Doug Winnail: God Is Watching You!

It has to be tiring to be a Church of God member anymore, especially being an LCG member. Always having to be on alert and anxious because God is watching their every move. The problem with LCG lies in the fact that if you do not do everything that they expect of you then their god will also not be on your side later on. The entire New Covenant is built around the concept that it was IMPOSSIBLE for people to keep the law and to be perfect. That perfection was granted through the NC to all who follow that Jesus. That enormous logbook of sins that COG leaders what to shame members into having has been filled with disappearing ink. It's no longer there.

Trials and Trust: Tests and trials are a major part of life. Our challenge as Christians is how we respond. Will we trust in God and follow His instructions—or will we give in to our emotions and respond in kind, or compromise and quit? To come through tests and trials, we need to remember that God says, “all things work together for good” (Romans 8:28) and that He “will make the way of escape” if we trust and obey His instructions (1 Corinthians 10:13). Those instructions include “do good” and trust God (Psalm 37:3, 40), forgive (Matthew 6:14–15), don’t return “evil for evil” (Romans 12:17), be patient and not easily provoked (1 Corinthians 13:4– 5), endure and don’t compromise and quit (Joshua 1:6–9; Matthew 24:13), learn from the experience and grow (James 1:2–4; 2 Peter 3:18). We need to remember that God is watching to see if we will trust Him and obey (1 Corinthians 3:13–14). We also need to remember that God is looking to see where He can “show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him” (2 Chronicles 16:9). So, when tests and trials come, and they will, trust God, obey Him, and keep your eyes on this big picture.
Have a profitable Sabbath, 

Douglas S. Winnail

If only Doug and LCG truly believed this:

 

UCG Summer Camp: Campers and workers come down with COVID

 

From a UCG member:

This is what Kubik posted on the member site about UCG children being infected with COVID at Pinecrest summer camp. Even after a large number of kids and camp staff were infected at that camps, he saw nothing wrong in driving more kids to another camp. Apparently, he does not believe anyone at the Woodland Camp will catch it or show up having it. The Delta virus is hitting kids this time around.

Bev and I are driving three teenagers to Camp Woodland in Georgia this week. Our teens are so happy to be able to have a camp experience this year after last year’s cancellations. We are aware that a number of staff and campers who returned from Camp Pinecrest tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, anyone who was at Camp Pinecrest, as well as anyone who has come in direct contact with someone who was at Camp Pinecrest, should NOT attend services this coming Sabbath. Please pray for the safety of our children for the remaining camp sessions that are and will be in progress.

Commercial Break and Just for Fun: Did Prophecy Almost Just Come Alive?????????? NO! "But Certainly Shows Other's May Be Out There"

130 Foot Long Barringer Meteorite Just Misses the Visitor's Center!

BTW

In order to trigger catastrophic events that could wipe out humans from Earth, the asteroid should have a diameter of over 10 kilometers. (6 miles ).  Although asteroids that range from 1 to 10 kilometers wide can certainly cause a lot of destruction on Earth, they are not powerful enough to make the entire planet completely uninhabitable. So we know WORMWOOD must be very small 

Dr Thiell Asks:

"Mega-Comet" That Is At Least 62 Mile Wide Has Entered Our Solar System

Could Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein be Wormwood?"

Could This Be the Big Owie of Revelation?????? 

(NOTE: Evidently not. That large and the Earth becomes confetti.  Now one does have to ask, who first named it and how did he know? )

For a complete list of known exceptional planetesimals and asteroids that the author of Revelation had to choose from see: 

("Wormwood" not currently listed)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exceptional_asteroids#Landmark_names

 Dr Thiel Continues...

"So after the above, notice that something from outer-space is to hit:

10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter. (Revelation 8:10-11)

Notice that Wormwood does not fall until after the third trumpet associated with the seventh seal of Revelation is blown. Well, this would mean that the fifth and sixth seal would also have already been opened–which are mentioned in Revelation 6:7-17, and the 144,000 numbered as shown in Revelation 7. And I should add that the fifth seal of Revelation cannot possibly be opened for at least 3 1/2 years from now .

But also notice that somehow Wormwood makes water bitter.

This could be because it may be a comet as opposed to an asteroid. Comets tend to come with cyanogen gas–when that mixes with water to form hydrogen cyanide, it has an almond odor and bitter taste."

(NOTE:  A comet may have hit the Earth over the ice sheet in Michigan as little as 12,800 years ago, melting vast amounts of water and sending it into the North Atlantic causing the Younger/Dryas return to a 1200 year cooling event. The Carolina Bays may be evidence of ice splatter from that impact on the ice sheet.  This event may have been the cause for the extinction of the mega fauna roaming America as well as the Clovis culture . 

