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
This is a new film coming out this month about life in the Jehovah's Witnesses cult and what happens when a member strays and questions the faith. There are many parallels to Armstrongism. The JW's also believed the end times were happening in 1975, they practice public disfellowshipment like the COG does, they practice shunning like the COG does, and much more.
It is an interesting side note that Herbert Armstrong had many JW booklets in his basement walk-in safe that were marked and highlighted. The claim that HWA amalgamated his beliefs from the SDA's, JW's and Mormons, carry way more weight than many want to believe.
And here we go again. High temperatures have hit the western states and have contributed to fires. Que the Armstrongite self-appointed false prophets screeching that it is God's punishment. Their god is in a perpetual state of pissiness at everyone around them. Of course, their god is always mad because people around the COG false prophets never measure up to the legalistic rules and regulations that they worship more than God himself. They need an angry god on their side who hates the people who criticise them and ignore their idiotic rants. They imagine themselves to be like the prophets of the Old Testament who had God strike their accusers down.
Our favorite self-appointed narcissistic false prophet of that angry god is back regaling us with his tales of woe.
The Bible shows that God uses weather to get people’s attention. Sometimes to punish, sometimes to lead to repentance, and other times to consider that God, not humankind, is in control.
Heat will one day be much worse:
8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory. (Revelation 16:8-9)
Notice also the following about heat:
23 ‘The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ 24 All nations would say, ‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ 25 Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers…(Deuteronomy 29:23-25)
Fires have hit many places; Significant wildfires have hit California. Shortly after the start of the Thomas Fire, California Governor Jerry Brown warned that the US President did not have “the fear of the wrath of God.” Does God use fire to encourage people to change? What are some of the scriptures associated with fire in the Bible? What is sin? What are some of the scriptures associated with the wrath of God in the New Testament? Is Governor Brown being hypocritical here? What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah? Is this relevant now? What did Jesus teach about the time of Sodom and the coming time of troubles? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more.
Jesus Christ
stated that "by their fruit you will know them" and that is the
absolute criteria that determines who and who is not a fruit producer.
Some produce sour grapes. Some produce lemons. Others produce honey.
Fruit
in the lives of human beings is public. What preachers and pastors
produce is public and the fruit of many preachers is GREED and personal
VANITY. Greed and vanity are not desirable fruits. Humility is a
good fruit. Being a peacemaker is a good fruit. Taking vain titles
such as "elder", "pastor", "senior pastor", "bishop" and so forth are
NOT good fruits. It doesn't matter what the "apostle" Paul said,
because he is not the source of truth and light, but rather Jesus
Christ is. Paul was not and is not "master", although millions seem to
think he is. How often I have heard speakers from the pulpits say
"Paul said", "Paul said", "Paul said", "Paul said" as if Paul was God
in the flesh. He wasn't! I care not what Paul said, but rather I care
what Jesus said. Offended? Follow Paul if you wish, but know this,
Paul was not and is not God.
Herbert W. Armstrong was not God
either, nor is any leader of any splinter group of the WWCG. All men
are clay or if you wish dirt. If you think otherwise, just stick around
awhile and see how many men wind up in the grave yard and return to
dirt (100%). Every religious guru who stands in a church pulpit and
pounds the pulpit with his peculiar beliefs will eventually fade from
this life and this world. Why follow them as if they are somebody?
They are nobody! Quality fruit is naturally desirable. Rotten fruit
is repulsive! It is amazing how much rotten fruit stands in pulpits.
Rotten
religious fruit is vain, haughty, demands obedience, demands money and
compels the naive and the gullible to conform or else, and thrives upon
instilling FEAR in the simple minded. Rotten fruit seeks followers and
wants an endless supply of free money to build buildings and provide a
lifetime of free income for its control freaks. Rotten fruit produces
NOTHING of value and makes sick those who eat it.
Gerald Flurry has an article up on his website that he wrote about the Armstrongite hymn, By the Waters of Babylon.
His entire article is written which such hopeful delight that ex-Church God members would be wishing they could sing this song as they are held captive in Saudi Arabia or Germany.
Because Church of God members chose not to listen to Flurry, they will be sent into captivity. You remember that, it's that fun time that the Church of God loved to use as a weapon to keep members under control. Do what I say or you will be taken captive by the Germans or other agents of the Beast power, as they take you into captivity and put you in concentration camps or make you their slave.
From ROYAL VISION November-December 2015
PSALM 137 PAINTS A TERRIFYING PROPHETIC PICTURE OF A TRAGEDY ABOUT TO BEFALL A GREAT MANY OF GOD’S PEOPLE.
It begins, “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion”(Psalm 137:1). Zion refers to God’s Church. In the end time, there is a righteous Zion and a rebellious Zion. Here the rebels remembered their recent history with righteous Zion before they rebelled. This is a prophecy about God’s Church.
The Psalms are filled with prophecy: They are mainly the work of David, who was a prophet (Acts 2:29-31). Jeremiah and Moses were also prophets who wrote some of the psalms.
Verse 8 of Psalm 137 also shows that this is prophecy: “O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.” Who is the “daughter of Babylon”? Anciently, God sent Jeremiah to Judah with a warning for the Jews that Babylon was coming. When he wrote his book, however, he didn’t address it to Judah—he addressed it to Israel. That is because his message is a prophecy for the end-time descendants of Israel. Babylon is coming again, but this time it is the daughter of Babylon.
This prophecy about “Zion” is for this end time. Specifically here, Zion refers to God’s Church in the modern day—the work of Herbert W. Armstrong and the Philadelphia Church of God.
This is talking specifically about people who remember Zion—the work of Mr. Armstrong—while they are enslaved by Babylon. They are captive in Germany, Saudi Arabia perhaps, and other countries like Turkey and Lebanon—and they are weeping! They are weeping in Babylon. They didn’t weep when they were in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Judah. They didn’t weep then, but they are weeping in captivity to Babylon!
There are people in God’s Church—the Laodiceans, in the last era of God’s Church before the Second Coming (Revelation 3:14-22)—who are about to go into captivity!
All of the wayward Church of God members out there enjoying life outside the church will soon bee looking back in wistful nostalgia at the memory of Herbert Armstrong (and Gerald Flurry) and all that he taught. They will realize he was the true end time prophet.
While in captivity, these people remember righteous Zion in—this must mean that THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN RIGHTEOUS ZION TODAY! Only the Laodiceans could ever remember loyal Zion. People who were never in that Church could remember the message of Zion, but only the Laodiceans could remember righteous Zion. In that future distress, they will remember Mr. Armstrong; they will remember the members of the Church; they will remember what happened in the past. How can you just blot it out of your mind? They will remember how we served God together—so, in captivity, they will weep and finally repent. But THEY WON’T REMEMBER UNTIL THEY ARE IN BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY!
Given the fact that every single COG leader, from the present day through the past 80 some years, has told one lie after another about the "sure word of prophecy" they proclaim. How can we trust certified liars like James Malm, Bob Thiel, Dave Pack, Gerald Flurry, Ron Weinland and Gerald Weston, as they spout one silly useless prediction after another. All of these men got their understanding from Herbert Armstrong, who was the grandfather of the lies they continue to promote.
The Laodiceans have to repent and sing these songs in a strange land. It will take a Babylonian captivity to wake up these people of God.
They become victims of God’s warning prophecies, which they had helped to proclaim before they rebelled!