New Moon 1/1/33/120

Dear Friends,

We are now at New Year’s Day of the 33rd Year of the 120th Jubilee in accordance with the Temple Calendar. It is a day of Solemn Assembly. Today commences the Sanctification of the Temple of God. Last Year we recommended that you looked at the issue of the Calendar and the New Moons in the New Year’s Message. Due to the massive growth this year I would recommend again that you go back over that message at http://www.ccg.org/_domain/ccg.org/Sabbath/2008/NM_03_08_08.htm

Last year and this year we are in step with the Hillel system because they cannot avoid it due to their postponement rules, as much as they hate to get the system correct. By Tishri they will be out again. As we pointed out last year there will be no arguments when the Witnesses are here. They will be in accord with the Temple Calendar and the Hillel system will be an abomination.

The Hillel system has been a great stumbling block to the Churches of God that follow the Hillel system in the 21st century. Many are simply brainwashed and cannot admit error. Many of the ministry will prevent their people from repentance and correction and many will be condemned because of it.

This day commences the Sanctification of the Temple of God which Temple we are. Please study the paper Sanctification of the Temple of God (No. 241)  today and commence to implement its provisions. This message will repeat some of last year’s message for the new people.

Please make sure that you are studying this process and implementing it in the Churches of God. You keeping this process correctly may well be the salvation of your people. It is when we go into the Sanctification of the Simple and the Erroneous on the 7 Abib that we will see the impact and the success of our efforts. We fast on this day for all those who err and are ignorant of the truth and the plan of God and who, for example, keep the Passover on the wrong days. Your sacrifice on this day saves many people that know no better and opens the way for their salvation, and God honours what you ask in that regard. Look at the paper Sanctification of the Simple and Erroneous (No. 291).

One day we will wake up and the Witnesses will be in Jerusalem and the system will be in place. We will be faced with the choice of taking the Mark of the Beast or staying with the elect and in the First Resurrection. We can neither buy nor sell. How will we survive? The answer is simple. We will be fed on manna as we were in the Wilderness when we came out of Egypt. There will be no arguments then. No crescent moons and no Sivan 6 Pentecost and postponed Holy Days and Babylonian intercalations.   You will go out and collect what you need for the Sabbath and New Moons and Holy Days or you won’t.  If you go out on the wrong day there will be nothing there. If you collect too much for the wrong day it will be rotten and the next day you will go out and collect another lot or you will go hungry.

It will be a marvellous educating tool. You do what you are told or starve. All this endless hair splitting will be a thing of the past.  Miss the correct Day of Atonement or Passover and you go straight to the Second Resurrection. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200 as the Monopoly Game tells you. If you are blessed you might be given some of the plagues of Egypt to wake you up.

For those of us that are new, remember this, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.  You are going to be taught from now until the return of the Messiah and the prize is the same for us all. We will be in the First Resurrection if we pass and if we fail we will be in the Second Resurrection and we will be retrained. The First Resurrection is a better resurrection as Hebrews tells us (cf. Heb. 11:35).

For many of us this will be our First Passover. Remember the church at Ephesus and your First love. For those of us that are old hands restore your First love and think back to your first Lord’s Supper and Feast of Unleavened Bread. Study this Passover diligently and remember what it was to which you were called.

Some of us have to keep the Passover alone or with a group that has been told to do that as well. Forgiveness requires fruits of repentance and you must have those and also forgive others in order that you may also be forgiven.

There is not long to go now in the build-up to the coming of the Witnesses.

The Trinitarian ministry in the US have been preparing their people to march against the Witnesses and against Christ for many years. We have heard many of these ministers of Satan speak about the Antichrist as being someone who attempts to introduce the Laws of Moses and construct the Temple in Jerusalem (see the paper The Witnesses (including the Two Witnesses) (No. 135)).

Thus when the Two Witnesses arrive and commence to speak according to the Law and the Testimony they will be dismissed by a multitude of deceived people. Some recent messages have been concerning the Antichrist.

