God's most favorite self-appointed crackpot prophet, Bob Thiel, has once again detected the unmistakable scent of the Last Days in a weather report. Europe had a hot summer. California is hot because an El Niño is forming. Therefore, the Fourth Angel is warming up his bowl; then that nasty scoffer website Banned by HWA fulfilled 2 Peter 3, and anyone who points out that weather still happens is walking according to their own lusts.
This is the same raving lunatic who has been announcing the beginning of sorrows since at least 2009. Every flood, every drought, every slightly-above-average August is further confirmation that he, and he alone, is reading the fine print on God's climate policy. When Banned by HWA dares to note that heatwaves also occurred in 2003, 2019, and pretty much every year someone needed a headline, Bob clutches his leather-bound Bible and cries "scoffers!" as if Peter wrote that chapter specifically about a blog that makes fun of him.
Let's apply a little New Covenant thinking, since Crackpot Bob still quotes Deuteronomy 28 like the ink is still wet and the audience is still ancient Israel. Under the Old Covenant, God threatened bronze skies and iron earth if the people didn't keep the statutes. Under the New Covenant, Jesus said the Father "sends rain on the just and the unjust." Weather is no longer a divine performance review for whether you kept the Feast of Tabernacles or avoided pork. It is weather. Sometimes it is El Niño. Sometimes it is climate change. Sometimes it is just July and August. None of these require a 14-minute video titled "Prophetic Scoffers and Earthquakes" in which Crackpot Bob reminds everyone that he was mocked. Oh, the humanity!!!!!!!!!
Crackpot Bob's actual grievance is never the theology. It is that Banned keeps noticing when he does the same routine: take a real event, bolt it onto Mark 13:8, declare it a warning from God, then act wounded when people laugh. The laughter is the persecution. The blog post is the fulfillment of prophecy. The fact that his predictions have the same broken track record as his spiritual daddy, Rod Meredith, is never mentioned. Longsuffering, you see. The Lord is not slack. He's just waiting for Bob to finish another article about how hot it is.
The pattern is now so reliable you could set your air conditioner by it:
- Something meteorological occurs.
- Bob posts scriptures + old Worldwide Church of God quotes + a reminder that he called it in 2009.
- Banned by HWA says, in so many words, "weather exists."
- Bob writes 2,000 words about scoffers in the last days and how they willfully forget the Flood.
- Repeat next heatwave.
At no point does it occur to him that a prophet who needs a new "I was mocked" post every summer might not be the watchman on the wall so much as the guy who keeps yelling "fire" every time the oven preheats.
The world is hot. Crackpot Bob is hotter. And the only thing melting faster than the glaciers is his composure whenever someone refuses to treat his weather commentary as inspired.
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Poor Bobby boy. There are plenty of records showing climate disasters and calamities down through the ages. There is nothing new here. None of the Armstrong movement foresaw forecast, sorry prophesied, the fall of the USSR, the gulf wars, the invasion of Afghanistan, Venezuela, the present Iran war, the October 7th disaster for Israel, the open hostility of the west including Britain Australia Canada and Europe to Israel ( the real one lol), the disintegration of the wwcog into countless ‘churches’ etc etc etc…..and so on……..Bob you are a distraction from the gospel and the saving redemptive work of Jesus Christ…remember Him? Thank you again Banned by HWA for the post…keep it going…
Bob, please wake up. All the "prophecies" in the bible were recorded after the events that they portray had already happen.
Bob's rants remind me of the Simpson's gag showing Homer's father in a newspaper article titled, " Old Man Yells At Clouds".
Bob's good old friend Herbert lied when he told us that secular scholars do not examine the bible.
Astonished this blog seems to be climate deniers.
If "man made global warming" is true, why is an endless stream of lies needed to prop it up?
Some may be, but I am not, 10:53. I believe that it is already too late for mankind to do anything about climate change because it has advanced to the point where the varous factors are feeding upon each other like an uncontrollable nuclear chain reaction. That began several years back when permafrost began melting, releasing incredible amounts of stored carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.
Once grand rivers, such as the Colorado and Danube are drying up. One or two wet seasons will not reverse this. The two great reservoirs on the Colorado, Lake Mead and Lake Powell required twenty years of regular snow pack to fill them, following the building of their respective dams, and they may reach dead pool status by the end if this year. The remains of an entire town which had been flooded by the creation of Lake Mead have reappeared and now have become a tourist attraction for hikers, The water ends miles away from it.
I just don't dwell on this because you don't make any friends discussing it, and I certainly don't use it to sell an oddball religion or to manipulate people into modifying their behavior or paying me tithes. The brave die but once, but cowards die a thousand times. I'll be out of here sooner rather that later. My kids have lived pretty good lives, but it will really affect my grand kids some time in their lives.
