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Roderick C. Meredith - A Biographical Sketch

By Redfox

In asserting his legitimacy Meredith emphasized 'how he was one
of the first evangelists ordained by HWA and how he knew the
Armstrong family personally and intimately. He even assisted
HWA in attempting to resurrect Richard Armstrong after his fatal
car crash in 1958, and he was one of the few at Loma Armstrong's
death bed. Using Waterhouse-like "reasoning," he points out that
GCG was born 40 years after he was ordained and that at GCG's
very first service there were 19 people in attendance - exactly the
same number as at HWA's first service decades ago.' Some in
WCG responded by saying that 'there were seven years between
the WCG financial crisis of 1965 and the church crisis of 1972
when Garner Ted Armstrong was put out of the WCG [and major
WCG prophecies failed]. There were then seven years until the
start of the famous State of California versus WCG lawsuit in
1979, another seven years until the death of HWA in 1986, and,
finally, another seven years until Meredith's great rebellion of
1993. The theory WCG numerologists are apparently promoting
is that God allows Satan to attack the WCG in some major way
every seven years. Meredith therefore is supposed to represent but
one more Satanic attack the WCG will weather on its way to "the
end."' And so the Global Church of God is born (AR52 June
1993). Articles of Incorporation are made.
And so despite all the great struggle to eliminate all dissent in
WCG over the years, in which Meredith took a leading part, it all
turned out to be in vain. So we see how impossible it is to fully
control other people. So now Meredith must start from scratch all
over again.

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