Did you know that time is short? Again...
The church is facing difficult times ahead, again...
Did you know that there is a vital gospel message that the church needs to get out to the world asap? Again...
Germany is rising up with a new Chancellor...again...
Inflation is hitting...again...
Natural disasters, civil unrest, and untold crisis are looming on the horizon...again
The church must be AGGRESSIVE in getting out its message...again...
Sadly, this record has been skipping in the same place for decades and none of the COG's is making an impact in the world. None of them.
Greetings from Charlotte,
As mentioned in my video update for this week, Mr. Peter Nathan was in town to touch base on several matters, and he gave us a most interesting presentation on the significant growth in the Work in Africa, especially in the French language. Messrs. Stuart Wachowicz, Michael Heykoop, and Gary Molnar made a quick trip to visit us from Canada to discuss a number of initiatives for preaching the Gospel to the world. We have tentatively scheduled 33 Tomorrow’s World Presentations (not including follow-ups) for the first three months of 2022 and will plan many more over the course of the year. In meetings this past week, I emphasized the need to be aggressive in scheduling TWPs, in Facebook advertising, and in all our efforts to reach the world. We do not know how much time we have, but it is evident that difficult times are ahead. There is a new chancellor in Germany, a massive Russian military buildup on the Ukrainian border, inflation, and an uncertain supply chain. This is to say nothing about natural disasters, civil unrest over vaccine mandates, and a host of other crises looming on the horizon. The year 2022 is going to be an interesting year!—Gerald Weston
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2023 is going to be an interesting year, 2024 is going to be an interesting year, 202…is going to be an interesting year. There will be floods, there will be droughts, there will be earthquakes, there will be hurricanes Same message decades after decades.
Jim
All of the splinter groups of Meredithism (including Bob Thiel) are abject failures. Same worn out old message.
Meredith gave near worthless sermons, and had a reputation for mental cruelty. Yet many chose to join his denomination. What does that say about his membership?
We're probably relatively safe until January 2025 when Donald Trump is sworn in for his second term as president, angry, bitter, and dedicated to destroying the constitutional processes which resulted in his defeat to Joe Biden. It'll mean the destruction of democracy as we know it, massive retaliation against anyone who opposes him, and the beginning of the USA's new existence as a hermit kingdom, alienated from our traditional allies and the rest of the world. His supporters are already shoring up the centers of power, and the general public will never know what hit them as the USA quickly becomes very much like the Third Reich.
You remind me of a scripture...
To quote Yogi Berra, It's like déjà vu all over again.
There are 365 fear not/don't worry verses in the Bible - but Armstrongism is based on fear.
Weston is stirring the fear to keep his people enslaved to the LCG for protection, in their fantasy place of safety.
Fear is the opposite of faith in Jesus - fear is faith in Satan.
Weston and the LCG refuse to preach about the works and grace of Jesus that allow us to be accounted righteous before God.
Instead, LCG demands works of the Old Covenant law to earn salvation and fear that the people are not doing enough or are making too many mistakes.
Romans 3:22
Righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
Weston writes:
"...Stuart Wachowicz, Michael Heykoop, and Gary Molnar made a quick trip to visit us from Canada to discuss a number of initiatives for preaching the Gospel to the world..."
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Which gospel to the world? “Another gospel,” among many gospels! Which one?
2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him].
Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Galatians 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
For example, how are the likes of the Living group, the United Ass., and many xcogs preaching another Jesus?
They do not preach a Jesus Christ that was 100% human, just like Abram, just like us: a human being. They preach another Jesus, and the gospel associated with that Jesus is another gospel, so why is Weston worried about time to do something? Try the spirits!
To preach another Jesus is to preach one of the antichrists, and there are many of those:
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
These hirelings make Jesus Christ to be a freak, or as some have written: a creature.
Here is an example from Victor Kubik, with his Sep/Oct Beyond Today article titled: "Gain From God's Perspective, page 27, where Victor tells us about a Jesus that was more than 100% flesh: "...God came to the earth as a man, as Jesus Christ..."
Is this "another Jesus" 100% God and 100% man? 50% God and 50% man?
