A hat tip to the Banned by HWA blog for bringing this story to light.  According to Los Angeles TV station KTLA, Lyn Benedetto tried to kill her two children and herself to spare them the agony of the soon-coming Great Tribulation.  According to the story on Banned by HWA and confirming comments, this woman and her husband were WCG members back in 1994 but no one had information as to what group they are affiliated with now.

So we don’t know whether or not they are PKG members or members of another Herblet cult.  No matter.  The disgusting message put out by Ron and his ilk can result in deadly harm.

Ron, you are morally responsible if this was one of your members.  As you are morally responsible for all the family relationships you’ve helped destroy.

Ron, Just Cut it Out.  You know you’re a false prophet, that you’re just making your balogna sandwiches as you go.  Limit any further damage, just admit it to your followers.  Let your people go before it happens to one of them, if it hasn’t already.

False Prophet Ronald Weinland’s itinerary has him in Singapore right now and in Hong Kong this coming weekend.  I wonder if he really is there.  He missed delivering the sermon on Saturday due to illness, perhaps this illness is not one of those 24-hour things.  He has still not posted the promised articles on his 4 new “truths”, and Jeremy has not cleaned up the website as he normally does after the Audio page is mangled to post the latest sermon.  Could Ron be suffering a more severe illness?  Will be interesting to see if Ron delivers a sermon from Hong Kong this weekend.

Oct. 7 Update:  Ronnie’s itinerary is updated, Hong Kong this coming weekend and Cincinnati the following weekend (Oct 16) have been removed, leaving Oct 23 in Las Vegas as the next scheduled appearance.  It appears more likely that his illness last Saturday was more than just a 24-hour bug. Could it be a reprisal of his 2005 heart attack?  Maybe appendicitis? Or maybe someone wore tiger lily perfume in his presence. Perhaps we’ll learn more this weekend if one of his evangelists delivers the sermon while the Spokesman Witness recuperates in Australia.

During June, False Prophet Ronald Weinland described how he had disfellowshipped one of his members from Montana who believes himself to be one of the Two Witnesses.  I have a copy of an email from the Second Witness’s wife, reproduced below.  I’ve edited it only to remove their last name and change the first names.  This couple has a minor daughter.

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During his 6th sermon of the 3rd organized feast of tabernacles after the last one, False Prophet Ronald Weinland stated 2 new “truths”.  One of these had been revealed in the prior sermon, just not stated that way.

“Truth” #3: God created both good and evil.

The 4th “truth” for the feast was stated as:

Almighty God will dwell in his family, in each and every member of his family.  And they will dwell in him.  This will be accomplished through the power of the holy spirit that emanates from God and in the lives of all who are in God’s family.  And this will be a perpetual and continuing process into everlasting life.  Once begotten of God’s holy spirit, the flow of that spirit can be surpressed and completely removed or cut off from a begotten person’s life.  God dwells/lives/abides in the life of a spirit-begotten person and they therefore dwell in him.

This came in the first part of the sermon, and Ron blathered on for awhile on the topic.  This all is rather vague.  I suspect that this lays the foundation for Ron to spiritualize the return of the Jesus Christ over the next 20 months. Or at least gives him more to blather about in sermons. While Ron thinks that no more “truths” are coming, but I think he’ll come up with some more to distract his followers from the intensity of the Great Tribulation.

Ron is having a Red Sea day, as he has not yet completed his Last Great Day sermon.  According to him, that was the situation in 2005 when he pulled his Melchizedek sermon out at the last moment.  Not much longer to see how it will turn out this time.  Probably in for more blather.

False Prophet Ronald Weinland flew from New Zealand to Australia to visit the Gold Coast Meter Maids.  Spiritual warfare raged as he delivered his 5th sermon of the 3rd organized feast after the last one — Satan and his demon won this battle, interrupting the streaming audio feed to those in New Zealand who were trying to listen live to Ron’s latest interpretations of the Bible.  Other feast site locations, such as a hotel in major metropolitan area supervised by Ralph Dowd, will listen to a recording of the sermon tomorrow.

Ron mocked people who worship gods which they created.  At least a wooden or stone idol is tangible, unlike the invisible god that Ron created and which intentionally lies to Ron knowing he’ll pass along these lies to others.  And it turns out that the god Ron created is responsible for creating evil.  How about that!!!

Ron’s god has not actually granted Ron Witness powers.  Otherwise he could have used his rain-stopping power to prevent the flood in Portage Wisconsin as a rising stream breached a levee.

Ron promoted associate elder Peter Herrmann to full elder.  Peter is the prime suspect for ptr775 who entertained demons on another forum and who knows Kirrily and considers her to be anti-Christ.

False Prophet Ronald Weinland gave his 4th sermon of the 3rd organized feast since the First Trumpet blew for the first time.  He had his local elders Pat and Adrian give the prayers, forgiving Pat for the sermonette and even promoting him to elder.  The next sermon comes from Johnny Harrell while Ron is traveling to the feast site on Australia’s Gold Coast.  I wonder if Ron will again encounter Pastor General Joe Junior.  After all , Joe Junior may also be in Rotorua.  WCG New Zealand is also having a Feast of Tabernacles in Rotorua.

Ron got through this sermon in well under two hours, laying out the 2nd “truth” at the end.  It turns out that the angels are not immortal, and are not self-sustaining.  Angels exist only as long as they are sustained by God.   Angels were given spirit-sustaining life but were never given the holy spirit, nor ever had access to it.  Since Satan is an angel, then Weinland’s God sustains him so Weinland’s God could end this whole farce.  Instead, Weinland’s God sent us a false prophet who tells us that God lied to him which makes it OK for him to have lied to us.  And inspires Satan to commit evil and lead men astray.  So Weinland’s God must be inspiring this blog as well.  How about that!!!!

