Monday, May 13, 2013

Billinglsey: There Is No Hope For This Nation



Here is another little clip from Billinglsey's latest book on the 10 Commandments.  When the god he  follows is an angry pissed off abusive parent I can see why he thinks there is no hope left.  When you love the law more than you do the person that is supposed to have freed your from the law and given you real hope, it is understandable why Billingsley, Flurry Pack, Malm and the other law enforcers of Armstrongism are such miserable, angry, impotent little men.

This world is in a state of rebellion! It is easy to see nations and families are in a state of war against one another in different ways. And this is reflected by seeing the hostility being expressed in society.

Realizing the tragic condition of this country, and all of the other tribes of Israel, there is no real hope remaining for a real and lasting change for the values needed for government and family in this present age.

America and Britain have entered their death throes as a society and nations largely due to their flagrant disregard of this one commandment from a loving and caring God.

Alton Billingsley Looks Back With Fondness At The Time It Was OK To Beat Children In School and How Elvis Presley Caused The Decline of the Nation



At 86 years of age Alton Billingsley runs one of the smallest splinter cults of Armstrongism out there.  He has never been able to draw in members mostly because of his crazy ideas.  It is 2013 and Billingsley still wants to live in the 1950's.  That was the era in the church that so many look back on with nostalgia.  The  church was still "pure" in form and the hippies  had not started taking over the great work of God.  Liberalism had not yet started creeping in. GTA could not keep his pants zipped but all the brethren lived together in harmony and in "world tomorrow" perfection.  All was rosy and sweet. Potlucks, Bible Studies, and three service Holy days were God's greatest gift.  Love permeated the air.

Billingsley writes the following in his new 10 Commandments book.  Yes, its another book about the law.  Nothing about Jesus Christ, but a shit load of stuff about the law and a pissed off god who is incredibly angry.

Billingsley's god, as so many in Armstrongism view their god,  is an angry parent just waiting to punish the wayward child.  He looks back with nostalgia on corporal punishment.

I, the author of this booklet, was once paddled with a long measuring ruler by the principal of the school for fighting another small lad. Another time I talked too much in class and got one swing of a thick paddle. I learned! The paddle was sometimes referred to as “the board of education.”

Knowingly, or unknowingly, during those years there was a general belief by parents in what King Solomon was led by God to write and was practiced: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when his is old[er] he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). And parents saw the positive benefits from this practice and also supported their school teachers. Often when a parent learned his child had received a paddling at school he or she would also paddle the child at home for their mischief and disrespect of the teachers. As the result authorities were respected and there were few prisons.

Children grew up taking their lawful place in society. Men teachers wore suits and ties and women teachers dressed appropriately setting an example of respect and authority before the student body. From limited personal observation teachers today wear very informal clothing. The Radical Change in Society The scene began changing after World War II with the baby boomers, hippies, beatniks, and others, began making their presence known in a state of rebellion against the status quo. This was brought about due to the change in their home life and desire for change. And with it, paddling in the home and in the school system was for the most part eliminated and so was respect for their elders.

Still living in the past, he starts ragging on "hippies".  How can we forget our own idiotic booklet - "Hippies, Hypocrisy and Happiness."  That stupid little booklet set the stage for Billingsley to write this:

“. . . Hippie trends and values have had major effects on culture by influencing film, literature, music and the arts. The values of diverse cultural and religious adoption, propagated by hippies have travelled wide and far as an accepted norm. Their attitudes have posed many challenges to a conformist society.

“A trademark characteristic of a hippie was their attitude to relieve themselves of societal regulations, free to choose their own way and thereby find the actual meaning of life. An expression of this attitude was observed in their body language, dress code and grooming style. These parameters helped to serve as universal visual reminders of their fight for individual rights.

“The 1960s was a period of intense revolutionary campaigns, starting with the anti-war movement, the black power movement, civil rights movement, sexual revolution, student rights movement etc. In a way, many of these revolutions have set the code for current day campaigns to take on their particular course of action. Hippies shot to popularity due to their adoption of a controversial lifestyle, like communes which are essentially group living. Their advocated a simpler way of life, promoting the concept of non-consumerism and little or no personal responsibility to the society. . . .”
But there was an even more insidious event that lead to the moral decline of this nation.  Elvis Presley!

Music also played a major role in the declining society that went hand in hand with the hippie generation. Music is a powerful mood-swinger; it can move people toward God or toward the devil!

And with what began taking place in the 1950s, and afterwards, in retrospect, it can be seen that music began moving the younger generation toward the devil! And like the Piped Piper, Satan would through the power of wrong music use it to impact all society and began its move after him and lead them into the forest to massacre and dismember them; the forest soon to come will be the Great Tribulation.

