Then, Flurry's alcoholic damaged mind went into overdrive and declared that his god had revealed to him that he was the rightful owner of the Stone of Scone which is now located in Scotland. He also made the declaration that he and his cult would soon be digging up Hill Tara in Ireland, where they would uncover the Ark of the Covenant that Jeremiah and his daughters buried while on a shopping trip there thousands of years ago.
In order to be closer to each of these two locations, the PCG sought to buy the old Bricket Wood campus. When they failed miserably to do so, the ended up buying Edstone where they started a British branch of its cult college. In order to finance that and to give Stephen Flurry a new home, they sold the Jerusalem office building and moved everything to Edstone.Now, as the end times are immanently dawning over the horizon, Flurry deems it necessary to establish another office in Jerusalem.
Now that Flurry's new personal jet and the concert series have been draining the coffers of the church, the PCG is looking to influence its god into providing them a most excellent building at the least price possible.
The god of Armstrongism is a magical god who will bow to the intense pressure of 3,000 people fasting and voila! the new building will appear and Flurry will be happy.
Imagine you are a PCG member and have to drive for 5 - 6 hours to attend church services while your empty stomach is gurgling.
Flurry Asks For Church Wide Fast:
March 3, 2020
I was told by my father-in-law who is in contact with someone still inside the PCG that Gerald Flurry asked for a Church wide fast and prayer for a land deal in Israel to succeed. Apparently Flurry wants to buy some property near to Jerusalem to give the PCG a permanent foothold in the Holy Land. More requests for money are forthcoming as well as the incessant Spring Holy day guilt trip to be put on the membership. I still cringe when I think of those 3 1/2 hour Passover Services with Cal Culpepper glaring at you behind the pulpit.
Also, now all of the Kentucky PCG members have to drive anywhere from 5 to 6 hours round trip to get to the nearest congregation which is north of Cincinnati. I can only imagine wasting your entire Saturday driving hours to listen to a Sermon played on CD. So much for resting on God’s Sabbath. –B.
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“PCG: Flurry declares a fast to influence its 'god' into giving them new facilities in Jerusalem.”
PCG: Flurry declares yet another fast to keep his suckers hungry and tired and brain dead.
Aren't they still making monthly payments on the legendary and magical "HWA Prayer Rock" ?? and now they want to add this Jerusalem thingy too??
the prayer rock was free. the plane, not. nor the "very productive" english estate.
A non COG church I used to go to - until I dropped organized religion - is having a fast day about the coronavirus problem - if you can't give up food - give up something else like video games!
But I am touched by them using their prayer and fasting time to pray for others rather than themselves.
Does Flurry do what old Rod Meredith was caught doing several times, calling a fast for "guidance" after he already signed a contract or spent the money, in the hope of deceiving his members into thinking God was behind the decision? For all we know, Flurry has already leased space in Jerusalem and is hoping to fire up his members into paying for what "God" decided.
Is it another Sabbath fast?
I remember all the WCG Sabbath fasts - and that conflicted with a GN article or correspondence course note that the Day of Atonement can't be held on the Sabbath because you can't have feast&fast on the same day. For some sects of Judaism, any annual fasts (like Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av) that may fall on Saturday are postponed to Sunday.
In the early days of the Catholic Church, there were mandated fasts on Saturday just to stick it to Sabbatarians.
I remember all the WCG Sabbath fasts - and that conflicted with a GN article or correspondence course note that the Day of Atonement can't be held on the Sabbath because you can't have feast&fast on the same day.
What are you talking about? Atonement falls on the weekly Sabbath several times in each 19-year cycle. You can look this up for yourself.
"mandated fasts on Saturday just to stick it to Sabbatarians"
Even all the more galling when you realize HWA didn't privately believe in sabbaths!
-see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dafCEgmZScw&t=3865s
HWA simply instituted strict sabbaths to keep his titheslaves in line!
Have a bake sale....
Anon 8:58
Who cares ? God believes in "Sabbaths".
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment. Herb 9:27
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. Phil 3:20
And if i go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. John 14:1
HWA didn't privately believe in sabbaths!
His style of unusual teachings and fringe doctrines wouldn't have fit with a Sunday-observing church. Even CG7 didn't accept a lot of his ideas...
What are you talking about?
Irony. Cognitive dissonance. Hypocrisy. Whatever.
Flurry will probably call a fast to get a case of leftover bottles of Harvey's Bristol Creme previously owned by HWA or maybe he has found some Widow named "Ramona"
The ACOGs are run like a police state. They don't have God's blessing. It only takes the prayer of one devout Christian to get an favorable answer from God. Group fasts are a confession that all is not well in a church.
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"March 3, 2020
I was told by my father-in-law who is in contact with someone still inside the PCG that Gerald Flurry asked for a Church wide fast and prayer for a land deal in Israel to succeed. Apparently Flurry wants to buy some property near to Jerusalem to give the PCG a permanent foothold in the Holy Land..."
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What good would any Flurry fast do for anybody, and is God even listening?
"Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high." Isaiah 58:4
Flurry fasts to GET for SELF. Besides if God willed to do something He'd just do it "get er done!"
Does Flurry really want property in that Jerusalem area? What is God's will. Perhaps Flurites ought to read "The ORACLE" by a Jonathan Cahn and learn how God willed the Jews to come out of exile and migrate to the land of Jerusalem, which was recently proclaimed to be the Capitol of "Israel."
Flurry's aren't welcome in the Jerusalem area, but time will tell...
John
Anonymous 11:27 nailed it. Prayers of one person can make a difference. Seems like the leaders of the COG's seem to call fasts like a Tsar calling out new edicts. Very telling behavior that calls them out as false.
The bigger issue that none of the ACOGs are seeing is the increasing effects the coronavirus will have on the global economy. The quarantine shutdowns of Chinese factories is already devastating the activities of US companies whose income is based upon their goods, starting right at the shipping activities at the ports of entry at Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.
Historically, Armstrongites have gloated over the protection they believe they have as tornadoes bypass their homes to destroy those of all of their neighbors, and their cars miraculously passing through devastating accidents unscathed. So, they don't pray about cures being found for life-threatening illnesses as these affect our nation and allies. They are selfishly concerned about protection for their own little groups and their own members. Let's see how this latest scourge affects them all. Most likely, Flurry will be gloating over his jet, which affords him disease-protection as compared to him traveling on commercial flights. Dave Pack is already pretty much quarantined in his own little complex. Bob Thiel could receive a bump in the income he receives from the sale of natural remedies. Will he be charitable about it all and ship some of them to his followers in Africa, pro bono? James Malm apparently is part of one of the primary risk groups for the virus, those with existing health issues.
There may be a lot of incoming news to process here over the coming months. Meanwhile, hopefully the scientists whom Armstrongism disdains are hard at work on vaccines and other remedies that will control this outbreak before the damages go out of control.
BB
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