I am livid today. Of the fourteen sects supported and forwarded by Mr. Pilkington, twelve of them will lead not only to great ruin at the dais of Christ, but will rob members of the body of Christ (those who believe Clyde's unscriptural teachings) of the expectation clearly laid out by the apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 of the snatching away. Follow Mr. Pilkington, and the only thing you will have to look forward to in this life is death. DEATH.

My friend Dean Wilkinson, a student of Clyde's who used to look forward to the snatching away, who used to expect to SEE CHRIST in his lifetime, told me on the phone that he has abandoned that expectation, trashed it in fact, and is now at peace with the fact that he will die. He has stopped looking for the return of Christ, and he now looks for death. DEATH.

This is what will happen to those who follow the teaching of Clyde Pilkington. And why wouldn't it, for Clyde Himself has said,

"Don’t waste your time imagining that you will be “raptured” (i.e., delivered away) from your divine training ground. It will be a costly mistake."

This is a direct quote from Bible Student's Notebook #488.

A costly mistake to look for Christ? To hope for Him? To love His appearing? To long for deliverance? According to Mr. Pilkington, the spiritual man is to hope and pray for our sufferings here on earth to be elongated and for the wicked eon to continue as long as possible.

You see, Mr. Pilkington doesn't believe this to be a wicked eon. Paul calls it "this current wicked eon" in Galatians 1:4, but Clyde doesn't believe that the book of Galatians belongs to the body of Christ. Clyde, therefore, believes this time period to be an "era of grace." (It is not an era of grace and nowhere in Scripture is it called that. This is a wicked eon during which the gospel of the grace of God is being announced. This is, rather, the era of the nations—THAT'S the Scriptural phrase you're looking for. This is a most wicked and evil period of time during which Satan is the prince of the power of the air. No one in his or her right mind would want it extended.)

Concerning a longing for the return of Christ and the timing of the eon, our apostle writes in Romans 13:10-12,

"Love is not working evil to an associate. The complement, then, of law, is love. This, also, do, being aware of the era, that it is already the hour for us to be roused out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believe.
The night progresses, yet the day is near."

The apostle John echoes the heartfelt sentiment of every sincere believer when he writes in Revelation 22:20," 'Yea, I am coming swiftly.' Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!" But not Clyde. No, Clyde does not WANT Christ to come quickly, and in fact relishes the idea that this era of pain and death and sin and doom and anguish and disappointment and Satanic rule will be extended for as long as possible.

One can only guess as to the motives here, but my most educated hypothesis is that Mr. Pilkington loves the current eon. In my mind, there is no other explanation. There must be a strong fondness for the current eon to cause one to twist so many Scriptures and to support so many grotesque theories, two of which are the Acts 28 theory and the theory of the pre-millennial, 500-year Israel "kingdom" that will require all body of Christ members to have died and be vanquished from the earth.

I am done apologizing for criticizing this man. My love for him will not prevent my severe exposing and rebuking of a SERIES of false teachings that, if latched onto, will rob one of one's expectation in Christ Jesus.

More to come tomorrow—like it or not.