Open Letter to the Churches of God on the Law and the Calendar into the Millennium (No. 156G)

The Churches of God formed under Christ and the Apostles from 27 CE. They held a common set of doctrines which were historically demonstrable over the first 1800 years of the church through four eras from Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, and Thyatira (see Nos. 122, 122D, 170). The churches kept the Sabbaths, New Moons and Feasts according to the Temple Calendar based on the conjunctions which determined the month from one conjunction to the next (see God's Calendar (No. 156)). These doctrines were kept right up through the Nineteenth Century in Transylvania in Europe and the history was recorded by Rabbi Samuel Kohn in Budapest in 1894. Originally published as Die Sabbatharier in Siebenburgen ihr Geshichte, Literatur und Dogmatik it was translated and republished by CCG, with a foreword, as the Sabbatarians in Transylvania, Their History, Literature and Doctrines in 1998. The work proves undeniably that the Waldensian system in Europe kept the original Doctrines of the Christian Church right through to the end of the Nineteenth Century in the Thyatiran system and indeed beyond as we know from the records of the Holocaust in WWII. The people of these groups were persecuted for the faith and by and large were expectant of the First Resurrection of the Dead (No. 143A) which they anticipated, and we anticipate, in the near future. The promises made to the churches are in Revelation Chapters 2 and 3 (F066).

So also we were told of the other three eras of the Churches of God. Two of those eras did not make the grade. These were Sardis and Laodicea. One was declared dead and the other lukewarm and they were spewed from the Mouth of God and do not enter the First Resurrection, but were consigned to the Second Resurrection of the Dead and the Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B) at the end of the millennial system. The Sardis system commenced in UK and Europe from the Reformation, which had commenced among the people and developed in the 1500s and spread to the Americas in the 1600s (see Nos 170, 264). False doctrines began to emerge with the forgeries in the Textus Receptus (Elzevir Bros 1400s) and the English translations based on that text, such as the King James Version (KJV) of 1611 onwards (see Nos 164F and 164G). The closet Trinitarians in the Reformation and through the Universities did massive damage to the Churches of God and the English-speaking peoples and their place in the Resurrections. Many academics did try, and many told the truth where they could, despite persecution (e.g. Isaac Newton, William Whiston, and JB Priestly and many others). The Trinitarians placed plants among the churches all over Europe and did all they could to suppress the truth. The most successful attempt was by Martin Luther in Germany, and the Lutherans, whose purpose was to stop the Sabbatarian Reformation in Europe which was massively successful. Satan's time was not yet complete and so God allowed it to go ahead.

The Church of God (Seventh Day) (COG (SD) was the source of another serious heresy and heresies in the COGs commencing from the US. The historical knowledge in Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century North America especially in religious studies was very poor and so many false prophets arose in the Sabbatarian and other systems (see False Prophecy (No. 269)). Of these, two Judaisers, Herbert Armstrong and Anthony Dugger, came into and successfully introduced the greatest heretical document ever to enter the Churches of God: namely the Hillel Calendar of Modern Judaism. That post-Temple monstrosity, enshrining the traditions and postponements, was proffered to the churches in 358 CE when it was issued, based on the Babylonian Intercalations. The Hillel Calendar ensures the Temple Calendar can never be kept and the churches and synagogues keeping it can never obey God. In over one third of years, they are not only out by a few days they are out by a month and a few days. It is an abomination and enshrines the oral traditions, for which God sent Israel and Judah into captivity for doing, well before Christ, and is why Judah was dispersed from 70 CE permanently under the Sign of Jonah (No. 013).

God explained the plan in the Psalms and what He was to do in the prophets. See Commentary on Isaiah F023, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi-xvi and Summary. See also Jeremiah F024, ii to xiv, and Ezekiel F026, and especially ix, x, xi, xii concerning the priesthood in the Millennium. God will not tolerate altering or abandoning the Law and the Temple Calendar and for that reason He punished both Israel and Judah, also particularly Levi. God destroyed Judah and Levi because of their sin and sent them into the Holocaust because of Hillel and their apostate traditions and we still do not seem to understand the magnitude of the sin. That is about to happen again, and God will deal with the Churches of God keeping Hillel and He will send the Host under Christ to stamp it out once and for all in a few years.

