COGwriter This time of year, those faithful in the Churches of God have been following Paul’s admonition to examine themselves prior to the start of the Spring Holy Days (1 Corinthians 11:27-32). While most people realize that Jesus observed what many consider to be “Jewish” Holy Days, most have apparently not realized that the observance […]
Month: March 2015
Ecumenical movement forming as some in the COG have warned
Ecumenical Service (Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle) COGwriter Last year, an Anglican Episcopal Bishop named Tony Palmer claimed: The spirit of Elijah is the spirit of reconciliation…Redeem what belongs to you…We are Catholic…Division destroys our unity…Fear keeps us divided…most of that fear is based upon propaganda…Brothers and sisters, Luther’s protests are over…The protests have been over […]
China, Gold, and the AIIB
China Gold ‘Panda’ 100 Yuan Coin COGwriter A reader from China sent me a link to the following: Yuan and Gold: Old Enemies Should Finally Become Friends The Communist Party had good reason to avoid the use of gold when it set up China’s financial system, but having a reserve of the metal offers a […]
Amos was God’s prophet, but will people pay attention?
Portion of Septuagint Rendering of Amos 2 COGwriter Today, the Church of Rome considers to be a memorial day for the Hebrew Prophet Amos (the Eastern Orthodox use June 14th). Here is some information about him from Wikipedia: Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah,[1] was active c. 750 BC during the reign of […]
Islamic State believes it will beat the ‘Roman’ armies in Syria
Islamic State Fighters COGwriter A reader sent me the following article: What ISIS Really Wants The Atlantic, MARCH 2015 The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy… In fact, much […]
Could EU President Donald Tusk be ‘the raiser of taxes’?
Donald Tusk (European People’s Party) COGwriter EU Council President Herman Von Rompuy was replaced by Donald Tusk on December 1, 2014. He recently made the news for telling UK Prime Minister David Cameron that the idea of changing the Lisbon Treaty like David Cameron wants to do was ‘mission impossible’ (see EU’s Tusk tells UK’s […]
Passover approaches: Are you living as a Christian?
COGwriter Passover will be here later this week. Are you living as a Christian? Jesus taught: 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. (John 13:35) Most religions, however, that profess Christ chose to allow warfare and other activities that do not show love to […]
Was Jesus resurrected on a Sunday?
COGwriter Was Jesus resurrected on a Sunday? What does the Bible teach? (For some information about the crucifixion in Spanish, please click on ¿Murió Jesús un día miércoles o un viernes?) Here is one explanation, primarily using New Testament texts, about the day of the crucifixion and the day of the resurrection, from the 1952, […]
Is PCG right on Yemen and Iran?
COGwriter The April 2015 edition of the Philadelphia Trumpet has the following in an article by PCG’s Gerald Flurry: Yemen is one of the most strategically important countries in the world. … In January, the Houthis, a rebel group sponsored and directed by Iran, overthrew the pro-American Yemeni government. … The Houthi takeover in Yemen […]
BibleNewsProphecy: Blood Moon Expected April 4th
COGwriter The third of the four ‘blood moons’ expected in 2014 and 2015 should fall on April 4, 2015. Some consider this to be of significant prophetic importance and attempt to tie certain scriptures to it. The Continuing Church of God is pleased to report that thousands have watched our video about blood moons on […]