The history known as scripture – in relation to the pure truth hidden in its pages, just under the surface imposition of a false religious veneer dominating scripture research since the last book of the New Testament was penned – has yet to be explored, written or fully understood in this age.
To do so today takes more than a mere leap of faith; it requires a spirit of understanding and wisdom that is a rare and precious commodity in this hedonistic world.
The Great Falling Away
Despite the Savior’s teachings, an old oppressive pagan religious system soon resurfaced, taking the guise and masquerading under the false name of “Christianity,” an attempted violent world-ruling takeover of empires, thrones and political institutions by fake pagan religious faiths that predated Judaism and Islam, while creating a foundation for all subsequent attempts to forcibly “convert” others to false faiths.
The pure truth, as a result, was long suppressed and driven out of the sight and minds of living men and women, surviving only in the intent of scriptures subverted by translation into languages and religious beliefs foreign to that of its authors.
This includes, and in fact began with, translating the New Testament into Greek, just as had been done centuries earlier with the Greek Septuagint translation of the Old Testament scriptures.
Only this time the suppression of the original language scriptures written by the Apostles and other New Testament era authors such as Paul, Barnabus (“Hebrews”), Luke and Mark to name a few, pretty much drove the pure truth completely underground and out of sight.
This suppression was aided and abetted by another attempt to subvert the Old Testament scriptures, through a newer rendition into supposed “Hebrew” – with added vowel points, to mislead and deceive the unwary and uninformed religious adherents of first Judaism, and then Christianity and Islam.
There were chinks in the crusading armor, of those bearing arms to impose their errant religious will at home and abroad, however.
Reformation Not Restoration
In the distant land of Diutisg (Deutsch-land; meaning “of the people” or tribe, related to Tuatha, as in Teuton[ic] and Tuatha De Danann, or “Dan, Tribe of the Almighty One”), that would later become known as Germany, a wellspring of defiance against the flat earth believing religious despotism of Catholicism began to surface, nurtured by the invention of the printing press.
The scriptures, albeit in imperfect form as translated into Greek, Latin, and other more modern languages, thereby became more readily available to the masses of the common people, ending a centuries-long suppression, but hardly ending the centuries of religious ignorance.
As Protestant religious leaders began to rebel against the former iron-fisted opposition of foreign popes, they imposed their own unique brand of religious, and in some cases entirely secular, despotism in its place.
Old tyrannies die hard, however, while new tyrants arise to take their place, leaving those oppressed to flee, seeking relief from their many usurpations and abuses.
So it came to pass that many migrated away from religious persecutors in Europe and particularly England, to America, a land reputedly free, where there was supposed to be freedom of religion, for whatever faith one held.
In practice this actually embraced every pagan and formerly forbidden religious persuasion – whether good or evil, straight from the tree of the knowledge (science) of good and evil – while paving the way for a total worldwide despotism, with its vindictive new self-righteous military might, utterly devoid of true wisdom and spiritual insight or guidance.
Through all the mayhem and carnage that followed in the form of wars of independence, “civil” war, and the underlying hidden economic war that preceded, created, and survived it – leading directly to two world wars, numerous wars in the orient and the Middle East, and now an imminent third world war over religious differences between “Zionist” Jews and Muslims or Islam, along with many “lesser” wars along the way – the truth remained buried under the rubble of long-suppressed history.
Persecuted Minorities Striving For Perfection
There were some religious adherents who called themselves “puritans” who though they had the right idea of religious purity, did not have complete wisdom or inspiration to see the many errors of which even they needed to repent, but often failed in doing.
In fact, the term “puritan” in reference to adherents of this religious tradition, was originally a pejorative term of accusation, against what was perceived by the majority as an heretical form of “Christianity.”
They were preceded by an extra-denominational movement known as the Seekers, started by three British brothers named Legate; one of whom died in prison and another of which was the last to be burned at the stake in London for “heresy,” due to his anti-trinitarian beliefs and teachings.
Out of these came the Quakers, who were a more liberal, yet still quasi-conservative, movement within the Victorian era ethos and ethic who, despite their ties with puritans in the beginning, were thereafter persecuted by New England puritans, who even executed professing Quakers in Boston in the mid-seventeenth century.
