Self-appointed COG leaders, prophets, and apostles say some of the stupidest things:
God will go to extreme lengths to help us understand and focus on new Jerusalem. We are in the last hour, and I believe one of the most profound and spectacular ways God is getting us to focus on new Jerusalem is by building and properly using His house. Armstrong Auditorium is a $20 million facility we have built at our headquarters campus. We made it the highest quality we possibly could, because it points us to the new Jerusalem that we will inhabit in the future! The same God who shall govern new Jerusalem rules this house today—His eternal message flows from that building! We need to think deeply about this; God’s house and new Jerusalem are connected in a very special way. The new Jerusalem vision reverberates within the walls of this most royal house.
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"The new Jerusalem vision reverberates within the walls of this most royal house"??
Seriously, Gerry, who the hell are you kidding! Your "royal" house is a sewer. At best, you could call it a royal flush, you evil bastard!
Forget building a $20 Million dollar "white elephant" to picture the "New Jerusalem".
Simply admire any of the national parks in their raw beauty , or take a look at the recent James Webb telescope pictures.
All of which makes Flurry's monument to himself seem very very small and insignificant indeed.
"God...rules this house today."
And just how is God doing that? Why by speaking through Pope Flurry and the little pope ministers under him of course.
If Gerald Flurry spent half the time emulating Jesus that he does idolizing HWA, he might actually have a good church!
Gerald Flurry, Dave Pack, and their idol Herbert W Armstrong all exemplify the delusion jokingly referred to as an "edifice complex." They commission grandiose monuments to themselves--monuments that will eventually crumble, leaving nothing in their wake but desolation.
Flurry saw himself in Malachi 4:3: "And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts." That verse does apply to him, but he has reversed the roles. He is among the wicked that will be trod down. To get a realistic picture he would have been wise to pay attention to Ecclesiastes 2:11. There the "I" of the text, after describing his lifetime of amassing great wealth, including silver and gold, manservants and maidens, housed in monumental buildings surrounded by elegantly landscaped grounds, finally concludes, "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun."
It calls to mind a famous poem about the the crumbled remains of a monumental statue in a desolate landscape. Here it is:
Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
The only part about Jerusalem this dogmatic nut job’s monument to himself points to is the Jerusalem Syndrome
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