50% of COG Members In Petra Will Not Be Resurrected

The dung keeps getting deeper and deeper on Malm's blog.  He has a long post today on the two witnesses, the tribulation, 3 1/2 years, three and half days, 7 years, 1,290 days, and on and on and on.

He talks about the church fleeing to 'the place of safety' (Petra in Armstrongite mythology.)  There the true faithful COG members will be sheltered from the trials the rest of the world will be going through.

Then all of a sudden, POOF, the person standing next to you will be gone!

Gone off to heaven while you will be left standing there, shattered and devastated beyond belief.  Yet, don't be too discouraged because you are STILL a true COG member.  Just not one of the lucky ones.

Does he realize how incredibly STUPID he sounds?  Worse yet, what is the state of mind of those that believe this bullshit?

The answer to this question has two parts. The first part is the simple fact that many are called and few are chosen. And not everyone in the wilderness will be accounted worthy to have a part in the resurrection. When the resurrection comes, there will be many who are not ready, who are not worthy. They’ve gotten lax, they’ve gotten bored. They found life monotonous and routine in the wilderness and they just have gotten lazy and they are not ready, they are not prepared and they are not worthy and they will not be in the resurrection.
                                  
That is why Jesus said, there will be two women grinding at the mill. One taken and the other left and so on and so on. You know the scriptures, you can look them up. The fact is, probably half the people who are even in the wilderness will not be worthy to be resurrected. And when they see their friends  rising up around them, they will be struck with horror that they are still on the ground. They will be crushed in spirit and they will still be God’s people, they will still be God’s elect. But they are just not worthy to be a part of the Bride of Christ. They are not zealous enough, not ready, not properly prepared. Not having enough of the spirit doesn’t mean that there is no spirit at all.
                                  
People could have a small amount of spirit and not have been using it. And there is very little left and they just don’t have enough to have a part in the resurrection. So, they would need to continue on and being that they were in shock at seeing their friends and neighbors rising up around them. In absolute shock and horror, they would repent deeply and bitterly and would still need protection for the final 45 days. Protection from the beast, from the false prophet, protection from Satan and protection from the seven last plagues being poured out on the earth.
There is also the issue of little children not being qualified to be changed, yet certainly sanctified by faithful parents.  A loving God would not leave then unprotected!

Yes after the resurrection, there will still be some of God’s people who were not considered worthy to be changed and resurrected, to be a part of the first fruits at that time. But who will repent bitterly and who will still be protected by God up until the very coming of the kingdom.

Then the stupidity really shines forth when he starts talking about the little kids left behind when their parents are up in heaven rejoicing in the presence of God.  They won't care.  God's going to take care of them, no concerns, no sirree!  No concerns while they are basking in God's delight while their little ones are left in the desert wilderness of Petra.

The second part of the answer concerns who are God’s people, who is God’s church, who are God’s called out ones? And we are told in Holy Scripture that the conversion and the godliness and the commandment keeping of the parents sanctifies the children. As long as the children are willing to obey their parents, as long as the children are subject to their parents, they are sanctified by their parent’s conversion.

Therefore in the resurrection, little children who are not going to be part of the first fruits, who simply by reason of their youth don’t have the experience, don’t have the understanding, and are not ready to be a part of the first fruits; those little children are still God’s people. They are sanctified by their parents and by their parents faithfulness and shall be blessed with God’s protection in the wilderness until the actual establishment of the kingdom.
                                  
We need not be concerned or worry about our children. God will take care of them. How? Why those people who were not worthy to be part of the first fruits, who were lax, who have suddenly been horrified and become deeply repentant, they will take care of the children. And if not, God would send his holy angels to do so. For He would not allow our sanctified children to suffer.

 Then he gets into one of the favorite areas of Armstrongite mythology.  The conferring of offices of responsibility to the TRUE COG members who will be placed over the remaining heathens where they will be taught the teachings of Herbert Armstrong for 1,000 years.  Oy, hell looks better and better all the time!

