Lil/Stevie Flurry popped his self-righteous cork the other day about the tragic fires in CA. Lil'Stevie is still upset that the State of CA went after the Worldwide Church of God for misuse of money back in 1979.
He starts off with the perpetually angry god of the PCG who revels in killing people and destroying property through earthquakes, floods, and fire. The Flurry's have created a pissy little god that is mad about everything they tell it to be mad about. Those rebellious, filthy people in California need to be punished, so do as we say and burn them up! We are not like them lord! Make them pay for their sins, unlike we, who are perfect in your sight.
But even worse, the impotent little god of the PCG is still pissed off in 2025 with the California government for daring to sue the WCG. How dare they!
Hollywood liberals and establishment politicians may consider themselves too sophisticated to believe it, but the Bible says God punishes us with “natural” disasters. Isaiah 29:6 says, “Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.” California certainly is being “visited” with “the flame of devouring fire” this week. And as far back as 2003, my father, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry, has pointed out that California’s mega-drought is a result of this state’s rebellion against God and His law. Specifically, my father has pointed out that God is punishing California for the vicious legal attack it launched against the late Herbert W. Armstrong in 1979.
“In an overt attack against Mr. Armstrong, the state of California, through the attorney general’s office, launched a massive lawsuit against the [Worldwide Church of God] in 1979,” he wrote in his December 2003 article “Is California Under a Curse?” He continued:
On January 3, that office initiated a sudden, armed assault on the Pasadena headquarters, in an attempt to claim ownership of the Church’s property and assets as well as its continuing income—in violation of the U.S. Constitution. A receiver, secretly appointed by the court, tried to take over and operate God’s Church. Completely false, outrageous and baseless allegations of financial mismanagement were made—despite financial and all other required records having been regularly and voluntarily filed. No evidence of wrongdoing was ever found, and on Oct. 14, 1980, the attorney general dropped all charges and dismissed the case. Later, the higher appellate court ruled that the lawsuit was without foundation. California is the only state that ever attacked Mr. Armstrong and his work. Actually, it attacked a lot more than that. California really attacked the living God!
California has been saturated with God’s warning message probably more than any other state. Yet rather than turn to God in repentance, the people of this state attacked Mr. Armstrong and the Church of God before going on to promote “gay pride,” the “lgbtq+ agenda” and “San Francisco values.” Even in the midst of the wildfires, the California media is praising the efforts of lesbian firefighters rather than repenting.
California has not been saturated with warnings from Armstrong or Flurry. How can a "thing" from "someplace" be a warning to anyone? Who even knows what that thing is? How can a man who was embarrassed to talk about Jesus issue any warning to anyone, and why would ANYONE ever listen?
You've never heard the Flurry clan talk about the crime or GLBT issues in Edmond or the state of Oklahoma. Nope, because they know they will get their asses creamed in the press, and right now, they are courting Edmond officials and the public by wooing them into concerts in their mini-me auditorium. You also never see them mention the gay people from their own Celtic Dance teams dancing across the stage and who represent them in public shows. Useful gays are always good gays. No one gives a flying rat's ass if the firefighter coming to your rescue when your house is on fire is a lesbian. It irritates many of these COG leaders that so many gay and lesbian firefighters are more butch than they are.
Armstrongism has always been filled with hypocritical leaders who run off at the mouth with stupid accusations, believing they are right in the eyes of their little angry gods. Some things never change.
5 comments:
...."vicious legal attack"....... so it was legal.
Isaiah 29:6 is directed at Jerusalem, not LA.
So "California really attacked the living God!" by seizing the church property and assets contrary to the U.S. constitution. But running an organization as a cult is also contrary to the spirit of the bill of rights. Where's respect for members rights? So again it's bully morality. If anyone doesn't super respect the rights of the ministers, they are attacking the living God, and will be vindictively punished. But even when ministerial abuse has been publicly exposed, the line is "they have bitterly repented and their sins have been thrown into the sea, never to be mentioned again." A very self serving double standard, no?
Those preachers who seek to capitalize on natural disasters need to give us the theodicy whereby they are able to link the natural disasters to God. The preachers make themselves representatives of God in these circumstances. Yet, we have no real reason to believe that they are in any way credentialed to function this way. Are they anything more than people who seek to strengthen the influence of their pulpit before a credulous audience by associating themselves with the power of a natural disasters? If they are they need to construct that argument. Otherwise, we might conclude that they are mischaracterizing God.
The LA fires were a tragic natural disaster. I would not conjecture beyond that. Anything beyond that would require a rational and comprehensive theodicy and that does not seem to be present here. I have a single point of data. Jesus said we should daily pray, “Let your kingdom come; let your will come to pass, as in heaven so also upon earth.” This does not sound like the will of God is being done on the earth at this time to me. And I believe that ascribing a natural disaster to the will of God without rationale could be a presumptuous act of misattribution.
Scout
"Brotherly love"???? This group does NOT deserve to bear the moniker which they've attributed to themselves. The "Philadelphia" COG - I call B.S.
They (PCG) had a hilarious "open letter to the churches" article up the other day. It was basically crowing about all the things WCG did with their funds. In other words, it was an open appeal for more people to send PCG their money.
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