The term “Quaker” itself started as a pejorative form of ridicule in 1850 England by magistrate Gervase Bennet, when George Fox, on trial for “blasphemy,” bade the magistrates and his prosecutors to “tremble at the word” of the Creator, quoting either Ezra 9:4 or “Isaiah” 66:2.
Original Quaker tenets included refusing to participate in war, refusing to swear oaths, abstinence from alcohol, and opposition to slavery.
More liberal and spiritually rebellious influences within the “Society of Quakers” over the centuries and decades caused denominational splits over such doctrines as women preaching, acceptance of homosexuals, and even whether or not the secular religious tenet of evolution is a scientific basis for research and enquiry.
Out of this religious heritage came two U.S. presidents, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, both of whom were distantly related to an ex-Quaker (until the age of 18) ad man from Des Moines, Iowa who, through the Church of God in Salem, Oregon became a minister that broke away to form his own major worldwide religion (The Radio Church of God, which became The Worldwide Church of God); Herbert Armstrong.
A Failed Modern Reformation
Armstrong’s mother was a third cousin of Herbert Hoover, while Nixon’s maternal grandfather Franklin Milhous, from whom Nixon’s middle name originated, was married to Sarah Emily nee Armstrong. Nixon was also a seventh or eighth cousin once removed to Herbert Hoover.
Armstrong’s Society of Friends (Quaker) heritage dated back to William Penn’s colony, which became the state of Pennsylvania, but Herbert chafed over the humble rural lifestyle of his ancestors, finally leaving behind his religious upbringing during his late teen years in Iowa.
Like his Quaker forebears, Herbert Armstrong’s religion believed in abstaining from military service as conscientious objectors and, in the more conservative Quaker tradition of not allowing women to preach, but did not continue in the tradition of his childhood upbringing as a Quaker in regard to eschewing a paid ministry, or allowing anyone in addition to ministers to speak during services, much less sitting in quiet contemplation during such occasions.
Armstrong, through the influence of his second cousin, who became his first wife Loma (nee Dillon), conformed his ministry to the ideas embraced by British Israelism, teaching (incorrectly) that Great Britain was descended from the tribe of Ephraim and the United States from his brother Manasseh (Genesis 48:13-20); Armstrong, unlike the grandfather of these two, being confused over which nation was the eldest and which the youngest.
Along with this major tenet of Armstrong’s Worldwide Church, which also believed that the Caucasian nations of Europe (also mistakenly believing this included all but Germany) were descendants of the lost ten tribes of “Israel,” were Armstrong’s many flawed and mistaken attempts to understand Bible prophecy, mostly published in his Plain Truth magazine over a span of more than fifty years, from 1934 until HWA's death in 1986.
Herbert Armstrong also embraced the Jewish calendar and Saturday supposed “sabbaths,” although at first he differed as to the counting of “Pentecost,” but much later changed the date upon which Worldwide attempted to observe this commanded annual sacred feast day, leading to a major split in his own religion, with many ministers and entire congregations leaving Worldwide at that time (1974).
Armstrong was also adamantly against divorce and remarriage and make-up for women (among other reasons for the first major split-offs from Worldwide in the mid-70s), relaxing this during a liberal backwash stage decade from the mid-70s through the early 80s, made necessary by his own brief marriage to a divorcee whom Armstrong also later divorced.
Prophesied Restoration Begins
At the very time Armstrong’s wife Loma died, in 1967, Hank Scott first came into contact with Armstrongism through the radio preaching of Herbert and his son Garner Ted Armstrong.
Unlike Herbert Armstrong, Hank Scott’s religious upbringing was first in the Methodist church and then mainly the Baptist church of his father and mother, respectively. Warned as a youth by his father to have nothing to do with the “Church of God,” Scott did not consciously recall or honor this demand as a result, when he opted to study Worldwide’s ministry training school Ambassador College’s Bible Correspondence Course.
