"Prophesied Time of Restoration
and The Genesis of Heresy"

S a religion, the Worldwide Church has, more than most, proved that those who arrogate to themselves the supposed mantle of authority (religious or otherwise), and alleged truth, had best first humbly abandon the foible of doing and believing only what is "right" in their own eyes!

    The Almighty Creator alone truly knows all the reasons for the confusing babylon of religious offshoots that have emerged from the crumbling ruins of what was once the Worldwide Church of Herbert Armstrong.

    Not that what has happened took place without His advance prophetic warning, through a generally despised man whose chief "offense" against his former brethren was to care passionately to see the pure truth alone prevail.

    Back in the heyday of Worldwide's influence over its thousands of members -- chiefly in the U.S. and Canada, but with many scattered churches around the world in many different nations -- and just prior to it exploding onto the national and international scenes, a young man briefly sojourned at Pasadena, California as an Ambassador College student, of poor and meager background and means.

    The A.C. administrators made the mistake of misjudging solely by appearances that such "unworthies" did not suitably meet their standards of rich "blessings," as the "premier college" behind which the religion and church of Armstrongism hid, in their quest to proselytize the "cream" of the religious and irreligious masses.

    Despite misgivings by the administrators over this individual's suitability for continuing his education at Ambassador, he stepped in to draw the original A.C. cartoon strip (<= Click Here to view) from 1969 to 1970, for the school paper The Portfolio, taking over from, and ably mimicking the style of, the strip's creator Monte Wolverton, during his senior year.

    While a freshman A.C. student that year, the young man's other dorm-room mate was former Imperial Schools (Worldwide's grade and high school equivalent of A.C.) student Michael Feazell and, through him, became acquainted with Joe Tkach, Jr. and Robin Webber, among others, during their freshman year at Ambassador.

    Four years later, the young man returned to Pasadena, having majored in Radio, Television and Film at a Midwestern university, after which he ran his own commercial and graphic art studio in Denver for two years, lured back to Pasadena by the promise of heading a new animation studio for the church/college's on-campus television studio.

    Though promised the position, during his absence to wrap up his business affairs and make the cross-country move, the job was given instead to a former Disney animator, just before the entire department was axed in budget cuts a few months later.

    Despite the setback and harm to his financial prospects, the young man's belief in the "impossible" was soon felt by the "headquarters" crowd of his Worldwide acquaintances.

    Riled and mocked after he told his Worldwide friends that he would somehow attend the opening night performance of the then new Ambassador Auditorium, April 7, 1974 -- although he had no invitation and that night's festivities were restricted to only "top level" ministry and the international rich and famous invited guests, the young man persisted in his "foolish" belief.

    In anticipation of the event the apparently hallucinating fellow spent his last $100 buying a used rental tuxedo, and wearing this he rode to the auditorium on his bicycle, arriving a little late for the start of the concert, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini (1914-2005, who recently dead at 91 years of age), the former chief guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony (where he made his debut American performance in 1954), then conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, who was soon-to-become conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (which he conducted from the late 70s through the early 80s).

    Despite a ban on seating after the concert had begun, the young man appeared at the door of the plush auditorium and boldly asked if he could occupy any vacant seat, being a warm body suitably attired, and after a brief conference the ushers agreed to admit him during the brief intermission following the overture.

    After the concert, the adventurous young man found himself, in the foyer, being introduced alongside Herbert Armstrong to members of the Japanese Diet, and following the crowd from the Auditorium, e also attended the gala reception held in the Student Center following the evening's concert.

    The church grapevine quickly spread the word of the young man's exploits, and consequently many other hopefuls mimicked his initiative the following two nights of the three-night inaugural concert.

    Four years later the young man was a poor entertainer and briefly a next-door neighbor of Joe Tkach, Sr. from 1975 through 1976.

    The young man's bride-to-be was a student at Ambassador College, scheduled to graduate in 1978 during A.C.'s then supposed final year as a full-time college.   Her graduation seemed uncertain, due to refusal of the Pasadena campus to transfer credits from the Big Sandy, Texas campus of Ambassador, where she had attended the three previous years until that campus was closed (later to be reopened as a two-year college).

