Los Angeles fires are the result of an angry "god" is still upset over CA placing the WCG in receivership in 1979

 

Lil/Stevie Flurry popped his self-righteous cork the other day about the tragic fires in CA. Lil'Stevie is still upset that the State of CA went after the Worldwide Church of God for misuse of money back in 1979.

He starts off with the perpetually angry god of the PCG who revels in killing people and destroying property through earthquakes, floods, and fire. The Flurry's have created a pissy little god that is mad about everything they tell it to be mad about. Those rebellious, filthy people in California need to be punished, so do as we say and burn them up! We are not like them lord! Make them pay for their sins, unlike we, who are perfect in your sight.

But even worse, the impotent little god of the PCG is still pissed off in 2025 with the California government for daring to sue the WCG. How dare they!

Hollywood liberals and establishment politicians may consider themselves too sophisticated to believe it, but the Bible says God punishes us with “natural” disasters. Isaiah 29:6 says, “Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.” California certainly is being “visited” with “the flame of devouring fire” this week. And as far back as 2003, my father, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry, has pointed out that California’s mega-drought is a result of this state’s rebellion against God and His law. Specifically, my father has pointed out that God is punishing California for the vicious legal attack it launched against the late Herbert W. Armstrong in 1979.

“In an overt attack against Mr. Armstrong, the state of California, through the attorney general’s office, launched a massive lawsuit against the [Worldwide Church of God] in 1979,” he wrote in his December 2003 article “Is California Under a Curse?” He continued:

On January 3, that office initiated a sudden, armed assault on the Pasadena headquarters, in an attempt to claim ownership of the Church’s property and assets as well as its continuing income—in violation of the U.S. Constitution. A receiver, secretly appointed by the court, tried to take over and operate God’s Church. Completely false, outrageous and baseless allegations of financial mismanagement were made—despite financial and all other required records having been regularly and voluntarily filed. No evidence of wrongdoing was ever found, and on Oct. 14, 1980, the attorney general dropped all charges and dismissed the case. Later, the higher appellate court ruled that the lawsuit was without foundation. California is the only state that ever attacked Mr. Armstrong and his work. Actually, it attacked a lot more than that. California really attacked the living God!

California has been saturated with God’s warning message probably more than any other state. Yet rather than turn to God in repentance, the people of this state attacked Mr. Armstrong and the Church of God before going on to promote “gay pride,” the “lgbtq+ agenda” and “San Francisco values.” Even in the midst of the wildfires, the California media is praising the efforts of lesbian firefighters rather than repenting.

California has not been saturated with warnings from Armstrong or Flurry. How can a "thing" from "someplace" be a warning to anyone? Who even knows what that thing is? How can a man who was embarrassed to talk about Jesus issue any warning to anyone, and why would ANYONE ever listen?

You've never heard the Flurry clan talk about the crime or GLBT issues in Edmond or the state of Oklahoma. Nope, because they know they will get their asses creamed in the press, and right now, they are courting Edmond officials and the public by wooing them into concerts in their mini-me auditorium. You also never see them mention the gay people from their own Celtic Dance teams dancing across the stage and who represent them in public shows. Useful gays are always good gays. No one gives a flying rat's ass if the firefighter coming to your rescue when your house is on fire is a lesbian. It irritates many of these COG leaders that so many gay and lesbian firefighters are more butch than they are.

Armstrongism has always been filled with hypocritical leaders who run off at the mouth with stupid accusations, believing they are right in the eyes of their little angry gods. Some things never change.

January 16, the most important day in the history of the world!

It is hard to believe that Herbert Armstrong died 39 years ago on January 16, 1986. From that very moment on, the church has been rocked with untold idiotic rumors and scandals. Hundreds of splinter groups have formed, all claiming they are the best COG to ever exist in human history, so this is not unique to the wonder boy, The Great Bwana Bob, who regularly spouts the claim.

The rumors started the day HWA died. Tkach Sr. supposedly smothered him to death on Loma's favorite chair or in the bed, depending on which fool was telling the story so that he could claim the leadership of the church. Rod Meredith and Ellis LaRavia wet their pants because they thought they should have been made the new COG pope.

For several years, we were assured doctrines would not change, and then they did. Then, there was the infamous Christmas 1994 sermon that pushed many over the edge to start forming their own groups. 

The boys that went on to start the United Church of God gathered for over a year plotting and scheming how they could separate from the mother church, retaining their salaries, drawing as many people as they could with them, along with their tithe money.

