Why is it that COG leaders have to be such total jerks?
Their minds dwell in a constant state of death and damnation. Utter destruction is constantly present in their graceless minds.
Just imagine you were a resident of Maui and lost family members or friends in this tragedy and then read what Weston wrote below.
What can we expect though when Weston and his band of merrymakers look at everyone outside their little enclosed group as so-called or even pagan Christians. Because they don't follow the teaching of Herbert they are blinded sods that will suffer fiery punishment either now or in the future when the angry god of Armstrongism unleashes hell on earth while Weston and his followers picnic in Petra.
Dear Brethren and Co-workers with Christ,
We are all saddened by the fiery devastation that hit the Hawaiian island of Maui. Thousands lost virtually every possession they once had, and the death toll continues to rise. As I write, 99 are confirmed dead, but only 25 percent of the homes and businesses have been searched, so the death toll will almost certainly rise.
We can only imagine the terror of those fleeing the rapidly moving flames. One lady described telling her children to “run and don’t look back.” She then told them not to worry about her. “Just run for your lives.” I could not help but to think of Lot and his family as they were told to flee from Sodom and not to look back.
Nor could I help but to think of a time in the future when the Church of God will flee from Satan’s persecution. “Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time [three-and-one-half years], from the presence of the serpent” (Revelation 12:13-14).
He then continues on with this drivel by saying that LCG members and lazy Laodiceans in other COG's will not make it to Petra where he and the truly righteous will receive their final training to be future gods.
While some will flee to a wilderness hideout, we see that other true Christians will hesitate. “And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 12:17). These are those described in chapter 3 as being neither cold nor hot. “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see” (Revelation 3:16-18).
Sadly, many will be caught off guard and will be too spiritually blind to see the danger. As with Lot’s wife, they will look back, not wanting to leave what they have. Jesus speaks of this coming time. “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. ‘In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back’” (Luke 17:28-31).
Weston then brings us back to the Maui fire and talks about Lot's wife, again:
He then gives us this warning. “Remember Lot’s wife [who turned back]. Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it” (Luke 17:32-33). There will be no secret rapture at the time of Christ’s return. There is a time of fleeing—a time to “get out of town” and leave everything behind, just as the people of Lahaina had to do. We do not yet know when that time is.
What happened in Maui was not the time, prophesied in Scripture, of God’s servants fleeing from an enraged Satan, but it holds a lesson for all of us. As in so many disasters, such as 9/11, the difference between immediate action and hesitation may mean the difference between life and death. Tragically, in the case of Lahaina and elsewhere in Maui, the clear path to safety was not always obvious and many innocent lives were lost in the confusion.
Weston cautions to not believe that the Maui residents were worse sinners than the rest of humanity, though secretly LCG members are many steps above those grievous sinners.
There is another lesson we may learn from this tragedy. We read that, “There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices” (Luke 13:1). Jesus asked this important question: “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish” (vv. 2-5).
Weston brings up other human tragedies. Tragedies that he and the LCG used to their own benefit as examples of God spanking the world for failing to see that the Living Church of God is the one true church with the one true doctrine that impotent god had lost for 1,900 years.
Human tragedies occur every day, but occasionally one is so great that it captures widespread and historical attention. Such is the case of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that took an estimated 3000 lives, or the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which claimed some 300. We likely remember the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the 2011 tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power plant along with thousands of lives. The Maui firestorms will no doubt be etched into our memories.
Weston ends with this:
We look forward to and pray for God’s Kingdom to come. In the meantime, our hearts and prayers go out to the people traumatized by the Maui firestorms.
Sincerely, in Christ’s service,
Gerald E. Weston
You can read the rest of his letter here: August 15, 2023 Co-worker letter
25 comments:
Weston has always disgusted me, He stands there with his smug effeminate smirk on his face half time looking at us as unwashed cretins. Just look at his official portrait sometime.
I can’t help but think that the ‘women’ with the crown of 12 stars which gave birth to the child was Israel.
Not the church.
This is the Armstrong way, isn't it? Exploit whatever you can to make it appear as if it's all centered around the church and its agenda. Use an earthquake or a devastating fire or hurricane to sell and resell the church and its agenda to the members.
Do you think people dont know that your stalking commentators online, searching through their Google history and other matters ????? Sad and pathetic.
In the Kingdom of God it will be not so.
Right? The church doesnt birth Christ!
Gerald Weston was a pastor in our region when I was a teen. He was a smug shithead then. I see he's not improved with age.
That is the business model, yes. Yank the headlines and reframe them with a Big Frowny Dour Face into a stick to beat the members with in the guise of suggesting the groyp is better than everyone else.
I've mentioned this before at some point, but I remember that immediate after the Challenger explosion happened, our local pastor pitched it as "God telling man he does not belong up there", despite that space missions had been going for decades.
Here we are almost forty years later with space stations and soyuz zipping about.
Anon 3:49
Pathetic is staying in an abusive cult where a minister is the arbiter of your life’s decisions. You shouldn’t even be here . You have the same 5 songs to sing from the hymnal and rinse/repeat messages to listen to. Don’t let this site distract you from “the work”.
That “work” being maintaining the status quo and keeping those homes and offices in Charolette.
How is that even possible any more, 3:49? Most people use "anonymous" or one or more screen names. When folks were more trusting, and had shared personal details in addition to their real names, it was easy to do a "My Life" search, and it was often surprising what one could learn. Or, if one had access to verification services used by employers. Its not like you can discover much about a poster through the profile associated with his screen name.