    Taking her plight to the same administrators who eight years before had scuttled his own hopes for a college degree, the young man prevailed on them to reconsider, in light of the fact their college was about to close its doors, that the young woman's name was already printed in the graduation program, that her parents had traveled to California to see her graduation, and because her credits with the transfer would be sufficient for her to graduate.

    Following her graduation and the brief closing of the Pasadena campus (to be immediately reopened for a few more years before finally closing its doors for good), the couple sought the advice and counsel of Garner Ted Armstrong's brother-in-law, Ben Chapman, concerning marriage.

    His advice was to forget about marriage without substantial savings and more lucrative employment, yet despite the advice and forebodings of even the young lady's friends and family -- some of whom predicted the marriage wouldn't last more than two years -- the two recently observed their 27th anniversary, having raised eight children (the young man delivering them all, but one, at home unassisted), and schooling them all at home as well, along with their first grandchild, with six children still living at home.

    This would not all to come to be without a troubled start, and the loss of twin girls from stillbirth, with their very first attempt at raising a family.

    While trying to attend a hastily called "special" meeting at Ambassador College in Pasadena on January 22, 1979, and on a weekday, his visibly pregnant wife and a mutual friend were mistreated by Worldwide's ministry when the hurriedly organized gathering was turned by its leaders into a protest demonstration.

    During this fiasco, attempts were made to place unsuspecting Worldwide members and A.C. students in harm's way, by barricading too many people into the Hall of Administration building behind chained and padlocked, or otherwise locked doors -- a potential fire hazard -- into positions where they would be the first to be confronted by the police riot squads, then being quietly and hurriedly organized at the Rose Bowl to possibly storm the campus.

    Thankfully such plans against what was thus far a peaceful rally were finally abandoned by law enforcement, yet attempts were knowingly made to place Worldwiders, such as the man's pregnant wife, in the front line of those who might have been the first to suffer retribution by the police, without telling them in advance of the possible danger or threat they were facing as a result.

    In any case, the young man was soon offended by the rough treatment he and his wife and friend (also a Worldwide member at the time) received by acquaintances such as Michael Feazell, Robin Webber and others, due to their suspicions that the friend was a dissident publisher of an anti-Worldwide magazine, over mistaken identification thanks to a somewhat similar appearance.

    This led all three to immediately disfellowship themselves from Worldwide and disassociate themselves from the demonstrations then being held by Worldwide members -- at the instigation of their ministry -- over a threatened receivership by the California Attorney General (and later Governor) George "Duke" Deukmejian, over financial improprieties and allegations of misuse of member's tithes and offerings, brought by several former, subsequently forcibly disfellowshipped, Worldwiders.

    A little over a week later, on January 30, 1979, at yet another staged demonstration in front of the Los Angeles County courthouse, the three presented themselves before Feazell and Joe Tkach, Sr. to hand them a flyer written by the young man, warning them of the Babylonian Worldwide splintering into many daughter whore churches, in an "Open Letter to the W.W.C.G." (<= Click Here to view)

    Prophesying the future breakup of Worldwide into many competing religious groups, this was precisely what finally took place within 11 years of that prophetic warning.

    In fact, the two men singled out by the young man to personally receive his flyer -- Joe Tkach, Sr. and Michael Feazell -- were to take (many would say "wrest" or "steal") control of Worldwide and Ambassador College exactly seven years later to the month (if not the very day), upon the death of Herbert Armstrong on January 16, 1986.

    HWA passed away just twelve days prior to the Challenger Space Shuttle catastrophe, six days prior to the seventh anniversary of Worldwide's first demonstration sit-in, and fourteen days prior to the seventh anniversary of the Los Angeles demonstration where this prophetic flyer was distributed.

    Costing the young man his current job with NBC studios in Burbank to attend and pass out his flyer that day, he and his wife in particular were thereafter treated as pariahs by those allegedly in charge of the Worldwide Church and Ambassador College at that time (Tkach, Sr., Feazell and company).

