Sabbath  5/10/39/120

Dear Friends,

It is odd that the symbols of distinction between the Muslims and the Christians over the disputes in UK and the US has boiled down to two totally unbiblical distinctions which are in fact expressly forbidden by the Bible. The first is that the Muslims react to and the Christians are in actual fact using pork and bacon and the pig by-products as a symbol of the Christian faith and virtues when they are in fact forbidden under the clean and unclean rules of the food laws and Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 and which the Churches of God have kept for two millennia (see the paper The Food Laws (No. 015)).

The second distinction is equally prohibited and that is the pagan festival of Xmas which is the festival of the Sun God Baal and his consort the Mother Goddess Ashtoreth or Easter/Ishtar.  These festivals are forbidden by biblical law in the Bible at Jeremiah 10:1-9 and in Isaiah, and have been banned from Christianity as pagan festivals under Henry VIII and under Oliver Cromwell and also in the US under the Pilgrim Fathers. The pagan origins of both festivals are explained in the paper The Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235).

It is bizarre that the Christian Faith has been so totally compromised and corrupted that its adherents consume filth and call these unclean meats and seafood righteous simply because another faith, which came from the Christian faith itself, obeys its doctrines that proscribe these same products, Yet both faiths ignore the rules on unclean seafood and disobey God.  Moreover, both faiths are willing to kill one another, keep false calendars and refuse to keep God’s laws regarding the Sabbaths, New Moons and Holy Days, which are commanded in both the Bible and the Koran (see the papers God’s Calendar (No. 156); and the Sabbath in the Koran (No. 274)).  

It is a fact that over half the world refuses to keep the laws of the God they profess and refuse to keep the calendar laid down by that God no matter what the facts are (see the paper Hebrew and Islamic Calendar Reconciled (No. 053)).  With both faiths refusing to obey God and refusing to correct their errors and with Judaism and the Churches of God keeping a false calendar also and the offshoots of the Churches of God in the 20th and 21st centuries simply refusing to accept correction and to change their ways, they do not even comprehend that they are dead and spewed out of God’s mouth even though they are given direct instruction in Revelation chapter 3 (see also the paper Pillars of Philadelphia (No. 283)).

Virtually the whole of the world in the last days and certainly over the 21st century up until the coming of the Messiah will not be in the First Resurrection and will be shut out until they are resurrected at the end of the Millennium in the Second Resurrection of the Dead and the Great White Throne Judgment (No. 243B).

It seems really strange that the Bible can specifically identify and prohibit festivals and practices yet the supposed adherents simply ignore the prohibitions and refuse to keep any of the required festivals at all, and justify moving the days of worship and the practices to observances directly contrary to those required and in accordance with the observances of pagan gods and goddesses and to a point where those same people professing to follow the One True God of the Bible will refuse to accept what you say and will kill you simply for pointing out their errors. The Church of God has been persecuted for almost two millennia and they themselves will attack and defame the true Church of God because they do what God requires under biblical law. The history of the Church of God is outlined in the papers General Distribution of the Sabbath-keeping Churches (No. 122) and Role of the Fourth Commandment in the Historical Sabbath-Keeping Churches of God (No. 170). Have nothing to do with their practices and do not be taken in by their falsehoods.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General