Global church of God started in 1992 after the Worldwide Church of God spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in defending loudmouth Rod Meredith from a slander suit by Leona McNair (the first wife of Raymond (Buffy) McNair). Never having to spend a dime defending himself nor having to foot the large court judgment against him and the WCG, Rod quickly jumped ship into Global, where a group of sycophants had plotted and schemed to draw WCG members and their tithe money to support them, Rod and Raymond in their new splinter group.

All of these guys were late to the scene, though, as Gerald Flurry had left in a self-righteous fit in 1989 to start the Philadelphia Church of God. The PCG ended up being the most legalistic and abusive of the splinter groups. Gerald Flurry ended up getting arrested in 1993 for being drunk behind the wheel and trying to bribe a police officer and was quickly sent to jail. Flurry also got in trouble for plagiarizing Malachi's Message from a paper Jules Dervaes had written to the Worldwide Church of God as a warning.

Flurry, who has always operated out of sheer idolatry of HWA, soon started placing religious significance on the January 16 date. He started searching world events that fell on the 16th and decided that God had set this day apart from all others.

PCGNews on X (formerly Twitter) has this to say about the date:

“Single handedly the most ridiculous booklet I have ever read & this was even when I was deeply brainwashed & unable to think critically! This book actually contributed to my leaving the cult” Absolute insanity!

How can the Church of God sink so low? When we think it cannot, it does.

January 16 is supposedly God's miracle day! Who knew?

Flurry writes:

God’s Miracle Day!

Again and again, God is calling our attention back to the pivotal date of January 16. He has performed so many miracles on this date! And so many of the most tragic curses on Israel have happened on this date! Those curses are only a type of what is coming on the nations of Israel if they don’t take heed and look to the great God who is sending them. Everyone on Earth needs to pay attention to this and understand this important truth!

Study this date, and watch for it! It points you to a man around whom so much revolves in this end time! A man who built God’s spiritual temple. A man who restored all things. A man who preached the true gospel of the Kingdom of God to all nations as a witness. A man who warned Israel for decades of the curses and calamities they are about to experience. A man who prepared the way as a messenger before the Second Coming—and whose very work was a sign of the imminence of that earthshaking event!

But far more important than pointing you to a man who died on this date, studying January 16 points you to the great, living, Almighty God of Elijah!

God’s miracle day leads you to the omnipotent God, who rules in the kingdom of men and shapes world events to fulfill His prophecies. It directs you to the Father who is correcting the nations out of His love for them, to turn them from their sins and lead them back to Himself. It draws you to the God who is actively involved in His Church, speaking through revelation and opening mighty doors of opportunity.

And it helps you come to know the great God of miracles—who is about to send His Son to put down the rule of Satan, to take His place on the throne of David, and to establish His perfect Kingdom, administering the government of God and the royal law of God in perfect combination, forever!

Why is it in the Church of God, its god is always calling people to Herbert or some esoteric doctrine instead of calling people to the One they are supposed to be following, as they claim are? 

Notice the things they claim are significant that happend on Janaury 16. (of course, you could pick any date on the calendar and fins something intersitng to claim for that day)

Notable Events in the Church

• Jan. 16, 1990: Malachi’s Message arrives in mailboxes
  Stephen Flurry is first member baptized in the pcg
• Jan. 17, 1993: Key of David television program airs for the first time, on seven television stations
• Jan. 16, 1996: New revelation on the book of Micah
• Jan. 16, 1997: First pcg printing of Mystery of the Ages reaches subscribers
• Jan. 16, 2001: John Amos Field House construction is dedicated
• Jan. 16, 2002: Former wcg minister Ernest Martin dies
• Jan. 16, 2003: Initial terms are reached with the wcg for the purchase of copyrights to 19 of Mr. Armstrong’s works
• Jan. 16, 2006: Headquarters staff moves into the new Hall of Administration
• Jan. 16, 2016: Concrete foundation poured for performing arts building
• Jan. 16, 2017: God plants the new throne of David in His Church

