PCG Destined To Take The Kingdom of God By Storm! No Weak Men Should Apply

 

There have always been a couple of things that the Church of God had a strange obsession about - Satan and weak effeminate men. Satan is the all-knowing all-powerful god of the church that controls everything. Jesus? Not so much. Satan is discussed more and emphasized more than Jesus ever is.

The other thing that set many church ministers off the deep end was weak or "effeminate" men. Who can forget the 98-pound weakling, turned Golden Gloves champion Rod Meredith and his obsession with gay men when he wrote his "The Shocking Truth About Queer Men". This article was probably a knee-jerk reaction to prove his masculinity after Herbert Armstrong said he was the most effeminate man in the ministry. From that point on all men in the church had to be Alpha men. No weaklings need apply. (See: "Alpha Men" In The Churches of God)

The Philadelphia Church of God has a huge obsession with British Royalty and Winston Churchill. Churchill was a man's man in LCG's eyes and could do no wrong. Gerald Flurry wants his followers to be men of integrity like Churchill, powerful and forceful in accomplishing the mission. He wants his men and followers to be "boiling hot".

We live in the Laodicean era. Revelation 3:15-17 reveal that most of God’s people in this era are lukewarm, complacent and self-satisfied. That is human nature. Their love has waxed cold, but God says, I wish that you were hot! That word “hot” is zestos in the Greek, meaning boiling hot.

Flurry wants them to also be filled with passion:

Do you have passion for truth? For righteousness? For God’s Family and Work? For the plan of God? For the Kingdom? Build passion for the things in your life that God supports.

That passion is needed because they are going to take the Kingdom of God by storm!

There is a lot to be said for having proper enthusiasm and excitement. When you put effort toward something worthwhile, good things will happen. The Bible is full of people whose passion was God and His Work.

Matthew 11:7 says, “And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?” Did you expect to see some weak, soft, effeminate man? This man was a messenger for God; he prepared for Christ’s first coming—the first-century type of the end-time Elijah.

“But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. … Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force” (verses 8, 11-12).

“Suffers violence” comes from a Greek word meaning: “forced, overpowered, taken by storm” (Vincent’s Word Studies). Christ says the Kingdom of God is taken by storm! We seize the Kingdom of God like we are conquering a city. 

PCG members need more passion and foregoing some meals to support the work. Christ's meat is all they need. Besides, the church needs the money you would waste on food.

Christ’s meat was to do His Father’s Work. It sustained and energized Him more than physical food. Mr. Flurry writes in John’s Gospel—The Love of God, “If you are like Christ and you miss some meals to do the Work of God, that’s not bad! Christ had enough passion and excitement that He didn’t mind those kinds of inconveniences. His mind was teeming with the vision of God! He was thinking about the World Tomorrow, not the world today. If you are really doing the Work, you have vision!” 

PCG members and especially the Irish dancing men need more zeal and passion to get the work finished. Prancing around on a stage pretending to talk about a guiding hand from someplace, who will soon send his son to sit on Flurry's golden throne, is about as passionless as it could get. Well, other than printing hundreds of booklets in different languages that no one will ever read like Bob Thiel does.

“According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him” (verses 18-19). We need more of that zeal and passion—the zeal of the Eternal.

God is stirring us to build the zeal of the Eternal. Ask God for more passion, and He will give it to you. Passion will inspire action and help you surmount obstacles and become a more effective tool for God. You can inspire passion in other people and build a more passionate Family of God.

So get off your lazy butts and be passionate, because your number one reason for being passionate is you will soon be God ruling with power and authority!

Isaiah 62:1 says, “For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.” Isaiah was eager to do anything possible to proclaim God’s message. The Church’s literature is packed with quotes about the need for passion like the Father and Son have. It should be our number-one passion to declare the message of the God Family. 

 

Samuel Kitchen Claims He Found His Brother Trying To Conjure Up A Demon

 

Just when you think the Church of God can't sink any lower, along comes someone to restore your faith.

This ongoing public mental breakdown of Samuel Kitchen is sad and unbelievable. Armstrongism has such a negative effect on people anymore. Instead of focusing on Jesus, he placed his entire trust in Herbert Armstrong, the supposed one true Apostle who apparently still speaks from the grave to keep Samuel on the narrow path.

Recently there have been tremendous issues in the Kitchen family with brother being pitted against brother, all thanks to Armstrongism.

Samuel Kitchen has now resorted to claiming his younger brother is possessed by demons and has recently found him trying to conjure up a demon. Samuel let his brother move in with him to help with his window cleaning business. Apparently, demons moved in also and Samuel has been busy casting them out:

He thought while working, me pausing and working on office work and book keeping, was negligent and unnecessary, and I needed to be with him to finish the cleaning. I said, no I'm the boss and I have responsibilities and I needed to get this done. 

 

This triggered him, and a wrong attitude came about. He began to believe I was taking advantage of him. He was no longer led by a cooperative spirit. 

 

Since then, things have worsened. I've had to put out several demons, and restore order in my house. I caught my brother sitting in the dark, fuming and foaming in his emotions, trying to conjure a demon, and in his own words "searching for the devil". His spiritual condition got worse, and he refused to study the Bible or pray. He kept telling me, he already did.