It's a thing, it's happening, and there is no use arguing over it when everyone is going to realize that just as soon as their morning coffee is no longer available as it affects the narrow, exclusive, climate band in which coffee grows. For now, I'm savorimg a nice strong cup of Columbian, with raw sugar from the Antilles, and some good old American Half and Half. What can a poor boy do 'cept to play in a rock n roll band? And speaking of that, even the Stones will be gone soon! Sad, because their music made our lives so much more enjoyable, kind of countering the Armstrongs' $hit.
The REAL Beginning Of Sorrows
“This is the same raving lunatic [Bob Thiel] who has been announcing the beginning of sorrows since at least 2009.”
While I have not been following him closely, I suspect that Bob Thiel would have said something like “could be,” “might be,” “possibly,” etc. Bob Thiel is not as confident in his wrong guesses as David Pack is in his wrong guesses. Or, maybe Bob Thiel is simply much wiser than David Pack and always leaves himself a way out.
Anyway, the REAL beginning of sorrows starts as soon as you begin to listen to any of the numerous false prophets (Gerald Flurry, David Pack, Ronald Weinland, Robert Thiel, etc.) on the so-called Church of God scene.
You will end up being really, really, really SORRY that you ever wasted any of your time listening to any of them. You will be even sorrier if you have ever sent any of them any money. The greater the amount of money you have sent them, the greater the sorrow. It is a serious sin against God, against the people that you have helped them lie to, and against yourself.
In that spirit, if Armstrongism is true, why is an endless stream of lies needed to prop it up?
Which means you can know the past..........in advance!!!
What gets me about Bob and the other splinters is that they don't truly give new information. Their public relations stance is that they do, but even reading the occasional book or good YouTube video shows this to be false. This mental burka must be by design to keep their members dumbed down.
Many members don't realize this, and have unscripturally subcontracted this responsibility to their church. There's many bible scriptures about seeking wisdom, understanding, and not forgetting Proverbs 25:2 "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings (including members)."
Dear Bob. I have to tell you something. In love. You STINK!
If the most common rebuttals to Armstongism are true, why the endless pretense needed to prop them up?
So wrong on many levels.
At least Thiel lives openly as himself. He wears no masks.
I would wonder if Grandpa Simpson was based on Bwana Bob, except The Simpsons predates him.
Must be because it's so hot and he did not shower.
The climate has always changed. Man has nothing to do with it. God has nothing to do with it.
The price of oil keep rising so hot water will soon be a rarity.
Time is closing in on all the COG splits, splinters and slivers, with no 2nd Coming ever, and their Mene Mene Tikel is going to get Upharsined.
Oh, he sorely needs a mask or valence, 12:26. Ain't gonna make it with anyone by being himself!
At least Thiel lives openly as himself. He wears no masks.
It's dark in the closet, so he doesn't need a mask there.
Bob absolutely does wear a mask. There is no authenticity in Bob, and I think that is why we have such a problem with him. He is not authentic. He has created this false narrative around himself, and he cannot escape it now. To live as an authentic man would destroy his righteous persona, and he can't have that happen. Humbleness is not a virtue he is capable of having.
If Bob wants to stay relevant in the modern age he has to switch from a high-demand cult to a low-demand cult. That is what most other churches figured out a long time ago. It's about marketing. The first thing to do is to ditch the Sabbath.
Investors are increasingly refusing to buy America's bonds, and Russia is complaining about Germany re-arming, so your claim is debatable.
The closer we get to the end, the more frequent and louder posts to the contrary appear on Banned.
Well you should know10.00.
Oh, Pulleaze! Another person who is totally unaware of the Holocene Extinction and its many facets! Stick around a while. Watch more stuff kick in and get denied by the powerful business interests who are in control! In the mean time, check out the new surfing sites in Greenland and Iceland! Or the recently opened shipping routes through the Arctic Circle! Or maybe the scuttled Nazi WWII warships which just came into view as the Danube continues to dry up.
Anon 12:21:55 PM PDT…’The closer we get to the end the more frequent and louder posts to the contrary appear on Banned’….cracked up at this. What group among the hundreds and hundreds of splinters from the Armstrong movement do you belong too? Remember 1975? HWA is long gone. The church is divided in disarray and its prophetic model in tatters and its core doctrines soundly debunked. No growth, dwindling (massively) congregations. Could go on. This movement has no credibility and those who seek to perpetuate its deeply flawed theologies will fade away in the breeze of time …..but Banned I hope will continue to hold this movement accountable for the harm they have caused.
Thanks for letting us know your apostate plans....
"No 2nd coming ever" .....
Clown behind the fake mask of diehl.
I agree, 12:21! People should know better than to deny climate change. Basically, the planet has had it,
9.03 PM, Believe it or not, some people aren't blindly believing what the splinters claim. Instead they are studying their bibles, observing world evens, and making their own judgment regarding Christ's return.
Very true 7:10.
That sounds almost healthy, 7:10! Too bad they will be thought of as being rebellious or Laodicean, not fully supportive of "God's ministers", etc.
The world was much hotter in the past than it is now. People who say heat waves are breaking records are ignoring the geological record. That makes them liars.
