Should You Trust Scripture Twisting Crackpot Prophets When They Bloviate About The End Times???

 

Oh, glory hallelujah and cue the heavenly trumpets—because God's supreme, doubly-blessed, naturopathy-degreed gift to prophecy, the incomparable Dr. Bob Thiel of the improperly named "continuing" Church of God, has mercifully descended from his COGwriter throne just in time for the end-of-2025 festivities to enlighten those bland, lukewarm, sabbath-keepers and a few mainstream Christians with his latest blockbuster saga of cataclysmic doom barreling toward the fan like a divine freight train.

Just like the legendary Armstrongist apocalypse aficionados—who've been nailing zero correct end-times predictions since Herbert W. Armstrong's heyday in the 1930s with a flawless streak of misses that would make even the Chicago Cubs jealous—our esteemed heroes positively quiver with euphoric glee at the prospect of one-third of wicked humanity getting spectacularly barbecued in biblical judgment. Naturally, because the ultra-pure, spotless leaders and members of the splintered Church of God factions are obviously the most impeccably holy, "real" Philadelphia-remnant Christians ever to tiptoe across this doomed, soon-to-be-charred planet. 

 

Lo and behold, the unbeatable duo of Crackpot Bob and his shadowy sidekick (that ever-present co-host in those epic, marathon-length Bible News Prophecy videos) are back at it, generously gifting humanity their hyper-detailed, blow-by-blow script for Armageddon! As we wrap up December 2025, they're absolutely buzzing with fresh "Countdown to the Great Tribulation" alerts, breathlessly decoding Iran's bold declarations of war against the US, Israel, and Europe (clearly the King of the South rising, duh), pondering why Hindus might cozy up to a European Beast power, dissecting the Abomination of Desolation's potential location, and marveling at BRICS ditching the dollar—all while dropping their annual "26 items to prophetically watch in 2026" list, because nothing says "imminent doom" like another recycled checklist of vague signs that somehow never quite materialize. 

 

And let's not forget the summer's blockbuster hit: that red heifer sacrificed back in July 2025 (ashes collected and everything!), which Bob valiantly debated as potentially counting toward temple purification—despite the Temple Institute nitpicking a few stray hairs—proving once again that animal sacrifices are totes necessary for end-times kickoff, even though Jesus kinda already handled that. 

 

But can we honestly entrust our eternal souls to these self-anointed oracles? Or are they just the freshest faces in the endless Armstrongist parade of "prophets" who've perfected the fine arts of scriptural twister, timeline tango, creative current-events alchemy, and perpetual emotional whiplash to keep their minuscule flock in a state of breathless, tithing-fueled suspense—forever nudging that "right around the corner" apocalypse a few more years down the road while explaining away every glorious flop? Oh, what an utterly flawless, divinely inspired legacy of pinpoint accuracy and humble prophecy! One can scarcely contain the awe at this unparalleled display of prophetic brilliance. Truly, the end has never felt so... perpetually delayed!

Countdown to the Great Tribulation 

Is 2026 the year the Great Tribulation finally begins?

Is this is the start of a Sabbatical cycle some have postulated countdowns to the return of Jesus?

Is a Sabbatical cycle or Jubilee year even mentioned by Jesus as a leading indicator of the Great Tribulation?

Jesus, Himself, pointed to events, including some written by the prophet Daniel. If God has placed some of the understanding of the signs of the beginning of the Great Tribulation in the words of Daniel the prophet till the time of the end, what are those signs?

If 2026 is not the year the Great Tribulation begins, could any of the signs mentioned in the book of Daniel begin to take place in 2026?

Could this year be the beginning of the end?

Do you want to know?

In Matthew 24:3 Jesus’ disciples wanted to know.

Of course, we know Jesus said no one knows the day or the hour, but Jesus also told us in Matthew 24:33 that we will know when it is at the very doors!

What about the timing of Armageddon?

Surely you, just like the disciples, want to know.

Watch this video as Dr. Thiel shines the light of Biblical prophecy on the future of the possibilities that await us in the new calendar year.

Listen as Dr. Thiel explains the scriptures that prophesy a seven year (one week) ‘peace deal’ in Daniel, the breaking of that deal, the rise of the king of the north and the king of the south, the Great Tribulation and the return of our Lord and Savior.

The time for the countdown to begin is close at hand.

Dave Pack And The Tevet 10 Escape Hatch

 

The Tevet 10 Escape Hatch

Much like when a bully shrinks back when opposed by someone of courage, David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God proves to be the consummate coward in the face of his own prophetic declarations as the time draws near.

Part 613 – December 20, 2025
@ 1:57:39 Some of the biggest and most powerful proofs of Tevet 10 I haven't even hinted at.

