Exposing the underbelly of Armstrongism in all of its wacky glory! Nothing you read here is made up. What you read here is the up to date face of Herbert W Armstrong's legacy. It's the gritty and dirty behind the scenes look at Armstrongism as you have never seen it before!
With all the new crazy self-appointed Chief Overseers, Apostles, Prophets, Pharisees, legalists, and outright liars leading various Churches of God today, it is important to hold these agents of deception accountable.
Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders
Many who recognize their behavior for what it is believe these
leaders are conning their followers, but that’s not accurate. In fact,
it’s the exact opposite. A con knows what he or she is doing but chooses
to do it anyway, despite the harm it causes. The electronic lords
genuinely believe that what they are doing is right, which makes them
far more dangerous. In their minds, they have a higher calling than
others — a closer relationship with God — making whatever they do seem
justifiable to them.
If someone gets in their way, especially someone employed by them,
that person is perceived as thwarting God’s will and fully deserving of
the retribution they receive from the narcissistic leader. Because these
leaders genuinely believe themselves to be better than others, they
insist that each of their employees fall in line, regardless of how
outrageous or bizarre the superstar’s demands become.
To make matters worse, nearly all of the electronic lords are
hypersensitive to criticism. For insulation from disapproval, the lords
surround themselves with weak-willed sycophants who wouldn’t dream of
disagreeing with them. Instead, these non-entities consistently validate
perceptions and behavior that deviate substantially from biblical
standards. Within ministries like these, which dominate the electric
church, there are two sets of rules: those for the narcissist and those
for everyone else.
Within these ministries, a tacit “no-talk” rule is
maintained, which keeps the eccentricities of the leader a secret from
the rest of the world. And this rule is aggressively enforced. Whenever
an underling balks, that person is shamed, castigated and humiliated,
while — at the same time — being told that their “bad attitude” is being
prayed for. If that doesn’t shame the person into submission, the
verbal abuse is intensified and the person is eventually terminated.
Wounded, the discarded person often abandons his or her beliefs, while
blaming God for what happened, saying, “God should have done something
to stop it.”
Undeterred by hurting others in the process of building God’s Kingdom
on Earth, which just happens to be their kingdom as well, these
narcissists regularly take advantage of others, routinely abusing those
they are “called to serve.” Reasoning that the ends justify the means,
they use God’s name to wound others. Whenever someone gets in their way,
they misuse God’s authority to enforce their will, which certainly
takes His name in vain. Believing that they have a higher calling, the
evangelical lords are certain that God condones their behavior and
methods, which the sycophants who surround them eagerly affirm.
The emotional carnage of wrecked lives left behind by these
narcissists has become so extensive that it threatens to outnumber those
blessed by their ministry efforts. At the same time, few are willing to
call them to task, exposing their behavior to the light, reasoning that
such whistle blowing would harm God’s work.
From another visitor here who listened to some of Elijah Dave's third sermon. The appalling narcissistic arrogance of Elijah Dave knows no boundaries.
After claiming to be Joshua for the last couple of years Dave has now advanced up to Elijah status, so much so that he claims to have taken upon himself the actual personality of the "original " Elijah! As if some asswipe in the 21st century knows what the Elijah from a 2,000 year old manuscript actually thought and felt. How stupid can this man get? Oh, but it gets WORSE!
Elijah Dave now claims that he will soon be the most attacked human in 6,000 years of history. Anything that Jesus went through pales in comparison to want Elijah Dave may soon be facing!
Elijah Dave's god has been looking after him since his immaculate birth, all through college in Pasadena while wearing his Speedo's, and through three different Church of God's where his arrogance got the better of him and he was kicked out. His god had a part in all of that leading him to Wadsworth were it told him to build his empire and produce the worlds largest religious web site to ever exist in human history. It's all so superfantabulous that it boggles the mind!
Speaking of Jesus, have any of you noticed how he says NOTHING about the guy in 6 hours of sermons and 130 points? It's all about Elijah Dave. 130 "I" statements "proving" he is "Elijah."
"Without [me] God said he would strike the earth with utter destruction"
"I may turn out to be the most attacked human being in the last 6000
years"
"Now i understand more than ever that God had to look after me in a
unique way. I guess he'd have to do that if I were just an apostle, but
..."
If I were just an apostle :-)
"In so many ways I have Elijah's own personality".
"I'm cut from a different cloth from the rest".
Yes, we can all affirm that Elijah Dave is CERTAINLY cut from another cloth than the rest of us!
There was no way in hell I was going to sit and listen to Elijah Dave's first superfantabulous sermon. It was 2 hours long and certainly NO COG minister deserves to be listened to for 2 hours straight! If they cant say what they need to say in 20 minutes then they need to shut up. 130 points do not prove anything. Shit still stinks even when 130 points are used to make it smell better.
Thankfully some of you have/are doing it.
Elijah Dave has taken a huge financial hit recently after his failed prophecies Money did not flow in along with new members after the Feast of Tabernacles last year. Now Elijah Dave is back telling his brain-dead members that they are to sell everything they have and send it to him.
Pack explains his interpretation of the phrase ‘all things in common’
(Acts 2:44 & 4:32): sell everything you have and send the money to
him.
“It’s absolutely biblical that what we have, we sell, whatsoever
we have, we give it to God’s work. That’s why we were called. You’re
not allowed to hold on to your own income.”
“You are not allowed to
hold on to your own assets. You have an income, you live a wonderful
life, life goes on normally. But if you were called by God and you are
to participate in His work and walk in His ways, you have to turn over
your assets to God’s church. That’s the pattern.”
“It won’t leave you a pauper, it won’t break your life.”
