Exposing the underbelly of Armstrongism in all of its wacky glory! Nothing you read here is made up. What you read here is the up to date face of Herbert W Armstrong's legacy. It's the gritty and dirty behind the scenes look at Armstrongism as you have never seen it before!
With all the new crazy self-appointed Chief Overseers, Apostles, Prophets, Pharisees, legalists, and outright liars leading various Churches of God today, it is important to hold these agents of deception accountable.
Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders
As God's only end-time apostle (sorry Almost-ordained Bob Thiel!) Ron Weinland is mocked and ridiculed on the internet by evil nasty people. Just as Paul and HWA were mocked, Weinland claims it as a sure sign of his apostolic position in the church.
Although we had believed Christ would return in 2012, it will still
be a Pentecost when he returns—Pentecost of 2019! There is great
purpose “why” he did not return then, and that will be thoroughly
explained. Although many ridicule and mock this change, and use it to
try and discredit what I speak, people will in time become astounded
why that date actually did change.
Paul, the apostle to the gentile world, was beaten, stoned, imprisoned, and then kept under house arrest in Rome for an extended
period of time before he was eventually killed. Candidly, ever since
that time, people have continued in great hatred of the message that
God’s apostles and teachers have brought, and as a result, many other
leaders of God’s Church have been imprisoned and/or killed.
At the time of my calling, Mr. Armstrong was God’s apostle. He died in January of 1986, and yet to this day the Internet is filled with written content that contains intense hatred for him. Most of what is written contains things that have been contrived, twisted, distorted, and just plain lied about concerning him and the life he lived. Yet it is amazing that most people who read such things “choose” to believe all or at least part of what is written because their mind is prejudiced against him solely due to the doctrine he taught, the truths of God, some or all of which they reject.
There are many who have written things that are on the Internet who had been part of God’s Church at one time, but in time turned against it, just as God and Christ said would happen. These are those who had been given opportunity through a direct invitation from God to enter into a new creation, yet in time began to reject what God was oering and teaching them. They turned from the grace, the favor, that God had shown to them.
Some of those have gone so far in their bitterness and hatred that they have done exactly what Lucifer did and their minds have now become set against God. God will not force anyone to receive His way of life if they do not want it, even if after having accepted His invitation, they later turn away; that is their free choice. God’s creation within the mind of mankind cannot be completed in anyone who does not want it.
Now we know the reason why Ron Weinland has so many mental issues. It seems that he was in a car wreck where his car struck a bridge, which his god apparently saved him from, but not before his eight-track tape player beat the crap out of him. Isn't it amazing the powerful tools God uses to wake people up! Though in this case, I am afraid his tape player played a on him...
Another thing that began to aect my thinking, due to the wreck,
was what happened right after. Probably because of the mild concussion I received, I can vaguely remember walking away from the
wrecked car and up to a farmhouse that was right next to the area
of the bridge that I hit. When I walked up to the house, a farmer
living there met me at the door and told me he would drive me to
the hospital. I was bleeding a great deal from my head because an
eight-track stereo player in the car had broken loose and had been
tumbling around on the floor board and beating me about the head,
and as a result, cut it in several places. That was one beating I really
needed, as it literally helped to begin knocking some sense into me,
although still very slowly.
Ron Weinland claims his mind has been transformed into the mind that all people will be given in the millennium. As God's most important brain ever to lead a Church of God, Weinland has been blessed with a mind that does and says miraculous and amazing things...like making hundreds of false prophecies that have epically failed, and whose mind is so corrupt that it led him to lie and deceive the IRS with his money laundering skills that sent him to prison for 3 1/2 years.
His mind is so amazing that he wants you to know that it is just like the mind that will be changed in the millennium. His mind sees crystal clear now, uninhibited by earthly lusts and desires.
I have been blessed for a long time now to be able to readily recognize human nature. I fully understand that the only reason I have
been able to see this so clearly is because I am experiencing exactly
what was described in the last chapter about a new creation—another
spiritual creation within the mind itself. This ability and others that I
have been given come from what God has been giving me, as He and His Son work through the power of the holy spirit to transform—to
completely change—my way of thinking.
As explained before, that process cannot be created by fiat from
God; it cannot be instantaneously brought into existence. It requires
the free will of the one to whom it is
offered. It must be one’s own
choice, and this individual must be filled with a strong desire to
experience a complete change in life in one’s thinking, from the way
of get to give, and from selfishness to outgoing love toward others.
Since 1969, I have been blessed to be one of those few, who throughout the past 6,000 years have actually been experiencing that creation
and its power at work in my own mind. How can such an experience
be shared with others so that they can begin to grasp and understand
what I am saying? It is my deep conviction that what I am sharing will
begin to resonate with many who will be given the help they need so
that they can begin seeing what must now change in themselves and
the whole world as God intervenes to change it.
That is why I am spending time explaining some of those things
that have happened to me and the profound difference it has made
on my way of thinking that is now in unity and oneness with God’s.
This same process is what God is about to begin offering to the entire
world, for all who are blessed to live on into the Millennium.
This “change” that I have experienced, and that others will begin
to as well, is described by the first apostle to the gentile world, Paul,
where he states, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be [become]
you transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2).
The English word “transformed” comes from a Greek word that
is used to describe this “change,” which is “metamorphoó.” This
very word is the origin of another, “metamorphosis,” which is used
in biology to describe a complete change in body and makeup that
produces a butterfly.
This is an incredibly awesome verse in Romans. It is about that
process of a new creation whereby God actually works over many years
to help one’s mind become changed—transformed into something
completely different in “how” one thinks and reasons.