You can add those “most powerful proofs of Tevet 10” to the long list of things Dave will never finish. He invented mathto reinforce the strength of Tevet 10 (December 29), being the day the Kingdom arrives. The now infamous "A, You Know, It's Kinda in in a Way, it's a Form of of Math, I Guess. Um. Is it Algebra?” formula only lasted one week.

The RCG members who were “probably certainly possibly totally convicted” one week ago have egg on their faces today. But they can let it slide onto the massive pile of waffles Dave just served them.

During “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 614)” on December 27, 2025, David C. Pack installed bright lights leading to the Tevet 10 escape hatch by announcing to the brethren that there are three other candidates for a Kingdom arrival after Tuesday passes.

David C. Pack claims to be an apostle. He is Elijah. He is the Seventh Angel. He is inspired by the Holy Spirit. God uses him to end the Mystery of God by rushing to call it out by making it plain.

He is all of those things except when it matters.

The All-Believing Zealots must have been supremely disappointed once they got near the end of Part 614 when their human idol rained on their parade. Those still bothering to pay attention picked up on the Daveisms near the start.

Part 614 – December 27, 2025
@ 02:30 So we're looking right now at the possibility of a Monday night, but we'd hafta know the day. We'd have to know the day of the week to know the applicable year.

@ 03:33 Three accounts plainly declare the Kingdom to Israel begins in the third day of a week. We’re coming to a Tevet 10. If Tevet 10 is the right day, that just happens to be the third day.

This does not sound like a church leader spelling out his “biggest and most powerful proofs of Tevet 10.” Instead, Dave is undermining the foundation he built the week before.

Skip ahead one hour and seventeen minutes.

@ 1:20:44 You know, I've I've rushed to make plain and to end the Mystery of God. So I'll now be I'll now be, you know, I try to be as open-hearted as I can, to conclude with a few final comments.

Dave not only opens the escape hatch for Tevet 10, but he perpetually insulates himself into the vanishing point.

@ 1:21:02 No date that I've ever seen seems impervious to challenge. They're just not a dent in it. And there are two more dates. …One is very powerful. And it’s on the third day of the week. Believe me, I and my team and a circle of men I talked to, have been conflicted. [chuckles]

@ 1:22:03 These other cases have grown over the years for a period longer than Tevet 10, which was just over a year ago, where I’d waiting for that to mature.

Tevet 10 did not muh-tour, Dave. It fermented and should have remained a pile of notes at the bottom of your briefcase.

Mr. Wishy, I would like to introduce you to Mr. Washy.

@ 1:22:19 I do expect the Kingdom Monday. Monday night. Monday morning, our time. But as much as I do, I'm duty-bound to tell you about the other dates, and they leave me conflicted. I'm almost–I expect it, and I don't.

That is the perfect definition of being "double-minded." But make no mistake: He does not expect it. Not for a moment.

David C. Pack is a hypocritical, blaspheming liar on top of being a false teacher, false apostle, and false prophet. He knows nothing will happen on Tevet 10, but he tries to save face. This is a ploy to avoid accountability. In RCG, it works every time.

@ 1:22:39 It's not like any other time we've ever been in before. Both the dates are strong, but in different ways.

We have seen this before and before and before. Since 2013. Tevet 10 and the other options are no different. Only the All-Believing Zealots refuse to remember.

@ 1:23:11 They are either mimicking Tevet 10 or Tevet 10 is mimicking them. These men are all conflicted between Tevet 10 and a later date that is also on the third day of the week. And I'm just gonna tell you that case is immensely strong. And it is not Tevet 10.

This escape hatch leads Dave to the “I Was Right” Lounge next week.

 

 

@ 1:23:57 I've talked with the men, and we've all we've all agreed that God has left us with what could what we have we’ve come to call in a circle of us “strategic ambiguity.” Maybe He doesn’t want us to know.

So much for apostolic authority and confidence.

If God does not want Dave to know, why does Dave persist and press and push onward?

Instead of Dave’s sermons being “God-breathed knowledge,” spoken during holy time on the Sabbath, he admits it has been the effort of a man desperate for legitimacy and relevance.

If God does not want Dave to know, then what is the point of “The Greatest Untold Story!” Series? What is the point of teaching something that God does not want known and actively prevents you from understanding it? Does that not mean Dave is a rebel fighting against God’s will?

Why does Dave’s god inspire him to teach these things, but at the same time, does not want him to understand? Because David C. Pack worships and preaches a god of madness.

@ 1:26:40 Only when all subsequent competing dates die away beyond any last possible one can you have full confidence a date cannot delay. I I wish I could tell you Tevet 10 has no no competitors. But it’s not true. But it's not true. If a powerful case sits before you, but a big one sits behind it, the more immediate one is harder to believe. That's why I'm conflicted.

Dave is moved by the Great Discomforter.

