Hurricane Noel Near Peak Intensity in 2007 COGwriter Floods hit China, Myanmar, the Caribbean and the USA Midwest in 2008. Tropical storm Fay killed several in the Caribbean. Now it is causing flooding in Florida: Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) — Tropical Storm Fay lingered off the northeastern coast of Florida, causing widespread flooding in the state, […]
Month: August 2008
Catholic Bishops Seem to Endorse McCain
Bas-relief at Angkor Wat, dated circa 1150, depicting a demon performing an abortion by pounding a mallet into a woman’s belly. COGwriter Zenit.org (a pro-Vatican news service) reported: US Bishops Look at Election Call Faithful to Form Consciences WASHINGTON, D.C., AUG. 19, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The U.S. bishops’ annual Labor Day message calls the faithful to […]
James Malm Challenges COGwriter
People Who Make Predictions Need to Be Sure that the Bible Supports those Predictions COGwriter Two days ago, in response to my posts related to him, James Malm contacted me and asked me to post the following statement: “James insists that he is not a prophet and is merely publishing the results of his studies […]
Russia Moving In or Out?
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev: What Will the Russian President Do? COGwriter In its latest weekly update, LCG reported: The Russian Bear Is on the Move Again. The Russian economy is booming, thanks to oil and gas, and Russia is investing heavily abroad. Russian firms now own stock in Air Berlin airline, shipyards in the Baltic ports […]
Vision Passes UCG
The Above Map Show the Number of Internet Users By Country COGwriter Because I reported that Vision was not doing well (see COGaIC: Vision Lacking), yesterday when I noticed a dramatic change in its Alexa ratings, I thought for the first time ever to report the one week Alexa rankings for a variety of COG-related […]
J Tkach on Megachurches
TRANSFORMED FROM TRUTH COGwriter Joseph Tkach, president of the Worldwide Church of God was in the following news story: Many Evangelical Denominations Have No Megachurches,Survey Finds Christian Post – Aug 14, 2008 Many evangelical church denominations have no megachurches, a new survey finds. Evangelical leaders participating in the July survey of the National Association of […]
Russia Threatens Poland with Nuclear Attack
The above photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflect what nuclear attacks are like COGwriter In a unsettling announcement, Russia indicated that it will attack Poland early if it (Russia) uses nuclear weapons: Russia threatens nuclear attack on Poland over US missile shield deal Russia threatened a nuclear strike against Poland after a landmark deal to […]
African Fought the Allegorists
African Hut COGwriter When Origen and some of the other late 2nd/early third century Greco-Roman allegorists started to do away with a literal millennium, there were protests by people who preferred to believe the Bible. One was an African bishop/pastor named Nepos. Here is what The Catholic Encyclopedia reported: An Egyptian bishop, Nepos, taught the […]
CG7 and 150 Years of Faithfulness?
Rebuilt Gymnasium in Sardis. This is one of the most impressive buildings in the area of any of the seven churches of Revelation 2 & 3. However, it has been recently and massively rebuilt as its original condition was in ruin. And while it and its size are impressive, it no longer functions as it […]
Pope Prohibits Yahweh
Pope Benedictus XVI COGwriter The following unusual item was in the news yesterday: No ‘Yahweh’ in songs, prayers at Catholic Masses, Vatican rules Catholic News Service – Aug 12, 2008 WASHINGTON (CNS) — In the not-too-distant future, songs such as “You Are Near,” “I Will Bless Yahweh” and “Rise, O Yahweh” will no longer be […]