My thanks to: Professor Horace David Ritchie (dad), Grandpa Prentice, Hugh Woodcock, Roger Shakeshaft, Mr Ashenhurst, Chris Wall, Esmond Rand, Classics Master Tomlinson, Graham Findlay, Dr Ray Mitchell, Dean Green of Queens, Prof Thompson (Feit Thompson theorem), Dr Hyland (Logic), Dr Martin Powell (Algebra), Clifton Turner, Tony Moore, Massoud Vakili, Dulwich College Preparatory School, ILEA, Magdalene College Cambridge and Magdalen College Oxford, for teaching me to think gracefully.
Every religion makes the mistake of stifling free thought amongst its congregation. Perhaps the most effective way of doing this is to pass itself off as a promoter of bible research whilst acting to destroying it. These churches discourage the congregations from doing their own personal research because the priests are insecure about their failed research or biblical understandings. So being more interested in their own power and status within the congregation than they are in actually performing their priestly duties to teach the congregation the truth from God, they stifle this truth and steal God’s power for their own corrupted self seeking use. It is a syndrome which is not unique to churches. Academic departments, government departments and commercial companies all have it as well. My father used to call people who practice this, the ‘Mediocre Mafia’. Jesus described them thus:
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men. For you yourselves do not go in, neither do you permit those on their way in to go in (Matthew 23:13).
The reader will see from the history of the battle below how the Governing Body of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (with the partial exception of Daniel Sydlik) have taken just such a position with my research. It is so hypocritical given that their original name was ‘International Bible Students’.
It is my fervent hope, and my strong resolve that I and that the Life, the Lord’s Witnesses, the Bible Decoders, will always encourage bible research from all of the members of the congregation and indeed from anybody else! Whether such research agrees with our present understanding or whether it shoots it down in flames entirely!
The best way to ensure that this occurs is always to admit publicly the possibility that any of the currently accepted interpretations may be wrong. We have to be academic in our approach to bible understanding here and not professional or political! Dammit they could all be wrong! It is up to the reader to decide! But this is how one follows God, one simply obeys the best bible information that one has at the time! I hope that the reader will see that this website has this information and by some considerable margin right now. I hope that he or she will help us to improve it in the little time that is left. And I hope that God gives us all the grace to see it! God can reveal his true interpretations to anybody! Sinners and righteous alike, rich and poor, well educated and barely educated, powerful and powerless, good and bad, healthy and sick, church goers and church haters, straight and crooked, guilty and innocent, men and women and children. His arm is never cut short, and there is nothing that is too extraordinary for him. He can reveal them! But only those who love him will accept them.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8).
For they loved the glory of men more than even the glory of
God.
However, Jesus cried out and said: He that puts faith in me puts faith, not in
me [only], but in him [also] that sent me; and he that beholds me beholds [also]
him that sent me.
I have come as a light into the world, in order that everyone putting faith in
me may not remain in the darkness (John 12:43-46).
N.B. Many of the understandings in these historical letters and books are wrong and many (but not all) have now been corrected. Below is a list of most of the correspondence between us, it was rather one way! I have lost one or two letters I think.
| 1976September - 1977June | Natural Sciences at Cambridge University |
| 1977September - 1980June | Mathematics at Cambridge University |
| 1980September - 1980December | Started but did not finish PhD in Group Theory, Pure Maths at Oxford University |
| 1981September - 1984June | Finished but did not submit PhD in Computational Aerodynamics at Imperial College London |
| 1982 | Met Massoud Vakili at Imperial College |
| 1983 - 1985 | Invented new type of switched mode power supply |
| 1983 - 1987 | Invented Magnetic Levitation Device, for display purposes |
| 1987 | Licenced the Levitator to Living Images Ltd |
| 1987 - 1990 | Worked for Living Images Ltd as consultant |
| 1988 - 1990 | Built up a large property Co., lied on loan forms |
| 1989 | Jehovah’s Witnesses knocked on my door, started bible study |
| 1990January/February | Met Tony Moore |
| 1990August | Busted by the Fraud Squad for mortgage fraud |
| 1991Tishri approx | Given talk about three rights of the firstborn in Kingdom Hall |
| 1992January20-22 [A] | Wrote to Elders deducing the Gentile Times from Leviticus26 |
| 1992January24-26 | Realised could be a 7 times Exedenic parallel to Gentile Times |
| 1992February1 (1991Shebat21) | Worked out Exedenic Times and 2008Nisan from Genesis4 |
| 1992March14 (Saturday) | Unsealed Daniel12 with Tony Moore at Dundee Court |
| 1992March17 (Tuesday) | Tony and I worked out the Midst Prophecy |
| 1992September10 [AA] | Date of Covering letter with: ‘Letter to the Society’ by hand |
| 1992Elul11 [B] | Massoud hand delivered 12 copies of Letter to the Society & Divine Plan of the Ages & covering letter to 12 governing body members through Todd Ellison at Brooklyn Bethel, HQ of JWs |
| 1992Tishri15 | Second New Covenant (2NC) made with Gordon |
| 1992Heshvan16/17 [C] | (November 16) Genesis booklet sent to Brooklyn (12 copies) |
| 1992Heshvan19 | (November18) Genesis booklet arrived in Brooklyn |
| 1992Heshvan20 | (November 20) 4 months suspended prison sentence for mortgage fraud |
| 1992Heshvan30 | Gordon Sanctified as Elijah4 (wrote 'large stone letter') |
