Christian Churches of God Sabbath Message

Sabbath 29/12/46/120

Dear Friends,

From tomorrow on the New Moon of the New Year we will begin sanctifying the Church of God. Today we will study the Sanctification of the Nations (No. 077)and see also the video at https://rumble.com/v4h35t9-sanctification-of-the-nations-and-the-temple-of-god.html. and also P292 FAQ’s on Ezekiel Chapters 36-48 and the Sanctification of the Temple, and tomorrow that of the Temple of God. The process of Sanctification was reinstated by and in CCG as it had been erroneously abandoned along with the New Moons and the Temple Calendar and correct understanding of the Godhead by the False Prophet and Idol Shepherd Herbert Armstrong and his ministry. The false prophecy of Armstrong is the stuff of legend. The sequence of false prophecy was detailed in the paper False Prophecy (No. 269).

From the New Moon tomorrow we will be looking at preparing for the Sanctification of the Temple of God (No. 241)and in that process we should also prepare for the Fast of the Sanctification of the Simple and Erroneous that we are responsible for undertaking on 7 Abib which this year falls on Sabbath 16 March 2024.

This year is 2024 and we have completed the thirty years today from the first service of CCG and the Restoration of the Temple Calendar (see No 156) and the completion of the Warning of the Last Days (No. 044). The time is up, and the Churches of God will now be effectively dealt with as operating Churches of God due to their failure to repent and correct their false doctrines. We will now commence the Great Tribulation (No. 141D_2) as we warned over the last few months from end Chislev.

Most of these Churches of God over the last two centuries based on the errors of Sardis and Laodicea seem to think that life will just continue on and God will do nothing to intervene and correct the errors of Judah and Israel and the Churches of God, and indeed the entire world. Nothing could be further from the truth. You have had seven years of measurement and then thirty years of Warning under us about your heresies and failures.

You now have three years and seven months before the Messiah has wiped out the entire world systems and established the Church of God on Zion. If you have not repented by then you will all be dead. You have from 1Abib 47/120 i.e. 10 March 2024 to commence to sanctify yourselves. That will continue on to the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread and on through the Omer Count to Pentecost on 5 Sivan or 12 May 2024. That means you have to abandon Hillel and commence to keep the Temple Calendar with CCG.

A number have already commenced to do that and requested induction to CCG and a number have requested rebaptism and we will address that issue tomorrow on the New Year Message. You have to commence the Sanctification and also the keeping of the Fast of 7 Abib is critical to you your salvation this year and also the survival of your people.

We see the Fast and details in the paper Sanctification of the Simple and Erroneous No. 291.html

The fast was kept from the beginning of the Church of God. The appendix to the paper (No. 291) records the original church did indeed fast from the time of Christ onwards and we have those records.
This sanctification process must be done correctly, as we see from Isaiah 66:17, or those people will suffer destruction.

So we see that, whilst it is God who sanctifies and Christ who sanctifies, it is we also who sanctify with God as the Temple of God (see also Ezek. 20:12; 36:23; 37:28).
Where formerly this task rested with the sons of Levi, and then in the physical sense with the sons of Zadok (see Ezek. 44:15-24; cf. 46:20), this function now rests with the Church as the priesthood of Melchisedek (see the paper Melchisedek (No. 128)).

Thus we fast on 7 Abib as we have done for two millennia except when under the direction of heretics like those of the Armstrongite system and elements of the COG (SD).

We should all be aware of the Quartodeciman Disputes that caused the division between the Churches of God and the Church at Rome in 192 of the Current Era. The details are in two papers; one is the Quartodeciman Disputes (No. 277) and the other is the Origin of the Christian Church in Britain (No. 266).

Irenaeus wrote to a former friend, Florinus, who had lapsed into Valentinianism. He reminded Florinus of the fact that he and Florinus had been with Polycarp and the apostle John and those still alive that had known the Lord. He wrote regarding the fast of 7 Abib being kept before the Passover from 14 Abib. He had also written to Victor regarding the ancient custom of the observance of the Pascha (Lord’s Supper or Passover) on 14 Abib and the Passover/Feast of Unleavened Bread from 15 Abib. In that early writing, since lost, we see it preserved by Eusebius. It is there witnessed by Irenaeus in observing Polycarp with John and those who knew the Lord and that they kept the Passover and the Fast preceding it (cf. ANF, Vol. 1, p. 568ff).

The fragment to Florinus regarding the Fast of 7 Abib and the Passover on 14 Abib and the Feast of Unleavened Bread 15-21 Abib is as follows.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus

The writing of Irenaeus concerning the Fast was lost except in the fragment preserved by the historian Eusebius but we know without doubt that the entire church fasted on 7 Abib from Christ and the apostles through John and Polycarp and through Irenaeus to the Quartodeciman Disputes (No. 277). Irenaeus wrote to Victor also concerning the Fast and its manner and the confusion that had come in regarding it due to the heretics coming in from the worshippers of the Sun Cults and their introductions of the cults of Baal and Ashtoreth or Easter and his fragments from Eusebius are also in the Appendix to the paper (No. 291) (see also the Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235)).

It is beyond dispute that the church fasted on 7 Abib as commanded by Ezekiel 45:20 for centuries and only failed in the Sardis and Laodicean systems.

The entire Sanctification system has been critical to the proper restoration of the Philadelphian system and the true system of the Worship of the One True God in the Last Days.

This Sabbath please study the paper on the Sanctification of the Simple and Erroneous (No. 291) and prepare for the Fast. On the Fast Day please study the Quartodeciman Disputes (No. 277 and prepare for the Passover and the Setting aside of the Lamb details and the preparatory papers.

Please enjoy the build-up and get yourselves ready this year for the coming trials ahead and prepare for the Witnesses and the coming Kingdom of God. Remember that this year is our last chance to make it into the Church of God in the last days and come under the protection of the Hand of God (No. 194B). If those of the WCG system that have not yet repented do not repent and come into the faith correctly and undertake the process before Pentecost this year then they will commence to undergo the trials of God and will face the Great Tribulation as any other human being on the planet. God is not mocked or ignored. Your time is up and He will begin to deal with all of the world until they repent. The Church of God will suffer first and with Judah they will suffer most severely and this year it will be done so that the Churches of God and Judah realise that they are in total heresy and those that do not repent will commence to die starting with their ministry.

May God bless and protect us all.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General