Patrzyłem, że gdzieś wspominają Armstronga w związku z rokiem 1975, ale nigdzie. Za bardzo by to naprowadzało na nich samych.
Owszem pisali o nim:
*** dx30-85 Armstrong, Herbert W. ***
ARMSTRONG, HERBERT W.
excommunicates son: g78 9/8 29
Worldwide Church of God:
church finances: w79 5/15 28
Oto wskazane przez skorowidz teksty:
*** g78 9/8 p. 29 Watching the World ***
Armstrong Empire “Crumbling”?
♦ Garner Ted Armstrong, well-known television spokesman for the Worldwide Church of God, was recently taken off the air and then excommunicated by his father, Herbert W. Armstrong. The younger Armstrong, who had reportedly been earning $85,000 a year, claimed earlier that the “whole empire is crumbling” due to lavish spending by the leadership, as well as by divisions and fear among the membership.
*** w79 5/15 p. 28 Insight on the News ***
Armstrong Opulence
● When dissident members recently charged Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God with mishandling church funds, the California Superior Court put church finances temporarily in receivership. Complaints centered on huge sums spent entertaining prominent world politicians and the lavish life-styles and huge salaries of top church officials.
Armstrong’s second-in-command, Stanley R. Rader, defends money spent on jet leasing, very expensive hotels, restaurants and gifts for foreign dignitaries, saying: “We had a commission to spread the gospel.” And Rader’s lawyer Allan Browne admits that in “proclaiming the word of Jesus,” church officials spend “enormous sums of money.” Why? “Meeting with prime ministers and other world leaders, you bring him something and maybe it’s from Gucci’s.” “Important people stay at Stan Rader’s home. You don’t take them out to McDonalds. You take them to Perino’s.”
To set the record straight, it is of interest to note the actual Gospel commission that Jesus gave his disciples. Quite in contrast to the opulence reflected in the foregoing, Jesus indicated that they would need only very limited funds: “Do not procure gold or silver or copper for your girdle purses.” Were they to entertain worldly politicians with lavish meals and gifts? Indeed Jesus did say that they would “be haled before governors and kings for my sake,” but this was not to entertain these rulers. Rather, it was to answer charges brought against them as “objects of hatred by all people” for their preaching. The record of Jesus himself and the early Christians proves this to be the case.—Matt. 10:9, 10, 18, 22.
Za to o innych wspomnieli, takich co oczekiwali, wtedy kiedy i oni:
*** g95 8.7 s. 3 Przepowiednie o końcu świata ***
Nie tak dawno na Ukrainie powstała grupa religijna o nazwie Białe Bractwo, zapowiadająca koniec świata na dzień 14 listopada 1993 roku. W USA kaznodzieja radiowy Harold Camping oświadczył, że nastąpi to we wrześniu roku 1994. Rzecz jasna, owe przepowiednie wyznaczające daty końca świata były błędne.