{"id":100096,"date":"2026-04-24T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=100096"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:14:54","slug":"111th-anniversary-of-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/other-news\/111th-anniversary-of-armenian-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"111th anniversary of Armenian genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/Armenian-genocide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"232\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Murdered Armenians 1915<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 24th marks the 111th anniversary of the date traditionally believed to have been the start of the Armenian genocide in 1915:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><b>April 24, &#8230; is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, marked annually to commemorate the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago, a mega-crime the nation of Turkey has never acknowledged.<\/b><\/em> 04\/23\/21 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2015\/04\/the-armenian-genocide-and-my-grandmothers-secret\/\">https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2015\/04\/the-armenian-genocide-and-my-grandmothers-secret\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US Congress has discussed it in the past and voted for it to be declared genocide by the Biden-Harris Administration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>April 24, 2021<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-173 Component-p-0-2-164\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden has formally recognized that the systematic killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century were \u201cgenocide\u201d \u2014 using a term for the atrocities that his White House predecessors have avoided for decades over concerns of alienating Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-173 Component-p-0-2-164\">With the acknowledgement, Biden followed through on a campaign promise he made a year ago Saturday \u2014 the annual commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day \u2014 to recognize that the events of 1915 to 1923 were a deliberate effort to wipe out Armenians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-173 Component-p-0-2-164\">Biden used a presidential proclamation to make the pronouncement. While previous presidents have offered somber reflections of the dark moment in history via remembrance day proclamations, they have studiously avoided using the term genocide out of concern that it would complicate relations with Turkey \u2014 a NATO ally and important power in the Middle East. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-turkey-government-and-politics-middle-east-europe-dbe6bc9ddac90c1393e6c33ff2220781\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-turkey-government-and-politics-middle-east-europe-dbe6bc9ddac90c1393e6c33ff2220781<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That action pleased Armenians around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Notice a Russian report related to the Armenian genocide:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>YEREVAN, April 22. \/TASS\/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited earlier on Friday the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide memorial complex.<\/p>\n<p>He examined the museum exposition, left a note in the book for official delegations and then laid a wreath at the eternal flame. &#8220;Thank you for preserving this memory so that the Armenian people\u2019s tragedy is never forgotten,&#8221; the minister\u2019s note says. <a href=\"http:\/\/tass.ru\/en\/politics\/871829\">http:\/\/tass.ru\/en\/politics\/871829<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Germany released a statement about it before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>April 24, 2015<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember847\">YEREVAN \u2014 Armenia marked the centenary Friday of a mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as Germany became the latest country to recognize it as a genocide.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember848\">Turkey denies that the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians in what is now Turkey in 1915 constitutes genocide, and relations with Armenia are still blighted by the dispute.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember854\">Germany&#8217;s parliament approved a resolution Friday branding the killings a &#8220;genocide,&#8221; risking a diplomatic rupture with Ankara in a significant change of stance for Turkey&#8217;s biggest trade European Union trade partner.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember855\">The European Parliament refers to the killings as genocide, as did Pope Francis this month. The U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/white-house-again-resists-calling-1915-massacre-armenians-genocide-n346211\">has refrained from doing so<\/a>. