Sabbath 3/6/26/120
Dear Friends,
This Sabbath is the first one of the Sixth Month termed Elul. It was in this month that Ezra and Nehemiah finished construction of the wall at Jerusalem. They began work on the wall in the Fifth Month on the second or third day of the month and work was completed in fifty-two days on the Twenty-fifth day of the Sixth Month Elul. In other words it was constructed from the time of Pentecost to the end of the month of Elul and for the New Moon of the Day of Trumpets. The timing is examined in the paper Reading the Law with Ezra and Nehemiah (No. 250).
Also the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles was kept, under the reading of the Law under the restoration of Ezra and Nehemiah, for the first time in Booths or Tabernacles made of boughs. This was the first time it was kept in booths since the feast had been kept that way under Joshua son of Nun in the conquest of Canaan.
This at first appears as a simple statement of no real consequence but is it? What does it actually mean? It means by direct inference that the feast was never kept in booths of branches during the period of the Tabernacles from Joshua, neither also at Shiloh and Hebron under the Judges or under the kings Saul and David, nor during the entire First Temple period under Solomon and all the kings of Judah down to the destruction under the Babylonians.
This is a very important fact. It was not kept that way subsequently under Judah, nor indeed has it been kept that way under the Church for two thousand years. It was only during the restoration of Ezra and Nehemiah and only for one year at the Reading of the Law for the Jubilee.
What does that signify or point towards in the plan of salvation? It means that the restoration is to the entire extent of the Law and that the Jubilee of Ezra began a system or countdown towards the restoration under Messiah. The Day of Atonement in 2026 will commence the Jubilee, which will end on Atonement in 2027. The lands of the entire earth will be restored and the plantings will commence for the harvests of the First Year of the millennial system, which is the Barley Harvest at the Wave Sheaf Offering in Abib of 2028.
The Jubilee commencing from the restoration under Ezra and Nehemiah was the first of forty-nine jubilees leading to the restoration under Messiah. Jesus Christ as the Messiah was born in the Ninth Jubilee from the Restoration and declared the Ninth Jubilee in 27 CE by his reading of the scroll of Isaiah and declaring the Acceptable year of the Lord or the Jubilee. After Passover of 28 CE he began to teach when John was imprisoned. In other words, his ministry began at the beginning of the Tenth Jubilee from the restoration under Ezra and Nehemiah. The forty jubilees in the wilderness began from this date and end in 2027 at the Jubilee. The Millennial system begins from that time and restoration. The Fiftieth Jubilee is the Jubilee of Jubilees of the restoration of God. It begins in 2028 and is completed in 2077 with the restoration of the earth to a productive state by that Jubilee. Between now and 2027 the earth will be almost destroyed. A people that will not repent and obey God but follow doctrines of demons will bring it almost to utter desolation. Does that sound far-fetched? It will come to pass nevertheless.
What then of the wall and the period of reconstruction in the Fifth Month Ab and the Sixth Month Elul? The building of the wall symbolises the preparation and defence of the people of God over the period leading up from Pentecost to Tabernacles and the millennial system of God. What wall do we build? The City of our God is built by plan. Groups despatched to various tasks in various places are allocated sections to construct. In this way much is done in the period involved and it is difficult to stop the work. This period is the period signified by Moses on the mountain with Christ. That was itself meant to show us that we would work on the Temple and the City of God whilst Christ was with God and not physically with us at Jerusalem. In the same way, Ezra could be at Babylon with Artaxerxes II and still be credited with the work on the Temple of God, even though he was subject to a foreign king whom God allowed to reign over Judah as he allows Satan to rule the world while the elect are being brought to the birth. Even Artaxerxes played a part in the provisioning of the Temple of God.
Cyrus who was the Lord’s anointed but not one of Israel ordered the Temple. It was to be commenced under Darius Hystaspes but was not built and construction of the Temple was stopped by Artaxerxes I and construction remained stopped until the reign of Darius II, called Darius the Persian in Ezra chapter 4. This construction sequence is very important in understanding the plan of God. That is why the sequence and the prophecies have been misrepresented and distorted by so-called Christianity. Even some of the Church of God teach false doctrine on this matter contrary to the word of God, following the Trinitarians in this error. Daniel 9:25 has been deliberately mistranslated and misdated so that the full understanding of the prophecy cannot be grasped and both Judaism and Christianity are complicit in the falsehood to self-justification. Read the paper The Sign of Jonah and the History of the Reconstruction of the Temple (No. 13). The Sign of Jonah is the only sign given to the ministry of Christ and the Church. So we had better understand that sequence very well as we will have no other sign.
The order to build the Temple of God was given fifty-two jubilees before the Millennium, by Cyrus. The building was commenced under Hystaspes but was half hearted and the Jews did not live at Jerusalem. Artaxerxes I stopped construction due to the wars of rebellion and construction remained stopped until Darius (II) the Persian ca 419. The provisioning decrees were made under Artaxerxes II when Nehemiah was made governor of Judea. At the end of the fifty-two days the walls of the City of God were completed. This was from the time of Pentecost, which symbolises the commencement of the harvest of the elect up until the period before the millennial system and the harvest of the world symbolised by the Seventh Month of Tishri.