Perhaps in extreme Pack and Flurry groups but not in the other broad based groups.
Church members don't have to wear their opinions on their foreheads, or hang their brains up with their coats.
Well said 12:21. We are living in interesting times, they will either dwindle away or continue to increase. It is not a crime to watch world events.
It is the speed the world is heating up that concerns experts 9:55.
Uh, could you post some of these records?
11.24, it's not just in the extreme groups that members faith is being lorded over. All the splinters are daughters of Herb's WCG, so the old culture is still there. Your "broad based groups" only differ by laying low and begrudging pulling their punches. Members still only have permission slips rather than rights in these groups. Paul pointed out these beneath the surface attitudes in Acts 20.
Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
New Religion
Some people like the new Man-Made Global Warming religion because it enables them to imagine that they are good, noble people who are concerned about “saving the planet” while they actually behave so very badly according to the laws of God that they bring curses such as excessive heat and drought.
In my country, the Green vote is strongest in the rough suburbs. So it's not love of nature that motivates them.
COG groups are thankfully not communes 5:53.
The typical weekly cog worship service is only for a few hours. The set up of typical cog Tabernacles sites offer more freedom to decide what you want to attend and the is not as many seminars as in the past, no two services on holy days anymore or as not as frequent.
Although i agree with you on quoting Acts 20. Many crown stealers are very jealous of members devout faith.
Yes 9:55. I remember when I was younger in the 80s and 90s that the weatherman would go on about summer heatwaves we had that would last 1-2 weeks at least. Now these forecasters go on about so-called “heatwaves” that are only 2-3 days in length! Global warming?! My ass!
Who Controls The Thermostat?
Literally hundreds of factors had to be just right in order for the present human life to exist on earth, and God designed them all. The immoral, godless types are now trying to frighten themselves and everyone else into thinking that the God who created the earth and the sun cannot control one of those hundreds of factors, the temperature. God can simply walk over to, or reach over to, or use the remote control for, the thermostat that controls the temperature of the sun and adjust it a little bit.
So, relax. But do stop sinning so you do not bring upon the earth any bad weather curses. Remember who controls the thermostat!
Global warming is actually in the book of Revelation.. But, like I said, I don't have to say or do anything. When the coffee goes away, and coastal cities begin to flood, and islands disappear, and the world's great rivers that come from melting snowpack and glaciers dry up, there will no lomger be an argument.
Anonymous on Monday, September 14, 2026 at 7:55:19 AM PDT said ... “Global warming is actually in the book of Revelation.. But, like I said, I don't have to say or do anything. When the coffee goes away, and coastal cities begin to flood, and islands disappear, and the world's great rivers that come from melting snowpack and glaciers dry up, there will no lomger be an argument.”
The KEY WORD here seems to be “when.”
According to the past wrong predictions of the Man-Made Global Warming cult's fear-mongering leaders who were making money and gaining power off the scam, all that stuff was supposed to happen years ago already. You could be waiting away the rest of your life hoping in vain to be proven right for joining the Man-Made Global Warming doomsday cult.
Also, maybe kick that coffee habit that you seem to be a slave to. Do not wait for the coffee to go away, because the growing zone would just shift elsewhere even if you were right, which you are not.
Or, maybe a new ice age will hit like the climate guessers were trying to scare people about back in the 1970s, and you will want a hot drink to warm yourself up with.
Of course, the most important thing of all is for you to stop sinning so that you will not be personally responsible for bringing weather-related curses upon the land.
I will not stop protesting until you remove your disgisting false accusation against my innocent children. I will see you on zoom this sabbath don't forget.
Zoom? Too much of a coward to see me in person?
Your on zoom hypocrite. Remove that false accusation about my innocent children.
Oh in a mood are we because Tabernacles is near so you decided to bully my children. You esp hate Atonement. I'm not afraid of you. The things you did with your superdeacon before church began was truly vile. The women in the toilets next door could hear you. Didn't they ever tell you?
And you have the nerve to write false accusations against innocent children. What a farce of a blog.
Biblical truth? You have no interest in truth nor the bible. Only church gossip. It's all about you and your moods and emotions nothing about being godly or holy.
Considering you are both hiding behind "Anonymous" names, how do you know with whom you are arguing?
And, if you were really Christians, why are you arguing so childishly?
Hate to be the skitz-whisperer here, but I just reread every single word in the article and comments. No childrens' names are mentioned anywhere. The only words even related to children are "El Nino" (the little boy) and "La Nina" (the little girl).
I think someone was pranking us, and it went over our heads! Attention: Joker. Next time you want to be funny, be sure to put your jokestrap on in the morning!
Here we all are, desperately waiting out the Trumpocalypse, hoping enough is left for us to survive on, and mount a recovery, when suddenly, Napoleon the 13th escapes from the funny farm and makes insane accusations that have nothing to do with any of us, or the topics of the blog entries! Too much, man! Seems like Satan is attacking our work here all of a sudden.
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