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan as recently as Thursday refuted the description of the killings as genocide. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/armenian-genocide-100th-anniversary-germany-becomes-latest-use-term-n347641\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/armenian-genocide-100th-anniversary-germany-becomes-latest-use-term-n347641<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is some information about what happened over a century ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: \u0540\u0561\u0575\u0578\u0581 \u0551\u0565\u0572\u0561\u057d\u057a\u0561\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0569\u0575\u0578\u0582\u0576 Hayots Tseghaspanutyun), also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally by Armenians, as Medz Yeghern (Armenian: \u0544\u0565\u056e \u0535\u0572\u0565\u057c\u0576, &#8220;Great Crime&#8221;), was the Ottoman government&#8217;s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. (Armenian Genocide, Wikipedia, accessed 04\/12\/15)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The government of Turkey has tended to deny it was genocide, instead saying that most were killed in WWI and civil wars during that time. The Armenians strongly disagree.<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccog.org\"><em>Continuing<\/em> Church of God<\/a> does not consider that the modern Armenian Orthodox are part of the Church of God, there are certain doctrinal similarities (as well as important doctrinal differences, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/orthodox.htm\">Some Similarities and Differences Between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the <em>Continuing<\/em> Church of God<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The records of history demonstrate that as early as the first century A.D. there were Church of God Christians in Armenia. The Armenian Orthodox have claimed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christianity was preached in Armenia as early as the second half of the first century by the two disciples of Jesus Christ, namely, St. Thaddeus (John 14:22-24) and St. Bartholomew (John 1:43-51). During the first three centuries Christianity in Armenia was a hidden religion under heavy persecution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The true Church of God has long endured persecution and I do believe that there were true Christians in Armenia for quite some time, though not really the way many Armenians understand it.<\/p>\n<p>Around the time of Constantine it was known that there were <a href=\"\/two.htm\">binitarian<\/a> Paulicians in Armenia who also kept the <a href=\"sabbath.htm\">seventh-day Sabbath.<\/a> Tamar Davis reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eustathius was succeeded by Erius, a priest, and semi-Arian&#8230;Erius\u2026condemned multiple marriages by the priests \u2026 Erius also condemned fasts, stated feasts, prayers for the dead, and the celebration of Easter; he urged a purer morality and a stricter observance of the Sabbath. He had many followers, whose numbers were augmented by one of Paul of Samosota, from whom they were called Paulicians. Notwithstanding the opposition of the prelates, who invoked the secular arm to prevent the defection of their spiritual subjects, the tenets of this sect struck deep root in Armenia and many of its eastern provinces, and finally the great body of Christians in the former country, withdrew from the Episcopal communion, and publicly espoused the sentiments of the Paulicians &#8230; The bishops of Syria, Pontus, and Cappadocia, complained of the defection of their spiritual flocks &#8230; induced the Grecian emperors to commence, and continue for nearly two centuries, the most terrible persecutions against the Paulicians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Armenian scholar Nina Garsoian in <em>The Paulician Heresy, <\/em>wrote: \u201cIt would, then, appear that the Paulicians are to be taken as the survival of the earlier form of Christianity in Armenia\u201d (p. 227). She also wrote that the Paulicians were \u201caccused of being worse than other sects because of adding Judaism\u201d (p. 213).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Catholic Encyclopedia<\/em> calls the Paulicians heretics because they were basically against idolatry and Catholic ritualism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Paulicians, as part of their heresy held \u2026 that all external religious forms, sacraments, rites, especially material pictures and relics, should be abolished. To honour the Cross was especially reprehensible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, note this historical writing about the Paulicians in Armenia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the earliest ages they have devoutly hated the error and idolatry of the Greeks. Like the primitive Christians, they have ever exhibited an unconquerable repugnance to the use or abuse of images, which, in the eighth and ninth centuries spread like a leprosy&#8230;and supplanted all traces of genuine piety in the visible church &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Greco-Roman Catholic saint and doctor Jerome said that various of the Nazarene Christians were in Armenia in the fourth and fifth centuries (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/Nazarene.htm\">Nazarene Christianity: Were the Original Christians Nazarenes?