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The following are excerpts from the book The Prophesied End-Time Revealed - 2008 - God's Final Witness
It is used here without permission... If it is true and if we all are truly about to suffer and die together then I'm betting the author, Ronald Weinland, will not bother wasting time suing *me* over using excerpts from his book...
The Fifth Thunder
The next three thunders have a duality that includes both the
Church of God and the world. It has already been explained that
the Sixth Seal is a time of transition from end-time tribulation on
the Church to end-time tribulation on this world. The last three
thunders are a direct part of that transition.
#5 The Fifth Thunder is death.
The first three thunders obviously include a marked increase
in death from escalation in worldwide devastation. This thunder
is in addition to that destruction and will occur in a specific
manner.
All seven thunders should serve to be a very sobering witness
(testimony) to the validity that the final end-time destruction, as
recorded in prophecy, is now at hand and that God’s end-time
spokesman for His two witnesses has now come and he is indeed
from God. The Seven Thunders will be the beginning evidence
that my words are true.
In small part, the Fifth Thunder has already begun within the
Church of God that was scattered. The world will be fully
unaware of the first phase of this thunder because they do not
know God’s Church. However, the Church that was scattered
will become fully aware of its reality!
This Fifth Thunder is divided into three specific phases of
death.
(1) The first phase is death within the Church of God that
was scattered. It will be specifically about a marked increase in
the death of its leadership (the ministry).
(2) The second phase will be a sudden escalation in the death of
notable people in the world. (Emphasis mine AW)
(3) The third phase will be a sudden escalation of death
in the world from plagues.
(1) This first phase of this Fifth Thunder has already begun in
a very small way upon the Church of God that was scattered,
after the prophesied apostasy (2 Thes. 2). This phase of the Fifth
Thunder is given as a great chastening to those who have been
scattered so that they can be shaken from the deep spiritual sleep
where they so proudly rest. Sadly, spiritual arrogance and pride
are so deeply entrenched in the hearts and minds of those who
have been refusing to hear God’s warnings, that many will not be
able to humble themselves enough to accept what God’s endtime
prophet is telling them. They will not acknowledge his
words, which are from God to them, because they do not like the
way they are being addressed. Instead, these will stubbornly cling
to their own ideas of how they believe God should teach them
through their own organizations.
This phase of the Fifth Thunder is one of my own choosing,
which God has granted me as part of His own will and purpose
for the Church (this will be clarified more fully in the Sixth
Thunder). The method of this one last great chastening, that is for
the purpose of helping to awaken some from the spiritual coma
they are in, is one that God has left for me to determine as one of
His end-time witnesses, who will be given far greater power to
pronounce plagues “as often as they will” (Revelation 11:6) in
order to help humble mankind so they will repent and turn to
God.
This specific phase of the Fifth Thunder is given in order to
awaken brethren (spiritually) to the last opportunity they will
have to repent, in order to enter the promised time they have been
taught about ever since their minds were first opened to God’s
word. All who fail to repent will die in the final tribulation and be
awakened to judgment at the end of the 1,000 years of God’s
reign on earth.
God has already shown the number of those who will respond.
It is given in the form of a percentage from the fifth chapter in
Ezekiel.
At present, only a tithe of the tithe of one-third that was
scattered has repented (1% of a third that was scattered). During
this first phase, repentance will be offered to another ninety per
cent of a full tithe of a third that was scattered (9% of a third that
was scattered). This means very little to those of you who are
reading this unless you have been part of God’s Church. These
words are for them and not you. You do not need to understand
this, but the Church that was scattered does have the ability to
know what is being stated by this prophecy.
God has shown that He has taken His protection away from
His ministry that was scattered (those ministers who have not
repented). This began to be made manifest less than a year ago.
Although it was news in many parts of the world when it
happened (I was in Australia and it was in the news there), the
world did not take much notice of an event that happened in one
of the scattered groups less than a year ago. On March 12, 2005,
in a hotel in Wisconsin where some had gathered for Sabbath
services, a disgruntled member of their congregation entered the
meeting room and fired 22 bullets from a 9mm handgun within a
minute, killing seven people. Before the shooting stopped, the
pastor, the pastor's son and five other church members were dead
and four others were wounded. Then, the disgruntled member
killed himself.
