Sabbath 06/07/45/120

Dear Friends,

There is a misunderstanding of prophecy that has emerged in US Protestantism that has declared that there must be a construction of a Temple in Jerusalem by Judah with a reinstatement of the sacrifice. It is never properly substantiated.  The Offshoots of the Churches of God have been sucked in by the misuse of Scripture in the US with a branch in AU of the UCG likewise misled.  Much of the error comes from the use of the KJV in the forgeries in Daniel 9:24-27 (F027ix) and their misapplication to Messiah, and the erroneous conclusions that have been drawn through those forgeries.  These are explained in the Commentary on Daniel in the link.  So also the misuse by the WCG offshoots of Daniel Chapter II are the basis of other misconstructions of Daniel (see F027 viii, xi, xii, xiii)).   

These errors stem from poor scholarship of the officers of the groups involved. The basic error stems from the claims of the Jews themselves that they need to restore the Temple of God on the Temple Mount. A careful reading of the prophecies will show that there is no reference to the restoration of the Temple before the Coming of the Messiah.  Indeed the things that occur in prophecy show that there cannot indeed be any Temple built there before the Messiah as the Witnesses stand on the Temple Mount and prophesy for 1260 Days and then lie dead in the streets for 3.5 days. Over that period there has been an abomination that makes desolate placed on the Temple Mount in the Holy Place and so there cannot be a temple erected there. On the morning of the Fourth or 1264th Day Messiah then comes and the First Resurrection occurs. There is a massive earthquake and the Mount of Olives is split in two and a valley of some 66 km long is created around Jerusalem and only an elevated plateau is left on which the Temple is to be built over the Fiftieth or Golden Jubilee (No. 300) from the Restoration of Ezra and Nehemiah, i.e. the 121st jubilee and the 41st jubilee from the establishment of the church under Messiah. No Temple or construction could survive that earthquake. Also God destroyed the Physical Temple in 70 CE and is sending Christ to restore His system there (see No. 300 above). The Elect are the Temple of God now. The only mandatory precursor to the Witnesses are the Wars of  the Fifth and Sixth Trumpets. See also The Sign of Jonah ... (No. 013) and Completion of the Sign of Jonah (No. 013B) for the completion of prophesy.

Because they cannot make any alteration to the Temple Mount means that some frustrated Jews have constructed a mobile altar of some 4.5 tonnes in order to conduct trial sacrifices, and they may burn a few lamb shanks, but that will hardly constitute a restoration of the Temple Sacrifices. Another serious error is that of the Measuring of the Temple (No. 137). These later officers of the WCG and offshoots systems appear to have conveniently forgotten that the Measuring of the Temple was announced worldwide by the then Pastor General of WCG (J. W. Tkach) prior to Passover of 1987, which commenced the forty years of the Measurement to the Jubilee in 2027 of “This Generation” referred to by Christ.  The problem is that these offshoots never rid themselves of the Hillel Calendar and never restored the Temple Calendar in any of their systems (see God’s Calendar (No. 156) (and also No. 195 and 195C), and God has scattered them. Also they neglect to mention that the Two Witnesses (No. 135) and their period of witness are of great significance (see 1260 Days of the Witnesses (No. 141D)). They avoid it, because the Witnesses will deal with the rabbis in Jerusalem, and also these apostates that follow Hillel in the offshoots, and if necessary, kill them. In fact they will commence to die from the time the Witnesses arrive.  The reason they invent these non biblical precursors to the Witnesses is so that they can deny their existence when Enoch and Elijah arrive. In fact they tried to remove 1950 years of accepted doctrine that said that God was to send Enoch and Elijah as they desired to replace the Biblical Elijah with Herbert Armstrong and Enoch with one of his minions in spite of God specifically identifying one of them as Elijah in Malachi 4:5 and Enoch being the only other candidate in Scripture (Gen. 5:22-24).

Wade Cox
Coordinator General