Sabbath Message by Wade Cox

Sabbath 17/6/26/120

Dear Friends,

This week saw the mastermind of the Bali terrorist bombing, which saw hundreds of innocent people killed in the beach resort on Bali, sentenced to death by firing squad.

He was completely unrepentant and was defiant before the courts and received what was undoubtedly an appropriate sentence for his actions in biblical terms.

He thinks that he is a martyr for the faith and that he will go straight to heaven and will have some 70 beautiful virgins waiting on his needs in heaven. Where did he get these weird ideas? Certainly he did not get them from the Koran, as it says no such thing. Moreover the Bible and the Koran are explicit that the resurrection of the dead is to the Gardens of Paradise, as they are termed in the Koran, and to judgment.

In Surah 2, The Cow, at verses 111-113, the Koran says:
“And they say: None enters Paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian. These are their own desires. Say bring you proof if you are truthful.
No, but whosever surrenders his purpose to Allah while doing good, his reward is with his Lord; and there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.
And the Jews say the Christians follow nothing, and the Christians say the Jews follow nothing; yet both are readers of the Scripture. Even thus speak those who know not. Allah will judge between them on the day of the Resurrection concerning that wherein they differ.”

Thus the Koran is clear that the Resurrection of the dead is applicable to all flesh and not only to Christian or Jew, or indeed to any so-called “Muslim.”

Where does this idea come from that gives people the idea that we can blow each other up and somehow be admitted to a heavenly place administered to by females of beauty and virtue, perhaps only until we get there whereupon they become some of our concubines for pleasure. Perhaps we sit around the heavens gossipping while they administer to the every need of the males. Perhaps the females feel left out unless they are given 70 males to minister to their every need. But then that would run counter to the silly teachings of the structure that has invented this false and trivial view of the judgment and the plan of God delivered to Abraham and his seed through the Law and the Prophets of God.

Christ said that the angels in heaven neither marry nor are given in marriage. The risen dead are not permitted to marry. Christ said: “For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the angels, which are in heaven” (Mark. 12:25).

This comment applies both to the First Resurrection of the dead for the elect, and for the Second Resurrection of the Dead at the end of the thousand years of the Millennium which applies to everyone that has ever lived. The Koran and the Bible do not differ on this teaching. Nor could they, because if the Koran and the Bible differ, then the Koran is a false work by a false prophet. The test of a true prophet is that they speak according to the Law and the testimony and if they do not there is no light in them (Isa. 8:20).

On no point was the Church and the system of the “Surrender to God” more emphatic than this. Justin Martyr in his Dialogue with Trypho, written to a Jew, made this point very clear. He said: “If you are fallen in with some who are called Christians but who do not admit this, and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls when they die are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians, even as one, if he would rightly consider it, would not admit that the Sadducees or similar sects of the Genistae, Meristae, Galileans, Hellenists, Pharisees, Baptists, are Jews (do not hear me impatiently when I tell you what I think), but are [only] called Jews and Children of Abraham, worshipping God with the lips, as God Himself declared, but the heart was far from Him. But I, and others, who are right minded Christians, on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned and enlarged, (as) the prophets in Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare (Dial, Ch. 80, ANF, Vol. 1, p. 239).”

This was a reference to Ezekiel and Isaiah and also to the Text in Revelation chapter 20 which specifies the two resurrections and places them 1000 years apart in which the Millennial reign on this earth will take place.

If you say you are a Christian, or Jew, or of Islam, and do not acknowledge the truth of the Resurrection of the dead, and the Rule of the Messiah, you are not a follower of the Law and the testimony of the Prophets and the faith of Jesus Christ and there is no light in you.

A Jew is one who is one inwardly and who is circumcised of the heart and looks to the Messiah. A Christian is one who follows the Law and the Testimony and is circumcised of the heart. A Baptist is one who is baptised into the Holy Spirit and the Law and the Testimony and the Faith of Christ. He keeps the laws of God because the Holy Spirit guides him in that law. These are of Islam who say that baptism is of God, as did the prophet they claim to follow. They follow the Torah and the Gospels as they are commanded to do by the Koran. They keep the Sabbath and the festivals of God according to His law and His calendar.

The Law and the Testimony of the prophets is of one accord and one purpose and there is no difference in what they teach. What has gone before is God breathed or inspired and all are agreed on the plan of God and the Testimony of the Scriptures. Those who pervert the Scriptures are least in the Kingdom of God.

If you come across anyone who says that when they die they go to heaven and that anyone when they die goes to hell do not believe they are Christians. They are not Christians or of Islam. They are infidels and follow the doctrines of demons. They will be in the second resurrection of the dead and if they do not repent of that blasphemy of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob they will die and be cast into the eternal fire and their bodies burnt and their memory removed from among the sons of God forever. The Millennial reign of Jesus Christ under the laws of God will last for 1000 years or twenty jubilees. On the Seven thousandth year or the 140th jubilee from the closure of the Garden of Eden the General Resurrection of the Dead will occur. All mankind will be given a set period to repent. They will get one chance and one chance only and then they will either be transformed or they will die the second death and they will be burnt and forever removed from existence by a just and merciful God (look at the papers The Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143) and The Soul (No. 92)).

