Where would the Church of God be today without all of the miserable leaders who have to continually find something wrong with the world around them? Beauty and awesome things surround them and all they can see is death and damnation.
These kinds of men thrive well in the COG culture which looks with eager anticipation on seeing all their enemies and detractors destroyed so that they and they alone can enjoy Petra as they prepare to be "gods" in the sad little world they see coming. So many of these church leaders take great delight in their graphic depictions of the death and destruction they want to see reign down from heaven above.
Whether it is Bwana Bob and his endless tales of Catholic/Mayan nonsense or the legalistic grace killing bullshit of James Malm, the craziness knows no end to the fantasies they dream up.
Living Church of God's "my god is going to SPANK the world" Roderick C. Meredith was the king of the bully pulpit in the COG. Never have we seen a man who was so giddy at seeing humanity destroyed than we saw in Meredith. From parents eating their children to women being raped and hung up on meat hooks, to Germans bashing babies heads against the ground, the death and destruction flowed forth in an almost orgasmic state of ecstasy from his lips. Meredith's eyes would glaze over as he pounded the podium and shouted his end-time blasphemies. The more bloody and graphic he could get the more turned on he got.
Today in 2019, that legacy carries on in Living Church of God with Gerald Weston. Gerald is the "Debbie-downer" of the Church of God. Everything in his world is awful and evil and filled with more sex than Hugh Hefner ever experienced!
In the latest issue (July/August) of the Tomorrow's World, Weston has an article up titled:
"THEN COMES SUDDEN DESTRUCTION"
You wont find any rainbows and cotton candy here, just Brexit, angry Germans, and angry Beast, and the world order collapsing.
The world order as we have known it for the last 75 years is breaking down. Consider the British exit from the European Union, a body already in crisis economically and politically. Right-wing groups are rising in Hungary, Poland, and Italy. The U.S. is pressuring Germany and Europe to increase their military spending—something that did not work out very well for the world the last two times it happened. The right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now the third-largest political party in Germany. Nations are turning inward, and this trend is no longer on the fringe, but is becoming mainstream. Where is it leading?
The Bible foretells of a resurrected “beast” power that will rise in Europe. (For more on this, read our booklet The Beast of Revelation: Myth, Metaphor, or Soon-Coming Reality?) The end of this age will come suddenly and (for most) unexpectedly, yet those who are watching will not be caught unaware (1 Thessalonians 5:1–4). Our world is going morally and financially bankrupt “gradually”—the “suddenly” will soon follow. How many of us will recall the experience of the 1930s generation? Historian Kagan observed (as I quoted in the previous issue of this magazine), “They learned, and we have now forgotten, that when things start to go wrong, they can go very wrong very quickly, that once a world order breaks down, the worst qualities of humanity emerge from under the rocks and run wild” (p. 24).Living Church of God is morally and financially bankrupt in their fake "christian" actions. The corruption spread from Worldwide Church of God through Meredith, Davis, Ames, and others as they jumped ship into Global and later into Living Church of God. The moral cesspool of Armstrongism that still exists in LCG. UCG. CCOG, RCG, PCG, COGWA, and Malmism, put the things going wrong in the world to shame.
These men whine and bellyache on why their message no longer attracts people. The more they are ignored the more angry and bitter they become.
They are so miserable in this life that they can fidn no joy. Can you image spending 3 1/2 years in Petra with these yokels? Or even worse, an eternity in the kingdom as they play gods!
The hot licking flames of the lake of fire sound better!