The self appointed Elijah wanna-be Davey Pack has posted the start of his superfantabulous sermon series that contain ONE HUNDRED THIRTY"proofs" on why he is the most superfantabulous Elijah to walk this earth since the "real" one. Herbert Armstrong be damned, Elijah Dave's the man!
Elijah Dave feels some need to have 130 "proof's" on why he is such a sinless creature. Elijah Dave has elevated himself ABOVE Jesus with these 130 "proof's" of virtue.
Dave starts his latest self-serving slobberfest concerning his speaking abilities and wisdom with this :
After 15 minutes, you will not want to stop. And don’t let your minister stop you. He cannot give you eternal life!
Apparently salvation is NOT possible without Elijah Dave.
With Elijah Dave's immaculate and ungodly appearance upon this earth his god will stop his destruction of the earth now that he Elijah Dave is here. The entire Church of God has apparently been waiting in eager anticipation for Elijah Dave's arrival. Don't worry about the coming of Jesus, Elijah Dave is MORE important.
Among the most important prophecies in Scripture, Malachi 4:5-6
states that without the end-time Elijah’s arrival, God would “smite the
earth with utter destruction”! Thousands with a Church background are
waiting for Elijah (Matt. 17:11), believing this man to be one of the Two Witnesses (Rev. 11:3). Scripture makes clear this theory is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE. But, if Herbert W. Armstrong was not the Elijah, who was he? The answer is crucial in ways only the sermon can show you, and must be understood before God reunifies His people.
Next Elijah Dave waxes eloquent on how eloquent and charming he is as a speaker. No other man in human history has ever been as dynamic or wise as Elijah Dave. Jesus' words pale in comparison to God's most important man to ever live in the Church of God.
Elijah Dave's message was sooooooooooooooooooooooo superfantabulous that not one single person in the ENTIRE Restored Church of God disagreed with him! NOT ONE! Well of course not! Given that they would quickly be disfellowshipped and marked for doing so. Families would be broken and marriages destroyed, but Elijah Dave needs to be believed.
These are the most important messages I have ever given. Hundreds in The Restored Church of God have commented in just the last two days
like this: “electrifying,” “exhilarating,” “amazing,” “gripping,”
“game-changing,” “awesome,” “captivating,” “overwhelming,” “tremendously
inspiring,” “profound,” “mind-blowing” and “emphatically irrefutable.”
Great numbers said they understood the message in less than 10 proofs.
Few even needed the LAST 100 PROOFS! And no one—none!—to our knowledge out of thousands who heard has disagreed, and we have heard from virtually every pastorate in the world!
Elijah Dave's message is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo incredible that it will soon divide every single Church of God right down the middle. Elijah Dave takes great delight in knowing he intends to destroy more families and lives.
To reject Elijah Dave and his message is equivalent to rejecting the entire Bible. The Bible was written to foretell the coming of Elijah Dave and his message of redemption destruction.
These messages will eventually divide the splinters and slivers down the middle. There are two kinds of people. Those driven by emotion—and those led by the Holy Spirit who are driven by scripture, truth, facts, evidence, proof and simple logic.
Perhaps half the people you meet with will agree, and the other half
will attack. THERE IS NO AVOIDING THIS. But, to reject their message,
one must reject a host of IMPOSSIBLE TO MISUNDERSTAND Scriptures!
The disgusting filth that is the Philadelphia Church of God continues its record of abuse towards its members. Elder abuse seems to be an ongoing issue with the PCG, especially when they are set to reap financial gain from bleeding a member dry.
How many more lives and families need to be ripped apart by the revolting polices of this destructive cult?
I have read about the abuse of the elderly in Philadelphia Church of God
and thought it might be time, now that my mom has died, to provide yet
another testimony concerning this issue. This one has an added
difference. She was the widow of a minister in the PCG.
Now for her story. I don't know about the widows of all of the
ministers, but I can testify that this widow received no pension or help
from PCG headquarters. After she had given a great deal of her
inheritance to the PCG, and being only on social security and still
tithing that little sum, she requested third tithe
assistance as her rent had gone up. You know this is the tithe that is
supposed to be used for the widows and fatherless. Well, they took
several months to get back to her. It took so long that she had to renew
her lease and was on the hook for rent for another year. Finally, her
regional pastor, whom I won't name, but his first and last initials are
the same [C. C.], called her and told her that if she had been a better
steward of her money she would not need to "beg from the church." You
read that right--beg. They thanked her for her donations and then accused her of being a poor steward of her money because she needed help.
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She was devastated. I suggested she ask for her money back so that
she could show them what a good steward she could be if not being
coerced into giving all her money to them, but she wouldn't do that. She
decided she couldn't live on her own anymore and, like a good PCG
follower, she counseled with her regional minister about moving in with
her son, my brother. He told her she was not been allowed to move in
with him because he was "toxic." This minister didn't know my brother.
He had never been in a "church of God" [WCG offshoot] but he had made it
quite clear to our stepfather minister how he felt about the whole
thing. She decided she was going to move in with him anyway and did. Yay
to my mom! This was the beginning of her thinking on her own.
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She was in and out of hospitals and rehab centers for a couple of
months and during that time was anointed at least three times by the
ministers from the church I attend and visited by those she had formerly
shunned who had never gone to the PCG. I might add that she never did
believe the shunning
was right and a lot of the people in the PCG don't believe it either.
They live in fear. These were her own words. She told me she feared the regional minister more than God and came to realize that was not the way to be.1
There is no love in the PCG ministry. She indicated her previous
minister, Aaron Eagle, was a much better person than the minister she
had at the end and she thought that he was put out because of it. She
saw that God is trying to build a family and that Satan, through PCG, is
trying to destroy families.
In the end, Mom had to recant what she said when she told me she
had to shun me for my own good, about being poor, blind and naked when
she realized it is the PCG that fits that description.2