COG Splinter Cult Leader Dares to Lecture Others About "Self-Deception"

I had a great laugh last week seeing the topic of  a splinter personality cult leader's article to his few hundred members.  This guy is the epitome of self-deception. No, I'm not talking about Dave Passover Elijah Pack.  I'm referring to Bob Thiel.

Thiel writes in Self-deception Can Be Costly:

Researchers are concluding that there are costs associated with self-deception:

People who take shortcuts can trick themselves into believing they are smarter than they are, says Tom Stafford, and it comes back to bite them. …

For once Thiel quotes some truth.  His self-deception has come back to bite him repeatedly.  He foolishly declared himself a prophet in the Church of God.  He believes an LCG minister elevated him up with a "double does" of the Holy Spirit.

Armstrongism has a great track record of foolish men who have lived lives of self-deception that cause them to declare themselves prophets, apostles, Elijah's, Joshua's, Two witnesses, and much, much more.

Thiel continues:

Jesus taught that Satan was a liar and the father of lies:

44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it (John 8:44)

Of course, Satan takes advantage of deception and encourages humans to

The top five deceived men in the Churches of God are: Pack, Thiel, Flurry, Weinland and Meredith.  While there are many other deceived men leading splinter personality cults, these five are the worst.  They have all created scenarios in their minds where they imagine themselves as God's personal representatives and founts of truth.  They get so puffed up in their own glories that they take on new persona's, such as Joshua, Elijah, Apostle, end-time witness, and more.  The Bible ends up being the story book of their lives.

Thiel ends, with this:

Although most Laodiceans do not believe that they are deceiving themselves, Jesus said that they were. Jesus said that Laodicean Christians needed to repent–they need to change.

In addition to doctrine and how they lead their lives, there are serious prophetic deceptions that the Laodiceans have fallen for.  A list of 30 prophetic deceptions that various Laodiceans believe is in the article The Laodicean Church Era. Believing several of these will insure that Laodiceans will not realize that the Great Tribulation is here until it is to late for most to flee (cf. Revelation 12:14-17).

Self-deception is common.  Try not to fall for it.  The word of God is truth (John 17:17), hopefully you will believe it enough so that you will resist Satanically-encouraged self-deception (cf. James 4:7).

Thiel gives a perfect description of his mindset.  He does not believe he has deceived himself. His prophetic deceptions have been epic failures and will continue to be. Theil fell for self-deception in a big way.  He is just as bad as Dave Passover Elijah Pack and Elijah Joshua Flurry, but without the members or money.

Manor Del Mar For Sale: Will God's "Apostle" or Passover "Elijah" Buy It?

Home of the Week:  Manor Del Mar on Pasadena's Millionaires Row

Immense 1908 Arts and Craft Estate In Pasadena Asks 4.25 Million

Manor Del Mar on the Pasadena campus is for sale again.  This time it has been fully restored to its former glory.  For many decades it was the men's dorm on the Pasadena campus.  Since it was the farthest away from the library and Mayfair it always housed men. The college chopped and remodeled it into a dorm eliminating the kitchen and adding huge bathrooms. Those that slept on the third floor called it "The Cattle Car."

Manor Del Mar was built by the son of Hulett C Merritt, the owner of the house the church bought and renamed Ambassador Hall.

Given how Gerald Flurry and Davie Passover Pack have no brain cells of originality in coming up with new ideas, will we see one of these two buffons buy it and ship it to Edmund, OK or Wadsworth, OH?  Both are just daft enough to do it!

David Passover Pack Breathlessly Announces That He Is The Messenger Sent Before Jesus Returns

Passover Pack is back with a long list of sermons filled with more points on why he is the most superfantabulous Church of God minister to ever walk the blue green hills of earth.  No other human in recorded history is as magnificent, as educated or powerful as he is.  Only HE is capable of unraveling the mysteries of the Bible and bringing them to the Church of God with the CORRECT interpretation.  All of the other lazy cretins in the other COG's have no idea what they are talking about.

From Passover Dave's miraculous birth and divine childhood, after being conceived by the worlds most perfect parents, to the training he personally received from Herbert Armstrong, Passover Dave is able to accept the mantle placed upon him by Jesus Christ himself in order to prepare the way of his coming.  However, Passover Dave is not too concerned about the return of the inconvenient man that exposes Passover Dave as a fraud.  Passover Dave is only concerned about HIS coming, HIS place in the world and HIS place in the Church of God kingdom.

Passover Dave is such a mind boggling man that his message is the most STUNNING thing you will ever hear.

The Old Testament’s closing book, Malachi, is for our time—NOW!—and it is written DIRECTLY to those with God’s Spirit in every WCG splinter. It foretells an intense trial of “fire” to come on all God’s people—possibly soon—and WHY!

Not what you have thought, Malachi carries a meaning previously impossible for the Church to have understood. It is recorded by a prophet whose very name means “messenger.” He speaks of Christ sending another messenger (3:1)—“MY messenger” (Elijah)—to announce the book’s meaning, ahead of “THE Messenger” (Christ).

Elijah is now revealed. So is the absolutely STUNNING message he is to bring! Easy to grasp, thousands have already found this detailed, eye-opening prophecy fascinating.  All Important Sermons