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Sanctification of the Temple and the Sanctification of the Simple
and the Erroneous 7/1/31/120.
Dear Friends,
This year the Sanctification runs from the Sabbath, which is the
New Year, to the beginning of the following Sabbath on the Friday
when we fast for the Simple and the Erroneous. The New Year falls
on the civil date of Eighth of March 2008. The Jews and the
Armstrongites that follow them are not keeping the Feast until April,
and the Feast of Tabernacles in 2008 will fall a month late in the
Eighth month for them.
The Global Warming nuts in the Northern Hemisphere are all claiming
that the spring in the Northern Hemisphere is weeks early this year
because of Global Warming, and the Jews have no answer for them
as the Babylonian calendar they follow intercalates in March 2008,
as dictated by their Babylonian system, when there is no reason
to do so. Thus they have no answer.
If the Global Warming argument is correct then the Southern Hemisphere
would also be hot and have a late autumn, but the exact reverse
is the case. The Southern summer was cooler and shorter and autumn
started before 1 March, and the deciduous trees have all started
to turn before 1 March. Thus it has nothing to do with Global Warming
at all. It has everything to do with the ancient Temple calendar.
The correct date for the New Year in the Sacred Year of 2008-9
is 8 March, and the rabbinical Jews and the Armstrong offshoots
are all wrong. The Samaritans have also been wrong for a lot longer
than either of the others.
The Temple Calendar this year shows an early autumn and winter
in the South with an early spring and summer in the North, and an
early summer and autumn in the North with a longer winter in the
North and a long hot summer in the South over December 2008 and
into 2009 when the system intercalates and the Northern spring and
Southern autumn are later in April.
Last year before Passover we sent this message out:
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Dear Friends,
Today is the Sanctification
of the Simple and Erroneous (No. 291). It is a very important
part of the sequence of the Sanctification
of the Temple of God (No. 241). It was not kept in the Churches
of God for several hundred years until it was restored in the Christian
Churches of God through the Grace of God in the power of the Holy
Spirit. We all sin and err but we repent and we go on to help and
encourage each other. This day is commanded of God through the prophet
Ezekiel (Ezek. 45:20).
Ezekiel set up the structure so that we might understand what is
required of us, and what significance it had so that we might understand
the role we play in the process of the cleansing of Israel and the
nations.
Ezekiel describes the Glory of Israel and the Restoration of the
Last Days. From Chapter 38 he describes Israel at rest and the situation
that arises where Gog, the chief princes (perhaps princes of Rosh)
of Meshech and Tubal, and those of the land of Magog have hooks
put in their jaws and are brought up against Jerusalem, with Persia,
Ethiopia and Libya with them. This prophecy is a very interesting
situation in the Last Days because it not only applies to the Slavs
in Russia and the Central Steppes but also to the Celts who are
also sons of Gomer or the Gimirri or Cimmerians, and these are in
Western Europe. Thus there are two groups, one of which is the Western
Nations that are mixed with the I and J Haplogroup Semites. So some
of Israel is also among these groups. Also the sons of Togarmah
are present. Thus the entire Kings of the North are assembled in
this sequence.
Thus the Eastern Celts and Slavs will attempt to destroy the nation
when it is re-established. This northern power is going to be used
for sanctification by the Lord. The Lord will cause the nations
of Israel and its people to shake and they will know that He is
the Lord (Ezek. 38:23). However, all of the North and West will
not escape; and they also comprise Israel as the Hittite alliance
of old.
God will bring Gog from the North and leave only the sixth part
of them alive (Ezek. 39:1-2). They will attack Israel and fall in
the open field. God will also send a fire on Magog and all those
that dwell carelessly in the Isles (v. 6). He will make His Holy
Name known in the midst of Israel and they will not be allowed to
pollute His Holy Name any more.
They will bury the dead in the valley of Hammon-Gog and burn their
refuse for seven years. It will take seven months to bury them and
the land will be cleansed. After the seven months, permanent staff
will be employed to cleanse the land continually (Ezek. 39:11-16).