This led to a spat of vindictive persecution from Scott’s father, who was the namesake of former Congressman Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, who in the early 20s visited Scott’s forebears in Gallatin Missouri, shortly after gaining his law degree, where the future campaign chairman for Thomas Dewey’s and later Dwight Eisenhower’s bids for the presidency, and finally United States congressman, dandled Scott’s then infant father on his knee.
In a strange quirk of historical “coincidence,” Senator Hugh Scott became the Senate Minority Leader during the decade of the 1970s, and was one of the three congressmen who went to the White House and encouraged president Nixon, Herbert Armstrong’s favorite chief executive, to resign from the presidency over the fallout from the Watergate scandal.
Also related to the Scotts was the famous orator and presidential candidate William Jennings Byran, known as “the Great Commoner,” who ran against the monopolists and particularly the gold-backed banking elite, who became the 41st Secretary of State under president Woodrow Wilson, and later opposed the teaching of the false theory of evolution during the 1925 Scopes trial, leading to his death five days following the successful conclusion of that litigation (overturned on appeal due to a technicality).
Likewise, in 1969-70, Hank Scott attended Armstrong’s Pasadena, California campus of Ambassador College – traveling there from his home in Kansas City – where he met and was taught directly by Herbert in one of the last classes the elder Armstrong instructed before embarking upon worldwide tours and meetings with many foreign heads of state, from Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines to Sadat of Egypt, including communist China’a heads of state.
During his brief year as an Ambassador College student, Scott took over the college newspaper (The Portfolio) art chores of fellow classmate Monte Wolverton, son of the famous (Lena the Hyena) Mad Magazine cartoonist Basil Wolverton – who would years later follow in his father’s footsteps as a Mad Magazine cartoonist – including the artwork for Monte’s A.C. cartoon strip.
Monte introduced Scott to his father Basil, in the presence of Herbert Armstrong, during a Worldwide Church “sabbath” service in early 1970.
Around the same time Scott had a run-in with Ambassador’s dorm monitors over displaying a publication that had then Bavarian Finance minister Franz Josef Strauss depicted on the cover – falsely proclaiming him to be the coming “beast” prophesied in the scriptural book of Revelation, which the Armstrong’s were teaching would soon head a “United States of Europe” and lead the world into a final cataclysmic third world war – when Strauss visited the Pasadena campus of Ambassador, and Scott’s dorm room while Scott was at his desk studying, on April 1st, 1970 (as what Scott would later term the Armstrongs’ unwitting “April fool”).
Modern Prophecy Fulfilled
At the dedication of Herbert Armstrong’s ultra-expensive Ambassador Auditorium in April 1974 – having recently relocated back to Pasadena after two years attending the University of Missouri in Kansas City, followed by two additional years living in Denver, Colorado where he had his own commercial and graphic art business – without an invitation, Scott attended the opening VIP “invitation only” opening night concert, where he was introduced alongside Herbert to members of the Japanese Diet, among other dignitaries attending that night.
Scott had told friends he would find a way to attend, sans invite, who laughed him to scorn over the utterly ridiculous idea, spending his last $100 buying a used rental tuxedo and patent leather shoes for the occasion, in complete faith he would somehow manage this “miraculous, impossible” quest.
Nearly giving up in the face of relentless ridicule, Scott finally mounted a bicycle, his only means of transport, dressed in full tuxedo, to travel from his humble converted garage apartment in South Pasadena, without a clue how he would manage to attend the premiere concert without an invitation, to which not even most of Worldwide’s top ministry were invited that night.
Only as he approached the door did a plan present itself to Scott, who encouraged the reluctant doorman to check with his superiors to see if there were any vacant seats due to invitees who failed to attend, offering to fill one as an appropriately dressed fellow concert-goer, if they thought another warm body would help.
Sure enough, although admittance was restricted after the concert started, as it just had, after the Overture, Scott was quickly ushered to an empty seat on the ground floor of the auditorium, to the turned heads of other curious attendees, and was also permitted to attend a gala celebration for all VIPs in the nearby Student Center following the concert.
