The SS Guards at Philadelphia Church of God have laid down the law for those dumb enough to attend one of their 'feast" sites. Mark Nash tells PCG members how they will be behaving.
You unclean women had better make sure that your bathing suits dare not show even the slightest bit of cleavage!
Swimsuit Dress Code
One-piece swimsuits are the standard. The cut should not run too high up the thigh. A safe guideline would be for it to approximately follow the natural crease in the groin. Also, be sure it completely covers the buttocks in the back. Tankinis are unacceptable unless the two pieces are sewn or tacked together so that they don’t come apart and expose the midsection. Swimsuits can be worn with skirts or shorts over them, but this is not required of our ladies. Lastly, as with shirts, no cleavage should be exposed.
Pregnant Women
Expecting mothers should use wisdom when making plans to attend the Feast of Tabernacles. There are certain “heightened risks” to your baby involved with travel. Many airlines post restrictions or advice on their websites that you can review to help make a more informed decision. You might also consult with your caregiver for answers to specific questions you might have. Also, if you have questions or concerns, we highly recommend you counsel with your local minister. As a basic rule, the Church discourages any pregnant woman from attending the Feast if she will be four weeks or less from her due date by the end of the Feast of Tabernacles. As Mr. Armstrong said in a letter to the Church back in 1962, “Don’t risk miscarriage of a precious life! Remember, God does not lay the same stress on attendance of women as He does men. USE WISDOM!”
Women are meant to stay at home and be baby machines. Only real "converted" men are require dot go to Jerusalem.
Caring for Sick Children
Please use wisdom and be considerate of others in health-related matters as you make plans to attend the Feast. The following is an excerpt from a letter by Herbert W. Armstrong, dated Sept. 14, 1962: “Many members have been inexcusably careless and inconsiderate by bringing sick children to the festivals—and also to local Church services on the Sabbaths. Frequently children are brought with whooping cough, measles, mumps, flu, chicken pox and other contagious diseases. Other members’ children have been exposed and come down with these diseases because of this. This must stop!!! If your child has even been exposed within two weeks before coming, don’t bring him. If your child is sick, call upon God through one of His ministers for healing—or write to headquarters for an anointed cloth. But do not, under any circumstances, bring such a child until you can actually see that he has been completely healed. When anointed, have faith—believe—but if God does give you a test of faith, do not bring the child on the strength of that faith. Let him be healed on the strength of your faith, but do not bring him to any Church meeting or festival until every physical symptom is gone and the healing is complete. Moses expelled those with communicable diseases from the camp of Israel. We shall have to do likewise, in fairness to other children. I am sincerely sorry it is necessary, but some few seem to want to reason their way around a Church order like this, and disobey, on the way they reason it out. Any who are in that way inconsiderate of others will have to be swiftly expelled. If your child is taken with such a disease while at the Feast, call a minister at once, and ask him not only for anointing, but whether the child must be isolated or taken home.”
So what happens if you are weak in faith? Your child will continue to suffer? Your little child has to suffer because you failed to recognize that Six Pack is an agent of God and therefore your child was not healed in order to teach you a lesson?
Name Badges
Name badges will be required for everyone who is 18 (and out of high school) and older who will be attending Feast of Tabernacles services in North America. These pre-printed name badges can be obtained at the information table prior to opening night services on Wednesday, October 12, from 4 to 7 p.m. Please plan to arrive early so that you have plenty of time to get your name badge before the business office closes at 7 p.m. Everyone is expected to wear his or her badge; please cooperate and wear yours. If you are told to go get your badge, do not argue or make excuses. The security or ushering personnel are simply following rules made for the benefit of the brethren and the Church, and so should we all. Many have commented on how they appreciate the name badges. They help remind us of the names of the brethren. Please wear your name badge to services, and if you happen to misplace yours, the business office at each site will make a replacement for you. Keeping your badge in your briefcase or purse outside services will help you to keep track of it and prevent you from misplacing or losing it.
Counsel
At the Feast, you will come into contact with the ministry. But remember, God’s Feast is not a time to “shop around” for other ministers’ counsel. Counseling is provided at each site to resolve issues that come up during the Feast. It is not provided to handle problems that can wait until you speak with your local minister at home, nor to get a “second opinion” on something you have already counseled about. When there is a need, please seek the minister assigned to counseling; that is why he is there. Just be sure it is not something you can wait on to counsel directly with your own minister about when you return home.
Sieg heil mein fuhrer
No cleavage!? What the hell? I'm staying home then.
ReplyDeleteAll these rules from the lying liar who prints in his Trumpet magazine, or maybe it was the Royal Vision, that they have no rules for members outside of the 10 Commandments. They have nothing BUT rules for their members, they have a virtual Talmud of rules.
I can't imagine going to a worse "feast" than one put on by PCOG.
ReplyDeleteActually, now that I think about it, Malm would crush the will to live out of most people very early on.
It's things like realizing that you may get to see some cleavage that make the whole thing semi- bearable.
I can't imagine going to a worse "feast" than one put on by PCOG.
ReplyDeleteApparently, you, unlike I, have never kept the Feast with Wade Cox and the ccg -- particularly in the 7th year where they try to read the whole book of the law. PCG, piece of cake (in comparison).
At the Feast, you will come into contact with the ministry. But remember, God’s Feast is not a time to “shop around” for other ministers’ counsel. Counseling is provided at each site to resolve issues that come up during the Feast. It is not provided to handle problems that can wait until you speak with your local minister at home, nor to get a “second opinion” on something you have already counseled about.
You would best be served to wait until you get back and can find a competent mental health professional for your PTSD. Better yet, leave the Feast to go home and find one. Best of all, find a competent mental health professional for your PTSD right now and don't attend the Feast at all, which is part of the source of your mental problems.
