Ok Dave, It's over. You've had your day in the limelight and it's lights out. For the last decade and more you have made one "absolutely clear to me" mess of the scriptures after another. I don't know what your definition of a failed "prophet" and ministry is but we do as should your followers. I say followers because they aren't really members of any real Christian Church. They just follow you and endlessly evidently to their future harm.
You are the epitome of what is wrong with religion today. Weaving tales about the end times, as does Bob Thiel and others, as if you know, and making scriptures mean what they never meant in the first place. Weaving and cobbling one unconnected scripture after another into a stinking mess of mere speculation unrelated to the core values and teachings of Christianity.
"Your Creature Christ" is a apt description of just who and what you have come up with over the past years.
"We now have, and now I clearly see this, with no disagreement among the Headquarters ministers, one more year.
Dave....that is bullshit. You are postponing the inevitable. No Jesus and no God the Father are coming in your lifetime. (In my view never).
I was told once "Dennis, we think you know an awfully lot about Jesus, but we don't think you know Jesus." I got the point and did not disagree though I suspect that was said to make me think long an hard about that and come crawling on my knees back to the emotional and evangelical "Jesus".
You don't even get that. "Dave, we don't think you know much about Jesus at all. Hell, we don't think you understand the Old or New Testaments either."
I'm not confident you or RCG can survive you. I am not confident you can pull back and actually focus on the teachings of the NT , or if you really wish to be a New Covenant minister even. I think HWA and WCG got you so caught up in end time prophetic baloney that you probably can't give it up. It is the habit WCG gave to most of the gurus of the splinters. And while it is the gift that keeps on giving, to you, it is a Trojan Horse and will bite you and your followers in the ass before long. No, actually I believe you won't give it up and that will be your end and the end of your mini Kingdom of Yourself fairly soon.
Dave, you, like everyone in WCG before you and RCG are going to die. We all here reading this are going to die like every other human being who is and has lived on this earth has died. We don't like to think about that. We wanted and you still do, want to feel special. Don't forget that the Apostle Paul, who boldly claimed "we shall not all die but we shall be changed", died without the change. He didn't lie I am sure but he was wrong. Just as you are wrong. So very wrong.
"It's very difficult for humans to say the words "He/she/they died." What a marvelous number of euphemisms for death we have. We pass on, croak, kick the bucket, go home, expire, succumb, leave, meet our maker, go to our reward, get wasted, check out, eternally rest, are a goner, end, bite the dust, get liquidated, terminated and annihilated. We give up the ghost, make the change, transition, get mertilized, go to to the other side, fall asleep, get taken, rubbed and snuffed out. We depart, transcend and buy the farm. We are feeling no pain, lose the race, cash in, cross Jordan and go with the angels. We get done in, translate into glory, return to the dust, wither away, give up, take the long sleep and a dirt bath. It can be curtains, a dropped body, six feet under and out of our misery. We find everlasting peace, new lives the great beyond, ride into the sunset and that's all we wrote. But in plain fact, we are dead. And we all will die.
https://ezinearticles.com/?Death-Kicking-the-Bucket,-Being-a-Goner,-Biting-the-Dust,-Checking-Out-and-Feeling-No-Pain&id=155908
Take some of your ill gotten gain Dave and invest in some seriously honest classes in theology, Christology, Church History and why one should not be too quick to read the Book of Revelation like a newspaper. (old term I know) A Lutheran minister told me that years ago and it stuck in the back of my mind even as a pastor as one of the dangers in the WCG approach to it all. Time has proven that correct.
Time will prove you mistaken, as if it hasn't enough already, and your followers to have completely wasted their precious life time and weekends.
Admit to them you were wrong. Not just a little wrong but completely wrong. God is not giving you more time. God is not revealing more baloney to you to keep your mistaken views alive. No God has anything to do with anything you are doing. And then assure them you will give the New Testament a good read again and see what it really says.
Try giving just one sermon where you make no references to either the Old Testament or yourself.
That will always be your challenge in ministry even if your ministry proves just to be a figment of your imagination.