In what would become the first of a series of prophecies spoken by him fulfilled over the coming decades, Scott was the only non-invitee to attend the first opening night concert, but word of his exploit quickly spread through Worldwide’s rumor grapevine.
Learning of his success, Scott’s brother and some of his formerly critical friends successfully attended the following two nights of the dedicatory concert without invitations, along with other hopeful Worldwide members, on the second (Worldwide minister’s only) and third (Ambassador College Faculty and students) nights of the three-night inaugural concert.
APT Religious Work Begins
Later that same year (1974), Scott met privately with Herbert Armstrong in Ambassador Auditorium, following a church service, and discussed with him the recent closure of the Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire England campus of Ambassador College that year.
The third campus of Ambassador College, located in Big Sandy, Texas – not far from Tyler, Texas – first closed in 1977, when most of its remaining student body and faculty transferred to Pasadena, among them a young lady from north-central Texas, Nancy Anne (nee Dark), whom Scott would finally meet later that year, on the sixth anniversary of his baptism into Worldwide by Kansas City Worldwide minister Dean Blackwell, just prior to Blackwell’s move to Texas, where as part of the Big Sandy faculty this same minister would three years later also baptize Nancy Anne, shortly after she became a student there.
Following a whirlwind courtship, at first thinking Blackwell – who had since also transferred to Pasadena California – would perform their wedding ceremony in the fall of 1978, the Scott’s finally eloped for an earlier than planned wedding in Las Vegas, Nevada in late July of that same year.
Immediately following this, Scott was inspired through a personal calling to disfellowship himself and Nancy Anne from Worldwide, while starting a publishing ministry directed to Worldwide's present and former ministers mainly, and ex-members; writing, editing and printing a premiere magazine of religious research and insight he named the Apostle, Prophet and Teacher Manual, or APT for short; first published in 1979.
Prophetic Dream Visions Lead To The Pure Truth
That fall, Scott had the first of what would be two prophetic dream visions concerning the future of the Worldwide Church, and Herbert Armstrong and his ministry, along with the breakaway ministries of his son Garner Ted, to be followed by numerous others over the coming years; the second vision coming one year later, picking up where the first had ended.
In 1980 Scott produced and printed three additional issues of the APT Manual, before starting work on a series of booklets, larger scripture research papers, and several books, including one concerning his history while a member of Worldwide and after leaving it, along with a series of exposés of false ministers, beginning with Herbert Armstrong’s by-then former “heir apparent,” the recently disfellowshipped and defrocked Garner Ted Armstrong, over his many false prophecies mainly, and recurring problems of womanizing, adultery, gambling, public drunkenness, and antipathy toward the more conservative doctrines of his father’s church.
Scott’s research centered around revelations concerning restoring scriptural truths long abandoned and forgotten, including one that Herbert Armstrong had once toyed with, but soon discarded, the true pronunciation and use of the Creator’s sacred name, the Savior’s true original name, the true sacred calendar’s feast and fast dates, and date-of-the-year rather than day-of-the-week actual sabbaths, among others.
Unlike Herbert Armstrong’s mostly secular Plain Truth magazine, Scott later developed the concept for a new print publication he titled The Pure Truth magazine, publishing over 34 issues from 1993 through the late 1990s.
Scott thereafter also published several scriptural and prophetic research newsletters (The Ephesian Messenger, The Prophetic Notebook, and The Plumb-Line of Truth), along with several more hard-hitting exposés of various religious charlatans, frauds and false prophets, from the late 1990s through the mid-2000s, along with a limited run local newspaper (The Hamilton Crier) in 2001.
Globe-Spanning Publishing Ministry Moves Online
Scott soon moved his entire publishing ministry online, starting in 1995 (APTMinistries.com and APTPublishing.com), and since 1999 has published an ongoing email newsletter (the APT Updates).
Beginning in 2005, to the present, Scott has also authored and published this online periodical, The Pure Truth Restored magazine (ThePureTruthRestored.com).
Starting in January 1979 Scott actively engaged in a prophetic ministry to Worldwide’s future leaders and ministry, including a public standoff between Scott, Joseph Tkach, Sr. and Scott’s former Ambassador College freshman study and dorm roommate, Michael Feazell, on the steps of the Los Angeles County courthouse.
