Sabbath 12/10/39/120

Dear Friends,

2016 has been an extraordinary year.  We have seen the entitled ravings of the younger generations in UK and in the US and we have seen the utterly dishonest ravings of the media such as the BBC in UK who appear to have been in the pay of the EU to undermine and lie about and derail the Brexit.   We have seen the media so out of touch that they lie about the facts and distort and misrepresent the truth and so utterly pervert the will and intention of the people that they are losing credibility and actually destroying the Globalist Marxist cause that they have come to espouse.

The AU media has become plainly dishonest and the behaviour of the ABC over 2016 was so biased it simply made its listeners angry over what they were saying where the listeners were informed about what was going on in the US and UK and the EU.

As the World Conference of the CCG we were informed of what was occurring all around the world. Many of our people were facing a multitude of problems in many countries.  What was most annoying was to look at the self interest and inability to cope with truth and reality in the Western nations and especially among the Liberal Marxists in UK and EU and in the US and AU and the Commonwealth.

What is perhaps the Most important aspect of the faith is the simple proposition of Truth. No one can be a servant of God in the Body of Jesus Christ unless they are committed to the Faith in Truth.  This aspect is explained in the paper Truth (No. 168). Without Truth no one is able to advance in the Faith; one cannot examine their behaviour and correct their sin.  Sin is transgression of the law of God or Lawlessness (1Jn. 3:4) as detailed in the Bible text. 

What we are seeing is the collapse of the morality of our people and the failure of the younger generations to simply accept criticism and adjust to the reality of the society in which they live.  Most have been indoctrinated by their educators into Marxist ideas and to an inability accept criticism. It has become so bad among the educators that the principal of the Oklahoma Wesleyan University last week was forced to write to his students and remind them that theirs was “a university and not a day care.” His students were complaining that their sermons were making their people feel uncomfortable when they were being addressed.  The reality was they could not face their sin and the sermons were making them feel uncomfortable.  It is called conscience and the youth do not like internalising criticism when they are made to address responsibility for sin which is transgression of the law of God.  The solution is to label the messenger as a racist or a Xenophobe or an anti-Gay/Homophobe/ or whatever other fashionable sin in which they wish to engage.

It is this situation that has emerged in the Last Days that will see virtually the entire Churches of God cast out of the First Resurrection and sent to the Second Resurrection. These aspects are covered in the paper Pillars of Philadelphia (No. 283).

The reality is that every offshoot of the Sardis system, which includes all offshoots of the Worldwide Church of God under Herbert Armstrong and his ministry, keeping Ditheism or Binitarianism and the Hillel Calendar will not inherit the Kingdom of God and they will go into the physical millennium if they repent and if they do not repent until the end of the Witnesses they will simply be killed at the return of the Messiah and they will be dead by the Millennium. It is not a game and they will not be given any more chances.  Their illogical disloyalty to the Bible and their idolatrous worship of Armstrong and his corrupt ministry no matter who they are will not save them. They will suffer the plagues of Egypt and if they do not repent they will die, every one of them.
However, the trials of the world will simply get worse and the whole world will face the Church in the Last Days and they will repent or die.  The churches of the US and UK are a joke and they refuse to face the Truth and they adopt Pagan and Wiccan practices, which are forbidden by God and the Bible texts, all over the world. On 25 December the whole world embraces the Festival of Baal and the Sun Cults forbidden by God at Jeremiah 10:1-9 and they have no shame or remorse. See the paper Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235).

The joke is that the branches of the main heresies of both pseudo-Christianity and Hadithic Islam are both heresies using false doctrines to establish distinctions between them.  Both keep false doctrines contrary to the laws of God regarding food (see the paper The Food Laws (No. 015)). And neither do they keep the Sabbath as ordered by God through Christ. However, there are only a very few that actually keep the laws of God regarding the Sabbaths, New Moons and Feasts. Those that do not will be killed unless they repent. Most of the world will die. The Bible and the Koran are clear yet no one keeps them and they lie about their composition and the laws of God. There is no truth in virtually any of the world religions.

The Churches of God have to understand the Nature of the One True God and Jesus Christ whom He sent and to keep the Commandments of God and the Testimony or faith of Jesus Christ to be part of the elect or the saints of God (Rev. 12:17; 14:12).  Most Sabbath-keepers of the Last Days are not part of the elect and will die unless they repent. Their history is at Distribution of the Sabbath-keeping Churches (No. 122); and Role of the Forth Commandment in the Sabbath-keeping Churches of God (No. 170).

Each of us is to get ourselves ready to enter the kingdom of God in the First Resurrection.  If you do not make the First in the next few years there will be no other chance until the Second Resurrection at the end of the Millennium ca 3027/8.

We need to study these aspects in regard to the faith:
Giving (No. 10)
Steps to Overcoming Sin (No. 11)
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (No. 16)
These three aspects will prepare us. We then need to determine if we are on the path and with the Faith.
Are We on the Right Path? (No. 23)
The Beatitudes (No. 40)

We need to be in control of our daily living.  These papers will help us in our struggle:
Anger (No. 61); Role of the Christian Woman (No. 62)

The means of Conversion is as we said, through truth:
Conversion and Truth (No. 72)

The Basis of Christian Living (No. 85) is developed through Prayer: Teach Us To Pray (No. 111)
Prayer is to God only: Praying to Christ or Beings other than the Father (No. 111b)

The basis of the faith is through Forgiveness (No. 112)

We are to understand the meaning of the faith also through conduct Proverbs 31 (No. 114)
Encouragement and Discouragement (No. 130)

Once we are given the Holy Spirit (No. 117), we must show Fruit of the Holy Spirit (No. 146).
We have a responsibility to the church Tithing (No. 161) and the Family: Christianity and Childrearing (No. 186): Role of the Family (No. 187B); Marriage (No. 289).  And in serving each other in worship: Eating Together in Worship (No. 267).  The route to the Kingdom of God is through Salvation and diligent service. Pray and give thanks in all things.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General