Lidar images of the eliptical Carolina Bays all pointing SE to NW. There are over 500,000 of these in the Carolinas and not notably visible from the ground.  But , along with the Nebraska Rainwater Basins, all point to a possible Comet impact or air burst over Saginaw Bay, Michigan.  This hypothesis is currently gaining ground.

Bob continues...

"However, that does not mean that Wormwood could not be an asteroid. Some asteroids are bound to have substances that would be bitter in water.

If  Wormwood is a comet like Bernardinelli-Bernstein, it will cause massive destruction as the Bible foretells."

(NOTE: Massive destruction?  Again...  If a 62 mile wide asteroid hits Earth it will turn it into confetti Bob)

'Now, this does not mean that Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein will or must be the biblical Wormwood."

(Note: Of course not. It's just a segway for Bob to make hyperbole filled Revelation mean what it never was meant to mean for us today)

Bob continues...

"But the fact that there is such a newly discovered large comet that is expected to come close within the next 10 years certainly shows that others may be out there."

(Note: May? Not familiar with the Asteroid Belt, Kuiper or Ort Cloud are you Bob? "The belt is estimated to contain between 1.1 and 1.9 million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) in diameter, and millions of smaller ones.)" in the Asteroid Belt alone.  This does not include the even larger Kuiper Belt and Ort Cloud 

My personal Baby Wormwood before slicing with burn crust from its 25,000  mph ride through the atmosphere.  This is a Campo Del Cielo (Field of Heaven)  meteorite that fell about 5000 years ago in Argentina and was found in the 1570's . It is a piece of the 60 tons found to date strewn over an 18 mile path. 

Mere pounds of my own Baby Wormwood sliced to reveal it's Iron/Nickel self. This came from the core of a star or more likely the core of a small planet that was destroyed by collision in our early solar system formation. 

Dr. Bob continues...

"And biblically, we know that one, called Wormwood, is out there and WILL HIT PLANET EARTH!

And, if we certain events occur that Jesus predicted in the next couple of years, that destruction may well be in or by 2031."

My little piece of 4.5 Billion Year Old  Barringer Heaven

Asteroid Wormwood????

Pfffffft!

NOTE:  Bible Stars were considered not far, not big,  not hot and could fall like hail or snow.  

A few scriptural misunderstandings of the natural world

Amos 8:9 9"In that day," declares the Sovereign LORD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

NOTE: Hold onto your butts. Caution. Instant Earth acceleration and human extinction level event ahead.

Mark 13:25 

And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

Revelation 6:13 

And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.

Matthew 24:29 

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Isaiah 13:10 

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

Revelation 9:1 

And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.

Revelation 12:4 

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.

Isaiah 34:4 

All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.

Joel 2:31 

The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

Daniel 8:10 

It grew great, even to the host of heaven. And some of the host and some of the stars it threw down to the ground and trampled on them.

Dave Pack Blows A Gasket Over Ex-Members Gathering Together To Celebrate 4th of July

Dave Pack popped his prophetic white shirt last week when he lashed out at ex-members and ex-employees who got together to celebrate the 4th of July together. One of his ass-kissing young men on the payroll has been monitoring certain facebook pages of ex-member/employees to find any dirt he can report back to Dave with. Imagine living a life so petty and filled with such jealousy that this is what you spend your day doing so you can run and "impress" Dave. Little does this guy know that he will suffer the same wrath from Dave and be treated like dirt at some point in the future, just like the ex-employees and ex-members were.

Dave was incensed that these people all gathered together to celebrate the 4th of July. Imagine that! Dave really popped the buttons on his white shirt when he said some of these ex-members and ex-employees were CHRISTMAS KEEPERS! How dare some of these people associate with such heathens! Even worse, there were ex-members and ex-employees who were supposedly there from various splinter groups. How dare those people associate with Christmas keepers! Lord have mercy! Imagine a group of exRCG people enjoying a day of fun, friendship, and patriotism! What a damnable thing to do!

Dave was not happy that these people chose to gather on the 4th of July instead of waiting patiently for Dave's creature called "christ" to return on the weekend of July 17. Which it did not, as we all know.

So, now we wait for the creature to return this Saturday, but I have a feeling it will delay its second coming once again so it can watch the Olympics. After all, what would be more interesting....some creature return to Wadsworth to walk the hallowed ground of Dave's campus or watching the amazing abilities of world-class athletes in all their glory? Even JC knows the answer to that!

