Is LCG's "god" Playing a Big Cosmic Joke On Us All?

Rod Meredith sent out a note to all his minsters and elders in May about their "new" understanding on the "marriage supper with the Lamb."  One of the first things you notice in Rod's mssive is how he places himself on the same level of understanding as HWA.  Apparenelty only HWA and Rod are the only inspired Church of God leaders who have ever preached the "truth."

Even more disturbing is the concept that Rod is trying to enforce on his members.  The great apostasy that so many love to equate to WCG's rejection of HWA's theology is miniscule to what is still to come.  99% of the world will fall into apostasy while the remaining 1% of the elite of Armstrongism will be dining with Jesus Christ and God at the marriage supper.  If that's the case, and we are all screwed! What then is the point?  It sounds like Rod is embracing Calvinism.  Are we just all pawns on a cosmic chess table were we have been set up to fail?

Rod wrote:

Please help them think through these “upgrades” in our understanding of the Wedding Supper, of the timeline of final events and also the great apostasy. This is a vital challenge for all of you, and I hope that you can be alert to anyone’s misunderstanding and help them—or help your local elder to work with them to come to understanding on these basic issues and help them realize that these changes are, in fact, simply “updates” of our understanding. As you know, we have always said—at least I have—that “someday” we would get the chance to go to heaven to see our Father even before the end of the Millennium. But we have not nailed it down and given the details of all of this—as Mr. Ames has done in recent months. We have always indicated—at least Mr. Armstrong, and I—that the apostasy would be much broader than just the falling away of a few people in the Worldwide Church. As I indicated at the conference, over 99% of the world never even heard about the Worldwide Church and certainly nothing about that falling away. So the really huge apostasy is still ahead of us—as we have explained—and will affect billions of human beings before it is all over!

COGWA: Setting The Standard For Armstrongism

In between all the legalistic mumbo-jumbo and prophetic nonsense there can be found little tidbits of information on apostle Malm's blog.

Here are some comments about the worlds newest and most perfect Church of God who did everything in the most transparent way it could as it set a sterling Christian example for all the other COG's.  Cough, cough....

Joel DID try to dissaffect the French Board, and he did tour the French areas attacking UCG and encouraging them to split UCG.

COGWA people were caught and stopped at the last minute from transferring many thousands from the Philippean church to their own coffers, and Jeff Caudel is being sued for doing the same thing in NZ.

In Fact the Franks Kilough team had set up secret websites and secretly recruited elders to join their coming split for many months.

This was handled in an entirely ungodly and dishonest fashion.

And of course UCG and the other groups are just as bad in their own way.

The whole COG situation is a disaster and totally ungodly in actions and example.

God is disgusted with us and that is why the corporate groups are being spewed out of the body of Jesus Christ.

Van Robison: "Hypnotized by Pastors"

Hypnotized by Pastors


Is there some kind of magical spell cast upon people by pastors who preach from pulpits?    Seemingly there is.  Anyone who watches television preachers will see multitudes of people sitting in pews, seemingly hypnotized and spell bound by the speaker in the pulpit.    Like little children in a school classroom, adult human beings are mesmerized by those who stand in pulpits and pretend to have all the answers about God and truth.  Pastors of churches seem to have a magical spell upon the gullible and naive who think the "pastor" is the source of all truth, all knowledge, all wisdom and all understanding.

Where does this idea come from that "going to church" is where "truth" is found?    What is the origin of the "pastor" or the clergy/laity system of the church world?  Churches in general are all controlled by one individual or by a group of individuals or by an organization that is the source of their existence.  Charismatic public speakers often prance back and forth across a stage and act like performers in a movie.    Theatrics plays a big role in the world of churches.  The gullible are often sucked into a vortex of religious nonsense, thinking that "truth" is spoken by the quack in the pulpit.

Just because an individual has a bombastic personality and speaks with a sense of "authority" does not make that person the source of truth.  A speaker in a pulpit who addresses the simple minded in the pews as "brethren", does not make the speaker in the pulpit---God.    "Co-worker" letters or "partners" is nothing more than a play on words and it seduces only the naive.  Jesus Christ is not the Head of organized church groups or the author of "Church, Incorporated."    Those in power in all church groups are self-appointed human beings, who love free $money, power and control and who thrive on self-importance and vanity.  Such people have no real power or authority, they just live by deception.    Human sheep who submit their lives to "pastors" and churches are indeed sheep, who are mere followers, not of Jesus Christ, but of vain men who take advantage of simple minded folks.

Church goers are indeed hypnotized by pastors, whose persuasions keep many in religious bondage and captivity for life.


Van Robison