More On Gerald Flurry's Extravagant Con Game To Own His Own Private Jet

Gerald Flurry has gone out of his way to imitate Herbert Armstrong in every manner possible.  His latest episode in whoring himself out to Herbert's legacy included buying his own GIII jet.  Of his many excuses for a reason to do this was that due to his advanced age and severe health issues, he could not travel and breathe the same air as the unwashed masses of unconverted commercial airline travels.  Some of them might have a cold and due to the air being recirculated the apostle just might be exposed to the germs of pagans.

Flurry went several letters of appeal to Philadelphia Church of God members appealing for them to send in as much money as possible.  Several larger benefactors face huge amounts of money to fund his jet.  He also took money from widows and the poor in the church without any guilt at all. $13,000,000.00 in tithe money is a pretty hefty price for a church member to support.  Not involved in any of this is the cost for jet maintenance, hanger rental, gas, pilot salaries, crew salaries, insurance, transportation costs to and from the airports, hotels, meals, and renovations to suit the expected lifestyle of God's ONLY end-time apostle.

FYI: Yesterday in a play-all-areas sermon entitled “Abraham’s Vision”, Gerald Flurry mentioned that he is now considering buying a private jet!  The rationale behind this unbelievable decision stems from experiences Flurry had last year on his flight to and from a US feast site.  Apparently his trip left him feeling so unwell that it took several weeks to fully recover his energy levels.  During the message he commented that modern air travel is now very unpleasant and that breathing in recycled air was unhealthy for him.  He also complained how in the US passengers needed to get to the airport in sufficient time to allow for security screening, sometimes requiring that they arrive up to 3 hours before an international flight.   He concluded by saying that owning a private jet meant he would be able to travel and do more for the work, especially being able to travel quickly between the two campuses in Edmond, OK and Edstone, UK. 
 What that all translates into is this:  After buying a multi-million dollar stately home in the UK, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars refurbishing it, literally pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into a fruitless UK TV campaign for his son, after building a multi-million dollar music and Irish dance facility for the Edmond compound brats, all of which is financed by an ageing and declining membership, the PCG is now going to buy a private jet so Gerald Flurry's children Stephen and Laura and their children and friends can travel the world like rock stars and not have to rub shoulders with the unwashed masses. This unbelievable decision has been made during a time when PCG is experiencing a current 25% drop in income!

You seriously have to wonder about the long-term stability of the PCG and who is really running the church behind the scenes.   Repeatedly throughout his message, Flurry referenced Josephus and how this ancient historian taught that Abraham was an educated and cultured man who introduced fine arts and music everywhere he went.  Each time Flurry made that statement, after the expression, “fine arts and music” he would quickly add “and dancing”.  I know for a fact that “Wittle Laura” and “Wittle Stevie” are both obsessed with Irish dancing, perhaps this is where the pressure is really coming from to buy that oh so needed Lear jet!

A PCG source has sent information that Flurry had several opportunities to not spend so much tithe money on his own personal play toy as he has now done.

There are at several conveniently located jet charter companies that would have let Flurry use their luxurious jets for his apostolic/Irish dance trips.

'Wiley Post Airport is one of three airports owned and operated by the City of Oklahoma City Department of Airports.  Designated as a reliever for Will Rogers World Airport, Wiley Post functions as a lively center for corporate and business aviation." 

There are two jet charter companies at Wiley Post airport.  PCG could have just chartered a jet at far less cost than buying one. But one obvious inconvenience is that Wiley Post airport is about 18 miles from Edmond, OK.  The distance just might be too great for PCG staff to overcome.

Wiley has the following charter companies that would have allowed PCG to charter their jets.

American Jet Company 

Private Jet Inc.

Do Meredith's, Pack's and Flurry's Mistaken Prophetic Rants Mask Their Simple Fear of Death?

When did you ever hear  "When I die" from those ministers abscessed (I meant to use that word)  with their own "because we won't" prophetic drool and why not? 

 "You don't fear the Unknown?"

"I love the Unknown"

"Would HWA's Empire have been more successful, widespread and accepted if..."

Gerald Bronkar has asked the following question to be thrown out for comment.  This is a "neutral" question that would allow those in LCG and other groups to share their observations.

"Would HWA's Empire have been more successful, widespread and accepted if the heavy yoke of some of his church doctrines had been less onerous? 

His idea of God's rules presented many tough pills to swallow: Sabbath, holy days, tithing, divorce and remarriage, dietary laws, secret society difficult to get in, church government, etc.  If some of this had been relaxed, would he have had a greater impact---membership, income, fame?  Or was this actually his real attraction?  He sure knew how to make religion difficult. 

COG False Prophet Makes Claim That Tribulation Begins Christmas 2018

Our certified Chief Pharisee, who places the law above mercy and grace, has set a definitive date for the abomination of desolation to be set up and thus start the end times.

