Sabbath Message 12/01/40/120

Dear Friends,

This message is about false doctrine being spread in the churches that demonstrates how the adversary works to destroy the Churches of God through false doctrine.

One such doctrine seeks to change the timing of the Lord’s Supper from the night of 14 Abib to 3pm on 14 Abib at the time the Messiah was killed and when we traditionally hold the Memorial “Death of the Lamb” Service and Ingathering before the Passover Meal on the night of 15 Abib. Others keep both the Lord’s Supper and the Passover meal on the night of 15 Abib (see False Doctrines re the Timing of the Lord’s Supper (No. 103C)).

Now it is important that we of the Churches of God understand the true and correct timing and sequence of the Passover and the Feast Unleavened Bread and we understand the false teachers and those attempting to destroy the Church of God with false doctrine. Have nothing to do with them.  It has been rendered difficult enough with the False Prophet Herbert Armstrong and the difficulties that caused in the restoration of the true doctrines of the Churches of God (see the papers False Prophecy (No. 269); Distortion of God’s Calendar in Judah (No. 195B) and Hillel, Babylonian Intercalations and the Temple Calendar (No. 195C) and Ditheism (No. 076B)).

It is important that we understand that the Lord’s Supper is a critical part of the worship and doctrine of the Church of God and is one of only two sacraments of the Church following that of baptism (see the paper The Lord’s Supper (No. 103) (The paper 103A is a shortened version and 103B is a service in the absence of an elder or officer of the church).   The entire sanctification procedures lead from 1 Abib through the fast of 7 Abib and then culminate on the afternoon of 13 Abib so that after EENT or dark 13 Abib when we go into 14 Abib in the evening we are ready to undertake the Lord’s Supper with the Footwashing, and the Bread and the Wine as we have done so for almost two thousand years. See the paper
Significance of the Footwashing (No. 099) and Significance of the Bread and the Wine (No. 100).

We have absolute proof on the eyewitness of Irenaeus and the record of the historian Eusebius that Christ and the apostles and the church up until the end of the Second Century in the Middle East and right through into Gaul and the church there and in Britannia kept the Fast of the 7 Abib for the 24 hours and kept the entire Passover and Unleavened Bread as a feast for the full eight days from 14 Abib to 21 Abib (see the paper Sanctification of the Simple and Erroneous (No. 291) (incl. Appendix). 

It is important that we all understand the faith once delivered to the saints and that we keep this Passover on the correct days of the calendar as determined in the temple Calendar according the New Moon of the month as determined by the conjunctions and the New Moon is the day on which the conjunction occurs and is determined from Jerusalem the centre of the Temple of God. Of those that do not keep the Temple Calendar and the Feasts as determined for the full periods of the feasts do not even eat with them.

There is war coming soon.  Simply pray and prepare for the struggles of the Last Days and prepare to take your place in the First Resurrection and then the Kingdom of God under the Messiah as our High Priest of the order of Melchisedeck.

May the Lord Bless and Keep us and lift up the light of His countenance upon us and give us peace.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General