Gerald Weston Sees This Story As A Teaching Moment

In the previous post, I had Gerald Weston's thoughts quoted about LCG members saying something on the internet and elsewhere that are disparaging to LCG ministry and leadership.  He just cannot stand people having a different opinion.

I did not include the following.  It is at the start of the article he wrote.  He thinks this is a cute and fun story that is a learning lesson for people to think before they speak. You can see how he thinks little of the guy who made the comment and approves highly of the awful conduct of the faculty member that was present.  This is typical Ambassador College methods of controlling dissent and shutting people down.  The minister is praised, the poor dumb student is mocked.

Dear Brethren,

Jesus declared, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45). How true and how important a concept is contained in these few words.

I’m reminded of a high school friend who went on to attend Ambassador College. His speech class (“Ambassador Club”) held a Wild West–themed ladies’ night in the Frontier Room of Ambassador Hall. Various props were spread out on tables, including several rather old guns. During a break in the meeting, a high-profile faculty member was using the barrel of a pistol to dislodge the rusty safety device of another gun.

My friend owned a .22 caliber rifle and was very finicky to make sure that no scratches or rust developed on it. We used to go down to the dry riverbed in Santa Maria to shoot rabbits, and he always made sure to clean his rifle meticulously afterward. (For those who were “triggered” by that, trust me: No animals were ever successfully killed on our excursions.) Watching this faculty member working on the safety as he was, my friend could imagine that if his hand slipped, the gun could receive a deep scratch down the barrel. But how do you tell a faculty member twice your age that you do not think this is a good idea?

Inspiration suddenly seized him. The individual in question was known to have shot his foot practicing “quick draw” some years earlier while in the Navy, so my friend opened his mouth with what he thought was a tactful question: “Is that how you shot your foot?” In his mind, it seemed to be a good question, but coming out of his mouth it did not sound quite the same as it had in his head. The tone of his question betrayed a bit more than he would have liked, and he received a tongue-lashing as a result!

What comes out of our mouth—not only the words but the intent behind them—cannot completely hide what is in the heart. As the proverb says, “Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool. In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise” (Proverbs 10:18–19).

The fact that Jesus warned the people of His day about their words indicates that there was a problem at that time. But how much more the problem is magnified today! It involves not only what comes out of the mouth, but what is typed into cyberspace. Social media demonstrates the problem all the time. How often individuals vent their thoughts on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and other platforms. People are less inhibited “hiding behind” a keyboard and screen than they are in the presence of flesh and blood. They say things they would never consider saying to someone in person. For whatever reason, the Internet greatly reveals the problem of the heart.

Gerald Weston Once Again Rakes LCG Members Over The Coals. Can They EVER Do ANYTHING Right To Please This Man?

Once more Living Church of God members are getting raked over the coals for their slanderous ways, their questioning of the ministry,

Has it ever been possible for LCG members to do ANYTHING right in the eyes of the leadership?

What comes out of our mouth—not only the words but the intent behind them—cannot completely hide what is in the heart. As the proverb says, “Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool. In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise” (Proverbs 10:18–19).

As usual. LCG members are at fault again. Social media is their downfall.  How dare they criticize the leadership and ministry!  How dare they complain to that damnable Banned blog! Those of you that do that are cowards because you will not say it to our face! You are right that we will disfellowship you immediately, but we expect you to tell us to our face that we are failures and unChristlike.

The fact that Jesus warned the people of His day about their words indicates that there was a problem at that time. But how much more the problem is magnified today! It involves not only what comes out of the mouth, but what is typed into cyberspace. Social media demonstrates the problem all the time. How often individuals vent their thoughts on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and other platforms. People are less inhibited “hiding behind” a keyboard and screen than they are in the presence of flesh and blood. They say things they would never consider saying to someone in person. For whatever reason, the Internet greatly reveals the problem of the heart.

Every person that criticizes the church has a deep problem in their heart?  Seriously?  Perhaps people are sick and tired of being treated like shit by the leadership!

Every Idle Word

Jesus also warned that we will have to answer for every idle word that we speak (Matthew 12:36). We trust that if we repent of our indiscretions, we will be forgiven. Nevertheless, even with forgiveness from our Creator, there are consequences for our words as well as for our actions.

You must repent immediately for daring to criticizes Gerald and his minions! Passover is already over and he is raking members over the coals. 