Handing each a personal copy of a prophetic letter that presaged their rise to power over the Worldwide Church and Ambassador College upon the death of Herbert Armstrong seven years later, the end of Ambassador College after fifty years, eighteen years later (1997), and the final fall of the Worldwide Church thirty years following this encounter (2009), forty years after Scott first attended both Worldwide and Ambassador (1969).
Scott’s Pure Truth ministry has been marked by numerous other prophetic events, starting with the death of Herbert Armstrong on January 16, 1986.
A Prophetic Nazarite Ministry
Scott’s father passed away on March 16, 1985 – the first and only funeral Scott ever conducted as a minister – ten months to the day prior to Herbert Armstrong’s death – followed by Scott taking a seven year nazarite vow (Numbers 6:1-21) seven months later, on October 16, 1985, three months to the day, and precisely 93 days (inclusive) prior to Herbert Armstrong’s death at the age of 93.
Further adding to the prophetic “coincidences,” after a final but failed attempt to meet Herbert Armstrong on the day before Thanksgiving (November 27, 1985), six weeks to the day after taking his priestly vow, exactly seven weeks later Scott spent the night of January 15, 1986 in the most heartfelt all-night prayer for guidance and direction for his ministry, precisely thirteen weeks after the start of Scott’s vow.
The very next morning Scott received a phone call from a former Worldwide friend in Kansas City, telling him about Herbert Armstrong’s death that same night, in fulfillment of the second of two connected dream visions Scott had in the fall of 1979 and 1980; the second of which revealed the coming deaths of Herbert Armstrong and most, if not all, of his former top ministers!
Two days later, after Armstrong’s death, while watching televised coverage of the troubled Space Shuttle Columbia, launched six days earlier, Scott prophesied that another attempted shuttle launch would be a total disaster. Ten days later the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy – with the loss of the entire crew – took place, followed nearly two decades later by the crash of the Shuttle Columbia, with the loss of its entire crew, on the 17th anniversary of Herbert Armstrong’s death (January 16, 2003).
The only two space shuttles to crash with the loss of all crew members during the entire history of the space shuttle missions (from 1977 through 2011) were the doomed Challenger and Columbia flights, both of which Scott saw as a prophetic redux of the scriptural prophecies against Mystery Babylon (New York City, the original capital of the United States of America, still the seat of its economic and media power-base, and by extension the entire U.S.A.) in “Jeremiah” 51:42, 53-55 (particularly verses 53 and 55) and Revelation 17-18 (particularly 18:21).
Many Remarkable Fulfilled Prophecies
Since then many other important prophetically significant events have occurred through Scott and his ministry, starting with the first Gulf War in Iraq (1990-91), which Scott foretold a year in advance (1989). Like the great flood in Kansas City the year of his birth there (1951), 42 years later (1993) Scott prophesied a second great flood would strike the same city, six months in advance.
Scott had obtained a post office box in Riverside, Missouri (reminiscent of the nazarite Baptist’s ministry) prior to the second flood (from which he distributed the first 14 issues of The Pure Truth magazine), in an area that would be devastated by this second major flood, as it had also been by the first flood 42 years previously.
These visions also presaged the death of Scott’s maternal grandmother and his mother, the same year (1996), prophesied by another dream vision and published five weeks and seven months in advance, respectively (The Pure Truth magazine issue #21, Mar.-Apr. 1996, p. 11).
Distributed in late February 1996, the dream vision of January 13, 1996 was fulfilled by the death of a bigamist who was cohabited with Scott's mother, according to the vision "within five weeks" following publication of this vision, published five weeks after it was given, followed 60 days after that by the death of Scott's maternal grandmother (The Prophetic Notebook #2, June 7, 1996, p. 1).
In that same issue Scott published a prophecy of his mother's pending death "within the next year or so" (ibid., p. 3), which was fulfilled exactly seven months to the day after Scott last spoke with his mother, eight months after telling a brother and sister to expect her imminent death, and exactly three months after publishing this prophecy (The Prophetic Notebook #3, September 12, 1996, pp. 3-4).
