Armstrongism has had a long history of men who think they have an inside channel to God's master plan. Over the decades they have run off at the mouth with some incredibly STUPID things. Such as these lies from Dale Schurter, Herman Hoeh, Rod Meredith, and Herbert Armstrong:
4) 1964 Coworkers
letter: "only 7 years before H-bomb warfare breaks out"
5) May 1965 PT:
"Hitler will be falsely resurrected by the Pope"
6) Feb 1965: by
Meredith: "documented proof Hitler did not die in his bunker"
8) 13 Dec 1965, HWA
in co-workers letter: "We are in the grand smash climax - only 6
years left."
11) 1955 PT by
Hoeh: "within 20 years this nation will be toppled by worst
drought in its history" - note: 1975 US had one of greatest
grain surpluses and sold it to Soviets
17) April 1956 PT
by Hoeh: "Disease epidemics threaten US in 2 years"
22) 1934 PT:
"Christ will return in 1936"
23) 1940 PT:
"Christ will come after 3.5 years of tribulation in October 43"
24) 1982 Coworkers
letter: (for those who claim he mellowed with the years) "I hope
to arrange for the use of Petra as a possible refuge or place of
safety during the Great Tribulation when I see King Hussein. Pray for
this please."
25) 1960's PT
repeatedly claimed 1972 would be the year of Christ's coming
26) after 1969: HWA
claimed it would be 1975
27) first half of
1950's PT: Christ would return in 1957
36) Gerald
Waterhouse continually: if HWA died, God would destroy the world
48) April/May 1978
Worldwide News: HWA teaches you can only come to Christ through him
through government structure: cut yourself off from Christ if you
disobey HWA
61) 1966 PT by Dale
Schurter: prepare for famine in US within 3-5 years; note - hundreds
of WWCG farmer members bankrupted following his teaching that
fertilizer was sinful
71) Turkey will
prevent the United States Sixth Fleet from fleeing from Nazi European
air attacks and will stab America and Britain in the back. It will
later be destroyed for this treachery. - Plain Truth articles by
Hoeh, Herbert and Meredith in the 1960s.
89) He and Dale
Schurter warned farmers against using nitrate fertilizers claiming it
would ruin their lands and would cause famines around the world.
Instead, nitrate fertilizers, developed after the turn of the
century, have fed billions of people. It was farmers who followed HWA
who were ruined when they suddenly abandoned all fertilizers on his
urging and went immediately to compost heaps without easing their
land off it. Hundreds or thousands of families were ruined.
92) From 1950s
onward, HWA and Hoeh: King Hussein of Jordan will grant the WWCG a
tribulation-time "place of safety" at Petra. 1994, King
Hussein is dying of colon cancer. Extreme Islamic fundamentalists are
threatening to topple his dynasty and seize Jordan.
108) March 1950 PT:
"One third of our people will die from starvation ... - and in
the next FEW YEARS!" Is 48 years just "a FEW YEARS!"?
120) August 1957
PT: Another old favorite still with us today. Roderick Meredith: "at
the conclusion of the drought and floods we are now just beginning to
suffer this nation is going to be punished by horrifying DISEASE
EPIDEMICS - plagues." When? He approvingly cites a 1956 Plain
Truth title: 'Disease Epidemics Threaten USA in Two Years!"
Clearly, 1958 was meant. Meredith continued, "In addition to
those warnings ...we will soon find that hoof-and-mouth disease will
spread COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL!" The only thing that spread
out of control, then and the next 40 years, was the disease of his
own big mouth.
149) PT, June 1963
- Roderick Meredith gets his knickers in a twist claiming that a
"Protestant leader credited the Roman priests of Europe as being
'the minds behind the (European Common) Market', the real planners of
this coming Holy Roman Empire which is prophesied to arise in Europe
and CONQUER America and Britain within the next 10 to 12 years ... It
is later than you think."
34 years on from that remark,
meredith continues to sound off on such subjects, still without
humility, without shame. In fact, the true "Minds behind"
the European Community after World War II were Robert Schumann, Jean
Monnet and - most of all - Winston Churchill, whom herbert had
already predicted years before would be conquered by Hitler.
Yet
another false prophecy, another foul lie. In fact, the years 1967-70
saw the Catholic Church charity organization Caritas make far greater
and more successful relief efforts to save hundreds of thousands of
starving children (hundreds of thousands died anyway) in the Nigerian
Civil War than all other groups combined. The 1966 Medellin accords
opened a new era of respect and support for human rights in the
Catholic Church throughout Latin America. The complete list of 209 failed prophecies is here: Herbert Armstrong's 209 False Prophecies
There you have a record of some of the lies that have been spewing from the mouths of the "enlightened" evangelists, ministers and apostles of the Church. Every single one of them have proven to be liars.
