Which Church of God Will Soon Be Shut Down by the U.S. Government?

I will give you one guess.....it's god's most doubly blessed prophet to ever exist in 1,900 years of TRUE Christianity!

Prophet/ Chief Overseer, authority on Catholicism, and worlds foremost authority on the Mayan's is warning his little itty-bitty flock of deceived followers that the United States government will soon be shutting down his YouTube account and stopping the broadcasting/publishing of his message.

Thiel is reacting to news out of Houston, Texas today about the Mayor who has subpoenaed the sermons and notes of several preachers.

Thiel writes:

Was sent the link to the following today related to some Houston pastors’ sermon notes on homosexuality being subpoenaed by the government there:

The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.

This is another example of how far the USA is moving away from its founding documents as well as the Bible. During the Feast of Tabernacles this year, before I heard of the above, I mentioned that the position of the Continuing Church of God related to subjects like abortion and homosexuality could be used by one or more governments as an excuse to pull us off the internet.

In the past I have also warned:

Various governments (like that of the USA and those in Europe) may secretly work to come up with reasons to pull us off the internet.

The work (in the Amos 8:11-12 sense), as I indicted, is likely to be stopped by government officials (like on the internet, radio, etc.) and persecutions began because people of the holy covenant are warning the world of the results of their sins (which they will not want pointed out) and teaching that the King of the North is fulfilling these prophecies in Daniel 11. The faithful will likely be saying things that are not “politically correct” to the point that one or more governments will take action (especially if we are saying, and I expect to help do this, that a certain individual is the King of the North and that he will invade and destroy the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, etc.). Yet, God’s work still will be accomplished and the final phase of the work completed.. The Bible tells of a time, which to a degree we are now in, when a certain amount of self-censorship will be needed:

2 For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate. 13 Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, For it is an evil time. (Amos 5:12-13)

And while some COG groups overly “keep silent,” hence pull too many punches in proclamation, the reality is that there is not truly full freedom of truthful speech in countries like the USA without consequences. However, the work will be done and it will trigger persecution. Until the work is done the most faithful will:

1 Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins. (Isaiah 58:1) .

The actual and intended monitoring by government entities on religious topics does not bode well for the world.

Feast 2014 Behind the Work Video: Go Therefore and Make Dumb Videos

If you have time to waste on another Bob Thiel video then check this one out.   Fast forward through it to see the clips he films at different exotic locations around the world.

This has to be one of the most pathetic and sad Behind the Work videos ever produced by a Church of God in it's seventy some years of existence.

It appears to be filmed with his camera phone and a hand held video recorder.


Gone are the days of extravagant Feast videos being produced by money rich Church of God's!  This homemade version starts in Doubly Blessed Prophet and world renown Mayan Authority Bob Thiel's garage studio which features his crooked bookcases and bathroom door as the backdrop.

No expense has been spared!

Beverly Lucille Armstrong Gott Requiem

Tedd Armstrong wrote this for his mother soon after she died.
Soundcloud: Tedd Armstrong Music

He also did one on Herbert Armstrong that I posted some time back:

Did Church of God Canadians Just Pay Homage To Sacrificing Young Virgins By Celebrating Thanksgiving?

Did you know that when Canadians and Americans celebrate Thanksgiving in their respective countries that they are paying homage to the sacrifice of young virgins?

The Church of God's greatest Pharisee has this to say:

Actually the harvest feast was well known by these Indians and was a tradition practiced throughout the new world, as well as the old by the pagans. Thanksgiving is a universal pagan tradition descended and spread from Babel worldwide. Some of whom paid homage for the harvest by sacrificing young virgins.

Is it wrong to be thankful? NO, Definitely NOT!

It IS wrong to cloak pagan traditions in the guise of being thankful to the true God. That is what Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving are all about; cloaking rank paganism in an appearance of something good; of making evil seem desirable, godly and good: Of deceiving people into sinning by exalting the pagan pantheon under the illusion and false cloak of pleasing the true God! 

The big question is: To whom are you being thankful? To some pagan god and traditions; or to the Eternal Creator who has given us his own Holy Days to rejoice and be thankful on?

According to the COG Pharisee, Thanksgiving predates the Canadian/American versions by centuries.  Its all the fault of those damn Catholics, pagan Chaldean's, Greeks and Romans.  Its amazing how the bloodsuckers in Armstrongism do all thy can to strip any enjoyment out of life.  Just because they are miserable little men who have failed marriages, major health issues and shitty lives, they feel the rest of humanity needs to suffer like they are.  That's why they love to quote that the Christian life is one of suffering.  Their life is miserable and yours should be too!