Victor, like Weston, preach the spirit of antichrist when they preach a Jesus that did not come in the flesh, 100% flesh, just like Abraham, like us:
Victor, like Weston, like Winnail, based on this alone expose themselves as being similar to the ancient prophets of Baal, driven by another spirit other than God's. They expose themselves as deceivers:
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Of course, time will tell…
To be continued…
John
Continuing…
Of course, these former WCG hirelings, who left their ministerial credentials behind in Pasadena, do not want a Jesus as 100% human. Why not? Because they all know their righteousness, their character, their good works don't cut it, their righteousness does not exceed that of the Pharisees of Jesus' day. So, they want to give their "another Jesus" an advantage, so that they can cop out and tell us they/we have an excuse for not 100% following Jesus, not having the mind that was in Jesus, not being 100% like Jesus Christ, and yet they put a burden upon their followers telling them to be like Jesus, when they fail at what they profess others to do...and they deep-down know it!
And Weston wrote what? "...We do not know how much time we have, but it is evident that difficult times are ahead..."
Well, these hirelings departed WCG and set up their organizations of men following men to, among other things, provide them with a continuing stream of $mammon$, but they don't preach the truth. And where was the proof that God set them 100s of organizations up? There apparently appears to be none.
Then, we may add their Mickey Mouse Millennium of their "another Jesus" soon to arrive to reign on earth for 1,000 years, and then fail (Recall Zechariah 14) after Satan is loosed from the bottomless pit! Duh!
Is it possible that these potential prophets of Baal, preaching another Jesus, deny both Jesus and the Father (the real God of the Old Testament; that is not Jesus or "another Jesus)?
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you:
Yes, there were false prophets, but are there still false prophets among the people?
But time will tell...
John
"We do not know how much time we have"
This seems to be the part that nobody listens to as a simple confession. Yet this is the nucleus of what this Splinterist preacher wrote - everything else he states is modified by this condition. For the indoctrinated members of this apocalyptic Millerite denomination, the surrounding context of apocalypticism trumps and alters this embedded statement. So they read the statement as "We do not know how much time we have but it is not much." The mental insertion of this implicit clause is a dissonance reducer. It makes this bald confession of uncertainty about end time chronology nicely comport with the contextual declarative statments about current news and at the same time denies the meaning of this statement.
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COG folk always get "Short Changed"
"And now the end is near"
Personally, I like the Garner Ted Armstrong rendition of "My Way" better than Frank Sinatra's. There are times when I have felt bad for GTA and how it all ended with him and the estrangement from his father Herbert. He was so talented and gifted. His brother Richard Armstrong's death sealed his fate in the family "fear religion" business. The irony is he was held captive in the business yet ultimately did not inherit the family business. Richard Armstrong's death in the automobile accident changed the course of history for the Worldwide Church of God.
I remember GTA ending a sermon at Mt. Pocono, Pa. FOT (near the anticipated 1972/1975 in Prophecy), "I will never again say that Christ couldn't come tonight". And for me, the end has been near ever since then for my entire lifetime.
Richard
I'm disappointed in the milk-toast Weston because he has watered down the fearmongering HWA seethed regarding the soon coming German hoards that would take over the US and enslave the people.
The neutered Weston could only muster a vague, implied warning, stated as: "There is a new chancellor in Germany".
Sure, die-hard COGlodytes will respond with their Pavlovian drooling, while they imagine escaping the destruction the Germans will wield, and all those lazy Laodiceans suffering.
However, only an HWA-style, spit-frothing, jowl-wagging, truth-first-delivered, warning of "the Germans are coming, the Germans are coming!" will make me whip out the checkbook to send in the money to headquarters.
I dont think that scripture was written to excuse deliberate exaggeration, hyperbole, and outright lies, Anon 4:20.
Jesus Christ will not come in 2021 or 2022 – Gerald Weston, 12-3-2020 weekly address. Well then he's got at least a year or so left??
HWA preached terror religion, which is destructive. It robbed people of joy and prompted many to make foolish major decisions. However there is the narrow gate of a healthy respect for prophesy. I believe Weston is trying to go down this latter path.
The holy spirit has informed me that I will live to see the tribulation, and I am old. So speculation that the second coming is 50 or hundreds of years in the future is mistaken.
I tend to question what you said in your last two sentences, 1:50, because He hasn't said anything to me about it. Also, you should always capitalize His name out of reverence and respect.
8.25 PM
God deals individually with each Christian, so our experiences will differ. I do not believe that the holy spirit is God Himself, but rather a tool that He uses. Hence no capitals.
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