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When Jesus was asked by his disciples how to pray and what to pray about, he answered them by giving an outline that has come to be known as the Lord's Prayer. The very first request that Jesus himself put in that outline was "thy Kingdom come."
The good news that Jesus came to proclaim was the message about that Kingdom, not the message about the messenger. The true gospel is the gospel of the Kingdom, not the gospel about the King of that Kingdom. That true gospel has been ignored by the bulk of organized religion. In its place, they preach a sentimental message about Jesus, the coming King of that Kingdom.
The Kingdom that Christ was so focused on in the Lord's prayer is a government that has a king, has territory, has law and has subjects. It's king is Christ, its territory is the entirety of all the universe, its law is the Law of God, its subjects are all mankind. However they will not be in that kingdom, they will be ruled over by it. In that kingdom will be 144,000 that God has been preparing from the beginning of man's history to serve as administrators in that kingdom (Revelation 14).
But more importantly, the world created by the Kingdom of God is the only environment through which the vast majority of mankind can achieve eternal life. It is the future time when they will be given access to God and the entire society will be oriented God's way. Jesus Christ himself will be the visible head of the Earth's government, reigning from Jerusalem. Herbert Armstrong called this future time, the Wonderful World Tomorrow. All unGodly influences will be restrained, even Satan and his demons. If there was ever a time when man would choose God's way of life, that is the time....
And that time will shortly come upon us! We are now in the prophesied end-time of Man's rule on Earth.
Starting with his first radio program in January, 1934, Herbert W. Armstrong was inspired to speak strongly, authoritatively, passionately about the Kingdom of God and what that Kingdom means for mankind. As he preached the church he founded, initially the Radio Church of God and then the Worldwide Church of God, grew also; to about 150,000 members at the time of his death. Herbert W. Armstrong published the Plain Truth magazine which became one of the largest mass circulation magazines published at the time. His media effort was one of the largest purchasers of media time on the earth with the World Tomorrow television show. Mr Armstrong was used by God to restore truth to His Church, which was dying out, and to preach the Gospel into all the world (Matt. 24:14). When he died, those two tasks were complete.
After Herbert Armstrong's death in 1986, his successors changed the media effort in both scope and tone. Soon it was all but discontinued. In the 1990's the message that Herbert Armstrong and his son Garner Ted Armstrong had so powerfully preached throughout the entire world had been depreciated so much that the master tapes of this material were thrown in the trash. Further, with the help of advice from outside scholars of Evangelical Christianity, it was only a matter of time before every single doctrinal point established by Herbert W. Armstrong was gone and the church he established was in shambles and a shadow of its former self. This is a proof that we are indeed living in the end time. More on this can be read in the booklets "Time is Running Out" and "Time Has Run Out" by Ron Weinland.
The Worldwide Church of God is no longer the administration that the almighty God of the universe is working hin. The government of God was scattered in every direction after the apostasy in 1994. While there are many professing to be the "one true Church" and carrying on the legacy of Herbert W. Armstrong, God's government has been reconstituted in one organization: The Church of God- Preparing for the Kingdom of God (PKG). The church's pastor, Ron Weinland, is a prophet of God and one of the two witnesses spoken of in Revelation.
There is a tremendous amount of material about Mr. Armstrong on the internet. You are encouraged to read this essay about how many have dedicated resources to slandering the name of Mr. Armstrong for years.
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