    After the young prophet publicly announced that he had disfellowshiped himself from Worldwide, in a newspaper article carried in the Pasadena Star News, Joe Tkach, Sr. hypocritically announced from the Ambassador Auditorium stage that he was disfellowshiping the young man.

    When he heard of this, the prophet facetiously asked: "How can he 'dis' something dat ain't no more?"

    A week or so later, having walked across town and stopping briefly to rest at the college campus and to ask friends for a ride home, the very pregnant young woman was ordered to leave the college immediately, by someone who accosted her before she could reach the student center, accusing her of "association with a dissident group."

    Later that same year -- on September 23, 1979 -- the young man, then 28 1/2 years of age, had a dream vision in which he saw the eventual breakup and destruction of the Worldwide Church and Ambassador College.

    In the dream vision this was symbolized by the destruction of Ambassador Auditorium in a terrible earthquake, following a disruptive meeting there, at which the young man was instructed by an unseen voice like booming thunder to deliver a message from the stage.

    This led to total pandemonium, and unsuccessful attempts to attack and eject the man, just before the earthquake struck and destroyed the Auditorium, as the young man hurriedly fled from the building while shouting warnings to the others present to do likewise.

    This dream vision occurred exactly six years, three months and twenty-four days prior to Joe Tkach, Sr. becoming the assumed head of Worldwide's ministry, who would later die -- nine years and eight months after that -- on September 23, 1995, having accomplished the near total destruction of Worldwide and A.C. (something his son, namesake and heir to Worldwide's chief "throne" -- Joseph Tkach, Jr. -- would finally succeed in completely accomplishing).

    Joe Tkach, Sr.'s death from cancer came to pass exactly 16 years to the very day following this prophetic dream vision.

    Nine days after that vision, on October 2, 1979 (the day after true Atonement, and two years to the very day after the young man first met his wife, on the sixth anniversary of his baptism into Worldwide) -- the next day (October 3) being Worldwide's false "Atonement" that year -- the ordinations of Stanley Rader (a Jewish lawyer) and Joe Tkach, Sr. as Worldwide "evangelists" was announced to Worldwide members.

    The press picked up and carried this story on October 3, 1979 ten days following the dream vision.

    Exactly one year later, on October 2, 1980, the young man had a second dream vision, which picked up where the prior dream vision left off, in which he was shown the eventual death of Herbert Armstrong, followed by the passing away of most of his former top Worldwide and Ambassador College ministry and faculty, over a long period of time.

    Five years, three months and fourteen days after this dream, Herbert Armstrong died January 16, 1986, exactly ten months after the young man's own father passed away, on March 16, 1985, and also ten months after the day his next-younger brother was married (his wedding being on the same day of their father's death).

    Tkach Sr. also died just ten days shy of exactly fifteen years from the date of this second dream vision, and Garner Ted Armstrong died September 15, 2003 -- within eight days of the 24th anniversary of the first dream vision -- just 18 days prior to the 23rd anniversary of the second dream vision.

    Garner Ted's downfall began with another attempted affair with a masseuse, July 4, 1995.   A lawsuit by the masseuse against GTA ensued, and then a somewhat pornographic video of his sexcapade was distributed over the Internet, after he denied the affair to his followers.

    Eight years to the day prior to that, the young man was mistreated by Ted at an Ambassador College alumni reunion held in Dallas, Texas July 4, 1987, seven months before which -- on December 12, 1986 -- the young man had a dream vision of GTA's final fall from grace, and bounce back (in which he was symbolized wearing a clown suit before a television studio audience, as "Clowner" Ted Armstrong, who laughingly faked a heart attack before the startled audience in the vision), the very same night both the man's in-laws also had dreams about Garner Ted.

    Exactly 11 years after that dream vision, Garner Ted was thrown out of his own "International" church, in December, 1997, and within a month of his ouster, on January 9, 1998, GTA had already formed a new church organization centered around his own image as a "TV evangelist."

    The prophet had also published an account of his dream vision nearly seven months prior to the eleventh anniversary of his dream vision concerning GTA, and exactly 7 months before the fulfillment of that dream actually took place (The Ephesian Messenger, Issue No. 3, May 29, 1997, p. 4 <= Click Here to view).

