Steve Berryman (18 Apr 2007)
"Thanks to Doves, thoughts, calendar counting and those numbers I promised"

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“Another book I read, maybe in the late 70's or early 80's was America and Britain in Prophecy by Herbert Armstrong.  He was a member and leader of the Seventh Day Adventists.”

Steve, Steve, I am sorry to say that you have been led astray.  Herbert Armstrong was a false teacher, and heretic though he had many followers and still does today.  He was influenced by the Seventh Day Adventists though he was never a member, he started his own church the Worldwide Church of God, which was very legalistic about keeping the Sabbath, no pork, shellfish etc, very much on keeping the Old Testament laws.  Yes, he was very much into prophecy.  He also taught that the Anglo-Saxon peoples were the “ten lost tribes”.  That Britain and the US were Ephraim for instance. “British Israelitism”.  The Worldwide Church of God was a cult under Armstrong.

British Israelitism is false, there is no Biblical confirmation for this idea.  It is actually a very racist idea and is also used by Christian Identity for their racist/nazi theories (their “identity” as Israel God’s chosen people).  This view is very popular amongst KKK members.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_ident.htm

The Worldwide Church of God after Armstrong’s death looked at their teachings and realised that they were wrong and unbiblical and are now a traditional evangelical church. 

http://www.wcg.org/lit/AboutUs/history.htm

There are still followers of Herbert W. Armstrong who have formed their own breakaway church/cult, claiming to be the only ones in the world with the real truth.  Hmm, there’s a lot of that about.

Reject the teachings of Armstrong, they are false, so is British Israelism.

Lydia