Elvis Presley was the forerunner of what has come to pass and set the stage paving the way for the Beetles. Then it became worse with hard rock bands following with very loud speakers in automobiles blasting out blatant sexuality, and then the rappers – “. . . these songs reflect a generalized rage, particularly rage against social authority”

Slouching Toward Gomorrah, pages 125-126, Judge Robert Bork. Many of their songs were very explicit regarding illicit sex and with words of outright rebellion against all authority and lack of respect for anyone. And the younger generation followed them like sheep going to the slaughter with their boom boxes with no respect for the older generation.
It's 2013, there are more pressing issue sin this world to worry about than Elvis and some hippies.  When will these dumb-asses get their heads out of the past and present a relevant message for today?

Alton Billingsley On How The Church of God Saved The World Many Years Ago




Another gem from Billingsley:

God’s Work did not end at his death; it was only placed on hold for a few years due to an apostate pastor general replacing Mr. Armstrong!

The Re-Activation of God’s Work 

Jesus Christ re-activated His Work at the Passover season in 2006 choosing to use this little insignificant Faithful Flock as His instrument to fulfill end-time prophecy (Habakkuk 1:5; 3:2; Isaiah 29:14).

God’s Work is now going forth to Israel and the world by the use of satellites high in the sky by which our websites function with the “Recorded Works of the Elijah” during his life time!

They continue to serve as a witness and warning of what will happen to Israel unless they repent and return to Him.

Please note the very first thing that is connected with the Elijah’s commission:

Malachi 4:4-6 “Remember the law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet BEFORE the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD (Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong was used by Jesus Christ to restore those laws and doctrinal teachings during the 52 years of his ministry, 1934-1986! And Jesus Christ restored them in 2006; and though dead, He is using that same man via of those Recorded Works on websites reaching the world more fully than during his life-time ministry).

“And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, LEST I come and strike the earth with a curse (meaning utter destruction).”

Did Families Come Together? 

Jesus Christ chose not to strike the earth with utter destruction due to a sufficient number of parents and children’s hearts turning back to one another. The following examples give insight to this smaller number being used to spare the earth from utter destruction:

1) The example of Abraham entreating the LORD God to spare the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, if as few as 10 righteous people were found in those cities they would be spared. Though the LORD God accepted Abraham’s plea (Genesis 18:16-32), ten righteous people were not found.

2) While considering Elijah in ancient Israel there appears to be a duality connected with the Elijah in the end-time. Though it is not explicitly said in Scripture, it appears each time God made known unless a sufficient number of families were brought together by obeying His laws, the earth could have been struck with utter destruction during that time as well. For Scripture reveals the evils of that ancient time in Israel match perfectly with the evils of today.

Elijah became very depressed believing he was all alone and his life was in jeopardy due to Queen Jezebel of Israel seeking to kill him. To encourage Elijah, God made known to him that 7,000 Israelites had not bowed their knees to Baal nor had kissed him (I Kings 19:18).

3) A sufficient number has been found in this end-time in the Tribes of Israel! The Apostle Paul makes known Jesus Christ has in reserve a remnant, very probably the same number of 7,000 Elect members of His true Church who are Spiritual Israelites (Romans 11:4-7). And because of their faithfulness and loyalty to Jesus Christ the earth has once again been spared from utter destruction.

In addition, approximately 150,000 men, women and children came to be part of the Worldwide Church of God due to the Elijah’s preaching and teachings some few years before his death.

This also made possible a sufficient number of families who accepted those teachings and became involved in programs designed to bring them together; such as the youth programs and Y.E.S. programs for the children. This kept the earth from being brought to utter destruction by Jesus Christ 

Sadly, this did not last! Shortly after the Elijah died in 1986, most of those people and their children, following an apostate leader, removed themselves from the teachings of Jesus Christ as were taught through the Elijah. They returned to the customs of their former lives in 1995.

However this added to the sufficiency at that time for Jesus Christ NOT to destroy this earth with utter destruction. But short of that utter destruction to this earth, the people who turned away, along with the tribes of Israel, are to be punished in the Great Tribulation that will soon come to pass. A most terrible and grievous time:

Matthew 24:21-22 “For then there will beGreat Tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And UNLESS those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; BUT for the Elect’s sake those days will be shortened.”

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Bob Thiel: Visions of Fatima Will Help Bring In The Endtime



Bob Thiel, the non-ordained self-appointed prophet is back with another amateur video.  The crooked bookcases are back.  The door in the background still is a nice touch along with crooked bookcases.  Such a beautiful backdrop. I love the 2:30 section where he holds a picture up in front of his face while he tries to read from his own book about the Visions of Fatima.  The belching spirits seem to be gone though.

This video is tied in to Bob's book on Fatima.  For a guy who comes from a  cult that discredited the Catholic church in everything, Bob gives credence to the visions of Fatima.  He thinks this vision will lead to the end time because the Pope also has recognized Fatima, and we all know that this Pope will soon turn into the anti-Christ.

Remember that Bob is also, in his own mind, a world recognized authority on the Mayan prophecies.  Bob seems to know more about the prophecies of the 
'pagans' than he does about Jesus.  Jesus gets the short shift in all of Bob's writing and videos.  Jesus still seems to be an embarrassment to so many in the COG.