You can read James Malm's tirade here, IF you have time to waste on more idiotic nonsense: All About Thanksgiving

Dingy Gerald Flurry Says Only 10,000 Philadelphia Church of God Members WIll Be In Petra

Redfox has an article up today on his Living Armstrongism blog concerning the latest Gerald Flurry nonsense that is in print by the Philadelphia Church of God.  I have to had it to Red.  I don't know how he has the patience to read through all the blatant bullshit these guys write.  It gets tiresome to me to read the pseudo-intellectual bullshit these uneducated men try pass off as "sound wisdom."  None of these men have a real education but brag about being 'trained at the feet of Herbert Armstrong."  What kind of an education can you get from a man who mocked higher education and of which there is no evidence he even graduated from high school!

Neil Earle writes about the anti-intellectualism of HWA and those who went through his system:

In Stage Four, “life must first be school life,” writes Erikson, “whether school is field or jungle or classroom.” 17 One cannot, of course, censure Herbert Armstrong for not choosing a college education in 1910. That career choice is an understandable pattern given the times, as was Frank Armstrong’s admiration of corporate leaders. This was the Production Era of America’s economic advance, a time when Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller were in their heyday. 18 The lasting significance is this: All his life, Herbert Armstrong would be quick study. As a young man he claimed to study incessantly on his own outside the classroom. Tellingly, the evidence is unclear from his writings as to whether he graduated from high school. This is important, for, as Joseph Hopkins notes, Armstrong’s studies did have consequences for his later mass audiences. This anti-intellectual reaction formation is a major thrust in his development process. It is important to remember Erikson’s insistence that Stage Four is when the child’s exuberant imagination is “tamed and harnessed.” As Erikson says: “Many a child’s development is disrupted when family life has failed to prepare him for school life, or when school life fails to sustain the promises of earlier stages.” 19 Freud labeled this the latency stage, the lull before puberty. By his own accounts, Herbert Armstrong loafed and lounged in school. The botany teacher called him a sponge: “Herbert Armstrong, you are just like a sponge. You never study your lesson, you never contribute or give out anything in class. You just sit there and soak up what the other pupils recite, and then, when final exams come along, you always get close to 100%.” 20

Back to Gerald Flurry's uneducated nonsense:

In Chapter 10 of his book, The Former Prophets: How to Become a King, Gerald Flurry speculates that about 10,000 PCG members will get to flee to the Place of Safety, which is often said to be Petra, Jordan. Here is what he says.

A couple of biblical prophecies refer to 10,000 saints being in a place of safety in the end time. (You can read about this in Chapter Five of my free booklet No Freedom Without Law.) Deuteronomy 33:1-2 speak of “ten thousands of saints” coming with Christ from mount Paran, which is located in Petra, Jordan. The Apostle Jude referred to this in an end-time context as well (Jude 14).

God clearly says there will be 10,000 members in a place of safety. It has to mean that. He is going to come back with those 10,000. So maybe we’ll convert, say, 500 of our teenagers in the place of safety, and between now and then. And maybe we will pick up between 2,000 and 2,500 from the world and from the Laodicean churches.

Reaching that number might take a little more time than what we have thought, but I would hasten to add that so much is happening in this world, and it is disintegrating so fast, there is no guarantee it will take long at all. (Gerald Flurry, The Former Prophets: How to Become a King, 2014, Chapter 10, p. 226.)

Actually PCG members have already been waiting about thirteen years already to get 10,000 members.

Gerald Flurry's personality cult has been losing numbers for many years now.  He is not even close to 10,000 persons being with him in Petra.   Even if every single youth in his personalty cult converted over night he still could not reach his goal of 10,000 members.  How does he think he will accomplish this when God's greatest COG evvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvver, David C Pack, has been unable to do the same thing for the last three years.  No one is flocking to Dave Pack just as no one is flocking to Gerald Flurry.

People in the various Church of God's are starting to wake up to the abuse they have been subjected to over the decades.  Every group is losing members now.  No new members are coming from the public to these groups.  Even United Church of God couldn't draw in members after a $70,000+ recent media debacle in the Cincinnati area.

Anti-intellectualism is a hold over from the formation of fundamentalism from 1900-1930's here in the United States.  That is right around the time Herbert Armstrong was gaining his foothold in ripping apart the Church of God 7th day when he separated to start his own personalty cult.

Read Redfox's take on Flurry's silliness:  Gerald Flurry Repeats 13 Year Old Bizarre Prophecy of 10,000 PCG Members Going to Place of Safety