More Recent Prophesied National Disasters
Prior to that, the Oklahoma City federal building bombing (in the same block where Scott attended Boy Scout meetings as a lad, having grown up in Oklahoma City), at the very moment it occurred (9:02 am) on April 19, 1995 – Scott and his oldest son (eight days after turning age nine, and also a vowed nazarite), took an unscheduled side trip on their way to Austin, Texas, visiting the Alamo in San Antonio that same morning.
Scott saw this as an indication that the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building was an act by the modern “federales” in charge of the Washington, D.C. government, as a way of placing the blame for this terrorist event upon – and thereby neutralizing – the patriot movement then gaining strength across America, while also destroying the files (then stored in the Murrah building in Oklahoma City) for pending litigation over the Waco, Texas massacre of the Branch Davidians on the same date two years earlier.
Scott also published the final issue of his local newspaper, The Hamilton Crier, distributing the last copies the day before 9-11, 2001, and published issue number 68 of his APT Updates email newsletter that same day, in which he presaged the attacks on the World Trade Center towers the following day, with words such as: “two strikes against their attempt to hijack,” “this wicked miscarriage of justice,” “But what do you do when there is no true adversary…?,” and “someone who springs upon you like a vicious animal out of the blue, without warning.”
These words prophetically indicated the hand of traitors within the United States’ own government and military, who were actually responsible for this pivotal atrocity. Other prophetic statements in that same email included:
“In such a case you never have the ability to make peace with your adversary…,” “only know strife and warfare against those they themselves charge with ‘crime’,” “emergency 911,” “none of their usual alarms went off,” “This almost sounds like deliberate sabotage, but imbecility is not totally out of the question either. We may or may not ever be told the full story,” “‘gone to ground’ and burned out,” and: “It is truly sad that we live in such times, when a person’s word is not to be automatically trusted.”
Persecuted Prophet
In the page one, above the fold, headline article of The Hamilton Crier, published three days prior to 9-11-2001, the last copies of which were finally distributed one day prior to 9-11, the date of September 11, 2000 appears in column one, referring to a court hearing that was actually held on September 12, 2000 but which the visiting judge had mistakenly entered as 9-11-00, one year prior to the 9-11-01 attacks!
That article warned of "local plagues," relating a prophecy given to three judges one year prior to 9-11, in which Scott quoted the prophecy of "Ezekiel" 22:23-29, the beginning words of which reads:
"You are a land that has had no rain or showers in the day or wrath" ("Ezekiel" 22:24).
This prophecy began to be fulfilled in the county of Hamilton, and the state of Texas, with increasing severity since that time, breaking out in full fury immediately after the start, and during the year, of Scott's false imprisonment (from December 2005 through November 2006), with many deaths and much loss of property, a history-making drought that continues wreaking havoc to this very day!
The email newsletter APT Updates started publication at the same time persecutions by flaw (false of faux law) enforcers against Scott began to heat up in earnest in 1999, while the online publication The Pure Truth Restored magazine began publication in 2005, the same year the lawless incarceration and near-death experiences of its author and publisher first began.
Each of these publishing efforts survives and continues today only thanks to the saving grace of an ever-merciful Creator, who alone preserved the life of the man through whom He initiated the restoration of all things starting in 1979.
These persecutions continue to the present day, with current attempts by local actors for “the State of Texas,” whose attempts to take the minister’s only home and ministerial office for unpaid property taxes the impoverished prophet – made and kept poor by his flawful persecutors – cannot afford, has been carried on by means of legal skullduggery and denials of due process rights, including the right to testify without swearing or affirming oaths.
This has recently included attempts to "criminalize" the rights to free speech and freedom of the press, by local district court clerks, who posted a "no recording devices allowed" sign on the door to their public office; attempting to falsely accuse Scott of "creating a disturbance" for recording his interactions with such false public servants, in the attempt to protect himself from their many falsehoods, contrivances and lawless acts.
