Dave Pack: R*pe Never Happens If You Are Serving God In This Church

 

When Prophecy Fails

The Bible contains many failed propehcies. In the Old Testament and used as proof of basically nothing correct, the WCG appealed to the Prophecy about Tyre to prove its validity. The prophecy about Tyre failed spectacularly to this day.

The Book of Revelation is a failed prophecy. Apologetics will insist it was for both then and now again but this is simply not true. Letting go of failed prophecy is not something the true believer does easily or at all.

The Apostle Paul, and others in the NT failed miserably in their understanding of the Second Coming in their time.

Paul ended up having to admit that prophecy, which he made many of in his "soon" and "shortly" preaching could and ultimately, did fail. I often wondered how many lives he somewhat ruined as they prepared by not marrying or "giving all", with his own prophetic wishful thinking.

"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will fail" ,Paul was, at least, able to admit

(From the United Church of God)

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Dave Pack can't "unveil" it, so he simply has to "explain" it

In our time, we have Fake Apostle and Notta-real-Minister, David C Pack, who is obcessed with predicting Christ's Second Coming, failing now again over his inarguable truth of it being, for sure, March 29th now past. This marks the 93rd false teaching on this topic for Dave in just the last two years.

Caught in his own prophectic loop, one wonders why does anyone listen to this charlatan anymore?

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"These failed prophecies are not just mistakes. The reveal something deeper about the nature of belief, human psychology and the power of expectation"

"When scientific claims fail, they are discarded. When religious prophecies fail they are often reinterpreted, delayed or ignored."

"Science is willing to be wrong and adjust. While religious belief often bends reality to fit its narrative"

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These 6 minutes explain the phenomenon of reworking failed prophecies so that one can pretend they did not fail....

...and why they stay.

Jana Brock: Raised In A Cult

 

This video is the introduction to a my Raised In A Cult series I intend to publish about a very specific high demand religion called Armstrongism - a church labeled as a cult by many people since its founder died. Eventually, it splintered off into other churches but many still adhere to the original doctrines of Herbert W. Armstrong. 

I was a third generation member of this cult. My paternal grandparents were one of several founding familes here in the Pacific Northwest. Eventually, the church was renamed Worldwide Church of God. Armstrong amassed great wealth off the backs of his church members, many of whom were living at or near the poverty line. 

Worldwide Church of God splintered off after Armstrong died. Many members left but many fiercely defend those cult teachings, even today. One documentary ("Called To Be Free") features leaders of Worldwide Church of God talking about how their doctrine was wrong and how hard their mistakes were to correct with church (cult) membership. That’s all well and good for the paid ministers and their families, but it does nothing to correct the immense harm inflicted on countless families around the world, including mine. Not one of them admitted to the immense harm that was done to the membership all those years. 

There is no way to know how many people have suffered needlessly because of high-demand religions (aka cults) and their harmful teachings. 

Many bible-based churches are nothing like what I learned growing up. They are filled with good people who have good intentions and live good lives. If you choose to go to church, hopefully you can find one of them. 

Be well, Jana

UCG Also Looking Back To Exodus For Passover Prep

 

You can tell it is getting close to Passover time in COGland. The overemphasis on law-keeping is flying fast and furious. UCG is asking their members to look back to Exodus and the law as they prepare to crucify Christ once more in a high school gym or Masonic Lodge. Instead of focusing on the deep, rich things that Christians have understood for centuries about Christ, they prefer to prostrate themselves at the foot of the law, expecting it to save and forgive them.

Timeless and foundational principles are found throughout the book of Exodus as God begins to bring His people out of Egypt and teach them His way. In Exodus 1, for example, Pharaoh determines the children of Israel have grown too many. As a result, he decides to kill a number of God’s people and commands the midwives to carry this out as each male child is born. The midwives do not all follow Pharaoh’s order. They are right in their actions. Killing in any of its forms, as Christ magnifies in Matthew 5:21-22, is wrong 

 

The Bible is clear we are to obey our master’s instructions and requests unless they are ungodly. To defy is against God’s way (Ephesians 6:5-8). But, if we are asked by any leader at work, in government or anywhere else, to do something that is contrary to God’s way, we don’t do it. Acts 5:29 is clear in this respect: “But Peter and the other apostles answered and said, ‘We ought to obey God rather than men.’” 

 

Always do things God’s way. His way leads to peace, unity, joy, fulfillment and true love for Him and each other (agape). 

 

Remember why we are here 

 

Brethren, remember we are here to become like Christ. Remember your calling, remember the eternal purpose for which God has called you and to which you committed. Nothing in this physical life compares with what God has prepared for those who truly love (agape) Him. 

 

As we prepare for Passover, now just a little over four weeks away, let us truly examine ourselves and purpose to endeavor together to follow Him with all our hearts, minds and souls.
Continuing in Christ’s service,
Rick Shabi

LCG: It's Close To Passover And You Need To Read The 10 Commandments Booklet

 

It's another day in LCG and their focus is on the law instead of finding freedom in the one they claim to follow.

Eliminating Spiritual Leaven: The Scriptures indicate that leaven is to be removed from our homes and not eaten during the Days of Unleavened Bread (Exodus 12:15). We need to remember that this is a physical exercise to help us realize the importance of identifying and removing spiritual leaven that tends to creep into our lives from the world. Spiritual leaven involves breaking the commandments of God, compromising or rebelling against His instructions, and exhibiting the attitudes and works of the flesh (Galatians 5:19–21). Yet we are also instructed to eat unleavened bread for seven days (Leviticus 23:6). As we prepare to take the Passover and go through the Days of Unleavened Bread, it may be helpful to reread the booklet on the Ten Commandments. We need to ask God to help us see any spiritual leaven that we need to eliminate from our lives so we can really become more like our Father and more like our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Have a profitable Sabbath,
Douglas S. Winnail

How about instead of reading some worthless COG booklet you read Romans, Galatians, and 1 Corinthians without any COG literature next to you?