There will also be an attempt to produce the false Messiah which was explained in the paper The False Messiah (No. 067B). This is the Last Days and there will be one last all out attempt to deceive and defeat the elect.

There will be two opposing forces in Jerusalem. One will be the Two Witnesses foretold by prophecy, the other will be the Antichrist and the False Prophet equally foretold by Scripture. Both will be able to call fire down from heaven. One pair will be of God the other will be demonic.

The Antichrist and the False Prophet will continue until they are allowed to overcome the Two Witnesses. The Witnesses will lie in the streets and will not be allowed to be buried for three and one half days. At the end of that time they will be resurrected at the Archangel’s call and they will meet the Messiah at his advent. This sequence is prophesied in Revelation chapter 11.

Most religious bodies on the planet will be deceived by the Antichrist and the False Prophet. What they say will accord with what these false ministers have been teaching for decades and even centuries. If it were possible it would deceive even the very elect. The problem is that they will not speak according to the Law and the Testimony and there is no light in them (Isa. 8:20).

The problem also is that when the Messiah comes it is too late for the First Resurrection. Those who do not act on the testimony of the Witnesses will be in the Second Resurrection and that will include a great many of the Churches of God. There will be a large number of people who do repent and they will be baptised by the Churches of God.

God is now calling many people to repentance and to baptism through the Holy Spirit.
This year we have a mighty force to sanctify the simple and the erroneous and you all have a great opportunity. Pray for more labourers in the fields for the harvest.

Each year we pray at this time for God to send the Witnesses. Very soon those two will be sent and will stand in Jerusalem and we will know that Messiah is not long away. God has chosen to send us Elijah and one other. The other was the only man that did not die, for God took him as He took Elijah. Elijah was taken as a righteous prophet of Israel and the promised prophet of the Restoration of the Last Days.

One Witness was of Israel in the Temple period. The other was the Witness against the Ante-deluvian world – the Age before the flood that then was. This man is sent because he is the ancestor of every person living on the planet today and he is sent to deal with a great many of the errors and false teachings of this age.

He will not be white nor will he be Trinitarian, nor will he keep the festivals and holidays of the Ancient Cults. He will deal with the ancestor worship of the Liberation cults of Hinduism and Buddhism and the Reincarnation of the ancient Celts and their variations of Wicca and the cults.

The whole world will hate this pair because of what they do and teach. However, many will turn and be saved by them and will enter the First Resurrection (see the paper Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143)).

When the Witnesses are killed they will not be allowed to be buried until the prophesied time. People will give presents right around the world because of the torment the false religions of the world suffered at their hands. The big problem is that when they are dead it is too late. When Christ gets here there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth because all these self-righteous hypocrites will realise they backed the wrong pair and it is too late to make it into the First Resurrection. That will include many people in the Churches of God.

Very soon we are going to commence the sanctification process as we do today and we are going to find that there are two men clothed in sackcloth in Jerusalem. The Churches of God will be given a wake-up call and they had better listen.

When that happens we will all know if we got it wrong and what it is we need to do. Any person that relies on what some long dead minister has said, over and above what these two say, will not enter the First Resurrection.

If it is not this year that they arrive it might be the next or the one after or whenever. What we can be sure of is that it is not far off now and it is our duty to pray and fast that we are in a fit and proper state to meet them and to do our duty.

This time last year I was about to head off for Africa. I credentialed the Seventy and sent them out to conduct the Passover after baptising thousands. Well now you all know the facts of the matter. We kept baptising and inducting until today and we will keep on doing so until the Lord’s Supper and we will have done over 700 churches and well over a hundred thousand people plus the people whose baptisms we accepted from other Churches of God.  

We have also fired some of the people who did not make the grade and could not be trusted. The same thing happened in the First Century with Christ and the Apostles.

It is these people who were in error or who did not know any better that we must all pray and fast for in the build-up from today until the Feast of the Passover and Unleavened Bread.
God is working in power now and it is an awakening all over the world. Please pray that we all have safe travel. Praise God for His power and His direction in the work of the Last Days.

Wade Cox

Coordinator General