@ 1:29:41 It's kinda like next batter up. I'll tell you a case. It's just unbelievably powerful that's not far beyond Tevet 10. But there's no point in getting into it other than preparing you ‘cause I don't want you to be brokenhearted. I love you, brethren. I mean, I don't like to be brokenhearted either. “Oh no, it didn’t come. And that was our only–“ It isn’t the only option.

Nothing will occur on Tevet 10. He knows this and has already said it.

David C. Pack is not capable of bravely facing any date without opening the prophetic escape hatch while clutching a large plate of biblical waffles.

He is a biblical fraud, a human idol, and will never be correct about prophetic timing. There is no way for him to escape that.

Marc Cebrian

See: The Tevet 10 Escape hatch

Gerald And Vicki Flurry Divorce Court Papers

 

This was sent in by a credible source. 

Six-pack Gerry seems to have gotten off easy in his divorce settlement. Lil'Stevie won't have to compete with Vicki after his daddy dies and the organization transfers to his sweaty hands.

The Incarnation and Our Restlessness

One of the profound concepts of Christian theology that Armstrongism tended to overlook, or even mock at times, is the concept of the incarnation, failing to realize that it was the divine response to a deep, universal human longing.

The Incarnation is the hypostatic union—the permanent, personal union of the divine nature and a human nature in the one person of Jesus Christ, "without confusion, without change, without division, without separation." Jesus is thus truly God and truly man, one person with two natures.

At its core is the idea of a mystical longing—the creature's ache for the Creator, the finite reaching toward the infinite, humanity's innate desire for the divine. This isn't merely a Christian concept but a transcendent reality evident across cultures, religions, and eras. Philosophers, poets, and mystics have described it as an inner restlessness, a sense that earthly joys, achievements, and relationships ultimately fall short, leaving the soul yearning for something more eternal and fulfilling.

St. Augustine of Hippo articulated this most famously in his Confessions: 

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. 

 

This restlessness arises because humans are created in God's image (imago Dei), imprinted with a capacity for the infinite that no finite thing can satisfy. It's a longing woven into our very being—a homesickness for the divine source from which we came.

For Christians, this universal ache finds its ultimate answer in the Incarnation: God becoming human in Jesus Christ. The baby in the manger is not just a sentimental image but the staggering fulfillment of that longing. The eternal Word "became flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:14), bridging the chasm between the infinite God and finite humanity. As theologians like Athanasius and Irenaeus emphasized, God took on our humanity to restore what was lost—to make us partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

This is grace unimaginable: not a distant deity demanding we climb to the divine, but God descending to us in vulnerability and love. Born in a humble stable, among animals, to a young virgin and her faithful spouse, Jesus enters our world as one of us—experiencing hunger, joy, sorrow, and temptation—yet without sin. He does this, as the comment notes, "to show us how to love one another." The Incarnation reveals God's love as self-giving (kenosis, or emptying, as in Philippians 2:6-8), modeling perfect humility, compassion, and sacrifice. It teaches that true love isn't power imposed from above but presence shared in weakness.

The nativity scene powerfully symbolizes this. The shepherds—ordinary workers, many tiems the outcasts of society—represent humanity's humble longing answered first by angels' announcement of "good news of great joy." The Magi, wise seekers from afar, embody that cross-cultural yearning for truth, guided by a star to worship the King. Animals surround the manger, evoking Isaiah's peaceable kingdom where creation itself participates in redemption. Under a starry night, the infinite enters the finite, heaven touches earth.

In this child, the mystical longing is met with divine initiative. God doesn't wait for us to perfect our search; He comes to us, loves us into wholeness, and invites us to love as He loves. As we gaze on the manger today—especially on this Christmas Day—we're reminded that our restlessness has a resting place: in the God who became one of us.

Calculating the Date of the Messiah's Birth

Calculating the Date of the Messiah's Birth

For almost two millennia, Christians have celebrated the events of their Savior's life. To be clear, there are only two events in the life of Jesus of Nazareth which can be associated with a particular date on the calendar based on the scriptural evidence alone. They are his death just before Passover, and his resurrection which occurred on the following Sunday. Indeed, even in this instance, we find much to debate and haggle over! Moreover, Jesus himself only left instructions for his disciples to commemorate his death (the Eucharist). Even so, Christians have persisted in celebrating their Lord's birth, dedication, baptism, death, and resurrection.

There are a number of very good reasons for all of this. For Christians, the appearance and work of Jesus Christ is the most important occurrence in the history of humankind. For his disciples, his sacrifice for the sins of humankind means salvation and life. For them, his teachings and example underscore love, compassion, empathy, kindness, forgiveness, mercy, and peace. For Christians, Jesus is the fulfillment of the Hebrew Scriptures - the culmination of God's plans for all of us. In short, Jesus is everything to his followers, and anything associated with him is worthy of celebration and remembrance.

