Sabbath 11/13/41/120

Dear Friends,

This Sabbath I thought it was appropriate to reflect on who we are and from where we came and our place in the plan of salvation and the creation of God. Today our Regional Coordinator for Scandinavia Dr. Arne Roaldnes of Norway wrote to me as follows:

Dear Wade
Greeting to you with thanks for the great work you are doing all the time. I just wanted to mention a little curiosity.
I think it was around roman new year, I might have seen a television program from Royal Albert Hall/ new years concert. They sang of course pomp and circumstance, and then an anthem that was totally unknown to me that I have later learnt was " Jerusalem " by William Blake. I am sure you know this anthem. It was just so inspiring and surprising, seeing these English people of all ages and means sing of full throat " nor shall my sword sleep in my hand till we have built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land. " 

This anthem builds on the apocryphal text about Jesus going to England with Joseph of Aramathea.  It was so inspiring to see these people having the underlying thirst for Jerusalem. We all long for it, and you have taught us that we can all help in building this new Jerusalem where we live, whether it be England or here in my little town (in Northern Norway). Still, it struck me that there is maybe some special ties from the English peoples to " their old capital " as if  memories are lingering back through the ages to the times when they went up to celebrate the feasts in Jerusalem. Deep down there they want it back. 

Arne
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I replied and explained the Welsh history of their Kings and the place that Joseph played (as a metals’ trader) in Britain and how his daughter Anna married Bran the Blessed king of the Britons and from those lines the Welsh and much of UK are descended, both from them and the Desposyni, or Those belonging to the Lord and part of the Family of Jesus Christ (cf. the papers Hittites in the House of David (No. 067C) and Origin of the Christian Church in Britain (No. 266)).

The Anglo-Saxons were not in UK when Joseph was there.  They were in Parthia and visited by Peter and other apostles such as Andrew who visited the Scots in Scythia (cf. the paper Fate of the Twelve Apostles 122B)).

The RC church came into Britain in 597CE under Augustine of Canterbury, at the request of the French Catholic wife of the pagan Ethelbert king of the Angles. Augustine sprinkled them at the midwinter fires on 597. After that, establishing pivotal sees in Canterbury and then at York, by force of arms from the synod at Hilda’s Abbey in 664CE, the Angles and Saxons took over the church and stopped it keeping the Sabbath and the Food Laws and the Quartodeciman system and forced it into union with Rome. The faith was forced underground in Britain in both England and Wales and in Scotland under Margaret the Atheling’s daughter. Ireland was given to the Normans king in Britain in 1175 by Nicholas Breakespear when he became Pope and the suppression of Ireland and its history was brutal and ruthless. Patrick was made a Catholic Saint and his convert and assistant Columm Cille or St Columba of Iona who was the first Sabbatarian saint of Ireland and his convert Aiden of Lindisfarne are never mentioned.

By lies and deceit the education system in Britain and later Ireland suppressed the truth and continued to do so until this very day.  However they could not do so among the masses such as in Wales where their traditions and songs maintained the story of Joseph as a metals’ trader in Britain.

The Celtic Church in Britain was established while the Temple still stood prior to 70 CE and thus was not contaminated by Jewish traditions of the Pharisees and maintained the Temple calendar system.  The Anglo-Saxons and Jutes also came in from the Middle East via NW Europe and they still kept the Lunar Calendar and used the Equinox dated at 25 March as the date of the New Year.  This dating sequence derived from the time that Israel was set up from the reign of David and then split from Judah. They went into captivity in what was to become Parthia in 722 BCE under the Assyrians.  This calendar did not change until the Gregorian system was adopted in UK in 1752. There is a copy of the early calendar system in the library at Cambridge.  It is termed the Almanac which is derived from the Aramaic meaning “The Counting.”

The Trinitarians tried to break the Churches of God over all that time and the history of their ruthless persecutions is examined in the papers: Distribution of the Sabbath-Keeping Churches (No. 122) and Role of the Fourth Commandment in the Historical Sabbath-keeping Churches of God (No. 170).
 
Whilst they drove us underground they never broke us nor did the Churches of God anywhere in the world adopt the abomination of Hillel, except for a small group of Judaisers in Transylvania (cf.  The Sabbatarians in Transylvania, CCG Publishing 1998). This remained so for centuries until some Judaisers in the US Church of God (SD) introduced the Hillel Calendar in 1940 into the Radio Church of God (RCG) and the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) when it changed its name under Herbert Armstrong, and it became the calendar with minor alterations to Pentecost.

This Hillel abomination of Modern Judaism remains the doctrine in the WCG offshoots and whilst they know full well its origins in the post Temple Period under Rabbi Hillel II in 358 CE they produce feeble excuses such as that published by the United Church of God and commented on by CCG in 1997 (cf. Commentary on the UCG Doctrinal Statement on the Calendar (No. 206)). Whilst they said in that document that the calendar was still under academic review, now 22 years later, there is no correction or even admission that it is a post Temple Period contrivance of the rabbinical Jews and the original Temple Calendar is not even acknowledged. How wilfully incompetent is that?

It has been our responsibility since the foundation of the church to maintain the original and entire God’s Calendar (No. 156) as kept in the Temple Period which we have done for over 1800 years until the Hillel abomination with the Babylonian Intercalations was adopted in the US and then spread around the world.

It is partly for this reason of the failure to keep the Calendar under the Laws of God and the wilful obstinacy of the Ministry to repent that the Sardis and Laodicean systems are declared dead and spewed out of the Mouth of God and sent to the Second Resurrection (cf.  Revelation Chapter 3).  Do not blame the ministry when you find yourself in the Second Resurrection, because it is your fault for believing them and being deceived. Prove all things.

Cf. also Reference:  Hillel, Babylonian Intercalations and the Temple Calendar (No. 195C),

Wade Cox
Coordinator General