<\/a>). Some of the Paulicians and many of the Nazarene Christians were part of the Church of God. See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/Original-Catholic-Beliefs.pdf\">Beliefs of the Original Catholic Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the eighth and ninth centuries, many of the Armenian Paulicians were forcibly resettled in the Balkans by Byzantine emperors. After being relocated to the Balkans, the Paulicians came to be called Bogomils.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Orthodox also oppressed the Bogomils. Notice this odd admission from an Orthodox scholar (bolding mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Orthodox, as have all religions, berated other confessions and denominations. But Orthodoxy was always benign &#8211; no \u201cjihad\u201d, no bloodshed, no forced conversions and no mass expulsions &#8211; perhaps <strong>with the exception of the forcible treatment of the Bogomils<\/strong>. <strong>It was all about power and money, of course. Bishops and archbishops did not hesitate to co-opt the Ottoman administration against their adversaries&#8230;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice that the Orthodox claim to have not caused bloodshed, forced conversions, or mass expulsions of any group, <strong>except what they did to the Bogomils<\/strong>. It is not completely clear how they treated others, but obviously, they felt mistreating people that were associated with the original Church of God was acceptable. Of course, some of the Orthodox began their persecutions much prior to the Bogomils with the early Paulicians (not just the Samosatans), various (like 4<sup>th<\/sup> century) Sabbath-keepers, and the <a href=\"passover.htm\">Quartodecimans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This type of persecution is consistent with what happened to true Christians in the <a href=\"\/pergamoschurch.htm\">Pergamos<\/a> and <a href=\"\/thyatiachurch.htm\">Thyatira <\/a>eras of the true Church of God.<\/p>\n<p>The historian, Fred C. Conybeare observed this about the Armenians affiliated with the Paulicians:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They are accused by their Armenian opponents of setting at naught all the feasts and fasts of the Church, especially Sunday&#8230;The Sabbath was perhaps kept&#8230; they were probably the remnant of an old Judaeo-Christian Church, which had spread up through Edessa into Siuniq and Albania&#8230;We know that the Pauliani continued to keep Passover on the fourteenth of Nisan\u2026Of the modern Christmas and of the Annunciation, and of the other feasts connected with the life of Jesus prior to his thirtieth year, this phase of the church knew nothing. The general impression which the study of it leaves on us is that in it we have before us a form of Church not very remote from the primitive Jewish Christianity of Palestine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following is from the Catholic Priest Basil Sarkisean\u2019s work <em>Manichaean Paulician Heresy<\/em> and is from a 987 A.D. letter written by Gregory of Narek against the Paulicians (Note that I have left out additions by the editor\/translator F. Conybeare):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then among the observances which we know to have been repudiated by them as neither apostolic or divine the mysterious prayers of genuflexion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Font is denied by them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the communion of immortality&#8230;is denied&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We know that they deny the adored sign, which God, made man, raised and carried on his shoulders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harvard scholar H. Brown wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bogomils&#8230;Its doctrine of God is highly dualistic&#8230;There is no True Trinity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of their so-called \u201cdualistic\u201d teachings was that this is Satan\u2019s world. One scholar noted that an:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; important idea of Bogomils and Cathars, i.e. that this world is the kingdom of the devil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps it should be noted that groups like the faithful in the Church of God also believe that this is Satan\u2019s world (cf. Matthew 4:8; Luke 4:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4). This will change, however, when Christ returns (Revelation 11:15). This being Satan\u2019s world is part of the reason that the Bible warns us to not love this present world (1 John 2:15-17).