That this impulse to celebrate their Messiah has been present from the beginning of the movement is beyond all question. Two of the Gospel accounts (Matthew and Luke) contain elaborate narratives associated with his birth. The Gospel of John celebrates Christ's existence prior to his human birth and Divine nature. Three of the Gospel accounts (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) relate events surrounding his baptism, and all four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) have detailed accounts of the events surrounding his death and resurrection. In other words, the foundations for these celebrations of the life of Christ were laid by the authors of the canonical Gospels themselves!

We would also be remiss not to mention the fact that Christ himself said that he came to this earth to fulfill the Law and the Prophets of the Hebrew Bible! Indeed, the Gospels are literally full of passages from the Hebrew Bible which it is claimed that Jesus fulfilled. Moreover, in numerous of his epistles, Paul suggests that things in Torah pointed to Jesus Christ, and that he constituted the reality which they symbolically portrayed. And, finally, in the anonymously authored epistle to the Hebrews, Jesus is quite explicitly tied to the temple, priesthood, sacrificial system, and Sabbaths of the collection of writings known to us as the Old Testament.

Now, the rites of Baptism and the Eucharist are undoubtedly the oldest celebrations of the Christian Church (ekklesia). However, we know that the celebration of Christ's resurrection began almost immediately after that event. Indeed, in other posts on this blog, we have demonstrated that Christian worship on the first day of the week was well-entrenched by the conclusion of the First Century. Likewise, from the writings of a Christian Bishop named Hippolytus, we know that Christians had already begun giving serious consideration to fixing a date to celebrate Christ's birth.

According to the Biblical Archaeology Society, Hippolytus based his calculations on the widespread belief that God organized events throughout the cosmos to happen in conjunction with seasonal and celestial events. In this case, the calculation was that the date of Christ's conception had occurred on the vernal equinox of that year (March 25). Hence, nine months later would make December 25 the date of his birth! Moreover, as no one actually knew the precise date of Christ's birth by that time (early in the Third Century), the bishop's calculations seemed like a reasonable estimation to many within the Church (the Eastern Church made a similar calculation, but their starting point was in early April). At any rate, the date eventually caught on, and the rest is history.

Personally, I wish to make clear that I believe that it is completely appropriate to celebrate any and all of the events surrounding the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Moreover, I believe that Bishop Hippolytus of Rome's calculations regarding the date of Christ's birth were sincere and are fine (especially from the vantage point of longstanding tradition). Nevertheless, as I have already indicated here and elsewhere, I believe that Jesus was the fulfillment of Torah - including all things relative to the festivals which the ancient Israelites were commanded to keep.

Hence, while I agree with the presumption that God has organized significant events in "His" plans along a spiritual timeline, I now believe it is more likely that Christ's birth occurred sometime during the festival which portrayed him tabernacling in the flesh. The current celebrations are fine, and I participate in them. However, if we're taking an objective look at the available evidence, I would say that it is more likely that Jesus was born at the beginning of the Feast of Tabernacles/Booths/Temporary Dwellings. Anyway, that's my two cents.

Miller Jones/Lonnie C Hendrix

A Contextual Christmas Bible Study: From Insane to the Annunciation

“The accounts of Jesus’s birth haven’t ever been that influential in how people actually celebrate Christmas”

In Mark: Mary Would Have Said: "An Annunciation of What? By who?  When?..I don't think so...."

                       

To be fair,  there doesn't seem to be any memory or celebration of Jesus birthdays years 1-30-ish in the New Testament. It's like they never even heard of it. 

In Mark, which has no birth story of Jesus at all (and no resurrection story either) we just have Mary, who apparently knew nothing of or forgot everything about Jesus miraculous birth circumstances, and brothers coming down to Jerusalem to take Jesus home before he got himself into real trouble. 

"Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat.

When his family heard what was happening, they tried to take him away. “He’s out of his mind,” they said."

31 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”

33 “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.

34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”

Mark 3:20-21, 31-35

(Note: Apologetics can and are made for just who the "they" of the text is. Mary and Jesus brothers, or the crowd. In my mind and the mind of scholars, they are Mary and his brothers. No one doubts they came down to retrieve Jesus)

HOWEVER...

This embarrassing bit of scripture was removed by he authors of Matthew and Luke as the story evolved over time. 

In Matthew 12 we have we have the same story but without the "for they thought he was insane" part. 

Mary and Jesus' brothers just show up and wish to speak to him but why is not stated.

46 While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. 47 Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”

48 He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

LUKE takes the clean up one step further yet.

Jesus Mother and Brothers merely try unsuccessfully to see Jesus. Jesus disavows them and does not find it necessary to even bother seeing them.

19 Now Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd. 20 Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”

21 He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice.”

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Paul only notes Jesus was born of a woman and a regular Jewish baby.

"But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law"

Galatians 4:4

Matthew and Luke had yet to written. In my mind and in the minds of other Church historians, the Birth Narratives of Jesus were inserted later in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. If excised from the texts we see, in their opinion, and stitched back together, they read just fine without the Birth Narratives. 

