Sabbath 20/8/42/120

Dear Friends,

Our people are working to establish the faith and educate the world to the doctrines under the Laws of God (L1). 
We should all ask ourselves two questions.  These are: what is required of us and how do we wish to enter the Body of Christ to achieve eternal life? No one is going to heaven or hell.  We have two choices.  We enter the First Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143A) or we join everyone else who has ever lived and enter the Second Resurrection of the Dead and the Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B).

As Paul says in Philiippians 3:11 we do not know which resurrection we will be in but we all try for the Ex Anastasin or the “Out” Resurrection which occurs at the coming of Christ (Rev. Ch. 20).  If we are in that Resurrection we will be resurrected or translated as faithful servants having passed the judgment of God and will be deemed fit to replace the Fallen Host and to rule the world for the Millennium and the Second Resurrection and we will be called on to judge the demons (1Cor. 6:3) and the world in general.

God decides whether we are fit to become Elohim or Theoi as gods who are the sons of God for the First Resurrection. To get there we have to be baptised as a repentant adult and keep the Commandments of God and the Testimony and Faith of Jesus Christ (Rev. 12:17; 14:12). That requires us to keep God’s Calendar (No. 156) which involves keeping the Sabbaths and New Moons (Isa. 66:23) and the Holy Days and Feasts of the Law (Zech 14:16-19). If you do not keep the Temple Calendar you will die along with the priests of Baal keeping Sundays and Christmas and Easter (cf. No. 235) or no calendar at all or those who follow the systems of Hubal and the Sharia false systems.  So also will you die alongside the Rabbinical pseudo Jews who keep the Hillel Calendar and the Babylonian intercalations and the false traditions they brought into Judaism (cf. Hillel, Babylonian Intercalations and the Temple Calendar (No. 195C)).

If you are in the Churches of God and you keep the Hillel Calendar and postpone God’s Feasts and Holy Days and you do not keep the New Moons with the Sabbaths then you are in the Second Resurrection along with your false ministers.  Keeping the Sabbath alone will not save you. If you are a Ditheist, Binitarian or Trinitarian, or fellowship with them, then that will not save you either. You will be condemned for spiritual adultery along with them (Jn 17:3).

The choice is yours.  If you wish to be part of the Body of Christ then you have to seek it out and be baptised, fellowship with it, and support it and pay tithes to it (cf. Tithing (No. 161).

Some of us think that we can stay at home and spend our tithes on what we like.  Some think that they can buy a few Bibles for the poor and they have discharged their duty.  Nothing could be further from the truth. We have a duty to God to determine the body of Christ and keep the Lord’s Supper with it and wash the feet of one another on the correct days and eat the body and drink the blood of Christ together. 

Those who do not keep the faith with those of the elect and do not pay tithes to the church with the lampstand will not inherit the kingdom of God and will not be in the First Resurrection. Once Messiah gets here, four days after the death of the Witnesses, it is all too late and those not performing will weep tears of blood and gnash their teeth in anguish. If you have not repented by the time the Witnesses are dead and have kept the full Bible system for at least one complete cycle, you will not qualify from all that the Scriptures tell us.

As I told the people who joined CCG at its foundation if you think you will enter the Kingdom of God by just coming to services on Sabbath then you will not inherit the Kingdom of God nor enter the First Resurrection.
Many of those people are not here now and have fallen by the wayside. Straight is the road and narrow is the way and few there be that find it.

Many of our people are poor and use that as an excuse for not tithing properly.  If you do not tithe properly then you rob God as God says through the prophet Malachi..

Mal.3 [1]"Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. [2] But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? "For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap; [3] he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, till they present right offerings to the LORD.

[4] Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.[5] "Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts. [6] "For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. [7] From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, `How shall we return?'

[8] Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, `How are we robbing thee?' In your tithes and offerings. [9] You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me; the whole nation of you.

[10] Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing. [11] I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil; and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts.

[12] Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.

[13] "Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, `How have we spoken against thee?' [14] You have said, `It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?

[15] Henceforth we deem the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but when they put God to the test they escape.'" [16] Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another; the LORD heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and thought on his name. [17] "They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. [18] Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

So why do we have the weak and destitute who call on the name of the Lord and are dependent upon those who pay tithes and say they are too poor to pay tithes? You rob God and excuse your disobedience.  Army worms and all manner of pestilence strip your crops and your women are left like widows with the children. The few hundred thousand or more depend on the few dozens who are faithful and who do tithe. Repent and put your tithes in the stores of the faith and the second tithes for the feasts and the poor.  See then if God will not open the heavens and pour down his bounty upon you.

If a church asks for assistance from the tithes of others it must first prove it is tithing and has accrued its tithe and assisted its own people. The Secretary will have to certify that the church is registered with its people and has paid its tithe or it will get nothing.

Test God in this. Turn to God and pay your tithes and see if God will not bless you as he has promised. God is not a respecter of persons.  He has Promised and will not go back on His Word.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General