Sabbath 12/4/32/120

Dear Friends,

In the year 2001 it was made obvious to us what God said about the procedures He would set in place for the faith over the Last Days. The paper Fire From Heaven (No. 28) was issued which explained how God would work and how the message would develop. It was explained that God would establish the message of the Last Days in the South and it would proceed from there northwards and establish a system that would be taken over by Messiah on his return, and would last for all time. Many in the Northern Hemisphere were annoyed by these inconvenient Scriptures and how it was said the work would be done. Indeed, it was laughed at and then publicly ridiculed by the enemies of the Churches of God for a few years.

The message was hard felt within the church because it also was a condemnation of the fractured and bickering elements of the Churches of God over the last few centuries. Their understanding was so flawed that they could not be used and God said, through the prophet Ezekiel, He would tear the sheep out of the hands of these shepherds and measure sheep against sheep in the Last Days. In this way God would measure the Temple and judge the elect in how they dealt with each other. This was explained long ago in the paper Measuring the Temple (No. 137). In the Sacred year 1993/4 every minister in the major element of the Church of God in Australia was warned of what God would do to them because of their behaviour and apostasy. One minister was told about it by the others and sent his copy back unopened, but they all got the message. However, they all went ahead and by their divisions destroyed that group of the Churches of God anyway.

So what is happening now? What did happen to those people and how did God carry out His plan and over what time frame? God first allowed the church that carried the lamp-stand just one Sabbath cycle to correct its errors commencing from the First Year of the 120th Jubilee, which was the last Jubilee allowed for the Rule of Satan as god of this world under the cursed earth. On the First Year of the Second cycle He allowed the leader to die (16 January 1986) and some idolaters even went to his grave for a week to await his resurrection. He was the Idol Shepherd of Ezekiel. God allowed these people three complete Sabbath cycles, commencing from the Third Year of the Second cycle (1987), when the successor announced that the Church was now at the point of Revelation Chapter 11:1-2 where the Temple was to be measured. Thousands heard that stated publicly and that was exactly our understanding of where the church was at, at that point in time. God allowed that group exactly one Sabbath cycle from Third Year to Third Year to bring the leadership under judgment and to destroy that system. By the end of the Second Year of the Third cycle, after the seven years were allowed, that system was judged and smashed into hopelessly squabbling pieces.

In the last week of Adar the meeting to form the CCG was held, and on the New Moon of Abib of the Sacred Year 17/120 (1994/5) the CCG held its first service.

God allowed the shepherds two Sabbath cycles from Third Year of the Third Cycle to the Third Year of the Fifth Cycle of the 120th Jubilee. The true and correct message was promulgated over this period and none of that ministry corrected their errors and false teachings and doctrines. Indeed, some of the Churches of God actually rejected the scant elements of truth they once had and slid further into error, adopting the Binitarian doctrines from the worship of the god Attis that entered the Church at Rome in 154-192 CE. They were told they would do this by CCG and would not believe that such was being done to them until it actually happened, just as they had been told it would happen. A number adopted Binitarianism and many accepted its successor Trinitarianism (see the paper Binitarian and Trinitarian Misrepresentation of the Early Theology of the Godhead (No. 127b)). Many simply denied the preexistence of Christ altogether, becoming radical Unitarians (see the paper The Pre-existence of Jesus Christ (No. 243)). The major element of the offshoots of the now defunct WCG simply did not discuss the theology of the Nature of God and had all three elements among its ministry as well as among its adherents.

After the second Reading of the Law in Tishri 2005, from the New Moon of the Eighth Month called Heshvan, the churches were allowed a time, times and half a time, or 1260 days, to repent and reorganize. CCG was itself cleansed and reorganized by 7 Abib 2006, in some 22 weeks. The 1260 days were completed at the end of Adar II in the year 31/120 (commencing in 2009). By 1 Abib of the 32nd year of the 120th Jubilee, beginning on 26 March 2009, God had set up the reorganization of the churches in Africa and also commenced in South America. From Pentecost 2008, He had begun tearing the sheep out of the hands of the shepherds in those countries in a significant spiritual awakening of those people.

On the last week of the 31st Year of the 120th Jubilee, at the end of the 1260 days, officers were dispatched to those countries to consolidate the new structures of CCG in those continents.

The consolidation was undertaken over the period to the Last Day of Unleavened Bread on 21 Abib. Between 1 Abib and Pentecost 32/120 a massive consolidation occurred, using the newly credentialled ministry entering CCG, in the various elements of the Churches of God. They put the vast majority of existing members south of the Equator in Sub-Saharan Africa into CCG, excluding some people in South Africa and a few minor groups of people in Kenya. By the New Moon of the Fourth Month every person in the genuine offshoots of the WCG in Tanzania had been consolidated in CCG. Virtually all members in Kenya and Uganda and the surrounding regions had been consolidated with the exception of a few that had been refused admittance and the few members in two towns of Kenya. Others were not genuine members of the Churches of God and kept Sunday when their overseas ministers were not present.

