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Early Teachings

  • That God is our healer, and we therefore have no need for the medical profession.
  • That healing is sometimes withheld by God because there are spiritual sins which we need to address first. (Spiritual sins not physical sins).
  • That God gives us the first visible sighting of the New Moon (at Jerusalem) to establish the first day of each month. This teaching was given in two articles written in 1940.
    • “When and How Often, Should We Observe The Lord’s Supper”
    • “How To Figure The Passover”
    • See “God’s Commanded Assemblies”
      (In this case there was a failure to apply the instruction given)
  • That we are to observe three “Pilgrimage Festivals” each year, not just one.
    • “Come to the Tabernacle”, Good News Magazine, August 1953
    • “Over 5500 Observe Passover”, Good News Magazine, May 1961
    • “A Joyous Pentecost” (a three day festival) Good News Magazine, June 1961
      See “God’s Three Festivals”
  • That Marriage is for life, with no exceptions.
    • “Divorce and Remarriage” Herbert W Armstrong 1953
    • “Marriage and Divorce” Herbert W Armstrong 1973
    • See “Marriage”
  • That Pentecost always falls on Monday.
  • That we are to avoid the “Old Favorite Hymns”.
    • “How This Hymnal Came to Be”, The Bible Hymnal, Herbert W Armstrong
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