    Another account of the dream vision concerning Ted Armstrong was published by the prophet (in the January-February 1996 issue of The Pure Truth Magazine, issue #20, p. 9 [<= Click Here to view]), under the heading "Two More 'Servants of God' Have Gone Down in Flames!," exactly two years prior to the fulfillment of his dream vision, and again published another account of this dream vision in the March-April 1996 issue of The Pure Truth, issue #21, p. 11 (<= Click Here to view).

    Ted's troubles, as a result of his clownish attempts to hide the truth of his adultery, were duly reported in the February 26, 1998 issue of The Journal, a newspaper then published out of Big Sandy, Texas (site of the former second campus of Ambassador College), by former Worldwiders.

    This prophet had earlier, on the seven-month anniversary of his father's death, taken upon himself what was to be a 7-year nazarite vow, beginning October 16, 1985, but would be extended a total of twenty-five years (which will now expire in 2010) thanks to it being accidentally broken several times over the years.

    The last violation of the prophet's vow took place the day after GTA died (the same day the prophet learned about GTA's death through a freak weather front that brought in a Tyler, Texas news broadcast from a distance of about 140 miles, while an item on GTA's death was being aired), September 16, 2003 (just 8 days shy of 25 years since the prophet's first dream vision, 18 days shy of the 24th anniversary of his second dream vision, and 30 days short of the 18th anniversary of the prophet's original vow).

    The nazarite vow must be rededicated seven days after being broken, and so the prophet's vow was rededicated on September 23, 2003, the Feast of Reva that year according to the sacred calendar (the true date of which had been restored though the prophet's publishing ministry), exactly 25 years after the young prophet's first dream vision; and 24 years after the first publication of the restored calendar in The A.P.T. Manual, or Apostle, Prophet & Teacher Manual, Volume #'s 1, 2 and 3, of 1979, 1980, 1982 <= Click year to view)!

    The date the prophet first took his vow was also precisely three months to the day prior to the death of Herbert Armstrong at the age of 93, which was also exactly 93 days (inclusive of both dates) before that event took place.

    In addition, the prophet prayed fervently for guidance and direction in relation to his calling -- about which he was having second thoughts and doubts at the time -- the night of January 15, 1986 (17 years and 8 months to the day prior to GTA's death) and, the very next morning, received word of HWA's death that same night.

    Two days after HWA's passing -- on January 18, 1986 -- another proof was given, when the man prophesied the next shuttle launch would be a total disaster.

    Exactly ten days later, and twelve days after HWA's death -- who never had a fulfilled prophecy of his own come true -- on January 28, 1986 the space shuttle Challenger and its Babylonian crew of mixed races and religions was lost on launch, "as though cut down by an angel's sword, as they attempted to mount up to heaven to establish their eagle's nest there," observed the prophet, in reference to the scriptural prophecies found in Jeremiah 51:42, 53-55, 63-64 and Revelation 18:8, 21 related to this historic event, and the future downfall of America that it represents prophetically.

    By another strange set of "coincidences" HWA's death fell exactly 35 days before the prophet's 35th birth anniversary (February 20, that year), and also precisely 12 days before the midpoint of Comet Halley's journey through the solar system, at the same time the space shuttle Challenger disaster also transpired.

    Not only that, but precisely 50 days before HWA passed away -- on November 27, 1985 -- the prophet stood on the campus of Ambassador College in Pasadena, for the first time since leaving it 6 1/2 years before, when he shook the dust off his feet and promised not to return as long as the same spirit of divisiveness, present at that time, remained.

    The main instigator, Stan Rader, had since been "defrocked," disfellowshiped and removed from his former position of influence, when his plot to have HWA institutionalized as senile was revealed to Herbert, by a covert tape recording of a phone conversation between Rader and Herbert's then young "wife," divorcee Ramona (who was previously Rader's personal secretary).

    The prophet's attempt to see HWA, that day just before America's "Thanksgiving" Day, was unsuccessful due to the Herbert's ill health, pending his imminent death less than two month's later.