It's a strange thing. There's a group of people who recently who got together for the 4th of July, a week ago. Somebody showed me some pictures of them, and a lot of them are now Christmas keepers and a lot of others are in the splinters. And the one thing they had in common was that they had all been here (RCG HQ in Wadsworth, Ohio). But it was like there was no difference between them! Whether you are a Christmas keeper or you go to a splinter they are all right there enjoying the 4thof July together and they are happy to post it. Now I thought about some of the people who left us who would rather go send the 4th of July with CHRISTMAS KEEPERS, Easter, Halloween, who blew off all the laws of God and they wouldn't even say good-bye to us, never mind Thank-you, for anything.   Well, there's a lot of actors out there who are stage players and God has to get rid of them. And if people will quit when there is no fire, Come now and have a great meal and you can have eternal life in a few days and they say, "No, I choose my field and my cows or my wife who is gonna be DEAD WITH ME!" Boy, oh boy! Shallow, actors! So we ended where we started. There are a lot of people who are like that. Many are called, few are chosen. Blessed are those and happy are those who come to the 1335 and are REALLY BLESSED is a tiny little flock and there was always for 2,000 years a tiny ongoing microblock, generation by generation who actually going to be blessed a week before the others and I think it'll happen God willing, within the next week!

Even nominal Christians know that the God of Scripture has a far better outlook about people's lives than Daves nasty vengeful god does. Dave needs all of the COG reprobates to die horrible deaths in order to be proven right while scripture states just the opposite:

MSG
Don’t overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want anyone lost. He’s giving everyone space and time to change.

NIV
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

NRSV
The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

KJV
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Wade Cox: His creature he calls "christ" was one of multiple sons of the "Host"

 

The resident Church of God crackpot in Australia is doing a sermon series on the "doctrines of demons."

He is having fits over all kinds of things, including vegetarianism. He ignores the fact that Adam and Eve in the creation myths were vegetarians, but that is another story.

Things quickly get weird in his article with this COG crackpot when it comes to the creature he calls "christ". Cox is apparently one of the "one godder" crowd, though he takes it even further into craziness when he talks about his creature:

Christ was a son of God, one of the multiple sons of the Host, before his incarnation. He laid all that aside and became an human being. We cannot say Christ retained any part of himself in the Godhead or outside of himself. Paul quite clearly says here that Christ was designated son of God in power according to the Holy Spirit, by his resurrection from the dead. He laid aside his sonship to become a human in order that he might become the first son of God of the human species. That’s what the intent was. Nothing of Jesus Christ remained outside of his human existence.  That is the doctrine of Antichrist. The doctrine of Antichrist teaches that Christ has some part of himself separate to his entity as a human being and somehow he retained some part of his divinity external to his physical existence. He did not.

5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, 

 

The faith was then extended into the nations. It was the structure of the obedience of faith. Our faith is obedience to God and the acknowledgment that only God is True God. Our requirement for the inheriting of eternal life from John 17:3 is the knowledge of the One True God and of his son Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is not the One True God. The Bible is emphatic on that. It is quite clear that the obedience of the faith to the One True God, that is God the Father, God Most High, is the requirement for the receipt of the sonship on the redemption of our bodies, from Romans 8:29ff. That includes all who are called to belong to Jesus Christ from verse 6.

6 including yourselves who are called to belong to Jesus Christ; 7 To all God's beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thus we establish the Godhead in the first seven verses and the understanding of the faith of the One True God, and that Christ laid aside his sonship and became a human and received his sonship again from the redemption of his body at his resurrection. There is no existence of Jesus Christ outside of his humanity until his resurrection. To assert that as a fact denies the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and denies the totality of his resurrection, and is a doctrine of demons. The trinity is itself a doctrine of demons and from it two other doctrines flow.

This is the kind of idiocy that comes from crazy COG ministers and so-called  Coordinator General's. But, what should you expect from apostate COG groups that deny everything about the historical and scriptural Jesus and the works he accomplished. It is no wonder that the so-called "christian" Churches of God are such a small group. Much like Bob Thiel's personality cult, Cox's cult claims half of the African continent as his members, and just a few white people are even interested in him other than some Missourians and a few others.

It is also too good to pass up when it comes to the official flag of Wade Cox's cult:

The CCG Flag

The CCG Flag is a white background with the Church logo centrally placed on the flag maintaining the church colours of White and Blue (heraldically argent and azure). We are required by Scripture to wear Ribbons of Blue on the corners of our garments to remind us of the Commandments of Almighty God (Num. 15:38). Therefore in accordance with the law we place two ribbons of blue on the top and bottom of the flag to remind us of the Laws of God, as embodied in the First and Second Great Commandments, and the Testimony or Faith of Jesus Christ and thus encompassing all the Scripture of both testaments.

The flag has nothing to do with the flag of modern day Israel. The colours are similar because the colours represent the similar biblical concepts. It was not the basis for the CCG flag and differs in all other aspects including the symbols or devices and the placement of its bars.