New Year 1/1/34/120

Dear Friends

We are now at New Year’s Day of the 34th 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. Over the last two years 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 last year it is recommended again that you go back over that message at http://www.ccg.org/_domain/ccg.org/Sabbath/2008/NM_03_08_08.htm

This year has been even greater and 2010/11 saw far more growth than the previous year. The most outstanding feature of this last year was the impressive conversion of Muslims to the faith. This will continue now at an accelerating rate until the Messiah. He will return to save the planet and then enforce the faith and the worship of the One True God. He will enforce the correct calendar system and the seasons according to the Temple Calendar. Hillel will be eradicated and so will the Karaite nonsense. The Jubilees will be enforced. In 2019 we expect that Messiah will supervise the Reading of the Law and the subjugation of the nations to 2025.

By 2025 the nations will be supervised for the Treble harvest to the Jubilee of Atonement 2026 to Atonement 2027. China may well stretch to the Urals but it will have been brought down to Megiddo and its armies destroyed. The world will begin the clean up after the nuclear holocaust of this coming decade. The Nuclear disasters in Japan are but the start of it all. The destruction of the seas and the rivers has begun. Before the Seven vials of the wrath of God begin a third of the waters and a third of the ships will be destroyed. After the vials the entire waters will be as the blood of a dead man and the nations that do not repent will pay the price for they have been drunk on the blood of the saints.

This last week we released the paper The Body of Christ (No. 012B). That paper explains what the saints are, what is expected of them, and what determines what they believe, do, and say. Matters will get more intensive now week by week, month by month and year by year. In a very short time the system of the Triune God and the sun cults will reach their end. There will be no discussion, no arguments and Scripture will be carried out in accordance with the Word of God. Scripture cannot be broken (Jn. 10:34-35).

The Temple system will be reintroduced by Messiah and it will not be the false system of the Antichrist that is to come shortly. That system has been explained in the paper The False Messiah (No. 067B) and also the paper 2012 and the Antichrist (No. 299D). These details will be matched by the Two Witnesses who will operate from Jerusalem and whom the church will be required to support, and in those 1260 days we will baptise many people who will turn and be saved (see the paper The Witnesses (including the Two Witnesses) (No. 135)). What is happening now is just the start of that sequence so that we are prepared for the event and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on Judah and then the nations who repent. War in the Middle East is inevitable. That will now escalate and result in the occupation of the Middle East by NATO Forces and the annihilation of millions. The Four Great Angels will be released to kill a third of mankind very soon. These are the Lucifers of the Four Great Star systems of the Fallen Host that constitute a Third of the Host. They constitute the elohim of the Man-headed system and the Aeon or Lion-headed system that joined with them.

It is for that reason that the two cherubim on the walls of the Temple are lion-headed and man- headed Seraphim on either side of the Palm tree that is Christ. These are the replacement elohim being Abraham and Moses named by God as elohim in the Bible. Look also at the paper The Advent of the Messiah (No. 210A).

Be prepared. Get ourselves in order for what lies just ahead of us.

Over the last two years we were in step with the Hillel system because they could not avoid it due to their postponement rules, as much as they hate to get the system correct. By last Tishri they were out again. As we pointed out the previous year in 2009 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 that will be removed. There will be no endless hair-splitting over the calendar (look at the paper Distortion of God's Calendar in Judah (No. 195B)).

The Hillel system has been a great stumbling block to the Churches of God that follow the Hillel system in the 20th and 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. One or two even deny that there was a Temple Calendar to justify Hillel and Armstrong’s adoption of it. One or two even try to claim that the 358 CE Hillel was in place in the Temple system.

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 7 Abib that we will see the impact and the success of our efforts. We fast on that 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. This year the fast is on a Sabbath, and it and Atonement are the only times the church is permitted to fast on the Sabbath, which is a feast day. 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. God has promised us that our bread will be given to us and our water will be sure (Isa. 33:16).

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 us. 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 thousands 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)). The Church has been labelled by some in Madagascar as the church of Antichrist because our radio programs teach it is heresy to pray to Jesus Christ therefore any who teach this is Antichrist according to these people. They pray to anyone now including the Holy Spirit and even their ancestors who lie dead.

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.

There will also be an attempt to produce the false Messiah as was explained in the paper The False Messiah (No. 67B). 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 dead 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. The massive earthquake of the Jordan Rift will take place, causing the 66 km long partition of the Mount of Olives and the closure of the Tongue of the Red Sea. “Earthquakes in diverse places” has new meaning.

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 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 an even more 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. In fact he will be 1263.5 days away from that event to be precise. God has chosen to send us Elijah and one other. The other was the only other 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 Sun-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 The 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. Pray that it is today. 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 that 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.

In 2009 the church credentialed the Seventy and sent them out to conduct the Passover after baptising thousands. They have kept baptising and inducting until today and we will all keep on doing so until the Lord’s Supper. Last New Year we had inducted over 700 churches and well over a hundred thousand people plus the people whose baptisms we accepted from other Churches of God. By this year it was more than double that figure. In one country now we are far larger than every other Christian denomination.

Last year and again this year 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 1st 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