the year is Mother-goddess Day in the spring time, the mother of all the gods and goddesses; and Turkey-god Day coming up, which you don’t want to celebrate because it is to Osiris and Ra. It is so sad because why would churches have you celebrate pagan days when it is clearly in the encyclopedias.

219.)	Well, the only one that is teaching you correctly is The Obedient Church of God, the Romans 9:28 [“short work”], and we are going to smash all of the disobedient Churches of God, and we are going to speak the truth.

220.)	         That’s why I’m saying, this is turning into an Elisha type work, and we are going to turn your heart back to the Father, and the only way you can turn your heart back to the Father is through obedience because Father doesn’t want a bunch disobedient brats hanging around his house with some churches having the Sabbath Day on Friday [in half the world], and some churches having the holy days two days early, one day late, one day early, two days late; having Pentecost on the wrong day when it has to be Sivan 5, 6, or 7, depending on the moon. 

221.)	We The Obedient Church of God preach that you cannot learn the way of the devil’s pagan days, which are so obvious, and yet there are ministers that insist on having Turkey-god Day, insist on moving the Sabbath to Friday, and we’re going to smash them all with God’s Word.

222.)	Hold that thought. You know I don’t like to get too serious. So let’s play a son for you now, “If I Had a Hammer.” I’ve got a hammer. Here it is. A classic song so we can lighten up here a bit, and give you something to enjoy.

223.)	Ah yes. If I had a hammer, and I’ve got a hammer and we’re going to use it. And do you know what? You are going to feel better. You are going to feel better after I use the hammer. Do you know why? 

224.)	Stress hormones tend to go up if you continue to hold a secret, and not confess up to the truth. In science research the brain has a team of rivals, our inner brain has a team of rivals. Let’s take the Republicans and Democrats: it is the same talking point, but they are rivals. Now that is what your brain has. This is a new rediscovered truth for you.

225.)	So, who is talking to whom? There is one part of your brain that tells you to believe one thing, and another part of your brain that tells you to believe another thing. But who is talking to whom? You are both the same person.

226.)	I’ll give you a better example. You have a whole carton of ice cream in front of you and chocolate cookies in front of you. One part of your brain says to eat the whole thing, eat it all, eat it all down; the other part of your brain says oh no, no, no don’t do that. You’ll be getting sick and you’ll be getting fatter and you don’t need all that ice cream; you just need a little bit. 

227.)	The brain has rivals. So, there is what is known as a Ulysses Contract. Remember Ulysses? So, I’m giving you this analogy to show you I’m strapping myself to the Word of God. What did Ulysses do to keep the ship from crashing on the rocks by the siren song that was sung by mermaids?

228.)	All the other ships and sailors crashed on the rocks. So how can you not crash? Answer. Strap yourself to the Word of God, only to the Bible, every jot and title. So what did Ulysses do? Ulysses strapped himself to the mast of the ship. And Ulysses wanted to hear the siren songs, but he didn’t or he would crash into the rocks, so Ulysses strapped himself to the mast of the ship. First Ulysses put bee’s wax in all of the sailor’s ears, and he told the sailors not to listen to him, no matter what he said, “no matter what he said,” and to sail straight.

229.)	This is what is known as the Ulysses Contract. I want you to make a Ulysses Contract with yourself; decide to strap yourself to the Bible, “strap yourself to the Bible” and to every jot and title of the Bible. And that way you will not crash on the rocks.  

230.)	Now I have some correspondence that I want to squeeze in here from one of our members, Ozelia Welling. She writes, “Dear Pastor Bear, In your August 18th sermon you show a parallel between King Cyrus and Mr. Armstrong in being used by God at God’s appointed time. Thank you for the comparison. God has given you this gift.

231.)	“Jeremiah had spoken to the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, but the people would not hearken. 

232.)	“In order to dwell in the land given unto them and their fathers forever, they had to turn from their evil way and from the evil of their doing, and turn from worship of other gods.

233.)	 “God used His servant Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and brought him against the land of Judah. 

234.)	“Jeremiah 25:11-12 tells, ‘This whole land shall be a desolation…and serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return to this place. 

235.)	“Of course, it became time for God to use the Persian Cyrus. He because king of Media and Persia, and at the right time, he defeated Nabonidus, King of Babylon.

236.)	“II Chronicles 36:23 says, ‘Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All of the kingdom of earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and He hath charged me to build Him an House in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all this people? The Lord His God be with Him, and let him go up.’