This news thundered throughout the scattered Church. Many
asked how this could have happened, since nothing like this had
ever happened in any Sabbath service meeting in all the history
of God’s Church. The answer to this is not one that the scattered
Church wants to hear—God has removed His protection from all
who have refused to repent!
In the same organization, only three months later, one of the
three television presenters, a long time pastor of the Church, died
from a staph infection. This too rattled this organization and
others. This man was beloved and respected by many, including
myself. He performed the wedding ceremony for my wife and
me. A few years later, he was among the ministers who laid
hands upon me when I was ordained into the ministry of God’s
Church.
In addition to this minister’s death, the very minister that
assisted him died from the same kind of staph infection only two
months later.
These three ministers, who died within the past year, were part
of the same organization, the Living Church of God. The
significance of the death of two of its ministers from an
infectious disease should not go unnoticed in the environs of the
scattered Church because the prayers of the congregation for the
healing of both ministers went unanswered.
This is important to understand because the leader of this
group, Mr. Roderick Meredith, has requested that all people in
his organization fast before God, asking Him for the gift of
healing upon their ministers for the purpose of helping people in
the world see that they are the organization that God is working
through to do His Work on earth. Mr. Meredith has asked this of
his membership on several different occasions over the past few
years. God has not heard their prayers or accepted these fasts!
Not only has God not granted their petitions, but the very thing
that Mr. Meredith requested is against God’s will for this end-time.
Not only was it wrong to request his organization to fast in this
way, but the method for revealing through whom God is working
will not be done through the manifestation of miraculous healings
performed by ministers. God did use this as part of a means to
reveal the glory of His Son, Jesus Christ, and He did grant this
power in a great way to the early Church as a powerful witness of
His new Church and who His ministers were.
However, for this end-time, it is not God’s purpose to display
signs of miraculous healings to the world in order to show where
He is working. It is His purpose to bring an end to man’s self-rule
by humbling man so that he will repent and turn to Him and receive
His government, once Jesus Christ returns as King of kings. The
last era of God’s Church must be humbled so that it will repent and
return to Him, and this world must also be humbled in order to
receive Him. God will humble the Church, and He will humble the
world through end-time events described throughout this book. It is
by this very means that God will reveal through whom He is now
working. Specifically regarding His two end-time witnesses, it
will be by the power given to them for destruction and plagues,
not healing!
Yes, this is the means that will help humble those
who will yet be awakened to repentance in the environs of
the scattered Church. Escalating deaths in the leadership of
the scattered groups will serve as a witness of who
it is through whom God is working. It will not be done through
miraculous signs of healing.
As in the story of Elijah and the ministers of Baal, the words
of Elijah were upheld with great power, and God revealed
through whom He was working. The same will be true in the
things that will happen to members of the leadership of the
scattered Church who refuse to repent and hear God’s true
servant.
The deaths of these three ministers, from the Living Church of
God, will now begin to take on greater symbolic meaning for
everyone in the scattered Church of God groups. God’s
protection has been removed from the scattered Church, as well
as His intervention in healing; because people have not repented
of the reasons the Church was scattered in the first place.
So now, death will begin to spread throughout the scattered Church, and
most noticeably among the leadership.
Elijah’s Story Repeated
There is a story in the Book of Kings that is about to be repeated
on a spiritual plane for God’s Church. Israel became separated
from God and turned to other ideas about God. They turned to
Baal worship by mingling the teachings of Baal with those of
God.
Elijah challenged all the prophets of Baal and told the
Israelites that they should quit stumbling back and forth between
two different thoughts about God:
And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long
will you falter between two opinions? If the ETERNAL is
God, follow Him, but if Baal is then follow him.” But the
people couldn’t answer him a word. (1 Kings 18:21).