Galatians 2:16: "I know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, so we also believe that we will be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified." 

Is the all powerful Satan the real god of Armstrongism?

 

The Philadelphia Church of God has an article up about escaping the sins of the fathers. Satan figures predominantly in the article, especially considering it is the most powerful entity in Armstrongism.

Apparently, Satan sits at its computer daily to look back at least 5 generations to find out what stupidity your ancestor got into and then gleefully punishes you for their foibles. Jesus, as impotent as ever, is apparently unable to stop Satan from being such a big old meanie.

Satan is capable and determined in tempting us to sin. He knows and misapplies Scripture. He knows God’s law and how to seduce us away from it. And he definitely knows our personal history and will always try to tempt us in ways that have been historically successful for him. 

 

My father taught me early in life to be wary of Satan’s tactics. He taught me how Satan has a perfect memory and remembers all our sins. He can even look through history, at our great-great-grandparents’ fifth cousin’s weaknesses, to find ways to cause us to sin. Many times, he doesn’t have to go back that far.

All-powerful Satan remembers sins, but contrasts that with how Jesus/God remembers sins:

Hebrews 8:12
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” 

 

Hebrews 10:17
17 then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

All-powerful Satan keeps himself busy digging up all the dirt it can on you.

Satan makes a point of getting to know us. He is diligent about examining us. He is thorough about discovering our sins, our weaknesses and our struggles in order to exploit them.

Yet, Jesus says:

John 15:3. NIV
3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

John 15:3. The Message
The Vine and the Branches
15 1-3 “I am the Real Vine and my Father is the Farmer. He cuts off every branch of me that doesn’t bear grapes. And every branch that is grape-bearing he prunes back so it will bear even more. You are already pruned back by the message I have spoken.

In Armstrongism, we are at that time of year when the faithful start examining themselves to see if they are worthy to take the Passover. It is a time to beat themselves up as the unworthy worms they are and unclean dogs unfit to clean the crumbs from under the table. (Both of these things I have heard ministers say to the congregation at Passover time.)

Isaac should have learned from his father. We too should learn from our fathers, both their mistakes and their successes. “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come” (1 Corinthians 10:11). 

 

To achieve true depth in self-examination, we must honestly and earnestly go to God and ask Him to reveal all of our sins to us. We must reckon with the reality of our own human nature, aware that we are as vulnerable to the sins that overtook our fathers as they were.

But we can also rejoice in the Passover. Jesus Christ died for our sins, and when we examine ourselves, we know more fully our need for that sacrifice. We can fully focus on that awesome sacrifice, and then live knowing that Christ lives in us and we never need fall prey to Satan’s devices.

The Passover in Armstrongism is the yearly opportunity to break the bones of Jesus, with microphones next to the breaking bread, amplifying the cracking of the matzo as loud as they could, to make the unclean worms in attendance know that they are such filthy sinners that they have crucified Christ all over. Once again, He has to pay the price for all of their sins from the previous year. 

In Armstrongism, Jesus paid the price, but Satan remembers everything.

Qualify, Qualify, Qualify! Work, Work, Work! Or, Be Disqualified

The pressure is on, guys! You better get "qualifying" and work, work, work! Otherwise, you will be disqualified and will NOT be given a world to rule over! 

This crap below demonstrates what happens when a church doesn't teach grace, justification, and sanctification and instead labels all of these as excuses to sin.

For one to enter the kingdom of God one must qualify! Just like Jesus Christ had to qualify! We must qualify before God can trust us to run & rule his universe and his kingdom. 

 

The same as when we are called it into God's Church we must prove to God upon repentance of turning from our own selfish way and walking and living God's way of life! In repenting we are qualifying! Qualifying to receive the Holy Spirit! For the terms for receiving the Holy Spirit is to repent and to believe. If we do not repent through the action of turning around and no longer walking our own way but now walking according to God's way, the Holy Spirit cannot dwell within​ us. Upon repentance then upon believing God's word you have been qualified yourself to be baptized and to receive the holy spirit of God! 

 

So ask yourself this, are you turning to God and repenting of walking contrary to his way everyday?  

 

One way we can disqualify ourselves is by not repenting! God's way is not our way! The natural mind as mr. Armstrong has taught is hostile to God's way of life! That is what the Bible teaches! So one way to disqualify ourselves is to go on thinking and walking in our own ways! According to what we think is right because we agreed with God. Simon magus believed the gospel. But he did not want to stop his own way to turn around and start obeying God! He did not want to repent! 

 

What about you question mark what about me? Do we study God's word just to make us to feel good about ourselves? Or are we seeking to obey God and to walk in all his ways? Constantly repenting of any change of course? Are we daily qualifying so that God may give us the Holy Spirit everyday? Or is it just one day a week type of thing? You won't enter the kingdom of God will be in just a Saturday church goer! We must be qualifying and all the booklets and all the sermons and writings of God's chosen apostle and his church are there to help! What the worldwide Church of God preaches and teaches is a very Living Word of God! Those very words in your Bible are words of life and words of spirit as Christ has said. They are for us and for our learning. 

 

The purpose of God's Ministry is to build up and to edify the Church of God. And that is being done by and through the holy spirit of God in the membership! If you attend some other church and listen to a minister that is not teaching exactly what Christ gave to the apostles then you will receive another spirit and another gospel and you will follow another Christ as Paul warns! 

 

So are we qualifying? Are we repenting and turning to God without whole heart? Are we obeying God and all things? If you are led by the holy spirit daily God will lead you! And then you will be called the people of God and then you will be a part of the Church of God.  Samuel Kitchen