Sabbath 25/4/42/120

Dear Friends,

This Sabbath we need to look at what happened to Abraham in the establishment of the Covenant of God.  All of us should be aware of the story of Abraham when God called him out of Ur in Chaldea and moved him into the Levant to take up his inheritance and to become the father of many nations. He moved in with Lot, his nephew, and allowed him to choose his own inheritance from the area allocated to Abraham. He chose the eastern side of the Jordan River.  The story of those nations formed in that group are covered in the paper Descendents of Abraham: Lot, Moab, Ammon and Esau (No. 212B). He was the father of Ishmael (No. 212C) and then Isaac, who fathered Jacob, who then fathered the Ten tribes which became Israel (212F). and Judah (212E). He also married Keturah and fathered a number of sons through her and they became a number of peoples including the Arabs and also the Laconian or Spartan Greeks (see Descendents of Abraham: Sons of Keturah (No. 212D).

When Abraham was called and offered the Covenant and his position in the Holy People he did not hesitate.  He obeyed immediately and went.  Satan threw a lot of oppositions at him and he made serious errors such as that with Abimelech and also with Pharaoh. He led them into sin through cowardice and lack of faith but it was he that had to pray for them and not the reverse. So also Satan sent the five nations against him and he defeated them with a key force of his household and killed one of Shem’s descendents which is why he had to tithe to Melchisedek ()No. 128) at Salem (cf. Sons of Shem (No. 212A)).

Abraham did not seek to stay in a group. He was not concerned with a social club in Ur or elsewhere. He had faith that God had called him and taken him out of the world that he knew. He knew God would provide for him and He did.  He also did not seek to remain in a group to provide wives and husbands for his offspring.  When it was time he relied on sending his servants to the tribal group that he was from and brought wives to his sons in the land he was given as his inheritance. So also are we provided with our spouses as God directs.  It is up to us to do the most with that union.

Faith is the determinant factor (cf. Commentary on Hebrews (F058) re chapter 11). Abraham took his inheritance from the sins of Canaan and many of the sons of Canaan were placed in Israel as part of that people. They and North African Hamites comprise approx 25% of Judaism to this date (cf. 212E above). It is these people that brought in the traditions of Egypt and Canaan and who destroyed Judah and caused them to be sent into captivity from 70 CE at the Fall of the Temple (cf. The Sign of Jonah and the History of the Reconstruction of the Temple (No. 013) and War with Rome and the Fall of the Temple (No. 298)).

God set us all apart by faith and in the last days He makes a call to us to “come out of her my people”.  This is the body of false religion that includes two entire eras of the Churches of God in the last days.  These are the Sardis and Laodicean eras of the Churches of God. It is important that we all realise that fact. Unless we do we will be condemned to commit sin and not enter the First Resurrection (No. 143A). We must realise that we cannot have a Trinitarian or Triune God. Nor can we have a Ditheist (No. 076B) God and place Christ on a coeternal level with the One True God. Nor can we keep a false calendar as the Jews do today (cf. Hilllel, Babylonian Interclations and the Temple Calendar (No. 195C)). They might be a social club but they will take you out of the First Resurrection and you will go into the Second Resurrection and you will take your kids with you and they will not thank you for destroying their lives and placing them in a very much inferior position and resurrection.  Do not let these false teachers seize your crown for the illusion of a social club.

It is important that the lessons of Revelation chapter 2 and 3 are not lost on you. The lampstand of the Last Days is a key to your understanding and leadership. The church of the last days is performing the tasks of Jeremiah chapter 4:15-27 (cf. Warning of the Last Days (No. 044) and Lampstand of the Last Days (No. 170A)).
It is the Philadelphian system (cf. Pillars of Philadelphia (No. 283)) and it is not run according to the Hillel calendar and the Jews are made to come and bow down before that Church and acknowledge that Christ has loved us (Rev. 3:9). Surely the language is simple enough.

The false teachers under the Armstrong system lost the lampstand in 1994.  They were told that by the demons in the exorcisms they tried to conduct. Some of the people present informed us of the fact.  These offshoots lost the power of healing and despite repeated fasts they have not regained it.  They also lost the power of prophesy and have not conducted the warnings that are the sign of the Philadelphian system. They have a false God and thus they are unable to keep the Temple Calendar (cf. God’s Calendar (No. 156) and Connection Re The Nature of God and the Temple Calendar (No. 156E)). The five eras that are in the First Resurrection all keep or have kept the Temple Calendar and we know exactly what it was and it was always based on the Conjunction at Jerusalem.  The example was set by Christ and the apostles and we have never kept Hillel except under the Armstrong systems.

So also there are small groups that have tried to disrupt our work and have failed and are unable to conduct any serious work or assist the work in the last days. Remember also that Satan will get people to invent any false doctrines to divert or disrupt the work.  Because of that fact, God is working with new people in different areas and soon the wars of the end will come upon us. Do not place the Faith in jeopardy.  Do not put your children in jeopardy because you are too self absorbed to determine fact from fiction.

Remember there is no Place of Safety (No. 194), except in the hand of God.  Do not be sucked into these apostate groups because you think you have to stay with them.  Do not be sucked in by the Fallacy of the Third Resurrection (No. 166). Just use the common sense God has given you and ask yourself what kind of a God would do that to people with whom He was dealing?

When the Witnesses (No. 135) arrive they will commence to deal with the world and they will punish the disobedient. Christ will take up the matter and because none of those disobedient will be in the First Resurrection they will come under the Tribulation. There is no escape. If we are not in the First Resurrection there will be no entry to the Faith until after the Tribulation. We will have to earn our right to enter the Millennium and thus will have to go through the Vials of the Wrath of God.

The Covenant of God is to be applied to the entire world and that involves those who think they are Christians and also those who think they are Muslims but are deceived by false religions.  The details are covered in the sections within the paper Christianity and Islam in the Covenant of God (No. 096C).  It is the work of the Church in the last days to warn Islam, as well as Christianity, and to do that they must be spoken to with correct doctrine according with both Scripture and the Koran. If you cannot do that you are not one of the faith and are still part of the Sardis or Laodicean eras. There is only ONE True God and He sent Jesus Christ. Understanding that and knowing them both is Eternal Life (No. 133) (Jn. 17:3). If you think Christ is a second uncreated coeternal god, and you pray to him, then you are in the Second Resurrection. Christ is not a True God in the sense that only God is immortal (1Tim. 6:16). If you say this nonsense to Islam then they will know you are a ditheist heretic.

Those who repent and make the First Resurrection will be in a position to rule the world for a thousand years in the Millennium and to judge the demons in the Second Resurrection of the Dead and the Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B). We will not face the second death and we will be able to educate everyone who has ever lived to take up immortal life. Why would anyone in their right mind throw such an opportunity away for the sake of exercising their grey matter and following the faith once given to the saints (Jude v.3). It is not new.  We have all done it before. The errors came into the faith with Armstrong, and Ellen G. White and the JWs under Rutherford (cf. False Prophecy (No. 269)).

We have restored the faith in the worship of the One True God under the Temple Calendar. Repent and get on with it. Do the work of the last days, and get ready for the Witnesses and the Messiah. Let no one take your crown.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General