    While there, the prophet visited with Monte Wolverton, then art director for Herbert's "Plain Truth" magazine, which in the January 1986 issue -- the same month HWA died -- would carry a featured cover-story article denying any prophetic significance to the appearance of Halley's Comet, which was once popularly seen as a harbinger of pending death, disaster or war.

    In fact, 35 days after HWA's death, when the prophet turned 35 years old, was also precisely 50 days before the birth of the prophet's first son, which took place following the Wavesheaf offering day -- the day immediately following Passover/Unleavened Bread, on the restored sacred calendar, that year -- the night of April 10, 1986, and April 10-11 also marked comet Halley's closest approach to earth for the next 75 years, on its way out of our solar system.

    The united States was soon thereafter (January 1991) embroiled in the first Gulf War, then president George Herbert Walker Bush's "Desert Storm" war, which in fact the prophet announced a year in advance.

    This war resulted in many hundreds of thousands of veterans of that war suffering and dying over the years since, with birth defects in their subsequent offspring and some spouses also affected, from what became known as the mysterious "Gulf War Illness" plague.

    This resulted from the use of depleted uranium on tanks and missiles, leading to radiation sickness when inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin, due to the microscopic size of the radioactive particles contaminating the landscape for thousands of years to come, unless somehow removed and disposed of properly.

    Today, that same president's son and namesake George Walker Bush, also president, has America embroiled in unwinnable guerilla wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which threatens to boil over into World War III (or IV, if you count the Cold War's Korea and Vietnam conflicts, the Falkland Islands War with Argentina, and many other skirmishes and brush fire wars around the world) in either Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran or Pakistan.

    The same malady of Gulf War illness is once again affecting many thousands of returning American soldiers, but is also spreading to other involved nations' veterans of the current war, in the United Kingdom and various European, Asian and other nations involved in this present war (which now threatens to explode into World War, should America next invade Syria or, even more likely, Iran and Pakistan).

    Heresy begets heresy, and it emerges initially from the damp seeds of hardened hearts, watered profusely with the doubts and false convictions of individualists striving to follow the dictates of what seems right in their own eyes.

    Through the illusions of fraud, trickery, lies, self-deception, gullibility, misdirection, vaguely focused attention, or inattention, indifference, carelessness and misapplied facts, mixed together with much nonsense and mistaken "proofs" as evidence of supposed "truth," the world trips from one disaster to far worse disasters, seeking "solutions" that are ever illusive, because they deny the reality of actual cause and effect.

    Worldwide's glut of heretical religious offshoots since HWA's death -- whose contradictory beliefs belie their individual claims to legitimacy, since they cannot all be right, and one exclusivist doctrinaire belief automatically negates and prohibits every other contrary doctrinal opinion -- itself began as heresy that had somehow gained the mask of credibility, acceptance, and alleged legitimacy.

    The fruit of the tree bears witness to the nature, type and genus of the plant.

    Worldwide -- like America, which spawned it -- was a fertile breeding ground for such viral spiritual contagions that, once no longer constrained by the authoritarian certainty of an allegedly "infallible" leadership (whose flaws and errors were concealed and hidden from foolish followers), grew and spread wherever doubts, insecurities, opportunism and, ironically, fear of heresy prevailed, providing heresy and conspiracy ample nourishment, sufficient protection, and unopposed, unhindered room to grow, propagate and spread.

    Often mobile, on-the-move church members and large gatherings gave rise to the spread of heresy from one host church to another, where it would often mutate and metamorphous into entirely new diverse shades, variations and virulent outbreaks, transforming itself into many unique but mainly exclusivist guises and disguises.

    All of Worldwide's woes have been a metaphor for the country and its citizens as a whole, which is divided and polarized by its media into fractious and contentious political "parties," where dirty politics has taken on an entirely new and more evil connotation.

    Official Worldwide Church propaganda organs could not alone keep control over, or curb for very long, the malicious outbreaks, which often appeared as benign or gradual dilutions, subtle alterations, watered-down beliefs, and neglected doctrines by trusted, revered, respected "authorities," each bearing their own apparent official "headquarters" stamp of approval, at least once upon a time.

