52 False Prophecies by PCG

Since PCG is now claiming that the Brexit was some sort of fulfilled prophecy it is worth remembering the many times they have produced false prophecies. Below is a list of 52 false prophecies made by PCG since their founding in 1989.

The following (with one small rewrite and a different title) is a repost of a previous post originally posted on September 26, 2015.

Note: Some quotes refer to earlier editions of various PCG booklets and those may differ from current versions.

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But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. (Deuteronomy 18:20-22.)

Gerald Flurry and his Philadelphia Church of God claim to be able to know what will happen in the future because (they say) God only reveals the true meaning of the Bible to PCG alone. In 1999 Gerald Flurry even proclaimed himself to be "That Prophet."

But the Bible reveals that if a man presuming to speak for God should make a prediction and it does not happen then such a man has spoken presumptuously and the God of the Bible commands people not to be afraid of such a man. To make false predictions disqualifies one from being a prophet of God.

Have Gerald Flurry and those with him in PCG made false predictions that did not come to pass?

1. Tkach's WCG may greatly expand in membership because of the changes. (Gerald Flurry, Malachi's Message.)

The Laodicean Church [Tkach's WCG] may be growing in membership until Christ returns, but does that always mean it is doing God’s will? No! We can’t use that criterion to judge. Other churches have millions of members and are not God’s churches. Actually, the Work of God could be declining in numbers and still do a wonderful job for God. So we have to look deeper than a growing membership. (Gerald Flurry, Malachi's Message, 1990, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2008, Chapter 3, p. 36.)

2. Tkach is the Man of Sin of II Thessalonians 2. (Gerald Flurry, Malachi's Message.)

Herbert W. Armstrong taught that the man of sin mentioned in II Thessalonians 2 was the final Pope. HWA taught that the final Pope would be granted by Satan the power to perform miracles such as calling fire from the sky. But Gerald Flurry changed this doctrine to say that II Thessalonians 2 was talking about the Tkach changes and that the man of sin was Tkach. Of course this doctrine is nonsense.

3. Tkach's WCG will conspire with American authorities to suppress PCG.

Will there be another direct confrontation between the Laodicean and Philadelphian churches in the near future? Here is why that could easily happen. The leaders in the United States and Britain will know that the Philadelphia Church of God came out of the Worldwide Church of God. The leaders of the nations could enlist the WCG in an attempt to stop the PCG’s message. Amos says “the land is not able to bear all his words”! This is a prophecy about the impact our message will have on modern Israel and the Laodicean Church! (Gerald Flurry, The Lion Has Roared, 1991, 1992, 2006, 2011, Chapter 4, p. 38.)

4. Ambassador Auditorium might be destroyed by an earthquake as a sign of (PCG's) God's anger at the Tkach changes.

Am I saying that what used to be God’s physical house [Ambassador Auditorium] in Pasadena is going to be destroyed? No, I am not. God only knows. But can we rule out that possibility in view of Amos 9:1 and other verses? I don’t think so. A shaking of God’s former physical house could also shake the spiritual temple, or Laodicean Church.
The city of Laodicea in the first century was repeatedly struck by earthquakes. So God’s Laodicean saints had that problem to cope with then. And the first-century Laodicean Church was only a type of the end-time Laodiceans. Only God knows the details of what is to occur. But this much we do know: Total destruction is coming upon the Laodicean Church! God’s Philadelphia Church must warn the Laodiceans and pray that they will repent! (Gerald Flurry, The Lion Has Roared, 1991, 1992, 2006, 2011, Chapter 4, p. 31.)

5. PCG's warning to America will "be a very short work." (1992).

HWA thought the end of Israel would occur in his lifetime. He was EXACTLY right about the prophecies, but his timing was off a few years. (Gerald Flurry, The Ezekiel Watchman, 1992, Chapter 1, p. 2.)

This warning to all Israel by the Philadelphians is probably going to be a very short work. Israel is collapsing very fast and their enemies are rising equally fast. (Gerald Flurry, The Ezekiel Watchman, 1992, Chapter 1, p. 3.)

6. PCG's Gerald Flurry mocking WCG ministers for saying the second coming could be within 30-40 years as "tragically wrong!"

They [WCG members] are being told it will be 30-40 years [2023-2033] before these prophecies will be fulfilled. And they are tragically wrong! The book of Ezekiel will illustrate that truth as we go along. (Gerald Flurry, The Ezekiel Watchman, 1992, p. 23.)

It is now twenty-seven years since these words were published. This is also a false prophecy in itself.

7. PCG saying that "[t]here is very little time left" in 1993.

There is very little time left. We are getting close to the time of the two witnesses (v. 3). (Gerald Flurry, Lamentations and the End-Time Laodiceans, 1993, p. 6.)

8. Reading and believing Malachi's Message will save you from the Great Tribulation.

Jesus Christ inspired the writing of Malachi’s Message to God’s Church Today! ... Anyone who reads Malachi’s Message and heeds its warnings will be spared from the events of the Great Tribulation. If YOU reject it now—you will have to accept it in the Tribulation or lose YOUR SALVATION! IT IS THAT SERIOUS! All of God’s people will have to recognize that Malachi’s Message came from God (Mal. 2:4). There is still time to repent before the Tribulation. (Gerald Flurry, Lamentations and the End-Time Laodiceans, 1993, p. 35.)

Malachi's Message is a false book. It cannot save anyone. Gerald Flurry cannot save anyone. Gerald Flurry cannot see into the future.

It is widely known that many of the ideas within his booklet Malachi's Message, which is so often cited by PCG to justify following Gerald Flurry instead of the many other COG splinter groups, were plagiarized from The Letter to Laodicea by Jules Dervaes, written December 1986-January 1988. It was sent to 237 WCG ministers including Gerald Flurry and John Amos. On September 26, 1990 Jules Dervaes even sent a letter to Gerald Flurry in which he denounces Malachi's Message as "a direct and clear plagiarism" of his work.  

9. There is "little or nothing ... in the northern heavens" because of Lucifer's pre-Adamite rebellion.

God intended Lucifer to go to other planets after His work was established on Earth. But Lucifer would not wait. The only place astronomers can find little or nothing is in the northern heavens. That is in the direction of God’s throne, and almost everything in that direction was destroyed WHEN SATAN FOUGHT WITH GOD OVER GOVERNMENT! There was a violent, destructive war. And SATAN IS STILL FIGHTING AGAINST GOD’S GOVERNMENT TODAY! (Gerald Flurry, God's Family Government, 1993, p. 26.)

How can anyone just listen to such nonsense and just accept it and refuse to point out that there is nonsense?

10. PCG is "intensely" persecuted by Satan.

Some in the world try to label the PCG a cult. Actually, we are the only church doing God’s Work on this Earth! That can easily be proven from the Bible. ...  Only we understand what Satan is planning and doing. That is why Satan hates us most of all and persecutes us so intensely. (Gerald Flurry, Isaiah's End-Time Vision, 2013 version, p. 41.)

11. PCG saying the US economy is about to collapse in 1993.

Bank consultant Ed Furash said, "Everything is going to be up in the air until after the inauguration [of President Clinton]." Then he said, "We're going to have a lot of dead banks that need to be taken over!" The U.S. ECONOMY is in serious trouble and that means trouble for for the whole western world! (Gerald Flurry, Jeremiah: Prophet of Doom--or Hope?, 1993, p. 3.)

12. PCG saying Germany and Japan will soon get nuclear weapons in 1993.

Tactical nuclear weapons have been stolen form the Soviet arsenal and sold to nations in the Middle East. Soon Germany and Japan will also have nuclear weapons. (Gerald Flurry, Jeremiah: Prophet of Doom--or Hope?, 1993, p. 31.) 

13. PCG saying Algeria would soon fall to Islamists in 1994.

In the December 1994 Trumpet, Mr. Flurry explained the significance of verse 42 thus: “Egypt is conquered by the king of the north probably because of an alliance with the king of the south.” The king of the south, Mr. Flurry believed, would be radical Islam, headed by Iran. This Iranian-led Islamic movement, he wrote, was already “very strong in Egypt and Algeria.” He went on to state: “This religion will probably take control of both countries very soon.”  (Prophecy Comes Alive in Egypt!, The Philadelphia Trumpet, April 2011.)

Actually the military led government of Algeria was able to eventually render the rebels powerless and re-establish control over Algeria. Gerald Flurry was wrong. 

14. PCG saying Turkey will soon be annihilated forever.

Teman was the grandson of Esau (Gen. 36:1-11). Obadiah refers to him as “O Teman.” This is how the Turks got the name Ottoman. The Ottoman Turks ruled the Middle East for about 400 years. That rule ended just before World War II.
It is very likely that the name of Esau, or Turkey, is going to be cut off forever because of their treachery to the nations of Jacob. (Gerald Flurry, Obadiah, p. 10. Page 11 in the current version.)

Turkey is not Edom. The Turkish language is a Turkic language totally unrelated to Hebrew or Arabic. Other related Turkic languages include Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh, Uyghur, Turkmen, Tatar and Kyrgyz. Are those related peoples all Edomites? If the Turks are really related to Israel as common descendants of Isaac why do they speak a completely unrelated language?

Also the word Ottoman is not derived from "O Teman." It refers to Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire. And that name itself is derived from the Arabic name Uthman.

15. PCG's prophesied of doom and gloom in 1995.

Natural disasters have intensified mightily since Mr. Armstrong died. There have been earthquakes, floods, droughts and fires. There have also been an alarming increase in family break-down, race problems and out-of-control crime. One journalist said 1993 was the "SCARIEST YEAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY" (because of the floods, fire, etc.) That is also true of the British people. Already South Africa has lost control of its country. That catastrophe and a lot more going to happen to America and Britain, if we don't heed God's Word. (Gerald Flurry, The Little Book, 1995 edition, p. 6.)

Why does God mention the times of the Gentiles and not the Tribulation? It’s probably because it helps us to see the shortness of time better. The Gentiles are rising inside and outside the nations of Israel—very fast! That is easy for us to see. Israel is collapsing from within and is about to be attacked from without. (Gerald Flurry, The Little Book, 1995 edition, p. 10.)

16. PCG saying now is "the gun lap today."

When God gives us the full revelation from Joel, it is near “at hand.” We are being plunged into the preliminaries of the book of Joel now! We are in the gun lap today. World conditions are going to get vastly worse—quickly! (Gerald Flurry, The Prophet Joel, 1995, 2003, 2004, 2006, p. 8.)

17. PCG saying "there is only going to be a single, brief space of time" between HWA's death (1986) and Christ's return.

What is God telling us here? He is showing that after Mr. Armstrong passes from the scene and just before Jesus Christ returns, THERE IS ONLY GOING TO BE A SINGLE, BRIEF SPACE OF TIME. Then God is going to shake the heavens, the Earth, the sea and the dry land. In other words, the PCG only has a very brief space of time to complete its work. There is only a brief span of time for God to determine who is Philadelphian and who is Laodicean. There is only a little time to determine who will be in Ezekiel’s temple in the World Tomorrow. Then God says He is going to fill “this house” with glory. (Gerald Flurry, Haggai, 1995, 2004, pp. 29-30.)

So when we saw the gospel being preached around the world, we should have known it was the end time. But when that work ceased, we were in the very end of the end time!  (Gerald Flurry, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1995, 2001, 2005, p. 6.)

When the gospel stops going around the world, we can begin to watch for specific signs—like God’s Church being attacked by armies of demons, the rapid collapse of Israel, the rise of the abomination of desolation, nuclear power out of control and other serious signs we’ll mention later. (Gerald Flurry, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1995, 2001, 2005, Chapter 1, p. 7.)

We have to deeply understand the urgency of the times we live in! There has never been a time like this! Events are moving along with lightning speed. It seems as though major prophecies are fulfilled virtually every week. God says that time is quickly running out. World crisis is dangerously close and speeding very quickly! Are we heeding this warning? (Gerald Flurry, Zephaniah's Day of the Lord, p. 13.)

For God’s faithful people, this prophecy should help us realize what a critical time this is for God’s Work. God’s people must take advantage of this little window of opportunity. We have to perform great works now, before it’s too late. When I study the book of Zephaniah deeply, I realize that I’m not as urgent as the spirit of this message! I believe that none of God’s people are! We must realize and keep in our minds where we are in prophecy and how urgent these times are. We must make sure to do all we can before, before, before, before the Day of the Lord or the time of tribulation begins for Israel. (Gerald Flurry, Zephaniah's Day of the Lord, 1995, 2000, p. 16.)

18. PCG saying the peace process between the State of Israel and the Palestinians is the deadly wound which will cause the State of Israel to be conquered by the future European Empire.

Is the 1993 peace pact with the Arabs the Israeli wound that God refers to in Hosea 5:13? There would have been no peace pact if Judah would have trusted God instead of men. (Gerald Flurry, Hosea and God's Adulterous Church, 1996, p. 26.)

19. PCG saying Britain is to endure the Great Tribulation for trusting in industrial expertise.

Ephraim’s great fault is its idolatry. The word “workman” means artisan or craftsman. It is well known that England excels in technical ability. One of their greatest achievements has been the development of nuclear energy for domestic and military purposes. Could this be Britain’s calf? Could Britain think their nuclear power will get them through another war? ...

England relies on its “craftsmen” for protection rather than God. They worship their technical ability—they “kiss the calves.” ...

Britain will soon become ashamed of its “craftsman” or experts. Do you really want to rely upon the experts? No human being or idol can ever deliver what a human being wants. Do we have some idol that sits between us and God? If we do, God wants us to get rid of it now. (Gerald Flurry, Hosea and God's Adulterous Church, 1996, pp. 39-40.)

