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1956, when Herbert W. Armstrong wrote the above, 1975 was 20
years in the future, not 3 years past. We can claim no credit
for seeing the utter foolishness of such
"predictions." But a review of his booklet should
convince us that Herbert knew (and knows) no more about the
future than any other man who studies social and scientific
trade journals. It is sad to note that gullible people still
swallow such "prophecies" from Garner Ted, the
Watchtower Witnesses, and others of this type.
Herbert
wrote, "Prophecies that were closed and sealed tight, now
stand REVEALED. This mystifying, neglected third of the Bible
now becomes plain.... The keys that locked the future have been
found" (p. 1), "have been given to us by GOD"
(p.12). "If you do not yet understand that the 'thee' of
whom God through Ezekiel is here speaking, is our democratic
nations as set forth and plainly PROVED in our free booklet
(sent upon request) 'United States and British Commonwealth in
Prophecy,'-- then just remember that we are GUILTY… these
things ARE GOING TO HAPPEN TO US, UNLESS WE HEED AND
REPENT!" "I HAVE TO WARN YOU!! You can read what God
says to me in Ezekiel 33:1-6" "pp. 12, 20).
Herb is no shrinking violet.
On
page 3 he says, "We are entering the very CRISIS at the
CLOSE of the allotted 6000-year period..." Then, using a
long-range forecast from a U.S. weatherman, he says, "this
drought will be even more devastating than he foresees, and that
it will strike sooner than 1975 — probably between 1965 and
1972! This will be the very beginning, as Jesus said, of the
Great Tribulation!" (p.10)
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"Once
we are weakened by starvation, disease, and the resulting
calamitous economic depression, the Ten Nation European Colossus
will suddenly STRIKE with hydrogen bombs that shall DESTROY OUR
CITIES and our centers of industrial and military production!
The very next words of Jesus' prophecy (Matt. 24:9; 21-22) are,
'Then' — not five years or a generation later, but 'THEN shall
they deliver you up to be afflicted... etc." (p.20)
"Yes,
millions of lukewarm inactive Christians will suffer MARTYRDOM
— and that before the anticipated push — button leisure —
year of 1975 dawns upon us! You'll read of this martyrdom —
the Great Tribulation — in Matt. 24:9-10, etc." (p.20)
(And he uses "martyr" very loosely here, rt.)
"This
fanatical, unheard-of, Satan inspired fiendish Tribulation and
martyrdom will continue three and a half years. But then it
shall be suddenly CUT SHORT — by the divine, supernatural
INTERVENTION OF GOD!" (p.22)
Well,
that's it folks. We have now gone through the Great Tribulation,
our nation wrecked by hydrogen bombs, and millions slain. In
June of 1978-or thereabouts, not to be a stickler) GOD has come,
and rebellious mankind has been "forced into the WAYS and
the LAWS of God" (p.28). It is all over, as all can plainly
see-- if you have the eyes of Herb Armstrong.
Or,
is it possible that Herb is not the prophet he thought he was???
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