Here’s Proof – Ultimately Flurry will fall!
Copyright © Jules Dervaes
March 6, 2008
“Faith is an island in the setting sun
But proof, yes
Proof is the bottom line for everyone.” ~paul simon~
Below is documentation of the FIRST Laodicean warning given to the Worldwide Church of God. This message still stands today as the only one correctly—biblically—delivered to God’s people.
Flurry seized these writings as his own—as coming to him “out of the blue!” To scare people into not seriously questioning how he arrived at his message and to thwart any rivals who could challenge him, he used the oldest tricks in the book–claiming an angel specially delivered the message to him personally. À la Joseph Smith with Mormonism.
You will easily find that the ideas that Flurry plagiarized from the seven scrolls (The Letter to Laodicea). Regardless of the outright plagiarism, there is the heinous use of truth by Flurry to start up his own church. What Mr. Dervaes wrote and first delivered over the period of 1986-1988 in writings and then from 1988-1991 on the streets, Flurry abused by trying to legitimize godless rebellion—a coup in the name of God. The important issue is that he, preying on the helpless, insidiously manipulated God’s truth and was the first to divide God’s people, thereby opening the floodgates for continuing schism. If Malachi’s Message were truly from God, then it wouldn’t have advocated another government. God does not—He cannot—bless division.
Man’s laws there are loopholes, but in God’s court He will have all the evidence. That is the ONLY court that matters.
I. Registered receipts for letters (“scrolls”): First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh (all original drafts on file).
—plus Joseph Tkach’s Sr. signature for first letter; the 1990 letter to Gerald Flurry
Please note: The fifth letter (Stabbed in the Back) was sent to Mr. Tkach, but not as registered mail.
II. After sending Joseph Tkach Sr. the preview of the first letter (A Good News Letter)
—Larry Salyer’s response (12/23/86)
III. After sending Joseph Tkach Sr. the second letter (Now, the Last Era)
—David Hunsberger’s response (3/3/87)
IV. After sending out the first, second, and third letters to Ambassador College faculty
—Arthur Suckling’s response (4/28/87)
V. Number of people sent warning message directly:
—Ministers: 237*
—Members: approximately 479
* Not including those staff members in worldwide PT and GN field offices.
Number of ministers and members who received the message indirectly:
Many, many thousands, as there were three intervening FOT which naturally afforded plenty of opportunity for these ideas to be spread through personal exchanges.
—Feast of Tabernacles: 1987, 1988, 1989
VI. Gerald Flurry’s home state reached by mail FOT (1988) through requests.
(All addresses on file)
OKLAHOMA
Number of Mailings – City:
1 – Avant
4 – Broken Arrow
1 – Catoosa
1 – Claremore
1 – Coweta
1 – Glenpool
2 – Owasso
3 – Sand Springs
1 – Tahlequah
12 – Tulsa
VII. Receipts for Tyler Telegraph and Longview News-Journal newspaper ad. (Also witnessed in person at Big Sandy on Last Day of Unleavened Bread, April 1989.)
—Newspaper AD tearsheet
VIII. Malachi’s Message – the “lost page” of the original 1990 version that is mentioned in Mr. Dervaes’s letter to Gerald Flurry in September 1990 which said that Dr. Hoeh “stated that the Church of God has entered into the Laodicean era….”