TRANSFORMED FROM TRUTH COGwriter GCI, which was formerly called WCG, recently announced the following statistics for 2009: Together Vol. 5 No. 2 April-May 2010 Sharing the Good News in 2009: A Media Report In 2009 GCI Media published five issues of Christian Odyssey—almost 78,000 copies. The magazine’s mission, as seen in its masthead, is “Exploring […]
Month: March 2010
Jesus’ Crucifixion was on a Wednesday
COGwriter When the scribes and Pharisees asked Him for a sign, Jesus answered with: 39 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great […]
Russia Vows to “Eliminate” All Criminal Terrorists
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev COGwriter The following was not unexpected: Terrorists will not be allowed to destabilize the situation in Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday following two double bombings in Dagestan and Moscow. “The terrorists’ goal is to destabilize the situation in the country, destroy civil society and spark fear and panic among the […]
Research Supports Plagues in Book of Exodus
Some Proposed Routes of the Exodus COGwriter The following item was of interest: Biblical plagues really happened say scientists The Biblical plagues that devastated Ancient Egypt in the Old Testament were the result of global warming and a volcanic eruption, scientists have claimed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7530678/Biblical-plagues-really-happened-say-scientists.html The fact is that God controls the weather and that include […]
Days of Unleavened Bread Began, Early Christians Observed Them
Unleavened Bread COGwriter Last night began the seven day feast of unleavened bread. Many have never even heard of this biblical period. And most of those who have consider it to be a Jewish practice. But early Christians kept them. First, notice God’s instructions in the Hebrew scriptures: 6 And on the fifteenth day of […]
Large Hadron Collider Successful
COGwriter The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had major success today: Large Hadron Collider Finally Smashing Properly …With a budget and dues established by treaty, CERN enjoys a long-term stability that is the envy of American labs. Last winter Europe took the lead for good when test collisions at the Hadron collider achieved energies of […]
TPM’s W. Dankenbring Wrong About the Sacrifice Fulfilling Prophecy, a Needed Temple, and the Date of Passover
COGwriter Former WCG writer and now a self-appointed “apostle” W. Dankenbring of TPM made several inaccurate statements in the March-April 2010 edition of his publication called “Prophecy Flash”. Here is one of the first, which the article starts off with: In a recent letter, J.R. Church of Prophecy in the News writes: “On March 29, […]
Tonight is to be Much Observed
Some Proposed Routes of the Exodus COGwriter While many Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses will celebrate the Passover tonight, Passover was actually last night (see Passover on the 14th or 15th?). Tonight, however, is a biblical celebration and it does resemble the Jewish celebration in that the emphasis is on a meal and the departure from […]
Locusts in Australia, Grasshoppers in USA
Young Grasshopper COGwriter Potential pestilences are in the news: New South Wales facing huge locust plague http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2010/s2858815.htm?site=riverina Grasshopper invasion feared this summer Some Western, Plains states could see worst outbreak in 30 years Associated Press – March 28, 2010 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36074471/ns/us_news-life/ We live in perilous times. We are near the time of pestilences that Jesus said […]
Jews Again Denied Right to Sacrifice, But…
Jerusalem COGwriter In its latest weekly update, LCG reported: Watch the Middle East! This is an admonition God’s Church has made for decades, and now we are starting to see why. “The Temple Mount Institute has filed suit in its fight for the right to sacrifice a sheep on the Temple Mount prior to Passover, […]