20. PCG saying Algeria will soon transform into a radical Islamic state like Iran.

Today I believe that much of the king of the south’s land area will be south of Jerusalem, but not all. For example, Sudan is already in the radical Islamic camp. Algeria may be there very soon. But all of the king of the south’s land area is south of the end-time king of the north. (Gerald Flurry, The King of the South, 1996, 2001, 2003, p. 3.)

21. PCG insinuating that Khomeini was behind Anwar Sadat's assassination.

In 1981, Mike Wallace of the television program 60 Minutes interviewed Ayatollah Khomeini (who had come to power only two years before). He told the ayatollah that Sadat had called him a “lunatic.”
Almost immediately afterward, within just days, President Sadat was assassinated!
That is the kind of power the leader of radical Islam has! (The King of the South, 1996, 2001, 2003, p. 7.)

22. PCG saying war is about to explode in the Middle East.

Middle East peace treaties dominate the news—as all kinds of peace treaties did just before World War II began! It is just another major sign that WAR IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE IN THE MIDDLE EAST! And it will lead to World War III. (Gerald Flurry, The King of the South, 1996, 2001, 2003, p. 14.)

23. PCG saying Christ to return by 2018 at the latest.

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. (The King of the South, 1996, 2001, 2003, p. 43.)

24. PCG saying Christ is almost certain to return by 2023.

This statement shows that this is an end-time prophecy. Satan was cast down just a “short time” before Jesus Christ returns to this Earth and kicks Satan off his throne! ... That is the spectacular, joyfully good news. Christ is about to return to this Earth and stop all of the hatred, racism, violence and war that is caused by Satan’s influence. Everything is set for a new government to be in place on Earth very shortly—almost certainly in less than a decade. (Gerald Flurry, America Under Attack, 2013, p. 6.)

25. Gerald Flurry saying "America is bankrupt" in 1997.

“What will it take to awaken our people? America is bankrupt. Our people just don’t know it yet.”—Co-Worker Letter, July 22, 1997 (As quoted in the May 30, 2009 issue of The Trumpet Weekly, p. 5.)

(Flurry was wrong then and is wrong now. See #34 below.)

26. There will be a peace treaty between Germany and Russia which will allow Germany to conquer America and Britain without fear of Russian interference.

“The presence of a deal between [Germany and Russia] is not a sign of peace. Like the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact … it is a sign of exactly the opposite. Both of these nations are looking to secure their shared border—so they can pursue their imperialistic aims elsewhere! It is a precursor to war! That is the way they operate! And the U.S. has no clue.”
—Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, October 1998 (Quoted in Trumpet Weekly, October 9, 2010, p. 6.)

“The way it’s looking, don’t be surprised if America arrives in Lisbon to learn that Germany, France and Russia have hatched a plan to redefine NATO into a distinctly European, pro-Russian organization!”
—theTrumpet.com, October 21 (Quoted in The Trumpet Weekly, October 30, 2010, p 6.)

Instead Putin waded into a war in eastern Ukraine in 2014 that has led to Europe imposing sanctions on Russia just when the price of oil went down.

27. Post-apartheid South Africa will impose an economic blockade on the West as severe as OPEC's oil embargo of 1973-4.

A well-orchestrated campaign of disinformation, propaganda and scurrilous slander has been waged against the South African nation by the combined forces of government officials (both within and without South Africa), the liberal press, leftist church authorities and the United Nations. The catch phrase of all has been apartheid—the policy of separate development pursued by the South African government since 1948. What escapes most commentators’ attention is the reality that the whole world has been hoodwinked by this disinformation campaign. Most have expressed a great, global, emotive, self-righteous outcry against the imputed unfairness of the apartheid system. Many people are gullibly being led by the nose to endorse a power transfer that PORTENDS A FUTURE MINERAL AND METALS BLACKMAIL AGAINST THE COMBINED WESTERN ECONOMIES at least equivalent to that imposed by the OPEC oil cartel in a previous decade! (Ron Fraser, South Africa in Prophecy, 1997, p. 4.) 

Eighteen years later nothing of the sort has occurred.

28. PCG predicting that Shimon Peres will return to power in Israel to create an self defeating agreement with the Palestinians that will lead to the State of Israel's conquest by Europe.

Peres is also slurred as being a traitor and a "foxy old socialist" who "is set to worm his way back into" a position of prominence to make such an agreement with the Palestinians (which PCG insists will somehow lead to the State of Israel to be conquered by Europe).

Sources within both the U.S. and Israeli administrations claim that America is intent on seeing Netanyahu removed from office so that he might be the scapegoat for the failed peace process. Meanwhile, the man whom Arafat has called his friend, Shimon Peres, waits in the wings, biding his time. (Israeli Pullback Continues, May 1998.)  

But most significantly, it was Shimon Peres who in 1993 brokered the deal with Pope John Paul II to hand over sovereignty of Jerusalem’s Old City to the Vatican. Although we have observed enough snippets of intelligence here and there to build the picture, author Barry Chamish’s research has done much to expose this traitorous act. ...
Ariel Sharon may be the elected leader of Israel, but watch for one foxy old socialist to slide into the picture as the power behind the throne in a unity government between Likud and Labor. Once again Shimon Peres is set to worm his way back into prime focus as the mediator between Israel, the PLO, the EU and the Vatican. (Ron Fraser, Muscling into the Mideast, March-April 2001.)

It would appear that the PCG leadership loathes Peres. Ron Fraser even dehumanizes him by comparing him to a worm. But nevertheless in all this time Peres has not returned to power as prime minister in the State of Israel. 

29. Sexual behavior disapproved by PCG is responsible for "giving birth" to HIV/AIDS.

The current generation of foreign policy formulators and administrators in the West, particularly in the present British and American administrations, is the product of a left-wing, socialist-engineered education system that had its genesis in the 1960s (though its true origins may be traced to the Marxist-Leninist thought engendered by the fathers of socialism in the early 1900s). Socialist philosophy has always had particular appeal to the intelligentsia. Often described as the “baby-boom generation,” the post-World War II generation, which had their minds bent by German rationalist thought, tends to predicate all analyses, judgments and conclusions on godless evolutionary theory, based on the overall assumption that there are no absolutes.
In general terms, to this generation all of the values, mores, honorable traditions—even documented history of past events—are held up to question. This approach to subjective analysis is fundamentally sourced at a basic and false assumption—that the theory of relativity applies not just in the arena of physical sciences. By extension it is assumed that it generally may be applied to human behavior—religion, moral standards, ethics and human values. Thus we have the concept of “moral relativity,” which spawned the “new morality” of the 1960s, giving birth to a new and uncontrollable communicable disease—AIDS. (Ron Fraser, What's Behind the Crisis in Foreign Relations?, The Philadelphia Trumpet, May 1999, p. 3.)

Of course this is nonsense. No human gave birth to HIV/AIDS. It is an offshoot of another virus, SIV, which infects one species of ape, namely the Central Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes). The first cross species infection appears to have been with a cut hunter somewhere in rural central Africa, possibly in the Congo, around 1921 (1908-1933).

Bizarrely enough the mass murdering terrorist Osama bin Laden also tried to falsely blame other human beings for producing HIV/AIDS. In his case he decided to blame Americans.

And because of all this, you [Americans] have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention. (Osama bin Laden, To the Americans, October 7, 2002, as quoted in Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden, 2005, p. 168.)

Imagine that. PCG saying something Osama bin Laden would say.

30. PCG saying the United States is becoming isolationist. (They said this just before 9/11.)

We can’t afford the pacifist attitude we had before World War-II [sic] and survive nationally. Yet our pacifist attitude today is far worse than it was then. (Gerald Flurry, Winston S. Churchill: The Watchman, 1999, 2002, p. 2.)

Our people in Britain and America lack the will to even sacrifice a few soldiers’ lives to fight a ground war. Our generals know that we lack the will to win any hard-fought battle—even if it directly relates to our own freedom. For example, we had to be bombed into World War II. Even one of the most diabolical leaders in history, Adolf Hitler, could not rouse us to fight until we were bombed by Japan. And we are much more isolationist today. We are not prepared to die to defend our security, as we were in our past. This is the supreme sign that our will has been broken—and that our republic cannot stand.We must make very radical changes to save our country. (Gerald Flurry, No Freedom Without Law, 2001, p. 24.)

A few voices within the United States have been raised in concern over this apparent new American isolationism. (Ron Fraser, Is America Becoming Isolationist?, The Philadelphia Trumpet, September-October 2001.)

31. PCG predicting Serbia will be fast tracked into EU membership.

Watch for Yugoslavia to be pushed now, by events controlled from Brussels, into the fast lane to EU membership. (Ron Fraser, Yugoslavia Comes in From the Cold, The Philadelphia Trumpet, December 2000.) 

In 2000 Yugoslavia referred to what are now Serbia and Montenegro. Today Serbia is still not in the European Union.

32. PCG predicting Macedonia would be partitioned by the EU (2001).

Cleverly, the EU has let NATO do all the grunt work in Macedonia, with the result that if things go wrong, the egg will be, once again, as in Kosovo, all over NATO’s face, and a classic opening will ensue, at the right moment, for the new EU rapid reaction force to deploy and to “enforce” the “peace” in that ethnically and politically divided country. ...

By dividing Macedonia into separate Albanian and Macedonian enclaves, as U.S. think tank Stratfor points out, NATO will have been the unwitting accomplice in achieving the Albanian rebels’ goal. (Ron Fraser, The Final Piece Fall Into Place, Philadelphia Trumpet, August 2001.)

Macedonia has not been partitioned. Once again PCG is wrong.

33. Gerald Flurry saying America and Britain have reached the point of no return in 2008.

If you study the biblical prophets, there came a point when their warnings no longer spoke about repentance. They were simply bold statements of fact—spoken as a witness against those peoples who had rejected God. I strongly believe our nations today—particularly the United States and Britain, modern descendants of the biblical nation of Israel—have passed the point of no return. The hope of their turning to God during this age has been eclipsed by the magnitude of their rebellion!
This indicates that time is indeed very short before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The increase in catastrophic events shows God strengthening His correction. Thus, I believe God simultaneously wants to strengthen and intensify the prophetic warning—in the hopes of reaching those individuals who exhibit a teachable attitude and a willingness to accept His guidance. (Gerald Flurry, How This Magazine is About to Change, The Philadelphia Trumpet, September 2008.)

34. PCG saying the US "dollar is doomed" in 2008 and afterwards.

People are so afraid of the current Wall Street meltdown that they are willing to purchase federal bonds that pay interest rates far less than the rate of inflation. In other words, these people know that they will technically lose money by purchasing treasuries, but are willing to take the loss in order to avoid the possibility of an even greater loss in other investments like U.S. businesses, stocks, and the real-estate market.
Unfortunately, this time the bond market will not prove to be a safe haven. The structural problems in the U.S. economy and America’s massive debt load mean that the dollar is doomed too. (Robert Morley, Trumpet Weekly, December 6, 2008 issue, p. 10.)

But it won’t end there. The whole nation—head to toe—is sickened with debt. Federal, state, municipal, corporate, personal debt; America is maxed out. Trillions upon trillions. That debt is coming due! (Robert Morley, "How America Killed Itself", Trumpet Weekly, December 20, 2008 issue, p. 10.)

The government is broke. It was running massive deficits before the crisis ever struck. And now it is planning the biggest borrowing binge ever to bail out the irresponsible, inefficient and incompetent. The nation’s finances have been pushed beyond the point of recovery. (Robert Morley, Trumpet Weekly, March 7, 2009 issue, p. 10.)

The United States is beyond broke. It is borrowing and printing hundreds of billions of dollars in a mad scramble to escape economic quicksand.
Why, then, is it offering $300 million to reconstruct the Gaza Strip? And another $600 million to help the Palestinian Authority pay its bills? That’s $900 million of other people’s money—for a cause that is profoundly flawed. (Joel Hilliker, Trumpet Weekly, March 14, 2009 issue, p. 1.)

 "Will Social Security go bankrupt by 2010?" (Trumpet Weekly, April 18, 2009 issue, pp. 7-8.)

Never mind what some “experts” say. Bankruptcy is inevitable. The handwriting is all over the wall. (Stephen Flurry, "The Recession is Over?" Trumpet Weekly, August 8, 2009 issue, p. 3.)

The problem is that America has passed the financial point of no return. This country has reached debt-saturation. Borrowing and spending more money to fix a problem caused by too much borrowing and spending won’t fix anything. If you keep doing what you are doing, you will keep getting what you are getting.
The end of the recession is almost here. Next comes the depression. (Robert Morley, Trumpet Weekly, June 19, 2010 issue, p. 10.)

The world is heading toward another Lehman moment. Epoch-changing events are in motion—especially in Europe. (Second Collapse Coming Soon, Trumpet Weekly, July 23, 2011 issue, p. 9.)

After several wild stock market swings and S&P’s downgrading of America’s credit rating, anxiety about America’s financial future is understandable. Some analysts correctly recognize the S & P downgrade as another mile marker on the road to economic Armageddon.  (Joel Hilliker, We'll Always Be a Triple-A Country, Trumpet Weekly, August 13, 2011 issue, p. 10.)

The Dow Jones set a new record on Tuesday. Market commentators say this new record high is a big sign the economy is on the mend. But is it possible that it signals something much more ominous? (Robert Morley, Dow Jones Sets New Record: Now What?, Trumpet Weekly, March 9, 2013 issue, p. 10.)

