Crackpot Bob’s Eternal Whine: “Banned Hurt My Feelings Again, Therefore I Am the True End-Time Prophet”
In his latest trembling dispatch from Grover Beach and for the SECOND day in a row, Crackpot Bob once again demonstrates why he is the undisputed champion of prophecy addiction and thin-skinned grievance-collecting. After we posted the article yesterday (“Earthquakes Happened Yesterday and Crackpot Bob is Shaking in Grover Beach Over How Accurate He Thinks He Is — As Usual”), the self-styled prophet could not resist firing back with another multi-page biblical tantrum.
He calls all of us here “anti-Christian deceivers,” and accuses us of wanting to be “blinded to the truth,” and labels our factual corrections about earthquake statistics and heat records as satanic scoffing straight out of 2 Peter 3. (We are not anti-Christian deceivers; we are anti-deviant Armstrongite church leaders.) The man is obsessed with us and has been clicking on this blog multiple times a day lately.
Every time Banned points out that big quakes still average roughly 16 major ones per year and that heat records get broken every few years (because that’s how records work), Bwana Bob doesn’t respond with data or humility. He responds with Amos, Isaiah, and long lists of his own 2009 predictions, as if repeating the same vague “odd weather is coming” line for 17 years somehow makes him Jeremiah.
Here’s the delicious irony that Crackpot Bob never seems to notice: If he were actually a powerful end-time prophet with special divine insight, why does he spend half his waking hours crying about a blog that calls him Crackpot Bob? Why the endless credential flexing, the “they lied about my PhD” rebuttals, and the demands for apologies? He does this because Banned has had a huge impact in turning people away from him, and he knows it. A real prophet wouldn’t need to police his image like a fragile influencer. He’d just let the fulfilled prophecies speak for themselves. Instead, we get this weak little milquetoast routine — triggered by every snarky comment, rushing to the keyboard to quote 2 Timothy 3 at people who simply refuse to take his weather reports as divine revelation.
This is the same pattern Armstrongism has been running for over 80 years. Since Herbert Armstrong started making bold predictions in the 1930s and 40s, the movement has produced an endless parade of self-appointed prophets, apostles, and “the one true leader” figures. Failed date settings for 1972, 1975, and countless other “this is it!” moments didn’t stop the splintering. Every new group leader claims the previous ones lost the mantle and that he is the faithful remnant carrying the real work. Crackpot Bob is not some fresh, undeniable voice breaking through. He’s just the latest in a very long, very disappointing line of men who discovered that claiming prophetic status is an excellent way to keep a small group paying attention and sending offerings.
Why should anyone suddenly believe this one is different? Because he had a couple of dreams? Because Roderick Meredith once said something vague about God possibly considering him a prophet before kicking him out? Because he collected some old credentials and now pastes Bible verses on every natural disaster? Armstrongism’s track record on prophets is abysmal. The movement has been crying wolf since before most of us were born. At some point, the rational response isn’t “maybe this guy is the real one.” It’s “this entire prophetic addiction industry has been a spectacular failure for eight decades.”Why the New Covenant Does Not Need Self-Appointed Prophets Like Bwana Bob or Men Obsessed With Prediction AddictionThe New Covenant fundamentally changes the role of prophecy. Under the Old Covenant, God spoke through selected prophets because the law was external and the people needed constant external correction and future warnings. The New Covenant, as described in Jeremiah 31 and explained in Hebrews 8, is different: God puts His law in people’s minds and writes it on their hearts. The Holy Spirit indwells every believer. There is no longer the same need for a special class of intermediaries who alone receive direct revelations about the future.
Jesus Himself is the final and greatest Prophet (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 fulfilled in Christ). The New Testament repeatedly points believers to Him and the completed revelation in Scripture rather than ongoing date-specific predictions. While the gift of prophecy exists in the early church for edification, exhortation, and comfort (1 Corinthians 14), it is not presented as the primary way God leads His people in the age of the Spirit. The foundation of apostles and prophets was laid once (Ephesians 2:20), and the church is now built on that completed foundation with Christ as the cornerstone.
Prediction addiction is spiritually corrosive for several reasons. First, it shifts focus from the gospel and personal repentance to constant sign-watching and “this could be it!” speculation. Second, it almost always produces pride and defensiveness in the predictor — exactly the milquetoast behavior we see in Bwana Bob, where any criticism is reframed as satanic persecution rather than legitimate pushback. Third, history shows it leads to repeated embarrassment when the predicted timelines fail, which then requires more conspiracy theories and name-calling to protect the ego. Fourth, it distracts from the actual New Covenant emphasis: living faithfully, loving others, and being ready for Christ’s return whenever it happens, without needing to map every earthquake and heatwave onto a personal prophetic résumé.
