Saturday, June 8, 2013

Dennis On : Job Update





Job 39

New International Version (NIV)

Ok...I'm Back...Answer me this!

39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?

Yes sir I do...


    Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?

Sometimes...
 
2 Do you count the months till they bear?

Yes sir...It is 196 to 201 Days of Gestation

    Do you know the time they give birth?

Ummmm...Yes sir I do.

They crouch down and bring forth their young;

    their labor pains are ended.
Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;
    they leave and do not return.

Yes sir, that's how it works but crossing highways these days is tough on them.

“Who let the wild donkey go free?
    Who untied its ropes?
I gave it the wasteland as its home,

    the salt flats as its habitat.
It laughs at the commotion in the town;
    it does not hear a driver’s shout.
It ranges the hills for its pasture
    and searches for any green thing.

Oh no sir...I did not do it.  They are tough to pin down for sure, but it can be done and sometimes we laugh at them


“Will the wild ox consent to serve you?
    Will it stay by your manger at night?
10 Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness?
    Will it till the valleys behind you?
11 Will you rely on it for its great strength?
    Will you leave your heavy work to it?
12 Can you trust it to haul in your grain
    and bring it to your threshing floor?

Well sir...now don't get angry with me, but yes, we have gotten their consent , they stay put in the stall and barn and they can til up a valley storm.  It does all the heavy work and that's the way I like it.  They pull a mean wagon too.


13 “The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
    though they cannot compare
    with the wings and feathers of the stork.
14 She lays her eggs on the ground

    and lets them warm in the sand,
15 unmindful that a foot may crush them,
    that some wild animal may trample them.
16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers;
    she cares not that her labor was in vain,
17 for God did not endow her with wisdom
    or give her a share of good sense.
18 Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,
    she laughs at horse and rider.

Yes sir I sure agree with you there. Some animals just don't seem to have paternal instincts.  Lots of fish eat their own.  I guess that's why the have so many.  And most birds can outfly a horse and rider sir...just sayin'

19 “Do you give the horse its strength
    or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
20 Do you make it leap like a locust,
    striking terror with its proud snorting?
21 It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength,
    and charges into the fray.
22 It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing;
    it does not shy away from the sword.
23 The quiver rattles against its side,
    along with the flashing spear and lance.
24 In frenzied excitement it eats up the ground;
    it cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.
25 At the blast of the trumpet it snorts, ‘Aha!’
    It catches the scent of battle from afar,
    the shout of commanders and the battle cry.

Oh for sure Sir.  

26 “Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom
    and spread its wings toward the south?
27 Does the eagle soar at your command

    and build its nest on high?
28 It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night;
    a rocky crag is its stronghold.
29 From there it looks for food;
    its eyes detect it from afar.
30 Its young ones feast on blood,
    and where the slain are, there it is.”

Hawks and eagles are awesome birds for sure Sir.  We...umm...we have gotten pretty good at using them when needed.


Eagles can be a real challenge for sure and can they ever find prey


Sir...are you ok?  Are you upset with me?

Oh..no..no..I just haven't had this conversation in thousands of years and wasn't expecting your answers.  You know your stuff.  Hold on a sec...I am going to have to rewrite the last chapter...BRB....

(waiting)

Err...um...ok.  I'm back.  Here goes.....

Job 42

New International Version (NIV)

Job

42 Then the Lord replied
“I know that you guys have learned a lot since the last time I challenged a man;
    Humans have gotten a lot smarter and it's more difficult to question them..
I asked who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Boy...did I ask the right person or what!
    Surely I spoke of things I thought you'd never understand, but you did,
    really great things and I'm pleased you actually know the answers.
“You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
    I will answer you,
    and you sure did.’
My ears had heard of you
    but now my eyes have seen you.
I'm going to have to think up new questions for humans.
Therefore I'm sorry

    and I'll ask better questions next time
Good job!”
(PAUSE)
Hey Job...or whatever your name is.
  