In Americans’ view, we have done our part. We are weary of intervention. We’re broke. We’re weary of fighting. We’re sick of not seeing the benefits from all the effort and expenditure. (Joel Hilliker, The Age of American Intervention is Over, Trumpet Weekly, October 25, 2013 issue, p. 12.)

The United States is not going to go bankrupt. Per capita the United States was in fact more indebted back in the 1940s because of World War II but this fact is often overlooked partly because of inflation.

Also it is not possible for the United States to go bankrupt because its debt is denominated in its own currency. Other countries have gone bankrupt in recent years but that is because they did not control their own currencies. The United States does not face that particular problem.

This matter is a red herring. The United States is in no danger of going bankrupt. PCG was wrong on this matter in 1997 (see #25 above), in 2008, and today.

(This topic was discussed before here.)

35. PCG saying the U.S. economy is already destroyed.

Mr. Armstrong thought that crisis would be the collapse of the Western world’s monetary system! America’s banking system collapsed in September 2008. The American economy is already destroyed, we just don’t know it yet! (Gerald Flurry, Isaiah's End-Time Vision, 2013 version, p. 39.)

36. PCG saying American economy may collapse in 2013.

"America's Crash of 2013?" (Robert Morley, Trumpet Weekly, June 30, 2012 issue, p. 8.)

37. PCG insinuating that America might be destroyed by 2017.

Are you concerned about where the current administration is leading this country? Whether the nation can survive the next four years? It's worst then you think, and there is only one solution to this gigantic problem. (Trumpet Weekly, April 20, 2013 issue, p 11.)

38. PCG saying high oil prices will not come down.

Since coming to office, Mr. Obama has been confronted with an uncomfortable truth.
It is the fact that, going forward, it is going to become dramatically more difficult for America to obtain and secure the energy it needs—and sooner than most people realize. It is a truth that policy makers and politicians are afraid to publicly admit because the implications of an oil-constrained world affect everything from stock markets and food production to the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. ...
So where is the oil going to come from? Not America. ...
Over the past week crude oil surged to a new 17-month highs—$86 per barrel. Better get used to it, sky-high oil prices may soon be here to stay. (Robert Morley, Trumpet Weekly, April 10, 2010 issue, pp. 8-9.)

You are paying 20 cents a gallon more for gas today than you were a week ago. And $1.70 per gallon more than you were just 26 months ago.
Better get used to it. Of the 89.1 million barrels of oil the world uses every day, about 35 percent come from North Africa and the Middle East. Instability there has put oil supplies in serious jeopardy. As a result, the first two months of this year saw the price of oil leap about $20 a barrel. That translates into 50 cents more per gallon. (Joel Hilliker, Oil Shock Is Coming, Trumpet Weekly, March 5, 2011 issue, p. 4.)

What if America discovered it had a Saudi Arabia worth of oil under its own soil? Guess what? We found that oil—rather, the Canadians did. It just needs a way to get to market. But strangely, America doesn’t know if it wants it or not. (Robert Morley, Plugging Our Own Economy, Trumpet Weekly, November 26, 2011 issue, p. 8.)

[Here Hilliker discusses President Obama's re-election:] America re-elected the president after ... four years of rising inflation, gas prices, grocery bills and so on. (Joel Hilliker, Thoughts On Four More Years, Trumpet Weekly, November 10, 2012 issue, p. 7.)

Little did PCG know that the price of oil would later indeed go down.

39. Watching Karl-Theodor zu Guttenburg.

Consider German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Guttenberg, as Time observed this week, “is virtually the only German minister to emerge from the revelations untainted” (emphasis mine throughout). That’s telling. (Brad MacDonald, "Look Who Survived WikiLeaks," Trumpet Weekly, December 4, 2010 issue, p. 5.)

40. Watching the "three Bavarians of the moment".

So there it is. Yet once again we draw attention to three Bavarians of the moment—Joseph Ratzinger, Baron Guttenberg and Edmund Stoiber. (Ron Fraser, Germany--Watch This Space, Trumpet Weekly, June 5, 2010 issue, p. 4.)

What is it about these three Bavarians—Ratzinger, Stoiber and Guttenberg? ...
There is a reason why we watch these three Bavarians—Ratzinger, Stoiber and Guttenberg. They all share a common vision. It is the vision propounded by Stoiber’s mentor, Franz Josef Strauss, which matched that of the recently deceased Otto von Habsburg. It’s a Holy Roman imperial vision—a vision that has Rome as the spiritual glue that will hold together a revival, a literal resurrection, of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. (Ron Fraser, Three Men to Watch, Trumpet Weekly, October 8, 2011 issue, p. 5.)

Little did PCG know that Karl-Theodor zu Guttenburg would soon be forced to resign as defense minister. This is also a false prophecy.

41. The release of postage stamps in Germany honoring their own army cited as a sign that Germany will soon conquer America and Britain.

Following hard on the consolidation of Berlin as the national capital of Germany came the bringing out of storage and restoration for display of many of the statues of German military heroes dating back to its earliest imperial days. Then, recently, out of the blue, the German government released a postage stamp honoring the Bundeswehr’s expanding role in international missions. Perhaps this would be looked upon favorably by the world had not Germany possessed such a consistent history of abusing its military power over such a long period of time. (Ron Fraser, Germany--Return of National Pride, Trumpet Weekly, June 29, 2013 issue, p. 4.)

 42. Not foreseeing the Arab Spring.

Note that: The developed world—not some backwoods sub-Saharan dictatorship—is on the verge of exploding. (Brad MacDonald, A Chilling 'Age of Rage', Trumpet Weekly, June 12, 2010 issue, p. 4.)

This was written just before the Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread throughout the Arab world.

43. Iran, the Taliban and a radicalized Pakistan could get nuclear weapons (2009).

 “Mankind is on a toboggan-slide toward nuclear oblivion! It looks like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could have nuclear weapons in a matter of months. It also looks like the Taliban can conquer Pakistan in a very short amount of time. WE COULD HAVE THREE MADMEN IN THIS WORLD WITH NUCLEAR BOMBS!”
—Gerald Flurry, Co-Worker Letter, July 3, 2009 (As quoted in Trumpet Weekly, August 14, 2010 issue, p. 3.)

Six years later Iran has no nuclear weapons. The Taliban has not conquered Pakistan. Pakistan has not become radicalized. Once again PCG is wrong.

44. After withdrawing from Iraq America will never fight another war.

 “After World War II , Mr. Armstrong said the U.S. would never win another war. I believe that after we retreat from Iraq, America will never FIGHT another war!”
—Gerald Flurry, Trumpet, January 2007 (Quoted in The Trumpet Weekly, September 4, 2010 issue, p. 9.)

This was written just before the intervention in Libya which aided the Libyan people to overthrow the Gaddafi regime.

45. PCG's prophecies are to be fulfilled in the very near future most dramatically (2009).

Read and study our booklet.... If ever there was a book written for our time today, it is this book. You need to at least be acquainted with its message, even if you do not agree with it at this moment. For the chances are, you will recall and agree with its message when the prophecies that it contains are fulfilled, most dramatically, in the very near future!  (Ron Fraser, America The Corrupt, Trumpet Weekly, August 29, 2009 issue, p. 10.)

46. PCG speculating that the Berlin Club will become a streamlined EU composed of ten members which will soon conquer America and Britain.

The Trumpet has continued Mr. Armstrong’s forecast and explained repeatedly that a closely integrated group of 10 nations, or groups of nations, would emerge out of the 27-member EU behemoth that exists today. We don’t know for certain if the Berlin Club constitutes this group, but it’s possible. (Brad MacDonald, Germany Hasn't Given Up On a United States of Europe, Trumpet Weekly, March 24, 2012 issue, p. 5.)

47. PCG speculating that the State of Israel may fall by 2013.

Netanyahu sees that right now vast tracts of the Middle East, territorially, politically and strategically, belong to Iran and radical Islam. Soon now, this Iran-led radical Islamic mob will descend on Israel with overwhelming numbers and force. Like its embassy in Cairo last week, the Jewish state has a defensive wall, a top-notch military, crack intelligence and state-of-the-art anti-missile defense systems. That wall might hold for a while longer. But with each passing month, its ability to protect and defend will diminish, one missile, one terrorist attack at a time.
Soon, perhaps in a few months or maybe next year [2012] or the year after [2013], the weight of the Islamic mob will cause the wall to crumble and collapse. What will happen then?  (Brad MacDonald, Israel Enters Nightmare Scenario, The Trumpet Weekly, September 17, 2011, p. 10.)

For radical Islam, and especially the Palestinians, the speech was confirmation that they are on course for victory over Israel, and that all they need to do is hold fast to their current strategy. That strategy is simple: It involves bringing about the genocide of Israel by waging SIMULTANEOUS campaigns of aggression and of feigned peace, designed to force concessions and buy time. (Brad MacDonald, Hitler, the Palestinians and the West, Trumpet Weekly, May 21, 2011 issue, p. 1.)

48. PCG predicting that the Assad regime would fall to be replaced by a pro-EU government.

Syrian and Iranian interests and loyalties have been wed together for decades. But all of that is about to change—particularly now that we are witnessing the last days of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship. As early as 1994, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry expounded on a prophecy in Psalm 83 that reveals that Syria would ally itself with Germany. This is why we have long known about the forthcoming divorce between Syria and Iran. It’s not a matter of if— only when. (Iran To Let Go Of Syria, Trumpet Weekly, July 28, 2012 issue, p. 3.)

The latest U.S. policy shift to send direct aid to Syria is yet another game changer that will ultimately help topple Assad’s government and most likely trigger the switch in Syria’s allegiance from Iran to another alliance comprised of “moderate” Arab states and Germany. (Syria: the inevitability of collapse, Trumpet Weekly, March 9, 2013 issue, p. 3.)

49. PCG predicting that Ethiopia would fall to "radical Islam."

This verse states that Libya and Ethiopia are also going to be closely allied with Iran ! ... So you need to watch Libya and Ethiopia . They are about to fall under the heavy influence or control of Iran, the king of the south . That is why they are subdued in the king of the north victory. (Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy, 2012, p. 6.)

Whoever heavily influences or controls Ethiopia will undoubtedly also control the small areas of Eritrea and Djibouti on the Red Sea coastline. These areas only recently became independent of Ethiopia. Also, I believe the Bible view is that these small areas are included as a part of Ethiopia. (Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy, 2012, p. 6.)

As al-Shabaab terrorists clash with Ethiopian troops in Somalia and as Muslims across western Ethiopia burn churches, what is now basically a Somali civil war could soon escalate into an inter-state war between an Islamist-controlled Somalia and its western enemy. (Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy, 2012, p. 9.)

Ethiopia’s decision last week to attack Eritrea’s terrorist training posts shows that, despite UN sanctions, the radical Islamist problem in Eritrea is growing. Expect the pressure on Ethiopia to intensify until the nation falls under the influence or control of radical Islam.(Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy, 2012, p. 10.)

In Ethiopia, religious tension is growing too, and has surprised many. Ethiopia is predominantly Christian. Christians outnumber Muslims two to one. Yet even here, they were under attack earlier this year. Rioting Muslims burned 69 churches in addition to Christian homes and other buildings in a week-long uprising in March. Now in a backlash, the government is cracking down on Islamists. More than 570 Islamists have been rounded up and sentenced to jail terms of up to 18 years. An additional 107 are charged with terrorism for their roles in attacking Christians. Ethiopia is sending a message that radical Islam will not be tolerated. However, as happened in Egypt, and more recently in Syria, the government crack - down may actually empower those being targeted. (Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy, 2012, p. 13.)

Egypt is not going to escape the king of the north because it is allied with Iran. The same applies to Libya and Ethiopia (which will probably be the next Middle East explosion, which Iran is going to exploit). (Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy, 2012, p. 16.)

Earlier this year, Mr. Flurry outlined how Daniel 11 also foretells that Libya and Ethiopia will realign to join an Iranian-led, radical Islamist camp. Watch for these far-reaching changes. Egypt and Libya are already in the midst of their transition and Ethiopia is set to be next. (Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy, 2012, p. 17.)

At the time, many readers rejected this warning as absurd. This is a “most bizarre article,” retorted one Trumpet reader from Ethiopia. My country is “one of the oldest and [most] devout Orthodox Christian nations on the planet (since third century) and a staunch ally of the United States. On behalf of U. S., Ethiopia invaded Somalia in late 2006 and kicked out ruling Islamic Courts Union .... [that] doesn’t sound like a nation doing Iran’s bidding.” He’s right too, at least in his facts. (Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy, 2012, p. 22.)

 Clearly PCG should have listened to this Ethiopian reader.

Continue watching Ethiopia. Recent events appear to be setting the stage for an Islamic takeover. (Libya and Ethiopia in Prophecy, 2012, p. 25.)

Three years later Ethiopia has not turned Islamist and is unlikely to ever do so.

50. PCG predicting that the Muslim Brotherhood would radicalize Egypt just like Iran and join forces with Iran. 

What a dramatic and shocking transformation we have witnessed! A radical Islamist now presides over the biggest and most powerful state in the Arab world. Of course, Mohammed Morsi’s election represents a tremendous victory for democracy—so say the fantasists. But these fantasies will soon be exposed by a brutal reality. ... In other words, Egypt is now lost. Whether these radical steps are taken quickly and overtly or slowly and subtly, the outcome is inevitable.(Stephen Flurry, Egypt Is Lost, Trumpet Weekly, June 30, 2012 issue, p. 2.)