Notable Events in the World

• Jan. 16, 1991: U.S. launches Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, starting the Persian Gulf War
• Jan. 17, 1994: 6.7-magnitude earthquake in Northridge, California, one of the costliest disasters in American history
• Jan. 16, 1995: 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Kobe, Japan, kills 6,434 people
• Jan. 16, 1998: German parliament repeals the constitutional right to privacy
• Jan. 16, 1999: Prosecution for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton ends
  Edmund Stoiber becomes chairman of Germany’s Christian Social Union
• Jan. 16, 2003: Space Shuttle Columbia is fatally damaged upon launch; 16 days later it disintegrates upon reentry, killing the crew of six Americans and one Israeli
• Jan. 16, 2004: Exposures end for Hubble Deep Field View, which shows 10,000 galaxies in one photo
• Jan. 16, 2008: Germany announces deployment of combat troops to Afghanistan
• Jan. 16, 2009: Israel agrees to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip
  Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Germany’s Angela Merkel meet to discuss Ukraine and gas supplies
• Jan. 16, 2010: President Barack Obama announces one of America’s largest-ever rebuilding projects after Haiti earthquake, one year into the Great Recession
• Jan. 16, 2013: After the Sandy Hook massacre, President Obama issues a series of executive orders on gun control
  Germany begins withdrawing its gold holdings from Paris and New York
• Jan. 16, 2015: U.S. Supreme Court announces it will hear arguments on same-sex “marriage”
• Jan. 16, 2016: Implementation of Iran nuclear deal begins; sanctions on Iran lifted
  China inaugurates Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
• Jan. 17, 2016: President Obama initiates a scandalous hostage deal with Iran
• Jan. 16, 2017: Obama administration conspires against President-elect Donald Trump days before leaving office
• Jan. 16, 2018: The fbi provides congressional committees with 384 pages of text messages between fbi lawyer Lisa Page and agent Peter Strzok
  House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes puts finishing touches on a memo exposing the RussiaGate hoax.  January 16: God’s Miracle Day

Perhaps the most absurd belief that the PCG holds regarding January 16 is that it is the date that God supposedly moved the throne of David from England to Edmond, Oklahoma, where Jesus is soon to return to (after stopping off in Wadsworth first). That stone was the rock that Flurry went to Oregon and dug up, claiming it was the very rock Herbert Armstrong knelt at as he was planning his apostasy from the Church of God 7. 

It just continues to get dumber by the minute...

Flurry hauled the rock back to Edmond and installed it outside in a meditation garden for the faithful to come to admire and sit and stare at in contemplation. Then, in one of the biggest brain farts the church has ever seen, Flurry decided that this rock was going to be the very rock Jesus was to return and be crowned King of Kings. 

The rock quickly made its way inside and was installed in a covered cabinet on a bed of royal purple velvet so that the faithful could once again gaze at it in ecstasy. Pretty soon, that case was not sufficient, and a chair was built to hold the stone, much like the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey, England. 

Dumb and Dumber kept on dreaming up things, so the chair soon was featured in numerous Celtic Dance productions that Flurry's grandkids and Herbert Armstrong College Students traveled the country dancing in front of. After all, Flurry had declared Celtic Dance, the very sacred dance of David, though the Flurry dancers have not started dancing naked, at least not yet. This is the Church of God, after all, and ANYTHING is possible.

New Throne of David

The final January 16 miracle I want to discuss in this booklet happened in God’s Church on that date in 2017.

I have written a book titled The New Throne of David explaining this momentous event. This was the day that God blessed His Church with possession of the very throne that Jesus Christ is about to assume when He returns to Earth!

“He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end” (Luke 1:32-33).

Christ is going to rule from “the throne of his father David.” God has preserved the rulership on that throne by a descendant of David—from the time of David up to the present day! This is an inspiring truth that you can prove from your Bible and from history. You can trace that line down to the present-day ruling family in Britain.

Throughout the generations, a “stone of destiny” has always been associated with that throne. Queen Elizabeth ii was the latest of many monarchs who were crowned beside it—a tradition that goes back to the time of kings in the Bible! (e.g. 2 Chronicles 23:11-13).

However, on January 16, 2017, God replaced that “stone of destiny” with a new stone—and moved the throne of David from Britain into His own Church!

Now God’s own people will have the honor of personally presenting Christ with that throne when He returns. It shows how close we are to that epochal event!

I realize this is a bold claim to make. I urge you to request a copy of The New Throne of David and prove this truth for yourself. There I explain it straight from many passages in the Bible.

One of these is the prophecy of Genesis 49, which is for “the last days” (verse 1). Verse 10 reads, “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor [should read, or] a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh [Jesus Christ] come ….” This prophecy is directly in the context of Christ’s Second Coming. The “scepter” is the symbol of kingly rule—the line of monarchs that will culminate in the reign of Christ as King of kings. And this verse speaks of that rule combining with the role of “a lawgiver”—someone who administers the royal law of God, a priestly function.

If you know the history of the throne of David, you know this has not been a function of the physical line of kings. In fact, especially in recent times, they have often fought against the law of God rather than living and ruling by it!