The New Covenant invites believers to maturity, not perpetual childhood dependence on the latest prophetic newsletter. When someone spends decades turning every natural disaster into proof of their own special calling while lashing out at critics, it reveals far more about their own insecurities than it does about the nearness of the end. The Bible already warned us about people who would be “lovers of themselves… boasters, proud” in the last days. Sometimes the clearest sign isn’t the earthquake — it’s the man who can’t stop writing angry articles about the people who refuse to call him a prophet.
In his latest trembling dispatch from Grover Beach and for the SECOND day in a row, Crackpot Bob once again demonstrates why he is the undisputed champion of prophecy addiction and thin-skinned grievance-collecting. After we posted the article yesterday (“Earthquakes Happened Yesterday and Crackpot Bob is Shaking in Grover Beach Over How Accurate He Thinks He Is — As Usual”), the self-styled prophet could not resist firing back with another multi-page biblical tantrum.
He calls all of us here “anti-Christian deceivers,” and accuses us of wanting to be “blinded to the truth,” and labels our factual corrections about earthquake statistics and heat records as satanic scoffing straight out of 2 Peter 3. (We are not anti-Christian deceivers; we are anti-deviant Armstrongite church leaders.) The man is obsessed with us and has been clicking on this blog multiple times a day lately.
Every time Banned points out that big quakes still average roughly 16 major ones per year and that heat records get broken every few years (because that’s how records work), Bwana Bob doesn’t respond with data or humility. He responds with Amos, Isaiah, and long lists of his own 2009 predictions, as if repeating the same vague “odd weather is coming” line for 17 years somehow makes him Jeremiah.
Here’s the delicious irony that Crackpot Bob never seems to notice: If he were actually a powerful end-time prophet with special divine insight, why does he spend half his waking hours crying about a blog that calls him Crackpot Bob? Why the endless credential flexing, the “they lied about my PhD” rebuttals, and the demands for apologies? He does this because Banned has had a huge impact in turning people away from him, and he knows it. A real prophet wouldn’t need to police his image like a fragile influencer. He’d just let the fulfilled prophecies speak for themselves. Instead, we get this weak little milquetoast routine — triggered by every snarky comment, rushing to the keyboard to quote 2 Timothy 3 at people who simply refuse to take his weather reports as divine revelation.
This is the same pattern Armstrongism has been running for over 80 years. Since Herbert Armstrong started making bold predictions in the 1930s and 40s, the movement has produced an endless parade of self-appointed prophets, apostles, and “the one true leader” figures. Failed date settings for 1972, 1975, and countless other “this is it!” moments didn’t stop the splintering. Every new group leader claims the previous ones lost the mantle and that he is the faithful remnant carrying the real work. Crackpot Bob is not some fresh, undeniable voice breaking through. He’s just the latest in a very long, very disappointing line of men who discovered that claiming prophetic status is an excellent way to keep a small group paying attention and sending offerings.
Why should anyone suddenly believe this one is different? Because he had a couple of dreams? Because Roderick Meredith once said something vague about God possibly considering him a prophet before kicking him out? Because he collected some old credentials and now pastes Bible verses on every natural disaster? Armstrongism’s track record on prophets is abysmal. The movement has been crying wolf since before most of us were born. At some point, the rational response isn’t “maybe this guy is the real one.” It’s “this entire prophetic addiction industry has been a spectacular failure for eight decades.”Why the New Covenant Does Not Need Self-Appointed Prophets Like Bwana Bob or Men Obsessed With Prediction AddictionThe New Covenant fundamentally changes the role of prophecy. Under the Old Covenant, God spoke through selected prophets because the law was external and the people needed constant external correction and future warnings. The New Covenant, as described in Jeremiah 31 and explained in Hebrews 8, is different: God puts His law in people’s minds and writes it on their hearts. The Holy Spirit indwells every believer. There is no longer the same need for a special class of intermediaries who alone receive direct revelations about the future.
Jesus Himself is the final and greatest Prophet (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 fulfilled in Christ). The New Testament repeatedly points believers to Him and the completed revelation in Scripture rather than ongoing date-specific predictions. While the gift of prophecy exists in the early church for edification, exhortation, and comfort (1 Corinthians 14), it is not presented as the primary way God leads His people in the age of the Spirit. The foundation of apostles and prophets was laid once (Ephesians 2:20), and the church is now built on that completed foundation with Christ as the cornerstone.
