New Moon Message 01/11/41/120

Dear Friends,

We now follow on into Part II from the Sabbath Message in examining the purpose of the creation and the Mysteries of God (No. 131) which are entrusted to the Churches of God for explanation.

God was faced with the problem of training mankind and allowing mankind free will in determining what they wished to do and whether or not mankind would voluntarily serve God or their own desires.   All of this process necessarily involved the capacity to sin in the exercise of free will.  In order to do that mankind was given explicit direction and faced with the Problem of Evil (No. 118).  It was by the Omniscience of God that man was known and predestined to be advanced and to become prophets and then the elect of the Churches of God (cf. Predestination (No. 296)).

Until Messiah and the Church, the will of God was expressed through the patriarchs and prophets. There was not a lot of free will involved except that the Holy Spirit was used to develop the prophets and to convey the Oracles of God (No. 184) to them.   The elect were selected according to the Divine Omniscience and Prescience of God.  Over the entire creation God knew who were to be successful and when He would select them. Their task was to become Elohim and part of the teachers and educators of mankind (cf. The Elect as Elohim (No. 001)). It was through them that He would train the entirety of mankind and they would all be tested by faith, including the entire Host.

The sequence of the Plan of Salvation was set and the timeframe and sequence had been allocated from the creation of the world and then the creation of Adam (cf. Outline Timetable of the Age (No. 272)).

God has set the plan in motion and the entire Angelic Host including Christ had to work by faith. Satan and the Fallen Host had raised objections to the creation of mankind.  What was given to us to know was revealed through the Holy Spirit (No. 117) direct to the prophets and then also to Christ on his resurrection and to the Churches of God as God’s instrument.

We of the churches were all Foreknown, Chosen, Predestined, Called, Justified and then Glorified by God from the foundation of the earth (Rom. 8:28-30). Most people that do not understand the complete Omniscience of God seem to want a superman rather than a God. Satan spent all his time given to him as the god of this world (2Cor. 4:4) in undermining the understanding and the faith of mankind. At the end of this age for the Millennium under Messiah all false religion will be destroyed and removed (Wars of the End Part IV: The End of False Religion (No. 141F)).

Over the Last Days the corruption of the last two eras of the Churches of God, namely the Sardis and the Laodicean Churches, was foreknown by God from the beginning. Their failure and fate was prophesied by God in the text of Revelation Chapter 3. (cf. The Pillars of Philadelphia (No. 283)). It is of no real consequence that they fail and many of them were not predestined to be chosen to be called.  They were simply incapable of understanding the faith and being obedient to it. In the same way the called but not chosen were simply drawn into false systems and refused to study and correct their errors or to do enough study to know what the errors even were in most cases.

 The ministry of these two failed eras of the Churches of God will be punished most severely for their lies and their false teachings and their abuse. However, the people that followed them will not be excused for their failures and they will also be sent to the Second Resurrection of the Dead and the Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B) along with the ministry who will be made to serve them in that Resurrection in accordance with James 3:1 (cf. Commentary on James (F059)).

In the Churches of God there are no free lunches and never have been.  Many have paid with their lives.
Remember the sequence of the end days. The first of the sequence was the Time of Jacob’s Trouble as we detailed in the papers The Fall of Egypt Part I (No. 036) and the Timing as detailed in Part II (No. 36_2).
Then we went on to the
Wars of the End Part I: Wars of Amalek (No. 141C).
Wars of the End Part II: 1260 Days of the Witnesses (No. 141D)
Wars of the End Part III: Armageddon and the Vials of the Wrath of God (No. 141E).

In Part II we see the preparation for the Coming of the Messiah under the Witnesses and then in Part III we go through the First Resurrection (No. 143A) and then Armageddon and the Vials of the Wrath of God.

Wars of the End Part IV: End of False Religion (No. 141F) deals with the end of False Religions and that also means the false doctrines in Judah and the Sardis and Loadicean Churches of God given to them by their false prophets (cf. False Prophecy (No. 269)).

After we have subjugated the earth we will then go on to restore it and prepare for the Millennium and the Second Resurrection as explained in the text of Wars of the End Part V: Restoration for the Millennium (No. 141G).

The purpose of the Resurrections and the entire Creation and the Plan of Salvation is explained also in Wars of the End Part VB: Preparing the Elohim (No. 141H).

The Structure of Scriptures is also retaught in the Koran and is explained in the paper Summary of the Commentary on the Qur’an or Koran (QS).

There are no excuses and failures go to the Second Resurrection.  There is no Place of Safety (No. 194).
We have to correct our failings and get the plan right and study and implement it correctly.

God did not give John the revelation of the Sardis and Laodicean failures in Revelation Chapter 3 for no reason. Those who fail will be in the Second Resurrection and their teachers that lie to them will be there trying to make amends among them in another thousand odd years. There is no reason for you to fail except sheer laziness and obstinacy.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General