How dare any of you hold us accountable for anything in our past!  How dare you!

A number of revelations have come out in recent times regarding high-profile political leaders who said or did something regrettable while in high school or university. This is no doubt grossly unfair, mean-spirited, and politically motivated. Should any successful judge, senator, governor, or presidential candidate be held accountable for something he or she did several decades ago? Surely, we are mature enough to forgive the indiscretions of youth! Sadly, that is not the world we live in, and that is why it is important to instruct and warn our teens, young adults, and even ourselves of the importance of guarding our mouths and what we say on social media.

Weston criticizes the world for its profiling of people in all aspects of our lives in this day and age, yet his very own church keeps meticulous files on every member. The spy network in LCG is appalling in its detail of members' lives.

Do we realize, dear brethren, how much is known, stored, and studied about virtually every one of us? Marketers and analysts have data galore on a vast percentage of the population, including the members of God’s Church. You may think that because you aren’t on social media—perhaps because you don’t even own a computer or smartphone—you are safe. Think again. How many pictures of you and your children have others posted? How many times has your name appeared on someone else’s Facebook page? Probably more than you think.

Do LCG members realize that every time any of them make the mistake of publicly complaining on a blog, Facebook page, Twitter, or elsewhere that LCG keeps track of them and what they say?

Do you realize that every time you give a command to Echo or Alexa, it is being stored in a database, and that Amazon and other providers use “artificial intelligence” to analyze every bit of data about you and your habits to see how they can market to you? How many have experienced having a private conversation in their home regarding a purchase they want to make, only to have pop-up ads appear on their computer for that very product or service the next time they logged on?

What about all the technology that watches over your home with cameras, and that allows you to turn appliances on and off and lock doors remotely? Do you realize that information is being stored and analyzed? For the most part, it is simple and (relatively) harmless marketing. If that is all there is to it, it may not be a big deal. But can we understand that these technologies can also be used to control populations? Many observers have noticed that YouTube and other platforms hold a leftist bias against content that does not fit the politically correct agenda.

We are warned in Ecclesiastes 10:20, “Do not curse the king, even in your thought; do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom; for a bird of the air may carry your voice, and a bird in flight may tell the matter.” Has there ever been a time when this warning is more applicable? Have you ever experienced having a conversation with others only to have your smartphone begin talking to you? I have, on more than one occasion. Anyone who has the “Okay Google” app open may trigger a Google response if it thinks you are asking it a question. Now that is a genuine “trigger warning”—but one that few heed.

Serious Business

Oh, noes!  Here comes the persecution routine. that rabbit has been pulled out of the hat so much that there is not much hair left on the poor thing. 

Gerald and his cronies are about to be persecuted for that they say. As usual, he pussyfoots around with that bold message he claims he and the church preaches.  If he truly believed what he preached he would not be afraid to speak out.  But, notice how he wimps out below by telling members to guard their words so as to not piss off anyone. This is one of the main things Bob Thiel accused LCG of doing and why he had to leave.

We can be certain that persecution is on our horizon as Christians. What we believe on an ever-increasing number of issues is not politically correct, and those taking it upon themselves to decide what is right and wrong are becoming bolder and more militant. Perhaps it is time to be more thoughtful about what we say to others, even in private. It is certainly important to teach our youth to carefully consider their words and their actions—and to understand that lesson ourselves.

Smartphones and social media may appear as innocent toys or tools, but they are serious business and require wisdom. Cyberbullying has caused some to take their own lives. Sexting, where teens invite others to post pictures of themselves in compromising poses, can be dangerous and come back to bite them years later. Making threats or venting quickly online “in the heat of the moment” when upset by something is a foolish practice.

Weston is displeased with the things he sees LCG teens and members post on social media.

It is shocking what people display over social media, and this is even true of some Church members and teens. Many employers will not hire someone until they have checked the applicant’s social media pages. How many people fail to get hired because their social media history is a liability to them, and they never know it? Employers might be a bit more lenient in a high-employment environment, like the one the United States was enjoying, but what happens after COVID-19? Great economies never last forever!

Weston is now concered about the spreading of "fake news" in the church.  Never mind the fact that he, Meredith, and others have a track record spanning 60 some years that are filled with fake news!  Fake prophecies that never happened.  False teachings. And, more.

