Bob Thiel Says Gerald Flurry "Exaggerates"

Bob Thiel, of the improperly named Continuing Church of God, declared today that Gerald Flurry exaggerates (i.e. lies).

Flurry has an article up about the "times of the gentiles." As usually, Bob Thiel knows more about the bible than Flurry does.

Flurry writes:

One biblical prophecy explains the alarming rise of aggressive world powers today. “And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke 21:20-24).

We are living in the times of the Gentiles. Our free book The United States and Britain in Prophecy explains who the Gentiles are: any nations not descended from the 12 tribes of ancient Israel. In prophecy, God focuses primarily on two birthright nations (America and Britain) and one scepter nation (the Jewish nation in the Middle East). He uses Gentile powers to punish His chosen people because of their many sins.

Thiel responds:

It is, in my view, truly an exaggerated stretch for Gerald Flurry to claim that Luke 21:20-24 explains our world.

This is rich coming from a man who has exaggerated immensily about his "ordination" process.  Gaylyn Bonjour had no intention of doubly blessing Thiel so that he could start a new splinter group. Not once did he, Rod Meredith, or anyone else ordain Thiel to be a minister, prophet or apostle.  Thiel has exaggerated the entire process.

The so-called double blessed leader of the improperly named Continuing Church of God is just as deceitful and manipulative as Gerald Flurry is when it come to biblical knowledge and control.

Philadelphia Church of God Producing New Musical About Biblical Sex

We all knew it was a matter to time till some Church of God leader put his sex fantasy into music.  This is a Church of God, after all.

Philadelphia Church of God, the aberrant sect of Armstrongism located in the middle of Oklahoma, has set the words of Song of Solomon into a musical stage production.

What a magnificent chorus this will be filled with virginal PCG youth singing about sex, something they are forbidden to partake of during the four years they are on the compound.

Song of Songs by Ryan Malone  

Herbert W. Armstrong College Choral Union 

Mark Jenkins, conductor 

The Herbert W. Armstrong College Choral Union teams up with professional orchestra and soloists to perform a new setting of the greatest love song of all time: the Song of Solomon. The entire text of King Solomon’s Song of Songs comes vibrantly to life in this composition by college music director Ryan Malone, which captures the intimacy and power of this passionate poetry. This oratorio was performed and recorded in January 2012 as an unaccompanied choral work, but it has been orchestrated to capture even more deeply the rich imagery of this immortalized poetry.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 • 7:30 PM • $15, $20, $25, $30

Some of the fruitful lyrics that will be wafting heavenward will include:

1. "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine." A fitting beginning for a pornographic poem. Song of Solomon 1:2
2. "The virgins love thee." Song of Solomon 1:3
3. "We will run after thee ... we will remember thy love more than wine." Song of Solomon 1:4
4. "He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts." Song of Solomon 1:13
5. "I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." Song of Solomon 2:3
6. "His left hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace me ... stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please." Song of Solomon 2:6-7
7. "My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice." Song of Solomon 2:9
8. "In the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance ... for ... thy countenance is comely." Song of Solomon 2:14
9. "My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies." Song of Solomon 2:16
10. "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains. Song of Solomon 2:17
11. "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth." Song of Solomon 3:1
12. "I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me." Song of Solomon 3:4
13. "Stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please." Song of Solomon 3:5
14. "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins." Song of Solomon 4:5
15. "How much better is thy love than wine!" Song of Solomon 4:10
16. "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." Song of Solomon 4:11
17. A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." Song of Solomon 4:12
18. "Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits." Song of Solomon 4:13
19. "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." Song of Solomon 4:15
20. "Come ... blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits."
    Oh, so that's where "blow job" comes from!  Song of Solomon 4:16
21. "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey." Song of Solomon 5:1
22. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled." Song of Solomon 5:2
23. "My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him." Song of Solomon 5:4
24. "I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock."  Song of Solomon 5:5
25. "I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself." Song of Solomon 5:6
26. "His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars." Song of Solomon 5:15
27. "His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend." Song of Solomon 5:16
28. "The joints of thy thighs are like jewels." Song of Solomon 7:1
29. "Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies." Song of Solomon 7:2
30. "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins."  Song of Solomon 7:3
31. "How pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!" Song of Solomon 7:6
32. "Thy breasts to clusters of grapes." Song of Solomon 7:7
33. "Thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine." Song of Solomon 7:8
34. "Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field ... Let us get up early to the vineyards ... there will I give thee my loves." Song of Solomon 7:12
35. "I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. Song of Solomon 8:2
36. "His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. Song of Solomon 8:3-4
37. "Stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please." Song of Solomon 8:4
38. "We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts ... But my breasts [are] like towers." Song of Solomon 8:8-10