Sabbath  24/5/42/120

Dear Friends,

Today is the last Sabbath of the Fifth Month Ab.  Today we study the paper Descendants of Abraham Part IX: The Last Great Famine (212i).  It appears in this sequence as it is through Abraham that the Laws of God and the Covenant of God were established.  It was through his descendants that the law was given and the faith was established and the Star was taken from Jacob to establish the priesthood as the High Priest of the order of Melchisedek (cf. Commentary on Hebrews (F058)).

Over this period the world will be brought to repentance and submission simply to stay alive.  Judah and key elements of Ishmael and the sons of Keturah will be brought to repentance.  So also will key elements of the Churches of God be brought to their knees in repentance under doctrines free of heresy.  These aspects are also developed.  After the Witnesses and the Messiah through the Trumpets and the Vials of the Wrath of God we will all see the world dealt with and whoever comes out at the end of the Vials will repent or die.

Our Place of Safety (No. 194) is in the Hand of God and not in any mythical place invented by a ministry. It is important that the Churches of God repent before the Witnesses arrive.   If they lack the faith and sincerity, and wait to see the Witnesses and then repent, they will be judged the lesser for it.

It is immensely frustrating listening to ministers mislead congregations and especially those teaching that the law is done away.  The trials of the Last Days will simply escalate now through the Wars of the Trumpets and on into the Vials of the Wrath of God. We will not escape the wars.  Only by being repentant and converted at the time of the coming of the Messiah will we enter the First Resurrection.  After that it is too late.  No one is allowed to enter the Body of Christ as the Temple until after the Vials of the Wrath of God are over.

So the fact of the matter is that if you are in Sardis or Laodicea and you have not taken yourself out and repented and joined the Philadelphian system and supported the last element of the Body of Christ in this final great work in Warning the Nations then you are not in the First Resurrection. If you are not interested, then you have only yourself to blame.

Look at the work Warning of the Last Days (No. 044) and also at False Prophecy (No. 269). You will not get a second chance once the Witnesses are here.

We have to work towards the salvation of the nations and particularly the Churches of God and their offshoots that were misled by the false prophets Armstrong, Dugger, White and Rutherford.

Pray for the repentance of the world so that fewer people die over the period ahead before and at the Messiah’s return.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General