Dear Friends

Today we continue on with the Commentary on Isaiah Part XIV (F023xiv). The text deals with chapters 55-58. Ch. 55 is a Hymn of Joy and Triumph. The text deals with the Final Restoration of Israel under the Messiah. The text concerns God's renewal of the Covenant Promise with Israel. It cross-links with Zechariah Ch. 12 and refers also to the development of the millennial system under the Reign of Messiah. God reissues a call to repentance through Isaiah and refers to the Second Exodus of Chs. 65-66. Ch. 56 deals with Miscellaneous Oracles and a blessing on all those who keep the Sabbath and refers to the conversion of the Nations. It goes on to issue an Oracle Against Corrupt Leaders. Ch. 57 is an Oracle Against idolatry and deals with the Destruction of the Unrighteous followed by a poem of Consolation. The text then flows into the purposes of fasting and reaching God through fasts and in proper motivation. Next week we will progress to part XV. By this stage in the Commentary we should all be aware of the importance of the prophecies God issued through Isaiah. This importance will be amplified over the final two parts of the work. The reason it has never been dealt with properly is because the Sun and Mystery Cults cannot make sense of it within their paradigm and avoid the key issues, as do the Rabbinical Jews for reasons also related to the Babylonian systems and their rejection of Messiah.

The Churches of God were never allowed to publish a Commentary on the Bible over the centuries of the printing press and they were persecuted when they attempted to do so. In the final stages over the last three centuries when they were able to do so, they had become so corrupted by false doctrine emanating from the Sun and Mystery Cults, and especially in North America, they simply failed to deal with the issues and errors they faced. Sardis and Laodicea certainly had the funds and capacity to do so but their administrations and doctrines were so corrupted they simply refused to address the issues their false doctrines created. Between 1978 and 1999 they had been so penetrated by agents of the Sun and Mystery Cults they collapsed into Trinitarianism in all elements. Only CCG re-formed to preserve the original doctrines of the faith once delivered to the saints.

Over the next few years we will continue to deal with those issues, as we have for the last thirty years and more. The Witnesses (Nos. 135;141D) will soon address the problems head on and the doctrines will be restored and the Calendar enforced by them over the entire world. The flippant blasphemy we see on these social media platforms will not be so funny when the Nexus of the Law is restored. The problems will be increased over the rule of the Empire of the Beast, now reaching its height under the economic regions of the Ten Toes (see 299A; 299b; F027ii, xi. xii. xiii). It is an old soldier saying that “there are no Atheists in foxholes.” The coming conflicts will see the civilian populace totally enmeshed in the nuclear and other exchanges. Our only protection is in the Hand of God (No. 194B). Remember! we will not have finished fleeing through the cities of Israel till the son of man comes (Mat. 10:23).

One of our officers stated the simple biblical fact to a person who had moved from RCG to LCG in 2023 that Eloah created the Elohim and was greeted with the comment “oh that is blasphemy.” That is how far down the slope of error they have gone. Another from UCG asked recently “Did Christ create the elohim?” He then went on to quote Jn. 1:3 regarding everything that was made. The UCG appears to be confusing the creation of the elohim with the creation of the material aspects of the age (aeon) which Christ and the elohim were sent to restore by recreation in Gen. 1:2. The simple logic of God being the Father of all, including the elohim as sons of God, seems to escape them. They confuse God as creator with Christ through the forgeries and mistranslations in the Receptus and thence the KJV (see Job. 1:6; 2:1; 38:4-7; No. 199) . At this rate, and using Hillel and the KJV, the Sardis and Laodicean systems have no chance of making the First Resurrection (No. 143A) unless they repent under the Witnesses in the immediate future. They certainly will have to repent when Christ is here simply to live into the millennial system as humans. This is a fundamental truth: There is only One True God. No one has seen him or can see him or hear his voice, and He alone is immortal (1Tim 6:16). On knowing that He is the One True God and that He sent Jesus Christ depends our Eternal Life (Jn. 17:3; No. 133). Christ is not coeternal with Him otherwise there would be two true Gods and the Bible is emphatic that there is only one True God and it is the Father and not the Messiah He sent.

Wade Cox

Coordinator General