These past few weeks the Church of God's most favored felon, Ron Weinland, has been writing missives from his prison cell. In his delusional mind he compares himself to Paul when he too was imprisoned. Each rant from the jail cell shows a mind that is deteriorating rather quickly.
Today he has a rather long rant about "
deliverance from Egypt" that he has sent to his little flock. His little flock is so little because it is a tithe of the tithe of the tithe of the one third who have remained in a Church of God after what he calls the apostasy. While 10% may have went into various of the 600 some Churches of God, only the TRUE remnant, a tithe of the tithe, went into his group.
"After the Abomination of Desolation, approximately one-third of the
Church remained in the Worldwide Church of God that had then become
completely Biblically corrupt (or they accepted the same kind of beliefs
of other false churches in traditional Christianity), one-third gave up
completely, and one-third went into the various organizations that
formed afterward. That last third was to endure further trials,
mirroring what God said about Laodicea. Within all this spiritual
destruction, God prophesied that a tithe (ten percent) of a third would
survive captivity within this end-time destruction and be offered to
become His remnant Church that would continue to the very end."
"Yet in the midst of the destruction from this end-time apostasy, God
promised to awaken ten percent of a third as a witness of what God was
doing, and as a witness of what the scattered Church would do during
Laodicea and the time of His final witness. "
"The final third was scattered and eventually formed
into over 600 different groups and organizations. Yet these were not
shocked into repentance after the apostasy and the same sword went among
them as they drifted spiritually into a deeper unrepentant Laodicea
attitude. These too fell into complete spiritual sleep.
All three groups went back into the spiritual
captivity of Egypt and became enslaved in spiritual bondage once again.
Yet in the midst of this captivity, God promised a remnant protection
from the captivity that had so quickly engulfed the Church. Although
this small group was promised protection and that they could survive the
captivity of the others, they were to be thrust into trials and tested
to see who could remain as part of the remnant to the return of Jesus
Christ. “You shall also take a few in number and bind them in you wings”
(Ez. 5:3). There was special protection and intervention from God for
each person who was offered to become part of this remnant."
"God offered protection and survival from captivity to a tithe (ten
percent) of a third of all who went into captivity. Once put to the
test, all did not hold fast to what God offered them. Although the
Church did not understand it through this period of time, we knew that
the Church was holding near a count equal to a tithe of the tithe in
number (ten percent of the ten percent of a third)."
"God’s promise to ten percent of a third of the
physical nations of Israel is His minimum promise to them. The number
can be more and it can be less, and it will still fulfill what God has
said. The final numbers will be a result of their own response. In the
worst of response, as with the result of the Church, God promised He
would grant protection and survival to 10% of a third, but 90% rejected
it. The physical nations of Israel will have the same choice before
them. However, with these nations, God has specifically been working to
bring them to the best possible moment and condition that will lend
itself to a positive choice and acceptance of His offer. This final
number can also be larger, but under all conditions it is God’s minimum
promise to offer deliverance to 10% of a third.
Ever since the apostasy, the Church has been
experiencing great tribulation, but it is nearly over and physical
tribulation is about to begin in this final Day of the Eternal."
In spite of all the above absurdities there are still many in Armstrongism today who claim that the Church is 100%logical and 100% correct in all things. As the years go by we see more and more COG leaders go off the deep end into "never-never land."
This will be very short
and to the point. I would sincerely like to recommend you read Dr
Raymond Brown's classic and very well done volumes on The Death of the
Messiah before you give another sermon on just what did or did not happen
in the Gospel accounts of Jesus death. 
