Poor Dave. One of the problems of continually running off at the mouth is that it is now recorded for history. Besides making stupid statements about Satan, he also made a false statements about the stock market.
In all honesty, brethren…And I’m going to get into this more. This will not be this week, it will be next week. When the devil is cast down later, because he is going to first be removed just before Christ’s rule from Zion…I will show you all the proofs of that. I just can’t get to it, but I will and it’s next week…But when he is cast down, it says he’s angry because he knows he has but a short time. The word “short time” there actually means “puny occasion.” He is cast back to the earth and before he is thrown into the bottomless pit for a thousand years, he has this period called a “puny occasion.” Now that’s interesting. You can look up the Greek. He is very angry, partly, because he has been gone, and partly, because now that he’s back, he has a very short time……
The world is collapsing almost too fast. If you look at the stock market, it was the worst week in American history—and that was true about Wednesday morning. Yesterday, the Dow was down over 500 points at a certain point. Just in American wealth, there is 2 trillion dollars…Two trillion dollars of wealth has been lost in the United States, since the beginning of this calendar year. Then, of course, there is terrorism. There are all kinds of problems in politics. The world is collapsing in extraordinary ways, and we should be able to “behold” that. It’s everywhere……Ever since Donald Trump has been elected as President the markets have been at an all time high. It is not the worst in history, it is the best. The world is NOT collapsing and THAT makes Dave and Meredith and all the other liars really mad. How can God not be on their side? How can their god keep feeding them such erroneous information? Why is the tribulation NOT here yet?
Even when Dave is excusing himself and postponing something for the following week, he can't help himself and launches into a lengthy discussion anyway! Every Armstrong-trained minister has some stupid rough edge about him! With Rod Meredith, you just waited on the edge of your chair impatiently, knowing that he'd somehow manage to introduce the evils of masturbation into the topic at hand (observe the dexterous choice of verbiage for the occasion!). With Pack, it is the sheer surfeit of words always used to hammer the most pedestrian of points deeply into the ground. Heh! Wait until next week, indeed!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, for years I've called these "mistakes" with prophecy "flame-fanning". It's like, "Ooohh, brethren, here we finally go! Mr. Armstrong's prophecies are kicking in!" And then, a new trend comes in as the wind suddenly blows in another direction, and someone should actually be embarrassed, but they long ago lost the capacity for that.
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The stock market losing 2 trillion dollars or whatever, is misleading. It's not the equivalent of losing of 2 trillion dollars of stored goods and services. Stock market wealth is on paper only. Every share would have to be sold at it's present value in order to avoid loss. Which is not how the market has ever worked. Mass selling would naturally push the price down.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, the stock market is a giant ponzi scheme.
Way to make money in the market... find out what the COGs are predicting and invest EXACTLY the opposite!
ReplyDeleteMan, do I like Dave's favorite translation for a brief period of time: "a puny occasion." I'm going to start using it at once.
ReplyDeleteWIFE: Will you be home before dark?
RP: Should be long before that. I plan to be gone for just a puny occasion."
TV AD: "Hurry in! Get your new Brandex Widget today! Available for only a puny occasion. When they're gone, they're gone!"
I can't tell whether Dave is actually tone deaf or whether he's having fun with his congregation. Maybe he's just acting like an equine anus.
What a great idea!
ReplyDelete™"puny occasion"©
...I think it might have sumpthin to do with penis envy too!
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Satan cast down? But, but, but...
ReplyDeleteDavid Pack is still here!