Art Makarow on God the Father's Wife

Art Makarow has a great reputation of opening his mouth and say some really weird stuff.  The tradition carries on today in The Journal.  In the August issue Makarow talks about the wife of God.

Both Adam and Eve were made in The Image of God, the power from within God alone. They were both within God and His "DNA.” It is a matter of “kind after kind.”

Adam and Eve were equals, just like God but in the flesh like Jesus. You still need a Mother just like God. Both are equals coming from God since they are “kind after kind” (DNA) (Genesis 1:27). Adam was a physical figure, a theophany of Christ (Romans 5:14).

 God’s Holy Name

Jesus teaches you how to pray to God—“Our Father, which are in heaven, Hallowed be thy name” (Matthew 6:9). In Greek the word “hallowed” has two significant parts. “Hallo” represents a royal crown that is “Holy” and  “wed,” which “is joined together as a marriage.” Both become one.

God’s Wife

The Holy One of God is to declare The Name of God. Every individual who has that name must be “Holy,” completely without a blemish or the smallest flaw. The Name of God is beyond “perfect”; it is complete, fulfilled without measure. God is, therefore, Eternal.

The Family of God, His “wife and children” represent only goodness (like God). But there is much more. Jesus, speaking to The Samaritan Woman, told her how to worship God, “God is a Spirit and they that worship  [adore-love] him must worship him in spirit and truth” (John 4:24).

Who is The Wife of God? You must have the complete  biblical truth from The Bible.  The Wife  of God is a  “Spirit”  like Him, “kind after kind,”  and must be “Holy” like The Father.

God provides everything His “family” needs and eternal safety. But His “wife,” The  Holy Spirit of God, does all the work to keep the family estate as The Father wants it to be.

As The Wife of God manages the entire House of God with her hired   servants (the angels), they all need to do the job perfectly without the tiniest flaw, and she is honored as The Mistress of The House of God.

The Father provides an estate with many mansions for the whole family forever. The wife manages the entire household and is very virtuous in  being a helpmate to God, her husband.

She, alone, does all the work in managing everything God, The Father, provides. The wife came out of God and is equal and she is a beautiful, perfect, flawless, virtuous woman (Proverbs 31).

Bob Thiel: Is The The WORST COG "Behind The Work" Video Ever Produced By A COG?

Bob Thiel has released the video he wants shown at his Feast sites.  It is in no way shape or form like any of the well produced BTW videos from WCG decades ago, UCG's or even LCG's today. It is appallingly BAAAAAAAAAAAD!  I guess being unordained and self-appointed does have its problems!

The most noticeable improvement is that he no long looks like he is sitting on the floor.  He now is a little higher up than the doors on his crooked bookcases.  I mean,  come on Dude!  Surely you have a blank wall in your house that you cold put a really nice paining on for a backdrop.  Crooked bookcases, a door with a doorknob sticking out next to your head, a file cabinet and some boxes of Fatima Shock next to it do NOT make an effective video for this world wide "work."

All About Armstrongism has this to say:

So with the facts, how would he do this “Behind the Work” video? Well simple. It’s going to be an “All About Bob Thiel and his Church” video. That’s pretty much the essence of it. The video will review Bob’s schedule, go to his house (he says proudly), go visit a graphics company, his office with the crooked bookcase where he says he is currently filming, and see a “couple others” associated with his church.

At this point, we jump to Bob’s house. Bob reveals to all of us that his day begins at 4:30 AM to 5:30 AM (Pacific Time), and he prays. After he prays, he comes down, and “if he’s ready”, and work’s on the computer. He’ll (on most mornings, he says) go through emails. He says he gets between 100-200 emails a week. After he goes through his emails, he says he will write a post at COGWriter, based on news, by going to news sites like Google News or CBS News, and scan through headlines to pick something prophetic. He then compares the beginning of his work with what it was like when he first came into the Church with the Plain Truth magazine in the way of news focus. Bob says people are interested in news items and the “why’s” of what is going on. So Bob says he will explain with how world events line up with Biblical prophecy.

In the mornings, he says it takes about 1/2 hr to 2hrs to “come up” with his morning posts and eats breakfast at his home office. he’s up before the rest of the family, and At 8 AM, he then heads to the office. He compares what he is doing with how Herbert Armstrong started. Since radio is no longer the primary media, he’ll go on the computer and find news items. He explains how email and people send ideas to him about what to post. He also says he will go into the Bible, and answer internet questions about the Bible. He says he uses email for counseling issues, marital and family issues. He says the work starts in his home where he lives. He says after he’ll come back from the office he will have dinner, go back to the office, check email again. (6:20).

He then takes us to his printing and graphics company who does his magazine for him. Literally.
That company lays out their magazine, and prints them for Bob’s Church, and shows us where they print the magazines. He shows the machine that will print his first mandarin magazine, showing the first print. The machine is a small copy machine. Thiel says his wife Joyce reviews and edits the weekly letter to the Brethren, on a standard WordPress editor, exactly like I am using right here at “All About Armstrongism”. His wife also is working to help out with the classic “Feast Banners” for Bob’s Feast of Tabernacles at his 3 worldwide locations. After this, we get a look at sidewalk and road construction on the avenue. He calls this a distraction when he does the “Bible News Prophecy” videos. He says this would be a “Different part of the Behind the Work scenes then you’ve probably ever seen before”. Yes, Bob, that would be absolutely true. Looking at sand, a sidewalk and a busy street is definitely different.

And now we are going to look at what Bob Thiel typically does in a normal week! Oh man, I need some popcorn and root beer now. I have a feeling this is going to be exhilarating to watch. Giddy!
So, according to Bob, on a Monday, the first thing Bob will do is take the video camera to his work and connect that video camera to his laptop computer. And he will then upload his Sermon. He states how he has reduced his YouTube upload time from 20 to 30 hours to 3 or 4 hours by decreasing quality and increasing connection speed. Smart….

Oh man.

The Mind Boggling, Global Girding Work of David Hulme, Eat Your Heart Out Dave Pack!

One would get the impression from looking at David Hulme's magazine VISION (which no one ever reads) and his really BAD church web site that he has lots and lots of members.

Hulme is like almost all the other COG's out there.  His group is small and insignificant even though it makes this claim that attempts to give the impression it is a huge church.

The Church of God, a nondenominational organization based in Pasadena, California, traces its antecedents to Sabbatarian communities in 17th-century Europe, and before that to the first-century apostolic Church at Jerusalem. Accordingly the Church endeavors to uphold the original practice and teachings of Jesus Christ and His followers. The Church of God has members all around the world and maintains offices in Australia, Germany, the Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

By their own admission they only have around 900 in the United states and about 600 internationally.  I do have to appreciate the fact that Hulme has more members than Dave Pack does!