Sabbath 18/03/44/120

Dear Friends,

This Sabbath we issue the study paper Introduction to the Commentary on the Bible (F000). This work explains the Plan of God in the creation and the Plan of Salvation (No. 001A).  The purpose of the Creation was to develop the Elect as Elohim (No. 001). No one can develop an understanding of the purpose of the Creation and the sequence of the development of the Plan and what God requires of us unless they have a sound understanding of what the Bible says and what God requires us to do.  Most of the world was totally deluded by the Fallen Host in trying to convince us of a false system that prevents us from following God’s Calendar (No. 156) and misdirecting us to the Calendar of the Sun and Mystery Cults coupled with that of the Babylonian system, which was taken into Judaism in 344 CE and issued in 358 CE by Rabbi Hillel II, which was never accepted by the Churches of God  until the Judaising false prophets Armstrong and Dugger brought it into the Church of God (SD) in the 1940s (cf. Hillel, Babylonian Intercalations and the Temple Calendar (No. 195C)).  These false religious systems came into the Christian Churches from the Sun and Mystery cults when the Worship on Sunday, or the Day of the Sun, was placed alongside the Sabbath from 111CE in the church in Rome.  From 154 CE, Anicetus, on becoming bishop of Rome, brought the festival of the Goddess Easter which was a festival of the various Cults of Baal with the Goddess Easter.  In 192 Bishop Victor in Rome assumed the role of Bishop in Rome and forced the schism of the church in the Quartodeciman Disputes (No. 277). In the Third century Modalism and then Binitarianism were inserted into Christianity from 325 CE and then removed with the Athanasians in 327 CE and in 366 CE the Sabbath was removed at the Council of Laodicea but failed. Christmas was introduced from the Sun cults in 375 CE in Syria and in 386 in Jerusalem (cf.  Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235)). In 381 CE Trinitarianism was enforced on the Empire from the Council of Constantinople and then ratified from the Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE (cf. Binitarianism and Trinitarianism (No. 076)).  

Over these five centuries the Sun and Mystery Cults of the Baal System corrupted Christian doctrines and effectively destroyed Christianity and drove the Churches of God virtually underground and into persecution from the declaration of the Holy Roman Empire in 590 CE (cf. Role of the Fourth Commandment in the Historical Sabbath-keeping Churches of God (No. 170); Commentary on Daniel F027ii; F027xiii)).

We are now in the Wars of the End Part I:  Wars of Amalek (No. 141C) and in the War of the Fifth Trumpet and very soon we will advance into the War of the Sixth Trumpet which will be a Thermo Nuclear War following on from the Biochemical war of the Fifth Trumpet. Soon God will act and He will send the Witnesses, Enoch and Elijah, and they will commence to deal with mankind over the 1260 Days of the Witnesses (No. 141D) and then they will be killed and lie dead in the Streets for four days, and on the Morning of the Fourth Day the Messiah will arrive on the Mount of Olives and the First Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143A) will occur. Then we will face Armageddon and the Vials of the Wrath of God (No. 141E) and then War against Christ (No. 141E_2).

Scripture has told us all that is before us and it will all take place. Scripture cannot be broken (Jn. 10:34-36). Our job has been to warn the nations of the coming of the Messiah (Jer. 4:15-17). It is because the ways and doings of the people are against God and it is all bitter and has reached their very heart and they hear the alarm and the Trumpet sound of war (Jer. 4:18-19). Disaster will follow hard upon disaster.  The whole land is laid waste and the tents are destroyed in a moment. The people are stupid. They have no understanding and are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good (v. 22). God looked on the earth and lo it was waste and void. The heavens had no light and the mountains were quaking and the hills move to and fro (vv. 23-24). God looked and there was no man and the birds of the air had fled.  I looked and lo the fruitful land was a desert and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord and his fierce anger. For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation yet I will not make a full end (vv. 25-27).

Wade Cox
Coordinator General