<\/p>\n<p>Another reason that their teachings are called dualistic is probably because, as non-trinitarians (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/trinity.htm\">Did the True Church Ever Teach a Trinity?<\/a>), they would have most likely been binitarian (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/two.htm\">Binitarian View: One God, Two Beings Before the Beginning<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Notice this from <em>The Catholic Encyclopedia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The heresy of the Bogomili was started in the tenth century&#8230;followers called themselves Christians and considered their faith the only true one. In Bosnia they were named Paterines. The Paterines, or Bogomili&#8230;forbade intercourse with those of other faiths, disbelieved in war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The true Church of God remains opposed to Christians participating in carnal warfare (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/military.htm\">Military Service and the Churches of God: Do Real Christians Participate in Carnal Warfare or Encourage Violence?<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It is of historical interest to note the following doctrinal admissions in the article on the Paulicians in <em>The Catholic Encyclopedia<\/em> (<strong>bolding<\/strong> mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They honoured not the Cross, but only the book of the Gospel. They were Iconoclasts, rejecting all pictures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The whole ecclesiastical hierarchy is bad, as also all Sacraments and ritual. They had a special aversion to monks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Since Gibbon <strong>the Paulicians have often been described as a survival of early and pure Christianity<\/strong>, godly folk who clung to the Gospel, rejecting later superstitions, who were grossly calumniated by their opponents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In Armenia the sect continued in the \u201cThonraketzi\u201d founded by a certain Smbat in the ninth century. Conybeare attributes to this Smbat a work, \u201cThe Key of Truth\u201d, which he has edited. It accepts the Old Testament and the Sacraments of Baptism. Penance, and the Eucharist. This work especially has persuaded many writers that the Paulicians were much maligned people. But in any case it represents a very late stage of their history, and it is disputed whether it is really Paulician at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following is apparently from the work <em>History of Armenia<\/em> by Chamich and is from a 1054-1058 A.D. letter written by Gregory Magistros against the Manichaean (Note that I have left out additions by the editor\/translator F. Conybeare):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; they represent our worship of God as worship of idol. As if we, who honour the sign of the cross and the holy pictures, were still engaged in worshiping devils.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those who opposed idols and icons (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/idols.htm\">What Did the Early Church Teach About Idols and Icons?<\/a>) were often persecuted (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/persecutions.htm\">Persecutions by Church and State<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <em>The Catholic Encyclopedia<\/em> article also admits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The emperor Alexius Comnenus is credited with having put an end to the heresy. During a residence at Philippopolis, he argued with them and converted all, or nearly all, back to the Church (so his daughter: \u201cAlexias\u201d, XV, 9). From this time the Paulicians practically disappear from history. But they left traces of their heresy. In Bulgaria the Bogomile sect, which lasted through the Middle Ages and spread to the West in the form of Cathari, Albigensians, and other Manichaean heresies, is a continuation of Paulicianism. In Armenia, too, similar sects, derived from them, continue till our own time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice that even some Roman Catholic scholars know that it is possible that some called Paulicians were the survivors of an early and pure Christianity and that they had spiritual descendants that continued into the future (Alexius Comnenus died in A.D. 1118 and essentially dealt with the Paulicians at Philippopolis in the late eleventh century), such as those within the Thyatira era, and well into modern times! This, combined with Gibbon\u2019s account, is supportive of the view that a laying on of hands continued from the beginning, through the late eleventh century and beyond. The Cathari were also known to be pacifists, as were the faithful among the Paulicians. Of course, there were many called by those names that were not faithful. But completely faithful or not, they were often persecuted.