Satan’s Pasadena Crash Landing: How God’s Apostle Died and the Devil Got Evicted on the Exact Same Day (Coincidence? Nah, It’s Prophecy!)

There he is, folks — the Prince of Darkness, the Accuser of the Brethren, the ancient serpent… face-planting into the Pasadena pavement right on cue. Because nothing says “divine timing” like coordinating the fall of the ultimate evil with one elderly man’s death. 

And of course, the second his cloven hooves hit California soil, he doesn’t waste a second. No sightseeing. No Disneyland. Straight to work conquering 95 percent of God’s true Church!  According to this airtight logic, while HWA was still breathing, Satan already had a “synagogue of Satan” operating inside the church — a church within a church, a beachhead in the strong Philadelphia era. But somehow the big guy upstairs waited until Armstrong had died before giving the dragon the final eviction notice. 

Then, boom — 1986: cast down. 

1989, he influences Flurry to start a new church. One of the first church splits. Perfect prophecy fulfillment, if you ignore the minor detail that the church has been splitting, fighting, and forming committees since the Book of Acts.

Flurry’s version is pure comedy gold: Satan took the “key of David” (whatever that mystical remote control is this week), conquered 95 percent of the members, turned them into Laodiceans, and now only the tiny remnant who buy his magazines and send him the tithes are still conquering the devil the way Jesus did in Matthew 4. Everyone else? Doomed to miss out on the Jerusalem headquarters real estate deal.

And the follower’s commentary seals it: “Remember 1979? Receivership attempt! Ten years later — wait, three years after his death — Satan succeeded!” Yes, because a 1979 state receivership battle and a 1989 doctrinal shift are clearly the same event as Revelation 12:13, where the dragon goes after the woman the instant he’s thrown down. Timing so precise it would make a Swiss watch jealous… if Swiss watches ran on pure confirmation bias.

Let’s review the official timeline of cosmic drama: 

• Satan is already inside the church while HWA lives. 
• HWA dies → Satan is cast down. 
• Satan immediately uses the people who were already there to conquer 95 percent of the church. 
• Therefore, only the Philadelphia Church of God is still conquering Satan. (Bob Thiel and Samuel Kitchen have been seen whimpering in the corner.)

It’s almost as if the doctrine was reverse-engineered to explain why nearly the entire Worldwide Church of God rejected Flurry’s claims after 1986. “It’s not that we changed doctrines or people disagreed — no, no. Satan got kicked out of heaven the day the old man died and personally orchestrated every board meeting!”  Brilliant. Absolutely unfalsifiable. And the perfect excuse for why your tiny group is the only one left with “the key of David vision” while everyone else is busy being Laodicean losers who won’t get to rule from headquarters.

So next time you’re in Pasadena, take a moment of silence near the old Ambassador Auditorium. Somewhere under that California sun, a very irritated fallen angel is still nursing his bruises from the landing… and plotting his next hostile takeover of whichever splinter group has the best mailing list.

Conquer or be conquered, folks. Or just, you know… maybe consider that church politics, human ambition, and doctrinal drift don’t actually require a mid-1980s eviction notice from heaven.  But where’s the fun in that?

THE KEY OF DAVID-IT UNLOCKS YOUR WONDERFUL AND IMMEDIATE FUTURE
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CONQUER OR BE CONQUERD
"Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie, behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee" (Revelation 3:9). This verse reveals that there was a "synagogue of Satan" right in God's Church---a church within a church. Even while Mr. Was still there, Satan conquered a great many members (understand the difference between the many and the few). Satan was right there even while God's apostle was on this Earth! He had a synagogue! Those in this synagogue did not keep God's Word, and they denied God's government. Consequently, they lost the key of David vision and we're conquerd by the devil. Satan established a beach head in the strong Philadelphia ear. These rebels were conquerd by the devil, instead of conquering him.
So when Mr. Armstrong died, Satan used his synagogue to conquer 95 percent of God's Church (now comprised of several different churches). It became the Laodicean era. Unless those Church members repent before the Tribulation, they cannot qualify to rule in the Jerusalem headquarters.
Do you see why we must overcome? (The word conquer as used in the Revised Standard Version is better.) Either we conquer Satan as Christ did (Matthew 4; Luke4), or we can't qualify to rule at headquarters with Christ.
The Laodiceans will not rule from headquarters because they are not qualified.
Satan is still alive today. He wants to take over the Philadelphia Church of God in these latter days. We must do all we can to make sure that doesn't happen. God expects us to CONQUER the devil as Christ did so we can SHARE DAVID'S THRONE! (verse 21).
Satan took the key of David from the Church of God, and 95 percent of the members became Laodicean. The fruits show who conquered Satan and who didn't.
We won a bitter six-year court battle with Satan the devil. We have had to fight and conquer Satan in many battles. With God's very elect, that is a way of life.
Satan was cast down around the time Mr. Armstrong died, perhaps on that very day. He knows that his time is short (Revelation 12:12). He is on a violent rampage of spiritual and physical destruction.
We have God's power to conquer the devil because we cling to the key of David vision.
By Gerald Flurry
After HWA died Satan was cast down and by this God is testing His people to see who is still faithful. There are many groups that are scattered. He is seeing who in thesis Laodicean era understand where His presence is. He is truly calling for them that have errors to hear and eyes to see the difference

Confidence is not probably or may have.

Remember in 1979 what happened to the church, an attempt to take over it's receivership.

Ten years later which is three years after his death, Satan was successful in splitting the Church.

This is exactly what Revelation 12:13 is saying.

As soon as the dragon realizes that he was thrown out of heaven, he went after the woman.

He didn't wait, he went straight after her.

That's exactly what happened beginning 1989