Trumpets 1/7/26/120 and Sabbath 2/7/26/120
Dear Friends,
This is now the First Day of the Seventh Month of the Sacred Year called Tishri in Judaism and the true Muharram in Islam (see the papers God’s Calendar (No. 156) and the Hebrew and Islamic Calendar Reconciled (No. 53)).
On this day we celebrate the beginning of the month of the feast system that heralds the return of the Messiah and the First Resurrection of the elect, symbolised by the Day of Trumpets. We celebrate the reconciliation of the world to God symbolised by Atonement, and then the establishment of the Millennial system of Jesus Christ under God symbolised by the Feast of Tabernacles, and then the final resurrection of the dead and the final judgment symbolised by the Last Great Day which is a feast in its own right.
This month symbolises the culmination of the entire Plan of God for mankind. The First Day of this month, which is the conjunction of the New Moon, begins the build up to the week of the Harvest Moon. This day symbolises the return of the Messiah to Jerusalem and the cleaving of the Mount of Olives in two. At this time we will be caught up in the air with those who are dead of the elect who will be resurrected from their graves, and then we will be brought to Christ at Jerusalem and ever be with the Lord (see the paper The Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143)). This is not a rapture to heaven as Trinitarians teach in the US Baptist systems, and no one’s baby is going to be “raptured” as depicted by some of the moronic video specials by these Pentecostals who either don’t read or can’t understand the plain English language of the Bible texts (see the paper The Millennium and the Rapture (No. 95)).
It is a fascinating exercise to watch a religious system that literally creates an entire system out of pagan festivals and then tries to convince the world that it is actually doing what God expects of it. God said, through the prophet Jeremiah (10:10), that we were not allowed to go into the forest and cut down pine trees and decorate them with silver and gold and idols, and yet Christianity claims they worship God by so doing. In the same way, Islam does the reverse and cuts its system adrift from the Calendar and then claims that the bizarre non-calendar is what God commanded through Muhammad. And so they don’t have to keep the laws either. They make both God and Muhammed out to be capricious. The Jews are even more devious in that they just move it all a day or two sideways in postponements so that they don’t actually keep it either, but think they can pretend they do.
Christ, the Apostles, and the Church kept the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the Feasts including Trumpets. Passover was given to us to point towards Messiah and so that he would be recognised as the Passover Lamb. Yet the Samaritans still sit out on Mt Gerrizim every Passover looking for a Messiah who died for their sins at Passover 1,973 years ago. Some Christian sects, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, claim that Messiah has already arrived and is hiding somewhere in the world. Wow, if this is the world under the Messiah, what an anticlimax. What insanity. The Bible prophecies are also rendered null and void if they are right. Like the Roman Catholics before them, who claim the rule of Christ commenced with the rule of the Roman Catholic Church, these people are simply deceived and deceiving others for financial gain.
Even the Church of God has its idolaters for gain. Some fifty years ago, Herbert Armstrong invented a two-God system where these two gods were coeternal and coequal. They allegedly had a discussion and one decided to come down and be sacrificed and become the son of the other, who was then the father of the one being sacrificed. The ministry who teach this rubbish don’t even blush about the idolatry of the logic and the blasphemy of what they say. It was an invented doctrine. Its nearest equivalent is the doctrine of the god Attis who was both father and son, and the aspect which was the son came down to be sacrificed while the aspect which was the father was still in heaven. This heresy wormed its way into Roman “Christianity” as Modalism in the third century of the current era. It finally became adopted at Nicea as Binitarianism and then at Constantinople as Trinitarianism (see the papers Development of the Neoplatonist Model (No. 17) and Binitarianism and Trinitarianism (No. 76)).
This time Messiah will not be coming to deal with sin but to save those who eagerly await him.
There will be no peaceful acceptance of martyrdom this time and no weakness (see the paper Trumpets (No. 136)). This time when he arrives, every eye will see him and the entire world will shake with fear for the wrath of the Lamb will be upon them. No self-appointed Muslim will be able to read the Qur’an and ignore the Torah, or the Gospels, or the Psalms, or the Prophets. They will read and obey in fear and trembling. They will search out from among them the elect’s children and the elect of the unbaptised, and they will send them to Jerusalem in chariots ,and on litters, and on horseback, and in every conceivable vehicle that they can get to take them there. This Second Exodus will place the previous one into the category of a small precursor that will be brought to mind no longer. The people of the world will then keep the Sabbaths and New Moons or they will die (Isaiah 66:18-24).
The Temple will be rebuilt and the Laws restored. The earth will be ruled from Jerusalem for 1000 years. The Jews will not be able to postpone the Calendar dates and keep the Holy days on the wrong day. They will obey or perish.
Many of the so-called Orthodox Jews will be evacuated from the Holy Land. These are they who say they are Jews but are not Jews and who do not repent.
Even so the nation of Israel, which consists of the twelve tribes and their converted, say that they “will not all fit.” This is Prophecy and Scripture cannot be broken. However, they will all fit and the desert will be made to bloom like a rose. Abraham will see his posterity. Messiah will rule as King and the priesthood of Melchisedek will be restored to Jerusalem.
In those days, we will all understand how the earth was formed, and how it was destroyed and the Nephilim killed in the flood. Our entire system will be explained and we will all understand. Each person will know the Lord personally.