Example from Matthew

Matthew 1:17

17 Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.

REMOVE THE BIRTH NARRATIVE FROM 1:18-2:23 and go right to

Matthew 3:1

3 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:

Flows just fine without the birth story. 

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Some feel the Birth Narratives were inserted to oppose the rumors that Jesus was "born of fornication" try to show he was really born as a God-Man like the Caesars. 

The Rumors

John 8:42

"We weren't born of fornication"

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/62763/meaning-of-the-jews-response-in-john-841

"Yeshua ben Panthera - Yeshua (Jesus) son of Panthera, Panthera is a Roman soldier, this is how Jesus is named in the Talmud. The Pharisees do not believe in a virgin conception of Jesus but call Mariam a whore among the Roman soldiers.

I believe that it is him they refer to as being born of fornication when the father to them was not know nor no proper registration of birth and father certificate which they the Pharisees would hold in the temple.

Commentaries hold the believe that they refer to the surrounding nations and their idoltery as to mean being born under fornication."

This is what the Pharisees penned down about Jesus;

Sanhedrin 106a, Jesus' mother was a whore: "She who was the descendant of princes and governors played the harlot with carpenters."

Shabbat 104b it is stated that in the "uncensored" text of the Talmud it is written that Jesus mother, "Miriam the hairdresser," had sex with many men. "Jesus was a bastard born of adultery."

(Yebamoth 49b, p.324). "Mary was a whore: Jesus (Balaam) was an evil man." (Sanhedrin 106a &b, p.725). "Jesus was a magician and a fool. Mary was an adulteress". (Shabbath 104b, p.504).

I hold the believe that John 8.41, "We be not born of fornication", was in fact a slanted suggestion that the legitimacy of His birth was in question."

Raymond Brown’s book is great because it is the only full-length scholarly commentary on the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke.

For somebody who has grown up listening to the Christmas stories, or has made the effort to read the Gospel stories of Jesus’s birth in Matthew and Luke, but has questions about any of the particular things that are said, questions of historicity, all of that can be found in Brown’s book.

Not only is there detailed word-by-word explanation of what every single verse means, but there are also a number of helpful appendices that deal with specific issues that come up in the study of the infancy narratives. For example, the disagreements between Luke and Matthew in terms of Jesus’s genealogy.

“The accounts of Jesus’s birth haven’t ever been that influential in how people actually celebrate Christmas”

There’s also the question of the historicity of the census that Luke says was taken while Quirinius was Governor: Luke doesn’t quite seem to be getting his historical information correctly.

Also, the question of whether or not Jesus was born in Bethlehem and what the historical arguments for that are. They’re really not very good. Most biblical scholars believe that Jesus was born in Nazareth, in Galilee, and that he was later said to have been born in Bethlehem because that was where the Messiah was believed to have to come from.

But it all worked out and, over time, with tweaks and edits, Jesus became, theologically, "Fully God and Fully Man"

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!

 

Beware of Nimrod's Testicles, Satan's Snake and Santa!

NOTE: It's that time of year again in Church of God land and the anti-Christmas crowd is spewing its hilarious venom.  Bob Thiel has doubled down on his yearly childish melt-down.

So, it's time for a rerun:

As Christmas approaches, the Armstrongism crowd is out in full force, frothing at the mouth and spewing their annual tirade about how utterly demonic the holiday is.

Classic Armstrongite rants are designed purely to belittle anyone who dares celebrate Christmas:

Christmas trees symbolize Nimrod sprouting from his grave:

Nimrod, the mighty hunter against God!!! (Because apparently he was the original rebel without a cause.) He married his own mother, got himself killed, and—poof!—an evergreen tree miraculously sprouted from his grave. 

Voilà, the world's first Christmas tree. How festive.

Got angels on your tree? Congratulations, you're dangling dead babies in honor of Nimrod!

Nimrod was depicted as a baby (naturally), alongside the pine tree representing his reborn self. Babies were allegedly burned alive as offerings to him. So those cute little angel ornaments? They're supposedly murdered infants. Charming.

Tinsel on the tree? Oh honey, you're literally draping Satan's snake all over it.

Those shiny strings of tinsel symbolize the serpent/Satan slithering around. (And knowing Armstrongites' bizarre obsession with sexual innuendo, I won't even speculate on what else that "snake" might imply. Use your imagination—it's probably worse.)

Hanging ball ornaments? Bold move—you're adorning your tree with Nimrod's testicles!

Legend has it Nimrod was chopped into pieces after death, and his... ahem... family jewels were never found. Hence, we hang balls on evergreens to commemorate the missing parts. (Nimrod must've had some seriously massive ones to inspire an entire global tradition.)

 Nimrod certainly had some big balls!

Dare to plop your kid on Santa's lap?

