Various individuals in the COG's have repeatedly denied that Herbert Armstrong ever set dates.
Here is a clip from the Worldwide News that shows he most certainly did.
HWA Told kids it would be 3-5 years until the "End" back in the early 80s.
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Who can forget Rod Meredith and Gerald Waterhouse and their outrageous lies over the decades? Invading German armies, concentration camps, meat-hooks, roving packs of mad dogs, parents eating their children, famine, disease and pestilence.
These two guys would get extremely excited as they described the evil
they wanted to see fall upon the world.
Fists pounding the pulpit, spittle flying and red veins popping.
Many times they appeared quit giddy at the prospect and gave the impression they would be extremely disappointed if it doesn't.
This still goes on at COG summer camps around the world. Flurry's cult does it. Pack's cult does it. LCG's does it. UCG hints at it but doesn't quit come out and say it.
The Church of God is the Church of Fear.
Keep the sheeple in fear of their salvation and they will be pliable money machines.
Who can forget Rod Meredith and Gerald Waterhouse and their outrageous lies over the decades? Invading German armies, concentration camps, meat-hooks, roving packs of mad dogs, parents eating their children, famine, disease and pestilence.
These two guys would get extremely excited as they described the evil
they wanted to see fall upon the world.
Fists pounding the pulpit, spittle flying and red veins popping.
Many times they appeared quit giddy at the prospect and gave the impression they would be extremely disappointed if it doesn't.
This still goes on at COG summer camps around the world. Flurry's cult does it. Pack's cult does it. LCG's does it. UCG hints at it but doesn't quit come out and say it.
The Church of God is the Church of Fear.
Keep the sheeple in fear of their salvation and they will be pliable money machines.