Reading COG related blogs are always fun. Get a load of this back slapping for Apostle Malm:
To all who sneer and think that James Malm is a nut-case, I would like you to consider that James has stated with specificity as to who will do what and around when those things he believes scripture shows are going to take place will do so.
Now go and look at the rest of the entire corporate COG phalanx of prophecy teachings. ylou will find a big bunch of equivocating and wishy-washy mental goo and slobber, filled with all kinds of caveats and escape hatches enabling those who say them to say later either, “I never exactly said that” or “only God knows for sure and all we can do is wait till it happens in order to understand”.
By this time next year, James will either be proven correct or will be noted as one more sincere and well-intentioned zealot who got it wrong. If such an outcome takes place, I fully expect James (based on his willingness to do so in the past) to admit when and where he got things wrong and sincerely, appologize
to those he (unintentionally) misled and be the wiser for any mistake(s) he made.
Notice how they are already giving the Apostle a way out. "Oh, he was sincere, but wrong, don't fault him for that." ""His predictions were ahead of the times." "Don't judge him because he was really sincere."
It is idiotic comments like this that allow other false prophets to get a toehold in Armstrongism. That is what allowed McNair, Waterhouse, Blackwell, Pack, Flurry, Hulme, Meredith and others to get by when their predictions all failed. So far we have over 650 of them and still counting.
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"By this time next year, James will either be proven correct or will be noted as one more sincere and well-intentioned zealot who got it wrong. If such an outcome takes place, I fully expect James (based on his willingness to do so in the past) to admit when and where he got things wrong and sincerely, appologize
to those he (unintentionally) misled and be the wiser for any mistake(s) he made."
Well that's another way to equivocate and keep the door to failure open isn't it??????
The only diff is that we know ahead of time he will apologize for being wrong. What a wishy washy con this is.
M.T.Caveats
I get emails from the armstrongites on how I better repent, time runs short crap on a weekly basis. It seems they are ignoring the background of their false prophets.
I laugh at the fools that write how Herbie was correct about the U.S. of Europe. What I attempt to do is to inform them just where HWA got his information. It wasn't from God but the headlines of his day. Back in the 20's and 30's.
His primitive cut and paste from these papers of the past into his child like "plain truth" was a hack and down right theft of others intellectual materials of the day.
With all the information on the Internet (as to Herbie's prophecies) you would think one of these cult leaders would get it right, but they never do. They keep inline as to Herbie's slant on world events.
I would venture to say that some of these poor saps would follow their cult leader over the edge into oblivion in their blind ignorance. The price to pay for a destroyed life is something they embrace in their folly.
In the end, there are men with primitive minds, who use and abuse poor inept fools with stories. Stories that are provable lies and deceptions. The question is, who will take the bait?
Painful Truth said, "I laugh at the fools that write how Herbie was correct about the U.S. of Europe. What I attempt to do is to inform them just where HWA got his information. It wasn't from God but the headlines of his day. Back in the 20's and 30's".
MY COMMENT - This became very clear to me while taking my daughter to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. one day. The Smithsonian had a whole floor section of exhibits depicting "The Great Depression" era. In the final exhibit up in a corner very easy to see was a 1939 edition of Time Magazine which had the cover banner headline reading, "World of Tomorrow".
My immediate reaction: "So that's where Herbert Armstrong got the name for his radio and television programs".
Richard
This perfectly illustrates the basic problem with the "hook" that Herbie Advertiser used to coerce people into his control. These guys do what scripture tells us that even Jesus was unwilling to do. When you lead with error like that, failure, embarrassment, and the suffering of ridicule automatically follows! It wouldn't be so bad if they only made themselves appear to be fools, but it doesn't stop there. They damage the gospel, and apparently could care less.
BB
Malm has already been proven wrong in similar predictions he made four or five years ago. Just as Malm takes pains to document where Thiel has been wrong, Thiel has returned the favor:
Thiel on Malm's Previous Failed Prophecies
The people excited about Malm today weren't watching his errors in 2007 and 2008. Today's Malmites will drift away after a few false prophecies are exposed, and then a new batch of acolytes will arrive in a few years. Sort of like how almost none of Rod Meredith's original GCG followers are still with him, and almost none of Gerry Flurry's original PCG followers are still with him. Even in WCG, HWA cycled through followers every few years, with only a relative few hanging on as lifers.
How interesting it would be if the Matthew 24ers ever came to understand it already past and failed prophecy as is Revelation.
NOBODY wrote Matthew 24 or The Book of Revelation with 2000 plus years in mind down the road. That is just not how humans, Elijahs or not think.
Time can only be short for so long and then you enter the zone of the ludicrous and mistaken
M.T. Prophecies
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