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Itty-Bitty Prophet Pops A Propehcy Vein Over Chinese New Year

Why is it that so many self-appointed Church of God prophets get bent out of shape over the stupidest things? Part of the issue is that 99.99% of the "prophetic" palaver they utter has failed miserably, so they need to divert attention away to nonimportant twaddle, like Chinese New Years.

Our Great Bwana to Africa, and the occasional 100 Caucasians, is hyperventilating in Grover Beach over Chinese New Year and surprisingly admits he jumped to a conclusion. When God was passing out common sense, Satan must have jiggled the spoon when it came to God's greatest gift to humanity.

The Great Bwana Bob starts off with a little history on the Year the Snake and says this:

The Chinese New Year, itself, is based upon a lunar-solar calendar cycle. Like the biblical one, it is supposed to be somewhat related to Spring, though the Chinese one tends to begin earlier. 

 

The Chinese New Year is basically considered to be an observance originally established to worship pagan gods and also has astrological implications (it also can involve ancestor worship). Unlike Western astrology which is supposedly based upon the astrological sign in the sky when one is born (which varies about monthly), Chinese astrology is based on being born in a particular astrological year. The Chinese have 12 astrological signs that rotate in a cycle. 

 

The year that is ending was the year of the dragon. People who are to be born between 29 January and next year are considered to ‘astrologically’ be born under the sign of the Chinese year of the snake.

Then, like any good Armstrongite trying to divert attention towards paganism, he has this to say about how he jumped to a conclusion, pretty much how all of his "theology" is processed.

The fact that Satan is called a serpent has tended to have me connect him with the Chinese snake (as well as all paganism). Here are a couple of scriptures related to the biblical dragon snake, Satan:

9 … the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Revelation 12:9)

2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. (Revelation 20:2-3) 

 

Satan was also called the serpent in Genesis and was cursed:

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And you shall eat dust

All the days of your life. (Genesis 3:14)

So much of the theology of Armstrongism is of men pulling things out of the hat that they think sound good and fit the narrative they think they need to follow. 

Since about a fifth to a quarter of humanity is Chinese, I thought it may be important to point out the pagan implications of this holiday, as it is celebrated by scattered Chinese around the world. 

Down to the River to Pray

 

Off Kilter Theology

 

When Armstrongite ministers who claim to practice 1st Century Christianity discuss "worldly" Christians.