Then God will bring again the captivity of Jacob and they will return
to Israel (v. 25). He will not hide His face from them any more
and He will pour out His Spirit on the whole House of Israel (v.
29).
In chapter 40 Ezekiel was given a vision of the measuring of the
Temple. He measured the Inner chambers from the gates and the Inner
court (Ezek. 40:1-23). He then measured the Outer court (Ezek. 40:24-34).
He then measured the North Gate to where the offerings were washed
and prepared (vv. 35-39, 40-43).
Outside of the Inner Gate were the chambers of the singers of the
Inner court, which was at the side of the North Gate looking south,
which was for the priest who was the keeper of the charges of the
house (v. 45). The chambers looking north were for the priests who
were the keepers in the charge of the altar. These were to be of
the sons of Zadok and the sons of Levi (v. 46). Thus in these Last
Days we are to see the conversion of the sons of Levi and through
Zadok. They are to be measured and prepared for their conversion.
Then he measured the Porch.
From Chapter 41, Ezekiel deals with the measuring of the Temple.
This sequence has two functions. It describes the symbolic basis
of the Temple of the Restoration; but it also described the spiritual
actions of the Temple of God, which Temple we are.
In this chapter he describes the Cherubim as they stand on either
side of the palm trees, which symbolize Jesus Christ. These are
the two Elohim that replace Satan and the Aeon, namely Abraham and
Moses, the two mentioned as Elohim in Scripture.
In chapter 42 he measured the Inner house and there the priests
ate of the most holy things. This shows the function of the Spirit
in revealing to the elect within the Temple the mysteries of God
as they are revealed on a progressive basis.
In Chapter 43 we read of the vision of the glory of the Lord that
came by way of the East Gate. This vision was as he had seen at
the river Chebar. Thus the glory of the Lord that appeared to Ezekiel
then was the vision he saw in the Last Days and the restoration
of the Temple, and was the Being that entered it from the gate of
the Prince which is the East Gate. This is the Messiah, and thus
the Messiah was the Angel of the Lord, the Cherubim that spoke with
Ezekiel. In Ezekiel 43:7 he identifies the Son of Man and the fact
that this place was to be holy and it was to be no more defiled
by the behaviour of the people in burying the carcasses of their
kings and defiling the Holy Place by whoredom, which is spiritual
prostitution, which is idolatry, and lies and false worship. God
then commands that they put away their sin and evil doing and obey
Him.
He then establishes the Law of the House, which is the Law of God
as exercised by the prophets and as defined by Christ and the Apostles.
The Law is Most Holy and rests on the top of the mountain (Ezek.
43:12).
From this time the ordinances of the altar are established. The
Priest of Zadok will continue with the offerings of the restoration.
Zadok means “the righteous” and it is in righteousness
that the Restoration will be completed as holy to the Lord. It will
be for seven days that they will purge the altar with offerings
and consecrate themselves and on the eighth day they will offer
their burnt offerings on the altar and God will accept His people;
so says the Lord God (Ezek. 44:26-27).
In Chapter 44 Ezekiel was told that the prince would enter by the
East Gate and that the Bread of the Sanctuary would be eaten there.
The North Gate gave entrance for the Host and the Glory of the Lord
filled the sanctuary. God told Ezekiel to mark well the ordinance
of the House and the laws thereof. In Ezekiel 44:6-7 he says, “And
you shall say to the rebellious even to the house of Israel: Thus
saith the Lord God: O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of
all your abominations. In that you have brought into my sanctuary
strangers uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh to be
in my sanctuary, to pollute it even my house, when you offer my
bread, the fat and the blood and ye have broken my covenant because
of all your abominations.”
Thus the rebellious of the House of Israel, which in this case is
in and associated with the Temple of God, are to abide by the ordinances
and the Laws of the House and they are sanctified on the eighth
day by the intervention of the Priesthood who are the elect of God.
These people pollute the elect and the Temple as the Church of God.
