It is Feast of Tabernacles time in COGland right now and people are heading out in all directions to celebrate the best Feast ever! In COG speak, this is a foretaste of a millennial kingdom where everyone will dwell together in peace and harmony. But, this is the Church of God after all, and in 2021 the church does not dwell together in peace and harmony.
The church today is splint into so many irrelevant factions that they make the splits of Protestantism look halfway sane. Those fine folk at Church of God Network are trying to make the Feast a unified event. In the minds of some COG members this is perfectly fine to them. They will most likely be in a Feast location area that has several groups meeting in various sites. These people happily jump from group to group as they meet up with old friends and pick the speakers they want to listen to.
There are many COG leaders who despise the Feast hopping that goes on and they forbid their members from doing this. Those that are meeting in the same resort and might even be in neighboring rooms are told to not speak to or associate with those poor deceived Laodiceans.
Dwelling together as one happy family and being unified in spirit in the Church of God is a pipe dream that will never happen when men like Bob Thiel, Dave Pack, and Gerald Flurry are wrecking havoc as they bastardize the word of God to fit their deluded endeavors.
The only time the Church of God will ever be viral is if another tragedy happens and then it will fade into the nothingness it currently dwells when a different news story takes up the screen. In its present alliteration it will NEVER be viral.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!- Psalm 133:1
ReplyDeleteHow good and how pleasant for brethern to dwell / Together in unity, so David did tell...
Unity is a favorite commie theme. It's over rated. People can live happy lives with a limited number of relationships, In terms of the hierarchy of values, it's not high up at all.
ReplyDeleteI'm not unified with this evil society, and with most people around me, and I'm doing fine thank you.
Viral? That could mean something else entirely this year...
ReplyDeleteIt's already being going on for years N02HWA. From the angle of your attitude towards this you expose your generation.
ReplyDeleteCan't stop them. Ha!
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha I’ve known about if for decades. You are so funny!!!!
ReplyDeleteIronically, the WCG has always declaimed the evils of liberalism and and touted conservatism. I don't think they understood that one day the residual splinters of the WCG would be engaged in a competitive market place - a hallmark of conservative economics. These little apocalyptic Millerite denominations now find themselves under the duress of supply and demand.
ReplyDeleteMembers selecting FoT locations and speakers - the good driving out the bad.
My guess is that capitalism and the competitive market don't look so shining from the Armstrongist pulpit any more. Maybe it's time for some good old fashioned, top-down absolutist repression.
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The majority of people I know suffering from covid right now are fully vaccinated. The vaccine doesn't seem to be making it any easier on them either.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the COG's stances are on vaccinations for COVID and the wearing of masks. I hope most of them are immunized and will wear masks at the FOT.
ReplyDeleteEven in non-pandemic years, the FOT is notorious for God's lack of protection of people from the seasonal flu which usually gets passed around widely, and then even more so at the Winter Weekend activities in December.
Expect at least one prominent ministerial death from COVID by the end of 2021.
Don't knock those who deny Covid, shun the vaccinations and masks, and refuse to take precautions. I applaud them for their efforts in cleansing the gene pool!
ReplyDeleteAnon 3:39 PM = A nazi emerging from the midst.
DeleteWhy would you think that, 11:30? Where in my comment did I advocate for the new Texas abortion law, praise the new voting laws which were supposedly designed to curtail non-existent widespread voter fraud, or call the January 6 insurrectionists patriots? I didn't even praise Steve Bannon, the father of the new Naziism.
ReplyDeleteIn the era of polio and small pox, a vaccinated public was universally thought to be the key to our continued freedoms.
That “”something tragic” may be just around the corner!! Now is NOT the time to be rearranging deck chairs!! “Now consider this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be ROUSED OUT OF SLEEP; because our salvation is NEARER NOW than we first believed”. (Romans13:11)
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