The Pathetic State of the Feast of Tabernacles in the Churches of God

In a recent The Journal News of the Churches of God there is a page dedicated to 227 listed Feast of Tabernacles sites for 2016.   These 227 listed sites are those that agreed to post information in The Journal, many others do not.

Herbert Armstrong could never have imagined that 30 years after his death that hundreds and hundreds of harlot daughter splinter groups would have split off the Worldwide Church of God.  Each of these groups claiming that they and they alone have the "truth."  There are so many versions of the "truth" out there that even their members no longer know what is "true."

Many of these groups are holding simultaneous festival sites in the same cities.  Some cities have five to seven different groups and none of them willing to gather together.  Many prohibit members from attending with other groups and some groups post guards at doors to keep the Laodiceans out.

If the Feast of Tabernacles is supposed to be a "foretaste of the kingdom of God," as many of them believe, then who wants to be part of such a divisive kingdom filled with hundreds of splits?

Hundreds of these groups still believe in the myth of Petra as the final place of training.  Can you image when all of these groups descend upon the country of Jordan at the same time and run towards Petra what a mess it will be when they all try and squeeze through the "narrow gate!"

Imagine Meredith, Thiel, Malm, Pack, Flurry, Kubik and others as they all start arguing over who is the rightful true church and who will be in charge.  Who's doctrines will be enforced? Who will be the unifying super personality?  Bob Thiel? Dave Pack?  Ron Weinland? Gerald Weston? Stevie Flurry?

What an appalling mess!

Living Church of God Building a Cult Compound in Peru For Its Members

From an LCG member:

Living Church of God is working to build a compound in Peru for its church members. Notice that the church is not asking members to not send in any more money.  Two guesses as to why...its cutting into the funds that church member should be sending into he church.  We can't have that now, can we?

Cerro de Pasco is a city that is dying due to a mine that has been collapsing and poisoning the land around the town.

In 2008, Peru’s Congress passed Law No. 29293, calling for the resettlement of the entire population of Cerro de Pasco, a city of 70,000. But as Mr. Orue notes, the Peruvian government failed to devise a process to accomplish that, so the law has largely been ignored. While many residents have resigned themselves to what Mr. Orue calls a “doomed future,” more have succumbed and sold their plots to the Peruvian mining company.  A Mine Erodes An Andean City

Living Church of God writes:

Cerro de Pasco, Peru Relocation Project UpdatePlans for the Cerro de Pasco, Peru emergency relocation are moving ahead! To date, we have received about $265,000 which includes some funds from the Church’s Disaster Relief Fund. Architectural plans have been completed, land acquired, a contractor has been selected and a non-profit entity, “Asociación para el desarrollo integral Villa Esperanza,” has been formed in Peru to receive the funds. Construction will be monitored by our minister, Sr. Aaron Bravo and his son, Maximilano. We expect to see construction beginning soon and we will keep you up to date on the progress! 

Enough funds are now available to build the central hall and some of the houses, and the rest of the houses will be constructed as funds become available. In order to avoid putting an undue financial burden on the rest of the Church, we hope to raise the balance of the funds from sources outside of the Church. More contributions are not needed from LCG members until further notice.
 

Mario Hernandez: Brethren, we are on the brink of going to Petra! What hurdles do you need to jump in order to get there?

Petra is still alive and well in the Living Church of God, even though they will usually scramble to deny it when you really push them on it.

In the first 5 minutes you will see that the beast power and the united Europe is on the verge of uniting ten nations to force their will on the rest of the world!  "Brethren we are on the brink!"  It is the same load of bullshit that the prophecy nuts in the church have been vomiting out for decades.

Mario is one of the biggest obnoxious jerks that Living Church of God has in its ministry.  No man can be more puffed up at his magnificence than Mario.  He has been this way since his days in Pasadena where he thought was the most educated man that HQ had.  LCG members find Mario to be as boring as Almost Arrested Bob Thiel.  It is amazing how LCG has coddled so many of these foolish men.

Here is a barf bag if you make through the entire 1:20 minute sermon!  Imagine siting through 1:20 minutes listening to this bullshitter.

The Feast is here! Are you sleeping in a tent in your living room?????

Almost Arrested, Doubly Blessed, Elisha, Elijah, Joshua, Amos, Apostle, End time witness, world renown Mayan authority, Chief Overseer, Prophet and Naturoherb peddler,  Bob thiel (a blogger who claims COG ties, but who makes a lot of inaccurate prideful statements, improper accusations, and biblically-impossible speculations) has now weighted in on how you should be keeping the Feast when it comes to temporary dwellings.

Those that stay home during the Feast are now being told to put tents up IN their homes or their back yards and stay in them for 8 days.  The apostate leader of the falsely called Continuing Church of God is not the only one to preach this nonsense. Other COGlet ministers have also said the same in the past.  All of the continual jumping though hoops in order to please the gods of these men has to be exhausting to their members.

The Feast of Tabernacles has begun around the world. Here is a link to a sermon for today: Christianity and the Feast of Tabernacles. 

What should you do if you wish to obey God? 

Those who can will travel (Deuteronomy 14:23-26) go to a Feast site. If you are at, near, or can get to one of the Feast of Tabernacles’ Sites for 2016 you should attend church services there every day. 

But if you are not able to physically attend those locations, what should you do? 

Those who cannot may wish to consider the possibility to not sleep in their houses during the time of the Feast. If they are physically and financially able, they may wish to try to sleep in some type of temporary dwelling like a hotel, motel, camper, or a tent (including perhaps one in one’s own home). In ancient Israel, those who did not travel (as well as native Israelites that did) made ‘booths’ of branches on top of their roofs (Leviticus 23:40) and slept in them for the seven days of the Feast (Leviticus 23:42), and some slept in them for the entire eight days (though the Bible only mentions seven days). Staying in ‘temporary dwellings,’ of whatever sort, helps convey that this age is temporal and a new millennial age is coming.

Since the feast is not required of the new covenant, why waste the money on a hotel or a tent for the living room?  You can put the money to better use in the year and take your family on a real vacation  which does not include hours and hours of mind numbingly BAD sermons from the likes of Thiel, Mario Hernandez, Rod Meredith, Vic Kubik,  Stevie Flurry and others.