As Sabbath Leaves Earth: Dave Pack and RCG Waiting for Christ This Weekend, Again.

Perhaps Dave believes anniversary of the death of Herbert W. Armstrong 36 years ago today (January 16, 1986) is another good time for Christ to return?  

I think all Dave got in Ohio this morning was the return of snow

 "It has become CLEAR that our watch will extend to the end of Sabbath   (1/15) as it leaves earth.

This is deep in the night, at some hard-to-pin-down moment BEYOND midnight here.

While waiting past sunset at Headquarters at first seemed unlikely, God laid out MANY PROOFS AT THE LAST MINUTE showing this WILL BE the case.

We look forward to seeing you soon!"

BUT WAIT! THERE"S MORE!

"In RUSHING to get yesterday’s announcement out before the sabbath, in EMPHASIZING the time of day, we NEGLECTED to remind you it COULD still be a later day.

In fact, it HAS BECOME MORE EVIDENT that we are probably at least two days away—with STILL a small chance that it could go beyond that.

In other words, the way Mr. Pack concluded his last sermon is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, except that the likelihood of the day moved further out.

In any event, IT CANNOT GET OUT of Sebat!"

Crackpot COG Prophet Claims His Followers Will Soon Be Deceived By Chinese Deep Fakes Of Him

 WARNING!

This is a deep fake propaganda photo 

created by the Chinese government 

to stop God's message from going forth into the world Africa!

Never has the Church of God had such a self-absorbed self-appointed prophet than we have in Bob Thiel. In his mind, he imagines what he says as the most important things necessary for people's salvation and so radical that the Chinese and others will hate him so much they will create animations to make him say things he never did.

As if China or some other government would find Bob to be feared so much that they would seek to imitate him!  Can he be that mentally ill and so self-absorbed?

One reader here writes:

Bob lives in fear that there is security camera footage, or closed circuit video, of him engaged in some activity that is incompatible with being a Prophet and Overseer of a Church of God. You and I, not being narcissists, would relax and assume that the video was overwritten a week after it was taped. Bob, however, lives in a fearful fantasy world where someone who knows about Bob's importance will find and release the video to discredit him, so Bob is busy preparing his followers to discount what they might see.

Bwana Bob writes: 

With modern technology, highly persuasive deceit is possible–and to a degree impossible in Paul’s day. But he warned to Christians to have assurance in true teachers. 

 

The Apostle Paul also taught:

21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21, KJV) 

 

Once you have proven the truth, you need to hold fast to it so you will not be deceived like others. 

 

Or tossed to and fro by every wind purporting to be true, “that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting” (Ephesians 4:14, NKJV). 

 

Many post and say things that are not true about the CCOG. 

 

In addition to not believing lies being posted against the truth and church leadership happening now, more deceit is coming. … 

 

Yes, computer technology and artificial intelligence can make very convincing fakes. 

 

More deep fakes are coming. Some will be used for purpose of deceit and character assassination.
I expect that the time will come when deepfake technolgy will be used to make it seem like I, and others in the CCOG, say and/or do things, that we did not say or do. 

 

Leaving the church? Will you suffer?

 

Ronnie Weinland failed COG prophet and one of the two witless witnesses, in his January 8, 2022 sermon to his basement Church of God group had this to say about people who leave the church, particularly his church:

“So this is what this is about. It’s about a process. It’s about people who leave God’s Church, they don’t become happier. Their lives don’t get better. They don’t become more joyful inside. It doesn’t happen. Anybody who believes that is nuttier than a fruitcake and doesn’t get it spiritually. Because when people leave they think they can grasp some kind of happiness out there. “If I go with this person I’m going to be happier.” “My life is going to be better if I leave the Church because of another person, because we don’t want ‘this,’ we don’t want ‘that,’ and because it isn’t right that I should have that relationship. But it’s going to make me happier, more fulfilled.” Boy, do you have a lot to learn. Boy, do you have a lot of suffering to go through. And if you have children and they grow up in that environment, so will they. The protection and the blessings from God, they won’t be there in the same manner whatsoever. And so it was with the children of Israel. …visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth.” In God's Presence – Part 3

This has been a lie that COG leaders and ministers have broadcast for decades. All it has ever been is a weapon to try and keep their followers under control. If people fear living lives of misery then they will never leave and will keep the money stream coming in. This is really what it's all about. Money. Not some salvation issue, but money.