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‘Iran Threatens Retaliation if US Renews Sanctions’

COGwriter Iran is not pleased with some of what US government officials seem to have in mind: Iran Threatens Retaliation if US Renews Sanctions November 23, 2016 WASHINGTON —The leader of Iran has threatened retaliation if 20-year-old sanctions against the Islamic Republic are renewed for another ten years. The warning comes just days after the [...]

Claims about Clement of Rome

View in Vatican City (photo by Joyce Thiel) COGwriter November 23rd is the day Catholics have declared as the day for “Saint Clement I.” There is an individual named Clement in the Bible. He is mentioned one time. Here is the only passage that mentions him: I implore Euodia and I implore Syntyche to be [...]

‘How President Trump Could Actually Reduce Danger Of War In Europe For The U.S.’ ‘Make Europe great again’

COGwriter Forbes reported the following: How President Trump Could Actually Reduce Danger Of War In Europe For The U.S. Although Trump has assured President Obama and European leaders that he will not simply abandon NATO, it is clear change is coming — and with good reason. Under President Obama, regional security has deteriorated to a [...]

EU symbols and the ‘daughter of Babylon’

Logo of the European Parliament COGwriter The Bible warns about end-time Babylon: 1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the [...]

The Panama Canal and the End of the USA?

Panama Canal (Thomas Römer/OpenStreetMap data) COGwriter Recently, my family and I visited the Panama Canal. Here is some information about it: The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 48-mile (77 km) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and [...]

DNA damage? Should Christians smoke?

(Photo by Geierunited) COGwriter Should Christians smoke? Does smoking show love to self or neighbor? Tobacco use is believed to kill about six million people each year. Smoking is dangerous and hurts the smoker and those around the smoker. Can or should smokers quit? Here is information about his own smoking and views on it [...]

Is Donald Trump the ‘third Antichrist’ or not the final Antichrist at all?

Portrait of Nostradamus by his son Cesar COGwriter There have been several scattered reports that Donald Trump is supposedly the “third antichrist” that the French seer Nostradamus prophesied. Here is one such report: Nostradamus Prophecy: The Third Antichrist Another prophecy by Nostradamus stated that the third Antichrist could rise in 2016. This rise could actually result in the beginning [...]

Pope Gelasius I claimed ‘vicar of Christ’ and the meaning of ‘anti-Christ’

COGwriter On November 21, Catholics of Rome honor their bishop and pontiff Gelasius I. The Catholic Encyclopedia says the following about him: Pope Gelasius I (died 19 November 496) was Pope from 1 March 492 to his death in 496… Despite all the efforts of the otherwise orthodox patriarch, Euphemius of Constantinople, and the threats [...]

The ‘fruits’ of teaching a pre-tribulation rapture

The above photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflect what pre-tribulation rapturists hope to miss COGwriter Is there a pre-tribulation rapture of the church? No, not according to scripture. Nor even sources such as Joseph Swank: Preaching a pre-tribulation rapture weakens the church Joseph Grant Swank, Jr., is a pastor at New Hope Church in Windham, [...]

PCG’s and CGFF’s position on HWA as the ‘restrainer’ are in biblical error

17th Century Depiction of Michael and Satan COGwriter A while back, I watched the Key of David program by PCG’s Gerald Flurry. Here is some of what he taught: Satan cast down…It has happened…He had a war with God. Revelation 12:13: Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he [...]