    Similarly, Americans have allowed their "news" sources to become corrupted and easily corruptible, along with the entire political "process," until only knaves, fools, despots and autocratic tyrants are able to rise to positions of control and authority over the land, with the passage and enforcement of flaws (false laws) in complete contradiction to the founding constitutional law and intent of the author's of this country's form of government.

    Having assumed the "mantle" of presumed "legitimacy" (in name only), the entire process is rather like somebody visibly infected with measles refusing to acknowledge their condition of illness and contagion, by steadfastly avoiding all mirrors, and ignoring all external input, until they must be forcibly quarantined, then treated with more denial, quackery, drugs and placebos mistaken for an actual cure.

    The eventual collapse of the assumed and "inspired" authorities later come, along with much disrespect, dishonor, mistrust, doubts and fears, which lead and mislead so many deceived and self-deceived followers and their leaders down so many dark, blind alleys of further deception and heresy.

    Cloaked so as the conceal and hide the hideous true face of these monstrous contrivances mislabeled "the plain truth," or "the good news," and other similar feel-good platitudes, false flags and chimeras, the hollow but false ring of spirituality, legitimacy, insight and intelligence must eventually crack and fall away, revealing the true nature of the beast so many are blindly following today.

    That will not happen, however, until it is far too late to halt it, or escape its evil outcome, for most of the foolish populace and inhabitants of earth in this present treacherous and wicked age.

    Stirring this witch's brew of a cauldron are the usurpers to the title of authority, holding their "offices" by means of trickery, deceit, and chiefly denial, by the majority of the general laity or people, of any wrongdoing, impropriety or dishonest and false claims of legitimacy, authority or so-called moral majority.

    Whether cloaked in the guise of "evangelist," "pastor," "president," "congressman" or "chief justice," such leaders today are generally opposed to all but their own heretical leanings, despite the long and sad history of their now mostly forgotten and ignored predecessors, who are no longer available or able to defend their own mostly misbegotten mantle of assumed authority.

    Notwithstanding the cost in alienated, disenfranchised, embittered, befuddled, disfellowshiped and forever "marked," former or soon-to-join the ranks of ex-followers, believers, ministry, faculty -- or public servants, and their dwindling popularity -- heresy marches on to its inevitable destruction, along with all those who have, or will, perish in the attempt to sustain or prolong it on the face of the earth.

    In contrast, the prophet faced physical attacks and injuries at the hands of secular and fellow former religious brethren, beginning soon after the start of his ministry, and has faced hostility and rejection at the hands of many false ministers and churches, and even from some of his own children, despite all attempts to educate and train them in the way of truth revealed to him, over the intervening years.

    From where else does heresy arise, but from popularly believed half-truths and total falsehoods, that ignore personal guilt for lawlessness by focusing primarily on the faults and foibles of someone else, anyone in fact other than oneself?

    Self-justifying and whitewashing one's own guilt, and calling it "forgiveness," does not wipe clean the slate of past or present guilt for transgressions of the Law.   And while mercy rejoices over judgment in the end, without proper discernment between the pure and the impure, the clean and the unclean, the obedient and the disobedient, the righteous and the wicked, toleration of wickedness poses as mercy and commitment to righteousness is misviewed as intolerance, and being judgmental or even "evil."

    Like charity gone berserk, as when a man's garden or crop is besieged by townsfolk and passersby alike, who eat their fill or cart off what they want each day -- until the gardener or farmer and his family finally starve, after being forced to eat the next year's crop seed to survive the short term -- even so is modern man's "benevolence" and "good will" often squandered upon the undeserving, the foolish and the insane.

    Instead, a man's property and heritage should be sacrosanct from trespassers until after the harvest, freeing a righteous (even if subsistence) farmer to leave the gleanings and unharvested corners of his field for needy indigents and wayfarers, too poor to pay for such luxuries, as meager bread for their tables.

    Spiritually, heresy is like cleaning house with a bulldozer and wrecking ball, or trying to build a bridge -- without proper tools, plans, or materials -- by throwing straw upon the flowing water, in the belief this will eventually amount to enough substance to walk or ride safely across to the far bank.

