Sabbath 9/4/30/120
Dear Friends,
It was in this week of this year, the Thirtieth of the Sacred Calendar and the
fifth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, that God gave Ezekiel the vision
of the Cherubim. This year the Fifth day of the Fourth Month fell two days before
the Solstice. God decided to reveal through Ezekiel the time-frame of the Calendar
for posterity and the nature of the Cherubim and the fact that the Cherubim
used the hands of humans to do their tasks as allocated by God.
1-3 I am Ezekiel--a priest and the son of Buzi. Five years after King Jehoiachin of Judah had been led away as a prisoner to Babylonia, I was living near the Chebar River among those who had been taken there with him. Then on the fifth day of the fourth month of the thirtieth year, the heavens suddenly opened. The LORD placed his hand upon me] and showed me some visions. 4 I saw a windstorm blowing in from the north. Lightning flashed from a huge cloud and lit up the whole sky with a dazzling brightness. The fiery centre of the cloud was as shiny as polished metal, 5 and in that centre I saw what looked like four living creatures. They were somewhat like humans, 6 except that each one had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight, but their feet looked like the hoofs of calves and sparkled like bronze. 8 Under each of their wings, these creatures had a human hand. 9 The four creatures were standing back to back with the tips of their wings touching. They moved together in every direction, without turning their bodies. (Ezek. 1:1-9, CEV)
All of us have a responsibility to preserve the mysteries of God and to act on the Laws and the writings of the Testaments, which make up the revealed word of God.
God used this time sequence then to deal with a number of problems and a sequence of activities in the Last Days, which will commence from this year. The Sanctification process commenced after the Reading of the Law in the Sabbath of the 28th Year from the First Day of the First Month of the 29th Year.
Even though Jehoiachin had been sent into captivity and God was dealing with Judah, He had sent His appointed servants to be with them. God was acting in all of this time through humans and was dealing with Judah because of their errors and sin. All of us are sinners. All of us spend each year trying to overcome sin and not cause offence to one another and to keep ourselves on the path to conversion and righteousness. God deals with all mankind, even those who are self-righteous, and some of those He sends to the Second Resurrection. Others God brings to their knees for the First Resurrection. Neither way is pleasant and it takes repentance to make the First Resurrection. The Second Resurrection also requires repentance.
This is the last Jubilee in the six thousand year sequence allocated to Satan and the demons. This is the Thirtieth Year of the 120th Jubilee. There are less than twenty years left in the symbolism of the working week before the Sabbath of the Lord commences under Jesus Christ. Know you not that a day is as a thousand years unto the Lord, and a thousand years is but a day (2Pet. 3:8). This is a fundamental key to the understanding of the Faith in the Plan of God. Adam was created in 4004 BCE. The 6000 years from his creation ended in 1997. Christ was in the Garden of Eden with Satan and Satan was not yet given his dominion and his time. That was to start from the time the Garden was closed and the Earth was cursed. That was when Adam was thirty years of age and the Jubilee was completed and the Earth was cursed for the subsequent era.
Satan theoretically has twenty years but we know that his time will be cut short and Christ will come to save the elect. If it were not for that intervention there would be no flesh left alive on the planet.
We intend to explain how that sequence is to occur and what is required of
us in that process.
The Living God is going to deal with the world over the next twenty years and
we will be brought to repentance and we will be made to get our lives in order.
The end result of that process will see the world keeping the Laws of God. Those
that do not will be brought to submission or to death.
This month will give many a new direction and many will face up to their responsibilities. The Church will also be developed in that process.
It will also be a fact that many will achieve understanding in that process. Our task is to grit our teeth and get on with the job ahead of us. Be ready to give an account of the hope that lies within us, and either answer fools according to their folly, or do not do so, as God directs the situation.
The Church of God was cleaned out first and judgment began at the House of God. That process is still underway and will continue for some time yet. There are two types of people in the Churches of God. The first type are those who were foreknown by God and then predestined and chosen to be called then called in their time and then justified and hence glorified (Rom. 8:29-30). The previous verse tells us that all things work together for the good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose. These are they who were foreknown and predestined to be called. These God deals with and brings to the birth of salvation. These are they who work out their salvation in fear and trembling.
There is another type that comes into the Faith. They are placed in the Faith by being called but not chosen. In other words they are attracted by the mysteries and the message of God but they cannot endure. Some are actually placed in the Faith by the Adversary as accusers of the brethren. These are they who gather gossip and slander the brethren and even go from church to church gathering gossip so that they might accuse others. They always have a bad story to tell about someone else and little good to say about those who labour in the Faith in the genuine service of the Lord God. We are not to be as they are. God deals with all such people in His own good time. The tares placed among the brethren are removed in their own good time as God directs. Some of those make a passion out of accusing the brethren and God deals with these also in His time. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.
Pray that those called into us are prepared and given understanding in due time and are able to work for the Faith in clear understanding and a good heart.
Lay no false accusation against anyone. A false witness will not go unpunished.
Love the brethren and show thereby that you love God.
Wade Cox
Coordinator General
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