Only in Armstrongism do you get the exquisite irony of one false prophet furiously condemning all the other false prophets in the Church of God. For reasons known only to the heavens (and perhaps his mirror), God's Greatest Gift to Humanity and the Churches of God genuinely believes he's a legitimate prophet. His airtight validation? A so-called "double blessing" from Gaylyn Bonjour—because nothing screams divine authority like that—and some half-remembered comment Rod Meredith supposedly once made. When those credentials start looking a bit thin, Crackpot Bob dusts off poor deluded Norm Edwards for yet another desperate cameo appearance to prop up his fragile prophet credentials.
Then, in a dazzling display of self-awareness, he hauls the old Mother Church into his tirade about their official position on false prophets. Anyone who ever spent even five minutes working in Pasadena witnessed an endless parade of self-appointed "prophets" strutting into the Hall of Administration to announce their greatness… only to be swiftly rebuked, escorted to the sidewalk, and permanently disfellowshipped. That's exactly what Herbert Armstrong—and the entire Worldwide Church—would do to Crackpot Bob today. He'd be disfellowshipped so fast his mail-order Indian diploma-mill degree would still be spinning in the air behind him.
Undeterred, he gleefully lists Gerald Flurry, Dave Pack, Ron Weinland, Wade Cox, Alton Billingsley, and the rest of the current COG false-prophet All-Star team… somehow mysteriously forgetting to pencil in his own name. But don't worry—he's not just as big a liar as the others. No, no. He's convinced he's the one and only truly righteous COG prophet, hand-picked by God in these perilous end-times to deliver the urgent message that the world is about to get a divine spanking.
As usual, his attention span is doing cartwheels—bouncing from topic to topic like a caffeinated pinball—so he never has to slow down and seriously examine the very issue of false prophets he's pretending to care about. The faster he jumps around, the less time his followers have to stop, think, and critically evaluate him. Because if they ever did pause for more than ten seconds, they'd quickly realize he's no more being used by God than Dave Pack is. He's just another self-deluded liar in a long, sad line of them—only with worse writing and an even bigger persecution complex.
21 Century False Prophets
Were false prophets expected in the 21st century? Did Jesus and the Apostle Paul warn about false prophets in the last days? What did the old Worldwide Church of God write about imposters, false prophets, and true prophets? What are the criteria to determine if someone is a true or false prophet? Could there be false prophets in various Church of God groups? Have people such as Gerald Flurry, Ron Weinland, David Pack, Wade Cox, and Alton Billingsley made false predictions/prophecies? What about Protestants like Harold Camping and Messianic Sabbath-keepers like Jonathan Cahn? Because most prophets are false, is it safer to not search to see if there are any true prophets of God today? What did Jesus teach? What does the Bible teach? Should most Christians take Acts 2:17-18 more seriously than they do? How can you know if someone is a false prophet according to the scriptures? Is there a specific false prophet who will be the final Antichrist? Do supernatural signs and wonders prove someone is a true prophet? Does Satan the devil have ministers? Can Jesus return or the millennium start prior to 2033? Dr. Thiel addresses these matters and more in this sermon.
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Too much! Bob's about as funny as someone's flatulent rear end! Good thing blog entries don't transmit odors, although I truly wish God would make false prophets stink!
I remember asking Gerald Waterhouse when we will be in the USSR. He didn’t give me a time and date but said we will be there. Well no USSR exists today. I remember the painful sermon from Raymond McNair in Auckland NZ trying to explain the Gulf War to us all, bringing up various scriptures, that from what I could see did not in any way point to the Gulf war. But I kept my piece and the rest is history as they say. The world is vastly different from what the church predicted, vastly. No one predicted the collapse of the USSR, the Russia Ukraine war, the Gaza war, the Iran crisis, Venezuelan spectacle, the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya, the Assad regime in Syria etc etc etc. They got it WRONG folks, and that sent any credibility they and their ‘pretenders’ to Herbs throne out the door.
Herb was a crackpot who condemned other such jerks from California, calling them crackpots from California.
Does anyone know what ROD MEREDITH used to speculate on such prophetic matters? Did Bob adhere to that then? Even if he left Rod eventually?
The weird thing about the doomsday clock is that it goes back and forth. In the real world, time only goes in one direction.
There's a large number of questions in Bob's introduction. This tactic permeates the United Church of God articles. This we-might-be-right-about-this is hardly strong teaching. It looks like they fear offending their tithe payers by giving a firm message.
They could consider just replaying video after video of the apostle himself. There must be thousand they could recycle. That ought keep tithe payers happy and let the current ministers have a bit of a breather? ps they would need to edit out of course the ones containing prophetic failures.
Bob T. & D. Pack both use the klutzy "we-might-be-right-about-this" clause.
Bob uses it before a prophecy "may occur". Pack uses that same clause after the prophecy failed, but in Pack's case he blathers that clause forth the next day at his funny table of xylophone water glasses & Playskool™ wood blocks.
After the myriad series of countless RCG prophecies fail publicly, Pack will routinely gather his numb, dumb, notes-taking, hen-pecked flock under his rooster's wings & promptly throw them under the damned bus with him...he skillfully re-words that clause, saying : "we almost had this right".
Bob is like a Wall Street promoter seeking investors to buy stock in Remington Arms just before a Supreme Court ruling on gun control.
We (at CCOG) "may be right that Kamala/or Trump could possibly upset the E.U.about this or that".
There are only 12 apostles of Jesus Christ - Rev 21:14. There are many other apostles.............sent by someone else.
Oh, 1:32, for years they proclaimed that "America has won its last war!!!" Catchy sound byte, but they were dead wrong. Much was certainly made after the fact when the USSR collapse facillitated the reunification of Germany. Boy Howdy! They were certain HWA's endtimes were right around the corner then, weren't they? Turns out none of them know the difference between an orifice and a hole in the ground!
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