| 1992Chislev1 [AB] | Instruction Letter to Todd Ellison |
| 1992Chislev1 [AC] | Help letter to Governing Body - Large Stone |
| 1992Chislev | Massoud and I realised that we were priests of some sort |
| 1993Tammuz19 | Saturday, July 10th, Baptised into the Jehovah’s Witnesses at Crystal Palace. I knew that I would be thrown out, & I was already baptised |
| 1993Adar17 [D] | Letter about New New Covenant |
| 1994Nisan3 [E] | Letter about Memorial |
| 1994Sivan24 [F] | ‘Letter to the Elders’ given to the local elders |
| 1994Tammuz9 [G] | Letter about Milton Henschel & Covering letter to Todd Ellison |
| 1994Heshvan | Realised that I had to baptise the great crowd (Caroline called & said she had a message from God for me just when I was thinking about this: Have I myself conceived all this people? Is it I who have given them birth? (Numbers 11:12) |
| 1994Heshvan20 [H] | Letter saying: The Doors to the House of Jehovah are open |
| 1994Heshvan20 [AG] | Covering letter to Todd Ellison: Unilateral communicator |
| 1994Heshvan30 [I] | Letter about the greater temple of Solomon, not built by David |
| 1994Heshvan30 [AF] | Covering letter to Todd Ellison: Talks about talks. |
| 1994November | 1st trip to New York to try to see the Governing Body |
| 1994November16 [F] | Letter to the Elders hand delivered to the writing committee |
| 1994November18 [AH] | Letter from Watchtower acknowledging receipt |
| 1994Chislev12 [L] | Letter to governing body asking for a meeting |
| 1994Chislev | Dan Sydlik rang me at the Dorset Hotel |
| 1994December7 [M] | Letter to Dan thanking him for calling |
| 1994December20 [N] | Letter to Dan informing him of the dates of my 2nd trip to NYC |
| 1994December26 | 2nd trip to New York to try to see Governing Body |
| 1994Nov to 1995Jan [P] | Diary of events and conversations for this period |
| 1995January17 [Q] | Last Letter to J. Barr of writing committee about the memorial |
| 1995Nisan10 [R] | Letter to Governing Body: Memorial will fail |
| 1995Nisan25 [S] | Letter to Governing Body: How to celebrate memorial |
| 1995July7 [T] | Letter informing Society of change of Address |
| 1995Heshvan6 | November 3rd: 9 early versions of [W] fedexed to Governing Body |
| 1995November8 | 3rd trip to New York to try to see the Governing Body |
| 1995November9 [U] | Letter to the Governing Body asking: Who really is the FDS? |
| 1995Heshvan20 [V] | November17: Obey Master or Slave, 13 copies to Bethel |
| 1995November22 [W] | Personally gave 13 copies of ‘The Faithful & Discreet Slave is cut in two’ to Travis at Brooklyn Bethel |
| 1995November26 [AD] | Invited all the writing department to Speculators Banquet at the New York Hilton, nobody came, the invites were all hand delivered to the Bethel & residences and were intercepted |
| 1996January12 [W] | ‘FDS is cut in two’ & ‘Letter to the elders’ sent to 100 congregations in New York |
| 1996February15 [AE] | Covering Letter with ‘FDS is cut in two’ to local elder |
| 1995Adar4 | 1996February28: Told I would de thrown out in 7 days time |
| 1995Adar11 | 1996March6: Disfellowshipped, 1260 days after 1992Elul11 |
| 1995Adar [X] | Record of my disfellowshipping |
| 1996April14 [Y] | Letter to Dan explaining my 1260 day ministry Revelation 11. Called ‘The Cock always crows twice’ Website is 2nd crow!! |
| 1996May20 [Z] | Letter of disgust to the 100 congregations in New York. |
| 1999Elul25 | Gordon Realised that the 7 years of eyes of Revelation 5 had ended and the 7 years of horns had started. Seeing ends, power starts. He was antetypical Joseph the 1st horseman of the apocalypse. Time to go conquering. Time to go subduing in the midst of his enemies. Gran Canaria Thurs night 9th September 1999. |
| 1999September14 | Sentence for Mortgage fraud became spent under English law, 7 years after my conviction (14 September 1992). This feature of UK law descends directly from the law of Moses. Being the release in the sabbath year, every 7th year, of all debtors (Deuteronomy 15:1,2). Justice and mercy. The purpose of the law is to teach through temporary condemnation. Not to judge in permanent condemnation. I wonder, if a man who committed a crime under the law of Moses for which the punishment was death, actually owned up to it and was stoned, if this belated respect for the law was sufficient for God to resurrect him. For he has obeyed the most difficult part of the law! |
| 2000January25 | This website is advertised by Fax in the UK. |
| 2000March21 | First public meeting of the LWs in the Cumberland Hotel, London, around 200 attended, responding to a faxed invitation. 3 ways of deducing the date of Armageddon were presented. |
| 2000April/May/June | Weekly talks at the Cumberland, very large leaps in our understandings were made. |
| 2000Tishri16 | The 2NC celebrated 30 days late due to new understandings of how to celebrate it. The first LWs 'water' baptised by Gordon (through the laying on of hands). |
| 2000November | Gordon Ritchie, Gary McCaferry and later Justin Pugsley and Richard Williamson invent HyperOs, software that runs Microsoft Windows entirely from system RAM, and runs several copies of Windows without multibooting. Gordon wished to show an incredulous World that he is good at computer coding, in order to establish credibility with bible decoding (this was his excuse in any event). Writing software that competes with Microsoft is light relief from bible decoding intellectually. But it is not as satisfying spiritually obviously. |
| 2003August/September | Gordon begins to realise that HyperOs was not what God wanted him to be doing and this possibly is why he is beaten with few strokes (Luke 12) - see [34]. The period from 2000 to 2003 should have been used to further bible understanding, not to attempt to compete with Microsoft. A wasted opportunity. But Gordon's false step means an opportunity for the rest of the world. So come on you men and women with faith, be modern day prophets and prophetesses, come and feed on the divine truth, there is nothing on earth like it!! |