<\/p>\n<p>There has long been a history of persecution against those who hold Church of God teachings. And the Armenians, including those that no longer hold Church of God teachings, have also been persecuted. The persecution and atrocious massacre by the Turks about a century ago is still an important issue for Armenians. The persecution of Armenians in Syria and elsewhere in the 21st century has been atrocious as well.<\/p>\n<p>They, along with all of us, need to pray &#8220;Thy kingdom come&#8221; (Matthew 6:10, KJV).<\/p>\n<p>Might Armenia, a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), end up supporting the European Union (EU)? What about Moldova and parts of Ukraine?<\/p>\n<p>If they do, will any (or all of them) end up ultimately supporting Russia?<\/p>\n<p>Related those matters, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/philadelphia-remnant-beliefs.htm\"><em>Continuing<\/em>\u00a0Church of God<\/a>\u00a0(CCOG) put together the following\u00a0<em>Bible News Prophecy<\/em>\u00a0video on our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/BibleNewsProphecy\">Bible News Prophecy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"contents\" class=\"style-scope ytd-shelf-renderer\">\n<div id=\"scroll-outer-container\" class=\"style-scope yt-horizontal-list-renderer\">\n<div id=\"scroll-container\" class=\"style-scope yt-horizontal-list-renderer\">\n<div id=\"items\" class=\"style-scope yt-horizontal-list-renderer\">\n<div id=\"dismissible\" class=\"style-scope ytd-grid-video-renderer\">\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint inline-block style-scope ytd-thumbnail\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eveEYAIDsDQ\" rel=\"null\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ytCoreImageHost ytCoreImageFillParentHeight ytCoreImageFillParentWidth ytCoreImageContentModeScaleAspectFill ytCoreImageLoaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/eveEYAIDsDQ\/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwE2CPYBEIoBSFXyq4qpAygIARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBvABAfgB_gmAAtAFigIMCAAQARhWIGMoZTAP&amp;rs=AOn4CLBOwEuKoNJevhh8t8po5xK_z9thEw\" alt=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlays\" class=\"style-scope ytd-thumbnail\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-overlay-badge-shape style-scope ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer\">\n<div class=\"yt-badge-shape__text\">14:32<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"details\" class=\"style-scope ytd-grid-video-renderer\">\n<div id=\"text-metadata\" class=\"style-scope ytd-grid-video-renderer\">\n<div id=\"meta\" class=\"style-scope ytd-grid-video-renderer\">\n<h3 class=\"style-scope ytd-grid-video-renderer\"><a id=\"video-title\" class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope ytd-grid-video-renderer\" title=\"Armenia Eurasian Economic Union or EU BNP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eveEYAIDsDQ\" aria-label=\"Armenia Eurasian Economic Union or EU BNP 14 minutes, 32 seconds\">Armenia: Eurasian Economic Union or EU?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In April of 2026, Armenia\u2019s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan went to Moscow and met with Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin. President Putin brought up Armenia\u2019s discussions with the European Union (EU). He informed him that being in \u201cboth the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union is impossible\u201d because of different standards, etc., even though Russia wants better trade relations with the EU. Armenia\u2019s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that deciding which was up to the citizens of Armenia. President Putin also pointed out that not only is Russia selling Armenia gas at highly discounted prices and that Armenia\u2019s exports to the EAEU have gone up tenfold. The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) consists of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Could Armenia become part of the EU, consistent with prophecies in Daniel 8? Who or what is the \u2018little horn\u2019 of Daniel 8:9? What about Moldova and parts of Ukraine? If so, do biblical prophecies point to Armenia (and at least parts of Moldova and Ukraine) ultimately supporting Russia? Dr. Thiel and Steve Dupuie address these matters in light of biblical prophecies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a link to our video:\u00a0<a id=\"video-title\" class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope ytd-grid-video-renderer\" title=\"Armenia Eurasian Economic Union or EU BNP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eveEYAIDsDQ\" aria-label=\"Armenia Eurasian Economic Union or EU BNP 14 minutes, 32 seconds\">Armenia: Eurasian Economic Union or EU?