Philadelphia Church of God Producing New Musical About Biblical Sex

We all knew it was a matter to time till some Church of God leader put his sex fantasy into music.  This is a Church of God, after all.

Philadelphia Church of God, the aberrant sect of Armstrongism located in the middle of Oklahoma, has set the words of Song of Solomon into a musical stage production.

What a magnificent chorus this will be filled with virginal PCG youth singing about sex, something they are forbidden to partake of during the four years they are on the compound.

Song of Songs by Ryan Malone  

Herbert W. Armstrong College Choral Union 

Mark Jenkins, conductor 

The Herbert W. Armstrong College Choral Union teams up with professional orchestra and soloists to perform a new setting of the greatest love song of all time: the Song of Solomon. The entire text of King Solomon’s Song of Songs comes vibrantly to life in this composition by college music director Ryan Malone, which captures the intimacy and power of this passionate poetry. This oratorio was performed and recorded in January 2012 as an unaccompanied choral work, but it has been orchestrated to capture even more deeply the rich imagery of this immortalized poetry.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 • 7:30 PM • $15, $20, $25, $30

Some of the fruitful lyrics that will be wafting heavenward will include:

1. "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine." A fitting beginning for a pornographic poem. Song of Solomon 1:2
2. "The virgins love thee." Song of Solomon 1:3
3. "We will run after thee ... we will remember thy love more than wine." Song of Solomon 1:4
4. "He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts." Song of Solomon 1:13
5. "I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste." Song of Solomon 2:3
6. "His left hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace me ... stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please." Song of Solomon 2:6-7
7. "My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice." Song of Solomon 2:9
8. "In the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance ... for ... thy countenance is comely." Song of Solomon 2:14
9. "My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies." Song of Solomon 2:16
10. "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains. Song of Solomon 2:17
11. "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth." Song of Solomon 3:1
12. "I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me." Song of Solomon 3:4
13. "Stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please." Song of Solomon 3:5
14. "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins." Song of Solomon 4:5
15. "How much better is thy love than wine!" Song of Solomon 4:10
16. "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon." Song of Solomon 4:11
17. A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." Song of Solomon 4:12
18. "Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits." Song of Solomon 4:13
19. "A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." Song of Solomon 4:15
20. "Come ... blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits."
    Oh, so that's where "blow job" comes from!  Song of Solomon 4:16
21. "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey." Song of Solomon 5:1
22. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled." Song of Solomon 5:2
23. "My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him." Song of Solomon 5:4
24. "I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock."  Song of Solomon 5:5
25. "I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself." Song of Solomon 5:6
26. "His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars." Song of Solomon 5:15
27. "His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend." Song of Solomon 5:16
28. "The joints of thy thighs are like jewels." Song of Solomon 7:1
29. "Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies." Song of Solomon 7:2
30. "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins."  Song of Solomon 7:3
31. "How pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!" Song of Solomon 7:6
32. "Thy breasts to clusters of grapes." Song of Solomon 7:7
33. "Thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine." Song of Solomon 7:8
34. "Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field ... Let us get up early to the vineyards ... there will I give thee my loves." Song of Solomon 7:12
35. "I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. Song of Solomon 8:2
36. "His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. Song of Solomon 8:3-4
37. "Stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please." Song of Solomon 8:4
38. "We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts ... But my breasts [are] like towers." Song of Solomon 8:8-10

Bob Thiel Struggling To Find Money To Support His African Churches

Robert Thiel reports that the church building in Nigeria has been completed. 

“In Nigeria churches are required to own at least one building or the government will shut them down. It really stretched our finances to have to help with the Nigerian building project and we still have not fully recovered our fund situation. 

Evans Ochieng reports from Kenya: “I met three congregations in Kisii.

The first congregation I met was Singera. This is a new congregation of Peter Omuya. I was very happy because this congregation has completely changed from Sunday to Sabbath and they are very active. The problem which they have is a hall ... they are just under trees. I promised them that they should get some poles, so that I will help them in some other areas like iron sheets, nails and roofing nails and roof timbers. So we came to conclusion that in April we shall try to make that hall before heavy rain starts.

After that I met another new congregation of Mageche. They are in a small town where we rented for them a hall, This congregation is bigger than Singera. They have 38 members. I paid for them a hall for four months. They are very serious in God’s work. Since many things are new to them, they are active to learn many things.

Lastly I met our old congregation of Eberege. This is an old congregation with over 80 members.” Church of God news

Carl Jackson Likens Trump Supporters To COG Cult Members (The Worldwide Church of Trump)

Many of the Churches of God look to World Net Daily as their ONLY source of "real" news that is conservative in bent.

Carl Jackson, a former COG member, talks about his exit from the Tea Party and the COG. He then likens the followers of Donald Trump to those followers of Armstrongism.

This is gong to be a bitter pill for COG groups to swallow.

THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF TRUMP 

Exclusive: Carl Jackson likens candidates' followers to cult members 

I grew up in a cult. You may have heard of it – the Worldwide Church of God (WWCG). Herbert W. Armstrong was its founder and pastor general. By the grace of God, under the leadership of Joseph Tkach, Armstrong’s successor, the church was transformed by the truth of Jesus Christ. You’d think most people would’ve been happy about that. I mean, the concept of being saved from the wrath of God by some dude named Jesus who atoned for our sins eternally by being crucified on a tree trunk sounded pretty cool to me! Unfortunately, it didn’t sound so great to many others. 

Cults always have a man they follow – a figurehead who will lead them to drink the poisonous Kool-Aid. True Christians don’t take the bait; Christ alone is our answer. Many conservatives have taken the bait on Donald Trump, when our litmus test should be the Constitution alone. 

New sects quickly spawned from the breakup of the WWCG . Lives were ruined. Ironically, as I reminisce, what I regret most is how contemptuous we treated others. We oozed a puss of holy superiority. We were nice enough, I suppose, as long as you didn’t disagree with us or stayed quiet – kind of like Trump supporters.