The worst phase of the Churches of God over the entire period of two thousand years was to be found in the last two jubilees from 1927 to 2027. Over the previous jubilees the Churches of God were to be destroyed in the Sardis and Laodicean split through Adventism and its false prophets involving the Millerites and the Whites who introduced aberrations such as vegetarianism (see No. 183) and prohibition (see Wine in the Bible (No. 188)) into the Churches of God. The Adventists formed the Laodicean system and the Bible Students Associations split from them discarding the Sabbath and forming the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and commenced, along with the Adventists, to litter the world with false prophecy (No. 269). The Jehovah Witnesses, as they became known, drew massive attention to themselves and the Sabbath Keeping Churches of God, who had similar doctrines to the Jews, and they all suffered under the Holocaust in 1941-1945. At that time a man who was to become the worthless or idol shepherd of Zechariah 11:15-17 was drawn to the money-making possibilities of religion in the US. He was never properly baptised by the Churches of God but was baptised by a Trinitarian Protestant. He was accredited and ordained at an all-day tent meeting by the members of the COG (SD) and as such was accepted by their leadership and appointed as a minister. He, with another of the COG (SD), brought the Hillel abomination into the Churches of God who had rejected it for over 1900 years. Herbert Armstrong, as the advertising man, used the brainwashing techniques, developed in WWII particularly by the Nazis, and modified the doctrines of the Church of God (SD) from which he then split and formed the Radio Church of God (RCG) and then the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) from the RCG. Dugger also formed another branch of the COG (SD) as the Jerusalem Conference also keeping Hillel. With that abomination he ruined the COG in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. Armstrong surrounded himself with ‘yes men’ and, being theologically ignorant, he introduced the heresies of Ditheism (No. 076B) and Binitarianism (No. 076) along with that of Hillel. The church was also penetrated by Khazar Jews and Trinitiarian plants and the CIA and other agencies. The result was Stockholm syndrome on a large scale.

Because they did not understand the Passover and the Calendar, in 1965 Armstrong allowed the church to abandon the Passover which was the most important feast of the year and told them they could go back to work during the feast, something that had never been done over the previous three thousand three hundred years. By 1967 no one was keeping the correct Passover anywhere and they had turned the Night of the true Passover into a party which they did not understand and due to Hillel never kept it on the correct days anyway. The collapse was complete. God however, had planned for that 2600 years ago, and even before the laying down of the earth. God said through the prophets what He was to do in the last days under Messiah, and He also foretold of the final body of the Church of God in the Last Days. He set aside some of the final body under the prophet Jeremiah (4:15-27) (F024). and under the Apostle John (Rev. 3:7-13) (F066). This was the voice of Dan/Ephraim (the Joseph of Rev. 7:8) that Ezekiel says was to form in the south and work its way to the north and consume the entire world under Messiah in the Last Days (Fire From Heaven (No. 028)). These are the brethren of the church of the Philadelphians referred to in Rev. 3:7-13 (see Pillars of Philadelphia (No. 283)). It is this final group that Christ makes those who say they are Jews, but are not, but lie, come and make them bow down before them and they will know that he has loved them. This issue is twofold. One is that they are made to acknowledge the Church as the servants of the Christ, and that we have done that under the Temple Calendar (see No. 156), and two, that the church is correct and that those claiming to be Jews, in Judaism (see No. 212E) are not, in keeping Hillel. They will be forced on pain of death to repent and keep the true Sabbaths and New Moons (Isa. 66:23-24). So also will the Churches of God keeping Hillel be brought to repentance. This will silence the lie once and for all that the Jews still have the Oracles of God (see No. 184). The sequence of that repentance will be brought to fruition as follows:

The Measuring of the Temple (No. 137) began in 1987 in accordance with Rev. 11:1-2. This period commenced the period of the Forty years of the Last Generation that would not pass away until all was accomplished (Mat. 24:34; Mk. 13:30; Lk. 21:32). Over the period of the death of the worthless (RSV) or idol (KJV) shepherd (d. 16 Jan. 1986) (Zech. 11:15-17 as above), the final body of the elect (No. 001), that had been set aside for training under Jer. 4:15-27, was brought in and prepared from their baptism to establish the final Church of God in the Last Days. The Sardis system under the False prophets was brought to a head and measured for seven years from 1987 to 1993, from the third year of the second cycle up to the third year of the third cycle. In 1993 the Sardis system was declared dead and scattered to the four winds by God. In 1994 the Final Church system of brotherly love was established under Rev. 3:7-13 using the desposyni and others of the elect of the Body of Christ. The Sardis system continued to disintegrate, and the final Sardis system was formed and named in 1997/8 as the Living Church of God fulfilling Rev. 3:1 of Sardis. The measuring of the nations continued over the next thirty years to end 2023. This was the Warning of the Last Days (No. 044). The final Wars of the End began from 2020 and will continue to 2027 (see Nos. 141C, 141D, 141E; 141E_2). From 2024 the two golden lampstands will stand before the god of this earth (see also Nos. 135; 141D).