No person shall enter the Temple of God, as the Sanctuary, being
unrepentant and the Levites that have gone away from God will bear
their iniquity. That applies to the priesthood of the elect and
they will bear their iniquity. They have not kept the charge of
the Holy things but set keepers in charge for their own pleasure.
These are they that obstruct the Work of the Lord and retain the
offerings of God rather than preach the gospel of the Kingdom of
God so that the Body of Christ might be called and educated (v.
8). Ministers shall be set in the House to minister to the people
and the ministers that depart from their duty will bear their iniquity.
They will not come near to the Lord. They shall be keepers of the
charge of the House but never near the Lord God. The righteous that
kept the charges of the Sanctuary will come near to minister to
the Lord God (v. 15).
These are they of the Inner court who are clothed in white linen.
When they go out to the people they will change and not sanctify
the people with their white linen garments. Thus these are the elect
of the 144,000 that are the inner ministry of God. “And they
shall teach my people the difference between the Holy and the profane
and cause them to discern between the clean and the unclean and
in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge
it according to my judgments: and they shall keep My laws and My
statutes, in all My assemblies and they shall hallow My Sabbaths”
(Ezek. 44:23-24).
This priesthood, which is of the latter days and is of the order
of Melchisedek, is entitled to the tithe and that is their inheritance
in Israel (Ezek. 44:8 ff.).
When the land is divided by lot there is to be a Holy portion for
the Lord. There is to be a Sanctuary divided off which is holy for
the Lord in each portion (Ezek. 45:1 ff.). There the priests and
ministers shall live and minister to the people (v. 4). The Holy
portions shall be for the whole House of Israel. The prince shall
retain his possession on the opposite side to the Holy Place (v.
70); and there is to be no oppression in Israel.
The leaders of Israel are to execute justice and just balances and
they are to receive a Terumah levy to provide meat on the Sabbaths
and the New Moons and the Holy Days and Feasts (Ezek. 45:9-17).
In the First of the First month the cleansing of the Sanctuary begins.
This period of the Sanctification (Ezek. 45:18-19) culminates in
the Sanctification of the Simple and the Erroneous on the Seventh
day of the First Month Abib. The people that are sanctified in this
process of the seven days are then able to stand before the Lord
and on the Eighth day He says He will hear us and accept the offerings
of the people.
From then on the process of the Sabbaths of the Lord continue through
all the Feasts of the year until Tabernacles.
Thus, we see that the process above is one of selection and exclusion
on a number of grounds. Those of you not excluded are the means
by which the Temple is sanctified.
This year you have all been through a trial by ordeal. The Temple
is being cleansed. Those of you that made it to this point are to
be congratulated. You have shown the characteristics of spiritual
discernment and loyalty and the ability to stand for the Faith.
It is those people who comprise the Church of God that stand before
the Throne of Grace in honour and approved of God through the testimony
of Jesus Christ.
The process is pushing on now to the war of this text and we are
to prepare the Temple and the Church to survive.
This day we fast for the Simple and Erroneous – those people
who are they that are not clever enough to see through the wiles
of this world and Satan’s deceptions. Also we fast for and
sanctify those who err either through the information they are given
or the wrong deductions and actions they themselves make.
May God bless you and keep you. May He lift up the light of His
countenance upon you and give you peace.
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We followed it up with the paper War
of Hamon-Gog (No. 294)).
You will notice that the Sabbath Message for the last Sabbath in
Adar or the civil 1 March 2008 dealt with the erroneous comments
of the recently created Sanhedrin in Israel. They had addressed
the President of the United States as ‘Gog of the land of
Magog chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal’, and we took them
to task over that issue.
Please pray for the opening of the eyes of the Jews, and also the
Churches of God that follow their Hillel-inspired errors introduced
under Herbert Armstrong in the twentieth century. Refer also the
Sabbath Message of 12 March 2005 at http://www.ccg.org/_domain/ccg.org/Sabbath/2005/S_03_12_05.htm
From what we can see, this year – the Third year in the cycle
– will be a key factor in the understanding of the Churches
of God.
Wade Cox
Coordinator General
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