Exposing the underbelly of Armstrongism in all of its wacky glory! Nothing you read here is made up. What you read here is the up to date face of Herbert W Armstrong's legacy. It's the gritty and dirty behind the scenes look at Armstrongism as you have never seen it before!
With all the new crazy self-appointed Chief Overseers, Apostles, Prophets, Pharisees, legalists, and outright liars leading various Churches of God today, it is important to hold these agents of deception accountable.
Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
Carl Sagan
"If you were depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego. You thought more highly of yourself than in fact the circumstances deserved"
This was posted on an xCOG Facebook page tonight and as soon as I started reading it I knew exactly who wrote it. If you thought Armstrongism cannot get any crazier, just wait. The Church of God is sick and is getting sicker by the day! -----------------------
If the ministry is off the track, and cannot be used by Christ at the moment, the next in the chain of command in God's government in His Church is the FAMILIES!
In Zechariah 3, those who is used by God to remove the filthy garments of Joshua, are under the direction of Christ.
In Zechariah 6 the household is mentioned. Josiah the son of Zephaniah is mentioned in verse 10, Hen the son of Zephania is mentioned in verse 14.
Biblical scholars agree these two names belong to one man. The focus on these scriptures is on the household performing the job of producing crowns to give to Joshua.
So "Josiah-hen" the son of Zephaniah.
Now if you know the genealogy of Herbert W Armstrong, you can trace his lineage back to Zerubbabel through the lineage of Jesus. He is a descendant of Zerubbabel.
Now "Armstrong" was a surname given to a man named "Siward Bjourn" whe he saved a King with "one strong arm" in battle.
The family name of Siward belonged to was the household of "Hen". A couple generations before Siward was a man named King Cole-Hen. A nursery rhyme was written of him. Ole King Cole.
Prior to Jesus Christ, this family was named "Josiah" as a descriptor of "HEN". Josiah meant "Supporter of Yah". They were the Levites of Israel. Hen means "grace".
When Jesus Christ was born, members of this family, including Joseph of Arimathea, changed their name from "supporters of Yah" to "supporters of Christ" or "KIT".
They became "KIT-CHENS". Joseph of Arimathea bought land in Brittanica and built an Abbey to house the regional headquarters of the Church of God. That Abbey later housed the Stone of Scone, and was later called "Scone Abbey". It is said that he built a large ROUND TABLE for the evangelists in the area. A conference table of sorts. This round table later was used by the King of the land, King Arthur, in battle against Catholic inquisitions.
So the KITCHEN family was outlawed by the Roman Catholic Church, and so many took on different surnames to avoid persecution and martyrdom.
The Armstrong line came off of the Kitchen family.
Now during the time when Christ is cleaning up the second witness, and the ministry, he is using this household to preserve the candlestick Zerubbabel was over- aka The Worldwide Church of God- Philadelphia candlestick. They were to preserve it AND WORK A WORK, to store up treasures in heaven, crowns which Christ will bring with Him at His return, and they will share those crowns with JOSHUA. Samuel Kitchen Facebook page
The following is another of Doug Winnail's recycled posts on judging. Given the track record of how harsh Rod Meredith was towards others that he constantly judged and Gerald Weston's endless series of judging articles, the following rings really hollow. Of course, Meredith and Weston learned this judgment from Herbert Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God. It is ingrained in them. The necessity to devalue others in order to make themselves look superior is an endless task in the church. The problem with Herbert Armstrong and Rod Meredith's endless judgefests, is that their own houses were a complete shambles. Their personal lives, their families, and the churches they ran were a complete mess. Yet they were never wrong and everyone else was and still is.
“Judging vs. Judgment: Jesus said, “Judge not, that you be not judged” (Matthew 7:1–5). He admonished His disciples not to condemn, criticize, or sit in judgment of others, but to make sure that our own houses are in order. However, Jesus also warned that we must be able to spot false teachers who will be recognizable by their fruits (Matthew 7:15–20). This requires individuals to make decisions and judgments. A person who lacks judgment makes foolish decisions. Making wise decisions and judgments requires wisdom and spiritual discernment—and that comes from experience, from seeking and listening to wise counsel (Proverbs 11:14; 15:21–22), and from receiving, nourishing, and using the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 1:6–7). The Scriptures reveal that God gives His Spirit to those who repent and obey His instructions (Acts 2:38–39; 5:32). If we nourish God’s Spirit daily (2 Corinthians 4:16) and are willing to be led by that Spirit in our thinking and in our actions (Romans 8:14), we can develop the discernment that is needed to make wise decisions and judgments.
A relic of the Singularity 300,000 years after Inflation.
From my youth and certainly throughout our time in WCG, the world of us was created 6000 years ago beginning with a man created from the dust of the earth and a woman from a spare rib which the man would not miss. It is significant, to assure that women understood their place in the Biblical scheme of things not originating from any part of a man that would be missed or inhibit superiority. Fortunately for us all, we live near the end of those 6000 years of human experience and the 1000 year rest is soon, shortly and involve a coming quickly.
None of this is literally true. The concept of Deep Time and Geologic time escape the average Church of and Fundamentalist/literalist mind. It is not just that they don't know it but very much that they won't know it because it interferes with the story line they hold so dear.
We can't blame our parents for believing, as taught, that the Universe was just our Galaxy. It took Edwin Hubbell and others in the 1920's and on to reveal that we are just one of billions and now trillions of Galaxies in the Universe each teeming with billions and in some cases, a trillion, stars such as in our closest galactic neighbor Andromeda, visible to the naked eye 12.5 billion light years away if you know where to look tonight.
But if we now know better, we have only ourselves to blame for our ignor-ance, which is that which one ignores.
Like it or not. Understand it or not. Gorillas, Bonobos, Chimps and Orangs are truly our cousins sharing a common ancestor 6-7 million years back in Deep Time. The evidence is in our mutual DNA. While creation and human origin stories in scripture have meaning, they are not literally true. This concept is enough to rankle, terrify and anger any Church of God minister, member or Bible literalist to the core. And yet it is so.
Geologic Time and Deep Time
Personally speaking...
9000 year old flint knife from the bottom of a dry pond near Cornell University in Ithaca, NY
40,000 - 50,000 year old vaporized earth rock and meteorite from Meteor Crater, AZ
2 -16 million year old tooth of Megalodon from South Carolina. Megs could be up to 60 feet long and weigh up to 150,000 lbs. South Carolina seems to have been a haven for them back in the day.
450 Million year old Trilobites from Morrocco
2.5 Billion year old Banded Iron which shows the mix of oxygen creating bacteria with the free iron it rusted out of the early oceans creating our atmosphere
3.5 Billion year old Stamatolites, the earliest of bacteria that ate carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere and gave off oxygen as a waste product creating the previous Banded Iron
Ten lbs of Iron/Nickel 4.5 Billion year old meteorite from the core of an exploded star and/or impacted asteroid that spend most of it's time orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. I cut this with a water jet to expose the iron through the burn crust and polished it. It saw the formation of our planet and moon out of the dust and debris cloud of an earlier sun that exploded and our newly born Sun.
It is the oldest thing a human being can touch
Truth Matters
“The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.”