From 1994 when CCG was formed in accordance with the Plan of God, as set aside in prophecy above, the Churches of God saw what had been done and one group, the Global Church of God under Rod Meredith saw that they had to repent and that the New Moons had to be kept. The New Moons group was defeated by the majority members of the board who out-voted them. The leader of this group was David C. Pack. The New Moons were then placed on the back burner for almost another thirty years. In 2023 David C. Pack, now in the RCG, for some reason, saw that he had been wrong and declared that the New Moons must be kept as Sabbaths, which is the true Biblical position, and which will be implemented by Christ and the Host under the Law of God on pain of death at their return (Isa. 66:23-24). The really serious problem is that the New Moons cannot be kept according to the rules in place for the Hillel System and it has to be abandoned (see Nos 195; 195C). In this sense they have a fair way to go to develop and restore the doctrines. We can help them in that aspect. However, at least they have acknowledged the error. What appears of interest is that those attacking the RCG system and its unfortunate false prophecies of late, are trying to portray the New Moons and those who keep them as being obsessed despite their place in the Bible texts, and that the Church has kept them now for two thousand years except for a period of almost a century in the Twentieth Century in Sardis and Laodicea in North America. God has said through the prophet Isaiah (66:23-24) that they will be enforced by Messiah and those that refuse to keep them will die and the result then is that they will be sent to the Second Resurrection. So what next? They have not really listened to the final warning issued by CCG over the last thirty years. God knew that anyway and made preparation for that fact in the next phase under the Witnesses.

The Witnesses will be sent after the War of the Sixth Trumpet and arrive in Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount, in the Merkabah chariot of God. They will preach for 1260 days. There is a period of twelve to twenty-four months when Judah has to listen to them and repent and rid itself of Hillel. Those that do so in time may well be eligible for the First Resurrection. Those that do not repent and keep the Temple Calendar and are not baptised into the body of Christ will not be eligible for the First Resurrection and will face the Messiah and the Wrath of God under the Tribulation (See No. 141E).

It is our responsibility as Watchmen under Ezekiel chapter 33 and Jeremiah 4:15-27 to warn the Churches of God that are keeping Hillel, that they are wilfully in a state of sin and rebellion against God and that with the Witnesses and their judgment they come into punishment and they, and all following them in Hillel, will come under the same punishments. The ministry in all aspects of the Sardis and Laodicean systems including the Adventist and the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Bible Students of all types will commence to die in the next short period. Unless they repent and keep the Laws of God and the Temple Calendar under the Covenant they will die before the Millennium.

Recently it was suggested that we of CCG were obsessed with Hillel. That was by people who keep Hillel and have no desire to repent or do any study on the History of the Churches of God and their Doctrines. Those people will be the first to be dealt with and removed. That removal will commence with the Witnesses. Our task is to warn the world as to what is before it and what is involved with the coming of Messiah and the Host. That is in order that you may save your misguided hides. What you do is your business, but you cannot say you have not been warned. The fact of the matter is that God gave the law to the Patriarchs and that included the calendar as we see from Genesis. The Covenant of God (No. 152) is a very simple test to see if you are worthy and ready to be made an elohim to become a god as coheir with Christ. If one keeps the Laws of God and His Calendar (No. 156) then one is ready to receive the Holy Spirit (No. 117) under Repentance and Baptism (No. 052). It is a gift open to all mankind. All they had to do was to obey God and keep the Commandments of God and the testimony of the prophets. To make it easy Christ was sent to guide the way and make the Holy Spirit available through the Church as his body in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Bible is quite clear who they are, in that God says that the saints are those who keep the Commandment of God and the faith and testimony of Jesus Christ (Rev. 12:17; 14:12). The world was led astray by Satan and the Demons because they have no desire to see us as Elohim and wish mankind destroyed. Satan is our accuser because he wishes us dead. Humans are just too stupid to realise what he has done to us in the false religions he has set up. Satan has only a short time to achieve his aim, as when Christ and the Host arrive, he and the Demons will be placed in the pit of Tartaros for the Millennium. They will then be released for the final confrontation and test of the millennial system, at the end, and they will then be killed and resurrected and placed in the judgement of the Second Resurrection and Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B) (see Judgment of the Demons (No 080)).

The false religions know that they have limited time and the entire Trinitarian system knows it is in its final stages and its prophets have told them so in many ways and forms (see The Last Pope (No. 288)). God has set this test and He is proving all the elect in all stages. He has set a great safety net at the end stage and all those who fail in the various stages of the Creation to qualify, in the end, go to the Second Resurrection and all are retrained, even the demons of the Fallen Host. There will be a new life for 100 years or two jubilees from when the person is resurrected as an adult with basic instincts and memory. It is the responsibility of the First Resurrection to train those of the Second Resurrection. The ministry that fails and teaches their flock that they do not have to keep the Unitarian doctrines or that of the Law and the Temple Calendar as kept by Christ and the Apostles will be judged under James 3:1 and sent to protective custody in the Second Resurrection. Only at the end of that process do you face the Second Death (No. 143C). The choice is yours. However, you will obey, or you will die.