Such as attempts to extort fees not authorized by law for filing and court clerk's records already paid for on appeal (at an additional $1 per digital page; citing local government code dealing solely with county clerks, not state district court clerks, specifying these are for “other than court fees,” and that such records may be freely copied by anyone without payment of any fees), in the corrupt attempt to prevent by any lawless means the indigent appeal of flawful court decisions denying Scott's right to testify, present evidence, and protect congregational property from confiscation, and the loss of their only ministerial home.
Scott and his wife and children have suffered repeated impoverishing false arrests, imprisonments and persecutions over the years by many local flaw enforcement tyrants, similar to the ministry of Yahvhanan the Baptist, who was likewise a nazarite fore-type of the prophesied restoration prophet EliYahv (cf. "Matthew" 17:11-13; Mark 9:11-13).
Yet 40 Years...
If, like other prophets of old, Scott’s prophetic message was first given exactly 40 years in advance of a coming severe judgment upon the entire world, beginning with his dream visions in 1979 or 1980, we have precious little time remaining to get our lives in order spiritually, before a harsh cataclysm consumes and destroys the world as you know it!
Of course, the 40 years of judgment may have begun in 1985-86, when Scott first took the nazarite vow and his prophetic calling was confirmed, starting with the Challenger Space shuttle disaster. If so, the end of this time period would be the year 2025-26.
Or it could have begun the year of the second great midwest flood, in Kansas City during 1993, when publication of The Pure Truth magazine was started, marking 2033 as the 40th year.
However, one of the restored truths Scott first published in the pages of The Pure Truth, and finally in the July 4, 1999 issue #7 of the Ephesian Messenger newsletter, in the article starting on page 7 of that issue (appropriately enough), titled: “What Year IS This Anyway?” revealing a restoration of the long-lost truth dating historical and future sabbatical and Yavbel (incorrectly mistransliterated “Jubilee”) years.
That article revealed, for the very first time, that the “seventy times seven times” of forgiveness the Savior spoke about (see: “Matthew” 18:22) starting with the datable Exodus, concluded in the Gregorian calendar year 1988-89, after which every seven years have been marked by increasing judgments on the world, and that the next Yavbel will occur in the year 2037-38.
Certainly, this was true of the Worldwide Church, which ceased to exist precisely 40 years after Scott first set foot on its main Pasadena, California religious college campus and church headquarters in 1969. The year of Worldwide’s demise, during 2008-9, was the third sabbatical year in the count to the next Yavbel, and part of the first year toward the next, or fourth, sabbatical year (2015-16).
How much more true will it be for an entire nation and world, and all the false and pagan religions (including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and state authority worship) upon which they were built, to whom the message of restoration of all things is an urgent, prophetic wake-up call?
The End Times Are Here!
Scott also revealed, for the first time, that the actual year 2,000 should be counted, not according to the flawed and pagan Gregorian calendar tradition, but rather from the datable time of the Savior’s death, burial and resurrection, in 30 C.E., meaning that the “two days” (2,000 years, a day being as a thousand years in our Creator’s sight; cf. II “Peter” 3:8) of the prophecy of “Hosea” 6:2, indicates the start of the millennial Kingdom of the Messiah on earth should be the year 2030 (cutting short the time of the end by 3 1/2 years; the exact time of the Savior's first earthly ministry)!
Cutting short the time of the end by 3 1/2 years, the exact time of the Savior's first earthly ministry, would give a year for the first resurrection of around 2026-27! Of course, the time could be cut even shorter than that, given any one of the above possible prophetic scenarios.
Prophecy is nothing more, after all, than potential history spoken or written in advance, which becomes true only when the conditions for its fulfillment remain firmly entrenched in the unrepentant hearts and minds of religious, pagan or secular followers after the adversary’s errant, warring ways.
Unlike nominal history, which can be and often is corrupted by the hands of liars, or well-meaning but deceived historians, prophetic history can be changed through repentance and humility, without which it will all sadly one day soon come to pass as spoken or written.
This brief history of The Pure Truth, how it came to exist, where it presently stands, and where it is taking us all – whether or not you care to believe or accept it – is the stuff of which future, more truthful history lessons will one day consist.