Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (Photo by Mehr News Agency) COGwriter Israel killed Iranian leaders in Damascus, Syria: Israeli Attack Kills Top Iranian Commanders in Damascus January 21, 2024 CAIRO — An apparent Israeli attack on an Iranian military target Saturday in the Syrian capital of Damascus has killed at least five top commanders of Tehran’s elite […]
Month: January 2024
An SDA view of Sunday laws
Sunday Church, Naxos Greece (photo by Joyce Thiel) COGwriter One with Seventh-day Adventist affiliation asked me about a coming Sunday law. Before I give some comments, notice something that the late Seventh-day Adventist scholar Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi had in one of his newsletters many years ago: SUNDAY LAWS PROPOSED BY THE EUROPEAN EPISCOPAL COMMISSION Many […]
BIbleNewsProphecy: WWIII or 2nd Horseman of the Apocalypse?
COGwriter Are we currently in World War III or perhaps, instead, the “beginning of sorrows”? People, such as Michael Snyder, have speculated that we have seen the start of WWIII or at least triggers for it. But Jesus referred to this time as something else. Related to what has been going on and coming third […]
WEF false religion while governments are increasingly becoming the religion for many–a set up for the coming Babylonian Beast?
COGwriter The World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland is ending today. Notice something about how the World Economic Forum opened its conference a few days ago: A wise old friend once said to me that if Christianity died out, what would come next would not be atheism but polytheism. That is, instead of […]
VOA: Biden Downplays Disagreement With Netanyahu on Palestinian Statehood
Voice of America reported the following: Biden Downplays Disagreement With Netanyahu on Palestinian Statehood January 20, 2024 WHITE HOUSE — Hours after a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Joe Biden played down his disagreement with Netanyahu over a future Palestinian state as a political goal in postwar Gaza. Biden told […]
Sermon: Tithing and CCOG Spending
COGwriter What does the Continuing Church of God spend tithes and offerings on? We use them to proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God (Matthew 24:14), teach all that Jesus commanded (Matthew 28:19-20), feed the flock, support the poor, put forth the Ezekiel chapters 3,5, &6 warning?, work towards the fullness of the […]
What doesn’t Satan want you to believe?
COGwriter Satan does not want people to be in the Kingdom of God. He wants to dissuade you and others from doing so. How does he do that? Through lies and false witnesses. While you might think you are immune to Satan, remember that the New Testament teaches: 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your […]
WEF Davos 2024 concerns and threats
World Economic Forum logo COGwriter 60 or so heads of state have attended the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Davos meeting. While it still is going on, Financial Times News posted the following related to it: The top takeaways from this year’s World Economic Forum 19 January 2024 The spectre of a “Hal” — the evil […]
Ambassador College photos
COGwriter Have you ever wondered what the old Pasadena Campus of Ambassador College and the former Headquarters of the old Worldwide Church of God look like? A while back, my wife Joyce and I visited the grounds. We have also put photos together of our visit–see Pictures of the Pasadena Campus of Ambassador College and […]
The CCOG does not believe that Stephen Mumford was COG and he is not in our list of apostolic successors
COGwriter A couple of anti-COG sites have pushed some of the following that came out many years ago: Bruce Renehan Chapter 9Sardis…Thou Livest, and Art DeadRhode Island 1671 The first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America was organized in December 1671 from members of a Baptist Church who had come to the conviction of the […]