Do you know the size of the whole universe?


Do you know what bosons and quarks are?


Do you understand string theory and parallel universes if I was to say there really were such things?


Have you ever considered the universe is really a hologram?


Ha! Mr. Smarty....Do you know what a Black Hole the nature of time and space?


I bet you know how you humans got here don't you....

Yes sir, I do....


You have done really well.  I'm very proud of you.  

Thank you for making us conscious and sentinent beings along the way sir.

You're welcome...Use it Wisely

Goodbye for now.....Goodbye sir....

Dave Pack: In 2 Weeks I will Announce The Year and the Very Day This Reunification Will Happen



Dave says that in 2 weeks he will make a specific announcement as to the year and exact day that all the COG's will be reunified under him.  However, Dave wants you to know he is NOT a prophet and did not dream this up.  God has spoken directly to him.


All of the items in this announcement have caused many to wonder, “When will this take place?” At least a few have thought that I am “toying with people” by not explaining when this will happen. For a while, the “when” was not as important as were the subjects that prepare brethren for the “when.” That thousands will come and many others will not needed to be explained—and there is much more yet to explain in this regard. This said, a clue to answering this question comes from the meaning of Haggai. Recall this word means “My [God’s] Feast.” For now, regarding timing, understand that everything covered in Haggai is in a Feast of Tabernacles context.

In two weeks—after one more important set up announcement—I will announce the year and very day that this reunification will happen. But I am not a prophet! Understand. I have NO AUTHORITY to make my own proclamations about anything regarding prophecy. It is GOD Who reveals and interprets prophecies—and then brings them to pass. My job is to explain what He reveals FROM HIS WORD. No visions, dreams, and “revelations from God” have occurred. Whether you believe God’s Word will be your choice. More is at stake than you realize. Be sure to read next week’s announcement.

Dave Pack: Ministerial Conferences In The Reunified COG Will Be A Week Long



Can you imagine sitting through a week of lectures by Dave Pack and his League of 16?  The lake of fire would be a welcome opportunity!

When WCG held ministerial conferences they had less and less men attending meetings if it  went on for several days.  So many of the meetings were  boring as hell.

Dave feels it takes a week of training to get his words of wisdom across as he reeducates the returning COG ministers.

While you are there you will be taken behind the scenes to see such a mind-boggling work that you will be astounded.  There are things that RCG does and equipment that it has that NO ONE ELSE ON THE ENTIRE EARTH HAS IT.........

Don't worry though. There will be NO lectures on LOVE.  Love is as filthy of a word as fuck is. Nothing can be more disgusting to an rabid Armstrongite than the word LOVE.

There will be no democratic voting in Dave's new church either.  It is a royal waste of time to be voting on budgets, leaders and polices.  There is only ONE budget controlled by ONE man who is the ONE person in charge who sets ALL polices and doctrines.  Guess who that ONE man is.......

Ministers throughout the splinters can look forward to powerful, annual Ministerial Conferences similar to what we all experienced in the past under Mr. Armstrong. For more than 10 years, The Restored Church of God has held conferences each year. A few years ago, we expanded to six full days of lectures. This was necessary due to the vast amount of information that is so important to convey to the ministers, and 2013 will be no different. The Work’s many department heads take the ministry deep inside God’s highly sophisticated Work, which utilizes cutting-edge technology and provides countless tools that allow pastors to serve the flock unlike ever before. These marvelous tools—found nowhere else—bring an efficiency you must experience firsthand to believe. (Of course, ministers also receive monthly updates and pastoral instruction via The Pastor General’s Report.) In addition, more than 20 hours of detailed Pastoral Care lectures are given—and on a broad range of crucial topics. Each year, our ministers leave the Conference electrified—on fire!—to better serve God’s flock. Many of you ministers in the splinters will soon again feel the excitement of coming together with probably several hundred of Christ’s ministers each year. Weak lectures with doctrinal confusion and shallow talk of this world’s “love,” centered around debating how many false doctrines to accept and how many fruitless, worldly-Christian-copying projects (a Vic Kubik slam) to implement, will be a thing of the past. Gone will be study papers and committees to continue Joe Tkach’s policy of examining all doctrine to “see where Mr. Armstrong may have been wrong.” And at these conferences there will be no voting on budgets, leaders, policies, changes in bylaws, and other unscriptural time-wasting nonsense brought by the devil that only serve to divide and confuse God’s ministers and God’s people. You can look forward to being part of conferences with realtrue!—love, purpose, unity, peace, zeal and the power of God’s Spirit present. And you will experience all of this in the setting of the magnificent Headquarters Campus that God has reconstructed for the final phase of His Work. The scheduled what I call “Unity Conference” will fully clarify God’s doctrines, traditions, standards, policies and judgments so that all ministers and wives return to being on the “same page” as the Church enjoyed for decades under Mr. Armstrong.