False Prophet Ronald Weinland has delivered his second sermon of the third feast after the last feast. During this sermon he delivered the first “truth” of this year (Jewish year that is) .  After meandering about and running several minutes over, he finally spit it out — Satan’s end will be an end.  That is, Satan will die.  After the 100 years after the millennium, this quite powerful spirit being will cease to exist.  OK, whatever. Snore. The faithful in Australia’s Gold Coast had to wait a few extra minutes for this startling revelation as their 9:30 start was delayed by the overtime.  New Zealand is 3 hours ahead of Australia’s eastern time zone, so after Ronnie finished the sermon he uploaded it for those in Australia while they waited.  The revelation was further delayed for them by Pat Cameron, whose closing prayer turned into a mini-sermon itself.

Some of the faithful here in the US heard Ronnie’s first sermon today in the same hotel in Nashville where PKG had its 2006 Feast of Tabernacles.  During the first Feast of Tabernacles sermon of 2006, Ron referred back to the period following the breakup of WCG in 1995:

So I remember the first holy day season of unleavened bread.  And then later Pentecost.  And then the Feast of Tabernacles.   ….and so there was a greater appreciation because it wasn’t being taken away from us.  We had to fight for it.  And now it’s about to be taken away from us again.  But in a different way.  Because of what’s going to happen in the world.  We understand that we’re fast approaching a period of time — of a 3 & 1/2 year period where we will not be able to meet together like this in a fine hotel in fellowship.  And in food.  And in halls like this.  (4 minutes, 40 seconds into audio file for Oct 7, 2006 sermon “God’s Command for the Feast”)

So here we are in the second feast season of the second Great Tribulation, and PKG is meeting together again in the same fine hotel.  Imagine that.  Amazing!!!!!

Thursday is the opening day of the Feast of Tabernacles during which False Prophet and Son of Perdition Ronald Weinland continues with his signs and lying wonders by rolling out another 4 new “truths”.  It’s been mildly interesting speculating what these new “truths” might be.  The following which appeared in the past few days on the PKG website could hold some clues:

The Rest of… Mystery of the Ages

The addition of four new truths revealed during the 2010 Feast of Tabernacles will complete the Mystery of the Ages initially revealed through Herbert W. Armstrong. The publication reveals the rest of that story.
*These new truths will be posted throughout the Feast after each one is covered in a sermon.

Contents
Chapter 1: The Completion of Mystery of the Ages
Chapter 2: History of the Spirit Realm
Chapter 3: Creation of Evil
Chapter 4: The Creation of Elohim

(Right now the site has hotlinks for the chapter titles which are dead-ended.  They’re placeholders so web-unsavvy Weinland can simply upload the files after introducing them in his sermons.) From the chapter list, we see that God created evil before he started creating Elohim, the God family.  Weinland teaches that Jesus, the second member of Elohim, did not exist prior to being born to Mary.

On another of Weinland’s flock of websites is the following:

MYSTERY OF THE AGES

This book is the compilation of the ministry of Herbert W. Armstrong. It was written to explain the plan of God in an easy-to-read format and also serve as a textbook at Ambassador College. No other book written in the previous 1900 years so succinctly covered the truth of the Bible.

“Mystery of the Ages” is one of the last pieces of literature written by False Prophet Herbert Armstrong before his death.  Currently the copyright is owned by Gerald Flurry’s Philadelphia CoG following an epic court battle with WCG which concluded with a negotiated sale.  The Philadephia CoG publishes this holy work but somehow I doubt that future editions will include Ron’s holy supplement.

On the COG-PKG website it says:

The Living Church of God, under the leadership of Roderick Meredith, is also asleep spiritually. Roderick C. Meredith is guilty in his failure to acknowledge Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong as the prophesied Elijah to come, who would restore all things to God’s true Church.

Yet elsewhere on the same COG-PKG site it says:

39 (18) Herbert W. Armstrong was a “type” of the prophesied “Elijah to come,” as he restored all truth essential to salvation to the Church of God during the Philadelphia Era.

Perhaps one of the new truths revealed over the next week will be that this blog, along with Dill Weed’s and Jack’s, is operated by Satan himself. As evidence of that notion is that it continues on despite Weinland’s curse for a speedy death issued in December of 2008. A death curse would be ineffective against Satan since he has to be around at the 100-year period following the Millennium to be cast into the Lake of Fire just ahead of Weinland’s mockers  suffering their second deaths.

Any other guesses as to what the new “truths” are that Weinland will dazzle the Flavor Aid drinkers with?

Since Ron announced last Saturday that there would be yet 4 more new “truths”, he finally decided to catch the church web site.  Even though he announced “truths” 51, 52, and 53 seven months ago, the PKG website has continued to announce only 50 “truths”.  But he has rectified that since this weekend, editing the Publications page on the PKG website.  Here for your convenience are his last truths:

God continues to reveal truths to His end-time Church so that a restoration of all things can take place with the return of Jesus Christ.

51 (1)

God has revealed the identity of the Elijah to come. As part of this revelation God has made it clearer that John the Baptist was a ‘type’ of the Elijah to come and that Herbert W. Armstrong was also a ‘type’ of the Elijah to come. The final completeness of this role is fulfilled by the spokesman of the two end-time witnesses.

52 (2)

God is restoring knowledge concerning the rightful place of women in the family. This involves the start of the greater removal of the curse laid upon woman from the beginning which was the result of sin.

53 (3)

The ordination of women in the Church. With the revelation of the 52nd Truth, God is continuing to reveal the rightful role of women with the 53rd truth by showing that God has and will continue to work with and through women to help prepare the path for the return of Jesus Christ and to fulfill a breaking of bonds for all humanity.