America pushed Mubarak out of office. Now an Islamist leader is setting himself up as a dictator in Mubarak’s place, and the U.S. is doing nothing. (Egypt's President Grants Himself Extraordinary Power, Trumpet Weekly, November 24, 2012 issue, p. 2.)

Little did PCG know that just one year later the Muslim Brotherhood would be ousted from power in a military coup and suppressed with much violence and bloodshed. At least 638 people were killed in this coup. PCG was wrong.

51. PCG insinuating that President Obama's re-election in 2012 would work in the interests of America's rivals.

Vladimir Putin took a “very positive view” of Mr. Obama’s victory. I should think so, considering President Obama’s pledge that he would have “more flexibility” to work with Russia after this election. Other happy leaders: Ahmadinejad, Chavez, the Muslim Brotherhood. Not so happy: Netanyahu. (Joel Hilliker, Thoughts On Four More Years, Trumpet Weekly, November 10, 2012 issue, p. 7.)

Putin ended up wading into a nasty war in eastern Ukraine that led to his nation getting sanctioned by many countries just when the price of oil went down. Ahmadinejad has since been replaced by Rouhani. Ahmadinejad's preferred candidate failed to gain power. Chavez died and his successor had to deal with long running protests and a toilet paper shortage. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was overthrown and suppressed with much violence and bloodshed and driven underground. Meanwhile Netanyahu gets about 20% of his nation's military budget funded by the United States.

52. African Americans will soon launch a wave of riots against the white majority all over the United States. PCG has taught this vicious and racist idea continuously since 1992, if not earlier.

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And after all these miserable failures to predict the future PCG leaders still wonder why PCG just is not as popular as the PCG leadership seem to think they should be.

We’ve been trumpeting these prophecies for over two decades, following in the footsteps of Herbert W. Armstrong, who prophesied before us for more than 50 years. And now that many of these very prophecies are being fulfilled, one would think our mail bins would be buried under piles of requests; that our phone lines would light up like Las Vegas; that our Web traffic would crash the servers. 

Instead, it’s more like a steady trickle of interest—one from a city, two from a family, as the Prophet Jeremiah said. God’s work is still getting done. His warning message of LOVE is still going out to this world.

But the support for that worldwide work is coming from such a tiny group of dedicated families.
Most do not make time for Christ or His good news message of the soon-coming Kingdom of God. They are too busy attending to the cares of this world. As the Apostle Paul said about the perilous times of these “last days,” men would love themselves and pleasure-seeking MORE THAN GOD (2 Timothy 3:1-4). This doesn’t apply to every single individual, of course—but it certainly describes our society in general. ...

Can’t we put some time-consuming, energetic devotion into our love and service to God and His great work? (Stephen Flurry, It's High Time to Wake Up!, Trumpet Weekly, April 2, 2011 issue, p. 10.)

A major reason why PCG is not taken seriously is because of these many false predictions the PCG leadership have made over the years.

The evidence is clear. Gerald Flurry and those with him in the Philadelphia Church of God are false prophets. There is no need for anyone to fear that their dire words will come to pass. The Bible commands us not to be afraid of their words. They are false prophets.

What CNN and BBC Should Know About "The Trumpet Daily" and "The Key to David's City"

Recently Eilat Mazar has announced the discovery of a seal identified as being of King Hezekiah.

Here is CNN reporting on this issue. CNN mentions that the excavations are politically contentions.

Led by Mazar, the team were excavating an ancient dump near the Silwan neighborhood beside the wall that surrounds Jerusalem's Old City.

The site itself, along with the nearby City of David, is contentious, because it is an Israeli archaeological dig in East Jerusalem next to a Palestinian neighborhood. Critics say the dig is politically motivated to extend Jewish claims over East Jerusalem and the Old City: archaeological finds become historical justifications

Watch a video about the Ophel excavations here. (CNN, December 4, 2015.)

The link is to a video made by The Trumpet Daily's YouTube channel.

Here is BBC reporting on this issue.

Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology said the bulla sealed a document written on a papyrus rolled and tied with thin cords, which left their mark on the back. (BBC News, December 2, 2015.)

The link is to a website entitled "The Key to David's City", a website discussing the archaeological excavations that PCG is involved with. The title alludes to PCG's telecast The Key of David.

Naturally Stephen Flurry was quite happy about all this attention.

These excavations are supported by the Philadelphia Church of God (PCG), an organization founded in 1989 by Gerald Flurry based in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Both The Trumpet Daily's YouTube account and The Key to David's City website are operated by PCG.

An astounding news story awaits any reporter willing to investigate PCG.

Here a few posts about PCG that any such journalist might find helpful.

PCG Tragedy. Discusses a tragic suicide that occurred last year that led to a lot of discussion concerning PCG's infamous no contact policy according to which PCG members are forbidden to contact ex-members or the members of related churches.

Gerald Flurry Says President Obama is an "Antiochus-type" Figure Just Like Tkach. Discusses Gerald Flurry's distinctive version of the "Obama is an Antichrist" idea.

PCG's False Prophecy of "Race War". PCG says African Americans are fated to launch a wave of riots against the white majority before Christ's return. This is a racist false prophecy that will never happen.

PCG's Income in Decline. For 2010: $20.6 Million. In 2012 $19.5 Million. Gerald Flurry let slip this insight regarding PCG's financial affairs in a 2012 booklet.

PCG and Bigotry Against Muslims (Islamophobia). PCG has a long history of vilifying Muslims.

Both PCG's Ron Fraser and Osama bin Laden Wrong About HIV/AIDS's Origins. PCG once incorrectly wrote in a publication of theirs that HIV/AIDS was generated by sexual promiscuity.

PCG Says Osama bin Laden was Right to Condemn America's Sins. PCG leaders bizarrely said that Osama bin Laden had a point in hating the United States.

When PCG's Ron Fraser Said, Death to Australia. PCG's Ron Fraser once insinuated that Australia did not deserve to survive in a 2008 booklet. Strange but true.

Less Than 7000 PCG Members in 1997. PCG's Stephen Flurry mentions that PCG had less than 7000 members in a 1997 article.

PCG Does Not Vote, But Are Far Right Wing. Although PCG does not vote their political views lie far to the right.

MUST READ: Is Gerald Flurry Praising Deaths by Medical Neglect? PCG's shameful promotion of anti-medicine superstitions.

PCG's Robert Morley Promoting HWA's Anti-Medicine Superstition. It is not just Gerald Flurry who says such things.

PCG Sympathizes with Apartheid South Africa. PCG has consistently sympathized with the Apartheid regime that formerly ruled South Africa.

PCG Discussing the 2014 War in Gaza. PCG chose to side with the State of Israel in last year's war. Little sympathy was expressed for the Palestinians who endured the vast majority of fatalities and casualties by PCG.

 PCG's association with these excavations has been discussed previously.

PCG: Brad MacDonald's Vilification of the Palestinians of Silwan in East Jerusalem (2009). Here MacDonald insists that Palestinians in Silwan, East Jerusalem, are wrong to complain about their homes being demolished by Israeli authorities.

PCG Boasting of Their Excavations in Jerusalem. A list of some of the articles PCG have produced promoting these excavations.

PCG and the Dark Side of Politicized Archaeology in East Jerusalem. The moral problems of PCG's involvement in archaeological excavations within such a troubled land.

It is very unfortunate that an organization that consistently vilifies the Palestinians who live in the Holy Land should then send members to dig up dirt looking for artifacts right next to some of these Palestinians they condemn.

PCG is so fixated on the precious archaeological artifacts in the ground but PCG has failed to express similar respect towards the Palestinian people who now live there today so near to the archaeological digs.

It is unfortunate that such precious artifacts are now associated with this religious group based in Edmond that has such disturbing tendencies.

You can contact CNN here.

When WCG Members Asked, "Who is Gerald Flurry?" (1991)

Back in November 1991, PCG's Wilbur Malone wrote an article chastising those WCG members who happened to say wonder if they should submit to Gerald Flurry's authority. It is entitled, "Who is Gerald Flurry?"

That question was asked recently by a person who wondered if God actually chose this man to head the last segment of the Philadelphia Church of God (PCG). Then there have been some who have read Malachi’s Message and have agreed with it totally, but hesitate to seek membership in the PCG. When asked why this hesitation, some respond, “I agree with Malachi’s Message, but who is this Gerald Flurry?” The meaning here is, “Why is he the leader?”, “Why is he the one in charge?”

What happened was that Gerald Flurry was kicked out of WCG so he started up his own group which acted in competition with WCG to gain more converts from WCG. At the time Tkach was implementing many changes to WCG's doctrines and teachings that would soon see WCG transform into (for the most part) an mainstream evangelical church.

Many WCG members disagreed with this transformation and yearned to continue believing and practicing what HWA taught as they interpreted his writings. This widespread discontent proved to a valuable opportunity for PCG to expand membership by taking advantage of widespread dissatisfaction with the Tkach changes.

However there was no way for PCG to overcome the hurdle that their leader, Gerald Flurry, was not particularly important among the WCG ministry. He was only ordained in 1973. And in the strictly hierarchical world of WCG ministers this meant he was not particularly important. The many ministers who were ordained before him would never join Flurry's following and would view submitting to a junior minister as beneath their dignity.

This fact would be revealed after Malone's article was published with the establishment of the Global Church of God under Roderick Meredith in 1992 and of the United Church of God in 1995. Both splinter groups were able to acquire more WCG members since those who led those groups had greater legitimacy and prestige among WCG members then a minister ordained in 1973 could ever hope to have.

After the rise of GCG Flurry wrote a booklet condemning Meredith's splinter group in a desperate and largely ineffective attempt to keep WCG members flowing into PCG instead of GCG. But that development had not yet occurred at the time of this article.

And how did Malone respond to this perfectly legitimate question?

Isn’t it amazing how some people come upon this marvelous truth and yet still manage to find fault, not with the message, but the messenger? Why is it that there are some who resent someone who has been placed in a position of authority? If a person is convinced that this is the Church God is working through, then why wouldn’t that person accept the one that God is using?

In actual fact many found fault with the message as it changed the understanding of the nature of Laodicean era. Under HWA it was never taught that the WCG leadership would radically change their teachings as did occur under Tkach. Flurry changed the doctrine of the Laodicean era by dogmatically asserting that it would take over WCG. One example of a denunciation of the message (not just the messenger) of Flurry's booklet may be seen in a 1991 article from WCG's Worldwide News. That article was written before Malone's article was published.

The fact that Tkach proceeded to make drastic changes to WCG's teachings had the effect of making Flurry's denunciations of the Tkach changes seem more potent than if Tkach had maintained the doctrines of Armstrongism as the teachings of WCG.

Also Malone denigrates those who should question why it was Gerald Flurry who was in charge as those who "resent" him. Instead of answering the question Malone tried to make those inquiring why he had this authority feel ashamed and foolish to distract readers from the fact that Gerald Flurry was not important among WCG ministers until he was kicked out and founded PCG in competition with WCG.

However at the time Malone's snide comments were buttressed by the fact that Flurry's PCG was then the most prominent offshoot from WCG to publicly oppose the Tkach changes. However this would change with the subsequent rise of GCG and UCG. But before then PCG succeeded in establishing its presence among disaffected WCG members as one of the most prominent offshoot groups.

Malone then proceeds to exploit various parts of the Bible to insist that God would not have chosen a prominent WCG minister to start a new splinter group. After that he then admits that they never anticipated anything like the Tkach changes to occur.

We are now very near the end of this age. We never suspected the split in the Church would occur as it has. We thought the Laodicean Church would come on the scene after God’s Church was taken to a place of safety. But you see, that would have been too easy. Not much faith would have been required. Holding fast would not have been required, etc.

In other words the Tkach changes was never anticipated beforehand by those who would become PCG's leaders. They thought the Laodicean era would only be manifest after the elite of WCG members had fled to the place of safety, widely thought to be Petra, Jordan. But now that an unexpected event had occurred (the rise of Tkach and the changes he began to implement) Flurry and Co. had changed the teaching on these matters to denounce the Tkach changes as the Laodiceans they had been waiting for. But they had never been waiting for WCG's leaders to renounce Armstrongism. PCG had changed the doctrine to fit the times.

Many of you reading this article never expected God to cause a separation that required stepping out of the Church we were called into in order to hold fast to God’s precious truth. I think it’s safe to say that most of us might have thought something was wrong in the Worldwide Church of God but never realized what God required until we read Malachi’s Message. Then it dawned on us. We had to leave the WCG in order to obey God.

In fact many others commented upon the Tkach changes. Many WCG members in time left WCG in order to continue adhering to HWA's teachings as they interpreted them. They did not need PCG to leave WCG.

But Wilbur Malone, being a paid employee of PCG, needed these disaffected WCG members to join his PCG so that the tithes money would go to his paycheck. So he wrote this article to insist to WCG members that they needed to join PCG.

If anyone of you can read Malachi’s Message and truthfully believe that it is merely the work of Gerald Flurry, then I would have to say you should not follow him, for then you would be following a man. God began to reveal these things to Mr. Flurry and he began to jot down notes and research what God was revealing to him. Other men have read this book. Many high-ranking men have read this book. The reason most of them reject it is because it condemns the ministry. God is correcting the ministry. Those of higher rank than Mr. Flurry refuse to see this correction coming from God and attribute it to just a man who wants a following for himself.

But if those WCG ministers are wrong to say Flurry just wants a following for himself then why is it when so many other WCG members later got out of WCG and established other splinter groups that PCG virulently condemned them and later ordered PCG members to shun the members of the other splinter groups?

