I guess I should not be surprised that many COG leaders get their news off WorldNetDaily. It reinforces their paranoia about everything going wrong in the world around them. They need WND to support their endtime garbage scenarios.
One predominant writer on the site is a Messianic Jew and regularly writes about the Jewish Holy Days tying them into Christianity. This delights some COG leaders as it is proof that others also recognize that the Jewish holy days are required for Christians, but not all of them. One person, in particular, is rather pissed that Mark Blitz has published a new book, Everything you need to know about Passover. Blitz's new book makes mincemeat of Almost-arrested, doubly blessed, Amos, Joshua, witless witness, Bwana Bob Thiel, the great savior to Africa and 299 Caucasians, and the prophet is not happy!
The Great Bwana, the worlds greatest theologian, and authority on the Bible writes:
While I am glad that Mark Biltz believes Christians should keep the biblical Holy Days, he is not one I have much theological confidence in.
Neither does 99.99% of the Church of God in Bwana Bob. His theological mumbo-jumbo is an embarrassment to the true believers in the church. Never has a COG leader been so unqualified to be leading a COG than Bwana Bob. That is the reason he had to self-appoint himself as a COG leader as COG leaders were never going to and the membership certainly did not raise him up and support him.
Regular readers of this page likely remember him, as I often denounced his position on blood moons, the solar eclipse of 2017, the ‘super blue blood moon’ of 2018 and 2019, and other matters.
Mark Biltz has proven to be a false prophet.
Just as Bwana Bob has been proven to be a false prophet in the COG empire. The COG has never had such a pathetic slate of false prophets in its midst as it does in 2021.
The words greatest theological continues with this:
So, why bring anything up about Mark Biltz now?
Well, basically because of two reasons.
First, some falsely believe that if someone promotes the Sabbath or the biblical Holy Days, they are credible leaders. That is simply not the case. So-called Messianic Jews like Mark Biltz misunderstand much about church history, doctrine, and prophecy.
Well it that isn't the pot calling the kettle black! Whoah boy! Just because a false self-appointed COG leader like Bob claims to promote the Sabbath and holy days does not make him a credible COG leader. Since he is blatantly ignorant about New Covenant theology or anything about Jesus Christ, it stands to reason as to why Bwana Bob is so spiritually bankrupt and not credible.
The second, however, is that Mark Biltz is correct that Christians should keep the Passover and biblical Holy Days, though I do not believe him to be an actual expert on those subjects.
Bwana Bob is not an expert on the Bible either, and most certainly is NOT an expert or even qualified to discuss the New Covenant and its theology.
It sounds like the almost-arrested, doubly blessed, Amos, Joshua, witless witness, great savior to Africa and 299 Caucasians Profit-of-doom-and-boredom is finally going 'around-the-bend' - like that other Armstrong-anomaly who shall go unnamed, but whose initials are DCP.
ReplyDeletePoor Bob, he gave himself the onerous task of being the yardstick against which he must measure every understanding, interpretation, belief, teaching, doctrine, dogma, practice, thought...
ReplyDeleteWND has been pushing Judaizing for years. Joe Farah's wife regularly posts articles advocating sabbath keeping. Several years ago, they published a book that read like a bunch of articles that would have been published in the Plain Truth or Good News magazines. Heck, GTA had an article that was posted on WND a few years before he died. I kind of if the Farah's are Crypto-Jews, for even though evangelical Christians are very Pro-Jewish and Pro-Israel, they and their writers act as they belong to a synagogue, instead of a church.
ReplyDeleteThe Messianic Christian movement in the USA is about 350k strong, some 15 times bigger than all of the COGs combined. It has been growing, and has supplanted the Armstrong movement in regards to a Sabbath keeping, Holy Day Christian outreach, movement and spearhead.
ReplyDeleteSo you say Tonto.
DeleteWhat happens when Gnostics clash? I guess this is it. My understanding from a secondary source is that Pastor Biltz sees his understanding of prophecy reflected in the OT holy days. And this makes the holy days relevant for Christians.
ReplyDeleteSo the scenario seems to be this (based on a cursory view of a few webpages - I never heard of Biltz before a few minutes ago): Somebody has a personal view on prophecy. And this leads to establishing the OT holy days as relevant to Christians in some way. But this also means that the book of Galatians has to be thrown out. So in the last analysis, someone's personal view on prophecy trumps scripture.
Where have I heard something like this before? From the article on Gnosticism in Wikipedia:
"These various groups emphasized personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) over the orthodox teachings, traditions, and authority of the church."
This is also an apt description of all the apocalyptic Millerite fables of Splinterdom. This discussion should be tempered by a little history. Hippolytus of Rome, Sextus Julius Africanus and Irenaeus all predicted that Christ would return in the year 500 AD. And one of them figured this date out based on the dimensions of the Noah's Ark (from an internet source). That's real, creative, audacious Gnosticism. These modern guys could take a lesson.
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And yet again Bob Thiel comes off looking like a complete idiot. He has to be the worst COG leader ever!
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