Prediction addiction is spiritually corrosive for several reasons. First, it shifts focus from the gospel and personal repentance to constant sign-watching and “this could be it!” speculation. Second, it almost always produces pride and defensiveness in the predictor — exactly the milquetoast behavior we see in Bwana Bob, where any criticism is reframed as satanic persecution rather than legitimate pushback. Third, history shows it leads to repeated embarrassment when the predicted timelines fail, which then requires more conspiracy theories and name-calling to protect the ego. Fourth, it distracts from the actual New Covenant emphasis: living faithfully, loving others, and being ready for Christ’s return whenever it happens, without needing to map every earthquake and heatwave onto a personal prophetic résumé.
The New Covenant invites believers to maturity, not perpetual childhood dependence on the latest prophetic newsletter. When someone spends decades turning every natural disaster into proof of their own special calling while lashing out at critics, it reveals far more about their own insecurities than it does about the nearness of the end. The Bible already warned us about people who would be “lovers of themselves… boasters, proud” in the last days. Sometimes the clearest sign isn’t the earthquake — it’s the man who can’t stop writing angry articles about the people who refuse to call him a prophet.
9 comments:
Bob, the mother church has split into hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of competing groups. Most claiming to be something, or led by someone claiming to be someone. What makes you different from all the other hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of other splinters from the mother church out there. Well? Like all of us here, you will, as we all will; one day breathe your last breath and be no more. And like us all, be remembered no more. All is vanity as we read in scripture. Take My yoke upon you and learn from ME, for I am gentle and humble of heart and you will find rest for your soul. Wonderful words of wisdom from Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Do you have that rest?
"But I am a prophet" he cried, flailing his arms as they hauled him off to the Rubber Room. Bob, just put the crack pipe down and get some help before it's too late.
I think it's important to realize that there are plenty of other people who aspire to be the Elvis of Armstrongism. Bob may be nuanced in mildly different ways, however, in most ways he fits a stereotype which has been bred by the HWA package of beliefs. Many of us who were raised in Armstrongism were taught that we would have a special role in end times events. People speculated about the two witnesses. Why some became obsessed with this, while others were able to see it as patently ridiculous is a great mystery to me.
At this point, I really don't believe Bob has such a great problem with us here at Banned. His problem is with God. Why doesn't God validate him and show us we are wrong? Bob has hung himself out there as a lightening rod, and consequently receives myriad strikes. Why do people do this? Who deliberately sets themselves up as a kook? It can't be to get attention, because the only attention they ever receive is negative. And yet we see this over and over and over again amongst the Herbert W. Armstrong Fan Club. You'd think God would validate and use the services of at least one member of the club, if He liked the Armstrong package, but He never does! There is only statistical negligibility.
I'm thinking that the best way for some of these guys to determine whether God really wants them to do what they are doing is to give it the ol' Jonah test! Walk away from it! Try to escape! And then watch and wait to see if God compels you to get back on task! I have to tell you, I really have to place my bets against a bunch of whales making an appearance! But, hey guys! Prove me wrong!
Tell me, did any of the real actual prophets of old, in our bible, disregard a spurned woman's report or complaint of husbands doing what our Priscilla says Radson did?
Why is it quite certain that Bob T. is doing that while claiming his grand title of prophet?
Did any prophets allow their lieutenants to harbor belief in angels mating with human women to bear hybrid offspring?
The Christian life is one that brings peace. Even in times of struggle and trial, one with Christ in his life has a peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7).
Anyone who has spent time around Bob knows that the man is not at peace. He is manic. Christ offers peace to those who follow Him, but Bob rejects that peace and prefers to make frantic efforts to exalt himself, instead of letting the Savior give him rest.
Unfortunately, Bob would rather cultivate a falsely exaggerated self-image than accept the peace and rest of Christ. But that's his choice, and we should respect it. As much as it upsets him when he reads about himself here at Banned (Hi, Bob!), he would rather have us pay attention to him than ignore him.
I think Bob's credibility would be greatly enhanced if he simply ignored you folks. You're all a bunch of "negative nellies" when it comes to the bible, the church, and especially HWA. Most of what is published here is inaccurate anyway.
I just hope he has started to wear a gold necklace with a cross for protection against the witch doctors! We should take up a collection to send crosses to Malawi.
Is it going to help promote truth if Bob's tiny small handful of North American supporters hop on here and expect us to give Bob a free pass & blank check to say whatever he wants about Priscilla, Sasha, or for him to ignore the blabbing errors his late bigwigs would make?
Bob's supporters are doing what scores of supporters did for their own error-prone COG CEOs. Prop up a guy in the name of the Lord no matter how the fella teeters & totters on falsities & jollities.
It's time the few supporters that Bob has really begin to use their common sense and quit hiding behind a false Church Government; they just need to ask themselves - could they live with themselves knowing what is happening? Work out your own salvation. At least quit supporting this Evil organization and all those WITCHES AND ADULTERATING SO CALLED FAKE MINISTERS. Aaron Dean is crazy for getting involved with Dr Bobby and his Witchdoctors
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