Gerald Flurry is pastor general of the Philadelphia Church of God and editor-in-chief of the news magazine Trumpet, which began publishing in 1990. He is also the founder and president of the Armstrong International Cultural Foundation, known for its cultural, charitable and humanitarian. activities and founder and rector of Herbert W. Armstrong College in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Gerald Flurry is a native Oklahoman born in Oklahoma City in 1935 to parents Clarence (died 1977) and Jicie (died 1997). He married Barbara Jean Brewer on September 5, 1964 and they had two children, Laura and Stephen. Barbara Flurry died in 2004 after suffering a stroke.

Gerald Flurry became a member of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) in 1960 and graduated from Ambassador College in Pasadena, California, in 1970. He then worked for the church’s editorial department and wrote for Plain Truth magazine before being Ordained minister in 1973.

For more than 35 years he has been in the ministry full time. Flurry served as pastor in the Worldwide Church of God until the church repudiated its founder, Herbert Armstrong, and his teachings after his death in 1986.

Witnessing changes in church doctrine away from Mr. Armstrong’s teachings, Mr. Flurry immersed himself in an intensive study of the Bible to search for the cause of the betrayal he was witnessing. The result was a manuscript titled Malachi’s Message for the Church of God Today. Originally written in the spring of 1989, when the new direction in the Worldwide Church of God was not, for many of its members, very noticeable, the book was primarily intended to alert the WCG ministry to what was really going on, and second, to alert members of the Church. When a first draft of the book came to the attention of WCG leaders in Pasadena, California, Gerald Flurry and his assistant, John Amos, were fired from their positions as WCG ministers. Mr. Flurry immediately founded the Philadelphia Church of God on December 7, 1989 in Edmond, Oklahoma.

After the Worldwide Church of God stopped printing Armstrong’s writings and existing supplies of his major works ran out, Mr. Flurry successfully defended the right of the Philadelphia Church of God to freely publish and distribute 19 of his works, obtained through a six-year legal battle against WCG, which attempted to use the books’ own copyrights to keep them out of print.

Gerald Flurry has visited more than 20 countries in such critical areas as the Middle East, South Africa, Europe and Asia, meeting with key international news analysts. He is the author of more than 30 books, including Malachi’s Message for God’s Church Today, God’s Family Vision, and The Last Hour.

As host of the television show Key of David, which began in 1993, Gerald Flurry examines world events in light of biblical prophecy and proclaims the soon return of Jesus Christ to Earth, to save mankind alive and usher in peace. , happy, wonderful world tomorrow. Through television, print and personal appearance campaigns, he also prophesies again in the Herbert W. Armstrong tradition, a serious warning of the unprecedented world troubles ahead, which will precede the second coming of Christ.