Washington State Coffee Company Makes Feast of Tabernacles Coffee Blend for 2019

Noggin Bonkin

Blessings to all my fellow Feast goers! 

This year’s blend is a simple blend of epic flavors! 

We married two robust and vary earthy coffees from Papua New Guinea and Sumatra 

then balanced them with a sweet and nutty coffee from Brazil. 

Don't let the color fool you, this is a very robust, earthy blend with deep dark notes 

that will cut through almost any creamer, yet smooth and slightly sweet on the finish. 

This is a perfect coffee to enjoy with family 

or in quiet solitude on an early feast morning 

while reading and meditating on His word! 

Buy it here:  Noggin Bonkin FOT 2019

The perfect Feast gift for your Laodicean friends who will be skipping the daily sermons so they can go out and enjoy the resort and have the best Feast ever!

I can hear it now as the self-righteous know-it-alls get all indignant and say...Satan is doing this to discredit true believers.  Satan is always active before the Feast to distract people from the truth.

It is a mockery!  LOL!

UPDATED: Netflix "Haunted's "Cult of Torture" " Is Based Upon Armstrongism And Its Damaging Effects Upon A Church Member

Netflix

Netflix has a fascinating series called "Haunted" where people share stories about paranormal happenings and other events that have happened in their lives and how those events continue to haunt them to this day.

The current program of Haunted is called "Cult of Torture" had is based upon the real life events of a former church member.

Where Haunted gets into murky territory is when it tells stories that aren’t driven by supernatural means. The “Slaughterhouse” episode in Season 1 stirred up a lot of controversy because viewers were shocked that the show identified a supposedly real serial killer who murdered dozens of people. Similarly, HauntedSeason 2’s “Cult of Torture” episode deals with a very real horror, one that also affected dozens (if not hundreds, if not thousands) of people beyond the main subject. But whereas Google sleuths can’t find any evidence that the events in “The Slaughterhouse” ever took place, “Cult of Torture” is the first episode of Haunted that you can prove without a doubt is based on a very real, very upsetting story.

Is the “Cult of Torture” episode real?

Yes. To summarize–and this description comes with a massive trigger warning for abuse and torture–trauma survivor James Swift tells his story of what it was like growing up in a Christianity-based doomsday cult in Louisiana. His mother joined the church, then known as the Worldwide Church of God, when he was very young. The Worldwide Church of God was founded by Herbert W. Armstrong, a televangelist and the host of a program called The World Tomorrow.

By the time Swift was a teenager, he underwent horrifying torture in order to rid his body of the “gay demon” that was “possessing him.” Church officials pegged Swift as gay before he even knew what gay meant, all because of his effeminate mannerisms, and subjected him to long stretches of total isolation without food. His mother even sexually assaulted Swift in an attempt to make him react to a woman’s touch, which was her way of performing an “exorcism.” When Swift was 15, he was sent to the New Bethany Home for Boys in Arcadia, Louisiana, where he was hosed, kept in a cage, subjected to electroshock conversion therapy, and anally raped. He was kept there for 17 weeks and, after being returned to his abusive home, he and his brother were taken in by his aunt. The church was disbanded, Armstrong was outted as a pedophile who molested his daughter, and the conversion camp was raided and shut down. 

Read the entire article here:  "Yes, ‘Haunted’s’ “Cult of Torture” Episode Is About a Real Evangelical Doomsday Cult"

More can be found here:  Trafficking doesn't discriminate; men also victimized

Feast of Tabernacles in the Church of God: The Season of Disunity

We are rapidly approaching the high season in COGland with the observance of the Feast of Tabernacles.  It is a time when family and friends gather in exotic locations for 8 days of overindulgence in food and fun and butt-numbing recycled sermons.  It is supposed to represent a foretaste of the millennial kingdom of God. A time when the church is unified and basking in eternal bliss with the lion and lamb playing together,

That all sounds lovely until you read the following little blurb.  Two different cities, each with 9 different COG's meeting in the same city for this millennial foretaste, and all 9 refusing to acknowledge their sister churches as brethren.  How shameful can the Church of God be? Is it any wonder the COG is not growing?

Feast of Tabernacles 2019
As in previous years, Branson, Missouri, tops the most popular festival sites with 9, but it now has a challenger – Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, which also has 9 festival sites there.