Malone then insists the hand of God is with Malachi's Message. The following year Flurry would dogmatically proclaim Malachi's Message to be the little book of Revelation 10. That had not yet occurred when this article was written so there is no reference to Malachi's Message as the little book. But the attitude of excessive reverence towards that booklet is clearly expressed by Malone.

Can we read Malachi’s Message and not see God’s hand in it? Can we read Malachi’s Message and not see that it has been inspired by God? Can we totally reject the human instrument that was used in writing this book? Would God have inspired this book to be written by Gerald Flurry and then decide that someone else should be the leader? Who else would God use to lead this last segment of His Work? Why, the one who gave up his livelihood, his job, his pension, and his position in the WCG! He was willing to put it all on the line because God revealed to him what must be done. And Mr. Flurry answered the challenge, regardless of the circumstances.

Actually it is widely known that many of the ideas within Malachi's Message were plagiarized from The Letter to Laodicea by Jules Dervaes, written December 1986-January 1988. It was sent to 237 WCG ministers including Gerald Flurry and John Amos. In fact on September 26, 1990 Jules Dervaes sent a letter to Gerald Flurry in which he denounces Malachi's Message as "a direct and clear plagiarism" of his work. There was no hand of God behind Malachi's Message. It was the hand of Jules Dervaes.

Who is Gerald Flurry? He also is just a man. But he is a man that God, for some reason, decided to reveal certain things to. Mr. Flurry could have turned his back on these things and continued on the easy way, the easy path, the path that leads to destruction. But Mr. Flurry did not. He chose to yield to God and as he has told me in the past, if everyone left and he was there alone, he would still continue to do exactly what he is doing today.

What Malone really means is that Gerald Flurry is his boss and paymaster so he will say what Flurry wants.

Malone ends the article with these words.

No, we probably would not have chosen Mr. Flurry if we had our choice. We probably would have chosen a minister with impressive credentials (Ph.D., Dr., etc.); one gifted in the art of speaking. Also on the other hand we probably wouldn’t have chosen Moses, or David, or Paul. But just as God did choose Moses, David, Paul and many others, this same God has chosen Mr. Flurry to lead the PCG. ... I pray that none of us reject the man God has chosen to lead this end-time Work.

In other words, obey Flurry. Stay in PCG. Keep that tithe money flowing in for Flurry and Malone.

Alas, PCG has since gained a bad reputation for authoritarianism, even restricting members from having contact with members of the other COG groups and ex-members.

Reading PCG's Booklet, Australia—Where to Now?

Let us now read Ron Fraser's booklet, Australia: Where to Now? This booklet was first published in 2008. Here Ron Fraser discusses the land of his nativity, Australia.

It was written in response to the 2007 election of a left wing government in Australia. Here Fraser denounces the then newly elected left wing government, socialists, feminists, multiculturalists, gays, the "politically correct thought police", Aboriginals, Asian immigrants, Muslim immigrants and attempts to remove the Queen from being head of state for changing Australia in a way he does not like. In one particularly bizarre passage Fraser even insinuates that Australia "does not deserve to survive" because of those he condemns (Chapter 7, p. 43).

You can read this booklet on their website.

This booklet replaced a previous 1999 booklet entitled Australia in Prophecy. That booklet was also written by Ron Fraser. Intriguingly that booklet never fear mongered about Muslims. But in 2008 Fraser chose to vilify them as well.

Many PCG booklets are first published as articles in either the Philadelphia Trumpet magazine or the Royal Vision magazine. Part of Chapter 7 was published as a little article in the May 2008 issue of PCG's recruitment magazine, The Philadelphia Trumpet. But aside from that it seems as though this booklet was written and published as a booklet without first being released as an article. This is unusual for PCG.

Chapter 1

Fraser begins by reciting HWA's teaching of British Israelism in order to proclaim that Australia was divinely ordained to be ruled by whites from Britain. The link of the Aborigines to Australia, who lived there for thousands of years before Britain claimed sovereignty, is marginalized.

Anglo-Saxons are a forgetful people. It was ever so, from their beginnings as a collection of tribes, morphing over time into the most influential of nations on Earth. So it is that in the great debate over whether or not Australia should become a republic, the true origins of the nation—the real foundation of its greatness—are seldom spoken of. It’s almost as if the years of brainwashing by an intelligentsia conditioned to the denigration of Australia’s British heritage by such pseudo academics as the anti-historian Geoffrey Blainey have wiped any memory of this great tradition from the collective mindset of generations of Australians. (p. 1.)

Fraser writes as though white Australians once believed in British Israelism en masse. This is simply not true. British Israelism never spread among the Australians for the simple reason is that it happens to be untrue.

Fraser writes as though white Australians have forgotten that they are the descendants of Ephraim, son of Joseph. This is also untrue. It is well known that British Israelism is false. Rather British Israelism is a false idea that emerged in Britain during the height of the British Empire to justify this empire.

British Israelism is nonsense. Silenced.co has shown how British Israelism is built on a foundation of sand. In fact DNA evidence refutes British Israelism.

No doubt a principal reason for this is that most Aussies remain ignorant of the fact that Terra Australis was always destined to become a nation due to a specific act of Providence. (p. 1.)

Fraser ignores what happened to the Aborigines by using the false idea of British Israelism to ignore the Aborigines and say it was divine destiny that the British should settle in Australia. Any moral problem caused by what happened to the Aborigines is cancelled out by claiming British Israelism to justify ruling over them.

[Quoting a 1901 Australian newspaper:] “A section of one of the greatest races of history”—stout words but patently true. That race is British to its core. The peoples which founded and pioneered Australia were but an outgrowth of the “Brith-ish” folk— Brith ish meaning “covenant man” in Hebrew—of whom the Eternal God had prophesied that by right of birth they would possess the choicest parts of the Earth, including the major sea and land gates to give them a strategic advantage second to none.... (p. 4.)

To say that one is able to claim a right to land simply because of one's ancestry is racist. To say that a (false) claim of descent from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob gives British persons the right to rule over land that had been long inhabited by Australian Aborigines is racist.

Republicanism is simply a denial of Australian history and heritage. More than that, it is a denial of the very birthright given by Almighty God in fulfillment of His promise to father Abraham and his patriarchal progeny, the very progenitors of the race that Roberts terms “the last, best hope for mankind.” (p. 5.)

So Fraser claims that Republicanism, the attempt to make Australia a republic and no longer have the British monarch be the head of state of Australia, is condemned as blasphemy. Fraser uses his religion to condemn this political movement.

But there’s more! It was through the descendants of Abraham, the English-speaking peoples of the world, that the knowledge of the Word of God was largely disseminated, the Bible translated, published and distributed around the globe during the great period of English colonization. It is to the colonizing English-speaking peoples that so many of the global masses owe their very education to the point that they may read and comprehend the Word of God. This includes the indigenous people of Australia. (pp. 5-6.)

The Aborigines lived in Australia for centuries. In all that time they did not need white Australians to rule over them. And even if one wished for the Aborigines to become Christians that cannot possibly justify ruling over them or seizing their land or oppressing them in any way.

Chapter 2

Here Fraser talks of some doomsayers saying that the Australian economy is about to collapse. Including one dating to 1985. At one point Fraser quotes one man to the effect that Australia has been technically bankrupt since 1998 (p. 9).

Seventeen years after becoming bankrupt (allegedly) Australia is still there in peace. This is yet another false prophecy made by PCG.

Chapter 3

In this chapter Fraser mocks the election of the left wing government in 2007 as being behind the times. Fraser states that other parts of the Western world such as the United States and Europe, have drifted to the right in recent years and Fraser negatively compare that to Australia's election of a left wing government.

Fraser then says that after the collapse of the Iron Curtain the left altered their ideology to create a "third way" which was condemned as fascism by PCG at the time. Actually PCG went even further and denounced this "third way" as a modern version of Nazism.

At the time, the Philadelphia Trumpet pointed to the fact that the third way was little more than rank fascism dressed in new clothes. Committed socialists found it an easy transition from their Marxist-Leninist foundations to embracing this third way alternative. (p. 15.)

PCG is very far to the right. Consequently its leadership constantly denounce the left. Fraser is simply continuing that tendency of PCG's.

World leaders during this period—in particular U.S. President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German President Gerhard Schröder, and his foreign minister, Joschka Fischer—were all proponents of the third way. (pp. 15-16.)

Schröder was Chancellor, not President.

Fraser denounces all kinds of people and political movements that he clearly despises.

Since the 1960s unleashed the cultural storm that hacked away at the underpinnings of Anglo-Saxon culture, the commonsense virtues of the society that built the greatest empire in history—colonizing and civilizing many lands, including the island lands of Australia and New Zealand—have not only been brought into question, but largely replaced by a whole swag of politically correct “values.” (p. 16.)

And who is Fraser complaining about? Namely feminists, gays, the politically correct and those he views as promoting multiculturalism.

Almost 50 years of the feminization of Australian society has pushed a false idea on gender to the point that the male is emasculated, the female masculanized. Meanwhile, a whole subculture of androgynous weirdos have wormed their way into positions of influence to continue the work of perverting the very foundation of nationhood—monogamous marriage and the home-based family. In addition to the impact of social change instigated by the feminist, politically correct and homosexual lobbies, the multicultural movement is trying to impose on Australia a mixed-race overlay that risks the nation losing a hold on the bedrock culture that once made it one of the most appealing of countries to live in. (pp. 16-17.)

What venomous attacks against those he despises. And why does Fraser wish to demonize this "mixed-race overlay" when Australia was always racially mixed considering that the Europeans in Australia have always lived with the Aborigines even though at times terrible things were committed against the Aborigines.

One commentator, aware of the new prime minister’s love affair with China, called the document the “little beige book,” a play on Chairman Mao’s infamous “little red book,” often seen in the hip pocket of university students in the 1960s and ’70s who have since become embedded as part of the center-left establishment in Australia .... (p. 17.)

How bitter and venomous Fraser is towards those he disagree with. What a paranoid imagination Fraser has towards University students.

Yet apart from these demonstrated failures of center-left politics in Europe, there are two overwhelming negative impacts that have resulted from the efforts of these third wayers to reconstruct society to their version of the utopianist dream: the impact of immigration and of socialism on the fundamental virtues that are the very foundation of a stable society. (p. 18.)

Fraser wants to keep Australia white. He imagines Australia as being some kind of white haven.

On the question of the impact of the value relativism that liberal socialists and their fellow travelers—the feminist movement, the homosexual lobby and the politically correct police—have foisted off onto Western society ... (p. 18.)

Note how Fraser vilifies those he disagrees with.

The light has dawned in Europe. The center-leftists—the third wayers—are on the back foot on the Continent because of the failed policies borne of this ideology. (p. 19.) 

Considering how often PCG loves to hysterically proclaim the rise of any right wing party in Europe as a sign that the Great Tribulation is just about to occur it is very ironic that Fraser should here call that a good thing ("The light has dawned in Europe.") in order to denigrate and condemn the election of a left wing government in Australia.

So intense is his contempt for the left that Fraser would even praise the drift to the right in Europe regardless of how many times he has fear mongered about that trend elsewhere.

Fraser's contempt for the left is so intense he even condemns the majority of Australian voters as "clueless" for voting in a government he disapproves of.

In fact, how “clueless” was the electorate for voting in a government based on what is now, so obviously, an outmoded and failed political ideology, that of the center-left? (p. 19.)

How "Christian" of him to mock and curse and bad mouth so many of his own people. What a bitter, twisted man he was.

At a time when Australia needs to place its ethnic minorities in perspective as just that—minorities—subject to the laws, the cultural practices and traditions of its Caucasian majority population, it has elected a government with soft policies on multiculturalism. At a time when the strength of the Asian flood to Australia’s north is rapidly rising, Australia ought to be strengthening its alliances with its fellow Anglo-Saxon nations, rather than withdrawing troop support from the war on terror. (p. 19.)

So it would appear that Fraser views ethnic minorities as people to be pushed around by the white majority. Fraser seems to have no concern that they might be oppressed or wronged. There is no concern that this arrangement might just be unfair. Instead Fraser puts on the onus on them to make things work. Fraser insinuates that minorities are somehow breaking the law en masse. If anything goes wrong it is clear Fraser is inclined to just blame the minority.

It would appear that Fraser views the neighboring nations of Australia not as neighbors but as an obstacles who must be kept away from his precious (white) Australia. He dehumanizes the neighbors of his country as a "flood" gaining in strength.

Fear monger about immigrants and accuses them of being pandered to and not following the law.

Chapter 4

Here Fraser condemns Prime Minister Rudd's famous apology to Aborigines for the stolen generation, the practice enforced from 1900 till 1970 of taking away babies from Aborigines in order to "save" them from their Aboriginal identity. Not only does Fraser condemn this apology he insists that this wrong did not happen.

The organization that publishes this booklet has no axe to grind on the subject of race. Our objective is to present the plain and simple, provable truth on current events and provide predictive analysis as to their future outcome. Inevitably that often involves taking situations back to their source to trace the origins—the cause—of any given event’s outcome at any point in time. Very often this involves tracing the roots of a given race and airing its history so that predictable national behavior patterns can then be clearly and demonstrably seen to be influencing the outcome of events of the day. (p. 21.)

Guess what? That is racist. To say that certain people will be inclined to act in a certain way because of who they happen to be descended from is racist. That is not a way to understand people but simply to impose crude racist stereotypes upon people.

So it is with the case of the Australian Aboriginal people and their influence on present-day society in Australia. We are interested only in the pure unvarnished truth on the subject. (p. 21.)

Meaning whatever Fraser wants to believe is the truth and he will insist that his opinion must be believed.