Like all of the hundreds and hundreds of Church of God false prophets and outright liars the church has had in its midst for the last 80 some years, the utterances of James Malm will be proven to be wrong once again.  Of course, come October 10th, 2017 and December 24-25, 2018 when absolutely NOTHING will happen, the lying false prophet will claim Jesus Christ has delayed his coming because the church is not ready or that he made a slight "mistake" in his calculations.

1. Aubrey

   07/05/2017 at 09:59

   Hi James. Why is October 2018 a possible date and not October 2017? I know the dates must line up for Christ returning for a first fruits harvest in the Spring. Just curious as to why next year and not this year?

   

   1) There does not seem to be enough time to fulfill all the things which must still happen. Even if the wars take place this summer the best part of a year would still be needed to negotiate a final peace deal, ratify it and bring in peacekeeping troops.

   
   

   2) Counting back from Pentecost June 6, 2022 to the sixth day of ULB April 22, is a perfect 45 days in 2022; and counting back the full 1335 days from Pentecost June 6, 2022, has the abomination being empowered to do miracles on 10 Oct 2018 with the trib beginning on Dec 24 – 25 2018 with the occupation of Jerusalem. This count fulfills Daniel 12 perfectly. The count for 2021, 1335 days back to 2017 does not fulfill the scriptures. 

   3) In addition, the 40 years of God’s protection (Ezek 4 http://82.221.105.8/~theshini/?p=1777 ) on Judah seems to be coming to an end with the fortieth anniversary of the Egypt Israel peace treaty Oct 1978 to Oct 2018.

   
   

   Everything screams the trib begins in Dec 2018, but being a very cautious person I am not willing to call it as firm until the abomination is actually set up doing miracles and the New Federal Europe is coming together, once this man is scheduled to visit the Holy Place and God’s two are revealed we shall know the date of the trib for certain. James

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Does God want the UCG to flourish?

The United Church of God just finished its annual Council of Elders conference. As usual, there has never been a more unified group of men to meet together in the annals of human history.  The problem when leaders of UCG make such claims, trouble is always on the horizon.

The UCG propaganda publicity department had this to say:

Mr. Kubik expressed his appreciation for the spirit of fellowship among the elders of the general conference. He also welcomed those elders watching the webcast from home who were not able to make it to the meeting this year. He said that he was asked again what the purpose was for the recent church-wide fast we had. The Church hasn’t fasted together in anticipation of the meeting of the general conference for some time. In Isaiah 58 the prophet seems to be answering questions about fasting at that time. He then lays out the spiritual purpose of fasting: to humble ourselves before God and draw closer to Him and to make His purpose our purpose. Fasting is not to get our way; it is to orient ourselves to God’s way. Through this fast he has come to understand who and what we are. He sees how small we are but how much potential there is for growth, both spiritual and in numbers. God wants the Church to flourish.

Why is it that COG leaders seem to be constantly "finding out" who they are as a church?   It has been over 22 years since UCG apostatized from their mother church and decided they knew how to do things better.  At that time they claimed to know who they were and what they were doing.  In the proceeding years, we saw one issue after another hit the church as they were constantly "finding" themselves.  The church imploded with huge numbers of ministers and members jumping ship to form yet another splinter group who in turn claimed that they had found themselves in order to justify their existence.  As all of the COG's shrink smaller and smaller, just how are they to "flourish?"

Though we’re small we’re at a place where we can be united like Gideon’s army in performing God’s purpose for His Church. We’re working on a video to show the Church’s work in fostering and developing relationships across the generations that make up the Church. It’s important that we develop strong relationships among all God’s people. The younger generation coming up is very engaged in the Church and its work. We need to be ready to “hand the keys” off to those who will be the next to do that work.

United has never been united and they most certainly will NEVER be a "Gideon's army" into performing some mighty purpose.  Just HOW can the United Church of God be "fostering and developing relationships" when the leadership of the church has split families and destroyed marriages over it ongoing in-fighting.  This has been the sad legacy of the entire Church of God movement for 80 some years.

Just how can the "younger generation" ever be engaged in the church when the old guard continue to be elected to the Council of Elders?  Four spots were open on the Council and look who is back, yet again:

Council of Elders Seats

Rainer Salomaa (international)

Aaron Dean

Don Ward

Mr. Seelig announced that the last Council spot on the ballot was too close to call. Auditors are reviewing to confirm the General Conference of Elders’ choice, which should be announced tomorrow, May 8.

UCG goes on to say this:

He said there have also been questions about the structure and function of Ministerial and Member Services. He says it’s functional very well, and what he would like to do is put together a chart for the ministry to express how the department works and functions. Mr. Kubik is the acting director of MMS, and Chris Rowland is the administrator, and this situation has worked well. He has a lot of respect and appreciation for the work Mr. Rowland has done in that role. Kathe Myers was also hired to help Mr. Rowland administer the department, and she’s been a big help in the day-to-day function of MMS.

The bandages they continue to put on everything only cover the rot underneath.  After 22 years ministerial services now needs a chart for the ministry to understand what it does. After suffering huge hemorrhaging of members, the church has never recovered to be anything truly outstanding, as hard as they try.