COGwriter The Roman calendar year is 2026. The Jews proclaimed a New Year. They call the year from sunset September 11, 2026 to sunset October 1, 2027 is 5787 or 5787 AM (anno mundi). However, the Jewish year claim confuses many people as the numbers do not add up with scripture. How many years has […]
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“Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works (2 Corinthians 11:14-15).
Mary’s birthday? Should you celebrate it?
The ‘Mary’ in the Basilica of Mary Major that Pope Francis often prayed before (Photo by Joyce Thiel, June 2013) COGwriter Roman Catholics and others celebrate what they call the birthday of Jesus’ mother Mary on September 8th: BIRTH OF MARY September 8th A. Valentini The present Feast forms a link between the New and […]
Bible readers outside the COGs are looking at keeping the Feast of Trumpets
An animal horn trumpet called a shofar. COGwriter The Feast of Trumpets runs from sunset September 11th through sunset the 12th in 2026. Which is the first day of the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar known as Tishri or Ethanim (1 Kings 8:2). Some Bible readers outside the Churches of God take steps to […]
Is it near the year 5787 anno mundi or is that off by 2 centuries?
COGwriter Jews often use the term Anno Mundi (Latin for “in the year of the world”) to refer to the count of years elapsed since the creation of the universe described in Genesis 1:1, but their dating is off for many reasons. Furthermore, every year, at the Feast of Trumpets, which they normally call Rosh Hashanah, Jews […]
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò correctly asserts bishops and popes do not hold to the true faith, and that a pope could be involved with the Antichrist
COGwriter Lifesite News posted the following: September 2, 2026 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released a new essay, The Capital Schism, presenting his analysis of the crisis of authority in the Catholic Church. Viganò argues that generations of deficient post-conciliar formation have produced bishops, and even popes, who no longer adequately understand or transmit the Catholic faith. […]
Jews battle to open the Temple Mount on Shabbat and the High Holidays
(COGwriter directed ChatGPT illustration) COGwriter Religious Jews continue to take steps in Israel. Israel365 News posted the following: The battle to open the Temple Mount on Shabbat and the High Holidays August 26, 2026 Assaf Fried has spent years documenting something most Israelis never think about: the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, is […]
The ‘cathedra’ of the Roman Catholic Church is NOT in Vatican City
Lateran Cathedra (Photo by Joyce Thiel, January 2014) COGwriter Some have written that because Vatican City is not within the seven hills of Rome, that the Bible is not referring to the Church of Rome in various passages of the 17th chapter of the Book of Revelation. However, despite having its physical headquarters in Vatican […]
Muslim nation to celebrate Jesus’ baptism–could this point to Christ’s return by 2034?
‘Bethany Beyond the Jordan’ baptismal site (Photo from Producer via Wikipedia) COGwriter A reader sent me a link to the following: Muslim kingdom prepares to celebrate baptism of Jesus 18 August 2026 Jordan wants to attract more Christian pilgrims for the 2,000-year anniversary in 2030 Jordan is preparing to mark the 2,000-year anniversary of Jesus […]
Israeli police allow Jewish prayer books on the ‘Temple Mount’: A sign of a third temple or that a change to allow sacrifices can happen?
🇮🇱✡️ — NEW: Jewish visitors were reportedly allowed to bring and use siddurim on Har Habayit this morning for the first time, in another significant change to longstanding restrictions on Jewish prayer at the site. • Police did not explicitly confirm a new policy, saying the… pic.twitter.com/gQIcpHWcAf — Belaaz News (@TheBelaaz) August 16, 2026 COGwriter […]
Israel365News adds new reasons the red heifer of the 1 July 2025 sacrifice did not count
Red heifer being burnt 1 July 2025 (Screenshot from Israel National News via Israel365News) COGwriter Israel365 News posted the following today: Why the July 2025 burning of the Texas red heifer did not produce kosher ashes August 17, 2026 Public statements have circulated for nearly a year asserting that a valid red-heifer ceremony took place […]