Fraser then condemns the performance of an Aboriginal dance upon the floor of Parliament. Instead of seeing an attempt by the government to foster friendly relations with the Aborigines Fraser venomously denounces this act of friendship as "a reversion to tribalism" and "rank pagan nonsense." Note how Fraser denigrates these Aboriginal Australians.

...a reversion to tribalism was enacted on the floor of the nation’s parliament at Parliament’s opening under the newly installed federal government on February 12, 2008. ... This is rank pagan nonsense. What an insult to our founding fathers and to the God that parliamentarians ostensibly acknowledge at the opening of every parliamentary session with a repetition of the “Lord’s Prayer.” ...

What is happening to civilized societies when a highly developed First World nation openly permits half-naked tribal romps, based on pagan tribal rites attached to snake worship, to be performed in the very heart of its national seat of government? (p. 22.)

Clearly Fraser does not view Aborigines as fellow Australians like himself. He does not see equals. He views them as a menacing "outsiders" who need to be told by white Australians (like himself) what to do.

Fraser calls Australia as one of the "civilized societies" and "a highly developed First World nation". But clearly Fraser views the Aborigines as not belonging to the Australia he loves. They are menacing "outsiders" that he views as a threat and he yearns for them to be placed under control.

After that Fraser proceeds to denounce Prime Minister Rudd's apology to the Aborigines for the previous practice of forcibly removing children of mixed blood from Aboriginal families. These children are known as the "stolen generations."

And Fraser does not merely denounce Rudd's apology, Fraser insists that there were no stolen generations at all. His evidence to claim that Prime Minister Rudd was talking about nothing but nonsense is a cite a single book.

The problem is that this whole “sorry” business is all akin to the great global warming hoax. It’s based on fiction, with no provable data to back up the false claims coming from the foremost voices from the Aboriginal and leftist white enclaves within Australian society.

One of the most sensible voices within Australia observing this phenomenon of the anti-white, racist, left-wing apologists is that of Australian conservative commentator Andrew Bolt. In 2006 he published a book, Still Not Sorry, refuting the fiction of Australia’s “Stolen Generation” of Aboriginal children. (p. 23.)

Fraser is wrong. Bolt's book was actually published in 2005.

Bolt reiterated the amazing fact that the left has hoodwinked much of the Australian population into swallowing the myth that previous Australian governments had literally stolen Aboriginal children from their parents in what the leftist academic Prof. Robert Manne, of La Trobe University, terms an effort to “keep white Australia pure.”

As Bolt rightly claims, Australia’s prime minister has now apologized to the minority Aboriginal community in Australia for this fiction despite the fact that “no one has yet named even 10 of these 100,000 children we are told were stolen” (ibid.). (pp. 23-24.)

Fraser then mocks Prime Minister Rudd by citing an incident of an Aboriginal mother having her child taken away by the authorities because she was living in some sort of protest camp while waiting to hear this much anticipated apology. Fraser also uses this to vilify the left wing Rudd government as a "leftist, anti-white socialist element in Australia".

But all chickens come home to roost. As Andrew Bolt reported, an incident that flew right in the face of the government’s apology to the Australian Aboriginal community occurred right under its nose, in the national capital, just two days prior to the sorry apology. [Fraser then quotes Bolt to describe the incident.] ... Poetic justice. Mr. Rudd was simply hoist by his own petard. But did this dent the impervious exterior of the leftist, anti-white socialist element in Australia? No more than it would have a similar merry band of ignoramuses if such an incident occurred in Washington, London, Ottawa or Wellington. (p. 25.)

What venomous paranoia Fraser bared towards those he disagreed with. It is astonishing that Fraser, seeing people dealing the painful legacies of the past, demonize them as "anti-white" simply for willing to confront this shameful issue.

Fraser then insists that the "Anglo-Saxons" of Australia have been very good to the Aborigines by extending to them freedoms that Anglo-Saxons enjoy.

From the time of the Spanish Armada, through Trafalgar, Waterloo, World War I and World War II there was a freedom-loving people that fought and defeated tyranny to guarantee those very freedoms that we in the Anglo-Saxon nations enjoy today and have so generously extended to the minority groups that exist—indeed, still flee tyranny so as to enjoy life—within the main bastions of those freedoms today, the Anglo-Saxon nations. (p. 25.)

Fraser wants to believe that the white majority have been so generous to the Aborigines. But Fraser sees a problem, namely anyone who discusses these issues in a way Fraser disapproves of. Fraser is infuriated that some of these people are of the same race as himself. He accuses such people of being influenced by people who are "destroying the very freedom" that Fraser insists has so generously be given to the minorities such as the Aborigines.

But the sad fact is the fifth column of resistance to the ongoing enjoyment of those freedoms too often works actively among, and within, our own free societies. Too often they hail from our very own kith and kin. These are those who, ideologically, have so willingly and ignorantly been taken advantage of by those influences that are intent on actually destroying the very freedoms that enable them to practice treason and sedition within the very societies that guarantee the open, unfettered practice of their hedonistic lifestyles. (pp. 25-26.)

Fraser seems to be angry that some white Australians happen to speak out on behalf of those Fraser opposes. It never seems to occur to Fraser that perhaps there are good reasons for them to act this way.

The Stolen Generations (1900-1970)

Often it is a good idea to look at the other side of the story. According to Fraser on page 24 not even ten individuals of these stolen generations were even named. Fraser even vilifies people who talk about the stolen generations as "anti-white". Maybe we should look at the other side of the story.

Here is a part of a 2006 column written by professor Robert Manne who was mentioned in a derogatory manner by Fraser on page 23.

One branch of this denialism concerns the question of what Australians have come to call the "stolen generations", the policy and practice of removing mixed descent Aborigines from their mothers, families and cultures between 1900 and 1950 when the thinking was unambiguously racist, and between 1950 and 1970 when racist thinking and welfare considerations became intertwined.

The most extreme exponent of this branch of denialism is the Herald Sun's Andrew Bolt. Despite the fact that an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey reveals that between 1900 and 1970, 20,000 to 25,000 indigenous children were separated from their natural families; despite the fact that a mountain of documentary evidence and eyewitness testimony exists that reveal the cruelty and the racist motivations of the policy; despite the fact that even the Howard Government has funded a monument to the stolen generations - in column after column, Bolt has described the question of the stolen generations as a "preposterous and obscene" myth, a "pride murdering fantasy", a "libel on our past". ...

Bolt has often written in a way that suggests that there is not one example of a child seized from a loving mother by force. Again, this is plainly wrong. In October 1919 the tough police inspector at Broome complained to the Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, A. O. Neville: "This seizing and removing of children is obnoxious to the police. No neglect has been shown by the mothers. The children have the natural love for the mother." Neville responded thus: "If the duty of bringing in half-caste children is obnoxious to the Police, it is strange that the Department has not previously been advised of this, in view of the hundreds of cases that have had attention." What does Bolt think this exchange means? (Robert Manne, The Cruelty of Denial, The Age, September 9, 2006.)

And what about the assertion that there are not even ten names to substantiate that Aboriginal children were taken away from their families by order of the government?

Trying to get Andrew Bolt to agree to a debate was surreal. Before being willing to debate me Bolt demanded first either "ten" or "one hundred" or even "a few hundred" names of stolen children. I asked him for his definition of a stolen child. He refused to reply. I asked him who was to determine whether or not I had satisfied his pre-condition. Again he refused to reply. Eventually, I sent him some 250 names. After a silence, Bolt agreed to the debate.

Bolt has a Herald Sun blog-site. He appealed on it for help in discrediting my first 12 names. There was no mention of the other 230-plus. Bolt presented the results of his research assistants at last Sunday's debate. The omissions and distortions took my breath away. ... He has never mentioned the other 230 names. (Robert Manne, The Cruelty of Denial, The Age, September 9, 2006.)

To his shame Fraser insists these terrible things never happened citing just one writer to advance his extremist position of denial. How many readers of this booklet are aware that they are reading denialism?

What a coward this Ron Fraser is. He claims his people have been so generous to the Aborigines and yet he denies them even acknowledgement of the terrible wrong of up to twenty-five thousand Aboriginal children being ripped away from their families.

How dare Fraser pretends such things never happened. How dare Fraser chose to live in a fantasy world where these things never happened.

Massacres Against Aborigines

Tellingly there is no mention in Fraser's booklet of all the other terrible things that the various state institutions of Australia inflicted upon the Aborigines. Fraser acts as though these things did not happen.

For centuries the Aborigines lived in Australia without being a burden to anyone outside of Australia. Today they are a minority in their own land. This did not just happen. The Aborigines did not ask for this. They were forced into this position due to the deliberate actions of various government leaders.

The Aborigines were legally stripped of any legal right to their lands when the land was declared to be terra incognita belonging to no one thus willfully ignoring those who had lived there for so long. And so the land was colonized and the Aborigines were rendered landless by governmental decree.

The Aborigines had no guns. They never needed such a thing. But some of those descended from Europeans chose to abuse their power and inflicted massacres upon the Aborigines. There were numerous massacres committed against the Aborigines.

One of the last of these massacres occurred around Coniston in 1928 in the Northern Territory. One white Australian was murdered by an Aborigine in a dispute that was widely rumored to have concerned some sort of personal dispute over a woman. But instead of trying to prosecute the guilty one this murder was used as a pretext to engage in a campaign of what would now be called ethnic cleansing.

Several whites with the aid of a police officer proceeded to go on a murderous rampage for over a month. Anywhere between 31 to 170 Aborigines were murdered in the month long rampage. Many of the Aborigines who lived in the area for so long were compelled to flee for their lives and were unable to return home. And thus was ethnic cleansing made against these innocent people.

The Coniston massacre, which took place from 14 August to 18 October 1928 near the Coniston cattle station in Northern Territory, Australia, was the last known officially sanctioned massacre of Indigenous Australians and one of the last events of the Australian Frontier Wars. People of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre and Kaytetye groups were killed. The massacre occurred in revenge for the death of dingo hunter Frederick Brooks, killed by Aboriginal people in August 1928 at a place now known as Yukurru, (also known as Brooks Soak).

Official records at the time stated that 31 people were killed. The owner of Coniston station, Randall Stafford, was a member of the punitive party for the first few days and estimated that at least twice that number were killed between 14 August and 1 September. Historians estimate that at least 60 and as many as 110 Aboriginal men, women and children were killed. The Warlpiri, Anmatyerre and Kaytetye believe that up to 170 died between 14 August and 18 October. (Coniston massacre, Wikipedia.)

It is astonishing that Fraser should pretend that things like this had never happened. These shameful events are never mentioned or even alluded to in this booklet.

The terrible plight that befell the Aboriginal Australians was so well known that the famous writer H. G. Wells alluded to what happened to the Aborigines of the Australian island of Tasmania in his novel, The War of the Worlds, with these words.

The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. (H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898, Chapter 1.)

(Of course the Tasmanian Aborigines were human. They did not have a "human likeness". They were human. But alas even when Wells was writing of them sympathetically he used terminology that makes it appear possible to view them as lesser beings when they were not. A testament to just how widespread racist ideas were back in those days.)

Considering the severity of these terrible things it is no wonder that many Australians of all ethnicities yearn to put things right and address these terrible events. No wonder Prime Minister Rudd said sorry.

How dare Fraser pretends that these things did not happen and acts as though Aborigines have no right to bring up these disturbing facts in order to try and improve their situation and address these historical injustices.

Chapter 5

Here Fraser bemoans supposed deterioration of juvenile behavior. He cites an incident of vandalism.

Over the past 40 years, we have grown used to seeing the progressive defanging of the law under the creeping influence of social engineers intent on severing all connection between civilized society and the Anglo-Saxon traditions that have fostered the most stable of societies for centuries. (p. 28.)

But if European Australia is a "civilized society" then what is an uncivilized society? Is he referring to the Aborigines?

Compounding this devastating picture of a society cut adrift from its traditional moorings, the power of the multiculturalists to add further confusion to an already volatile societal powder keg is revealed in Mosaic 2008’s revelation that “50 percent of all Australians have one parent born overseas, of whom only 14 percent were born in the UK; Africa, India, Indonesia, Singapore and China are the fastest-growing sources of immigrants” (ibid.).

The strength of Australia as a nation was once rooted in the virtues referred to by Winston Churchill as “the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society.” Those virtues are not of African, Indian, Indonesian, Singaporean or Chinese origin. (p. 30.)

It is clear that Fraser views Australia as a place for whites. In Fraser's mind Australian identity is based on race. When he sees those not descended from Europeans living in Australia he views them as "outsiders" who are of a lower status than whites like himself. Fraser even views the Aborigines in this way even though they have lived in Australian far longer than any one descended from Europeans.

In the age of common sense, masculine was clearly masculine, feminine was definitely feminine, and anyone who confused the clear, God-given roles of either was shunned as clearly that—confused, or worse, perverted in outlook and behavior. In the age of common sense, pedophilia was never a headline. (p. 35.)

What bizarre nostalgic views Fraser has. Pedophilia was not mentioned because there was widespread ignorance about such illegal things and consequently often it was left to occur in secret. It is astonishing that Fraser should pretend that such illegal things did not happen when they did. Just because Fraser didn't hear of it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Chapter 6

Fraser starts this chapter talking about Australian soldiers who served in World War I. He cites the 1932 book, The Desert Column by Ion Idries. He especially talks about those who served in the Middle East fighting the forces of the Ottoman Turks.

Fraser mournfully mentions that the last veterans of World War I have just about all died out. He conveniently ignores the fact that such an event is inevitable. Fraser then moans that no one like them are around in Australia today.