Back in the day, they supposedly fed babies into fires to celebrate Nimrod's birthday. Angels = dead babies, red suit = fire (obviously). So putting your child on a jolly fat man's lap in red is basically ritually passing them through the flames. 

And Santa? Just an anagram for Satan. Mind. Blown.

The hilarious irony? When these Armstrongites unleash this avalanche of unhinged nonsense, they somehow think it's "witnessing" for their god. Newsflash: it converts exactly zero people. It just repels everyone and makes them look like conspiracy theorists who flunked history class. They're not drawing anyone closer to Jesus Christ—they're just embarrassing themselves spectacularly.

But hey, maybe that's par for the course in Armstrongism? After all, who needs facts when you've got Nimrod's imaginary gonads to rally around? Merry Christmas, folks—may your trees be ball-free and your holidays blissfully snake-less.

Dave Pack Newsflash: The Kingdom Comes on December 29, 2025 (Tevet 10)

Newsflash: The Kingdom Comes on December 29, 2025 (Tevet 10)

David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God dropped December 5 and 19 like hot potatoes when he post-retroactively touted Tevet 10 as the real day that cannot tarry that he had been stewing on for a year.

During “The Greatest Untold Story! (Part 612)” on December 13, 2025, the Pastor General hinted that Tevet 10 had been on his mind for twelve months, but he uncharacteristically kept his mouth shut about it. The following week, during Part 613, he unleashed “only about half” of the proofs proving the Father will bring the Kingdom to Israel at sunset in Jerusalem on December 29, 2025.

The present truth of Tevet 10’s significance is so convincing that Dave held up three single-spaced legal-sized pages that contained over 100 proofs he did not have to the time to go through.

Part 612 – December 13, 2025
@ 13:46 And I'm really not gonna talk about it today. But I added and added and added to this list of things, single-spaced, things that related to this day. And it's almost infinitely more important than we ever realize. There's a there's 64 things on one page. Here's another 40-some and more. And I kept adding to it for now a year and three days. I waited to see if it would mature.

More like Dave waited to see his other doctrines fail due to the sheer pressure of time.

@ 14:21 So I'm today planting a seed. I hope it's THE seed of what might be. This year, Tevet 10 is December 29th.

December 29 is only a few days away, folks. Please plan accordingly.

@ 45:44 I've never heard anybody, for regardless of what Tevet 10 means …ever talk about a day that has a name that's to be engraved in our minds and is written five times in the Bible, and it's Tevet 10. Nobody. Took me a long time to figure out what I thought I was seeing.

Dave has not figured anything out. But that did not stop him from donning his Inspector Clouseau garb during Part 613 on December 20. His timidity was peppered throughout the two-hour message.

Part 613 – December 20, 2025
@ 01:02 My task is to be God's detective. His, well, shall we say, private investigator. And, I I think I've been trained enough by this time in such things to hopefully get it right.

David C. Pack is a blaspheming, hypocritical liar, false apostle, false teacher, and false prophet. He will never "get it right." That is, unless the coincidences keep stacking up.

@ 25:59 The month of Tevet began in Jerusalem at about 9:30 this morning. So, is it a coincidence that I'm talking about it right as we're coming into this date at the end of 614 sermons and ten years and three months length?

It is not a coincidence that he planned and prepared to speak about a date that was about to happen. This is not magic or a divine fiat. Dave made it happen.

Part 613 was a "greatest hits" of Dave's terrible traits: Pointless lists, non-coincidences, manufactured math, timid caveats carefully worded to avoid the responsibility of future failure, and putting the burden on the brethren to “prove” his nonsense.

The topper was his “my job” declaration, designed to remove accountability for when brethren have to avoid another round of New Year's Eve party invitations.

@ 1:39:37 My job is not to declare Tevet 10. My job is to declare the facts without bias. I've been wrong before. So if you if you're sitting out there, “Mr. Pack says Tevet 10,” well, you don't need to worry about it, because that's all you're counting on. You don't need to worry about salvation.

The most sinister part of Dave's tactic is the "If you don't believe me, you will not get salvation" play that he has used many times before.

@ 1:39:56 You’ve gotta you lock in. Now, if I'm wrong, then I'll come back [chuckles] and I'll tell you I'm wrong. There are other candidates out there beyond Tevet 10 that are that are, I'll I’ll just say, enticing.

Dave chuckled because he already knew he was wrong. But he is just playing the game. He sprinkled breadcrumbs for brethren who still bother to pay attention. The All-Believing Zealots ignore those flags.

I suspect the waffling wiggle room will fully manifest during Part 614 this Sabbath if there is not a preemptive, dream-crushing CAD email to soften the embarrassment of retiring all those single-spaced pages.

The last few sentences of his two-hour message had the intent of sounding confident, but screamed that Dave knew the brethren were not buying it.