Thus, we prepare and study during this time of the construction and this time of the absence of Moses with Messiah, which symbolised the absence of Christ with God over the two millennia or forty jubilees from the Resurrection and Ascension until his return at the end of the forty jubilees. It is by our prayer and fasting that the Holy Spirit is directed in its operations. What we pray for, that God does in the process of the plan and the handling of the nations. We are not to cease to pray for our people. The examples of Moses, and the Judges until Samuel, and of David, and Christ, and the apostles are important to the understanding of how important our actions and prayers are in calling all men to repentance.
No man can know the day or the hour of the return and the time is cut short or no flesh would be saved alive. But for the elect’s sake the time is cut short. In other words, if it were not for the sake of the people within the plan of God there would be no intervention.
The time of Satan is limited to the end of the 120 jubilees of the cursed earth. This time is cut short. It follows as night the day that the time frame for the 120 Jubilees ends in 2027 and thus the time to be cut short is the time of the end days just before 2027. We do not know exactly what year it is at present as the witnesses will be in Jerusalem for 1260 days and then 3.5 days (see the paper The Witnesses (No. 135)). Thus, the Messiah cannot or does not return until at least 1263.5 days after the witnesses take up their place in Jerusalem clothed in sackcloth. But once they do commence you will be able to pinpoint the advent fairly accurately.
We have work to do before they take up their positions. It is not a matter of waiting until they come to get out your work clothes and get to work. Once they come our position is relegated to a lesser importance in the plan and our work is done other than to support them. Do not be slack concerning the work, and the translations, and the promulgation of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. Because it is only when we have done our work of publishing the Gospel of the Kingdom of God as a warning to all nations that the end will come. Do not think that you can leave it until the end or the last minute as it were, as there will come a time where you will be fleeing and doing these things under harder circumstances. Work now while we can work.
It should be obvious by now that the period from 1 Abib to 21 Tishri is full of symbolism and that the activities of Moses over that period mirror the work of Christ with us in the Plan of Salvation.
The Fifth and Sixth Month is the period of greatest activity and repentance. Once you are baptised it is not over, it has only just begun. That is why baptisms usually take place at the Passover period or the Tabernacles period. From Tabernacles we begin the process of preparation for Passover and then the unfolding of the Plan in the sequence of the three feasts. The activities of Moses show us what is to be done and what is expected of us. The Exodus did not end at Passover it began with the sanctification process and the witness to Pharaoh and Egypt and unfolded in its sequence until the Last Great day of the 21st of the Seventh Month.
The Bible is sealed up and is only understood correctly by the elect. Scripture is of no private interpretation. Thus there is a consistent history of the Churches of God over time. If the ministry of the Churches of God have a new and different interpretation to the historical Church, then they are wrong. That is why Herbert Armstrong and the offshoots that plunder the sheep in his name cannot be right. Herbert Armstrong taught a different and false godhead. He did not understand the early theology because he was intellectually lazy and surrounded himself with “yes” men who did not understand correctly either. These same men know only too well that the way to deal with cults is to claim you are the true followers of the cult leader and the brainwashed adherents will follow you in the cult. There are at least a half dozen churches running around now like a Monty Python movie creating schisms hither and yon for money. Armstrong taught, and they also teach, a false calendar originating with the Babylonian rabbis and introduced by Hillel II in 358 and further modified. Thus he and they cannot be correct and those who follow their doctrine on these two matters cannot be correct. They were not the Philadelphian era and the strength of the church as they claimed. They are the weakest and worst of the Sardis era and are spiritually dead as their record will amply show. They had to make way for the restoration of the original Church doctrines.
There were never two true Gods. God glorified Christ before the world was and Christ was reglorified even more powerfully when he succeeded as the Lamb. That was Christ’s prayer at John 17:1-5. The One True God glorified Christ as he will glorify us.
We have watched people go through this process and fail to understand the simple processes of the Bible truth because they follow these peddlers of confusion and false statements.
We know for an historical fact that the calendar was determined by conjunction in the astronomical schools, which were not only just in Jerusalem. Philo tells us that and history shows us that to be the case.
We know that Christ was always understood to be the great Angel of the Presence (see the paper The Angel of YHVH (No. 24) that gave the Law to Moses. The Bible says that is the case. Yet the false teachers of the latter days corrupt the original teachings and mislead the elect and they seem to love to have it so.
Remember the Sixth Month and prepare and study so that the elect may be restored to the truth and the original doctrines. We are at the last hour and there is much to do. We have to work to a concerted effort and plan so that we can achieve the work of God. The key is in the fact that we love one another as ourselves, and we love God with all our might. We serve God because we love him and not because we have to do so.
In the end all flesh will serve God and do so in entirety. All people will worship God from Sabbath to Sabbath and from New Moon to New Moon (Isa. 66:23). The false calendar will be removed along with the teachers who promote it. The failure to keep the Sabbaths and New Moons will be seen for what it is, namely heretical apostasy and indolence. We notice that groups come to CCG through a process where there is a shedding of these cliques and the removal of groups opposed to the fundamental truths of the One True God and the original calendar. If two are not agreed they cannot walk together. The same will happen in the churches over the years ahead. In order to prevent the growth of the Church the prince of the power of the air spreads false teaching and penetrates the churches of God with antinomians and adherents of the sun system. They and their Gnostic predecessors have so corrupted the understanding of the nations that the truth is seen as an oddity and the original doctrines are seen as novelties. No one understands the Bible in society to any degree. It has been corrupted and suppressed with a consistency and dedication that can only come from opposing interests. Very few are convicted by truth.
Continue to prepare for the feast and grow in the knowledge and grace of God
through Jesus Christ.
Wade Cox
Coordinator General
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