Sabbath 10/01/49/120 

Dear Friends

Today is the Second Sabbath of the First Month 49/120. On this day, the 10th day we celebrate Christ's triumphal entry to Jerusalem, as the Lamb being set aside for the sacrifice of 14 Abib. This year is the 1996th anniversary of that event and 2030 will be the 2000th anniversary and we anticipate he will be here to commence his millennial rule by then.   Next week we go out of our gates to attend the Passover as instructed by God in Deut. 16:5-8. This shows us that we have to leave our dwellings for the full eight days of the Passover and we may not return to our dwellings over that period. The Passover is the most important Feast and next to Atonement in terms of the most important systems in God's Calendar (No. 156).  The Churches of God in Sardis stopped doing this in the years 1965-1967 around the world. The reason they did this was because the US systems was so tightly controlled by Satan and the demons that they made it impossible to keep the New Moons and the Feasts together. Herbert Armstrong did not understand the reality of the Passover, making massive errors, and nor did the US brethren, and so they pressured him to abandon the Passover Feast out of their gates. They did that in 1965 and by 1967 it had ceased all over the world. From that action WCG forfeited their place in the First Resurrection (Nos. 143A; 143E) and was consigned to the Second Resurrection (No. 143B). To preserve their position they simply did not study the Passover or the significance of the festivals and their timing, as also the Trinitarians around them. It now appears that have reached the denial phase. Today we will study the paper Timing of the Crucifixion and Resurrection (No. 159). This is important to our understanding of the sequence in these years.

It is important that the Body of Christ keeps all the three of the Feasts of God each year outside of their gates, in accord with Deut. 16, as kept by Christ and the Apostles and the churches which kept them.   Satan has done everything he can to bring mankind into disobedience with God and the Law and in so doing forfeit their position in the First Resurrection. Satan set up a false system under the Sun and Mystery Cults with the festivals of Ishtar, or Easter, consort of Baal, and the system of the god Attis and Cybele where Attis was killed on a  Friday and resurrected by the Goddess on entry to Hades on the Sunday (No. 235). This has nothing to do with Christ and Christianity. Christ was killed on Wednesday 14 Abib 30 CE which was on 5 April 30 CE. As we can see from the Moon charts in No. 159 the 14 Abib only fell on a Wednesday on 30 CE and never in the entire sequence of years that he might have been killed did it fall on a Friday. In 31 CE it fell on a Sunday.  It is important that the Churches of God, particularly in Sardis and Laodicea, which includes the COG(SD), WCG and its offshoots and the SDAs and the JWs that this is not an optional game. The Law of God is not done away and the Hillel Calendar is a heresy and all of that will get you disqualified from the First Resurrection (Nos 143A and 143E above) and from the Millennium and send you to the Second Resurrection (No. 143B) where you may well face the Second Death (No. 143C). It has fascinated us for years how none of these systems will correct error, if they find it at all inconvenient, or contrary to the lies of their false prophets (see No. 269). So also Judah has suffered and will suffer great tribulation if they do not repent of Hillel and their rejection of the Messiah (see No. 156J). God is about to deal with all of these people from now to 2030 and their systems will be totally eradicated by Passover 2030 under the Messiah or Christ.

Have safe travel on your trip to the Passover, and as Nehemiah said eat the fat and drink the sweet.  Enjoy each other's company and grow in the knowledge of the faith.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General