The people who say that when they die they go to heaven will not be there. They will see none of it and simply wake up in the Second Resurrection. The Pentecostals who are still alive will at first think that they have not seen the return because they will still be here, and the world will be restored and the Temple rebuilt. Even now the demons, who pose as their ministry, are preparing them for the Antichrist who will build the Temple in Jerusalem. Because there will be a false prophet and two Witnesses (see the paper The Witnesses (No. 135)), this will be taken as a prelude to the Temple and the return of the Messiah that follows the Witnesses, will be falsely explained and many people will be deceived. This will be the final deception and is the weeping and gnashing of teeth spoken of by the Church.
Why are people deceived? It is because they want to have a system that gives them immortality without obedience. They are sincere but sincerely deceived. Even the Churches of God will have to repent.
It is written: “This is eternal life that you know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He sent” (Jn 17:3). Christ did not have a discussion about whether he or God would come down to die. God cannot die. That is the only thing He could not and cannot do. He confers deathlessness or eternal life on us all as He conferred it on Christ. He sent Christ who was obedient unto death, even death on a stake (Phil. 2:6-8).
Christ returns to subjugate every rule and every authority and power (1Cor. 15:24-27). And when he has placed all in subjection, he will hand it over to God and be himself under the authority of God. It is manifest that God Himself is excepted from being under the authority of Christ under whom He placed all things being Himself superior. the God placed everything under Christ so that Christ might bring all into subjection to God, so that God can be all in all (Eph. 4:6). The last enemy to be destroyed is death (1Cor. 15:26). This is the second death that itself dies at the end of the period of the Second Resurrection (cf. Rev. Ch. 20). This death has no power over the elect of the First Resurrection, and when the resurrected dead of the general host are dealt with and converted, death will cease and all mankind will become immortal. The demons likewise will be judged (see the paper Judgment of the Demons (No. 80)).
Why do many Trinitarians say that when they die they go to heaven, and when Christ comes again the earth will be destroyed? Many at the Reformation believed in the Resurrection and some still do believe. The Roman Catholic system would have to admit that it was not in command, and that the rule of Christ was not in effect, and thus the bishop of Rome was not the Vicar of Christ. Indeed, he could not be, given the doctrines the RC Church propounds in contradiction of the Bible.
Most people do not wish to be dependent upon God. Most people seem to want a superman rather than a God who knows all and sees all. Even Islam, which has the declaration of Christ as the Messiah and the one in command of Judgment in the Qur’an (Koran), itself does not actually want to obey and do what he says. They even deny the Gospels they are told to read. So what else is new? So does most of Christianity. Christianity can’t even obey the Ten Commandments. Judah can’t even acknowledge that they killed the Messiah when the Scriptures said that they would kill him, and the NT testifies that they did kill him.
So what chance have we got now in the last days? Well,Scripture says that Judah will repent. The Scripture also appears to say that some of Ishmael will repent and converted tribes will arise from them also.
Why have these divisions been allowed? The demons have created the divisions so that they may bring war upon mankind in the last days to destroy it. However, that does not mean it will not happen. Christ will return to save those who eagerly await him. We will not convert the majority of mankind. The nations will not repent. However, we will have preached the Gospel of the Kingdom of God unto all nations as a warning and then the end will come. This is our task. To this end were we chosen or predestined and then called. Through this trial we are justified by faith through Christ. And at the return of Messiah we will be glorified (Rom. 8:29-30).
No one can stop it. Our race is run through faith with Christ under direction of God.
It is a source of great sadness that the majority of mankind, even though professing righteousness and claiming faith, is not obedient and is deceived, following leaders who do not enter the Kingdom of God themselves and who prevent those who would do so from entering as well. These false teachers stretch from Rome to Cairo, and from Athens and Eastern Europe and on to Mecca and Jerusalem, to New York and the Americas. Asia is full of them. None are saved nor can they offer salvation to any other.
It is by this rule they are judged. If they do not speak according to the Law and the Testimony, there is no light in them (Isa. 8:20). So the acid test is upon us soon.
When Messiah comes, the Law and the Testimony will be the measuring stick. They have the One True God, or they do not. They keep the true Sabbaths, New Moons and Feasts, or they do not. They keep the Commandments of God and the Testimony and Faith of Jesus Christ, or they do not.
There are simple tests to determine the faith.
1. Do you believe that there was one God who was Father and Creator of all?
If you have two or more gods or aspects of a god, you are an idolater.
2. Do you believe that the One True God sent Jesus Christ as our Messiah, as
a son of God, to die for our sins? If you do not, you have failed the confession
of the Faith.
3. Do you keep the Calendar of God, and the Sabbaths, and the New Moons, and
The Feasts? If you do not, you are involved in false worship and are disobedient
to the Law of God.
4. Do you believe in the resurrection of the dead? If you do not, and you say
that when you die you go to heaven (or hell,) you are a Gnostic and a false
Christian.
5. Do you believe in baptism as an adult for the remission of sin and the annual
Passover for the constant restoration of the Spirit? If you do not believe that
you must be an adult to be baptised and do not keep the Lord’s Supper, you are
not saved through the power of the Holy Spirit and will die and face the Second
Resurrection whether you are a so-called Jew, Christian or Muslim.
Look at the Original Doctrines of the Christian Faith (No. 88). It is by the purity of the Faith of Christ and the Apostles of the first century that we are judged. The Temple is measured before the coming of the Messiah (Rev. 11:1-2) (see the paper The Measuring of the Temple (No. 137)).
Timing is everything. God acts according to His own Calendar and His own Prophecy.
None of His words fall to the ground. God’s Word does not come back empty. God
will send Christ soon. Be ready when He comes. There will be no time to go and
fill lamps that are empty. When you see the Two Witnesses standing in Jerusalem
you will know that the time is very near.
Wade Cox
Coordinator General
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