@ 1:57:27 While you are probably certainly possibly totally convicted, consider one more time that you've heard a bit over half the case for Tevet 10. Some of the biggest and most powerful proofs of Tevet 10 I haven't even hinted at.

Please write in the comments if you have ever been “probably certainly possibly totally” about anything. Bonus points if it relates to a biblical doctrine.

With Tevet 10 looming on the horizon, here is one hilarious example of what passes for inspired, apostolic knowledge in The Restored Church of God.

@ 35:11 Now I want to take you to a certain formula. We're gonna put some verses together. I call it “A, You Know, It's Kinda in a in a Way, it's a Form of of Math, I Guess. Um. Is it Algebra?” You know, I've explained in the past, if A equals B and B equals C, then C equals A. A equals B and B equals C. They're the same thing. Then, C equals A. And you could keep going. If A equals B, B equals C, C equals D, D equals E, E equals F. Then, F equals A.

Prepare for nothing prophetic to happen on December 29 and for David C. Pack to dissolve that doctrine before the date comes. Tevet 10 will be his 138th failure since August 30, 2013.

Mark Cebrian

See: News Flash: The Kingdom Comes on December 29, 2025

A Timely Reminder for the Actual and Older Reason for the Season

 

" As Above So Below"     The Winter Solstice Sunrise  at Stonehenge Original View 4,400 Years Ago Yesterday December 21st, 2025   The December 22nd to Christmas Day Nightflix Story in Revelation of the Virgin Giving Birth to the Sun   For the next three days, (December 22nd to the 24th),  the Sun neither goes further South nor does it begin its journey back North. This first 1 degree North is Christmas Day. For now, it is three days "in the grave of the Solstice, which means "Sun Stand Still" The Sun begins its removing the Darkness of Winter (Sins of the world) at "about 30 " (Jesus began his ministry at "about 30)  degrees north, or one month later in January where Aquarius, The Water Man is the main constellation. This would be John the Baptist in the NightFlix Story. Virgo, The Virgin, gives birth to the Sun on December 25th. Ophiuchus stands between the Virgin and the Sun waiting with the Serpent (Dragon) to devour her child.  The Constellation Aquila, the Eagle, waits behind Ophiuchus and his Serpent waiting to take the Woman "to her place". ====================== The author of Revelation knew his yearly cycles and the constellations associated with them to tell his story. Sunrise this morning December 22, 2025 Virgo, the Virgin-upper right Ophiuchus, Serpens and the Serpent-Middle Aquila the Eagle-Lower left The Woman Giving Birth and the Serpent Revelation 12 12 And then a great wonder appeared in heaven: There was a woman who was clothed with the sun, and the moon was under her feet. She had a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out with pain because she was about to give birth. NOTE: The author of Revelation must have written in the late Fall or near the Winter Solstice to tell his story in the night sky. The Moon must have been under the feet of the Constellation Virgo, The Virgin. "Clothed in the Sun" would be the rising Sun. 3 Then another wonder appeared in heaven: There was a giant red dragon there. The dragon had seven heads with a crown on each head. It also had ten horns. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky  (Ophiuchus plus the Constellation Serpens cover about 1/3 of the night sky) and threw them down to the earth. It stood in front of the woman who was ready to give birth to the baby. It wanted to eat the woman’s baby as soon as it was born. 5 The woman gave birth to a son, who would rule all the nations with an iron rod. And her child was taken up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman ran away into the desert to a place that God had prepared for her. There she would be taken care of for 1260 days. 13 The dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth. So he chased the woman who had given birth to the child. 14 But the woman was given the two wings of a great eagle. Then she could fly to the place that was prepared for her in the desert.

Crackpot Prophet On The Closing Act For His Short Work

 

Oh, we've all marveled countless times at the sheer lunacy spewing from Crackpot Bob and his devoted little minions. The theological absurdities they churn out are nothing short of breathtaking—truly astounding in their brilliance!

But hey, what else could we possibly expect? After all, the Great Bwana Bob is such a towering figure in Church of God history that he was personally involved in the original creation planning session, right there with the Holy Trinity as they meticulously mapped out humanity's salvation process exactly 5,987 years ago. The Trinity, in Their infinite wisdom, foresaw a massive apostasy coming and specifically engineered Bob to emerge in these perilous end times as the ultimate warning beacon for the church and the world.

Little did the Holy Trinity know that a whopping 99.98% of the Church of God would stubbornly refuse to follow their divinely appointed savior. Alas, that flawless salvation process is now permanently shattered, forcing Jesus to make His grand return... to Wadsworth, Ohio, of all places. But that's a saga for another day.

The inimitable Great Bwana Bob is merely here to complete his "short work," and once that's wrapped up—brace yourselves—holy hell is going to erupt across the world like never before. How blessed we are to live in such enlightened times!

We in the CCOG have been preparing for that short work, which is why we have our gospel booklet in numerous languages online. We prepare for it and God will finish it. 