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Items of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/persecutions.htm\">Persecutions by Church and State<\/a> This article documents some that have occurred against those associated with the COGs and some prophesied to occur. Will those with the cross be the persecutors or the persecuted\u2013this article has the shocking answer. There is also a YouTube video sermon you can watch: <a title=\"The Coming Persecution of the Church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qsdtw-orm-M\" data-sessionlink=\"feature=plcp&amp;ei=3bBDUeunDtebhgG6i4Eo\">The Coming Persecution of the Church<\/a>. Here is information in the Spanish language: <a title=\"Permanent Link to Persecuciones de la Iglesia y el Estado\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccog.org\/persecuciones-de-la-iglesia-y-el-estado\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Persecuciones de la Iglesia y el Estado<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span class=\"style4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/spanish-inquisition.htm\">The Spanish Inquisition and Early Protestant Persecutions<\/a><\/span> Was the Church of Rome really responsible for this? What happened? A video of related interest is titled: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"The Past and Future Inquisition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g-k3C4SxlTA\" aria-describedby=\"description-id-667220\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=0xcwWcrbOsa5uwL035rACg&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;ved=CDgQ-SUYACITCIqR2LzhnNQCFcbcTgod9K8GqCibHA\">The Past and Future Inquisition<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/turkey-in-prophecy.htm\">Turkey in Prophecy<\/a> Do you know the Turkish people descended from? Did the Ottoman Empire possibly fulfill a promise in Genesis? Will Turkey support the European King of the North or Arabic King of the South? Will it betray one of them? Will Turkey be involved in the encouraging the destruction of Israel? Is Turkey going to become Catholic? Is Turkey mentioned in Psalm 83, Daniel 11, and elsewhere in the Bible? A related video is also available: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"What Should You Know About Turkey in Prophecy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cGr4cPEe1cE\" data-sessionlink=\"feature=c4-overview-u&amp;ei=T4ewUcbPO92WhgHb0oGYDg&amp;ved=CDQQ-SUoAA\">What Should You Know About Turkey in Prophecy<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/Nazarene.htm\">Nazarene Christianity: Were the Original Christians Nazarenes?<\/a> Who were the Nazarene Christians? What did they believe? Should 21st century Christians be modern Nazarenes? Is there a group that exists now that traces its history through the Nazarenes and holds the same beliefs today? Here is a link to a related video sermon <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Nazarene Christians: Were the early Christians 'Nazarenes?'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vU4wVt6niBo&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;list=UUOuL5Q2Xi9HZqU6GivhxveQ\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=KINMUt2IGMHRsgfIrICICw&amp;feature=c4-overview-u&amp;ved=CCEQvxs\">Nazarene Christians: Were the early Christians &#8220;Nazarenes&#8221;? <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/pergamoschurch.htm\">The Pergamos Church Era<\/a> was predominant circa 450 A.D. to circa 1050 A.D. An especially persecuted Church.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/thyatirachurch.htm\">The Thyatira Church Era<\/a> was predominant circa 1050 A.D. to circa 1600 A.D. The Church during the Inquisition.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/orthodox.htm\">Some Similarities and Differences Between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the <em>Continuing<\/em> Church of God<\/a> Both groups claim to be the original church, but both groups have differing ways to claim it. Both groups have some amazing similarities and some major differences. Do you know what they are?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/military.htm\">Military Service and the Churches of God: Do Real Christians Participate in Carnal Warfare or Encourage Violence?<\/a> Here are current and historical perspectives on a matter which show the beliefs of the true church on military participation. Is war proper for Christians? A related sermon would be: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Christians, Violence, and Military Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-45_HVqEL90&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;list=UUOuL5Q2Xi9HZqU6GivhxveQ\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=we2cUvjaGaPysAeTqoDoAQ&amp;feature=c4-overview-u&amp;ved=CDMQvxs\">Christians, Violence, and Military Service<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/MysteriesofGod.pdf\">Mysteries of God: What is God?<\/a> Is God omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent? Does the Godhead consist of a closed trinity or an expanding family?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/six_thousand_year_plan_6000.htm\">Could God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?