Ancient Laodicea contains many ineffective structures COGwriter In August 2009, UCG decided that although its elders once voted to move to Texas, because they later voted against it, that they would sell the property they had purchased for a Texas headquarters (see August posts titled UCG: What Next? and UCG on Its Governance). Here is […]
Month: December 2009
Australian Senator Speaks of US Economic Armageddon
COGwriter Earlier this week, an Australian senator was chastised for telling the truth about the USA: Senator Joyce, who has never been shy in saying exactly what he thinks on anything, believes Australia should have contingency plans in place in case the US fails to meet its debt obligations and has described that scenario as […]
Benedict XVI Celebrates Christmas, But Early Christians Did Not
Pope Benedictus XVI COGwriter Zenit.org (a pro-Vatican news source) reported: Christmas Has Mexican Look in Paul VI Hall VATICAN CITY, DEC. 17, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Christmas decorations in Paul VI Hall have a Mexican flair this year, with a 20-foot Nativity scene and Christmas tree. The decorations were presented to Benedict XVI on Wednesday during the […]
Obama’s Poll Numbers Down, But He is Not Out
COGwriter US President Obama’s approval ratings are again in the news: Obama’s ratings sink on economy, healthcare Steve Holland – Analysis “It was inevitable,” Obama told interviewer Oprah Winfrey. “We have 10 percent unemployment. I told (my wife) Michelle when we got here that in six months my poll numbers will start crashing, so we […]
New Finding: Evidence Suggests that the Shroud of Turin Is Fake
COGwriter An ancient burial cloth has been found that seems to provide evidence that the Shroud of Turin is not authentic: ‘Jesus-era’ burial shroud found BBC – Dec 16, 2009 A team of archaeologists and scientists says it has, for the first time, found pieces of a burial shroud from the time of Jesus in […]
Arab Monetary Union Planned to Basically Replace Dollar: Might it Become the King of the South?
جامعة الدول العربية Jāmaʻat ad-Duwwal al-ʻArabiyya Arab League Flag COGwriter In order to be less dependent upon the shaky US dollar and to show their own strength, Arab nations are inching closer to having their own replacement currency: Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony The Arab states of the Gulf […]
Sacrificial Altar to Be Built in Jerusalem
COGwriter There is a news report from Israel that the Temple Institute will begin to build an altar for sacrifices: Temple Institute to Build Sacrificial Altar on Tisha B’av by Yehudah Lev Kay December 15, 2009 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132664 This is big news. For while an actual temple is not needed for sacrifices according to the Bible […]
US Debt Limit to be Raised, Disaster is Waiting Long Term
The USA Debt Clock as of Apri 19, 2008 This Debt now exceeds 12,000,000,000,000 and is headed toward 14,000,000,000 in 2010 COGwriter The USA is set to increase its debt at record levels once again: Increasing the debt limit, along with the peril Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Washington — After […]
UCG’s Paul Kieffer Resigns, Replaced by Dave Baker
Laodicea Has Many Scattered Structures that Are Relatively Ineffective COGwriter UCG’s Mike Bennett reported: UCG Council of Elders Chairman Roy Holladay announced today that Paul Kieffer had resigned from the Council and Dave Baker, who was next in line in the last ballot, has accepted the position. Mr. Holladay wrote: “On Wednesday, December 9th Paul […]
Ronald Weinland’s Great Tribulation, 1 Year Later
VS. COGwriter In 2008, Ronald Weinland of CGPFK made many provably false declarations. He claimed that the USA would be nuked by the summer of 2008, that he would step down and not preach any more if the USA was not nuked by then, that the dollar would collapse in 2008, that the USA would […]