Just short of a century ago, the Anzacs fought a tenacious Islamic enemy. Though they had respect for the Turks’ fighting ability, they knew, without doubt, that they were the enemy, and they fought that enemy with every fiber of their being. No half measures—they fought for outright victory! (p. 36.)

Fraser says they "fought a tenacious Islamic enemy" as though the West was then at war with all Muslims. But we must be clear about these matters, these brave soldiers fought the Ottoman Turks. In fact Britain reached out to Arabs who lived under Ottoman Turkish rule and persuaded some of them to ally themselves with the British and liberate themselves from Turkish domination. They were most emphatically not at war with all Muslims as Fraser inaccurately insinuates here.

Some of those brave soldiers are buried in the Gaza War Cemetery within Hamas ruled Gaza. Some of those buried there are Australian soldiers. The Palestinians of Gaza (who are so often vilified by PCG) maintain and look after this precious cemetery. Despite all the terrible things that has happened there in recent years it is still maintained and open for visitors. During the war in 2008-9 about 287 of these graves were damaged by Israeli bombardment according to The Daily Telegraph. How tragic and sad this situation is.

And to think that PCG just casually say that this tragic conflict will never end until Christ's return. They seem convinced that miserable things like this are fated to occur until then. It is terrible to tell those who suffer that they have no hope that these things cannot be resolved and peaceful relations created for all. It is wrong to say there is no hope until Christ returns. Even if this is true this terrible problem needs to be solved now and people should not irresponsibly wait for someone else to do something it. How dare the PCG leadership be so irresponsible on this important issue.

May the blockade surrounding Gaza soon end. May the Palestinians of Gaza be free to lead normal lives of peace. May violence soon flee the Holy Land and touch no one of any nationality, Palestinian or Israeli. May there be peace in the Holy Land so that all may visit and honor those who lie in those graves without fear of war.

Now, the tiny nation of Israel finds that it is on the path to yielding up to the enemy half of that hard-won ancient city of Jerusalem, and a weak-kneed government in Australia withdraws troops from the battle against a fanatically religious enemy of Israel, weakening the allied effort in Iraq and thus opening the gate wider for Jerusalem to return to the captivity from which those Anzac forces released it less than a century ago. (p. 37.)

Shortly after Kevin Rudd was elected Prime Minister one of the first acts he did was to withdraw Australian soldiers from Iraq. Here Fraser condemns that act, accusing the elected government of being "a weak-kneed government".

Hypocritically Fraser's PCG teaches that it is forbidden for PCG members to serve in the armed forces and yet Fraser should condemn the Rudd government for doing what PCG members are taught to do by their leaders.

Fraser also nonsensically insinuates that Australian withdrawal from Iraq will cause the State of Israel to lose its hold on Jerusalem. But historically Al Qaeda in Iraq (modern day ISIL) has never fought against the State of Israel instead choosing to violently seize power from other Arabs. Those blood thirsty terrorists have never done anything for the Palestinians beyond saying some cheap words. Recently they even murdered a Palestinian whom they had tricked into joining them.

Fraser also ignores the fact that the State of Israel have an army of their own. Fraser talks as though Israel's armed forces are useless and that Israel is defenseless. That is simply not true and also insulting towards the Israelis.

Also Fraser insinuates that Jerusalem was under "captivity" until 1917 giving no regard to the fact that the majority of the population in Jerusalem and the Holy Land had long been Muslim. The Ottoman Turks had ruled Palestine for about 300 years, longer than Australia has existed as a nation since its establishment in 1901.

Today we face twin terrors, the one clearly Islamic fanaticism, and the other the intellectual terror of the rabid, feminized, racist, politically correct thought police.
Oh for a return to the days of common sense! (p. 37.)

Fraser despises the left. He despises them so much he conveniently forgets that they were always there in society.

Chapter 7

Here Fraser falsely insinuates that former British Prime Minister Disraeli, Queen Victoria and the Anzac soldiers of World War I believed in British Israelism. This is complete nonsense. British Israelism always remained an odd idea that never gained widespread acceptance. British Israelism is nonsense. Silenced.co has shown how British Israelism is built on a foundation of sand. In fact DNA evidence refutes British Israelism.

While reverently discussing these Australian soldiers of World War I Fraser approvingly alludes to apartheid South Africa.

Heritage —that’s what once made Britain great! That’s what moved these peoples to carve great nations out of the continental extension of North America, of southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand! (p. 39.) 

Note the favorable allusion to apartheid South Africa. ("That’s what moved these peoples to carve great nations out of ... southern Africa") Why does Fraser allude to South Africa in the approving manner here? Because of white supremacy. Once again Fraser shows his sympathy for white supremacy. The problem of racial discrimination against those not born into the white race is of little concern to Fraser.

Fraser incorrectly asserts that an Australian soldier he discusses was of "Davidic Welsh stock".

Ion Idriess, an Australian of Davidic Welsh stock... (p. 39.)

This is complete nonsense because the Welsh are not Israelites. British Israelism is nonsense. Silenced.co has shown how British Israelism is built on a foundation of sand. In fact DNA evidence refutes British Israelism.

There, in vivid detail, one can imagine the frenzied gallop of horsemen, vastly outnumbered by the entrenched enemy, swooping down in the face of ravaging fire to take ancient Beersheba of Abrahamaic tradition and open the way for the seizure of Jerusalem from the Muslims, a victory denied to the Crusaders who over the centuries had sought to take the Holy City in the name of Rome. (p. 41.)

Actually the Crusaders were able to take control of Jerusalem. But they lost control of it to the local population later on.

Normally PCG denounce the Crusades as an invention of the Roman Catholic Church and as an opportunity to demonize the Papacy. But bizarrely enough Fraser seems to present the Crusaders in a positive light here and even praise these soldiers as doing something the Crusaders were unable to do (which he happen to be wrong about).

All this talk of praise towards the Australian soldiers of World War I then leads to a condemnation of homosexuals, specifically of some Australian soldiers participating in a parade.

Do today’s Australians still reflect that spirit? Grave doubts are being raised on that question as we see representatives of Australia’s fighting forces taking part in a “celebration” of lifestyles specifically condemned within the book that was the foundation of the country’s moral strength through its pioneering history and its blooding as a nation in warfare. Great shame was brought upon the Anzac heritage at the 30th anniversary “celebration” of the homosexual and lesbian mardi gras in Sydney in 2008 as, for the first time, a contingent of Australia’s military marched in Sydney’s annual day of shame. (pp. 41-42.)

Fraser then complains that now that Australian is not so predominantly populated by whites anymore that Australia is doomed to fall should a new World War occur again.

The question now is, would today’s increasingly politically correct, multicultural, Aboriginalized, feminized, increasingly Asianized and Islamicized Australian society have what it takes to rise to the occasion should tyranny once again threaten these freedoms? Would there be sufficient of the old Anzac spirit remaining to fire up the manpower of the nation to willingly defend home and hearth from any prospect of invasion? Can a new multicultural “tradition” fire a nation with the same zealous patriotism that the once deeply embedded culture of “God, king and country” did for Australia in two great world wars? The psychology simply does not work the same! (pp. 42-43.)

What strange, narrow minded attitudes Fraser bore towards people he viewed as not part of his race. Not to mention racist.

It is clear that Fraser views ethnic minorities, including the Aborigines, as menacing "outsiders" and that Fraser views them as an ever present threat to his race.

It must be stated that the vast majority of white Australians would no doubt disagree with Fraser's contempt for those who are only guilty of not being born white.

Fraser then bizarrely insinuates that an Australia that accommodates all its' citizens, not just the white majority, "does not deserve to survive."

It was Sir Winston Churchill who pointed to the truism that any nation that forgets its past does not deserve to survive. (p. 43.)

What a shocking and terrible thing to say about Australia. What bitterness lay in his heart, even towards his follow Australians. It is shameful that Fraser should write such bitter words like this. I cannot even imagine saying something so bitter, twisted, vindictive and nasty about Australia.

It is strange how Fraser vilifies the left as "anti-white" and then insinuates that his own nation "does not deserve to survive" for being too accommodating to minorities in his opinion. What a villainous thing to say.

Fraser seems to wish Australia would be destroyed for not being as fixated on maintaining white supremacy as he is.

These words show that Fraser was an extremist prone to saying hateful things.

How is it that this man was able to rise up to the position of prominence and power within the leadership of PCG? How is it that no one within the upper echelon of PCG noticed that this man was an extremist? How dare PCG's leaders allowed a man capable of saying such terrible things to have so much power and influence over those within PCG. PCG's members have been ill served with this man being allowed to have so much power over them.

Chapter 8

Here Fraser complains about a supposed lack of military strength for Australia.

Australia is aligned neither culturally nor ideologically with its northern neighbors. Though the nation’s land mass is impressive, it lacks the population to mount any military force of real significance compared in numbers to the teeming masses of greater Asia. (p. 45.)

Since Fraser is so fixated on race he views the Asian nations not as neighbors but as outsiders who cannot be trusted because they are not white.

Fraser then talks about Australia's relations with the United States and fear mongers that with the election of a left wing government these relations with the United States might fall apart. It must be borne in mind that this booklet was written before the election of President Obama.

Fraser then fear mongers about Muslim immigrants.

Added to the question of Australia’s defense gap is the matter of just how prepared the nation is to ensure its own internal security. With such a mix of immigrants from Asia and the Middle East having settled in the southern continent—many totally uncommitted to becoming acculturated into Australian society—a possible elevation of fifth-column activities within the country poses an increasing risk. Though largely kept at bay by the previous conservative government for over a decade, the more politically correct policies of the Rudd government are likely to allow individuals and organizations that work against Australia’s interests to begin to raise their heads. (p. 48.)

The truth is that Fraser is so fixated on race that Fraser could never accept those born of another race as equals. But he projects this bigotry upon those immigrants.

Fraser then discusses a mass arrest of alleged terrorists in 2005.

Australia’s population was built by the migration of peoples from foreign shores. Yet because of its original “White Australia” policy, the bulk of the nation’s immigrants up to the mid-20th century came from Britain and Europe. During the heady days of the 1960s and ’70s, the intelligentsia of the nation exaggerated and publicized myths about the mistreatment of ethnic groups within Australia, leading to a change in the government’s stance on immigration. (p. 49.)

Fraser presents this fact as though it were a minor detail but this fact just might be the one thing that explains Fraser's fixation on race and his racist views.

Is it possible that Ron Fraser by living in a society that was kept predominantly white in this way was rendered ignorant of people from other ethnicities and religions thus making it easier for him to adopt paranoid stereotypes about people he was ignorant of because of this “White Australia” policy?

While Fraser grew up in a society that was predominantly European this was an artificial state of affairs created by the Australian government's enforcement of this “White Australia” policy. Did Fraser ever think about how unusual it was to live in a society so predominantly European? Did Fraser imagine this White Australia was somehow natural when in fact this state of affairs was created by the government?

It is not possible for me to provide definitive answers about Ron Fraser's early life. Only those who knew him well could even begin to do so.

Fraser then complains that after this “White Australia” policy was removed these other people born into different races began migrating into Australia. Fraser did not like this.

That all began to change in the wake of war in Vietnam. Following the Vietnam War, boatloads of Asians penetrated the northern shores of Australia and were absorbed into its society. Buddhist temples, something quite alien to the Australian Judeo-Christian culture, started to pop up around the country. This was later followed by waves of Islamic immigrants from the Middle East. Mosques appeared and the cries of the mullahs were heard ringing out across the cities of Australian suburbs mixing with the bleating of sacrificial goats being slaughtered in suburban backyards. The entire culture of the nation began to change from its Anglo-Saxon foundation to reflect the policies of multiculturalism. (p. 49.)

Intriguingly Fraser offers no sympathy for the boat people who left Vietnam. It is well known that many of those people were in a most desperate situation yet he never makes any attempt to view matters from their perspective. They are merely outsiders. He choose to complain that they have moved into what he imagines as "a white man's land."

He is offended that they happen to practice their own religions as though freedom of religion is meaningless for him.

Fraser then vilifies Muslim immigrants as "a real threat" to his Australia (meaning the white majority) and possessing an "extremist loyalty to the cause of pan-Islamism via jihad". Intriguingly in his earlier 1999 booklet he said nothing about any supposed threat against Australia from Muslim immigrants.

Among those arrested on Nov. 8, 2005, were some Australian citizens. None were Australian ethnics. The culture and the religion they practiced were foreign to the majority within the nation of their citizenship. They had not assimilated. Like their compatriots in Britain and Europe, they elected to use the freedoms granted by their citizenship to perpetrate terror on the nation that granted them a haven from other societies still stuck in a medieval culture of cruelty toward, and deprivation of, their citizenry. Their extremist loyalty to the cause of pan-Islamism via jihad poses a real threat to the nation that feeds, clothes, shelters and educates them, and provides them with a means to make a living. (p. 50.)

Fraser sees that no European descended individuals were arrested so he assumes that white Australians are innocent and are not to be feared because he only views whites as his equals. But in fact violence and crimes and problems that are to be found among all peoples.

Fraser then fear mongers that Muslim terrorists could infiltrate Australia from Indonesia, a fear which seven years after this booklet's publication has proven utterly baseless.

Over 200 million Muslims populate the Indonesian archipelago, the southern extremity of which lies only 200 miles north of Australia. Any terrorist could find a warm, hospitable haven in this island complex while awaiting safe passage to the land Down Under. (p. 50.)

