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The Endless True Prophet Battle In The Church of God

Recently the Living Church of God posted fourteen points that Rod Meredith believed  were signs of Christ's coming.  Those fourteen points had the Muslim nations rising up and raising mujaheddin hell.

There are other COG self-appointed leaders who also believe the rampaging Muslims make for a good story.  However, there are those in the other side of the camp that claim otherwise.  The Chief Pharisee and bastardizer of the law, James Malm, claims the other COG leaders are all prophetically ignorant about how to interpret the Bible.  Of course he and only he is right.

The Chief law-breaker writes:

A few years ago Rod Meredith gave a sermon on “The Fourteen Signs Announcing Christ’s Return,”  This was then compiled in written form and published as a booklet.  LCG has been pushing this material as recently as this week. 

This article will analyze the claim in the Fourteen Points article that Islamic Extremism will take over the Islamic world and will coalesce together to become the biblical King of the South.  This claim is certainly NOT exclusive to LCG, but is championed by Bob Thiel, UCG and other COG Groups.   

I have covered these subjects over and over again at the sites so I am only going to analyze one or two sections to clearly reveal how they have departed from the scriptures.

The claim is that:    “Presently, the whole Islamic world in the Middle East and North Africa is being enveloped by a wave of resurgent Islamic fundamentalism. Islamic fundamentalist insurgencies, funded by rogue states and terrorist organizations, are trying to destabilize the moderate, Western-leaning, secular regimes currently in power, and are seeking to replace them with a unified, resuscitated Islamic caliphate (empire)—the prophesied “king of the South.” The final leader over these reinvigorated Muslim nations will be a tremendously powerful religio-political false Messiah or “Mahdi” who will draw his power from a confederation of those nations. He will provoke the key events written in Daniel 11, which must occur before the return of Jesus Christ to this earth.”   

Gerald Flurry is on record as claiming that Islamic Extremism is controlled by Iran and therefore Iran is the King of the South.

Rod Meredith with LCG, Bob Thiel, UCG and probably others, teach that the biblical King of the South consists of radical Islam which will take over and unite the Islamic world against the now rising New Federal Europe.  

Let us consider this claim in the light of the Holy Scriptures [my own convoluted reasoning.]

For well over eight decades the church has heard one interpretation after another about how the end times would be happening.  One wild prophet after another would come up with even more outlandish interpretations as the years went by.

From streets running with blood, parents eating their children to Americans being hung up on meat hooks in concentration camps, the blood and guts reigned supreme. Rod Meredith screeched this for decades.

Then there was Gerald Waterhouse with his 3-4 hour long rambling, butt hurting, mind-numbing, dumbed down sermons of sheer prophetic idiocy.

In the Pasadena area for many years, John Ritenbaugh was the prophecy guru that church members latched on to as prophetically true.

Dave Pack has suffered so many prophecy failures in the last five years that he has had to bull hundreds of articles off his web site because they expose him as a liar.

And how can we leave out Weinerdude Man!  Ron Weinland went on record in rather public way in San Francisco and has since been humiliated ever since.

And who can forget the utterly pathetic failed prophecies of Herbert Armstrong and Garner Ted.  That list is well documented here:  Herbert W. Armstrong's 208 False Prophecies: The Most Comprehensive Listing of Herbert Armstrong's 52 year record of False Prophesies ever made.

Never once in the 80 some years has the church ever had a single interpretation of what they thought the prophecies of the Bible were all about. Yet, today in 2018 the church is filled with one raving lunatic after another telling us all how it WILL be.  Church members are getting sick of the idiocy of the COG false prophets, yet they never cease to shut up!

What never crosses the minds of these false prophets and many church members is that if a church member was truly confident in following Jesus, then none of the blighting idiocy of these emasculated men would matter.  What ever is going to happen will happen.  Having faith in the One and resting in the One you are supposed to be following invalidates every single word these lying jackals spit out.

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish[a] prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! 4 Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins. 5 You have not gone up to the breaches in the wall to repair it for the people of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the Lord. 6 Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. Even though the Lord has not sent them, they say, “The Lord declares,” and expect him to fulfill their words. 

8 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because of your false words and lying visions, I am against you, declares the Sovereign Lord. 9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord. 

Something you will never hear a COG false prophet EVER say....

LCG: Rebrands Its Failed University Library For Use By Its Living Education "school"

New logo for the world's most important center of learning

Charlotte has been a den of activity trying to get their defunct "university" rebranded as Living Education.  Now that Michael Germano's grandiose dream of another full-fledged university has been dumped into the Charlotte dump (just like Pasadena, Big Sandy and Bricket Wood) LCG has been working hard to turn into its remnants into a "new and improved" center for "learning".  Just like in the glory days of the Worldwide Church of God and Ambassador College, Living had sought to gain accreditation for their humongous university.  But the god of Armstrongism had other plans.  Just like with HWA, Weston has put the university and church "back on the tracks" and it is bound for Kingdom since it is after all, the ONE true church.  This is now Jonathan McNair's new pet project.

One thing the failed university had in its possession was a library and what to do with it.  Since the "university" was moulding in the city dump, LCG needed to register the "library" for its new "learning center."  No longer was it able to call it the Living University Library.  It had to have a new name.  It is now officially called, the Roderick C Meredith Memorial Library.  This mind-expanding library will now be for the use of the entire LCG!  Woo hoo!

This week, we launched the Living Education Facebook page! You can find it at this address: https://www.facebook.com/LCGEducationProgram/. If you’d like to catch the latest news as it happens, then add our page to your favorites. For example, this week, subscribers to the page learned about the introduction of our new logo. If you’re interested in finding out what it looks like, just check out the page! We also were able to announce there Mr. Weston’s decision to update the name of the Living University Library. We need to register the Church library with local authorities, and it is currently registered under the Living University name. As we begin our new program, the library will be officially titled the “Roderick C. Meredith Memorial Library.” This will rightly honor Dr. Meredith, and would be very appropriate, as a portrait of him is installed in the library. It would also serve to emphasize the purpose of the library as a resource for the Living Church of God as a whole. For more information on Living Education, our new logo, the library, and more, our web page is www.lcgeducation.org. By the way, last week we focused on young men and our on-site Living Education program in Charlotte. We haven’t forgotten about the young women! Tune in next week!—Jonathan McNair

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The Bible is filled with answers.  But they aren’t just any answers.  The answers in the Word of God give insight and understanding to the most important questions that man can ask.  God’s Word answers questions like “Why Were We Born?”, and “What is Man’s Ultimate Destiny?”. But we can’t learn the answers without opening the Book! Living Education helps you open the Book, and guides you to the answers that will change your life.  Now is the time to begin!

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Reclaiming Your-Self After Religious Tyranny

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.


Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.


Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.


Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.


You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.


Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.


Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.