<\/a> Was a 6000 year time allowed for humans to rule followed by a literal thousand year reign of Christ on Earth taught by the early Christians? Does God have 7,000 year plan? What year may the six thousand years of human rule end? When will Jesus return? 2032, 2035, or 2036 or? There is also a video titled: <a id=\"video-title10\" title=\"When Does the 6000 Years End? 2031? 2035?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NTiY7DOH-Dg\" aria-label=\"When Does the 6000 Years End? 2031? 2035? by ContinuingCoG 62 views 5 hours ago 1 hour, 23 minutes\">When Does the 6000 Years End? 2031? 2035?<\/a> Here is a link to the article in Spanish:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdlidd.es\/tiene-dios-un-plan-de-6000-anos\/\"> \u00bfTiene Dios un plan de 6,000 a\u00f1os?<\/a><a title=\"Is the USA prophesied to be destroyed by 2028?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JFIRJxZ0Huw\" aria-label=\"Is the USA prophesied to be destroyed by 2028? by BibleNewsProphecy 3 hours ago 34 minutes 64 views\"><br \/>\n<\/a><span class=\"style4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/great-tribulation.htm\">The Great Tribulation: What Happens First?<\/a><\/span> What events have happened? What are some events that are now happening? And what events need to happen for the Great Tribulation to start? Here is a link to a related sermon video: <a id=\"video-title194\" title=\"Counting Down to the Great Tribulation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eHxq4GpKiEM\" aria-label=\"Counting Down to the Great Tribulation by ContinuingCoG 20 minutes ago 1 hour, 16 minutes 4 views\">Counting Down to the Great Tribulation<\/a>. Here is a video in the Spanish language: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/foWFORikpSc\">Contando los eventos y el inicio de la Gran Tribulaci\u00f3n<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/WhereistheTrueChristianChurchToday.pdf\">Where is the True Christian Church Today?<\/a> This free online pdf booklet answers that question and includes 18 proofs, clues, and signs to identify the true vs. false Christian church. Plus 7 proofs, clues, and signs to help identify Laodicean churches. A related sermon is also available: <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Where is the True Christian Church?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=adMl1PWrg_Q&amp;list=UUOuL5Q2Xi9HZqU6GivhxveQ\" data-sessionlink=\"feature=c4-overview-u&amp;ei=7KwLVLmCKtOp-AP--oDwCw&amp;ved=CBoQvxs\">Where is the True Christian Church? <\/a>Here is a link to the booklet in the Spanish language: <a title=\"\u00bfD\u00f3nde est\u00e1 la verdadera Iglesia cristiana de hoy?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdlidd.es\/donde-esta-la-verdadera-iglesia-cristiana-de-hoy\/\">\u00bfD\u00f3nde est\u00e1 la verdadera Iglesia cristiana de hoy?<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/continuing-history-of-the-church-of-god.pdf\">Continuing History of the Church of God<\/a> This pdf booklet is a historical overview of the true Church of God and some of its main opponents from Acts 2 to the 21st century. Related sermon links include <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Continuing History of the Church of God: c. 31 to c. 300 A.D.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PXCPA0iYaJo&amp;list=UUOuL5Q2Xi9HZqU6GivhxveQ\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=nmUzU7WvGNWq-QO4g4D4Aw&amp;feature=c4-overview-u&amp;ved=CBEQvxs\">Continuing History of the Church of God: c. 31 to c. 300 A.D<\/a>. and <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d5NhF3soRNc&amp;list=UUOuL5Q2Xi9HZqU6GivhxveQ\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=tDaQVJWkEsuQqgW364CwDQ&amp;ved=CBEQvxs&amp;feature=c4-overview-u\">Continuing History of the Church of God: 4th-16th Centuries<\/a> and <a title=\"Continuing History of the Church of God: 17th-20th Centuries\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bqJj1he1CYY\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=ZoZTV5LVO8vC-wPVn6TwDQ&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;ved=CEUQ0h4YACITCJKgw-zjj80CFUvhfgod1Q8J3iibHA\">Continuing History of the Church of God: 17th-20th Centuries<\/a>. The booklet is available in Spanish: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/HistoryChurch-SpanishFinal.pdf\">Continuaci\u00f3n de la Historia de la Iglesia de Dios<\/a>, German: <a href=\"http:\/\/ccog.eu\/kontinuierliche-geschichte-der-kirche-gottes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kontinuierliche Geschichte der Kirche Gottes<\/a>, French: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/histoire-continue-de-lglise-de-dieu-french.pdf\">L\u2019Histoire <em>Continue<\/em> de l\u2019\u00c9glise de Dieu<\/a> and Ekegusii <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/ChurchHistory-Ekegusii.pdf\">Omogano Bw\u2019ekanisa Ya Nyasae Egendererete<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/Original-Catholic-Beliefs.pdf\">Beliefs of the Original Catholic Church: Could a remnant group have continuing apostolic succession?