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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
It is interesting to know that when God was creating the foundations of the world that Bwana Bob Theil was destined to arise in these perilous end times because God knew His ability to preserve His Word for humanity would be an epic failure. Thus, He would need Bwana Bob to deliver His word to the world in a bunch of craptastic AI-generated books that would be poorly written and filled with hundreds of theological errors. But God is a mighty God and his works are mysterious.
The Great Bwana has this to say about his "books" being translated (hyperlinks deliberately removed):
06/14/23 a.m. The final phase of the work includes reaching all we can with the good news of the kingdom of God to the world as a witness–which will also bear fruit. That includes making the gospel of kingdom known in many languages.
Jesus said:
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14)
29 They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God. (Luke 13:29)
Those scriptures support the view that multiple languages being used to reach people before Jesus returns–and that is also specifically pointed to in Revelation 7:9,14:
9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, … These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, (Revelation 7:9,14)
Yes, the Bible points to the use of multiple languages being used to reach people before Jesus returns.
While we had the English version of The Gospel of the Kingdom of God booklet translated into a couple of hundred languages in the past, we still want to reach more people in as many languages as we can.
Late yesterday, the Continuing (Sic) Church of God received 34 additional translations of its English booklet, The Gospel of the Kingdom of God. While all of those are not online yet, this brings the total to an additional 182 languages the Continuing (sic) Church of God received in the last six weeks!
The CCOG is serious about fulfilling Matthew 24:14 as it prepares for the short work of Romans 9:28. Having made information on The Gospel of the Kingdom of God in more languages than any Church of God has done throughout the entire church age is another step that shows it is going through the "open doors" (cf. Revelation 3:7-13) to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom to the world as a witness.
Why is it that the Church of God movement is filled with so many morons who claim to be reincarnated Old Testament prophets? It would be something if these men were actual prophets and said things that made sense and were actually precise prophecies, but since every single one of them self-appointed themselves they all come off looking as complete imbeciles, particularly as men who NO ONE wants to follow.
This brings us today to our most highly favored Great Bwana to Africa and 100 Caucasians. Besides being the Great Bwana and Chief Overseer of the improperly named "continuing Church of "god" the Great Bwana has also taken upon himself the titles of Joshua, Elisha, Elijah, Amos, and other Old Testament prophets. God must have been oblivious to this when he made plans for Bob Thiel's coming in the perilous end times as God's one and only true Church of God leader. For some reason, the plan of salvation had this dude named Jesus in it and not Bwana Bob, but that has never stopped Bwana Bob from imagining himself as part of that plan of salvation.
After his humiliating banishment from the Living Church of God by his mentor Rod Meredith, the soon-to-be great Prophet started having a bunch of nightmares. Believing he was like Joseph Smith in receiving visions from his god, the soon-to-be Great Bwana decided to set up his own church where he did not have to answer to anyone. This soon led the Great Bwana to start imagining himself on par with the Old Testament prophets and sages. The problem here is that Great Bwana could not pick just one to emulate, he has had to compare himself to almost every single one listed in the Old Testament.
This brings us to Amos, the biblical prophet who is everything Bwana Bob is not.
The Great Bwana writes:
The Eastern Orthodox considers today to be a memorial day for the Hebrew Prophet Amos (the Church of Rome uses March 31st).
Here is some information about him from Wikipedia:
Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah,[1] was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II,[1] (786–746 BC) making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written. Amos lived in the kingdom of Judah but preached in the northern kingdom of Israel. (Book of Amos. viewed 02/22/2014)
Before becoming a prophet, Amos was a sheep herder and a sycamore fig farmer. Amos’ prior professions and his claim “I am not a prophet nor a son of a prophet” (7:14) indicate that Amos was not from the school of prophets, which Amos claims makes him a true prophet (7:14). His prophetic career began in 750 BCE out of the town of Tekoa, in Judah, south of Jerusalem. (Amos the Prophet, viewed 02/22/2014)
It is interesting that he had to tell people that one becomes a true prophet in a manner that most did not expect. The Apostle Paul attempted to defend his apostleship in that same manner (2 Corinthians 11:5, 22-29)–and that was to people who were supposedly in the Church of God.
One of the messages that Amos proclaimed is that the time would come when people would not be able to find the words of God:
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall not find it. (Amos 8:11-12)
The words Amos spoke were fulfilled when judgment was placed upon Israel and they went into captivity, so there is no way that Bwana Bob can even compare to him. Amos' words predict the coming judgment of God against Israel for neglecting the poor among them and extending grace to them. Judgment was pronounced upon them and they went into captivity, as the story says.
Bwana Bob, being the Bob that he is finds something far different in the story. He finds internet censorship in the above words.
I kid you not!
Bwana Bob's lunacy has no end to the extremes his mind can wander.
I believe that the above warning is a reference to a coming internet censorship. And in the Continuing Church of God, we have already experienced some of this.
But the major fulfillment is likely to start just before the start of the time of Jacob’s trouble (Jeremiah 30:7), also called the Great Tribulation (Matthew 24:21).
Perhaps under the guise of “neutrality,” perhaps under the guise of “The Patriot Act,” perhaps under the guise of “public welfare,” perhaps because of alleged “intolerance,” calling parts of the COG message “hate speech” and/or national security threats/issues, something will be done to stop perhaps all of the organized media efforts to proclaim biblical truths. A short work will be done, which will trigger the end (Matthew 24:14), and likely then the famine of the word (Amos 8:11-12).
Then he grasps for more straws to build his fake narrative and says this is a warning to the United States, England, and all the other so-called British Israelite nations.
Amos is giving a warning to those called by Jacob’s name (which was also Israel), whom according to Jacob himself, would seem to be a reference to the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh (Genesis 48:16). In modern times, this would be the Anglo-Saxon nations such as Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and also the United States of America. The reference to trusting Mt. Samaria in Amos 6:1 could be a reference to trusting the USA to defend in the end. That will not end well for the USA or its allies of the Anglo-Saxon nations.
What really frosts Bwana Bob's delicate butt is that NO ONE believes he is Amos and he is NOT happy! Shame on you Laodiceans! Heck, even his African followers do not believe he is Amos!
Of course, few in those nations believe that they will be taken over and have such calamity. But that will come to pass. Most would not listen to Amos then, and most, sadly, will not listen to Amos now.
You can see the visual story of Amos here and the meaning it has for us today. Not the crap that Bwana Bob teaches.
Our human form is like our Creator’s form, which is to say that we are like God, and not that God is like us. Jesus explained this to His disciples when He said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9). Christ is like the Father in form and character.
The Apostle Paul made it very plain when he explained, “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth…. Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising” (Acts 17:26–29).
When one understands our origins as human beings and where we are going in the plan our heavenly Father has for mankind, the pervasive fog of confusion clears, revealing the purpose for human life. There is no basis for racial prejudice. Paul stated emphatically that “there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all” (Colossians 3:11). Every human being has been created in God’s image.
This understanding reveals why Star Wars biology does not resemble actual biology: God specifically designed intelligent life—truly intelligent life—to be like Him. The diverse races of fantasy and science fiction can easily make one’s head spin; by contrast, God’s design of mankind is so perfect in its simplicity that there is confusion only if we clumsily misinterpret ourselves.
Wonderfully, God intended us to share not only His form but also His substance. Paul made this important point to the Christians in his day: “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit… from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:19–20).
To become like God, not only in form but in our spirit and character, is a destiny that few can really imagine—yet it is our Creator’s true and glorious purpose for us.
