9. Herbert Armstrong denied ever being a Seventh-Day Adventist, but he had been an Adventist

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Herbert Armstrong always denied that he had ever been a Seventh-Day Adventist.  While this is true, it is also a deflection from the larger truth that Armstrong had indeed been an Adventist, only of a different kind.  Herbert had been a preacher for the Adventist sect Church of God (Seventh Day).  Armstrong was disfellowshiped for promoting British-Israelism and promoting the keeping of Old Testament feast days. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_God_(Seventh_Day)

A well-publicized member of the church was evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong (1893–1986). In 1927 Armstrong was challenged by his wife, Loma, to find a biblical justification for keeping Sunday as the Christian Sabbath. Loma had come under the influence of Emma Runcorn, a member of the Seventh Day church in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Runcorn and her husband Ora were lay leaders in the Oregon conference. Armstrong soon became a minister for that church and a writer for the Bible Advocate journal. Within a few years, Armstrong began teaching the British-Israel Theory – the alternative history that regarded the nations of Western Europe and North America as the literal descendants of the "Lost Ten Tribes" of Israel – and the mandatory keeping of the Feast Days in Leviticus 23. Armstrong disassociated himself from the Church of God (7th Day) - Salem Conference over these two issues, which were not original doctrines of the Churches of God (7th Day); years later, Church of God (7th Day) revoked his ministerial credentials with their Church, but by this time he was well-established in his own church, the Radio Church of God.^[8]