Note how Fraser ignores the Indonesians' distinctive national identity and views them with hostility as Muslims as though they were just any kind of Muslims. They are not just any kind of Muslims, they are Indonesian Muslims. Also many Indonesians are not Muslim at all. Many Indonesians happen to be Christians.

Fraser then reveals that even if a Muslim immigrant should integrate with society so well that they should happen to talk like an Australian Fraser is still suspicious of them. Even the Muslim immigrants who talk like Australians are vilified as somehow failing to assimilate. Fraser seems to have no awareness that perhaps he is the one refusing to accept them as equal because they are born into another race.

Even assimilated Muslim immigrants are loathed and despised.

Yet Australia’s greatest challenge is not so much keeping extremist imams and their terrorist protégés from migrating into the country. The most significant terrorist potential lies within the hearts of extremist Islamic Australian citizens already embedded within that continent—the sons of earlier migrants, who speak with an Aussie twang but who will never assimilate into Australian society. (p. 50.)

What stereotyped trash. Even when their children grow up and talk like Ron Fraser he accuses them of not assimilating like white Australians. Ron Fraser is projecting his own loathing and apathy for these ethnic minorities onto them.

Australia stands at a crucial crossroad as U.S. power wanes. Will its Mandarin-speaking prime minister be able to hold the balance against an increasingly expanding China with its voracious appetite for Australia’s raw materials? (p. 51.)

Is Fraser somehow condemning the fact that Rudd can speak Mandarin? Fraser mentioned that same detail about him in chapter 2 on page 13.

And after spouting off this racist rant against immigrants Fraser fear mongers about Germany and its relations with Australia. PCG teaches that Germany is fated to launch a nuclear war against America and Britain in the near future just before Christ's return.

Surprisingly, while Canberra gazes fixatedly on Asia—being particularly concerned about Australia’s relations with China at this moment—quietly in the background the greatest single trading bloc on Earth, the German-dominated European Union, is steadily making inroads into Australian business, finance and industry, with a view to exploiting Australia for its own ends as it seeks to gain increasing influence in the greater Asia Pacific region. You will hear more of this in the news in the months and years ahead. (pp. 51-52.)

It is now seven years since Fraser wrote this booklet. This is yet another failed prophecy of PCG.

Fraser insinuates that somehow Australia will somehow be caught between some kind of future struggle between the future European Empire of Armstrongism's dire false prophecies and a future Russian-Chinese-Japanese alliance.

The time is fast approaching when the continent of Australia will be caught in the crossfire between two great, economically and militarily expanding power blocs, the European Union and a great pan-Asian bloc. (p. 52.)

Seven years later we are still waiting for this "time ... fast approaching" to occur. We are still waiting for Europe, Russia, China, Japan, Muslims, etc to somehow destroy the Australia that Fraser seems to think deserves to be destroyed anyway.

Chapter 9

In this chapter Fraser denounces Republicanism, the political movement among Australians to remove Queen Elizabeth II from her role as Head of State for Australia and turn Australia into a republic.

Should Australia become a republic, or remain constitutionally subject to the British Crown? ... Both Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his feminist-socialist deputy Julia Gillard are committed republicans. (p. 53.)

And seven years later Australia's status has not changed. In fact later Gillard ousted Rudd, then Rudd ousted her in turn just in time to lose an election to the right wing party that Fraser clearly wished had won earlier.

Fraser then discusses some sort of summit held shortly after Kevin Rudd's election to power. Because this is a left wing government Fraser mocks it because it is not right wing like himself.

None of this should be surprising, given that the bulk of the 1002 invitees to the 2020 summit were drawn from the liberal-socialist element of Australian society, overloaded as it was with the intelligentsia, spiced with enclaves of the commentariat, and with even a hooker present to represent something called the Scarlet Alliance standing out in the crowd with her green-and-gold dyed hair. (pp. 53-54.)

Fraser mocks this summit as being of little interest to most journalists who had to cover it.

Most respondents to the press and media websites such as News Ltd. and Fairfax seemed to regard the 2020 summit as a talkfest of a “politicized elite with little in common with ordinary Australians” ..... (p. 54.)

It should be no surprise that Fraser would be sympathetic towards News Ltd. considering it tends to lean to the right politically speaking since it happens to be owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the same man who owns Fox News Channel, The Times of London and many other media related companies.

Fraser then cites one left wing commentator who happens to support retaining Queen Elizabeth II as Australia's head of state (pp. 54-55).

Fraser then proceeds to denounce journalists who questions what Fraser favors as far left self hating fools, fifth columnists and (he insinuates) guilty of sedition.

Of course, the worst hatred by far has often come from the self-hating far-left in our midst, the old “fifth column.” ... these dissidents [in Britain during the height of the British Empire] lived in one of the few nations on Earth that permitted the airing of seditious views in the interests of free speech! Be that as it may, given the state today of journalistic commentary on the Iraq and Afghan wars, it’s easy to see those “eminent men” have effectively handed down their seditious trade to the generations that have followed. (pp. 55-56.)

Let's assume for the sake of argument that Fraser is right and all these other people are wrong. Even then Fraser needs to make a persuasive argument instead of just spreading this venomous invective.

Fraser accuses Australian republicanism of detaching Australia from its historical heritage. It is insinuated that should Australia become a republic it will lose divine favor that had previously been granted to Australia.

From where did Australia gain its prestige as a nation? From standing up to the forces of tyranny under a proud flag that super-imposed the Union Jack upon the stars of the Southern Cross! From flying high over its buildings of state, the red, white and blue livery of the very temple colors of the ancient nation of Israel! Too few there be who recognize that today! (pp. 56-57.)

British Israelism was, is and shall always be false. As well as any idea based on this false idea. Silenced.co has shown how British Israelism is built on a foundation of sand. In fact DNA evidence refutes British Israelism. Actually British Israelism is an act of thievery against the Jews by stealing their distinctive cultural heritage that is precious to them.

Fraser then denounces republicanism as an elitist thing obscuring the fact that he opposes it because he leans to the right in regards to politics.

The trouble is, a half-century and more of regressive, liberal-socialist-feminist education, overlaid with a more recent morally vacuous political correctness, has produced a generation in Australia largely divorced from its true and ancient heritage. That great past has been sacrificed on the altars of godless socialism, feminism and multiculturalism! Add to this the influence over the masses of the famously baying Australian press, out to get blood at any expense—especially if that is royal blood—and the result is entirely predictable. You end up with the imposition of the warped will of the loudly chattering “progressives” over the real will of the people. (p. 57.)

Fraser so hates the left. He constantly talks of this in this insulting invective. This is not a sign of strength but of vindictiveness and fear of responding to arguments in a civil manner.

Fraser then describes how HWA went looking for converts in Australia back in the 1960s.

During the great decade of social change, the 1960s, a powerful voice was broadcasting coast to coast in Australia every evening on radio. Herbert W. Armstrong pulled no punches when it came to speaking the plain, unadulterated truth. Multiple thousands of Australians appreciated his no-holds-barred approach to delivering the plain and simple truth on any matter. (p. 58.)

As mentioned in a previous post Fraser has mentioned that he has been involved in Armstrongism since 1968 at least, if not earlier.

Including saying that Christ would return in 1975? That is what HWA taught from 1953 onward.

Chapter 10

Fraser once again moans about Australia being led by an elected left wing Prime Minister.

Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd lost little time in revealing his true political colors, and pink they proved to be. He immediately announced the withdrawal of Aussie troops from Iraq and followed that up by creating history in the Australian Parliament, having Aboriginals do a tribal dance on the floor of the House. He then gave a speech declaring on behalf of all Australians an apology for the way they had treated the indigenous people that populated the land at the time that Great Britain took possession of it, and their progeny down to this day. (p. 60.)

Fraser repeats his nonsensical assertion that there were no stolen generations citing just one author.

[Fraser asserts this one author who he says] clearly exposed the lie that claims Australia was guilty of a policy of stealing Aboriginal children from their parents, and very regularly providing ample evidence to support the fact that it is a lie perpetrated by self-interest groups, the entertainment industry and mass media.... (p. 60.)

As noted above it is nonsense to claim that there was no stolen generations of Aboriginal families ripped apart by order of the government. It happened. It is cowardly of Fraser to delude himself into pretending that such things did not occur.

Australia’s swing to the left in the national elections witnessed how few really appreciate that there is a strong link between traditional, conservative values and experiencing these blessings. (p. 60.)

Fraser threatens Australia with some unnamed catastrophe for being too left wing for his tastes.

Accuses media of brainwashing people to elect Rudd's party. This contradicts Fraser's citation of media against 2020 summit including News Ltd..

Just what is the Australian identity today? What are the real values that Australians respect and seek to protect from the impact of creeping multiculturalism? What are the standards that underpin Australian society today? (p. 62.)

Fraser fear mongers that Australia will somehow collapse since its people had not had to endure a World War.

Australia is now governed by those who never knew the impact of world war nor suffered the privations of a global economic depression. Without such a test on national character, Australia is in danger of becoming soft—soft headed in particular. (p. 61.)

Fraser complains about "creeping multiculturalism".

The burning questions that so heavily impinge on Australia’s future at this juncture are these: Just what is the Australian identity today? What are the real values that Australians respect and seek to protect from the impact of creeping multiculturalism? What are the standards that underpin Australian society today? The realists worry about all this. (p. 62.)

Fraser refers to himself and people he agrees with as "realists" just after insinuating that Australia deserves to be destroyed and denying that about 20,000 children were forcibly removed from Aboriginal families.

We simply pose this question: In this age of great global disruption, this age of immense challenges to Western civilization from contending cultures and great religious movements foreign to the West, does Australia—which under Mr. Howard stoically resisted incursions upon its foundational values, institutions and freedoms—now, under a different form of government, have what it takes to continue a robust defense of Australia’s true identity as a nation? (p. 63.)

Reading between the lines and noting his loathing of the left it is clearly that Fraser is very much inclined to answer "No." But because this booklet is designed to recruit new tithe paying members for his PCG he is not interested in giving a simple answer. Rather he is trying to make the reader make this final conclusion him or herself.

Chapter 11

Here Fraser discusses HWA's expansion into Australia and the rise of his following within Australia, the Tkach changes and the rise of PCG which Fraser insists to be the only legitimate continuation of WCG. Fraser never mentions that there are hundreds of other COG organizations that also sprang from WCG and continue to teach many of HWA's teachings. They are contemptuously left unmentioned. Also it is well known that PCG enforces a no contact policy forbidding PCG members from contacting members of the other COG groups, even close family members.

In this chapter Fraser mentions Malachi's Message, the booklet used to proclaim that Gerald Flurry is used by God. It is widely known that many of the ideas within his booklet Malachi's Message, which is so often cited by PCG to justify following Gerald Flurry instead of the many other COG splinter groups, were plagiarized from The Letter to Laodicea by Jules Dervaes, written December 1986-January 1988. It was sent to 237 WCG ministers including Gerald Flurry and John Amos. On September 26, 1990 Jules Dervaes even sent a letter to Gerald Flurry in which he denounces Malachi's Message as "a direct and clear plagiarism" of his work.  

While briefly discussing the history of Armstrongism Fraser cites a September 13, 1980 co-worker letter HWA made to his followers in Australia in which HWA said that Satan was trying to prevent him from expanding the number of his followers in Australia.

Incidentally in that 1980 co-worker letter HWA made the following statement.

GOD DID NOT GIVE ANCIENT ISRAEL HIS HOLY SPIRIT! He did specially call out of them His PROPHETS, and He gave to them His Holy Spirit. These Prophets were prepared to be a CO-FOUNDATION of the CHURCH when God later, through Christ, would raise up His CHURCH. No prophets in the New Testament Church had administrative or preaching functions in the Church—none contributed the doctrines or customs to the Church. But Old Testament Prophets' writings did become part of the FOUNDATION of the Church. (HWA, Co-worker letter to Australia, September 13, 1980.)

HWA consistently taught from 1953 till his death that New Testament Prophets had no power over church members. And yet Gerald Flurry chose to ignore HWA's consistent teaching on this matter and proclaimed himself to be "That Prophet" contrary to HWA's teaching. PCG even changed Mystery of the Ages to obscure this contradiction with HWA's teaching. And near the end of this booklet Fraser obliquely insists that there is a "prophet" leading his organization. He means Gerald Flurry.

There is a man on the scene today, a prophet of God, selected by Him to receive the revelation of the end-time warning of God to the nations, and charged with the specific responsibility to deliver that warning message to its threefold audience. If you read and study the literature we have mentioned in this booklet, it will lead you to readily identify just who that watchman of God is. (p. 68.)

Fraser is referring to his boss and paymaster, Gerald Flurry, who proclaimed himself to be "That Prophet" in 1999 to further aggrandize himself among his followers. But Fraser wants to lead his readers on a long journey before the readers realize he refers to Gerald Flurry. If they keep getting stringed along they will be more suggestible and more likely to believe that grandiose claim.

Fraser ends this booklet by threatening the reader that unless he or she joins PCG they are doomed to experience the Great Tribulation.

You and your loved ones could be saved that heartache and suffering. It would simply take a clear resolution in your mind that you will begin to obey God and His law, the only way to true peace of mind and a real state of blessedness. It’s a decision not worth delaying. Your eternal future may depend on it! (p. 68.)

This booklet is nonsense. Fraser's booklet cannot save anyone from the Great Tribulation or anything else (except reality). How can a book that denies a well established historical fact such as the stolen generations lead anyone to safety? It's racist too.

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It is frightening to imagine that a man capable of saying the extremist things in this booklet was allowed to have so much power within PCG.