Preserving Parousia and Epiphany Truth: June 2013

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Demolition of the LHMM - let's make an example

On November 8, 2006 the executive trustee sends a another silly letter to the U.S. brethren associated with the LHMM. He falsely accuses these two brothers of vocalizing errors and abuses, seeking to draw attention away from himself.

To the nominal truth brethren associated with the LHMM, this letter appears to be appropriate, because they have fallen into sectarianism, and don't have a strong Epiphany Truth understanding. Those who hold a position in the movement have to make a choice. Unfortunately for many, their positions with the movement become more important than defending the truth.

In the letter, the executive trustee explains that he had given the named brethren ample time to respond. Mail from Chester Springs, PA to Springfield, MA can take 5-7 days to be delivered. It's very apparent the executive trustee had an agenda to move forward with his error, even at the cost of those who had done nothing wrong.

You will also notice the last sentence of this letter he uses the term "former brethren." Those who consecrate between the ages are not on trial for life. His clouded judgement allows him to think he has the ability to take one's justification away.

He owes these two faithful brothers and the faithful brethren upholding the Truth an apology. He should step down and resign his position for such a blunder.

Click HERE to see the November 8, 2006 letters to the brethren.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Demolition of the LHMM - "Leader of God's people under the Lord?"

Are we to think that the small handful of individuals associated with the LHMM can make the claim that they are God's only people? Such a silly comment.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Demolition of the LHMM. Engaging in clericalism and sectarianism.

On November 5, 2006, the executive trustee begins his work to destroy local bible classes. He starts with Springfield, MA. With the help from family members, and especially his nephew, instructions are given not to vote for Bro. Branconnier as an elder. The executive trustee's plan backfires. Instead of removing Bro. Branconnier as an elder, no elder receives a majority vote to serve in 2007.

The executive trustee is responsible for this class splitting. How far would you go to defend a thought "let"?

Click HERE to see the email with partisan collaboration to split the Springfield, MA Bible class.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Demolition of the LHMM. Are these now "former brethren"?

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Demolition of the LHMM. A thoughtlet, how far would you go?

On October 25, 2006 the executive trustee sent Bro. Branconnier a letter accusing him of a verbal campaign against the "thoughtlet" error he published in the Present Truth magazine.

Bro. Branconnier was an evangelist and an active elder in the Springfield, MA class. That ecclesia's annual business meeting, a recorded event, included a discussion of the error and how the class could study the matter for themselves. Those recordings were sent to the Bible House by several family members of the executive trustee, and that is how this came to be.

Click HERE to download the letter to Bro. Banconnier.
How far would you go to defend error?

Sifters—Who Are The Sifters

Question (1968)—Bro. Russell called Messrs. Barbour, Paton, Williamson, Henninges, McPhail and other similar disseminators of error sifters, and they in turn called him a sifter; Bro. Johnson called J.F.R. and others like him sifters, and they in turn called him the same; and now you speak of certain ones as sifters and they accuse you of being like J.F.R., who “accused Bro. Johnson of being a sifter.” It is rather confusing. Who are the sifters anyway?

Answer.—It should not be confusing if we hold carefully to the Truth as unfolded for us from the Word of God and look for His holy Spirit. In all cases Satan is really the sifter—the one who originates, initiates and carries on persistently a sifting (Luke 22: 31; 1 Pet. 5: 8). Through pride, ostentation, self-exaltation, envy, jealousy, deceit, misrepresentations, falsehoods, slander, favoritism, unfaithfulness to the Truth, malice and other works of the flesh he appeals to God’s people and uses those who respond to Him as his agents to oppose the Truth and to spread error, which of course sifts out the unfaithful ones. We are not to forget that God’s approval or disapproval is manifested through testings and siftings (1 Cor. 11: 18, 19; see also P. ’53, pp. 50, 51). Nations are sifted “with the sieve of vanity,” but “through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down” (Isa. 30: 28-31). The Assyrian here, as in Micah 5: 5, 6, represents “those who make spoil of God’s people by devastating the Truth and its Spirit” (E. 10, p. 115).

Satan’s emissaries “call evil good, and good evil” and “put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Isa. 5: 20). Many leaders who once had the truth, given by the Lord through Bro. Russell, on Jesus’ Second Advent, His invisible presence, the Bible chronology and the forty years’ Harvest reaping, now claim . . . that the Bible chronology as given by Bro. Russell is wrong,. . . The Lord’s true sheep will heed only the voice of the Good Shepherd; they will study to show themselves approved unto God, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Tim. 2: 15). They will keep themselves in the love of God and in the most holy faith. The Truth and its Spirit will be the touchstones that will determine for them which is true and which is false. Teachings that do not agree with (1) themselves (2) all other Scriptures, (3) all other Scripture doctrines, (4) with the Ransom, (5) with reason, (6) with facts, and (7) with the purposes of Godliness, should be rejected as erroneous. ’68-46