Sabbath 10/8/34/120

Dear Friends,   

An interesting thing happened on the planet on 31 October. After only 12 years the world population rose from 6 billion to the 7 billion mark. The seven billionth birth was reportedly a little baby girl born in the Philippines although the exact details are unsure. See the article On 31 October, world population reaches 7 billion.

In contrast to this blessed event the amount of abortions carried out in the US which last January marked the 38th anniversary of  Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) is horrendous (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade). It is now a generational issue in this country alone where it is said that 48 million abortions have been carried out since that fateful decision was reached in a Texas court. This is a staggering one in six Americans destroyed as embryos. That may well be 25% of the US birth rate. This process when taken into a worldwide total is almost beyond the imagination and likened to the fires of Molech. The religious system of Molech and the Sun Cults of Baal and Attis and Adonis and Osiris/Isis is alive and well on this planet now and is the real religion of the West.

Leviticus 18:21
“‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 18:20-22 (in context); Leviticus 18 (whole chapter)
2 Chronicles 28:3
He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 28:2-4 (in context); 2 Chronicles 28 (whole chapter)
2 Chronicles 33:6
He sacrificed his children in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.
2 Chronicles 33:5-7 (in context); 2 Chronicles 33 (whole chapter)
Ezekiel 16:21
You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.
Ezekiel 16:20-22 (in context); Ezekiel 16 (whole chapter)
Ezekiel 23:37
for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.
Ezekiel 23:36-38 (in context); Ezekiel 23 (whole chapter)
Ezekiel 23:39
On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.
                                                                                               
These deaths by willful murder will result in a curse and ultimately the death of this nation. None can say that there is a just cause for these activities. Likewise none can say that there has been no warning from God. Things similar to this abomination took place in Egypt with the worship of the Queen of heaven in the Osiris /Isis system. Here in Jeremiah was a reply that should be worth taking into account.

Jeremiah 44:22
When the LORD could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants,

God never destroys a nation without first warning it. See the paper The Warning of the Last Days (No. 44)

There are many complex issues behind the taking of a life unjustly since it is murder, and on a large scale it is genocide. It violates the 5th and 6th commandments. These pregnancies were principally derived in the act of gaining pleasure and aborted as an act of discarding waste. We are not looking at a situation where the mother’s life was in danger or where rape forced a diseased foetus upon a female.

We can no longer claim that the nations of the West, especially the US, are Christian nations. God does not and will not take us as we are in our filthy rags without repentance.

In Jeremiah we see that God sent the prophets rising early to warn the people and the nations. We see these warnings in the work of Jeremiah over and over again. These warnings happened continually as events continued to deteriorate over time in ancient Israel.

Jeremiah 7:25
Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
Jeremiah 7:24-26 (in context); Jeremiah 7 (whole chapter)
Jeremiah 25:4
And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear.
Jeremiah 25:3-5 (in context); Jeremiah 25 (whole chapter)
Jeremiah 26:5
to heed the words of My servants the prophets whom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them (but you have not heeded),
Jeremiah 26:4-6 (in context); Jeremiah 26 (whole chapter)
Jeremiah 29:19
because they have not heeded My words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; neither would you heed, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 29:18-20 (in context); Jeremiah 29 (whole chapter)
Jeremiah 35:15
I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Turn now everyone from his evil way, amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them; then you will dwell in the land which I have given you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me.
Jeremiah 35:14-16 (in context); Jeremiah 35 (whole chapter)
Jeremiah 44:4
However I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!”

There is an interesting back drop to these prophets rising early and that is that God himself has acted early for this purpose. The inference and meaning is that God Almighty has taken Israel early and given it His laws and warned it from very early in its history as a nation. It was forewarned by God through the prophets. They were not mute in these times but vocal throughout. Israel would not heed and today the world will not heed. However, we still have a task as stewards of God’s mysteries to warn the world of what lies ahead of it.

Jeremiah 11:7
For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, “Obey My voice.”

Jeremiah 32:33
And they have turned to Me the back, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction

Moses instructed Israel that the activities of following God’s commands would spring forth blessing or cursing. Whether it was Sabbath keeping or breaking under the Fourth Commandment or Coveting under the Ninth Commandment the penalty under the law was the same.

Deuteronomy 11:26
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
Deuteronomy 11:28
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known

God will not tolerate these people and their transgressions for much longer and they can never say that there was neither warning nor curse without a cause. It won’t be long before we arrive at a timetable for events to take place where the Beast takes control and the Two Witnesses come back to challenge their authority and return the nexus of the law as written in Zechariah chapter 5:1-5 .

Zechariah 5:1-4 Vision of the Flying Scroll
1 Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll.
2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” So I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.”
3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: ‘Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to this side of the scroll; and, ‘Every perjurer shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.”
4 “I will send out the curse,” says the LORD of hosts; “It shall enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst of his house and consume it, with its timber and stones.

The various laws of God cover all aspects of our lives and theft and false witness are likewise punished.
We shall also see this in the conflict of the Witnesses before the god of this world and the final system of the Beast in the Last days. See the paper The Witnesses (including the Two Witnesses) (No. 135).

God has given ample time for us to repent. However the world will not repent and many now assume and have promoted the notion that he is dead. However, God is not mute and there is no unjust curse on his part without cause. In the warning of the last days The church has said to be forewarned is to be forearmed. However, since they would not heed they will suffer what will surely come.

Proverbs 26:2
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

Below are some statistics compiled from a site called essure.com which is sometimes very graphic.

Abortion has killed more humans than all wars in history.

Anti-Abortion Information, News, Agencies & More

We will conclude that both Physical and Spiritual Israel have a responsibility to warn the nations, but none more so than The Church of God to send out a warning to all. God has known us from the foundation of the world (2Tim. 2:19). He knows who is His. They are chosen and predestined to be called and then justified and glorified (Rom. 8:29-30). We should also keep in mind what Revelation 13 8-9 says: 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

No one has better stated the truth for the case against abortion than David in the Psalms.

Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

The world is getting worse than the worse days of Sodom and Gomorrah. God will intervene soon and send the Witnesses and then the Messiah. God will deal with this world very soon. Pray that the Messiah comes to save us soon.

Angel Vasquez and Wade Cox

Christian Churches of God