hi everyone,
I know this topic was brought up about a month and half ago, but i wanted everyone here and anyone else who wonders about Ron Weinland to consider this...
a little background first...
before coming to the Truth and finding God working through Ray to bring out the Truth of His word, i was thoroughly deceived by Ron W. and his "endtime apostle/Elijah" Herbert W. Armstrong. I read EVERYTHING they both wrote and thought it was true. I listened to RW every Sabbath and all the other stuff he was teaching. After i had read everything I begged God for more knowledge of Him. It went dry for about a week, Until one day RW said on a radio show...
" I follow the teachings of Gods' endtime apostle/Elijah, HWA." --- paraphrased. That stuck with me.
So i started really questioning (i questioned before but apparently not good enough at that time) HWA's teachings. So i did some research on HW and read all his predictions/prophesies and found out None came true i.e. Jesus is returning in 1975.
God kept saying to me this scripture Matt. 7:20-- you shall know them by their fruits.
I got to thinking if HWA was making false predictions, he's a fake and so is his teachings so therefore RW is a fake too because....
" I follow the teachings of Gods' endtime apostle/Elijah, HWA." --- RW paraphrased.
I got into it with some of his followers telling them that they should be careful following RW because of what Matt. 7:20 says and if HWA made false predictions and RW says he strongly follows him and believe that HWA is the endtime apostle then that would make RW a fake too. Oh i caught hell for that statement.
This was their argument---"HWA was an apostle, not a prophet so that's why his predictions were wrong. Apostles didn't prophesy."----Laughable ain't it!!! Okay then what about Paul huh.
So anyway that was proof enough for me about RW but i listened to him again because he said the " great tribulation" was going to start April 17 of this year. April 17 he preached saying nothing special is going to happen this day but "mark my word, within 90 days at least one of Americas major cities will be terrorised by a nuclear attack from terrorists, Chicago, LA, New York City".
I thought okay, I'll give him 3 months while keeping in mind the whole time what God said about false prophets--- "if a prophet prophecies and it don't come to pass then you don't have to worry about him" (paraphrased. i couldn't find the scripture on esword I'm still green with it)
Well to end this long post (I'm sorry everyone) its now July 31 more than 90 days and nothing came to pass as his books and his radio appearances stated.
So he is a fake, a phony along with his endtime apostle/Elijah, HWA. They have some truths but they are stuck on the Old Testament and all its physical rituals and rules...And all the other "churches of God" with a slightly different name to them.
hopefully this may help anyone coming out of that Mystery Babylon
God bless you all through Jesus,
Anthony