Sabbath 3/5/42/120
Dear Friends,
We need to clear up a matter regarding how God works regarding authority in the faith. God never gives authority to more than one authority at any one time. Abraham was established and called out of Chaldea to establish the faith. Moses was replaced by a designated authority Joshua. The Judges were appointed and succeeded one another in order. Samuel was rejected and replaced by Saul as King. God allowed it. David was anointed long before the death of Saul but he was not allowed to raise his hand against the Lord’s Anointed.
So also it went in order through the priesthood and God raised His servants the prophets as and when He decided. Messiah was foretold centuries before he was born by the prophets under direction. Yet he still had to wait until John the Baptist was imprisoned before he could commence his ministry. The church eras were established by God in the sequence they were and given the Lampstand in sequence of their authority (cf The Lampstand in the Last Days (No. 170A)). God established, under Biblical authority, the prophets of the Last Days. The last prophet of Dan/Ephraim was foretold by God through the prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 4:15-27) so that there would be no doubt as to the validity of the appointment and the facts of the prophecy and its direction regarding the Advent of the Messiah. This was also prophesied in Revelation concerning the last Church with the Lampstand which was the Church of the Philadelphians (cf. Pillars of Philadelphia (No. 283)).
Some people wish to claim that there is more than one lampstand active and that they do not have to seek the true Church acting under the authority of God in the Spirit at this time. They are idle, rebellious and dysfunctional and do not have the authority of God, or exercise leadership and prophecy in the Church of God. If they did they would have exercised the authority at the proper time doing the work of the last days and would understand what they had to do and when they had to do it. They would have issued the texts in due time and they would have given warning of what was to befall the world as CCG has done since its inception in warning the last stages of the Churches of God both WCG and COG (SD) and subsequently the offshoots and the other elements of both Sardis and Laodicea, and then the world in general.
It is a simple process. If this last authority is not CCG then who is it, and where are they? It must be there and have commenced from Dan/Ephraim in accordance with prophecy. Go and find it and join them if it is elsewhere. However, do not make a mistake as you will pay with your spiritual life and forfeit the First Resurrection (No. 143A) and you will join the rejected Sardis and Laodicean eras of the Churches of God in the Second Resurrection (No. 143B). You see no one is hanging on trying to take money from you and persuading you to remain at your post. God loves a cheerful giver and a willing worker. None of the leaders of CCG on the National and International boards are paid. They have taken nothing from you. Usually, they have not even taken their own expenses. They serve the body of Christ because they love God and are called according to His purpose.
Remember the last series of works dealing with the Wars of the End Series 141C to 141G and also concerning Christianity and Islam in the Covenant of God (No. 096C) are issued under our responsibility as the Philadelphian Church of the Last Days. People who think they are Christians or Muslims when they read these papers get angry because they are faced with the fact that they are not who they think they are and are pseudo-Christians and pseudo-Muslims. They are fakes and are destined for the Second Resurrection. If it is all too hard and you think there is a better social club somewhere else then go and join them. Only do not weep when you are not in the First Resurrection and are faced with going through the Tribulation. CCG has seen fakes in every Sabbath sequence and God has taken them out. The few who work diligently are the few chosen by God knowing that they will do so. Be grateful that your names are written in heaven.
Wade Cox
Coordinator General