This prophecy specifically refers to a time when the throne and the royal law would be combined. This happened on January 16, 2017. The scepter must be ruled by the royal law now, and the royal law must be applied to the scepter promise—“until Shiloh come.”

When God gave the revelation about the new stone on January 16, 2017, the royal family of Britain was displaced as the royal family of David’s throne. That was a signal of terrible events to come upon Britain, as well as a sharp decline of America and Judah, the Jewish nation in the Middle East.

One astounding aspect of this truth regards the new “stone of destiny.” I will let Mr. Armstrong explain, from his autobiography, regarding the first public Bible lectures he conducted in his ministry back in 1933:

“Mr. Oberg was starting his new meetings in Harrisburg on Sunday night, July 9. The Fishers and I decided to start the meetings at the Firbutte school the same night. I arrived at the Fisher farm, leaving my wife and children at our home in Salem, about July 5 or 6.

“This was the small—actually infinitesimal—start of what was destined to grow to a major worldwide gospel Work reaching multiple millions of people every week.

“But if small, it started with a burst of energy and inspiration. First, it started with intensive and earnest private prayer. To the rear of the Fisher farm home was a fair-sized hill. Running over this hilltop for exercise I discovered a rock about 14 inches high. It was in a secluded spot. It came to mind how Jesus had dismissed the multitudes, and gone up into a mountain ‘apart’ to pray—alone with God. I dropped to my knees before this rock, which seemed just the right height to kneel before, and began praying earnestly for the success of the meetings. It became sort of a daily pilgrimage, during my stay at the Fishers’, to this, which became my ‘prayer rock.’ I’m sure that I drank in much energy, spiritual strength and inspiration at that prayer rock.”

In 2002, I took a tour of some of the sites of Mr. Armstrong’s early days in the Work, and I saw that “prayer rock.” We asked the owners of the property if we could have it, and that summer we transported it to our headquarters facility in Edmond, Oklahoma.

It wasn’t until over 14 years later that God revealed to me that Mr. Armstrong’s prayer rock had replaced the “stone of destiny.” Once again God is putting a dramatic spotlight on the man who prepared the way for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ!

And it happened right around January 16, the anniversary of his death.

God is continually reminding us that we are continuing the work of Elijah. We must follow Mr. Armstrong’s example. The understanding that God has given me about this stone underlines this point emphatically!

God caused all these things to happen miraculously. It was all prophesied, and God brought it about in a way that is truly mind-staggering!

So there you have it, the most sacred day of the year for Church of God members. Screw Passover, January 16 is it, man! Woo hoo! 

Now admit it, aren't you proud of the rich history of Armstrongism and its ever-so-godly trajectory?

 

GCI: Is It Continuing To Lose Members?

A highly appointed reader from NASA sent me the following information, which is from Craig White's Friends of the Sabbath Substack page.

The letter below makes it look like Grace Communion International (the new and improved Worldwide Church of God) is continuing to decline in membership. I don't know how accurate this is, considering they draw lots of ministers, elders, and members to their Regional Gatherings at various locations around the country.

Shocking Decline of Grace Communion International (GCI)

An eagle-eyed member who is rather excellent at analysis, sent me the following concerning GCI:

Hi Craig,

Your recent announcement on the passing of Stavernides prompted me to go and look on the GCI website, which led me to look at their congregational list. I was stunned to discover the following:

1. They list only 9 congregations in California, 4 of which are now just fellowship groups with less than 25 meeting.

2. The old HQ congregation no longer meets. The only Pasadena congregation they list is a relatively small group that apparently conducts services in a Philippine language. Long time congregations of the old WCG like San Francisco, Bakersfield, Modesto, Garden Grove, Redding - which were all listed still before COVID, are now gone.

Note: Glendora has a large group of members from the San Gabriel Valley. Hawthorne, Sun Valley, Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Santa Ana all have congregations. Sacramento, San Jose, and Santa Maria are listed CA congregations (the 9 mentioned above and size of these groups are unknown).

3. They no longer list congregations in Colorado, Arizona, Idaho or New Mexico, which used to host multiple, huge (400+ a piece)congregations.

4. Texas has only five congregations, the majority of which are just remnant small groups of less than 25. No full time congregation in Houston any longer.

5.  I’ve heard that Carn Catherwood is now a Catholic (not confirmed). Joe Jr isn’t on their board.

A few years ago someone posted statistics suggesting that less than 5000 still attended WCG/GCI services in the US. It would look like less than half of that now. It seems at this rate they will disappear as a viable organization within the next 5- 7 years. Pretty amazing to consider their demise in the light of once was.