The Church of God's decades-long drought of prophetic accuracy has never stopped its poorly trained theologians from weighing in on other people's predictions.
In the latest issue of PCG's The Trumpet, they have an article up on the craziness of "blood moons" myths occupying the minds of prophecy addicts both in and outside of Armstrongism. It is written by Dennis Leap who is not known for being theologically grounded in his understanding.
In Leap's article, he mocks John Hagee and Marck Blitz on their blood moon obsession. Leap has this to say:
Although the two men leave themselves an out—using the words could and possibly—when reading their books and surfing their websites, it is clear that both are convinced they are on to something big prophetically.
Well, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black! Just look at today's crop of lying COG false prophets, particularly the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel. Those two words and "maybe" are spoken more than the name Jesus ever is. It is almost like all COG false prophets went to the same school to learn how to say, "could be, maybe, and possibly" every time they open their theologically bankrupt mouths.
While one might applaud their interest in Bible prophecy, can you prove the truth about what they are saying and publishing?
When have Gerald Flurry, Bob Thiel, Dave Pack and Ron Weinland EVER spoken the truth in a sermon or published in an article? Don't condemn the world when your own households are pig-slop troughs of misinformation!
History is chock full of people’s prognostications that proved to be profitless.
History has proven Armstrongism to be prophetless and at the same time profitable for raking in the money as they scare people to death.
Toward the end of his article, he has this:
It is a historical fact that God has always worked through a human being to tell people what He was going to do on Earth. God is faithful to reveal His secrets to those people truly serving Him (Amos 3:7). He then requires those people to share that message with anyone willing to listen (verse 8).
How can it be Gerald DLurry when we are supposed to believe that the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel is the chosen one?
Judging by the Old and New Testaments, it would be strange if God didn’t have someone delivering His prophetic message today (Acts 3:24). It would also be strange not to have multitude of false prophets around.
The Church of God currently has almost 88 years filled with a multitude of lying false prophets.
The major sects of organized Christianity cannot help you understand prophecy. Most of today’s so-called Christian leaders reject Bible history and prophecy as an exercise in futility. Few even believe in the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age. That is the main reason you will not hear sermons on prophecy in the great cathedrals and churches of the Western world.
The major sects of Armstrongism cannot help you understand prophecy. They have lied to us and continue to lie to us with their own futile interpretations. There is not a single sermon preached or an article written in any of the COG's on prophecy that anyone can take with a grain of salt. It is impossible to do so.
Those scattered voices that do focus on prophecy do not agree on what specific prophecies mean. And as we can see, they rely on their own reasoning rather than on Jesus Christ and the Bible to interpret God’s prophecies.
With well over 400 splinter groups of Armstrongism out there you will find over 400 different interpretations of prophecy.
Yet, just as He always has, Christ is delivering God’s prophetic message through His true Church today—the Church He founded and promised would never die (Matthew 16:18). He challenges you to find out whom He is using—who is interpreting the prophecies of the Bible using the Bible.
Truth never died or was lost 1800 years ago and then was suddenly found in an Oregon library.
“Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation,” warned Peter (verse 20). Be careful what you read prophetically. Believe God and His Word, rather than giving heed to some man who thinks he knows. Then you will be able to follow Jesus Christ’s admonition with absolute confidence, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28)
Be careful what you read from any Church of God self-appointed false prophet when it comes to so-called prophetic understanding. There is no need for prophets anymore in the church. That era closed down centuries ago on Calvary.
While he's never admitted it publically, Hagee's writings strongly suggest he was once a listener of GTA. He occasionally quotes an unnamed "prophet" who uses terms unique to the Armstrongs.
ReplyDeleteOne reason why the ACOG's get prophecy wrong is they take prophecies from the Old Testament that were only meant for people living under the Old Covenant. If one reads the Old Testament prophecies in their historical content, it become obvious that most of these prophecies ,were addressed to situations and events that were to happen during those times. Many of them mention nations and people, like Moab, Edom, and Ammon that don't exist anymore, so, it's silly to claim these prophecies are going to be fullfiled in our time.