You would think that given this horrendous track record of lies and false prophecies uttered in the Church that other splinter cult leaders would have learned to keep their mouths shut. Sadly, they have not learned a lesson from the past.
Today, the biggest liar and fool that the Church has is Ron Weinland. Weinland claims he is THE end time prophet, that he is one of the two witnesses, and the last apostle for this age.
He has published and said so many foolish and stupid things that he has no credibility anymore. Yet, like the EverReady Bunny, he keeps on going.
On April 29, 2012 he had this to say about his awesome revelations:
As readers of this site know, May 27, 2012, is the time that I have
stated as being the date Jesus Christ will return as King of kings over
all government on this earth. For such an event to come to pass, the
Trumpets of Revelation must all sound, the United States and dollar
collapse, the ten nations of Europe arise to fulfill the final revival
of the Holy Roman Empire, and Russia with China must unite against
Europe in WWIII.
But as the last apostle in this age, and as God’s end-time prophet, I am
still telling people that this is true and that a short-lived WWIII is
now at our doorstep. Due to this strong conviction, the Church of God –
PKG is putting all its resources into promoting this final message of
Christ’s impending return in order to complete the “work” that God has
given us to do. This “work” is nearly complete. As my previous post was
written over two months ago, this may well prove to be my final one,
since there are only four weeks remaining in this age.
Then a wave of sanity briefly kicks Ronnie in the ass and he rambles on about things maybe not happening according to plan because God is "merciful." I guess on Monday morning May 28th when the sun rises, Weinalnd will be saying, "God has shown great mercy on the church because it is not ready and has therefore delayed the coming of
Jesus Christ." That is the same broken record the liars of Armstrongism have been saying for 70 some years now. The dumb sheep are not ready and God has to delay his awesome plan of death and destruction.
When I began writing posts for this site, I initially envisioned the
possible need of writing more often, primarily due to our preparing for
the possibility of “great tribulation” beginning at the very start of
this final three and one-half year period. However, great physical
tribulation did not begin at that time, and it thankfully has not yet
begun. So the need to write more often in order to help people deal with
tribulation that could have begun early on has not been needed. But
rather, in the midst of horrifying prophecies for this end-time, God has
revealed in a most powerful manner one of His greatest attributes
toward His creation—toward mankind. It is the awesome quality of
“mercy”!
Then, I guess Weinland's brain fart is over and he says:
A fast approaching fixed date of May 27th for Christ’s return does not
seem reasonable to people. It just does not seem right. Throughout time,
those things that God has given to people in the form of prophecy and
instruction just do not seem right to mankind. Human nature has always
resisted the true ways of God.
Those in the world and in the Church that was scattered who hear (or
read) what I have said about the timing of Christ’s return and all the
horrific end-time events that will precede it respond in similar
manner—with utter disbelief. Oftentimes, the response is also mixed with
ridicule, slander, anger, mockery, chiding, correction and a seemingly
endless barrage of other negative human emotions regarding the
“message.” God actually addresses this exact kind of response, for this
exact moment in time, by a prophecy given through Ezekiel (Ez. 12).
For all of you that mock Weinerdude and his prophecy this is what is in store for you:
God says He will scatter such people and they will be taken into
captivity. This next part will make many mad and upset with me, but this
is from God and not from me. This is speaking of the vast majority of
the Church that was scattered after the apostasy. They have become so
spiritually sluggish that they cannot and will not accept truth that God
has given since the apostasy—truth that He has given to His end-time
prophet.
Weinland ends with this:
God’s timing is based on the day He has set for the return of His Son
as world ruler. God will allow mankind to begin his final war, but He
will also quickly stop it. The reason should be obvious! “Why” massive
destruction from end-time events has not yet begun is due to the reality
of how massive such a war will become as soon as it starts. Once a
single nuclear device is detonated, and it will happen very soon now,
who will refrain themselves from retaliating? Who will be the first to
limit the response of their attack once the cycle begins?
It is because of such destructive power in the hands of mankind that
God has shown that if He did not intervene quickly, once such a
conflagration begins, mankind would destroy itself. That is exactly what
God is going to do. He will cut short the war that man begins, and He
will do so on May 27th, which is also the day Jesus Christ returns.
I am going to have a great bottle of wine, grill some shrimp and steak on the night of the 27th as I watch the sun set; while laughing with some other ex-COGers at yet another idiotic Church of God minister made a public fool of himself.
