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Man at His Best

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

False Prophet Ronald Weinland has posted infrequently on his personal blog with posting intervals measured in months.  But now he’s posting even more than I have — another post just a few days after the last one and both since my normal weekly post.  He smells blood in the water with the current economic turmoil.  Here is his post and an opportunity to comment.

——————–  Weinland’s Latest “Prophecy” ——————————–

When is man at his best? To understand this question, is to first notice why fear and a bit of panic has entered the world market place over the past week. It is the beginning to understanding why God has revealed that mankind must suffer so very much over the next several months.

It is God’s purpose at this end-time that mankind must experience great fear and panic, as everything in which he trusts no longer gives support, intervention, or help of any kind. All the institutions and governments of mankind are nearing collapse. You are now beginning to witness the real emergence of what brings about that total collapse.

The Mortar Is Failing

We live in an age that seemingly appears far superior to all other ages of mankind. The last hundred years, with the explosive advancement of science and technology, has made the previous thousands of years of man on earth seem archaic and primitive by comparison.

Then, here at the end of this age of mankind, with his self-rule on earth, we see a basic structure that developed over the past fifty years that became the mortar for a “global” economy. We live in a period of earth’s history where the United States of America emerged to become the single greatest power the earth has ever known.

This power has been reflected in resources of wealth, technology, military strength, government influence, and monetary stability on the world scene. In the midst of this the dollar became the mortar that has held together a global economic system that is now beginning to crumble under a weight it can no longer sustain—no matter what action anyone or any government takes.

The cracks that began to emerge in 2008 are now crumbling and collapsing before our very eyes. We are rapidly moving toward markets that will crash, banking institutions that will end, and a failing dollar that will thrust the world into war, as the United States goes the way of all empires of the past.

But who dare say such things! We are told that many of the corporations and banking institutions in the U.S. are too large to fail (to allow them to fail). But they are still failing no matter how much money is printed and pumped into them. The world is now awakening to that ugly truth.

How dare a rating agency downgrade the U.S.? After that, a cry went out that declared how the U.S. has always been a triple “A” country and always will be.

After the initial cracking in the economy struck in 2008, it didn’t take long before pride and arrogance began to enter the market place once again. Much like the Titanic, the attitude has prevailed that the dollar, with the economic structure of the U.S., is too large to sink. Yet it is starting to sink!

At this present time in man’s history, the dollar and all the global markets intertwined with it have begun a final process of implosion with no ability whatsoever to save it from happening. As this rippling affect circles the world, the markets and banking systems of one country after the other spiralling downward, nations will react in the only manner they see as a last resort—war!

Bad, But Soon Much Worse

Stocks plunged dramatically last week and continued even more on Monday. But Tuesday, it surged upward in record proportion. A little hope for a little while!

Then today, everything that was so dramatically gained on Tuesday was lost in one fell swoop, and even more so, as the market plunged by nearly 520 points.

At the close of the markets, CNBC asked the question, “Do you know where your money is?” This was a take-off of the expression, “Do you know where your children are?”

Now, at this very moment, gold has passed the $1800 mark. Another headline today stated, “Investors Flock to Gold and U.S. Treasuries.” How sad that people still don’t “see” that the dollar is the problem—the old mortar that has dried up, cracking throughout, and now crumbling under the weight it can no longer sustain.

As markets and banks are in “freefall,” as another headline states, people still think there is “safety” in U.S. Treasuries, in which they trust. And those who trust in gold—it too will fail. It won’t be long before people will gladly give their gold for the simple commodity of food.

That in which people trust will continue to fail. Markets will fail. Banks will fail. The dollar will fail. Governments will fail. Even religions will fail.

“In God We Trust”

This is what is stated on the dollar. Yet that is not true. Instead, the world grew to trust in the dollar itself. As was stated at the beginning of this post: “It is God’s purpose at this end-time that mankind must experience great fear and panic, as everything in which he trusts no longer gives support, intervention, or help of any kind.”

It is this very process that will bring man to his best state, which is one of humility. It is pride that led people to believe the Titanic could not sink. It is pride that insists the dollar cannot fail. It is pride that declares the U.S. cannot become less than other countries around the world.

