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Elders Letter James Russell, Elder
Dear Brethren and Co-workers
Today's Prove All Things , will address God's true Passover and Unleavened Bread dates, and why the Hebrews
Passover dates are a full month late this year 2016 ? The majority of those who keep God's annual Holy Days
Sabbaths, have not proven the ancestry of the Hebrew calendar. Most have not proven the calculations that have
been intercalated [add into] the Hebrew calendar. Most do not realize that these calculations cannot be proven
from the Word of God, the Bible! Those warned shepherding the Churches of God say that we are to follow the
calculations and postponements that are added, intercalated into the Hebrew calendar on faith. God says NO!!
"You shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it, that you may
keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you" ( Deut 4:2). We must follow His
calendar found in the Bible, on faith!!
Many professing Christians refer to the Bible as the Word of God, yet they refuse to obey its commands! These
same professing Christian look to God's Word for their authority to keep God's weekly seventh day Sabbath, but
will not look to God's word for counting to His annual appointed Holy Day Sabbaths! They are not willing to
keep the annual Holy Days, God sanctified as Holy time?
Again, why is it, according to the intercalated Hebrew calendar, Mr. Armstrong called God's Sacred calendar,
are the annual Holy Days, postponed in some years by a full month like this year - 2016, like they have been in
years past ? 1997===2000==2005==2008==20l 1==2016?
We are to obey the instructions given in the Word of God. Our goal is to follow the Living Word. Jesus the
Christ, and His inspired written guidance found in the scriptures. Yet, many professing Christians insist on
playing Russian Roulette with God's written words. This is done by practicing syncretism, believing half of what
our Messiah said and practiced and believing half of what the Pharisees and scribes teach and practiced. Case
in Point, try to find in the Bible where God gave the Pharisees or the scribes (who never received God's Holy
Spirit) permission to add too or take away from His word by postpone the annual Holy Days for a preparation
day? We are challenged to find the rules of postponements that Hillel the 2nd, a Pharisees who was never given
God's Holy Spirit, used to intercalate and determine God's sanctified Holy appointed time in God's Word--the
Bible!
With Passover 2016 rapidly approaching, we must make a decision (a conscious choice) to partake of the Lord's
Passover at His appointed time. What will your decision be? From which table will you take the Lord's Passover
in 2016. We read where the Apostle Paul urgently admonished the Corinthians to avoid idolatry. Paul warned
them not to give the least degree of sanction to a form of worship that honors any other being than the one true
God. God must come first at all time. and His service must have consideration always! Notice Paul's warning:
"The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break,
is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all
partakers of that one bread. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers
of the Lord's table, and the table of demons" (1 Cor. 10:16-17,21). The last thing Paul hoped for, was for his
young Corinthians converts, to not attend a heathen feast!
This cup of demons is a symbol of seeking to oppose and thwart the Lord's Passover. There can be no
compromising between God and Satan, between truth and error, or between righteousness and sin. Every man
is called upon to choose whom he will serve. "For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge
of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sin. But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or
three witnesses of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under
foot the Son of God, and that counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified. An unholy thing,
and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace" (Heb. 10:26-29).
Authority for the observance of the Passover in the second month, instead of the first, is given in Numbers 9:
1-14. "Speak unto the children of Israel, saving, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason
of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the Passover unto the LORD. The fourteenth day of
the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. But the than that
is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from
among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in His appointed season, that man shall bear
his sin". (Numbers 9: 10-11,13). What excuse will you give to your Creator when asked why you did not keep
the Passover in its appointed season (time)?
Let me quote this verse to you out of two other sources to help you get a clearer picture of the very serious
consequences of not keeping the first Passover. The Good News Bible says, "But anyone who is ritually clean
and not away on a journey and who does not observe the Passover, shall no longer be considered one of My
people, because he did not present the offering to Me at the appointed time. He must suffer the consequences of
his sin". The Moffatt translation says, "But if any man, who is neither unclean nor absent on a journey, fails to
keep the Passover, that person shall be outlawed from his kinsfolk, because he has not offered to the Eternal at
the proper time: that man must take the consequences of his sin" (Num. 9: 10-11, 13).
"How long halt ye between two opinions ?" Are you going to observe the Hebrew Calendar intercalated Passover
on April 22st, 2016 ,or. are you going to keep the Lord's true Passover on March 21, 2016??
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