Living Church of God: More Troubles Brewing As Meredith Slowly Looses Control



I don't know if many of you caught the following comment in one of the posts below.  It seems that Rod Meredith's perfect church is having more crisis issues.  That is part of the reason Rod has had so many sermons on being loyal to the chain of command and to him as leader. Being sinless he cannot make a mistake, especially when it comes to appointing his son as his successor.

That has been a big bone of contention in LCG.  Charlotte employees are getting raked over the coals for being in rebellion,  Ministers are back stabbing other ministers by throwing the hate bomb of "liberal" at those they disagree with.

The day Meredith dies you will see a huge  implosion happen in LCG.  Winnail and Ames will not be able to control the upheaval that will take place.


I was reminded of this when talking to a friend whose son attended the recent LCG Singles Weekend in Charlotte. Mind you, this is all secondhand and hearsay, but what he heard from his son is that the amount of hatred among LCG HQ staff in Charlotte was shocking. Ministers there privately undercut other ministers, calling each names like "liberal" or "idiot" or "unsophisticated" or "liar". Meredith is seen as out of touch and as only listening to his favorites, who flatter him and lie to him. Many of the younger people are flagrantly disobedient to the teachings of HWA, and apparently if you are a friend of the right minister's son you too can get away with premarital sex, drug and alcohol abuse, Sabbath-breaking and more. Teens and young adults of the LCG in Charlotte are apparently split between those who are disgusted by the hypocrisy and those who are happy to live secret lives so they can have all the fun their church would officially deny them.

It sounds like a hateful and awful environment. But then again it sounds exactly like the fruit of the ACOG mentality. Whether or not it is true, it is certainly believable.

Dave Pack: I will Be Shutting Down All The Phoney COG "Colleges" and "Universities"




Those kids at UCG, LCG and PCG "colleges" and "universities" had better beware.  You will soon be attending the most amazing COG college ever to exist in the woods of Wadsworth where you will be taught by the worlds most incredible man who sits beside Jesus Christ on his throne.

Most will not admit this, but the academic institutions in the splinters are basically 80% world and 20% Ambassador College—classic mixtures of knowledge coming from the tree of good and evil. These phony colleges will soon come to an end, but many of their students will want to continue, knowing that the true Ambassador spirit and way is now available to them. No longer will there be competing educational programs, teaching truth and error to students. Separate resources currently being invested in multiple “colleges” will soon be combined into one. Ambassador Center, the modern true continuation of Ambassador College, will come to more closely mirror its predecessor in size and function, the latter largely being already the case. Combining elements of the Pasadena, Big Sandy and Bricket Wood campuses in their prime, “AC” will continue to teach men and women how to live, but also how to make a living. Only the numbers of students and qualified, experienced faculty (some from the past) will grow. Candidates for the ministry and Headquarters staff will acquire a foundation for success through academics, clubs and extracurricular activities. The old college motto of “Recapturing True Values” will be further established.