Given how mean so many of the legalistic men have been in the COG's towards their wives, children and neighbors, I would not want to be in a world governed by any of these idiots!  Malm's god is just giddy with delight at the prospect of destroying humanity. 

                                  
When the last plagues have been poured out, Christ will then come with his saints to seize control of the governments of the world. Governments mostly destroyed and totally humbled. And having destroyed these governments and taking the beast and false prophet and throwing them into the lake of fire at the very end completing 1335 days.

Kirk Cameron SAVE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This Months Third False Prophet! Strike Three!

COGdom is banging out false prophets every day now. James Malm, the self appointed authority on ALL COG truth and end time prophet, over on the Shining Light blog is now speculating about the date of the end times.  According to this false prophet, the abomination of desolation will be in late September of this year:

Of course he dances around saying he does not predict exact dates.  Dance, dance, dance. IF, IF, IF.....

And I will tell you now that the end of the 1290 days is the resurrection from the dead on the 6th day of Unleavened Bread; and 45 days later brings us to the end of the 1335 days, which must fall  before the Feast of Pentecost. And on the feast of Pentecost, after those days Joel 2:28; God’s kingdom will be established. God’s spirit will be poured out on all flesh even calming the savage beast. And the Kingdom of God will be established and the millennium or thousand years of peace will start.

The proof of this will be in the fulfilling!  If we find the earliest possible sixth day of Unleavends and then count back from there 1,290 days and the abomination [final false prophet] is actually set up at that time; then we shall know that this concept is true.  Each year I have published the POSSIBLE date that the abomination might be set up. 

 I have NEVER published that any year is the set and established year that the abomination would be set up.  I only pubhlished that IF a certain year were to be the year, then the abomination could be set up accourding to the 1,290 day count; at a certain date.  This year that date would be in late September.  I am NOT saying that this is definitely the year; I AM saying that IF it were to be the year, then based on the count the abomination would be set up in late Sept.

One might go forward and calculate this possioble date for many years into the future, however if the abomination is set up according to the 1,290 day count; then this concept stands proved.

Let's put an end to this foolish interpretation of Isaiah 28 once and for all! :)

How often we have heard Isaiah 28:9 is THE WAY ONE STUDIES THE BIBLE?  God's truth is scattered all over the place from Genesis to Revelation and only the true church, apostles, priests and kings approved by God have the combo.  The reason there are so many false churches or teachers in Christianity is because most, save for the elect, simply get the scriptures in either the wrong order or leave out the ones they don't like.  Ha!  Like ALL Churches don't do that!

Anyway, Val says:

"The Bible that must be studied the hard way of here a little and there a little for solving the hidden pieces of line upon line to rightly separate the word of love is the King James Version, the other versions have been altered for the convenience of man."

How about we once and for all lay this ignorant interpretation of scripture to rest and show ourselves, or at least those who are not invested in the above interpretation as being the correct Bible Study Formula, to be a ridiculous way to view this passage. 

First, read it in context.  I know, I know.  Crazy idea for sure, but give it a try.  CONTEXT!

Isaiah 28:

