tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post9220072191983057897..comments2024-03-12T11:58:24.510+13:00Comments on Otagosh: The Not-so-Social GospelGavin Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-17581541673030676212012-08-27T06:31:35.460+12:002012-08-27T06:31:35.460+12:00Doug, "you have to understand about the two t...Doug, "you have to understand about the two trees...you see, there is the fig tree and then there's the olive tree and both these trees represent Israel...aw, you guys just don't 'get it', do you?" <br /><br />I got it...HWA was so deluded that he thought bible prophecy was about him and his leadership - just like Paul thought that he was fulfilling the (anti-typical) role of the prophet, Jeremiah, in gathering "all Israel" under one leadership. One fault that all these "prophets" and "apostles" have in common though is that they all die sooner or later and never do accomplish their task - even Moses didn't get to enter the promised land.<br /><br />Gavin, good reference. At least the Catholics are left wingers and kind of lend some balance to the corporate right wingers who would love to make the common people their literal slaves.Corkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15894537940881776504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-61181440817265468142012-08-26T10:24:53.455+12:002012-08-26T10:24:53.455+12:00Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees...Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the second and third tithes, which I declare to thee that thou shalt use the second tithe to keep the Feasts to me and also yet the third tithe dedicated to the fatherless and the widow, which I shall use to fly in my jet to meet with world leaders to preach at them about the two trees, for I am now fatherless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com