Dear Mike,

Thank you so much for having the love and concern and for taking the (obviously large amount of) time to help others through your web site and in other ways.

I have only just come across it, but already read a number of your articles and email answers to questions.

I was in the WCG for years and then the PCG with my wife.

We recently exited the PCG after we had revealed to us (by God we believe) a number of (increasing) lies and deceptions that were being perpetrated against the members.

Whilst in those organizations, reading “dissident literature” was grounds for dis- fellowshipment, so we knew little of the truth. We have been “led” through various stages since then from firstly just proving the PCG wrong to then going on to prove the WCG under HWA wrong and ending up learning the truth about the New Covenant etc. We are so pleased and happy to find out the truth and be called out at the time appointed by the Father from the spiritual and mental slavery and the physical and financial abuse of those organizations.

We have read a lot recently. Many people have some truth (like Satan) but the error that they have mixed in with the truth makes them unreliable sources of God’s truth. We are so thrilled to find someone that we believe from what we have read so far, has NO error mixed with the truth. Thank you!!

We have read a lot of the writings of Dr Ernest Martin and will now proceed to read everything from your web site. (We wrote twice to David Sielaff who runs Dr Martin’s website since his death and received no response. I asked him about a contradiction in 2 articles that said the opposite thing to each other, so I guess he was upset at me.)

An email that you received from a lady from Australia asking about meeting with other people “of like mind” in Australia (in “You Asked” archive 10) caught my attention.

Having left all of our friends behind in the PCG (friends outside the PCG were positively discouraged), and since they are now allowed no contact with us, we would DEARLY love the opportunity of contact with others in a similar situation in Australia. There must be many – but the problem is how to find them.

We met up with another family that had also exited the PCG 5 years ago and had not joined another church, and had a brief period of fellowship with them, until we started to prove the error of HWA. That family was “holding fast” to HWA who they believe “restored all things”. When they found out that we no longer believed that, they said they could no longer fellowship with us – even though we were happy to continue associating with them.

If you have any idea at all how we could go about finding others to contact in Australia (We live in Western Australia) then we would be truly grateful. My wife in particular, whilst loving the truth and freedom that God has shown us through Jesus Christ, feels a great sense of loss of human contact. Even others in Australia that we could just email from time to time would be great.

I know that it is most unlikely that you would be able to assist in any way, but I just wanted to ask anyway on behalf of both my wife and myself.

Kindest Regards,

J____

P. S. Please feel free to give our email address to anyone as you see fit.

Hi J____,

Thank you for your kind and encouraging words. I too, have friends who are still in the bondage of PCG. It is an impenetrable spirit of bondage, which is penetrated as in your case, only by the spirit of God dragging a few out of the fire:

Jdg 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Since you have given me permission to do so I will keep your e- mail address on hand and give it to others in Australia who might ask for fellowship as you have. But I must tell you that in the over 7 years I have had this page, you are the first to ask me to do this. Many have asked if there were people in their area, but no one else has ever given me permission to share their e- mail address with others. I will post this letter, and maybe I will receive some response. It is in the Lord’s hands. [ Anyone in Australia who might want to contact him, let me know!]

I will say this, that the word ‘few,’ as in “many are called but few are chosen,” is far ‘fewer’ than most imagine. I do not mean to come across as negative. I do mean to come across as faithful to God’s Word. Had we been told in relation to our times to “Remember Nineveh,” then I would love to say, along with the “historical orthodox Christian church,” ‘Remember Nineveh.’ But when asked about the condition of this world when this age would end Christ did not say ‘Remember Nineveh.’ What He did say was “Remember Lot,” and “as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the son of man.” The one thing that strikes us about these references is how few ‘few’ was in both cases. To make sure we got the point, Christ concludes with this ominous question: “When the son of man returns will He find faith?”

Being faithful to the words of God is the trial of all trials. It separates you from the entire church world.

I will pray for you and your wife that God will give to you both the strength to endure to the end. Believe me when I say that it will be worth it when you see the glory that is bestowed on “the head of Him who was separated from his brothers.”

Deu 33:16 … Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

This is nothing less than a prophecy of what is in store for those who are “in Christ.”

Mike