	Verse
1.	Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are smitten down with wine!
2.	Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, as a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, as a storm of mighty waters overflowing, that casteth down to the earth with violence.
3.	The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot;
4.	And the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer, which when one looketh upon it, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
5.	In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of His people;
6.	And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate. Comment: The strange mingling of severe warnings and gentle promises of hope, especially noted in this chapter, is the result of Isaiah's discrimination between the leaders who are principally to blame for the approaching disaster and the rank and file of the people who are being misled. "He varies his tone and manner,"F4 accordingly as he addresses first one group, then another.    Verse two identifies God's instrument of destruction as the empire of the Assyrians, metaphorically described here as (1) a hail, (2) a destroying storm, and (3) as a devastating flood. The Assyrians were ready and would soon destroy Ephraim; but the Ephraimites continued to lead lives of, "libertinism and debauchery, in which even the clergy participated with disgusting excess." Their egotistical and boastful over-confidence was noted by Rawlinson: "They said in their hearts, `We have taken to ourselves horns by our own strength' (Amos 6:4,5). They persisted in regarding themselves as secure."   The practical interpretation of Isa. 28:3 means that when the king of Assyria sees Samaria he will immediately take it and eat it up. It also indicates the ease with which Samaria would be taken. Its siege lasted less than three years (2 Kings 18:9,10); whereas the siege of Ashdod, according to Herodotus lasted 29 years, and that of Tyre lasted 13 years.  ...Isaiah turned his attention at once to the same shameful conduct in Judaea that existed in Ephraim.
7.	But these also reel through wine, and stagger through strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel through strong drink, they are confused because of wine, they stagger because of strong drink; they reel in vision, they totter in judgment.
8.	For all tables are full of filthy vomit, and no place is clean. Comment: If Isa. 28:5-6 are considered as a parenthesis, which they manifestly are, then these words are a continued description of the debaucheries of Ephraim. Some have tried to explain the drunkenness of Ephraim as A "spiritual" error; but the description of reeling, staggering, etc. is powerful evidence of common intoxication. Payne properly discerned this as an affirmation that, "Priests and prophets in the northern kingdom were no better than ordinary citizens."
9.	Whom shall one teach knowledge? And whom shall one make to understand the message? Them that are weaned from the milk, them that are drawn from the breasts?
10.	For it is precept by precept, precept by precept, line by line, line by line; here a little, there a little. Comment: We might paraphrase this mockery of Isaiah by the drunken rulers and leaders of Ephraim thus: Why, who does this man think he is teaching, a group of babies who have just been weaned? Is he trying to teach us our ABC's? These silly little sayings of his are nothing at all. They are just rule, rule, rule and law, law, law! J. B. Phillips has this, "Are we just weaned ... Do we have to learn that The law is the law is the law, the rule is the rule is the rule?" Such a mockery indicates that Isaiah's teachings might have been very simple and monosyllabic. Isaiah might have used the stammering, monosyllables of drunkards to announce some of his teachings. In any case, his hearers hated it! God, through Isaiah, at once responded to the mockery.
11.	For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue shall it be spoken to this people; i.e the Assyrians
12.	To whom it was said: 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary; and this is the refreshing'; yet they would not hear.
13.	And so the word of the LORD is unto them precept by precept, precept by precept, line by line, line by line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Comment: The thought is, Very well, you reject Isaiah's messages from God; I will speak to you with the words of a cruel invader. You pretend not to understand what God says; but you will really not be able to understand the brutal language of your slave masters in Assyria.
14.	Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scoffers, the ballad-mongers of this people which is in Jerusalem:
15.	Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, and with the nether-world are we at agreement; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves';
16.	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a costly corner-stone of sure foundation; he that believeth shall not make haste.
	Summary: Isaiah is telling Ephraim that Assyria is barking up their butts. Ephraim's leaders are a bunch of vomiting drunks.  (Resist Douglas! :) The drunken leaders mock Isaiah  in the form of "blah, blah, blah you say... Do you think we are babies at the breast?  Isaiah it is YOU who sounds like a baby with your blather...wha wha wha."  ("here a little, there a little, line upon line, precept upon precept"  I know this sounds more official, but the original tone was mockery.) Isaiah responds with, "Oh yeah, well you'll see if it is baby talk.  God is going to spank you.  (Sorry couldn't resist:), and you won't think it's baby talk then."   Sorry Val....but thanks for playing.  Like ALL of the COGs, you got this o totally out of context and what you see as THE way to study the Bible is merely phrases used as mockery of Isaiah and then God of Ephraim in response.   You have, like many, managed to make a scripture mean what it never meant. Warm Regards Dennis DenniscDiehl@aol.com