What If The End Isn't Near?

Pam Dewey has had an excellent series on Are You Prepared for.... the Unthinkable? The latest entry had this:

The blog entries in this series have been building up a case for the possibility that Christians have been “preparing” in recent times … physically and emotionally … for the wrong thing. So many have been absolutely sure that we are living in the very End Times, often because of “conditions” they see around them like those above.  Their idea of getting physically ready for what they have believed is “imminent and inevitable” in biblical prophecy has sometimes included stockpiling survival supplies for The Great Tribulation, which many are sure could start this year, or next year, or by the latest, five or seven years from now.

And their idea of being mentally, emotionally, and spiritually prepared for what they expect to happen has often been to just hunker down, study prophecy under some favorite prophecy guru, and wait for The End.

This blog has suggested you just MIGHT want to consider … WHAT IF the “unthinkable” happens? If you’ve been thinking that The End is at Hand, WHAT IF it isn’t?

What if you find yourself just growing old and gray ten or twenty or thirty years from now? Have you made ANY actual preparations to deal with the reality that this unexpected scenario would bring?

The Apostle Is Preparing For New Reeducation Camp In Petra

The apostle has been preaching a lot lately about the synagogue in the history of the Jews and how it served as a place of learning.  Because Malm and so many COGers are pretend Jews, he is embracing the teaching techniques used in synagogues as God's divinely inspired way of learning.

The apostle goes on to tell how he will be setting up groups in Petra where he will be torturing people with the law big time.

With this weeks posts I am trying to introduce people to a plan for education and preparation for the Kingdom in the wilderness. Giving people time to think on these things to digest them and to get used to some organized education and preparation for the priesthood.

If I am there and I expect I will be; and if people listen to me, I would impliment a plan like this for a more formal study in the refuge not only through Moses but all the scriptures. if for some reason I am not there I have done my best to provide what has been missing in the COG teachings through the five years I have been working on this effort.

Plan B is that if the abominatioon is not set up this year; I want to set up the same organized training program after the Feast, not just through Moses but through all the scriptures, and to set up Feast sites as well. Part of the FB idea is to find out where people may be concentrated in order to find the most suitable locations for Festivals and potential Sabbath meetings.

Apostle Malm on UCG's Bastardization of the Passover and Unleavened Bread

Apostle Malm is having another snit fest regarding United Church of God.  Apparently those apostate despots at UCG are  focusing on the resurrection of Jesus Christ during the Days of Unleavened Bread instead of focusing on casting out the old leaven of sin.

UCG Beyond Today:   Sometimes it seems like we get so focused on a certain subject like Easter that we get paranoid.

Christ was killed and buried on Passover, then three days into UB he was resurrected from the dead. That is a very important aspect of our salvation. So Christ’s resurrection is a part of UB. Putting sin out of our lives AND putting the resurrected Christ into our lives. If Christ wasn’t resurrected then we are of all men most miserable.

Is it the semantics that has people on edge? Do they feel like UCG is going to turn UB into Easter observance? Putting Easter out of the picture, Christ was resurrected during UB – Very important to our salvation.

The part that has apostle Malm spitting mad is this:

[I Cor. 5] “He is teaching these Christians to keep a festival, a major festival in the spring, right at the same time. Generally as Easter is found, may vary from on the calendar, but it is the festival on which God gave the Church to remember the death of Christ and then to commemorate His resurrection. And this is what he’s talking about here. It is actually a seven day festival on which a Christian focuses his life and his mind on the resurrected Christ and His life in us as changed Christians.”

The significant comment in the above excerpt is: “but it is the festival on which God gave the Church to remember the death of Christ and then to commemorate His resurrection. It is actually a seven day festival on which a Christian focuses his life and his mind on the resurrected Christ and His life in us as changed Christians.”

The apostle continues:

More to the point, in the Satan worshipping Mystery Religions of the world (such as Roman Catholicism and their “Protestant” cousins) there are two layers of belief and practice: The exoteric and the esoteric.

The exoteric is the polite face that such cults place before the world and in which they indoctrinate their rank and file affiliates. The esoteric face consists of the secret mysteries to which only the initiated inner circles are privy. The diabolical genius of this passage noted above is that these remarks work on both the exoteric and esoteric levels.

To the uninitiated “goyim” Darris, Steve, and the entire “change agent” marketing staff of the Beyond Today literature infomercial production team can blandly explain that the passage was not just referring to the Passover observance only but also to the spring Holy Days.

To the inner circle of initiates into the mysteries of spiritual growth through material enrichment by slick marketing practices, the “change agent” staff can show how they have begun the process designed to make Passover so ambiguous that neither COG veterans nor former Roman Catholic or Protestant newbie recruits can tell the substantive difference between the it and Easter.

Also lost in the discussion is the understanding that Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread are really two separate and distinctly different observances. This is the spiritual cyanide added drop by drop into
this electronic kool ade being consumed by both the general public and the rank and file brethren affiliated with UCGIA Inc.