Only when some of mankind, beginning first with the U.S., is brought to true humility will some finally come to the only truth that can save them, when they finally cry out in genuine sincerity and humility, “In God we trust!”

———————  End of Weinland’s Latest Blather —————————-

Our Spokesman Witness doesn’t allow commenting on his blog.  But I do and here’s your opportunity.

Profound Changes

Sunday, December 26th, 2010

False Prophet Ronald Weinland made a rare visit to Cincinnati yesterday for the Christmas Day sermon, joking that he needed a name tag so people would recognize him.  People traveled from neighboring states and as far away as Colorado for the event.  Twenty-something Joey Shockey gave the opening prayer, and Evangelist Johnny was on hand to give the closing.  Ron mentioned that 19 Cincinnati-area members have been made elders.  By one estimate, that’s a third to a fourth of the members, at this rate most of them will be elders by the time Christ doesn’t return on Pentecost of 2012.

Ron continued to recycle his blog posting from back in January about the ordination of women and how women have been abused.  Profound changes are due next year, although Ron is planning for a full Feast of Tabernacles expecting that he’ll be able to have it.  (I expect the same thing).  And Christ definitely is returning in 2012 but if he doesn’t there will be a sermon on the topic.  Ron mocked people who believe what they read on the Internet.  Ron needs to take his irony supplement given all the nonsense he’s put on the Internet.

Odds & Ends 3

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Things in PKG have settled down as Ron hunkers down waiting for the Great Tribulation to strike, ordaining more and more of the deluded to break up the boredom.  Rambo pointed out that two years of the Great Tribulation have elapsed since December 14, 2008.  I would correct that slightly to the end of 2 years of the Second Great Tribulation, as the First Great Tribulation began on April 17, 2008.

My irony supplements must be waning, because it took Martin to point out that while Ron’s sermon last Saturday was titled “Curses to Blessings” that his member Doug went from disabling strokes to yet more disabling strokes.  Strokes can be serious, my mother suffered a mild one and exhibited noticeable aphasia and short-term memory losses for some time.

Elsewhere in CoGland things are getting interesting as the United Church of God flies apart.  Thielogical Bob put up a post entitled “UCG Loses in Kansas City” which started off with the following “2/3 of the UCG members in Kansas (excluding KC Metro) have broken off to form COG-KS…All of Kansas EXCEPT the KC metro area was involved in this split.  This encompasses Salina, Wichita, and everything West in KS…”.  Surprisingly, Bob corrected the title to eliminate the word “city”.  I say “surprisingly” because he has refused to address contradictions or errors even when pointed out.  The article mentions UCG pastor over central Kansas, Ed Dowd, as remaining in UCG.  Ed is the son of Ron’s traveling senior elder Ralph Dowd.

From articles written by James Malm (who engaged in prophetic “speculations” centered around the dates in Ron’s present timeline well before Ron adopted it), the liberals have taken over UCG and the conservatives are not very happy.  Thielogical Bob criticizes UCG government, including a picture of the ruins of Laodicea whenever he posts about UCG.  I fully expect that after Bob’s favorite false prophet Rod Meredith dies that the Living Church of God will splinter apart, not immediately, but after several years.  UCG has its own dissident web site authored by “Abigail Cartwright” which seems to be the pen name of a team of people.  Clarion Call Dave Pack circles UCG like a shark around a sinking ship — Google searches for UCG are likely to render a sponsored link for his own little CoGlet (RCG) which in some respects is worse than PKG.

Exactly

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Exact quotes from “2008: God’s Final Witness”:

Page 3: “These events are occurring exactly as these books describe.”

Page 4: “The proof of the validity of my first book, and now this one, is in the timing and the destruction that follows, exactly as both books describe.”

Page 8: “Only God Himself can prove what is true by bringing to pass exactly what He has said. Only the next few years can prove whether or not these two books are true and of God. If nothing happens, then you can know positively that this is complete fiction.”