I believe you are complaining belatedly about something that was possible and occasionally done by some 5-10 years ago. There's only a handful of people here who use their real names.
Gerald Weston never spouts off this smug take when disasters happen in a red state. It’s usually aw shucks poor people or some such. Hard to unsee that pattern. Quite a history of that. Mr. Newsmax has his politics confused for morality.
Hey Mr. Weston, doesn't Lot & his new LCG family continue to look back at NFL football hulks crashing and smashing their gladiator behemoth selves into each other, inflicting Godly Christ-like concussions onto each other?🏈 🏟️ 📺
Rumor is that God offered them prime real estate values, but they refused to make way for the coming salt flat recreational area God had in the works... then came the frikkin laser beams...
Weston, I am a loss for words. He uses 9/11 s an example?? 9/11 wasn't a natural disaster. That had to do with geopolitics and terrorism. And nobody could prepare for that if you were in that location. He like other Cog ministers display their self righteous indignation when disasters happen, not really caring about the context.
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Aren't you able to use an apostrophe and spell : (you're) correctly? it looked afoul whenst you spell't it as : (your)
That error made it seem you were referring to the commentators being owned or possessed or under control by the one you replied to
You get a free one-way return ticket back to Imperial Schools A.C. Pasadena grammar and punctuation class
Otherwise, your poor spelling looks too much like the new rappers and homies' freestyle spelling lingo or when their Mom spells the baby's name kind of wacky
Hey 2:26, you get to be guest speaker on 2nd day F.O.T. soon, before we endure Mr. Weston's lullaby he lulls us to sleep with
We need your enthusiastic sermonette, it may even be posted up on Youtube to garner some monetized views
Oh, take a chill pill Mr. Grumpy Pants! Many devices auto-spell things when you type and if you don't double-check mistakes happen. That's right, mistakes happen. Get a life, Oh delicate one!
Nope...sorry, you're going straight back to Imperial Grammar 🎓school, lest you start rappin' to us about "aks me a question" or "I'm funna do this & I'm funna do dat"
dat's wight, wabbit, ha-hahaaaahahaaaa-aahtttt you wascally wabbit
9/11 came as a total shock to Armstrongite preachers. For decades they had told us to watch out for the Germans, and nobody, not one of them, even thought of let alone warned about the Arabs.
But, I guess their bungle has cooled down so that they can now mention 9/11.
Anon 12:25 PM PDT
And not only 9/11.
It was sad watching our regional director at the time (RaymondMcNair)of the first gulf war, looking for explanations and prophecies in the Bible to explain what was unfolding. They were lost finding or trying to find explanations where they didn’t exist.
It was at that time that many started to smell a ‘rat’ and that all was not what it seemed in the wwcog. And that ministerial biblical understanding was exceedingly shallow at its best.
Maybe McNair & the fellas were trying then to tap in to the charisma of Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye etc. Now G. Flurry & D. Pack try it every time a news clip blips.
Yea, the Worldwide Church of God wasn't thinking about the "king of the south", especially when considering 1975. It's just Germany, Germany Germany!!
It takes many different pieces of the puzzle going on at once, and they only look at a few.
They are not also considering illegal immigration that looks to destroy the very identity of America. The US may not even get to Germany, Germany Germany.
Again, Mr. Weston, 9/11 is not a natural disaster. You can't prepare for that.
The identity of the USA was already destroyed by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, 12:07! Prior to that act, Western Europeans, considered to be people of like culture to the USA, were given preference in the annual quotas, while a strict lid was imposed on Asians, East Indians, Africans, Arabs, etc. As these changes really started to have a major effect on the makeup of the general population in the 1970s, I was happy, because this trend countered HWA's theories about our national identity. Prior to that, it was almost plausible that we could be Manasseh. I say almost, because there were huge numbers of Germans in addition to those of English ancestry, a fact that HWA either ignored or rejected. Reality was that if HWA's theories were true we were actually Manasseh-Assyria. Today, we're largely Samaritanized.
I've found that there is great xenophobia in the ACOGs of today. They love their prophecy model of a pure Manasseh! The mostly white members are scared of a current so-called loss of culture (actually there was continued blending of cultures throughout our history), when the barn doors had actually swung wide open way back in 1965, when the act was passed by Congress, and signed by the President. They are worried about something that actually took place decades ago. And of course, sometime during the late 1980's white women began to say yes to men from a wide variety of non-European backgrounds, so there is now a huge multi-racial population, which also frosts the gills of ACOG members. To turn the hands of the clock back and supposedly reclaim national culture, would require massive ethnic cleansing. And, there is a politician and political movement supporting him whose goals include doing exactly that.
This is yet another example of how Armstrongism was time and date stamped, and actually expired in 1975 when we all expected the end anyway. We just got a little bit different of an end than we thought.
Yea 3:53 “ We just got a little bit different of an end than we thought.”
Yea, His ways are higher and more precise than our ways or thoughts. Like you mentioned it’s astounding of the amount of German ancestry in America and in Britain from previous centuries is astounding as much as they talk about the identity of Assyria. Like you said, Armstrongism ignored it or rejected that historical fact (which really like rejecting truth). One of the biggest mistakes that they continue to make as was stated before in another post:
“The chief theological mistake HWA made was to filter the New Covenant through the Old, rather than the Old through the New. The New is the modifier, but he used the Old as his modifier.”
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