The rest of it, well... you know that the Guards have their orders to maintain order among the Prisoners and these sort of rules are a result of the effort, because, after awhile, the Prison Camp rules sort of take on a life of its own.
[Yes, yes, I know. I only got my copy of "The Lucifer Effect" by Philip Zimbardo from Amazon.com yesterday. I waited to order it with supplements and those diabetic test strips, as a matter of convenience to consolidate the orders. It is the book which was written by the psychologist who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment. I probably should not have commented here until I read the WHOLE book. I apologize for any harm I may have caused by my incomplete knowledge on the subject in relationship to the Armstrongist Churches of God. I promise, I PROMISE, I will try to do better in the future so I can make even more damaging comments. I apologize for my lack of precision as a result of my incomplete knowledge of the topic!]
If I understand what I've read, you can't even pick up a name badge unless you registered through your pastor months ago.
ReplyDeleteSo if my circumstances suddenly change in October and the closest Feast site I can attend is a PCG site, it sounds like I'll be barred at the door.
Hopefully they'll have Key of David DVD's playing in the lobby for those who want to hear that "good news about the Kingdom of God."
The Kingdom which is for everyone, you know....
When are the burqas going to be introduced? Seems to me, the COGs have gotten worse, not better, since I was associated with WCG.
ReplyDeleteRichard Wrote: "If I understand what I've read, you can't even pick up a name badge unless you registered through your pastor months ago.
ReplyDeleteSo if my circumstances suddenly change in October and the closest Feast site I can attend is a PCG site, it sounds like I'll be barred at the door."
PCG is all about controlling every aspect of it's members lives. It is also a way of keeping out dissidents coming to cause problems.
It also keeps out the "unclean", those from other apostate COG's who might wish to join them. If those "unclean" folk made it into a service they might destroy the faith of a PCG person if they made a wrong comment.
There would be no chance for you to ever have made the MISTAKE of having to change Feast sites. If you did so it is because of improper planning and/or you had to change your location because you had sinned somehow and God was punishing you from attending your original site.
It also keeps out the "unclean", those from other apostate COG's who might wish to join them.
ReplyDeleteIt's impossible for me to comprehend that anyone from another CoG would be so stupid as to want to attend, what with the information about out there and all, but you never know. It's better to be rejected at the door under those circumstances that be one of those of Isaiah 59:15 "Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment."
The PCG said, "At the Feast, you will come into contact with the ministry. But remember, God’s Feast is not a time to “shop around” for other ministers’ counsel. Counseling is provided at each site to resolve issues that come up during the Feast. It is not provided to handle problems that can wait until you speak with your local minister at home, nor to get a “second opinion” on something you have already counseled about.
ReplyDeleteMY COMMENT - Whatever happened to "in a multitude of counselors there is safety" (Proverbs 11:14)?
Richard
Richard, God gives each minister the very same inspiration because there is only one answer to the question or problem being experienced. It is the Bible answer and God gives each of his chosen ministers the same answer so there is no reason to ask another. Sometimes it does not seem they have the same answer, but they do because it all comes from the same God over the Church .
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ReplyDelete"Richard, God gives each minister the very same inspiration because there is only one answer to the question or problem being experienced. It is the Bible answer and God gives each of his chosen ministers the same answer so there is no reason to ask another. Sometimes it does not seem they have the same answer, but they do because it all comes from the same God over the Church ."
MY COMMENT: You're joking, right? God has never given the A.C. students who call themselves "ministers" anything, and never will give them anything. They are a sham to anything that they put the name of God to, and ALL of them will answer for their lies, corruption, ruining countless lives with their poor judgment and lack of mercy, and peddling of the word of God for a paycheck.
Do you think if I walked up to the information table, had a t-shirt with Herbie's picture on it, showed my cleavage, and wore a thong, that I could get some counselling?
ReplyDeleteI hate to say it, but if I had to attend any of these ACOG feasts, I believe I'd deliberately eat beans before services.
ReplyDeleteThis stuff has gotten way, way Pharisaical. I mean, I actually did enjoy the feasts back in the 1960s and '70s. When these Hitlers preach that the tribulation is about to begin, at least as far as their members are concerned, they are exactly correct. They've made their feasts into the tribulation!
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ReplyDeleteRichard, God gives each minister the very same inspiration because there is only one answer to the question or problem being experienced. It is the Bible answer and God gives each of his chosen ministers the same answer so there is no reason to ask another. Sometimes it does not seem they have the same answer, but they do because it all comes from the same God over the Church.
The basic, insurmountable problem is that Satan is clearly the god of the PCG. Gerald is Satan's lying false prophet. The PCG's so-called "ministers" are Satan's perverted "ministers."
The control features mentioned in that little article are nothing compared to what really goes on in the PCG.
For example, when some PCG "minister"/pervert counsels some married woman to divorce her husband, join the cult, and then marry him after he divorces his own wife, the woman absolutely must get another opinion.
Realize that in the PCG each "minister"/pervert can be inspired by a different demon, or even by the same one, to come to a different conclusion.
People who still believe in God and the Bible, and who think that HWA was onto something, need to realize that the PCG was raised up by Satan precisely to try to destroy people like themselves.
Satan did NOT raise up the PCG to help people to hold fast to what they once believed in the WCG under HWA. That is why over the years PCG members have been forced to accept massive doctrinal change after massive doctrinal change slipped in under the guise of "new revelation" or else get kicked out of the cult.
The victims are now trapped like the rats that so many of them really are. They must continue to throw good money after bad, and refuse to learn the truth, or else Gerald will expel them and take away their friends and families.
For every person still going to the PCG, about two others have already left or been expelled. Soon only the worst characters will remain in the PCG, and then they can do their evil to each other.