The Secret Has Been Revealed. Surprise: It Is Bob.
Genuflect at his feet now so that you may be saved!
Stand in awe and gaze upon his magnificence!
Crackpot Bob has surveyed the Churches of God in 2026 and discovered a warehouse of blaspheming idiots. Their crime is not adultery, not covering up African scandals, not inventing credentials, not turning dreams into résumés. Their crime is refusing to admit that the Great Tribulation begins at Daniel 11:39 and not 11:40. One verse. That is the whole priesthood. Miss it, and you do not get the wilderness reservation. You get Revelation 12:17, which is the biblical term for you should have listened to Bob.
Other groups, we are told, will not know the Tribulation has started until it has started. Bob's group will know in advance. Because Bob knows. Because God tells prophets. God speaks directly to Bob. Because Amos 3:7-8 is not a verse so much as a vacancy Bob filled before anyone else checked the listing.
A lion has roared. Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
Bob can. Bob does. Bob has a website about it.
While many believe all COGs are the same, there is only one that best represents the Philadelphian remnant. There is one that has restored the most truth. There is one that has had the most Divine confirmations. These are not boasts. They are measurements taken with a ruler Bob brought from home. Truth restored: whatever he posted last. Confirmations: dreams, an anointing he will not stop narrating, and a certificate that reads SELF AWARDED because heaven, apparently, was busy.
Then the funnel narrows, as it always does.
God will use one man to issue the decree to flee.
The most faithful should gather first.
Would that man not be in the church with the best prophetic understandings?
If you have not already done so, should you not support the work of that church?
That is not theology. That is a sales script.
Notice the furniture. Scripture is quoted. A verse dispute is promoted to a sorting hat. The remnant is identified. The remnant is given the most truth. The remnant is decorated with the most confirmations. A single man is required to blow the flee-whistle. Then, with the innocence of a man who has only just noticed the coincidence, we are asked whether that man would not, naturally, be the one already sitting in the leather chair, already talking to the microphone, already asking you to gather.
It is a closed loop with a PayPal button.
Armstrongism has produced a graveyard of men who discovered they were Elijah, Elisha, a witness, Joshua, Zerubbabel, or the last Philadelphian on earth who still understood church government. Bob's contribution is not the claim. It is the filing system. Dreams. Double portions. Confirmations. Restored details. A running inventory of why every other group is Laodicean and therefore doomed to miss the bus. The decree to flee is always coming. The gathering is always now. The man who will issue the decree is never, even once, somebody else.
If you stay in another group you are not merely mistaken. You are on the path that ends outside the place of safety, watching the protected ones leave, then enjoying the leftover wrath like a man who picked the wrong verse and the wrong website. That is the product. Fear first. Affiliation second. Support the work third.
The lack of humility is glaring. He does not say, "I am the most important man in the Churches of God today." He merely arranges Amos, Daniel, Zephaniah, and Revelation so that no other conclusion will sit in the chair. One church. One remnant. One set of confirmations. One decree. One man. If you have not already done so, should you not support the work?
Yes, Bob. We heard you. The lion roared. The secret was revealed. The secret was that the secret-revealer would also be taking questions, tithes, and credit.
And behind the chair, as the World Books stand at attention and the Earth glows like a nightclub in the rapture district, the older consultant leans in to make sure the bones and the calendar still agree. The decree is a serious document. It helps to have a second opinion looking over your shoulder.
Gather together. The most faithful always do.
The rest can argue about verse 40 until the wilderness is full and the stamp is dry.
The word of God teaches:
7 Surely the Lord God does nothing,
Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
8 A lion has roared!
Who will not fear?The Lord God has spoken!Who can but prophesy? (Amos 3:7-8)
Related to point 7 in the list, unless other COG groups will accept that the Great Tribulation begins with Daniel 11:39 and not 11:40, they will NOT know when the Great Tribulation will begin until after it starts. Therefore, those with them will not have possibly fled to a place of protection in the wilderness as taught in Revelation 12:14-16 for 3 1/2 years-but instead will be subject to the devil's wrath per Revelation 12:17.While many believe that all COGs are the same, there is only one that best represents the Philadelphian remnantThere is one church that has restored the most truthThere has been one church that has had the most Divine confirmationsGod will use one man to issue the decree to flee, and the most faithful are told to be gathered together before that happens per Zephaniah 2:1-3.Would that man not be in the church with the best prophetic understandings?If you have not already done so, should you not gather together and support the work of that church?