<\/a> Did the original \u201ccatholic church\u201d have doctrines held by the <em>Continuing<\/em> Church of God? Did Church of God leaders uses the term \u201ccatholic church\u201d to ever describe the church they were part of? Here are links to related sermons: <a id=\"video-title220\" title=\"Original Catholic Church of God?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OxA8OvmMJSM\" aria-label=\"Original Catholic Church of God? by ContinuingCoG 5 minutes ago 1 hour, 18 minutes 1 view\">Original Catholic Church of God?<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title128\" title=\"Original Catholic Doctrine: Creed, Liturgy, Baptism, Passover\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p4-ZikGMyjY\" aria-label=\"Original Catholic Doctrine: Creed, Liturgy, Baptism, Passover by ContinuingCoG 2 hours ago 1 hour, 23 minutes 16 views\">Original Catholic Doctrine: Creed, Liturgy, Baptism, Passover<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title128\" title=\"What Type of Catholic was Polycarp of Smyrna?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fTgsNMHCDoI\" aria-label=\"What Type of Catholic was Polycarp of Smyrna? by ContinuingCoG 5 minutes ago 1 hour, 11 minutes 1 view\">What Type of Catholic was Polycarp of Smyrna?<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title128\" title=\"Tradition, Holy Days, Salvation, Dress, &amp; Celibacy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jJpjZ0Y6Oo8\" aria-label=\"Tradition, Holy Days, Salvation, Dress, &amp; Celibacy by ContinuingCoG 11 minutes ago 1 hour, 18 minutes No views\">Tradition, Holy Days, Salvation, Dress, &amp; Celibacy<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title128\" title=\"Early Heresies and Heretics\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gTdKQz5WXxM\" aria-label=\"Early Heresies and Heretics by ContinuingCoG 7 minutes ago 1 hour, 10 minutes 3 views\">Early Heresies and Heretics<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title128\" title=\"Doctrines: 3 Days, Abortion, Ecumenism, Meats\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-d5u_CaP8sw\" aria-label=\"Doctrines: 3 Days, Abortion, Ecumenism, Meats by ContinuingCoG 2 hours ago 1 hour, 17 minutes 31 views\">Doctrines: 3 Days, Abortion, Ecumenism, Meats<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title128\" title=\"Tithes, Crosses, Destiny, and more.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fs5qeCgQdvU\" aria-label=\"Tithes, Crosses, Destiny, and more. by ContinuingCoG 1 hour, 17 minutes No views\">Tithes, Crosses, Destiny, and more<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title128\" title=\"Fourth Commandment: Saturday or Sunday?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xzTwpJsqj9c\" aria-label=\"Fourth Commandment: Saturday or Sunday? by ContinuingCoG 1 hour ago 1 hour, 15 minutes No views\">Saturday or Sunday?<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title233\" title=\"The Godhead\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GXQodLkbDLw\" aria-label=\"The Godhead by ContinuingCoG 1 hour, 15 minutes 10 views\">The Godhead<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title243\" title=\"Apostolic Laying on of Hands Succession\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=deoyNNl49UY\" aria-label=\"Apostolic Laying on of Hands Succession by ContinuingCoG 1 hour ago 1 hour, 21 minutes 20 views\">Apostolic Laying on of Hands Succession<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title244\" title=\"Church in the Wilderness Apostolic Succession List\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S74Yz-XrsBY\" aria-label=\"Church in the Wilderness Apostolic Succession List by ContinuingCoG 1 hour, 18 minutes 17 views\">Church in the Wilderness Apostolic Succession List<\/a>, <a id=\"video-title288\" title=\"Holy Mother Church and Heresies\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9XS6eAEXOHs\" aria-label=\"Holy Mother Church and Heresies by ContinuingCoG 1 hour ago 1 hour, 14 minutes 19 views\">Holy Mother Church and Heresies<\/a>, and\u00a0<a id=\"video-title288\" title=\"Lying Wonders and Original Beliefs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u1182A37tsw\" aria-label=\"Lying Wonders and Original Beliefs by ContinuingCoG 2 hours ago 1 hour, 16 minutes 31 views\">Lying Wonders and Original Beliefs<\/a>. Here is a link to that book in the Spanish language:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/CreenciasOriginales.pdf\">Creencias de la iglesia Cat\u00f3lica original<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murdered Armenians 1915 COGwriter April 24th marks the 111th anniversary of the date traditionally believed to have been the start of the Armenian genocide in 1915: April 24, &#8230; is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, marked annually to commemorate the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago, a mega-crime the nation of Turkey has never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100695,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100096\/revisions\/100695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}