COGwriter Many people want to win the lottery. Notice the following about the ‘success’ of the ‘winners’: The ‘curse’ of winning the lottery? February 6, 2018 Be careful what you wish for. The New Hampshire woman who won the $559.7 million Powerball jackpot last month is refusing to claim her prize until she’s assured anonymity. […]
Month: February 2018
Massive drop in Dow and worldwide stock markets
Trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange COGwriter What is being called a “flash crash” has hit the financial markets: February 6, 2018 Asia’s benchmark stock indexes collapsed Tuesday, as Monday’s massive selloffs on Wall Street rolled across the globe. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index lost as much seven percent of its value at one […]
Should Christians participate in Carnaval in 2018?
2007 Carnival at Pátio de São Pedro square, in Recife, Brazil (Wiki Photo) COGwriter ‘Carnaval’ for 2018 will soon be observed by millions: Rio de Janeiro Carnival 2018 Dates – Feb 09 thru Feb 17, 2018 Notice comments about ‘Carnaval’: Rio Carnival is a wild 5 days celebration, 40 days before Easter. It … finishes […]
Aaron Dean: HWA did not change the policy on D&R to marry Ramona Martin
Aaron Dean COGwriter A reader (not part of CCOG or LCG) sent me the following about one of the many false rumors about the late Herbert W. Armstrong a few days ago: from Aaron Dean: Hello All, … Other examples are things I read are about HWA changing D&R so he could marry Ramona. My […]
‘Fear the Surveillance Police State’
COGwriter Former US Congressman from Maryland, Bob Bauman wrote the following: Fear the Surveillance Police State Fear, after the 9/11 attacks, produced the hastily adopted so-called Patriot Act. Fear has produced abandonment of our most important civil and personal rights. … President Donald Trump signed into law, a six-year extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance […]
CDC cuts to lead to prophesied epidemics?
COGwriter Dr. Tom Frieden, former head of the US Centers for Disease Control, is sounding the alarm that the USA’s budget cuts will lead to pestilential epidemics: The former chief of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the decision to cut 80% of its epidemic prevention activities overseas could pose a grave […]
Valentine’s Day ‘Love’
COGwriter Valentine’s Day is observed by many in February. Currently we are starting to see store displays and tv & print ads for it. In the past, the improperly named Christianity Today (CT) has sometimes seemed to try to justify its position on the holiday by talking about love. For example, its Valentine’s page has […]
Pope is Defiant in His Coronation of Mary and Plans to Betray Chinese Bishops; Cardinal wants to bless homosexual unions
The ‘Mary’ in the Basilica of Mary Major That Pope Francis Prays Before (Photo by Joyce Thiel, June 2013) COGwriter Former Roman Catholic, and now Protestant, Mike Gendron has the following in his latest newsletter: Pope is Defiant in His Coronation of Mary One of the purposes of this ministry is to expose any religious […]
Janet Yellen out, Dow drops, interest rates to rise, and new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell
c Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell COGwriter There is a change of leadership at the US Federal Reserve as the economy faces inflationary and other risks: February 4, 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — When Jerome Powell is sworn in Monday as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, the pride of the moment may be tempered […]
BibleNewsProphecy: Beware of the ‘Ecumenical Cross’
COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel: 17:12 Beware of the ‘Ecumenical Cross’ ‘The Catholic Encyclopedia’ reported that in the first millennium of the Christian era, there were those who considered that the ‘cross’ would be the ‘mark of the beast.’ Is […]