    Certainty of eventual "success," given enough effort and belief, while ignoring the passing current and enormous amount of straw necessary to fjord the surging watercourse, does not alone assure a positive outcome, or attainment of purpose.

    Neither does "feel good" wishful, or "positive," thinking automatically confer the will, ability or emotional, physical and spiritual resources, to overcome all odds and produce the desired or hoped for results.

    Alone, against these hoards of spiritual and secular barbarians, one lone modern prophet has stood, warning and cajoling, encouraging and proclaiming repentance (change or embracing the Law revealed through Moses) for the forgiveness of sins, and the time of restoration of all things, that will soon be upon us all (those few who survive the coming debacle).

    This restitution began more than half a century ago, with the birth of a future nazarite prophet -- the only such prophet, since the death of the original riverside nazarite Baptist, in nearly two millennia -- accompanied by a great flood in the midst of the modern American Babylonian city of his birth (Kansas City, Missouri, ca 1951), followed by yet another such flood 42 years later (this time foretold in advance by the prophet), upon the start of his full-time publishing ministry at Riverside, Missouri in 1993.

    Since that time many other prophecies have been given through the prophet, including the start and end of the three-and-one-half year drought upon the united States (1986-1988), deaths of the prophet's grandmoher and mother the same year (1996), published and reported three months in advance of his grandmother's death in the March-April issue, no. 21 of The Pure Truth Magazine (p. 11, "A Recent Vision and Prophetic Utterances" <= Click Here to view), and the June 7, 1996 issue of The Prophetic Notebook (pp. 1-3) (<= Click Here to view), just 3 months prior to his mother's death.

    Other prophecies over the years have ranged from and included the Oklahoma City federal building disaster at the very time it occured at 9:01 a.m. on April 19, 1995 (an attack by our own government to discredit the millitias and destroy records of the Waco, Texas attack against, and murder of, innocent people on the same date two years previously by the FEDs), the 9-11-2001 attack on, and destruction of, the World Trade Towers and Pentagon (prophesied several days in advance, and the day before) by conspirators in our own government and milatary (Yes, it was not what you've been misled to think, by a corrupt and complicit "news" media).

    Why else do you suppose the evidence was hauled away and so quickly disposed of, in these various mass murder attacks, which are unparalleled in modern history?

    Other notable recent prophecies of the prophet have included the Los Angeles area rains and mudslides and Northridge earthquake of early 1994, and the recent death of actor James "Scotty" Doohan of Star Trek fame (d. July 20, 2005, age 85), a year before his death, in an email relating visions of pending death, bagpipes, and a shepherd, or leader of the people (APT Update #159, July 16, 2004; "More Dreams..." <= Click Here to view), among many other not so coincidental prophetic insights, actions and utterances over the past quarter century.

    Finally, the prophet had a dream vision concerning ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings having a fatal fall, but lingering on for a while, that was received in December 2002 or January 2003, and dutifully reported in an email message a couple of months later (APT Update #123, March 30, 2003, "Prerecorded News?" <= Click Here to view), sandwiched between two other segments titled: "Prophetic Insight..." and "Prophecy on the March...").

    Jennings did not become an American citizen until 2003 (he was born in Canada and became a dual citizen the same year, possibly after this vision was related) and, as a result of this prophetic indication of what was to come, Jennings' recent death at the age of 67, from lung cancer, on August 7, 2005 therefore came as no great surprise to the prophet, his close family, or to those on his regular mail list.

    In case you don't recognize that prophet, this is your introduction to him, in the form of this very article, authored by that selfsame prophet and minister.

    He challeges you to investigate and prove all these things, and poses the following questions for your prayerful consideration:

    Will you change, and receive the baptism of the Spirit, and thus somehow perhaps save yourself from this present evil generation?

    Or will the restitution (restoration) of all things leave you in the dust of forgotten peoples, whose brief existence in this age will soon be swept away, to make way for a glorious and blessed millennial age unlike any that has ever preceded it on this war-wearied and bloodstained planet we call earth?