Then, horror of horrors, Samuel walked in and heard him playing heavy metal which apparently to Samuel is a pipeline for demons to come in and enter his brother's mind:

So I've been telling him he needed to leave. He had me take him to a Walmart in a town 30 miles away, and drop him off as he was leaving to go to a homeless shelter. Upon finding they were full and could not accept him, he called me up and I picked him back up. 

 

I talked with him many times, about finding a job, working for a couple of weeks and renting a place of his own. I didn't want him homeless. And he went back and forth with wrong attitudes and wrong spirits. 

 

Now, he told me he never experienced these type of attacks until he moved up with me. I kind of agree with him on that. The Devil doesn't attack an evil thing. We were two men, who I thought was walking the same path. I talked to him over the phone and he sounded like he had a good relationship with God, and when things weren't working out for him in Kansas City, I opened up my heart, my home and my business to him. 

 

I even paid for his flight tickets for the feast this year.(Something that is not refundable I found out)
God began to bless my business here locally. It doubled in one week. And I have tried to remind my little brother of what God is doing. But he has taken the stance I am using him for personal gain.
Tuesday night, this week, he was playing metal and screaming music in my bedroom, indulging in the evil spirits and anger and hate. He has done this in the past, and he is evoking demons and wants to swim in the hate and bitterness. So I walked in and for over an hour, sang Bible hymns, and confronted the demons that were coming in. 

 

The last time things got this heated and out of hand, in he was possessed, and he tried to stab me and did a lot of damage to my home, and it was the Devil that entered him and told me to my face I was going to die and he was going to do it in Jerusalem. 

 

This time, he told me he was looking for the devil to possess him. I asked the demon that was entering him, his name, and I got profanity and "I told you before".
It ended with the demons leaving, and I went to bed.

Things did not get better the next morning:

I was walking to the library to upload this next week's Bible study and Church services, to the channels my brother Tim(another brother) had returned to me last week. 

 

He was still part of the channel, because YouTube didn't allow me to become "primary owner" until after seven days of being an owner. Tim made me an owner, and since YouTube saw I was just added, they said I had a seven day period before I could become "primary". 

 

So while I was working on that, I received emails telling me I had been removed from the channels and I was no longer owner. 

 

I contacted my brother, he refused to answer my calls or messages. 

 

When I posted yesterday about it, he messaged me telling me how I wronged Clint, and he took it back because of how I was treating Clint and will not give it back. I needed to change he said, and he took the side of Clint. 

 

Clint, had called Tim, while I was going to the Library, and gave him a story, full of lies.

Tim, took to himself, without coming to me about this situation, and took the channels, on total condemnation against me.

Samuel sees this as a direct attack by Satan who is angry that he runs the Worldwide Church of God.

It has been a stressful several weeks, of battling the Devil and demons, and those easily led by them.
The Devil wants to destroy the Worldwide Church of God, and me doing what I was doing on YouTube was helping the Church. 

 

So please pray for me. My family has turned against me. I am not afraid, but I am deeply concerned for my well being. 

 

I came home yesterday, ordered my little brother to leave the house immediately. He was no longer welcomed. He called the police on me, who arrived and told me he couldn't leave according to state laws and I have to serve a 30 day eviction on him. 

 

I can end my lease and move, forcing him to leave sooner, but I would be displaced and without home. 

 

I think that is what Satan wants. 

 

So I'm praying about finding a new place, or waiting out things here behind enemy lines, until the 30 days are up. 

 

It's all in God's hands. I realize a YouTube channel is not the Church. A website is not the Church. I don't need a home to continue to obey God. I don't need anything. God has provided everything for me. So whatever happens, I know it'll be okay. My comforter and protector is near. My concern is whether I am close to him, and that's what I'm focusing on right now. 

 

Please pray for me brethren. I need your prayers.

What Samuel and this entire family need is a good psychotherapist who deals with mental illness, cult trauma, and recovery. It should NOT be a COG minister who is not qualified.

It is actually sad to see what Armstrongism has done to this family. They aren't the first and will not be the last.

Another NEW COG Group: When WIll This Craziness Ever End?

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Hat tip to MisterdiffiCULT for discovering a new Worldwide Chruch of God splinter group. This one is a splinter of Dave Pack led by Vidal Wachuku. It is called the Church of God Without Walls. Holy Hanna! What a quagmire of irrelevance Armstrongism has descended into!

Apparently, he got a few Restored Church of God folks to join him along with their money. After all, money is the official purpose of any COG. It's not leading people to Christ. It's all about leading people to men along with their money. These self-appointed leaders all need to keep money flowing into their pockets so they can maintain their expected living standards. Their donate button is featured on the front page of their website, right at the top.

Church of God Without Walls is a congregation of believers, many from other splinter groups, that believe in the True Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed by Mr. Herbert W Armstrong. 

With a group that spans continents we meet frequently on digital and social media such as Zoom, YouTube and Facebook.

I pastored congregations of The Restored Church of God in the state of Florida, USA and the Caribbean Islands from February 1, 2012 to November 30, 2021. I was later transferred to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Texas where I was responsible for the congregations in most of the state and parts of Louisiana, USA from Dec. 1, 2021- Dec. 29, 2023.