If you have an hour and twenty minutes to waste you can listen to the non-ordained self appointed false prophet Thiel bloviate on the church fleeing to Petra. In conjunction with his boring video he also posted about Petra on his blog.
If you are not close to Petra when bad things start to happen, you should not flee to an island!!! False prophet Thiel's god is going to make them all sinkToday’s suggested sermon by the Continuing Church of God today is at the ContinuingCOG YouTube channel and is titled Might Petra be the Place of Safety?
It covers information such as:
The Bible teaches that a portion of the Christians will be protected in a wilderness area during the Great Tribulation. Might this place be Petra in Jordan? Which places do the show can and cannot be the place of safety? Is the idea of Christians fleeing to an area with caves during the reign of the Beast and Antichrist an old one or a modern invention? Which Christians get this protection and which do not? Will those who do not go be subject to persecution? Do Catholic prophecies warn against this place of protection?
Since the Bible seem to forecast near total destruction to the islands of the world (Revelation 6:12-14; 16:17-21), no island seems to be a likely place (more information can be found in the article Islands and Bible Prophecy).
The non-ordained self appointed prophet writes:
It is also of interest to note that those that escape will be assembled–they are not lone independents–this is also consistent with Zephaniah 2:1-3
All of you foolish people in the hundreds of independent
COG's are in for a great shock when you arrive at Petra and find you were not
part of a great assembly of TRUE Christians that can only be found in the
Continuing Church of God. Oh wait! You will not even be there. Only those assembled with the Continuing Church of God will make it!
Gather yourselves together, yes gather together, O undesirable nation, Before the decree is issued, Or the day passes like chaff, Before the day of the LORD’s fierce anger comes upon you, Before the day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you! Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.The Hebrew words translated as Zephaniah means “Yahweh Hides” or “Yahweh Has Hidden” (Holy Bible: Vine’s Expository Reference Edition, p. 826). Notice that a decree is issued, apparently by a church leader–and I believe that the leader will be part of the Continuing Church of God. This would seem to happen after the gospel has been preached enough to the world as a witness (Matthew 24:14), Jewish sacrifices are stopped, and the abomination is set up (Daniel 9:27; 11:31) per Jesus’ statements in Matthew 24:15-16.
So now we have the non-ordained self appointed prophet setting
himself up as one of the two witnesses to the world. Are their any more
titles he wants to take on? Is there anything left?
Apparently the self appointed prophet has spend several thousand dollars worth of tithe money into redecorating his video set. Gone is the crooked book case with its tattered books laying on end. Now the super duper set includes a minuscule decorated copy of the commandments that looks like it is ready to jab him in the head. More flaying hands, elevated bibles, rustling of notes, momentary lapses of mental facilities and more. High standards do not seem to be a hallmark of the Continuing Church of God.
How many more decades to COG members need to sit there and hear the exact same sermons over and over? It's the same proof-texting, the same catch phrases, the same scenarios, the discussions of Petra, the church eras, the tribulation, etc. Nothing about living a life like Jesus who ate with whores and outcasts. Nothing about doing good for their neighbors. The Hebrew scriptures reign supreme and Jesus is an inconvenient truth.
