Sabbath 03/01/49/120

Dear Friends

Today is the First Sabbath of the New Year 49/120. It is the Third Day of the Sanctification of the Temple of God (No. 241). This process goes on to the Fast for the Sanctification of the Simple and Erroneous (No. 291) commanded by God through the prophets in Scripture. This day falls, this year, on Wednesday 25 March 2026. This sequence is the preliminary process for the preparation of the ministry and the elect for the build up to the Sanctification of the Nations in the Passover sequence from 14-21 Abib.  This year on the 18th day of Abib we celebrate the Wave Sheaf Offering (No. 106B) and Christ's acceptance before the Throne of God. That is on 5 April 2026 and begins the Omer Count to Pentecost (No. 173) and the receipt and renewal of the Holy Spirit (No. 117) in and for mankind.  Today we will study the paper Age of Jesus Christ at His Baptism and the Duration of His Ministry (No 019).

The purpose of the Fast is to sanctify firstly the Body of Christ and those in the body and in the nations that sin through ignorance or error in order to enable them to prepare for and be accepted in the normal procedures of worship and service that they might not otherwise be able to do. This was the service that Christ was performing when he cleansed the Temple and drove the money changers and thieves from the Temple environs and he then set this process in motion to the 10 Abib when he entered Jerusalem in his triumphal entry and in preparation for his reconciliation of mankind to the One True God Eloah as the Father of the Creation both Spiritual and Physical. This event was symbolic of and will be repeated on the 2000th anniversary in 2030 CE when he enters Jerusalem for the Millennial reign there with and for the Elect and the Holy Seed.

It was on 14 Abib that he established the Lord's Supper in the evening and then was executed on the afternoon at 3pm when the Passover Lambs were killed for the Passover meal that evening, commencing the 15th Abib. By that sacrifice he qualified and enabled all the creation, both the Fallen Host and the Human Host, to be able to die and be resurrected and live again to elohim status, so that all might inherit Eternal Life (No. 133).

To show us all the significance of what it is we do in the mission of the Church of God, I was talking with the Web Master this last week. We were experiencing increases in stats, so much so that the old program could no longer cope with it, and we had to get a newer, more updated program, among a few other additions. He had run the new program, and he said to me that the new program had shown that, for the first seventy days, from 1 January to that time, that the web site had experienced over 75 million downloads at over a million downloads a day, every day. We are now having some 1.4 million downloads a day from some 220 odd countries around the world.  The Churches of God have never achieved this coverage before in history.  If we did not have this modern technology and we had not experienced the dedication of the CCG people working tirelessly on all aspects from administration, translations and recording, and baptisms and all forms of work, and God behind us with the Holy Spirit, we could not have achieved this work. What it shows us is that untold millions are now seeking answers to the major questions of life and the purpose of life and mankind, in the faith. At last they are seeking the Truth (No. 168). These are the simple and erroneous for which we fast. That extends way past Sardis and Laodicea to every corner of the planet and to every land and island. We reach over 11,000 cities all over the world each week, and we cannot even record the full extent of those who are seeking to study the faith. If we had to do it by “backsides on seats”, we would have to hire 12-14 massive football stadiums, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, rotating a church service every hour, or so,  and we could still not reach them all, if we could even get them there to enter the stadiums, in the first place. This traffic will now increase over the next four years as people seek to be reconciled with God in the Churches of God under Messiah. The rule of the planet is about to change and mankind with it. By 2028 we should reach the Tithe of the tithe of over ninety million and then by 2030 of nine hundred million people of the Tithe reserved to God,  constituting the Holy Seed (No. 141E_3; 141E_3B).

Keep up the good work and pray and fast for the sanctification of all mankind including those who do not know any better or those that have been deceived by Satan and the Fallen Host under the false religious systems.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General