Prophet Thiel has a tirade today against Harold Camping who has once again predicted the end of the world this coming
Friday, October 21st. Thiel at least recognizes that Camping is incorrect and a liar.
According to Harold Camping and other supporters of his Family Radio, Jesus will return on and the world will end on October 21, 2011. Here is what he wrote in his We are Almost There! book:
Significantly, the number 17 links perfectly to the fact
of the rapture because spiritually, the number 17 signifies heaven.
Moreover, the number 2 (second month) spiritually identifies with those
who have been commissioned to bring the Gospel. Is it not amazing that
they will be raptured on the 17th day of the second month? Is that
coincidental? We also have learned that the last day of the earth’s
existence, October 21, 2011, is the 23rd day of the seventh month of the
Biblical calendar. The number 23 normally signifies God’s wrath being
poured out. The number 7 (seventh month) signifies the perfect
fulfillment of God’s purposes. Could this also be coincidental, that the
final completion of God’s punishment on the unsaved occurs in the
seventh month on a day that features the number 23, which is a number
that completely identifies with God’s wrath, thus signifying God’s
perfect wrath on the unsaved? (p. 61-62).
So, based on his proclamations, the world has only a couple of days
to exist. Of course, that is not possible, so in a couple of days, his
remaining followers will again see that his prediction was wrong (like
they did about his predictions for 1994, and the one for May, 21, 2011)
It is interesting that Thiel can see that Camping is a false prophet but cannot see that Meredith is also a false prophet. Meredith has had just as many false prophecies over the years and MORE!
But Thiel dances by the false prophecies this way. He claims Camping is making private interpretations of of prophecy, while LCG's and Meredith's version is "literal." Camping takes his interpretations as literal also. I do not understand why Meredith's private interpretation are any different than Camping's private interpretations.
We in the Living Church of God believe:
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto
ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark
place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 20
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private
interpretation. (2 Peter 1:19-20, KJV)
Now, Peter is warning that unlike improper human reasoning, prophetic
scriptures were not private interpretations. October, 21, 2011 and many
of the numbers that have been associated with it are not biblical
prophecies, but improper private interpretations of scripture.
While we in believe that we have “a more sure word of prophecy”, it
is because we believe that many prophetic scriptures are literal and
should often be understood that way. Sadly, those into their own private
interpretations, and misunderstand the Bible and the Holy Days, have
another view.
Thiel then goes on to say this:
Because he prefers his own imaginations to the truth of the Bible,
Harold Camping seems to load one misleading calculation onto other
misleading information to get to the wrong answer. He should not be
listened to by those that actually believe the Bible. The heavenly
signs in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 have not happened, and they
must happen first according to Jesus before He can return.
If this is true then Thiel must stop listening and following Rod Meredith, because Meredith over the decades has used his own imagination to interpret scripture in accordance with his belief on the way things should be. So far has has struck out every single time he opens his mouth. Once a liar, always a liar.
Yet, Thiel can call Camping a false prophet and not Meredith:
It remains my view that when Jesus does not come on May 21, 2011,
hopefully the warnings to his followers will finally sink in. And some
may remember that Jesus said,
11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. (Matthew 24:11)
Meredith is a proven and documented false prophet, along with Herbert Armstrong, Gerald Waterhouse, Dean Blackwell and Herman Hoeh. They have all lied through their teeth for decades.
But there is a grand scheme going on by Satan here. With Camping and
others continually being proven to be false prophets this will have an impact upon the Living Church of God whenever they decide to make an
end time prophecy in the future. Because of all the failed prophets
in the past, when people hear LCG/Meredith utter prophecies the world will laugh at LCG and Meredith. They will be mocked and scoffed at.
Despite false predictions, Jesus will return. And we are to look
forward to His return as the Apostle Peter wrote. Jesus will return no
earlier than 2018 (and likely later) as certain biblically-required
steps have not yet happened (Daniel 9:27; cf. Matthew 24:15,21,29-30).
When God’s true servants proclaim the truth about prophetic events,
people are likely to point to false predictions (supposedly, but not
really, from the Bible) and scoff, though God still wants people to
repent (2 Peter 3:3-9). This scoffing is one of the dangers of the
October 21, 2011 date that will soon be proven false.
If Thiel and LCG don't want to be mocked and scoffed at then stop telling prophetic lies as if they were the truth! Shut down your cult headquarters and stop lying!
