Tribulation to begin in January 2019

The Church of God has a long legacy of men, and even a few women, who appear claiming divine revelations from their creature gods.

Now the Church of God's official Chief Pharisee on keeping the law, James Malm, has stated the time line of the end times.  By January 2019 the tribulation will be starting. Before that though, the Pope will be performing divine miracles in the Vatican by October of 2018.

This is in direct conflict with Superfantabulous Dave Pack's scenario that the "man of sin" would arise from within the Church of God and perform abominations.

I think it highly probable that Israel will go to war with Gaza and Hezbollah destroying the remaining power of Syria and bringing regime change to Syria; and the US coalition will attack the Revolutionary Guards in Iran.  

The general falling away in the COG Groups (Mat 24:3-5, 2 Thess 2:3, 2 Ti 4, Jude) is also moving ahead, more on that after the UCG GCE conference.   

If events do not slow down or pause, all signs now point to the setting up of the abomination to do miracles in the Vatican in October of 2018, with the tribulation beginning 75 days later.  

Notice the catchphrase that the false prophets of Armstrongism always use, even though they claim what they are saying is true; words like "I think", "highly probable", "if."  All of the lying buffoons of the the Church of God claim they have the inside track to just how things will pan out during the end times.  Every single one of them have turned out to be lairs.  None of them deserve to be trusted or believed, including James Malm.

Truly Sad Preaching by A False COG "leader"

Almost-arrested, Elisha, Elijah, Amos, Habakkuk, Joshua, Thiel; the self-appointed, doubly blessed, end time witless witness, world renown Mayan authority, self-appointed criticizer of Catholicism, author of numerous irrelevant books on Clinton, Trump, Fatima and end times malarkey, the bitter disappointing "son" of Rod Meredith and Chief Overseer of the improperly named "continuing" Church of God, has produced yet another mind numbing video for his 1,996 African "members."

Given the high quality of "preaching" videos put out by numerous COG's, using standards Herbert Armstrong developed, one would think that God's most important end time leader would use some common sense when producing his own videos.

From crooked bookcases as a back drop to doors with doorknobs next to his head, file cabinets, to sheer curtains with crooked lamps, God's newest self-appointed prophet films his "sermons" to his tiny personalty cult.

The Church of God has produced many men over the decades that are actually good speakers, even if their topics are the stuff of theological nightmares, and then there is Bob Thiel and his sad videos.  His videos just seem to get worse and worse.  Just watch the first few minutes of the video above and you will be shaking your head.  How can ANYONE truly sit there and listen to this 1:20 minute atrocity?

If this is is the face of the Church of God today, then Lord have mercy upon us all!