Therefore, long before Jim Staley preached his famous sermon Identity Crisis,[33] Armstrong was already teaching that “[t]o become a converted Christian, one must become, spiritually, AN ISRAELITE!.”[34] The much-vaunted spiritual identity had been lost because it was not recognized that “[t]he peoples of the United States, the British Commonwealth nations, and the nations of Northwestern Europe are, in fact, the peoples of the TEN TRIBES of the HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