He is particularly incensed that sem LCG teens tried to start an petition to get HQ to change their minds on something!  How dare they! When God's ministry speaks it is as if God himself said it!  Get that through your heads, you rebellious undisciplined teens! I say BRAVO LCG teens for daring to confront the tired worn out machinery still living in the past!

One of the dangers of the Internet is what has popularly been called “fake news,” and this phenomenon has real relevancy for us. Fake news occurs when someone spreads a false rumor, either knowing it is false or sincerely believing it is true when it is not. I suppose we are all guilty of passing something along in this latter category. This happened awhile back when some young people thought the Charlotte Family Weekend was cancelled and had the idea that a petition should be started to change our minds at Headquarters.

How dares you question us!  How dare you!

There were two problems with this. The first is that this is not the way we make decisions in God’s Church. Sometimes our youth—and our adults as well—do not understand the reasons for things and run with their emotions. The second problem was that those who started this, though no doubt sincere, didn’t know what they were talking about: The venue for the weekend had already been booked a couple of months earlier, long before the petition even showed up. A call or email to our Charlotte office would have cleared the matter up instantly, without spreading worry or concern.

Everything is a "teaching" moment in LCG.  Everything is used against them to constantly tell the members how pathetic they are. Christ's coming is delayed because of these rebellious people!

No long-term harm was caused by the incident, and it was a great “teaching moment” for any who wanted to learn. However, it illustrates how quickly misinformation and emotions can lead to poor choices—with the potential of making matters worse instead of better.

Transforming Our Thoughts

The Feast of Pentecost is coming, and that fact is relevant to this topic. As we noted at the beginning of this article, Jesus explained, “For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45). My friend in Ambassador Club could not hide his heart, despite deploying what he thought was a tactful question in hopes of doing so. Who we are and what we think will be laid bare sooner or later by what we say and what we do. It is not enough to choose our words carefully. That is essential, but what is in our heart is even more important.

When has the leadership of the LCG had its hearts transformed? When has grace, mercy, and justice flowed freely from LCG headquarters?  When?

God gives us His Holy Spirit to transform our hearts. “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people” (Hebrews 8:10). That is why His Spirit was poured out upon the fledgling Church on the first Pentecost following Jesus’ resurrection.

Have people ever said or done something that prompts you to condemn them in your heart, only to have the thought enter your mind that you yourself were guilty of something similar? That is likely God’s Spirit working on your heart. It is a gentle reminder of your own need to change—to remove the beam that is in your own eye, and to be compassionate toward others.

Weston then resorts to the worn-out trick of saying everything is wrong today because of Satan. Westons God is impotent over the power that Satan wields. Satan has always been more powerful than the god of Armstrongism.

Satan is particularly devious and is using computers to destroy the very work of the Living God!  Damn computers!

In this present age, Satan is the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4). He is a liar (John 8:44). He is the accuser of the brethren (Revelation 12:10). He directs the course of this world (Ephesians 2:2). And, he wants to destroy the people of God. Computer technology is a wonderful benefit when used properly. We would have a hard time doing the Work today without so many modern innovations. We use social media to preach the Gospel, and with it we can go into areas of the world we could never reach without it. However, as with everything mankind creates, it can be—and is—used for evil, and there is a malevolent spirit being only too happy to encourage its wrong use.

The heart of that spirit being is bad, indeed.

Sadly, the hearts of many COG leaders today are bad too.

And that is why God is transforming our innermost thoughts to be as His own—so that we, as God’s firstfruits, can replace that being, and reign in this world with hearts fashioned to match our Father’s.

Poor Jesus.  It is never enough to emulate the actions and words of the man. He always gets short shifted to the background.

God's firstfruits are those that have thrown away the shackles of legalistic bondage to unnecessary rules and teachings. Those people are the ones truly free.

Norbert Link Finds Demonic Activity and Ghosts Bothering People During Quarantine

This truly has to be one of the more idiotic things dreamed up by a Church of God minister to frighten people with. Everything in the world is evil to them and there is no good. None of these charlatans have the balls to ever speak about the good going on around the world during this time with people caring for one another and doing what is right. Nope, it is just bad. They need to constantly dwell on the bad to prop up the absurd and outright idiotic prophecies and predictions they are vomiting off on the church today.

Norbert, in his best imitation Germanic accent, sees demons, ghosts, poltergeists, and other things invading the homes of people in isolation during the quarantine.

Fear brethren!

Fear!