Together with the consolidation of the WCG offshoots, huge elements of Seventh Day Baptists, Adventists, Church of God (Seventh Day) and Sabbatarians from Tanzania into the Southern Sudan were consolidated in CCG in the untold thousands, together with Roman Catholics and Pentecostalists and Episcopalians, Muslims and so on. In other words, God had commenced the move into the Northern Hemisphere from the Congo DR and through Uganda, Kenya and the Sudan. So also people began to be added from Europe to the Americas. Churches in West Africa were also added and they have now to be consolidated. Also, the Church in North Africa was consolidated with the conversion of groups from the Atlantic to Libya, and we now have to consolidate the churches in the Middle East. Satan struck back at one church and a member with children is in intensive care in hospital with head wounds. Please pray for him. The Muslim who attacked him is reportedly in custody.

Where do we go from here? God will continue now to consolidate the Churches of God from every element and extend into the surrounding nations.

Ezekiel 34 will be completed and the Churches of God will be corrected and consolidated in all nations. The prophecies of God through Ezekiel and Jeremiah as described in the paper Fire from Heaven (No. 28) will be continued. Although it is given to Satan to overcome the Saints of the Most High in the last days, the message will not stop until Christ comes and it will then be carried on as part of the millennial system. The sequence put forward through the prophets will be accomplished. Only a delusional fool would contend that the work of God has been done in Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia and the Middle East. The Churches of God from North America and the British Commonwealth have been largely ineffective and their ministry idle and irrelevant for centuries. They have not even reached their own people with the true word of God. Most of them do not even know how to correctly explain who God is. They often resort to pagan doctrine, not understanding what they say.

These people who joined CCG over this period did so without knowing one another and without being proselytised. God dealt with them in countries where they could not have known one another and among groups that were far flung. There are more than 2 million Sabbath-keepers in the Nile Valley and God will ultimately consolidate them with many new converts to the faith. Our officers are flat out keeping up with it.

Our coordinator in Uganda has to go to brief and induct two seminars of approximately 100 new officers in Uganda this week, and then move into the Sudan to brief and induct some 40-odd new officers there. The East African Coordinator has just returned from Tanzania after inducting the last remaining officers and members of the WCG offshoots there at Arusha and Moshi districts. So too is the Congo DR expanding and into the surrounding nations also, in Congo, Brazzaville and Angola. There are now 16 conferences in Africa and that is expanding all the time. We have to induct those in West Africa now, including Nigeria and Liberia. There are functioning groups in the French work in Burkina Faso and others in the Ivory Coast and elsewhere There are many hundreds of officers in Africa alone in, or being inducted into, CCG.

None of this is accidental. It is done by the power of God and not by any activity of ours. The web sites are expanding at a great rate and the ftp site access is growing faster than the html. The Spanish work is growing and the groups will expand in South and Central America.

How can we all help? Pray and support the work. Do what you can to help the brethren develop in the faith. They all need Bibles and you can help by making sure that they get Bibles. Do not be deceived into believing that the societies such as Gideon’s and other organisations give things away to or even agree to supply Sabbatarians and others. They do not do that. There are always strings attached or outright refusal. If you want Sabbath-keepers to get Bibles give the Churches of God the funds to do that. If you are not giving tithes and offerings as God says through Malachi, you have robbed Him. You are not restored to God and will not be in the First Resurrection. The churches in Africa are a classic example. The ones faithfully tithing are being blessed. The others are still learning the power of God (look at the paper Tithing (No. 161)).

The structure of the Churches of God is now changing at an accelerating rate. God will consolidate those He chooses to do the work when He wishes them to work. What has happened to us all is that the Churches of God have been set aside and God has worked with those He wishes to use and, like the physical Temple of God, the final structure has been constructed offsite and the blocks have been brought to the site as construction continues. No one element knew about what the others were doing. God as the architect knew what was to happen. He prepared the blocks and gave them to Christ who put them all together in accordance with God’s plan. None of us knew with whom we were to be given to work. None of us knew precisely how God was going to put it all together. We do however have God’s plan placed as Scripture and in understanding prophecy we can understand what God has decided to do. Some are able to understand when it is to happen. Sometimes we understand the wisdom and power of it all in hindsight. Our job is to put our hands to the plough and not to remove them or look back. Once you undertake the work you cannot turn back.

Luke 9:62  And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Point your plough to the fertile fields.

After finishing our year of tithing for the widows and orphans this past Third Year, we asked that the Lord of the Harvest send us laborers. God acts in Third Years so the Law is not infringed in the changes and upheavals that occur.

Luke 10:2  Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly [is] great, but the labourers [are] few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Lift up your eyes and see the great harvest.

The long time members of the Churches of God can supply understanding and be an example to the many new converts. Do not be dismayed at the swiftness of the erection of the Temple of God, which Temple we are. No sound of iron was to be heard at the site. All of the pillar sections, stones and iron rods were perfected off site. We are awed at the speed at which the Temple is going up. We did not see each other going through decades of perfecting.