Page 21: “These two (and others who know them) know exactly the day when Jesus Christ will return. These two will know positively when God gives them this power, and from that time they know that exactly three and one-half years remain.”

Page 22: “They know the exact day that Jesus Christ will return because they know their final work will last exactly 1,260 days. It is exactly at this point that they will be killed”

Page 61: “At the opening of the Seventh Seal, the fulfillment of a physical duality will begin exactly when devastation strikes the United States first. This country is the focus for the beginning of great tribulation which will strike the earth in the final three and one-half years that precede the return of Jesus Christ”

Page 89-90: “God will reveal who His two witnesses are regardless of whether people choose to believe them or not! God will increasingly give more proof of His spokesman as prophecies unfold exactly as they are recorded in this book. When the Seventh Seal is opened, the first four trumpets of that seal will announce the final demise of the United States and her closest allies. The opening of this seal will be the beginning of the final three and one-half years of great worldwide tribulation.”

Page 107: “I have also made a petition to the ETERNAL God of Abraham. My petition is that this first phase of the Fifth Thunder be fulfilled exactly as it is written here. This request is so that scattered brethren who are asleep might be awakened and know that God has granted them the opportunity to repent and return to Him at this time. Also, it is so that they may know that I am His end-time prophet, His spokesman for the two end-time witnesses.”

Page 111: “The answer that I am who I say I am will be given by the events described in both books coming true exactly as I have described. This will be the proof that I am God’s end-time witness and spokesman. But before great power is given to me to perform miraculous events similar to those of Moses (but with far greater power), once the Seventh Seal is opened and the final three and one-half years of worldwide tribulation begins, God has reserved these Seven Thunders for me to declare.”

Page 118: “When we are told that a third of all plant life will be destroyed, that is exactly what it means.”

Page 174: “Not only that, God also will move the spirit world to facilitate in limiting the great tribulation to exactly three and one-half years.”

Page 244, the last page: “Indeed, only a very short time remains before it will be evident that I am who I say or that I am not.”

Exactly.

What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Always Stay There

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

This last weekend, False Prophet Ronald Weinland returned from appendicitis in Australia to hold a conference with his evangelists and senior elders, and also the Silent Witness.  Twenty people were in attendance, who included: Ron, Laura, Audra, Johnny and Myrtle Harrell, Terry Wrozek, Wayne and Chris Matthews, Dave Conley, Ron’s brother-in-law Scott Cameron, Jimmy Carlisle, Lori Williams, Ralph Dowd, Jim Jamieson, and Steve who’s looking for a job since PKG doesn’t need his full-time services any more.

The venue chosen for this meeting was the Venetian Resort, Hotel, & Casino in Las Vegas.  The cheapest suite in this five-star hotel is $199 per night on weekends. I wonder if Ron and Laura showed their humility by sleeping in such humble digs (pictured here).  Or maybe they showed even more humility by taking a better suite, maybe even the penthouse suite?

Assuming they doubled up, 10 hotel rooms for two nights cost $4000 plus room tax.  This cost was dwarfed by the airfare required to fly 20 people in for the weekend.  None of the attendees live near Las Vegas.  Assuming an average of $400 per person for airfare, travel expenses were $8,000, or more (Wayne and Chris came from overseas).  Add to that the costs to eat in a five-star hotel, taxes, a conference room, etc we’re looking at around $15,000 for this cozy little party in Sin City.

Those PKG members who dug deep or even borrowed money for the special offerings this holy day season can take comfort that they received good value for their money, as their senior elders, evangelists, and prophets slept on Egyptian cotton sheets under 400-count wool throws in their suites.  After all, Herbert Armstrong taught quality.  (But then that was for Herbie himself and his evangelists.  Not for lay families like mine which was clothed through Mom’s careful shopping at garage sales, which meant that my sisters were teased in school for wearing out-of-date clothes.) Perhaps the senior elders, evangelists, and prophets had time to see the Blue Man Group or to drop a few chips in the casino, particularly the ones who continued their stay through Monday.

And we have a video tour of one of the suites:

Ron to Show Up Today?