11 comments:
So, exclusively through Bob Thiel and the CCOG, we can get our tickets to the fan attic???
According to MoA by Herbert, there are no prophets in the church today. Bob is contradicting the man he worships. He should go back to worshiping the early popes like all the Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals do.
How does he interpret Dan 11:39? I think he sees it as a ref to the US?
This is really a very bad thing for an aspiring minister to fantasize, making statements such as Bob Thiel regularly makes. Such statements cause it to appear as if God is either a failure, or does not exist! In Bob's case, since the only people who know about him are on this blog or over in Africa, the potential damage is very limited, but it is still the principle of the thing, and why God hates false prophets.
We know that God cannot be a failure. That is an attribute of people, not of God. In retrospect, and by extension, we get to know by success or failure who God has used as His human spokesman. That is the acid test, or where the rubber meets the road. Herbert W. Armstrong was, in retrospect, an abyssimal failure! Had he been a messenger from God, we would be in the Kingdom right now, in rapturous beatific vision, sipping on wine Jesus made us, and perhaps appreciating Handel's greatest hits, instead of sipping on our Starbucks Single Source Colombian Coffee, listening to Bob Dylan's Desolation Row, and boogeying down on this blog!
Booby Thiel said, “God will use one man to issue the decree to flee..”
MY COMMENT: What a difference a word makes! Ken Westby ounce gave a WCG sermon on the Place of Safety when he was Pastor of the Washington, D.C./Baltimore, Md. church circuit. Although it was common in the 1960s WCG to refer to the Church’s flight to Petra as “fleeing”, Mr. Westby said the Church would NOT be “fleeing”. The Church would be “taken” consistent with Matthew 24:40-41 – scriptures which were always used when I attended WCG to describe the 50% of the Church being taken to a Place of Safety.
(Note: For further explanation on what HWA actually taught about the demarcation between Philadelphia and Laodicean eras, please see Byker Bob’s comment on the September 4, 2026 Banned by HWA post "CG7-D: Still Alive Enough to Annoy the One True Philadelphia Franchise" for further explanation).
The difference between the use of the words “fleeing” (which sounds cowardly) and “taken” is enormous. “Fleeing” allows for a delusional, puny little man to falsely claim that God is going to reveal the exact time for his splinter church to “flee” exclusively to himself. “Taken”, on the other hand, implies divine Godly intervention without a man claiming the revelation. There is no mention of Booby Thiel (or Cartoon Bob) or any other HWA wannabee in the Place of Safety scriptures of Matthew 24:40-41.
Words matter!
Richard
Anonymous on Monday, September 7, 2026 at 8:45:56 AM PDT said ... “According to MoA by Herbert, there are no prophets in the church today. Bob is contradicting the man he worships.”
Maybe Bob Thiel has a copy of Gerald Flurry's edited and changed version of Mystery of the Ages, which deletes the sentences that would expose Gerald Flurry's own major doctrinal changes.
Words do matter, Richard! Excellent contribution! Thx
BB
OK all you who are mentioned in Zephaniah 1 - 2:1 (KJV).......Jerusalem, Chemarims with the priests, on housetops, who swear by Malcham, the princes, the king's children, who are clothed with strange apparel, who leap on the threshold, are by the fish gate, Maktesh, men on their lees.......gather yourselves together..............
What are we to make of that? 9:51? You been reading too much Alexander Hislop again?
Oh just some detail on who is to gather......."So get yourselves together. Shape up! You’re a nation without a clue about what it wants!" - Zephaniah.
Unlike Bob's faithful who is to gather, and give him money/support.......
Bob.....shut down your website....
If a tree falls in the middle of the forest and nobody hears it, did it actually make noise?
Bob has a big job ahead, figuring out how to make people listen to him. I don't think God would choose such a totally dismissable messenger.
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