New Moon 1/1/40/120

Dear Friends,

Today is the New Moon of the First Month Abib, the New Year of the 40th Year of the 120th Jubilee.  Abib means Spring because it is the Spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

The numerical system in the Bible has significance and the 40th year has significance in terms of judgment  and timing or the sequence of probation.  The symbolism is contained in the work Symbolism of Numbers (No. 007).

The following numbers have significance in relation to the end of the age or aeon.  The week of six working days represents three working phases of two millennia divided into forty jubilees each.

Twenty-nine (29) is the number of the Council under Christ and divine judgment.

Thirty (30) (3 x 10) is the Council with God in divine order and government (see the paper The Government of God (No. 174)).

Forty (40) (10 x 4) is the compound of the concept of the dunging of the tree and as such is the period of probation. Thus all probation is 40. It can be of days as in the case of judgment of individuals as we see with Nineveh (see the paper The Sign of Jonah and the History of the Reconstruction of the Temple (No. 13)). It can also be of compounds of that in weeks, as we see with some priests in judgment.

Forty is also a generation. Israel was a generation in the wilderness in the Exodus. Forty years were applied to Judah from 30 CE at the Crucifixion to 1 Nisan 70 CE at the surrounding of Jerusalem by the Roman Army under Titus.

Forty Jubilees have been allotted to the nations for repentance and to bring in the divine order at the end of the sixth Millennium in 2027.

The four perfect numbers of 3, 7, 10 and 12 have as their product the seven times of 2,520 (7 x 360). This number is the least common multiple of the ten digits governing numeration, being able to be divided by each of the nine digits with no remainder (Bullinger, ibid.). It is thus the number of chronological perfection.

Seventy (70) is the number of the full Councils both heavenly and earthly, and they have two additions as God and Christ making the Hebdomekonta[duo] or the seventy-[two] of Luke 10:1,17.

The number seventy was also of the Sanhedrin or council of the Elders of Israel, which was comprised of seventy, plus the two outside the tabernacle symbolised by Eldad and Medad.

Nations also comprised the seventy, as the sons of God were held to have been seventy in number in the councils of which the Sanhedrin was a copy. These nations were allotted according to the number of the sons of God; the Most High God or Yahovah of Hosts, allotted Israel to another Yahovah (the Being who became Jesus Christ). Deuteronomy 32:8 stated this in the ancient texts. It was altered after the fall of the Temple to disguise that fact. The RSV is the only Bible that has it correctly restored.

Seventy-two (72) relates to the Governing Council of God. As noted above the seventy were understood to be accompanied by two, making seventy-two. These are also the number of the nations under the sons of God.

When Christ began his ministry and established the church he ordained a new Hebdomekonta [duo] or  Seventy [two] when he ordained the Seventy which was written in the Greek as Hebdomekonta [duo] or Seventy-two. The process of the selection of the Seventy continued unabated from that time with the church taking over from the Sanhedrin.

The establishment of the Seventy-two was done on a yearly basis over the time of the church which lasted for 2000 years over forty jubilees.

One hundred and twenty (120) (12 x 10) is the number of extended government. This is the next number in the sequence of the Church.

Three hundred and sixty (360) is the classic time or prophetic year. It is 12 perfect months of 30 days. The time is used in prophecy and can mean a year, but it also means 360 years. Thus “a time, times, and half a time” can be 1260 years or 42 months, i.e. three and a half years. Usually it is in years.

End quote from 007.

Have in mind that Satan was given rulership over the planet for 6 millennial days or 6000 years and then he was to be imprisoned in the pit of Tartaros for the Millennial or Sabbath rest of Christ.  Adam was given thirty years from his creation in 4004 and then expelled from Eden and a cherub placed at the entrance to Eden when Adam was old enough to enter into Judgment at thirty and the age began at the year 3974 BCE when Eden was closed and Satan began to reign (see also The Doctrine of Original Sin (Part I) The Garden of Eden (No. 246) and Doctrine of Original Sin Part II;  The Generations of Adam (No. 248)).

The 6000 years of the working creation is 120 jubilees divided by three into phases of forty jubilees each. These three phases are symbolised by the age of Moses and his divisions in Egypt, Midian and the Wilderness and also by the Rule of the Kings as explained in the papers Rule of the Kings Part I: Saul (No. 282A); Rule of the Kings Part II: David (No. 282B) and Rule of the Kings Part III: Solomon and the Key of David (No. 282C); and also note Outline Timetable of the Age (No. 272).

The three sections of this aeon are the 2000 years or Forty Jubilees from Adam to Abraham, the second era was from Abraham to the Ministry of Messiah in 27 CE which was the 15th year of Tiberius and the third era or age of the church was from the baptism of Messiah in 27 CE to the 120th Jubilee at the end of the transfer from the Rule of Satan to the Messiah and the allocation of lands to the Millennium which commences in 1 Abib 2028 CE, the first year of the 121st Jubilee.  The 1000 years of the Messianic Millennium or twenty jubilees is from 1 Abib 2028 to 3027 and the Second Resurrection of the Dead (see the paper Second Resurrection of the Dead and the Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B)).

