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Friday, November 1, 2024

Greco-Roman Crackpot Prophet Feast Update: Some Of His African Members Were Held For Ransom And He Shames Canadian Members

 

It is another bright sunny day in California, where the greatest Church of God to ever exist in the history of humanity has its astounding headquarters. No Church of God has ever done as mighty of work as the improperly named "continuing" Church of "god" has been doing. Of course, none of this could be possible without the all-knowing self-appointed prophet who believes he was preselected by God to come in the 21st century to turn the hearts of the children back to their fathers, as the greatest work to ever exist, publishes hudnreds and hudnreds of the booklets in multiple languages.

The Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel starts off by mentioning his Galveston feast site with 34 followers in attendance.

Greetings from the Five Cities Region of California.

We are back from the Feast of Tabernacles which, in the US, was held in Galveston, Texas.

As it turns out, we met in what is called the “Training Room” for services at Moody Gardens. Of course, all Christians are being trained in this life and especially also at the Feast of Tabernacles.

Where would the COG be without "coincidences" popping up all around them to prove that they are the true church? 

However, things did not go well in the Congo with his followers there:

Congo Update

Last week, I mentioned that there were troubles at the festival site in the Congo.

Dear Pastor Dr Bob ,

Greetings .

We’re now in Rwanda and we’re safe all here in Rwanda.

Dear Pastor , when we arrived at Congo , we started the Feast of tabernacles properly, but on the seventh day Satan fought us again. The bad things that happened to us in Congo surprised us all because before we went there, Rwanika informed the leaders of a place where there was a house of prayer. Even when we were on the Feast , these leaders came to visit us. But then we were surprised to see 4 other leaders in the car they told us to go to the office to lock us up, others leaders went to take our sisters and ones is my wife where they were staying, they put us in the car but then they left brother Aaron Joel from Uganda and the rest of us took us to the government office and told us that an unknown person called them and told them that we have mistakes so they burned all our documents except for Aaron from Uganda.

When we arrived there at their office , they check our documents and Church documents after seeing that they are complete , they start to accusing us for fabricated crimes that Rwanika and his assistant in the Church called Mapendo that informed some leaders and left others them and that we are also many foreigners and every foreigner don’t have a document of to go to the mission in the Congo so we should all be imprisoned. Immediately they locked our documents and Church documents in the office they ordered us to leave at the temple and some for us to go to Rwanika home where you are imprisoned, then who called Mapendo was locked up in the local government prison then Rwanika and I were taken to the main office where the police were to pay the money they asked us . when we finished paying the money, they started threatening us and asking us about politics between the countries and about our races and trying to burn and check our telephones and saying that we have many crimes . Immediately they arrested Rwanika so that time I was the only one who was not arrested. Then they told me to go to get other money for the second payment. When I had seen all that and all the money had been spent, and it was evening that’s when I asked them to go to searching network and to get more money. For that I appreciate Pastor Evans who sent the money required quickly. However, when I had already paid the money again they only opened Rwanika {to let him out} and the another one stayed in the prison until morning  and they refused to give us our documents and Church documents. What we found out is that there is someone unknown did a cruel thing to us. We don’t know if is XXXXXX because we know that XXXXXX is with that group he joined they go to government in another territory to register their Church but in the name of Continuing Church of God and they had sent to me the picture of that group and XXXXXX is in that picture. For that I told Rwanika and brother Mapendo to go to that territory to ask and stopped about that.

So , for that all because the Congo is the country of corruption and injustice , we all decided that we will not go to Congo again like many people because Congo is bad country and we decided that while it not be possible to meet in Rwanda we will stay home or if it will possible next we will go to Kenya in the Feast of the Lord.

Attached there is a picture we took after from prison.

Thanks,

Moise. 

Sadly part of this looks like a smear campaign against Sasha's group that he started before he died. Bwana Bob has trained his African leaders well in smearing Sasha's church. 

The Great Bwana then ends his letter to his faithful by shaming his Canadian members because they did not attend one of his sites and instead chose to watch services by Skype.

Start saving your money boys and girls! The Great Bwana Bob EXPECTS you to attend in person. After all, he needs your money!

While we had thousands attend at our couple of dozen Feast of Tabernacles’ sites around the world this month, not all who should have attended, did attend.

There were some that mainly watched Skype services. Nadjia Fontaine, who hosted such a place in Canada, sent the following email comments to me:

The Feast went well for the faithful who attended/participated. Being able to use Skype to bring scattered brethren together was a joy.  But having been at Feast sites, it was not the same.  While the Holy Spirit that joins us is not hindered by time and space, our physical ability to sense and channel it can be hindered by distance.  The physical proximity of gathering for the Feast, and for eight days or more in succession and sometimes for extended periods on those days (sometimes all day), I believe amplifies and strengthens our connectedness and ability to tap into the Holy Spirit.  Sort of like exercising our spiritual antennae.  God knew what He was doing commanding us to gather for the weekly and annual sabbaths.

Whether or not you attended in 2024, you should plan and resolve to attend in 2025 if at all possible. The Apostle Paul wrote:

23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:23-25)

21 I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem; but I will return again to you, God willing (Acts 18:21).

Will YOU try to insure that BY ALL MEANS you will keep the coming Feast of Tabernacles next year as we see the day approaching?

It is good for you to do so.

The Feast of Tabernacles begins at sunset on October 6th and runs through (including the Last Great Day) sunset October 14th in 2025.

Plan to attend! You should not wait until next Fall to plan to do so.

Sincerely,

Bob Thiel

Pastor and Overseer

9 comments:

  1. Paul stayed two whole years in his rented house in Rome except when flying on Spirit Airlines to keep the feasts in Jerusalem (he got OK from Caesar). ?!

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  2. Of course "Congo is a bad country." What did they expect after expelling Tarzan from their country.

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    1. Well in da movie Tarzan was white. And so was Jane.
      Me Tarzan you Jane.
      Dating was so much easier back in the day. Expectations were a lot lower unlike a certain religious organisation we are familiar with…………………………….

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  3. Does anything good ever happen in Bob Thiel's group? I mean verifiable, and not just empty hype?

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    1. Well, if you're interested in hearing every Feast site he ever attended in his lifetime, he posts THAT every fall for some reason...

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  4. A lot of deceptive verbiage sent from Africa to Bob, but it all boils down to, "Hey, gullible Bwana, send us more money."

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  5. "Bob Thiel, pastor and overseer" — This is an interesting short video from a Christian in Australia, which is relevant to Thiel and other church leaders today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_HeRDGGsJ0 — 5 signs of a spiritually controlling pastor.
    How many of those have you seen a pastor display?

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  6. UCG also had problems at its Feast site in Colombia, but that was due to farmers and laborers protesting in the streets. Members were blocked and couldn't leave town after Day 8.

    It ended after UCG somehow arranged for taxis to wait on the other side of the protest line and "confused" protesters (to borrow from an email) let everyone walk through.

    There's probably quite a backstory there, which has yet to come out. But it was amazingly similar to what some COGWA members faced in Central America last year.

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  7. Some countries do not grant the freedoms to cults that we do here in the USA. We know how teachers of Armstrongism choose their feast sites. The big Kahuna gets a wild hair up his butt and proclaims, "We're going to have a feast site in .................." His subservients go about orchestrating it, afraid to point out any negatives they discover, because that would make them just like the investigative team sent into the promised land by Moses, the ones who brought back the bad report! So, as the old bumper sticker said, "Shit Happens!"

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