The law of God is backed by the death penalty but is administered in justice and mercy. The murdering of innocents is not permitted.

Those who teach contrary to the Law and the testimony will be dealt with and the rabbis and the imams and the ministers or priests who teach contrary to or diminish the Law and the Testimony, will be dealt with at the same time. They will be counted least in the kingdom of heaven. They are all influenced by the demons that will be judged with them and alongside them (see the paper Judgment of the Demons (No. 80)). Satan or Iblis had a set time to rule the nations and that time was to be cut short at the end of his rule, in order to save mankind. The remainder will be given back to him at the end of the Millennium. He will again deceive mankind and the last war will take place against Jerusalem and the camp of the saints at Jerusalem.

Muslims who speak of going to heaven as martyrs, and the imams who tell them these things, are like asses laden with books. They carry the Scriptures and understand nothing of what they carry. They acknowledge the commandments of the Koran to read the Torah and the Scriptures and then claim that they have been lost when we know that is absolutely false. Instead they created a series of traditions, termed Hadith, in order to avoid obeying the God they claim to serve. Hypocrites! In the same way the Jews made the laws of God of no avail teaching the traditions of men, and which they have now enshrined into the Talmud. Do none understand that they were sent into dispersion for two thousand years because of their traditions?

Does that justify the exploitation of people by other equally disobedient people? By no means does it do so.
The god of this world has a limited time. It is now almost finished. But so too is the system he created and the folly of the men who live contrary to the laws of God. In a short while the earth will be tormented and further twisted due to the disobedience of humans. It has been said that there are no atheists in foxholes.

David said he who says there is no God is a fool (Ps. 53:1). But so too is the man who says the Laws of God are non-existent. The Scriptures of God have been given to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and to the prophets and to Christ and the Church and they have not been lost. To say one is of the surrender and not acknowledge the Laws of God is to bleat like a goat.

We get mail from professing “Muslims” and Trinitarian “Christians” and those who say they are Jews but are of the synagogue of Satan. They all have a reason for not doing what the Bible says. The so-called Orthodox Jews insist that the Bible must be interpreted by tradition usually making it say the opposite of what it actually does say. The Muslims say it is all lost and they don’t need anything other than the Koran that supposedly interprets itself and then interpret it by the Hadith, which also makes it say the opposite of what it actually says. The Trinitarians lie and teach contrary to the Law of God and teach people it is permissible to do so. They infiltrate churches that teach the truth and disagree with them in order to silence their exposure of the falsehood of the doctrines. They all have persecuted and continue to persecute and kill those who obey the laws of God. False doctrine is everywhere and the three major divisions of the Scriptures were set up by the demons to ensure the holocaust of the last days. For an analysis of the strange teachings of the modern “Christian” system look at the paper The Millennium and the Rapture (No. 95)).

In no other point is it more blasphemous than to teach that the life after death is the product of an immortal soul that progresses to heaven on death. Our future life is to be granted to us as an act of grace by a merciful God upon the resurrection at the appointed time. For the Church, it is at the return of Christ to rule in place of the demons at Jerusalem and among the nations of the earth for the Millennium. For the remainder of mankind all will be resurrected at the end of the Millennium and brought into the judgment of correction. These two resurrections are the gardens of paradise mentioned in the Koran. Anyone who teaches contrary to that doctrine is a false teacher and an agent of demons.

We once heard a rabbi speak of reincarnation and he went on to say that the people killed in the holocaust were sinful Jews who had been reincarnated in order to be punished. Informative? No, it was ignorant blasphemy. The holocaust was allowed to happen to deal with a self-righteous and sinful Europe and a heretical Judaism. There is one reincarnation and one only and that is to the flesh. The First Resurrection is a resurrection to flesh and then to spirit and those beings will be caught up together with the Lord at Jerusalem and will ever be with the Lord. The Second Resurrection is of all Flesh to correction and a time of salvation for all men.

God loves the world and sent his only born son so that we might have eternal life. He was the monogenese theos (of Jn 1:18); the only born god or elohim. If we are not baptised into the body of Christ and keep the laws of God we are not of the Faith and we are not of the first resurrection. It was for that reason that the Koran says that baptism is of God and the imams do their best to prevent anyone from actually being baptised and keep the Laws of God. They neither enter the Kingdom of Heaven themselves nor allow any others to enter who would try to do so. They are blind guides, and like the rabbis and the priests they fall into a pit and take all those who follow them into the resurrection of judgment instead of allowing them freedom to repent and turn and be saved.

Next we will examine the system that will be implemented under the period of just rule and the false and hypocritical system of the god of this world now in progress.

If we truly loved one another, we would do as God commands and not be at each other’s throats trying to destroy one another and claiming we do God a favour.

Wade Cox

Coordinator General

 

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