The messages to the Churches in Revelation were addressed to all, that is, all that have an ear to hear. We are all brought together in the Last Days. The walls must have a roof and a roof must have a pillar. A pillar must have a rod of iron supplied through its core to hold the sections in place.

Many new converts are not yet aware that the Levitical system used the tithe structure to maintain health and life through the Law of God. So does the Church of God. The building inspectors assured railings around roofs and open pits, the elimination of mould in building materials and proper sewage treatment. A few converts in a village will be a blessing to the entire area.

The Pilgrim Fathers, who were Sabbath-keeping Unitarians, saw an opportunity to start afresh in the New World. The Massachusetts Bay Colony at one time even had a fine for anyone caught celebrating Christmas. General Sherman issued field orders to provide for the freed slaves in honoring the instruction regarding freed slaves (Deut 15:13-15). The politicians overturned the orders and lost an opportunity to behave properly.

We have an open door before us that none can shut. What will we do with that opportunity?

Baptism is a covenant with God. In His care all things work together for the good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. He predestines us and calls us and hands us to Christ who then justifies us in the Holy Spirit and intercedes for us and we are then glorified (Rom. 8:28-30). If God is for us who can be against us? As it is written: for thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered (Ps. 44:22). However, we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us, and nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.

If you do not listen to His call then you will be judged by what you do and, more particularly, by what you fail to do. The Churches of God in the US, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are, in large part, idle, and teaching false doctrine and have been for many decades. Their significance is discussed in the paper Genetic Origin of the Nations (No. 265) and also in the series on the sons of Noah (see the papers Descendants of Abraham Part VI: Israel (No. 212F) and Sons of Japheth Part III: Magog (No. 46C) and also the series on Gomer. Those nations have specific duties.

God does things not by might or power, but by His Spirit. He is calling the weak and the base and the poor of this world to confound the mighty. The racists and the self-righteous who claim to be part of God’s work are being confounded and judged by their performance over this period. God will give us all the opportunity to serve Him when it is time to do so.

Some people seem to think that it is acceptable to stay at home and do nothing. That is called “burying your talent”, and God, through Christ, puts those people in the Second Resurrection for doing that. There are well over 270 thousand such people from the former WCG alone. When it is time God will call them to the work again. What we must be able to do is to willingly recognize that call and act on it.

Do not bury your talent. You will be judged for it. We are all sinners. God only deals with sinners. The liars, who deny they are sinners, are left to either a later calling or to the Second Resurrection. When Christ is here, it is too late. Those who eventually see Christ and have not been working as repentant baptized members in the Church of God, the one with the lamp-stand, are in the Second Resurrection and will go through the wrath of God on this planet.

Failing to tithe and burying your talent will cost you the First Resurrection and don’t let anyone kid you that it will not do so. That is the “Place of Safety” that God guarantees for us. It is called the First Resurrection (see the paper The Place of Safety (No. 194)). Those in the First Resurrection will be kept from the hour of trial that will come upon the whole earth.

You can help in so many ways. If you cannot even get out of bed you can still pray, or you can help to do some research, or computer work, if you have the skills. We can all help our brethren. $5.00 will buy a mosquito net and deliver it to a child in Africa who might otherwise die of malaria. Those in Africa can save lives by digging deep bore latrines and wells and saving rainwater. If you can do nothing else you can grow some maize, beans and onions. Bibles are sorely needed. So is seed and fertilizer. If you are literate you can translate into the various languages. If you can’t translate you can help fund a person who can.

Pray for us and do what you can. You will not lose your reward. As we can now clearly see, God’s word does not come back empty. His plan will be implemented and Scripture cannot be broken (Jn. 10:35). It is written: we will become elohim, as the Angel of Yahovah at our head (Zech. 12:8).

Addendum:

As though to merely confirm to us what God is doing, immediately after we issued and promoted the Sabbath Message detailing the scale and speed of growth of CCG in Africa and elsewhere more emails came in. The secretaries forwarded requests from the head of the Church of God in Malawi requesting membership for the Churches of God there and their affiliated Churches of God in Burundi, Zambia, Rwanda and Liberia.

In addition, at the same time, a bishop of the Methodist denomination in South Ghana also wrote to us requesting affiliation for his churches there.

That makes another four national conferences in Africa coming to us in one day.

We will now have 20 National Conferences total in Africa alone. How many new pastors and evangelists and deacon administrators there are, we have no real idea. We could now well have over 500 officers in various stages of training in Africa.

In Liberia, Burundi and Rwanda we have multiple church systems now consolidating.

The scale is truly breathtaking. Each week a few thousand more come to us. The web site has only recently been updated from 10 national conferences to 12 and then to 13 and 14 and then again to 16 and now it has to be updated again to 20 national conferences.

The task of consolidating them all is enormous. God seems to be using the various branches of the Churches of God in Africa as an example to the rest of the world. There are many administrations but one Lord. Let us hope we continue at this exponential rate and we have the resources we need.

Please continue to pray for our man in hospital after the attack by the Muslim zealot. Our coordinator is with him and the family. We are very concerned for him.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General