237.)	“Ezra 5:13 confirms the Lord’s charge, ‘In the first year of Cyrus the (conquering) king of Babylon…made a decree to build this house of God [at Jerusalem].’ (This was the first of three decrees made by the conquering Persians.)

238.)	“The point is the seventy years of Babylonian captivity had come to an end, and God kept His promise to the Jews. In Jeremiah 29:10 it is recorded, “…And it shall come to pass, when the seventy years [of desolation] are accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.’  

239.)	“God raised up the Worldwide Church of God in the 19-year time cycle of 1934, and now The Obedient Church of God in the 2010 19-year time cycle, preparing a people to be ‘wise virgins’ who will go into the marriage supper of the Lord.                                                                                            Maranatha, Ozelia Welling”   

240.)	I’ll interject that that was our first broadcast in 2010 on Passover, and that fits, that was perfectly in tune with the 19- year time cycle.

241.)	So we see how God used Mr. Armstrong to raise up the Worldwide Church of God in 1934, which follows the 19-year time cycle.

242.)	You’ve got 1934 and then you get 1953 when the Word of God went to Europe; then you’ve got 1972 which was Ambassador Hall [built in Pasadena, Ca.]; and then you have 1991, the great falling away, that was changing [the church] from a spiritual family to a human family. “We are all one family,” Tkach said. 

243.)	Then you have 2010 when The Obedient Church of God began broadcasting, doing the Romans 9:28 work to obey every jot and title and to strap yourself to the mast, to strap yourself to the Bible, and that will be your only hope to be in the first resurrection.

244.)	That’s the sermon for today.

245.)	Now take your 1934 hymnal that has the original more poignant words in it than all the other hymnals, “Even From My Youth Oh God” by thee have I been taught. That’s Psalm 71and you want to sing out because you are petitioning Father. That’s important. Turn to page 91 in our hymnal and it is page 52 in other hymnals. All stand up.

246.)	And now for the closing prayer. All face the North Heavens, raise your arms, head bowed and eyes closed.

247.)	“Almighty and most-merciful loving Father, we thank you so much for the ability to say the truth. 

248.)	“Thank so much for The Obedient Church of God for I have to do the research to see these facts, and I wouldn’t see them if you hadn’t raised up The Obedient Church of God because then I wouldn’t be doing the research. So thank you Father. Let the glory all be yours for doing this work, Romans 9:28 work and it just every week getting more and more powerful.

249.)	“So thank you, and please inspire next week’s service. And keep all of us into every jot and title so that we can become more and more like you. We are saved by grace through faith so that when we stumble, we have an advocate and we know that grace is a limited time to repent in and not have time to sin the rest of our lives.

250.)	“So thank you for the basic truths; thank you for the truths so that we really know what went on in the Worldwide Church of God and we really know this is the end time work. No one else is preaching the Sabbath Day on the seventh-day around the world, so please strengthen The Obedient Church of God.

251.)	“And indeed, help work out the problems with the employees because if the company comes down, then the church is in jeopardy because we don’t have the funds. The company supports the church. So, Father, it is all in your hands.

252.)	  “And indeed, look after the brethren in Pakistan so they don’t get murdered because Christians are being murdered in Pakistan, and we have 200 people over there. Please protect them so that the mobs don’t kill them.

253.)	“Now Father we ask for your protection throughout the coming week upon all our members and your blessing on the work of The Obedient Church of God. 

254.)	“Please help us to get the dozer fixed because the front-end was wrecked when it was soaked and all the clutches were soaked, and nothing will turn and everything is jammed-up. Please help us on that one. That’s a tough one.

255.)	“Father, our focus is spiritual so no matter what happens, it is on this earthly plane. Help us to use all of these experiences in order to grow more like you in wisdom, patience, understanding, and loving-kindness.

256.)	“So Father hold us in the hollow of your hand. We ask this in Yeshua ha Mashiach’s holy, righteous name, out soon arriving Prince and Lord. Amen.”

257.)	That’s the broadcast for today. And this Elijah-type work is going out.

258.)	We’ll close off with the song: “If I Had a Hammer.” 
And you are:
1.) going to strap yourself to the Mast of the Bible God's Word every jot; and you are 
2.) going to watch The Obedient Church of God move the hammer of God’s Word 
3.) in order to SAVE all people we can, by getting the people to strap themselves to the Mast of God's Word.