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Dear Friends,

Today is the Day of Trumpets and the beginning of the Seventh Month. The Day of Atonement is in nine days on the Tenth of the month and the Feast is in two weeks.

Last year we looked at the serious predicament of the world:
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There is no reason to be more optimistic about the future of the planet in the short term than last year. I am simply stunned by the comments that I hear coming out of the US since the Obama election victory. This week a comment was played over National Radio to wry amusement on the part of the radio hosts. It was of a Southern Baptist minister in the US declaring that he prayed “every day for President Obama to die and go to Hell.”

People outside of the US find it difficult to believe the unchristian cracker mentality of these US bigots. Firstly, it is directly contrary to the Bible and the Laws of God. It is written: “Thou shall not revile the elohim nor the ruler of thy people” (Ex. 22:28). The Second Great Commandment is to love thy neighbour as thyself.

What an extraordinary mentality for so-called ministers of religion to pray for the death of another man, much less the leader of their nation. Many of us find it difficult to comprehend that these people confuse this behaviour with freedom of speech. This behaviour permeates the culture of some peoples and the legacy of hate leads to war and persecution. The false religious system that teaches men that God sends people to a heaven or hell is another strange and false doctrine that entered so-called Christianity from Gnosticism.

We look to another era. This day symbolized the return of the Messiah and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. This is the First Resurrection of the Dead and the commencement of the rule of the Saints. Over the next ten days we see the process of the reconciliation of the planet to God and then Tabernacles. The Feast of Tabernacles represents the process of the millennial rule of the Messiah from Jerusalem for 1000 years. This same seven-day period of Tabernacles is represented each week with the six thousand years of the working week and the rule of Satan, and the Sabbath represents the rule of Christ. The Seven days of Tabernacles represents the complete working cycle under the law of God, which the Sabbath itself represents. The Last Great Day represents the complete Second Resurrection of the Dead and the Great White Throne Judgment.

If you come across any who say they are Christians and who say that when they die they go to heaven do not believe or accept that they are Christians (cf. Justin Martyr (Dial. LXXX). They are not Christians; they are Gnostic imposters. This doctrine is the decisive test of a true Christian. A true Christian is one who believes and looks for the Resurrection of the Dead and the millennial rule of Christ on earth for 1000 years, and then the Second Resurrection of all men to judgment and correction and ultimate salvation. We should pray for the diseased minds and thinking that have been affected by these false teachers. Pray for each other and the leaders of our people. Love one another and thereby show that you love God.

This Feast we will issue a few new papers. One paper will deal with the way in which the Churches of God were led into the Ditheist heresy and back into the Trinitarian heresy through Binitarianism. Hopefully God will deal with this matter and open the minds of the brethren of the Churches of God so that they can see and hear and understand and repent. The paper follows on from the paper Binitarianism and Trinitarianism (No. 076) and is called Ditheism (No. 076b).

Another paper will commence the Commentary on Paul: Part I (No. 271).

The third will deal with the organization of the church through to the coming of the Messiah and lay out the Bible structure of the government of God under David and the Church of God. It will be introduced as Chapters 1 and 2 of CCG Standing Operating Procedures (A3) and will be placed on the web after the Feast.

As CCG is now what is indisputably the largest of the Churches of God on the planet it is time to implement the next phase of the organisation of the Churches of God. 

We look toward a new era and a new way of living and caring for one another. When we are finished there will be no homeless and no person unable to afford treatment and healing. No one will be unemployed and there will be no companies that exploit the people and no lobbies and no usury. There will be no slavery or sex traffic of any sort. There will be no law that does not embody the law of God. There will be no Sharia law that is a travesty of the Laws of God. We now have a little strength and we will exercise what little strength we have to develop a society that is a loving, caring entity that is peaceful and cares and develops the people in the community in which it resides. One day we will grow into a mountain that covers the earth and no one will make us afraid.

This year we issued instruction for the various national conferences to ensure that the basic papers were translated and studied for the Day of Trumpets. These papers are Trumpets Part 1 (No. 136) and Trumpets Part II: The Marriage Supper of the Lamb (No. 136).

This day may well start the countdown to the Messiah. We know that after the Two Witnesses are here there is only a short period to go. They will preach for 1260 days and lie dead for three days and then are raised from the dead with the saints and rule the planet from Jerusalem with Messiah (see the paper The Witnesses (including the Two Witnesses (No. 135)).

Pray that we can see the Witnesses in Jerusalem clothed in sackcloth. That will give us all a definitive direction to our operations and correct any minor mistakes we may have made. Once they are in place there will be no negotiation. We are either right or we are in error and we have to correct the error or fall under the penalty of the laws of God. The Witnesses will restore the nexus of the law.

God has established us to publish the gospel of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days and we are doing that now in great effort. To do that properly He had to cleanse us of error and get these doctrines published. People are joining us now in the thousands and at the rate of at least one church a day and sometime ten or more each day. God has sent us over every hill to recover His sheep as He said through his servant Ezekiel (esp. chapter 34). Our officers have been travelling to the former Churches of God that were scattered by the incompetent or corrupt shepherds. This week we have put together five such churches in Tanzania and one in Kenya and another seven in Burundi. We are receiving approaches from people in the US and Canada and UK and Netherlands and all over the world from those old and new seeking the truth. The spirit of God is drawing many to Him and from this Feast we will see much happen. 

Have you ever wondered why some of these “snake handlers,” the pseudo-ministers, proclaim with great authority that Antichrist will try to re-establish the law of Moses and build a Temple at Jerusalem?  That is exactly what the Bible says Christ is going to do. Their theology is Gnostic and they will all be removed from the return of the Messiah. We will all be sending our national representatives to Jerusalem at the Feast of Tabernacles or we will be punished with drought and famine and plague (Zech. 14:16-19) and Scripture cannot be broken. We will all be keeping the Sabbaths and the New Moons or we will die. There will be no negotiation in the millennial system.

The earth had 6000 years to do as it wished in false religious systems. 1997 saw the 6000 years from the Creation of Adam.  2027 is 6000 years from the closure of Eden and the 120th Jubilee of the satanic era. During the Millennium we will all follows the laws of God and we will keep His festivals or we will suffer the consequences. This day symbolized the commencement of that restoration under Messiah.

Sound doctrine is drawing many to the faith. Pray that God establishes us and completes the restoration.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General