Weinland’s Sixth Thunder of the Sixth Seal
False Prophet Ronald Weinland chose himself to reveal the 7 thunders of Revelation 10 that was not revealed to John in his hallucinogenic dream. In his book “2008 God’s Final Witness” Weinland described the 6th of those thunders as
The Sixth Thunder is the growing revelation of God’s end-time witnesses. That revelation is that I am the spokesman of God’s two end-time prophets—the spokesman of His two end-time witnesses.
This thunder will grow louder as the events described in the previous thunders continue to unfold with ever increasing intensity, proving the validity of what has been written and that what I am saying is true. Radio and television interviews will become more the norm as curiosity, news, controversy, and fear increase in proportion to the growing intensity of these thunders.
The last radio interview available on the web was on March 6 of last year, and there have been two reported by Weinland since but these were in local markets and podcasts are not available. The one and only television interview of Weinland was recorded in January of 2008 and has aired only on Australian TV. Weinland expected that the interview that was recorded would be played back after April of 2008 to prove that he had prophesied all the disasters that unfolded. “Interview” should be in quotes because the program consisted of maybe 20% sound bytes of Weinland and the rest criticism of his apocalyptic mind view. The program first aired in November of 2008, and then again as a repeat a few months ago.
When it comes to print media, I turned to Google News for recent publications. It currently has links to this article and this other one. But these are not news articles but rather are spoofs on “The Spoof” website. I found them mildly amusing, but don’t come close to the spoofs written by Kirrily in comments on this website 1 2. Sometimes you have to have been there 
There were some other articles a few months earlier in traditional print media, but these also were of the type that pointed out failed apocalyptic prophesies.
Google also sheds more light on the growing recognition of Ronald Weinland with its Google Trends service. Here is a chart of web search history for “ronald weinland”
The start of search activity on Ron coincides with the Google advertising campaign that Ron’s followers paid for that intensified right after the Feast of Tabernacles of 2007. The peak is right around the start of the first Great Tribulation on April 17, 2008. After that, Google search interest decreased as his prophecies failed and did not return even with a renewed Google ad campaign later in 2008. So much for the following prophecy from “2008 GFW”:
The growing manifestation of proof that I am God’s end-time prophet and that I am the spokesman of His two end-time witnesses is a thunder that will become powerfully stronger all the way up until the very return of Jesus Christ.
Weinland’s book was published November of 2006. Interest peaked in April of 2008 and since has waned. And there has been no growing manifestation of proof that Ron is spokesman of the two end-time witnesses. But there has been a growing manifestation of proof that he is a false prophet. And every post that I make as such, as I disprove the only exercise of his Witness powers which was to place a curse on me to speedily die from the inside.
That’s a very good overview, Mike. If you would make a chart of all the failed prophecies (you might have done that already – I can’t remember) the spikes would be off the charts. Starting in 2006 when his books were published till now, it would be interesting to see all the failed prophecies compared to the fulfilled prophecies.
Brainwashing is a serious offense. It should be right up there with raping and murdering, and the penalties should be similar – time in prison. Weinland’s ego is right up there with Hitler’s. His “fame” is comparable to [fill in the blank], he’s so famous he hasn’t been heard of by almost all the people. Only a few are aware that Ronald Weinland exists and compared to the population of the world, that adds up to zero percent.
He’s a real nutcase, he is.
Unfortunately, Ron (et al) are using Spiritual Extortion, a type of voluntary brainwashing, to work their particular brands of evil. The US Congress will never take action against this type of behavior due to the simple fact that all religious cults (The Roman Catholic Church, The Baptist Churches, The Mormon (LDS) Church) uses this tactic to a lesser or greater degree than Ron does.
Where the X-COGs take it one additional reprehensible step, is to insinuate the end of the world is coming and that all monies of their members should be passed on to the “government of gawd”. Ron and his ilk aren’t servants, their masters, at least in their own minds.
…and yet Ron Weinland will not stop declairing his titles and teachings to the faithful in Ron all mighty. All the failed prophecy, all the butchery of the bible, all the glitter of self given titles, all those many souls that will not join his cult.
Now the silence of the Ron made 6th thunder rings loudly! Nary a interview or access to a news show to be found.
Ron the little known, Ron the almost totaly unknown, Ron the false Prophet.
Go figure?
Well Mike, if your forecast for later this year comes to pass, there could be another spike in that graph when people start searching his name after seeing him on the news. The news media always announces when a minister gets arrested or convicted. That could spawn a whole new wave of documentaries about rich preachers.
And that’s the only publicity Ron deserves.
A chart of the false prophecies is actually a good idea….but I couldn’t be bothered enough to motivate myself to do it….LOL. Three timelines later, I’d have to say “It’s dead, Jim!” Anyone hanging on at this point, is stupider than we were, for believing the ministers when they said “We never set dates!” post-1975……
Something that Ron Weinland doesn’t seem to realize is this: If world events ever start looking like the end is near (whether they will or not is a whole different topic) there’s going to be all kinds of “Witnesses” and “Prophets” coming out of the woodwork.
And the overwhelming majority of these End Time “Witnesses and Prophets” will know how to play the game far better and far more believable (to the uninitiated) than Ron could ever hope to.
Reason: Ron’s not that smart. Probably below average intelligence. I mean, compare Ron to Herbert. Ron is like an elementary school student compared to what Herbert was.
The point is, it’s kind of ironic, but Ron better hope that his “chosen thunders” remain totally obscure, as they are now.
Because if something really should happen, the effect will be the opposite of what Ron would hope for.
That is, attention would be focused on the Witnesses and Prophets who will be able to play the game better than Ron.
There are true slight-of-hand magicians who have stumped me as far as “how they did it” who would fool the masses pretty convincingly. People will believe them far easier than people like Ron, who hasn’t a clue. RK is right.
“People will believe them far easier than people like Ron…”
Mayhap this is why the PKG is so incredibly small, so very very tiny indeed?
350 members across the globe out of in or near 7 billion…
Ron a poor speaker and leader, who would that thought?
Go figure
If he ever gets justice (arrested)…i wonder what color jail apparel he will wear …yellow perhaps? (for mentally unstable/suicidal/psychotic etc people in some places) If he gets a blue i will be dissapointed (thats for low risk/threat offenders in many areas)
We don’t know for sure that Ron is guilty of tax evasion, but each have our personal opinions. If he is found guilty of it, probably will be a minimum security prison.
Too bad that he can’t face justice for the religious abuse he’s really guilty of.
Yeah i meant justice as in punishment for his mental abuse and financial abuse of members and potential members….if he gets arrested for the tax situation and charged/sentenced to a good length of days, then i’ll take that as as justice (to a degree) for the mental/financial abuse of people…the way i am lookin at it is that because the gov will probly never get him on his religious trash talk/cult abuse and mind control manipulation to steal money etc etc etc etc…then gettin him at “anythin” is better than nothin atall.
“Ron is like an elementary school student compared to what Herbert was.”
Armstrong didn’t even have a high-school education, either, so consider the above analogy in light of that fact.
I was also wondering how/if Weinland was going to work the child sex abuse scandals into his mythology…although it’s almost a year after he predicted the Pope would get his 666 superpowerz on April 17, 2008:
Predictably, nothing happened. But, then, nothing happened on March 18th, 2008, either. (Bear in mind that we have now passed March 18th, 2010 on our calendars, and you’ll get an inkling of just how far down this rabbit hole of cognitive dissonance goes.)
Still, I wouldn’t put it past him to try and work the scandals in as some sort of “proof” — even though that scuppers the whole “RCC as Beast Power” mythology from the get-go.