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

After reading the tea leaves, my expectation is that False Prophet Ronald Weinland will make his scheduled appearance in Las Vegas today before his evangelists and senior elders and their spouses, including his senior elder daughter Audra and her husband Chris.  I wouldn’t mind being wrong on this, and I know that this would disappoint a few.  But I expect that he will have a sermon on the Internet later on today spinning events and blasting all the twisting and distorting web sites.

Technical Problems

Monday, June 28th, 2010

I’ve managed to recover the database but not including the latest posts. So Ronnie’s death curse has yet to take effect :-D I’ll re-entered manually the missing post including the comments. My hosting company has made some changes which hopefully will end the intermittent slow downs — seems to be working well so far.

Here is a copy of the interim post from earlier today and the comments on it.

Due to massive technical problems with the database, I’m doing a bit of a reset.  The Spokesman Witness gets a break while I recover, no doubt he will attribute this to his death curse :-D

5 Responses to Technical Problems

1. Baywolfe says: June 28, 2010 at 10:58 am

See, this is where MySQL really, really, drops the ball. You don’t see this behavior with the commercial databases.

2. jack635 says: June 28, 2010 at 11:59 am

no doubt he will attribute this to his death curse

Doesn’t matter what he says. You’re still alive and he’s an impotent curser.

Ha! Ron couldn’t curse his way out of a wet paper bag.

3. mike_ddtfa says: June 28, 2010 at 12:45 pm

Is is my mySQL or is it my hosting company? I complain to godaddy, and they just point fingers. Their last claim was that I had database problems. Well, this is a fresh database and it’s not working very well.

What’s a better alternative?

4. Aggie says: June 28, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Your dedication is a thing to fear and behold, Mike. ;-)

The WW blog stayed pretty well intact, except for the audio files, and when Hotlinkfiles went down (and took all the audio clips with it), I just couldn’t have been bothered to find another source to upload them to, that would have been compatible with the free WordPress, and then go through and manually fix all the links (because, again, free WordPress).

Which is my long and rambling way of saying, I wish I had your kind of motivation to stick with it, even after the first timeline failed. I think you’re pretty much the only one left seriously debunking the Two Witlesses, because Jack is the much-needed and well-appreciated comic relief. :-)

5. mike_ddtfa says: June 28, 2010 at 3:08 pm

Don’t forget about Dill Weed.

But even though Rotten Ronnie has failed, and refailed, and had actually proven himself a false prophet before the first timeline even started, people continue to follow him. And even more start following him. Hard to believe, I know. But that’s why I continue.

Weinland’s Toxicodendron

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

False Prophet Ronald Weinland was in Detroit today instead of Windsor CT.  His Witness Powers to shut up the heavens hasn’t kicked in yet so he had to work with the double whammy of two blizzards.  And his Witness Power apparently don’t cover poison ivy or poison oak as he was suffering from either or both of them.  It seems that perfumes and colognes may be a problem as well since he yet again cautioned those coming to Cincinnati in two weeks to avoid using strong-smelling substances.

Ron did let on that he was oppressed by his supervising pastor when he was starting out in the ministry, and he fasted seeking relief.  I wonder if he was talking about Keith Walden when he was assigned to a circuit from Lubbock TX in 1982 or a couple of years later when he was assigned to Cincinnati under Bob League.

Ron prophesied with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other, spending several minutes interpreting an article about the PIIGS of the European Union and the economic crisis with the Euro. Apparently this will result in the EU being trimmed to 10 nations to fit biblical prophesies. It’ll have to happen soon as Ron has set August of next year as a deadline for the 5th trumpet, when the European beast power occupies the United States.

Ron’s sermon was even more boring than last weeks. During the fall Ron raised expectations for last week’s sermon on the day of the annual excuse fast and end of the first half-a-revised-Time, and he’s broken yet another promise, made on November 28:

That’s why God has given so boldly that within the Church and we’re picking up and we’re going to come to some sermons close to the time of the fast that are going to have a big timeshift for us or a big change for some of the things taking place in the Church.

But I guess the ordination of women to elders could be regarded as a big change.  Nevertheless we’ll eventually have yet another timeshift.