Flurry's Folly: Carrying on "Business as Usual"
Gerald Flurry, Pastor General of the Philadelphia Church of God:
If you truly saw what is coming on this Earth, and had a
vision of tomorrow, you would know that the Gathering Storm
darkens as you sip champagne and boast that you're rich and in
need of nothing, woefully ignorant that the Two Witnesses will
soon be wearing sackcloth and fasting, not wining and dining at
black tie dinners!
You've proven you've lost the zeal you once expressed, now
exposing your dangerous attitude of "my Lord delays His coming"
and you find time to build vain structures and name them after
men that will soon be left in ruins, abandoned, desolate like
our Israelite countries who carry on business as usual when
these are not normal times and our days are numbered!
Gerald Flurry, you will be held accountable for all the time
and money wasted, tithes that should have gone toward
warning the nations that the German BEAST is about to devour,
and the EU jackboot to stomp Jerusalem and occupy Israel and
pollute the Temple. Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall was made
available to you for God's Church to mightily use to get this
Word out.
God meant for you to raise up the Work of WARNING - to sound the
alarm, to blow the trumpet - not to get fat and lazy and listen
to music and fiddle while the world is about to burn! (Amos
6:1-8). This is the prophesied work of restoration:
preserving and promoting the plain truth - not pretty buildings
and outdated thinking! That era is over!
You're the leader of Laodicea and you further prove it. You're
looking backwards towards an administration GOD destroyed and a
campus that GOD left in ruins. Is God impressed with your
buildings? Is God impressed with your ratings when the average
man on the street has never heard of you and remains
oblivious to the warning message? His blood will be on your
head!
If you were looking forward, if you had a frightening vision of
tomorrow, you would launch an ad campaign in major newspapers
to warn them about the fascist Europe, and warn them in such
a way that each ad is sufficient warning if it's the only one
they read. But they would read and debate and argue about it -
a national debate and an international controversy - if
you would seek God's glory and not a man's - whether your own or
Herbert Armstrong's.
Jeremiah 45:4-5 4 The LORD said, "Say this to him: 'This is
what the LORD says: I will overthrow what I have built and
uproot what I have planted, throughout the land. 5 Should you
then seek great things for yourself? Seek them not. For I will
bring disaster on all people, declares the LORD....' "
Zephaniah 1:14-18
14 The great day of the LORD is near; It is near and hastens
quickly. The noise of the day of the LORD is bitter; There the
mighty men shall cry out. 15 That day is a day of wrath, A day
of trouble and distress, A day of devastation and desolation, A
day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick
darkness, 16 A day of trumpet and alarm Against the fortified
cities And against the high towers. 17 " I will bring distress
upon men, And they shall walk like blind men, Because they have
sinned against the LORD; Their blood shall be poured out like
dust, And their flesh like refuse." 18 Neither their silver
nor their gold Shall be able to deliver them In the day of the
LORD's wrath; But the whole land shall be devoured By the
fire of His jealousy, For He will make speedy riddance Of all
those who dwell in the land.
For Zion's sake,
David Ben-Ariel