Here we see a small group of people with a God-sized message. The whole world should heed today. But most people won’t become converted until Christ returns—which is probably within 10 to 15 years or less. (p. 43.)Now this is from the 2003 version of this booklet. This means that Flurry prophesied that Christ would return by 2013 to 2018 or less.
But it gets better. This very passage is still present in the current 2011 version of this booklet which is available on their website. It is exactly the same but it is further in the booklet and it is now in Chapter 4.
Here we see a small group of people with a God-sized message. The whole world should heed today. But most people won’t become converted until Christ returns—which is probably within 10 to 15 years or less. (p. 47.)So if we date this from 2011 then this means Gerald Flurry has predicted that Christ will return between 2021 to 2026 or less.
So here we see that Gerald Flurry has set a date for Christ's return and in fact he has already failed in the prediction that Christ would return by 2013 at the least.
Clearly Gerald Flurry is a false prophet.
In the early 1960s Roderick Meredith predicted that the United States would fall by 1972 and we would have drought, famine, disease and a fall of the economy. In fact, it was pretty prosperous times -- working on the space program to put a man on the moon as a national objective set by President Kennedy paid off big time. We haven't done much since and have turned inward to live a life of ease and comfort, now enhanced with social media for self-expression.
ReplyDeleteFlurry should take note: He's just barely keeping his head above water with profound debt, a shrinking membership and lots and lots of false prophecy, heading him straight to the Lake of Fire, if there is one.
If I were to make any prognostications (but I won't), I would be tempted to say that Gerald Flurry will be gone by 2026 and there probably won't be much of the PCG left. It's just not a growth industry.
The country flourished in the 1970s and so did the WCG. There's no way to get back there for the ACoGs. People have wised up to the false prophet thing, pretty much and without British Israelism, the whole Cult of Herbert Armstrong Mafia would dry up and blow away. We've already proved British Israelism wrong, so why doesn't Gerald Flurry declare defeat and go out of business?