Why Did The Living Church of God Lie To World Vision?

After news broke on Exit and Support that Living Church of God was going to hold a campaign in the office building of World Vision in Canada, concerned people have been working over time to alert World Vision as to the duplicity of LCG in their deceptive actions toward them.

Living Church of God apparently told World Vision that they still had ties to Grace Communion International.

As Bereans Did has this to say:

What do Whoopi Goldberg, Justin Bieber and Rod Meredith all have in common?

All three have spoken under the banner of the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision. 

Hold on, that can't be right. World Vision International is an evangelical Christian aid organization. Rod Meredith has expressed, on multiple occasions, his distaste for these “so-called Christians." 

But wait. Rod Meredith's Living Church of God is holding an upcoming Bible seminar at World Vision Canada's headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario. LCG's upcoming presentation, “Has God Abandoned Mankind?” is slated for 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, at World Vision Canada's headquarters at 1 World Drive in Mississauga, Ontario.

Meredith has always had disdain for Christians who live better lives than he has.  For decades I heard him mock and ridicule Christians around the world.  He loved to call them "so-called" Christians.   That blasphemy has carried over to Bitter Bob Amos Elijah Elisha Thiel.  He regularly uses that derogatory phrase to smear real Christians while he himself is one of the most deceitful fake Christians in the Church of God today. But that's another story.

As Berean's Did correctly points out that LCG probably did this in order to add legitimacy to their message.  They are incapable of holding seminars in their own "churches" since inviting the public to the local high school gym, dining hall, movie theatre, or Masonic Lodge turns people off right away. Coddling up to a well know Christian humanitarian organization adds legitimacy to the Living Church of God sect, at least in their blinded eyes.

We suspect that LCG chose the World Vision facility to lend an air of Christian legitimacy to unsuspecting outsiders. To cloak itself in the skirts of the very evangelical Christian groups they mock. To lure in moral, God-fearing folks and disarm them with images of smiling African toddlers. 

And this isn't the first time. LCG held a similar seminar at World Vision Canada headquarters back in 2011. Despite the fact that LCG's Official Statement of Fundamental Beliefs violates World Vision's Statement of Faith six ways to Sunday, oops, I mean Saturday. Did this ever come up during contract negotiations? Application for a rental space? Anything?

LCG was so slick in their negotiations that they totally hoodwinked World Vision into believing they were no longer a heretical church and were actually tied in with the changes brought down by Joe Tkach. Living Church of God is pretending to be Protestant!

“In fact, the Worldwide Church of Tomorrow (sic) (founded by H W Armstrong) had a radical shift after Armstrong’s death and has become thoroughly evangelical and renamed their movement as Grace Communion International. This denomination is a member in good standing both with the National Association of Evangelicals (USA) and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada,” World Vision Canada stated in their communication with ABD.  “Given this outcome, we do not have any concerns with their use of our facility.”

So there you have it, Rod. World Vision Canada is letting you use their facility for your Bible seminar because they think LCG is an evangelical Christian church. Or what you like to call “Protestant.” They are letting you use their space because they believe LCG descended from Grace Communion International. Because they believe your mentor was Joseph Tkach, not Herbert W Armstrong.

Read the entire article here:  World Vision to host LCG Seminar; Believes Meredith followed Tkach

Gavin has more here:  World Vision Conned

Does Dave Pack Have Six Fingers On His Hand?

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From a reader:

Dave wrote this almost 5 years ago and said fewer years than can be counted on one hand.  Maybe he has 6 fingers?  Guess he might need to explain, again, how his god has not shown up.  

Dave has been really quiet lately instead of his usual bombastic in-your-face prophecy belching.  After a string of EPIC failures, Dave is keeping his head down...at least a little. He has also become rather sedate after loosing several HQ staff/ministers and a drop in income.  His vision of building his mini-me version of the Ambassador Auditorium is now on hold as members struggle to meet Dave's finanical demands.

Jokester God Plays Trick On James Malm

God, the eternal jokester play a cruel trick on the followers of James Malm tonight.  The Chief Pharisee has been predicting that the "new moon" would appear tonight in Jerusalem.  The Chief Pharisee was adamant that the new moon would be sighted on Friday:

April 7, 2016

New Year Update:   Update on the Barley in Jerusalem. This update is only referring to Jerusalem. About 40% is abib, and about 10%, or maybe a little less, has jumped all the way to being ripe in the last few days. With hot dry weather predicted for the rest of the week, there should be no problem for the majority of the barley to be abib by the sighting of the new moon on Friday.    

Since the Jerusalem barley is the last to ripen the entire harvest will be ready to be reaped after the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

April 8, 2016
Announcements:  The sighting of the new moon will be reported in a special post with extensive study material as soon as the moon’s light is sighted at Jerusalem; expected this evening.

Between looking for ripe barley on the roadside or neighborhood park to standing outside in the cold to be the first to catch sight of the slightest sliver of the moon rising, the legalists will go to any length to devalue the work of Jesus so that the law trumps.

God must have been having some fun tonight when thongs  did not go as planned for the Malmites.

NEW MOON UPDATE 13:15 EDT:   There is heavy haze over Jerusalem and a sighting of the new moon this evening is in doubt.  We will continue looking in hopes the haze will open up long enough for the moon’s first light to be seen.  As this is day 29 of the 13th month and no month may be longer than 30 days, if the new moon is not seen tonight then tomorrow night will begin the new moon by default.

Already having some fun with the legalists, God takes it even further.  He decides to send a dust storm to totally obscure the "new" moon.

The new moon would normally be easily seen this evening, however a dust storm covered the entire region and the first visible light of the new moon was NOT seen by anyone at Jerusalem or anywhere else in the region this evening. 

  God has power over the weather and atmospheric conditions and God could have caused conditions to remain normal and  allow the moon to be sighted, but God chose not to do so.  

Since this was the 29th day of the 13th month and no month can be longer than 30 days, sunset tomorrow evening will end the 30th day and a new month will automatically begin at sunset ending Saturday 9 April, 2016, and Sunday 10 April 2016 is the first day of the first month of the Biblical year.   

Because weather conditions do occasionally cause a delay in beginning new months after 29 day months, it is always very important to confirm by actual sightings, and it is also very important to schedule the expected day and the following day just in case the moon is not sighted as expected.   

Please note that this year the Feast of Trumpets is also after a 29 day month and should be booked for the expected day and also the following day just in case the moon light is not seen as expected.