EPHESIAN LETTERS
"Where's HerbertArmstrong.com?"
Lee Clark
A lot of you are probably coming here for the Herbert W. Armstrong
(HWA) site. Mine is no longer available. However, a search at Google
or other search tool will yield many other HWA sites out there.
I took my site down the first time just before the Feast 2000 when
two things happened. First, the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) won an
appeal in their court battle with the Philadelphia Church of God over
publishing rights to HWA's book "Mystery of the Ages". I reckoned that
this was God saying don't republish any more copyrighted HWA material.
Then I had a dream about HWA. I was in a car in the woods with a
pretty young girl in the passenger seat, my date (God's church). But
HWA was in another car, and I left the car I was in to go spend some
time with HWA. I figured this was my big chance to spend some quality
time with my hero. I felt guilty about abandoning my date like that,
but I told her I'd be back in a minute or so.
Then HWA was surrounded by sycophants who fawned over him while I
tried to tell him about all the travesties and abominations occurring
in the WCG. But HWA turned to me and said, in a loud voice, "Young
man, I don't ever want to see you again!"
This was a bit of a shocker. What I later came to see is that in his
final years, HWA had become so insulated and isolated from the reality
of what was going on in the Church that he refused to listen to any
"criticism". I was just another subversive. I took this as God's way
of telling me to drop the focus on HWA and get back to serving God's
church. So I took the HWA site down, but soon put it back up due to
many expressions of regret by readers.
It was also around this time, almost a year ago to the day, that God
struck me down with debilitating fatigue, inability to sleep, chaos
in my career, and all manner of disturbing, threatening dreams and
visions. You'd think I would have gotten the message but no. I was
really proud of my HWA site and even expanded it.
Then about two months ago I had a real shocker. I was going through
the most horrible episode of my life. I was getting very little sleep
and the dreams were getting much worse and more intense. I had one
where I was holding onto about a third of a loaf of Wonder Bread,
freely offering it to everybody in the house. I had taken the bread
from the kitchen without permission, but I assumed it was "OK". Then
I felt a very strong supernatural hand grip me by the neck, and I was
faced with two men who were quite annoyed by the fact that I was
doling out this bread when I was unauthorized to do so.
I quickly expressed my willingness to cease and desist, hoping they
would let me go. Then I awoke. Soon after, I took down the HWA site.
During this period I was very debilitated by fatigue and could not
accomplish anything at work. I left my job. Then the house I was
renting sold, and I had to move on short notice. It took over a month
to get my Internet connection back up, which is part of the reason
that both my sites were down. The final nail in the coffin was when
I accidentally deleted the database for my sites. I still have all
the source material, but the database would have to be reconstructed
from scratch, which I have no plans to do, unless it's just for
the National Eagle.
Looking back, I can see God's hand in it, forcing me to drop my HWA
focus. There were other indications too. I heard one voice say,
"Philadelphia's gone". Another time I asked God what his plans were
for all the HWA material. I got a response saying something like,
"I think we're going to throw it away," or words to that effect.
Bottom line is that I was pursuing my own agenda instead of God's.
He's seems to be more interested in the present and the near future
than the past. He did tell me this. He said, "Tell them to forsake
all of their sins."
A warning?
I have noticed that many who have tried to publish HWA material
mysteriously fail in some way or disappear from the scene. Some of
you may want to take notice of this and think twice before grabbing
the "HWA mantle."
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