Elijah was only one man, so what he said about God was
difficult for people to accept. They chose to be more comfortable
by supporting the soothing teachings of the prophets of Baal.
Elijah then challenged the prophets of Baal to show that either
they were right about God or that he was right about God.
Elijah had those prophets prepare a sacrifice for an offering to
Baal. If Baal was God, then he should be able to consume this
offering in the sight of the people. These prophets cried to Baal
all morning long. Elijah mocked them because their prayers were
not being answered. Elijah then goaded them by saying that they
should cry out louder because perhaps Baal could not hear them
or perhaps he was talking to others. Perhaps Baal was on a
journey or sleeping and needed to be awakened; or maybe he was
away someplace relieving himself (an expression used for going
to the toilet).
Finally, by the time for the evening sacrifice, Elijah prepared
an offering on an altar of wood. Water was poured over the
sacrifice three different times and a trench that surrounded the
altar was filled with water:
And the water ran around the altar, and he also filled the
trench with water. And it came to pass at the time for the
offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet
came near, and said, “ETERNAL God of Abraham, Isaac,
and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in
Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done
all these things by your word. Hear me, O ETERNAL, hear
me, that this people may know that you are the ETERNAL
God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”
Then the fire of the ETERNAL fell, and consumed the burnt
sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and
licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all
the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and they said,
“The ETERNAL, he is the God; the ETERNAL, he is the
God.” Then Elijah said to them, “Take the prophets of
Baal; let not one of them escape.” So they took them and
Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed
them there. (1 Kings 18:35-40)
It is time for the spiritual application of this story of Elijah to
be fulfilled. Four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal died that
day. Now, the time has come for a type of this same account to
be fulfilled in the environs of the spiritual Israel of God, the
Church of God.
I have also made a petition to the ETERNAL God of Abraham.
My petition is that this first phase of the Fifth Thunder be
fulfilled exactly as it is written here. This request is so that
scattered brethren who are asleep might be awakened and know
that God has granted them the opportunity to repent and return to
Him at this time.
Also, it is so that they may know that I am His
end-time prophet,
His spokesman for the two end-time witnesses.
It will be revealed in a very short time whether I am God’s
prophet or not, as well as whether scattered Church leaders are
God’s ministers any longer or not. As stated in a previous
chapter, either one of these is true or neither is true.
To make it absolutely clear, my petition covers more in regard
to the scattered ministers. The most notable among them will be
those who die toward the beginning. However, every minister
who was scattered, who fails to repent early on and return to God
(with me, as God’s minister, teaching them) will die during the
final three and one-half years of great tribulation. They will not
be in the first resurrection, and they will not see the millennial
reign of God’s Kingdom on earth.
The most notable deaths early on, which are yet to come to
pass, will be the two remaining television presenters in the Living
Church of God. The sound of this thunder will be intensified by
the early deaths of the leaders of the Philadelphia Church of God,
the Restored Church of God and the Church of the Great God.
Then, those in the largest scattered group, who think they have
escaped, will be lifted up to believe that God is with them
because they are so filled with pride. But, when that happens, the
deaths of many in the United Church of God will begin.
How much more specific can one be to show that he is either
of God, and indeed His prophet, or someone who has clearly
stepped over the line to be dealt with by God in a speedy manner.
Time will tell! And, you don’t have long to wait!
(2) The second phase of death will be upon notable people in
the world. It will begin small and increase in intensity as all the
thunders do. These notable people will include political leaders
and well known entertainment and sports figures. It will include
other religious figures within the various religions of the world.
The primary exception to this will be the Pope of the Catholic
Church, who is prophesied to die directly after the return of Jesus
Christ. This phase will overlap the first, but this is the main one
that people in the world will notice.
(3) The third phase of death will come from epidemics and
pandemics in the world. Over this past year, many governments
in the world have started minimal preparations for a possible
pandemic from bird flu. This and much more are coming upon
the world scene. As God has warned throughout time, the endtime
will be the worst time in man’s history.
Greg
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