Twentieth Century Pioneers

Draft: The Herbert W Armstrong and Radio Church of God Historical Trail & Photo Album The history of the early Work of Herbert W Armstrong and the Radio Church of God in photographs	Herbert W Armstrong. Man of God! Little known information on HWA and WCG doctrines	Lists, Charts and Letters of the Early Years of the Ministry of Herbert W Armstrong Lists and Charts of the Early Years of Herbert W Armstrong	The Final Year of Herbert W Armstrong What happened during his final year? Was anything sinister afoot?	Herbert W Armstrong's Early Beliefs and Doctrines Mr Armstrong changed some doctrines from his early years. We can learn from his willingness to change and improve
Greenberry George Rupert: A Significant Church of God Leader! Additional information on Rupert	Greenburry G Rupert Rupert was famous in the early 20th century but almost forgotten	Pioneers Or Senior Veterans Of The Worldwide Church Of God Information on the pioneers of the WCG	WCG Pioneers Timeline WCG Pioneers in Chart form	Herman L Hoeh Herman L Hoeh played a key part in the WCG

The Church of God and Sabbatarians since the 17th Century

Church of God & Sabbatarian Timelines Historical developments of the Church since the late 1700s in chart form	Church process towards Unification Variety of charts simplifying aspects of Church of God history	A Note on Seventh Day Baptist Relationship to the Church of God The Seventh Day Baptists relationships with other sabbatarians	A Note on Christian Israelite Church and the Sabbath Information about a group that once promulgated God's Holy Days	The Independent Sabbatarian Groups Is there a missing link in the history of the Church of God?
A Note on the name 'Church of God (Adventist)' Was the Church ever known as 'Church of God (Adventist)'?	Historic Church of God Fundamentals of Belief What Sabbatarians believed since the 1700s

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History of Doctrinal Development

History of the Fair Chance Doctrine Origin and development of the Fair Chance doctrine (original articles here)	Draft: The Doctrinal Heritage of the Church of God in the Nineteenth Century Background to the origin of many doctrines	How the Israel Identity Truth entered the Church of God How the Israel Identity Truth entered the Church of God	Chart Summarizing the Development of WCG Doctrines & Titles Summary of the development of WCG doctrines
Do Church Eras Exists? Development of the Church Eras doctrine	History of the Place of Safety Doctrine in the Church of God History of the Place of safety doctrine	The Identity of the German Peoples in Church of God Doctrine How did the Church of God discover the Assyrian  origin of the German peoples?	Notes on the Third Resurrection Doctrine in the Church of God History of the Third Resurrection Doctrine

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History of the Sabbatarians since the First Century

Passover and Holy Day Observances since the First Century Were the holy days observed by Christians since the first century? If so, is there definite proof...

Early Doctrines of the Eastern Churches What became of the Church Jesus built and the congregations scattered throughout the East, particularly...

Sabbatarian Groups A Scattered and Little Flock The Church of God sabbatarian groups have always been a scattered into various remnants...

Collection of Information on Various Church of God Groups

Doctrines of the Sabbatarians since the First Century After the passing of the Apostles, did the Church of God consistently adhere to all of the original doctrines? Where doctrines...

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Worldwide Church of God History

History of Worldwide Church of God Ministerial Conferences In an article written to the members about the 1960 conference, Roderick Meredith stated: �The annual ministerial conferences...	History of Worldwide Church of God's Foreign Works Little has been preserved or written about in various books on the history of the Church�s Work outside of the United States. Hereunder...	History of the Plain Truth magazine Surely nothing could have started smaller. Born in adversity in the very depths of the Depression, this Work...	History of the Feast of Tabernacles in the Radio/Worldwide Church of God In the article Passover and Holy Day Observances since the First Century, I point out that the observance of the Holy Days...	History of the World Tomorrow Broadcast In The Wonderful World Tomorrow: Herbert W. Armstrong's Vision of Life After the Apocalypse, Scott Lupo noted: �In 1985, the year before...
History of Worldwide Church of God Publications and Booklets	A Chronological Overview of the Changes My suspicions from early 1986 proved correct  because of what I suspected, I kept a running log of the personnel and doctrinal changes. It pays to keep forever vigilan	History of the WCG's Advisory Council of Elders	Notes on the History of Passover Observance amongst Sabbatarians since the 18th Century

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Miscellanous

Church of God History. Tending to the Past. Preserving for the Future Why and how to preserve our history and heritage

List of Sabbatarian Groups in Australia (needs to be updated)

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Graphic source: Wikipedia

Articles by others on the Waldenses available  here (NB: not all of this information is about those that were called Waldenses who observed the Sabbaths. Most who were known as Waldenses did not observe the seventh-day Sabbath).

It must have been in 1977 or 1978 that I discovered Gerard Damsteegt, a SDA scholar who authored a fascinating book ‘Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission’ in the SDA bookshop in Perth. 

The SDA bookshop also had a lot of old pre-SDA literature and original SDA literature. Years before, as a youngster, I read their literature in the Port Elizabeth, South Africa library as part of my research. Uriah Smith in particular interested me. The other SDA bookshops in Strathfield (a suburb of Sydney) and Avondale College also contained much old literature. Nowadays, that has changed and their bookshops are more and more mainstream and without depth. 

 I found the book by Damsteegt intriguing filled with all sorts of fascinating titbits – include a copy of the SDA 1872 Fundamentals. This included article V: 

 >V. That the new birth comprises the entire change necessary to fit us for the kingdom of God, and consists of two parts: first, a moral change, wrought by conversion and a Christian life; second, a physical change at the second coming of Christ, whereby, if dead, we are raised incorruptible, and if living, are changed to immortality in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. John 3:3, 5; Luke 20:36.<

 Some time later (2005), I obtained an article by him arguing for the Waldenses (or many of them) being Sabbath-keepers. The article was titled The Waldenses. An Analysis of Insabbatati.

 In June 2010 he advised me he was withdrawing the article, pending the publication of further research, after rigorous review. His new article was published in 2016 and is available  here (Decoding Ancient Waldensian Names: New Discoveries). Shows you how long it can take for scholarly articles to be reviewed and accepted for publication and to finally be published behind a queue of others!

 I think you will find the article of great interest – in particular the 16^th page onward following the sub-heading Waldensian Sabbath-keepers. I think it shows that the Waldensians, much like the terms Adventist or Scythian, is an umbrella term for several groups.

 Finally, let me make this point: I have much literature on the Waldensians and from what I could gather, there were Sabbatarians amongst them. It was rather obvious from my readings that many Waldensians observed the 7^th day Sabbath, but most didn't. We should not force history into our template, but deeply and honestly study the records.

 The old WCG papers by Lester Grabbe "Were the Waldenses a part of God's Church?" (1981) and Lawson Briggs “Did Peter Waldo Keep the Sabbath?” (1974) notwithstanding, some Waldenses did indeed observe the seventh day Sabbath.