 

Notice that a short work/word/matter (matter is also in the LSV) will be cut off and proceed a time of destruction. The message of God’s word will go forth, and this will happen–Gentiles and Israelites are to be reached. 

 

An important part of the short work relates to the fulfillment of Matthew 24:14, which, in a sense, is cut short as it triggers the end coming:

14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14) 

 

The incomparable Crackpot Bob even dares to claim that Herbert W. Armstrong himself prophetically foretold his glorious "short work"—as if the late HWA wouldn't have personally booted Crackpot Bob's rebellious, narcissistic behind straight to the curb decades ago for his insolent and utterly narcissistic behavior.

How touching that Bob imagines himself as the fulfillment of prophecy! Truly, the humility on display is mind-boggling.

While we were not in the very end time then, we are much closer to it now. In a letter dated October 18, 1983 he wrote that he realized that the ‘short work’ was for the future:

I feel God will move swiftly soon to make a short work preparatory to Christ’s coming.

The short work most definitely involves preparation now. This is part of why more materials, literature, articles, books, booklets, and websites are being developed and/or added to.

Here is what was in Herbert W. Armstrong’s last letter:

The greatest work lies ahead … Never before in the history of the Church has it been possible to reap so great a harvest. It has only been made possible through modern technology, beginning with the printing press, radio, television … Each of you must commit yourself to support God’s Work…God’s work must push ahead as never before. God is opening up new doors in television (Letter, 1/10/86).

Presuming he was correct that the greatest work lies ahead, that is consistent that more needed to happen to fulfill Matthew 24:14. New doors, like internet television have been opened during the 21st century. And we in CCOG do use various forms of radio.

Oh, so? There's absolutely nothing special about that in the grand scheme of a Church of God splinter group. Big whoop!

But does that humble realization slow down the magnificent Great Bwana Bob? Of course not! He bravely presses on to proclaim just how utterly superfantabulous his sermons truly are. No other COG group can even dream of comparing when it comes to the awe-inspiring, mind-bogglingly profound words that majestically emanate from the sacred mouths of the Great Bwana Bob and his loyal little minions.

Truly, we are witnessing verbal miracles of biblical proportion—how blessed we are to bask in such unparalleled eloquence!

One of the reasons that our sermons in the CCOG are more scriptural, historically, and prophetically-focused than other churches is to help train you so that God may use YOU to instruct many (Daniel 11:33) and be a witness (Matthew 24:14). 

 

But there will be persecution. Others are NOT being trained like this–other churches do not focus on preparing their congregants to instruct many–at least none that I know of. 

 

Notice that the LOVE OF MANY WILL GROW COLD. They will not care enough about sacrificing and going through the open door (Acts 14:27; Revelation 3:7-8). 

 

Most will not realize that the end cannot come–and Matthew 24:14 fulfilled–until more of the fullness of the Gentiles have come in:

25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. (Romans 11:25) 

This is how he justifies his African followers: 

The Gentiles who God will call in this age MUST come in, hence planting the seeds for that is part of the short work!

He then continued with this:

The Apostle Paul also wrote:

14 … Judeans, 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men, 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, (1 Thessalonians 2:14-16) 

 

Many today, instead of forbidding it like the Jews, downplay and/or ridicule reaching Gentiles in places like Africa. But, they do not seem to understand that the Bible teaches that WE MUST INSTRUCT MANY INCLUDING GENTILES! 

 

Are YOU one supporting the preparation of the final phase of the work and the short work? 

Shame on you, you rebellious Laodiceans! How dare you not support Bwana Bob's amazing work!

 

Most Christians will NOT. Most Christians prophesied to NOT be Philadelphians in the end before the start of the Great Tribulation. Most Christians still not have the same zeal or love of the truth and proclaiming it that they should–although the Book of Hebrews teaches:

1 Let brotherly love (Philadelphia) continue (Hebrews 13:1). 

 

Jesus noted that there were Laodiceans after the Philadelphians who could not see their problems and had the wrong work (Revelation 3:14-18). 

 

Notice also that Matthew 24:14 ties the successful proclamation with the coming of the end. There is a certain shortness in passages of Matthew 24:14-21.

He closes his screed with a sermon by one of his minions about The Closing Act of Bwana Bob

Our Closing Act – the Short Work and You
What about the short work of Romans 9:28? What needs to happen before it is time to flee? Won’t having the gospel of the kingdom in 2000 languages be a factor in Matthew 24:14? What about John Ogywn and the final phase of the work? Some aspects of the work need to be done before the famine of the word of Amos 8:11-12. Louis Rubin proposes some ideas on how others can help support the work. He also goes over some steps that some in the Continuing Church of God are doing. What is unique about the Philadelphian church? What about the mantle and the need to form the CCOG? Is the work to continue until the return of Jesus the Christ? Will God cut short the work?