After the 42nd year of the `140th Jubilee or what is now understood  as the year 3019, Satan and the Fallen Host will be released in the last seven year cycle of the 140th jubilee. They were confined prior to the end of Satan’s Rule and as the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29 (RSV), they are released. The Demons will all be killed with Satan at the end of the Millennium and its Last War in the Jubilee Year of Atonement 3026 to Atonement 3027 when all mankind and the Demons will be resurrected and confined to androgynous human form for 100 years of the Judgment of Krisis when the Demons will also be judged by the resurrected elect against what they themselves did over the Millennial system of Messiah (see the paper Judgment of the Demons (No. 080)).

Last Sabbath we explained the Measuring of the Temple (No. 137) and the Key of David http://ccg.org/weblibs/2017-messages/sabbath_message_281339120_(25mar17).html.
That period began in 1987 ten years after the Jubilee in 1977 when it was announced worldwide by J. W. Tkach SNR of the WCG who was then judged and killed for his sermon doing away with God’s Law.  Thus we are in the Fortieth Year of the Jubilee and the Thirtieth Year of the Measuring of the Temple and the Council of God in divine judgment of the Church..  Last year we entered the 29th year of the Judgment of the Ministry and today we begin the Thirtieth year of the Judgment and the Fortieth Year of the end period of the Last jubilee of Satan’s Rule.  The Ministry is entering the final phase of its judgment and correction or destruction.

Now remember that today is the Sabbath of the New Moon and New Year of Abib and this day begins the Sanctification of the Nations and the Sanctification of the Temple of God. We are required to sanctify the Body of Christ and the nations for which we are responsible and of which we are part. 

The Sanctification of the nations is covered in the paper Sanctification of the Nations (No. 077)  and the process of the Sanctification of the Temple of God is explained in Sanctification of the Temple of God (No. 241). 

Over the period from 1 Abib we are commanded to begin the Sanctification process and on 7 Abib we are commanded to Sanctify the Simple and Erroneous (No. 291). The only way the simple and erroneous as an element of the congregation can by sanctified is by a fast in accordance with Scripture (Joel 1:14; 2:15- 16). These are also explained in the paper FAQs on Ezekiel chapter 36-48 and the Sanctification of the Temple (No. 292).

Remember God punished Israel because they failed to sanctify God by their own actions in prayer and fasting and failed to sanctify themselves so the argument that Christ did it all cannot possibly be valid (Numbers 20:12; 27:14; Joshua 3:5; 7:13; Chron. 15:12; 2Chron. 29:5).  Since the Levites must sanctify themselves and the Ark of the Covenant how much more so is it expected of we the priesthood of Melchisedek of which Christ is our High Priest. So also must we do it for Ezekiel’s Temple which is the entire Millennial system from priesthood to Temple.

Now CCG has done this for twenty years or more and prayed for the misteachings of the Armstrongite and COG (SD) offshoots. Remember we are again this year faced with praying for them.  The important thing to note this year is that the UCG system is readily admitting its lack of knowledge and called for a fast on the First Sabbath of the Omer count on 26 Abib or 22 April 2017. The call for a fast in Abib is at : http://www.7th-day.info/Pages/news.aspx

The Council of Elders has called for a church-wide fast.
“We humbly ask the entire United Church of God to join the Council of Elders and the administration for a day of prayer and fasting to beseech God for the necessary wisdom needed to understand His will. The Council has set the date for this fast for the Sabbath of April 22, which we pray is a day when we can all fast and beseech God together as a church. There is a great synergy created when we all fast together for the purpose of humbling ourselves and drawing closer to our heavenly Father. We are not fasting to get, but to give; that is, to be able to more powerfully proclaim the coming Kingdom of God.”

This is clear evidence for the wilful and complete disobedience of the UCG and so also for LCG who have themselves called for a fast at other times when all they had to do was to obey God and Fast for the Simple and Erroneous on 7 Abib as instructed by God through Ezekiel in Ezek. 45:20 (see esp. KJV, error or ignorance in RSV).

All they have to do is repent and obey God and get rid of the heresies of Hillel of Judaism of 358CE and also Binitarianism or Ditheism (No. 076B) and they will be permitted to keep the Temple or God’s Calendar (No. 156).

Why will these ministers never obey God?  Why must they always lead God’s people astray?

The facts are that these days of Judgment are now entering the last ten years of this age and by Atonement 2026 Satan will be in the pit and these ministers will be repentant or dead.  In fact their period of judgment ends well before that time.  2025 is the Treble harvest of the Sabbath and Jubilee as per Leviticus 25:18-25.  Thus, by God’s Law, Christ must be here at the latest in 2024 for The Wars of the Last Days and the Vials of the Wrath of God (No. 141B) and for the sowing of the Jubilee crops. There must also be the period of the Two Witnesses who must be here 1264 days prior to Christ thus at the very latest they must be here by Abib 2021 and probably earlier.

Thus the ministry will be called in judgment and final correction between now and before March 2021. They should be ready for the Reading of the Law in 2019 at least so they can repent and correct their errors and save their people. If they do not then may God help them as they will be silenced by the Witnesses.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General