Ambassador Watch

Gavin Rumney's E-zine about the WCG and its splinter groups

Gavin Rumney, a former member of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) from New Zealand, created a Web site called The Missing Dimension, which was located at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~gavinru/index.htm. The most viewed part of Gavin's Web site was a regularly updated section called Ambassador Watch, which was located at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~gavinru/watch.htm. It was later moved to http://www.ambassadorwatch.co.nz. Once young and naive, Gavin has now aged and grown wary of the WCG and its splinter groups. This is quite understandable. Unfortunately, Gavin Rumney no longer takes the Bible seriously either, and this inevitably leads to him praising the wicked.

Gavin Rumney

Covering developments & advocating accountability in the Worldwide Church of God and related groups.

Notes:

1. Gavin Rumney's story

   The story of Gavin Rumney's involvement with the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) and its splinter groups could be read in an article called Southern Exposure at http://www.ambassadorwatch.co.nz/why1.htm at his Web site.

2. New Web site address

   In December 2004, the address of Ambassador Watch was changed to http://www.ambassadorwatch.co.nz.

3. Gavin Rumney's Ambassador Watch Web site ends

   The following COG News Flash from The Journal's Web site in December 2005 told about the end of Gavin Rumney's Web site, called Ambassador Watch.

   Ambassador Watch's creator puts his controversial Web site 'out to pasture' After five years on the Web, the Ambassador Watch Web site, earlier known as The Missing Dimension, has been "put out to pasture," says its creator and operator, Gavin Rumney. The upkeep of the site, at www.ambassadorwatch.co.nz, which took a highly skeptical approach to much that goes on in the various Churches of God, was "hugely time-consuming," Mr. Rumney told The Journal Dec. 20. "Twenty hours a week was the bare minimum to keep it rolling over," he said, "and requests for information and resulting workload was becoming unmanageable." Mr. Rumney, a former Worldwide Church of God member who lives in the Auckland, New Zealand, area, said that, from the beginning, "I wanted to create a place where the issues of accountability in the various churches--both financial and structural--could be aired." "After five years I felt that there wasn't much else to add to that basic message and that it was time to move on."

   One person expressed the wish that Gavin would have left online the material that had already been posted at his Web site over the years.

4. Gavin Rumney's Ambassador Watch Blog begins

   Around May 2006 Gavin Rumney started a Web log (Blog) called Ambassador Watch at http://ambassadorwatch.blogspot.com. He does not expect to update it as often as he did his old Ambassador Watch Web site.

   People who disagreed with Herbert W. Armstrong (HWA) sometimes liked to advocate having free and open debate on all sorts of subjects. However, in 2008, a desire to control what people hear and believe (and perhaps also seeing the advisability of controlling the angry and crude swearing of the atheists and evolutionists at his Blog) caused Gavin to begin to use the "comment moderation" feature of the Blog to screen all comments before they are posted, and to delete the ones that he disagrees with.

5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly about Ambassador Watch

   The Ambassador Watch Blog is GOOD at pointing out many of the self-appointed false prophets who arose from the wreckage of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG). It points out their wrong prophetic guesses, based on their own writings, yappings, and date-settings. Other moral failings and character flaws of these frauds are happily exposed for the edification of all. Exposing these filthy bums might seem like a dirty job (yes, there is a pun in there somewhere) but someone has to do it for the good of all. This can be a very helpful service, since none of these false prophets will ever tell the truth about themselves and their history of wrong prophetic guesses. Remember that the existence of many false prophets is in agreement with, and in fulfillment of, the biblical prophecy Jesus gave that there would be many false prophets. So, their existence does not disprove the Bible. If anything, it confirms what the Bible said would happen. Just remember that Jesus said to beware of them, not to fall for them and their tricks.

   Now, skipping the merely BAD, and getting straight to the downright UGLY thing about Gavin Rumney and his Ambassador Watch Blog, it is impossible to ignore a certain fact: Gavin tries to knock and mock the Bible along with the false prophets that it so accurately predicted would come. Gavin and many of the nutty characters who regularly post comments at his Blog do not like either God or the Bible. Any and every wrong theory and idea seems to be welcome as long as the person behind it does not believe the Bible. They can even claim to believe the Bible as long as they are actually Sunday-keeping types and do not really believe the Bible. Unfortunately for the posters of all the drivel, the faults they find with the Bible are not really with the Bible, but rather with their own grossly sinful selves. Gavin Rumney's thinly-veiled attempts to encourage and promote godless perverseness and foolishness under the guise of having "genteel debate" does not look good at all, or even merely bad, but simply downright UGLY. One can just imagine Gavin smiling with fiendish delight whenever some sinful ex-WCG character posts some twisted comment about the Bible.

   People who try to post comments at the Ambassador Watch Blog that clearly refute some of the nonsense there often find that their comments don't get posted by Gavin. Some of the foolish regular posters then comment that the Bible believers are afraid to answer or don't have answers. They don't realize that Gavin is busy censoring the comments and deleting the ones that expose godless nut cases like themselves for what they are.

   Having rejected God and the Bible, Gavin and his type now support everything that the Bible teaches is bad, from crazy rock "music" to sorcery to homosexuality. First, they deluded their own selves into thinking that the Bible was full of errors, nonsense, and evil. Then, they themselves fell for the worst errors, nonsense, and evil imaginable.