Sabbath  9/10/41/120

Dear Friends,

This Sabbath we will be reminded of the Blessings and the Curses (No. 075).  In this section we will concentrate on the Blessings that flow from the obedience of the nation to the Laws of God and how those blessings affect all of us. This section adds to the paper with some notations.

When God issued the Law through mediators, and had the Messiah as the Angel of the Presence or Covenant deliver the Law to Israel through Moses, He set up a system which would not fail or be deficient. However, the system was made deficient in its implementation by the traditions of Judaism. Much of those traditions came in from Egypt. The blessings and the curses apply to all of Israel and not just Judaism. More importantly, they show that God deals with nations specifically, and a multi-national Church structure wrongly seeks to obviate the specific system that God had set up to deal with peoples. So also does a multinational world structure that does not comply with or be obedient to God’s Laws and allow for the blessings and the curses to be placed on each nation as they are judged and obey the Laws of God (L1).

Importantly, Israel was to be set above all the nations of the Earth, and will be set above all the nations of the Earth at the return of Messiah. They will become a light and a nation of priests; thus we are not dealing with unjust allocation of power and material well-being. Each nation can share in the relative well-being based upon their acceptance of the Commandments of God. They thus become part of Israel being allocated to the tribes as an extended body of Messiah. However, if Israel obeyed the Law continually they would not have needed to wait, and would have achieved a pre-eminent position beforehand through Messiah and the Host. Much of the trials and tribulations of the world would have been spared them.

Deuteronomy 28:1-68 "And if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God. 3Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 4Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. 6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

The blessings of the Lord extend to cover all aspects of the nation, both in the towns and in the fields. Material well-being is thus tied to the Law.

⁷The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
Here the enemies of the nation are dispersed by the actions of God through the Host. The united attacks of enemy alliances will be defeated and dispersed.

⁸The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

The retention of the blessings is dependent upon the command of Yahovah of Israel, who is Messiah, within the areas granted by Yahovah Elohim. Thus Messiah commands blessings within the bounds allocated to the nations by God according to their obedience.

⁹The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.

Here the statement is made that the establishment of the nation as a people holy to God is the specific aim and promise of God, and that it is conditional upon the keeping of the Commandments.

¹⁰And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you.
Here the promise is made that the Lord will make people afraid of us, because we are called by the Name of God. The Interlinear texts show that the wording is that the name of Yahovah is named on you. Thus the identification of the elect involves the naming of the people and an understanding of the nature of God. The Philadelphian Church is noted because it has only a little power, but keeps the word and does not deny the name of Messiah (Rev. 3:8). Yahovah is a third person of the verb meaning “He causes to be.”

¹¹And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, within the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. ¹²The LORD will open to you his good treasury the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Thus the promises here involve two aspects as a mark of the blessings of the Lord: the Lord will give rain in due season, and the nation shall be a net lender not a borrower. Thus drought is a mark of being out of sequence with the Jubilee Calendar and not keeping the Laws of God. The net result of keeping God’s Laws is that the nation has wealth and does not need to borrow. The fact that the world is now in such a mess is proof of the poor spiritual relationship of the world with God. The majority of the Churches of God in both Sardis and Laodicea do not keep the correct Calendar and the Jubilee system and are thus under a curse and are to be scattered and placed in the Tribulation soon to come upon us.

¹³And the LORD will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall tend upward only, and not downward; if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, being careful to do them, ¹⁴and if you do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

The Commandments are clearly identified with the approval and assistance or bounty of God. The failure to keep the Commandments is of itself identified as following after foreign gods. Thus the aspect of idolatry does not rely on the specific and wilful worship of demons. The mere fact that one follows the doctrines of demons, albeit within his or her own frames of reference, places one in enmity towards God.

Disobedience to the Laws of God is punishable, both individually and collectively. God deals in nations as He deals in families. Those nations are also judged as is the Host that governs them (see the paper The Angel of YHVH (No. 24)).

¹⁵But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. ¹⁶Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. ¹⁷Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. ¹⁸Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. ¹⁹Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

The Commandments and the statutes are to be kept. Punishment is ongoing for disobedience and is reflected in the produce of the land. The nation is dealt with as a people. The people will be given cleanness of teeth; that is, they will experience famine. The bounty of the Earth is interrelated with the Laws of God. Drought is a punishment on a people that have disregarded God’s laws.

²⁰The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration, in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your doings, because you have forsaken me.

The Lord deals with the people by curses and confusion and frustration. This confusion extends from the top down. The leadership or government of the nation is struck with stupidity and imbecilic decision-making, which works counter to the welfare of the people. Decisions made not in accordance with the Testimony and the Law plunge a people into darkness. The destruction of a people in rebellion to God is rapid. Think of how quickly the United States of America has gone downhill. Think how quickly Australia degenerated by following the American example. Look now at Sydney and the Mardi Gras. This nation will be put to the sword, and rather quickly unless it repents. The recent vote to validate Same Sex Marriage was accompanied by drought and wars will not depart from us until we repent.

²¹The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to take possession of it. ²²The LORD will smite you with consumption, and with fever, inflammation, and fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. ²³And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron. ²⁴The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.

The pestilence will be unleashed on the people until they are destroyed. Look at the diseases that are becoming endemic in this country and the world. The conditions for outbreaks of dengue fever and mosquito-borne diseases are serious. Parasites and weeds are being imported through incompetent administrative decision-making. This paradise is being turned into a wilderness by incompetence and perverted mindsets.

²⁵The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to frighten them away.

Whereas we were given the birthright promises, and took them through the intervention of God so that the inhabitants of those countries might also benefit by the introduction of the just Laws of a merciful God, we perverted the Laws and persecuted those people. Only now are those people being rehabilitated. The American Indians and Australian Aborigines should have been made strong nations under the power of God; instead, they were made to disassociate themselves from the Law through our perversion of it and our false religious principles. The Americans never kept a treaty with the Indians. Australians were not much better.

²⁷The LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt, and with the ulcers and the scurvy and the itch, of which you cannot be healed. ²⁸The LORD will smite you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind; ²⁹and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

The types of diseases that are increasing daily are becoming more horrific. The AIDS epidemic appears to be prophesied in Romans 1:25-27. The increase of madness in world society is evidence of the breach of the Laws of God. The function of insanity is that it is inflicted nationally on those not exercising the Holy Spirit. It occurs from the affliction of society and is often not the direct responsibility of the individual, being bound up with the chemical properties of the food chain and water storage. Rome used lead pipes through administrative incompetence and as a result the nation suffered with endemic lunacy. Drugs in this society increase psychotic illness and also genetic disorders.

The remainder of the curses will not be expanded upon here but are in the remainder of the paper.

Our people are being prepared for destruction unless the great battle for the control of our people that is now under way is successful and we are able to defeat the consummate evil that controls our governments and our people. As we follow the Laws of God and pray for our people so we are blessed and so our people are blessed because of us. Pray for our people and our leaders and pray that evil is purged from among us.  Watch what is to befall those who are in sin and what we do to cleanse them from us.  We have until Adar at the end of this year to repent and cleanse ourselves of the filth among us. War will ensue.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General