The tribulation will start sometime within the next 10 months! Well, maybe a little later, but who's counting!

Our favorite unemployed, self-appointed zealot, and Chief Pharisee to the Church of God, James Malm, was sitting at his kitchen table today cranking out another prophecy guaranteed to fail, like all of his other previous ones.

He starts off with a lie in his very first paragraph by claiming he has a "good understanding" of prophecy. In the 80 some years of the Church of God there has not been one single man who has ever had an understanding of prophecy. No one. Zippo. Zero. Nada.

In the Bible there are three different prophecies which date the beginning of the tribulation.  A good understanding of these prophecies has now been revealed and all three of them indicate that the tribulation will begin at some point in the current biblical year, that is between now and March 15 2021.

Wait...above he says the tribulation will begin by May 15 of 2021 and below he says it will be later in the year.

The fact that three separate prophecies indicate the very same thing, along with the present situation in the Middle East and a very probably much worse second epidemic is likely next winter; are very strong indicators that the tribulation will indeed begin at some point next winter.

This should be a huge, bright red flag; that we need to be alert and vigilant to watch the unfolding of events!

Church of God members must now become zealous and prostrate themselves at the feet of the law. Forget Jesus, let's worship the law.

In wise preparation we should be doing everything possible to be zealous to seek out the truth, reject any errors and sins and to learn and live by every Word of God.

It is comforting to know that Jesus says the tripe below is useless garbage meant to deceive his followers. Those who understand what Jesus accomplished place their faith in him and not spending their days working to try and please the one who is constantly displeased with them.

Only by turning to a zealous wholehearted dedicated learning and living by every Word of God can we be accounted worthy to escape the terrible correction coming upon our brethren who are lax in these things, preferring to follow idols of men and false traditions. 

Only by a zealous wholehearted dedicated learning and living by every Word of God can we be accounted worthy to stand in the resurrection to eternal life and have a part in the collective bride of Christ.

Malm breaks all of the stupid rules he is demanding all of his followers observe. He really has perfected the art of being a professional bullshit artist.

PCG Continues To Prey Upon COG Members To Join Up With Them Before The Germans Imprison Them All

The Germans are coming! The Germans are coming!

The Philadelphia Church of God has always deemed its sole purpose is to recruit as many COG members as possible to join up with the one true church. Of course, the main goal of this recruitment is the have access to their money way more than they are concerned about anyone's salvation. Gerald Flurry has always assumed that church members would flock to his church because they understood him to be correct. This, however, is not unique to Flurry.  Dave Pack and Bob Theil both imagine COG members will soon be flocking to their little groups in amazement and gratitude for preserving the truth. Thankfully the tens of thousands of members and ex-members know all these men to be the charlatans they are.

Below is PCG's latest recruitment propaganda:

From a PCG source:

"PCG's May 13, 2020 Trumpet Brief that they send out a newsletter is more of the same fear-inducing recruitment addressed to weak-minded former WCG folks, courtesy of course by no less than PCG's SS henchman himself Joel Hilliker."

Like all the false prophets of the Church of God, the PCG cannot let a convenient pandemic go to waste in order to further perverted theological goals. Fear!  It is always about fear.  Scare the deceived members and they will flock to you.

Wake up! The end times are here! Oh, noes!!!!!!

Intense suffering is soon to come and you will be wearing tattered clothing. You will soon be going into captivity by those nasty Germans, or Muslims, or Chinese...depending upon who Flurry has deemed to be the latest enemy.

Next, Lil'Joel gets to the point of his little tirade of fear.  He is out after COG members to heed his call. Tens of thousands of COG members and former members are heeding into terrible times ahead.

Lil'Joel also notes that Stephen Flurry, the apostate son of Gerald Flurry, is furious that COG members believe that church members exist in all the various COG's as the real followers of Christ.

Did you know that Gerald is "locked-in" in prophecy? Just like Bob Theil, Gerald knows all things about prophecy. He has never made a mistake in his life. In fact, he is so precise that he has had to correct some of the prophecies of Herbert Armstrong.

Flurry licks his chops like Rod Meredith did with horrendous impressions of rampaging Germans ready to cast Americans and lapsed Church of God members into concentration camps. The Germans at this moment are polishing those meat hooks and getting their concentration camps built to house everyone in.

This all must frost Bob Theil and Dave Pack's butt's as they and they alone believe they are the true heirs to lead the church into glory.