ReplyDeleteNow, many Old Testament prophecies were fullfiled during the 1st century AD. The majority were about Christ's birth, life, death, and resurrection. Most of those prophecies were not understood by those under the Old Covenant, for they were blinded. See II Cor. 3:6-18 for the reason why. Until the Lord's and his Apostles started to preach about Jesus, the veil remained over their minds. But once they turned to the Lord, the veil was lifted, and they believed and understood. Sadly , the ACOG's want to put the veil back on, and they cheat themselves out of the blessings of the New and everlasting Covenant which is dead and gone. Heb. 8:13
Should read after new and everlasting Covenant, for the Old, which is dead and gone.
ReplyDeleteGerald Flurry uses ‘might, maybe , could be’ all the time!!! He just hopes it comes to pass and then while trying to appear humble, he braggingly says, “Remember, I was the one who told you!” If it doesn’t come true, he quickly tries to excite the members with some other new thing.
ReplyDeleteA lot of ‘new revelation’ is actually straight from other people giving him the idea and then he looks into it further and pretends it’s from him and God revealed it.
We must remember, apparently nobody can understand the word of God, only that prophet and king of America and the world, occupying the throne of David which he plans to hand over to Jesus Christ. Blasphemy!
He also tells people it’s dangerous to read commentaries , while all the while he studies them and gets his ideas from them that he then coins ‘new revelation’. He takes whatever he reads and applies it to himself - if it’s the good guy of course.
The article by Dennis Leap is really directed at themselves. They accuse others of following a man , while they themselves do. Just apply the article to your selves, PCG people.
Heh! The toxic twins of Flurryism, Dennis Leap and Cal Culpepper. I would not want to be either of those gentlemen if there ever is any sort of fair judgment day! The English have a crime (from all the BBC detective series) called "Perverting the Course of Justice". Flurry and his toxic twins are perverting the course of Christian justice. It's offensive to the basic sense of fairness with which all humans are born!
ReplyDeleteWell, it IS Leap's year... (giggle)
ReplyDelete"Well, it IS Leap's year... (giggle)"
ReplyDeleteWell, he can Leap all he wants as long as he is not parading around in his tight bicycle shorts. It's creepy when he does that. I don't need to know if he a gentile or a lawkeeper.
He's a genital! One of the worst ever in PCG!!!
ReplyDeleteA BRIEF HISTORY OF PROPHETIC DATE GUESSES
ReplyDeleteHWA originally thought that World War II was the end of the world. It was not the end.
In the August 1952 edition of The Plain Truth, HWA claimed that Adolf Hitler had actually escaped to stage a comeback, rather than having committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin, Germany on April 30, 1945. Nothing came of any of this.
Much later, HWA explained in volume 2 of his Autobiography that, “We could not know, then, whether World War II, already under way in Europe, would continue on into Armageddon and the END of the world” (copyright 1987, page 10).
Next, HWA came up with 19-year time cycles leading up to 1972. The WCG was going to flee to a place of safety, which was expected to be Petra, Jordan, on January 7, 1972. Jesus was expected to return 3.5 years later in 1975. None of this happened. HWA's booklet called 1975 In Prophecy was discontinued.
HWA then explained in a January 12, 1972 letter to WCG church members that his 19-year time cycles had actually been fulfilled by the WCG getting to put advertisements in the United States edition of Readers Digest and getting financing for the new Ambassador Auditorium. This all sounded very nice, but was not what people had been waiting for.
HWA said in a January 28, 1979 letter to members and co-workers, “Read Revelation 10:11. This shows that after we thought we had completed the Work, or were to complete it by January, 1972, how God says, 'Thou shalt prophesy (preach) again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and KINGS!' Most of the doors to kings and heads of governments have opened since January, 1972.”
After that, the WCG fell back on the idea of 1996 being the end of 6,000 years of human history according to Bishop James Usher's numbers. In his last book, called Mystery of the Ages (copyright 1985, page 298), HWA wrote, “And, secondly, to reveal--preserved in writing for us TODAY--what is to happen “in the latter days”--actually within the next two decades--THIS LAST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY!” That did not work out either.
RCM later said that Usher's numbers were not exact and that there could be up to 35 years of play in his numbers.
GRF's PCG bought the copyright to Mystery of the Ages and deleted the part on page 298 about the last two decades of the twentieth century. GRF's PCG also produced a piece of literature called, He Was Right: Remembering five decades of accurate forecasting by Herbert W. Armstrong . GRF forbids his followers to read anything that contradicts him.