Sabbath 21/06/47/120
Dear Friends
Today is the Third Sabbath of the Sixth Month termed Elul. The paper for study this week is Ezekiel 34 and the Shepherds of Israel (No. 108B)and Commentary on Ezekiel Part IX (F026ix). It is important that we understand what is to happen to the entire ministerial system in the Last Days and what it is that sets the ministry aside at that time.
God says through the prophet Ezekiel what the ministry does and how it deals with the Sheep and renders them to the hooves. God scatters them and then appoints a ministry of a different type to instruct the sheep and to test the sheep in how they treat one another. We have seen the false prophets of the Sardis and Laodicean systems of Revelation Chapter 3 and what they have done to the Sheep in both systems (see Nos. 122, 170, 269, 283). The Ministry of the Sardis system not only introduced false doctrine as did the ministry in Laodicea, they also conducted the greatest thefts ever witnessed in the history of the Churches of God over 2000 years. They not only stole the church under perjury from the brethren, they divided it up, and sold its assets. It was every bit as bad as the Roman Catholic thefts from the brethren at Albi and in the Inquisitions in Spain (Nos. 122; 170). The punishment for them is as it was for Ananias and Sophira and they are all to be consigned to the Second Resurrection (No. 143B) for retraining. So also will be the dumb dogs that allowed it to happen, sitting quietly by as parties to the crime. That includes all the office holders and ministry and deacons and their families.
These bodies of thieves and scoundrels will be sent to the Second Resurrection for retraining as they are all unfit to go into the structure of the First Resurrection, having sold their birthright for a wage living off the Sheep they rendered to the hooves over the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and in the end they cost those Sheep entry to the First Resurrection. Truly, they were the most despicable people to hold office in the Churches of God over the two millennia. Only when the Sheep wake up and move to decent pasture under new leaders will they be free and able to repent and reach the First Resurrection before it is too late. At present they are brainwashed and appear to be suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Once the Witnesses get here it may well be too late and when the Messiah is here they will have all missed the boat and all that is left is the weeping and gnashing of teeth. The mainstream will only have the time to recover from Messiah's arrival for repentance (No. 210A and 210B) and recovery, unless the Holy Spirit grabs them by the scruff of the neck when the Witnesses arrive in the near future.
We are all still under Judgment and are being measured (see No. 137). If you have not yet repented, then you had better do so before it is too late, and time is running out. You will not make it into the Kingdom on the backs of these ministers. They are all consigned to the Second Resurrection as are you if you do not repent and get away from them.
Wade Cox
Coordinator General