Atonement 10/7/28/120
Dear Friends,
This Day of Atonement is in the build-up to the Reading of the Law of the seventh year of the cycle. We are trying to reconcile ourselves to God today so that we might be accepted, and our people might be reconciled to God as one body. The punishment for not keeping this day is to be cut off from our people, which is to be cut off from the Churches of God.
The two important papers for this day are Atonement (No. 138); and, Azazel and Atonement (No. 214). We should study those papers to see what is happening with the role of the High Priest and how it represents Messiah in the operation of his two advents.
The High Priest is robed firstly in the linen of purity and carried out the sacrifice to atone for sin. He then robed in the royal robes of the High priest to represent that he would come again as the King Messiah and rule as king. This understanding of Messiah as a Messiah of two advents, as Priest and King was the accepted understanding at the time of Christ, as we see from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Our job is to fast to break the bonds of wickedness and to let the oppressed go free. The role of fasting is explained in Isaiah, chapter 58. We should study the attitude required of us in that chapter. Our task is not to fast to hurt, but to fast in love and concern. It is on this day that the Church is most powerful and our prayers are most effective because we are communally afflicting our souls and seeking the intervention of God as a body.
Please pray for each other and for our leaders, and the ability to fund and complete the work. There is so much to do and so little time and resources to do it that sometimes we are frustrated. However, all things work together for the good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose.
It is not that we are short of material and ideas but rather we are short of workers and funds to achieve all that we are tasked to do. God will give us the resources as we need them and not before so that they are not wasted. It is for that reason also that people are called when necessary and they are not wasted in their calling and their talents.
In a few days you will all be at the Feast and we will be studying in detail once again the Law of God and the structure of the society as laid down in the Bible.
The time will come when we will not be able to speak, as what we say will simply not be tolerated within a Godless world. What we say will be construed as hate literature even though God spoke it through His servants the Prophets.
This social structure that is now emerging is rapidly changing the face of the world.
The social structure of the world will change rapidly and the assumptions made by the US administration and its wealthy power base will be seen to be in error.
The assumptions made concerning the emerging global economy are wrong. It was assumed that because the twentieth century economy was based on the US dollar, that it would continue to expand as the world developed along the current global economic lines that the US would remain the dominant hi-tech power.
It was assumed, that because the US share of global GDP in the 1950s was some 75%, that it would remain in such a dominant position even though its share was decreasing over the subsequent decades. Some US globalists assumed that the developing nations would take over the low-tech work force, and that the US would remain hi-tech and the dominant hi-tech power. What has happened is that the developing nations have emerged with a highly trained nucleus and are in fact taking over from what was once the highly skilled US and British Commonwealth power base.
Korea has just emerged as a very highly developed computer internet society with a far greater capacity than the US and will continue to grow. The US is losing its edge and the other Commonwealth countries are simply slipping behind and losing production capacity in the manufacturing sectors as well. The US, and world financiers, are simply refusing to finance corporations that are not placing development offshore in low cost areas.
Nations are subtly changing their financial basis. Where the US dollar was the economic base, it is now a mixed basket of currencies based on the US dollar, the Euro and the Yuen. The Yuen has revalued now and no longer uses the UD dollar as its benchmark but rather is using this basket of currencies. The Russians have just gone from a 70% US dollar/30% Euro to a 70% Euro/30% US dollar mix.
Expert opinion is now stating that the basket of currencies is the precursor to an international currency. That is where it is in fact going and not all that far away. There has been a three and a half billion people increase in the world economy over the last fifteen years and it is changing the way the world economy works. The assumption has been that the West will get richer and the others will also advance. What will change is the world’s balance of power. In the fourteenth century India and China were the largest economies and accounted for well over half the world GDP. Up until about 1850 China was the largest economy in the world. What we are seeing is the resurgence of those economies and they will change the way we act and interact with each other. Japan is receding and is no longer the rising sun.
The international economy will change the way the West views itself, and the way in which the West is able to act. Thus, the Bible base of the social system will further decline. The basis of common law will disappear, as we now know it. By the time the US people wake up to the situation it will be too late.
The kings of the east are now emerging and they will establish their own power block. The international monetary union will emerge in order for the beast to control all nations. The speed and power of its emergence is breathtaking.
Our capacity to influence matters depends on our closeness to God over this period.
Fast and pray that we are able to survive this period, and that we are able to eat, and our nations are protected from the worst of it.
Remember that Balaam taught Moab to cause Israel to sin and cut them off from God. Our people are now in serious trouble because they have done the same thing again in these Last Days.
You are in a position to help by your prayers and fasting on this Day of Atonement.
Fast to break the bonds of wickedness and to let the oppressed go free.
Be reconciled to one another. Love one another and try to be
of help to one another. Our capacity to endure will depend upon our closeness
to God and to each other.
Wade Cox
Coordinator General
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