Norbert Link Melts Down Again. As ministers and church leaders our rights are being taken away!

Norbert is really upset with people being prohibited from gathering together due to the coronavirus shutdowns around the country and the world.

The false prophet and false teacher is appalled that people cannot gather for birthdays and for church services and is perturbed that the idiot pastor in Florida was arrested this week because he gathered hundreds of people in defiance of the ruling.

This has been the typical reaction of narcissistic leaders of various Churches of God for the last few weeks.  No one can tell them what to do! They speak for God! 

This brings up a news story that appeared today about a community of Orthodox Jews in Israel this past week.

BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Early this week, the streets of the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak were bustling with shoppers as ultra-Orthodox residents, obeying their religious leaders, ignored pleas to stay home in the face of the coronavirus threat. 

By Friday, Bnei Brak had become the country's worst hot spot and now resembles a ghost town. The military will soon be sending troops in to assist local authorities. One expert estimated that nearly 40% of the city's population might already have been infected. 

The city has become a lightning rod for anger and frustration by some secular Israelis who allege insular Haredi communities — with disproportionately high numbers of confirmed cases — are undermining national efforts to contain the virus. 

The pandemic also has threatened to upend deep-seated customs in the religious world, including blind obedience to religious leaders and the belief that religious studies and traditions take precedence over the rules of a modern state.  After ignoring warnings, Israeli ultra-Orthodox hit by virus

This is exactly the same thing Church of God leaders are doing. They run off at the mouth, like Norbert Link and Dave Pack are doing and people continue to come to church and congregate in social gatherings. Even milquetoast Bob Thiel is letting the leaders of his "house churches" determine whether they want to meet or not.  He does not have the balls to say STOP meeting.

No Church of God member needs to feel that God is requiring them to sit there every week during this pandemic.  To do so is putting their life and the lives of their children in danger.  Likewise, no Church of God member needs to feel that they are required to send in tithe and offering money to their leaders during this time OR to even tithe on the stimulus check being mailed out.  There is not one single Church of God leader out there that deserves their money.

Any Church of God leader that continues to demand their members meet on Saturday needs to be turned in to the police.  Then, if a member does become sick after gathering, these men need to be prosecuted.

Stop listening to this bull crap that it is an infringement upon their rights.  It's not.

Updated: Restored Church of God: Return of Christ Just Days Away As They Refuse To Acknowledge Some Of Its Members Are Sick From COVID-19

Well, it is Saturday, April 4, 2020 and Dave Pack has proven himself to be a liar once again.  Yesterday was to be the day that Dave's creature he calls "christ" was supposed to have returned to walk the hallowed grounds of the most superfantabulous campus ever built in this end time dispensation of the church. Once more he got caught in a lie and his members sit there like clap happy seals giving Dave their reverence (and money).

Why do Church of God members listen to all of these lying fools heading up their own little ministries these days?

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From RCG sources:

And no self respecting COG leader will ever admit that any of their members have corona. This is practice now in the RCG anyway: a few RCG members are infected, one member even in ICU. They’ve put in prayer requests, as is a normal practice. And guess what? None of these requests are forwarded to others, because the official guideline is that RCG members do not get corona. Or, as David Pack is putting it “God will continue to protect us!”

#8:42AM Meanwhile The Great Packster is telling the RCG members, that ‘There is not another Sabbath on the horizon’ ... And it is shocking to see what this does to people. This is the message he sent to his little flock yesterday: 

Keep watching! Based on all we can “forecast,” another Sabbath this side of the Return of Christ, does not appear to be on the horizon. None of the ministers here at Headquarters can see it. One look around the nation and the world makes this impossible. Brethren, we say again, be sure to listen to the latest messages RIGHT AWAY. Time is short! While Ohio continues to have an exemption for religious organizations, the governor’s recent comments put this extraordinary exception under even greater threat. This should come as no surprise as the devil is desperately resisting God’s Work. As many around the world are trapped in their homes, let’s not forget Hebrews 13:16: “But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” Continue to be your brother’s keeper. Fellowship over the phone and internet. Talk about the messages. We know you are praying for us here at Headquarters—know most assuredly that we are praying for all of you as well.

Commercial Break: Facing Fear and Going Deeper in The Present Distress

I recognize that digging deeper within the self is not most of us were ever taught to think about much less do.  The solution to fear was faith and trust in the future.  But we don't actually live in the future. I believe we can't really know the future.  I believe it is what we think we can do or feel the need to do to answer the fearful question "What's going to happen to me and us?"  It might feel good but it does not actually address how to live  and think in the present distress. 

I realize this is not for everyone here of course. And while my personal journey in, through and out of the Worldwide Church of God and all the experiences it brought me personally, we all handle the lessons learned differently depending. We all will process the present distress differently depending. We also go through the stages of anger, denial, bargaining and acceptance. We go through them in different orders. We get stuck in them at times for a very long time. Sometimes forever.  

I hope this is encouraging during these times to some who understand that the present moment is all one actually has in our lives that is real and while looking forward, according to one's faith, may help, it also may be a form of denial and not all that helpful in addressing the fears that are very real in this very real circumstance we all face no matter the politics and opinions about how we got here.

I realize we also tend towards short attention span theater there but a couple of presentations to consider in all the time we all now have to process our concerns, situations and fears as we watch what we cannot control unfold.

There is another way