Proverbs 31 People tend to think of Proverbs as a list of wise sayings and the book is certainly that; it is also much more. Proverbs is an instruction from a king to his son on how to rule his people in a godly manner. The book is ascribed to Solomon, but the roots of many […]
Category: Exhortation For The Ekklesia
Be Strong and Mighty in the LORD
The story of David and Goliath is often portrayed as a classic story of an underdog winning out over his far more powerful rival. There is much more to the story than that! Goliath was an example of unrepentant sinners and of the sin of enmity against God and the Word of God; while David […]
The Lesson of Korah
Numbers 16 Korah a Levite, and Dathan and Abiram of Reuben lead 250 other leaders to rise up against Moses. For decades this has been misapplied as a lesson that we are to accept and to follow any man who takes to himself a title and that we are not to question his leadership. The […]
How Do We Know That We Are Led By The Holy Spirit?
Also see “The Soul and the Holy Spirit” and “The Holy Spirit”. UCG claims that: “Vision of the United Church of God A Church led by God’s Holy Spirit, joined and knit together by what every member supplies, with all doing their share and growing in love to fulfill God’s great purpose for humanity to […]
Restoring God’s Festivals and Reviving the Ekklesia
The purpose of the Festivals of God has been frustrated by today’s Ekklesia, because they misuse God’s Festivals. First they refuse to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread for God’s commanded full seven days, second they keep the Fall Feast of Tabernacles for the seven days but they do so improperly, then they pollute the […]
Restoring the Seven Day Feast of Unleavened Bread
There are three commanded assemblies in which the people are told to appear before the Eternal in the place that God shall choose. This article is about restoring God’s seven day, Feast of Unleavened Bread. Herbert Armstrong had begun and was learning and growing until in late 1967 Loma Armstrong died of bowel cancer, […]
Standing Alone
Dear Brethren and Friends Since this work begin on July 8 2007 I have always plainly stated that I am not and I have no intention of starting a corporate church organization. The purpose of this Church of God News site is to provide news of the various organizations, and to call all brethren to […]
How to Become a Priest King
The function of a priest is to teach godliness to all people and in doing so work to reconcile people with God. The function of a king is to enforce God’s Word, maintain public order, ensure the public good by providing services and to make any necessary rules based upon the Word of God. To […]
Hope and Revival
Regardless of the argument over whether the seven churches of Revelation are contemporary or successive, there is no doubt that we are in the very latter days and that therefore we are in the Laodicean age. Today’s spiritual Ekklesia continues to idolize men and false traditions; strangely counting their espousal to Christ as meaning that […]
Your Health and the Food Supply
Unclean Wine The majority of people are unaware that wine, although made from grapes, may have been made using animal-derived products. During the wine-making process, the liquid is filtered through substances called “fining agents.” This process is used to remove protein, yeast, cloudiness, “off” flavors and colorings, and other organic particles. Popular animal-derived fining agents […]
Needed: A Profound Spiritual Revival
Today the spiritual light of the assemblies are flickering out, even as world events are moving quickly towards fulfilling the “Peace and Safety” sign of 1 Thessalonians 5:3. We are no longer a bright shining light in a dark and evil world, instead we have become spiritually lax and lukewarm to the point tat even […]
Brethren, Behold the Bridegroom Cometh!
Dear Brethren and Friends Things are beginning to move in the world and in the assemblies! An Israeli election is scheduled for November and could easily be moved up to as early as May or June. Meanwhile an agreement is being cobbled together between Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid which will form a peace oriented […]
The Mystery of the Father and the Son
In the beginning there was God, Elohim [the Mighty Ones]. Genesis 1:26 And God [Elohim; the Mighty Ones] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: Here the word for God [Elohim] was a plural word; meaning the Mighty Ones. It was decided that one of these Mighty Ones would resign his […]
The God of the Old Testament
Brethren, I have no interest in hurting the UCG CoE by waiting until they approve their Paper and then analyzing it. Quite the contrary I have felt moved to compile and publish this study before the CoE approves a Paper in December. This Paper is published in love and concern, and in the hope that they […]
What is The True Gospel
If we want to know what the true gospel is and what we should preach: we can do no better than to follow the example of our Lord! The primary teaching of both John Baptist and Jesus Christ [the true Gospel] was to repent of living according to our own natural inclinations, and to change […]
Needed: A Spiritual Revival in the Assemblies
The Great Ezra Revival Ezra 9 Ezra called Judah to repentance and restored true religion and God’s Temple worship system and rebuilt the city of Jerusalem. God is also calling today’s Spiritual Ekklesia to sincerely repent of our pride and idolatry in exalting our idols of men above the Word of God. The time is almost […]
Reprint: The Elijah Work
This is a reprint of “The Elijah Work” posts from January 2012. The Elijah Work If someone is doing an “Elijah” work; they must be doing God’s work in the spirit and power of Elijah; and they must be doing what Elijah did which is to declare that the Eternal is God and beside Him […]
Pentecost Message
Just in time for Pentecost! The very popular Biblical Sabbath and Calendar book has now been expanded so much that it has been divided into two books! The first book is “Personal Salvation,” but don’t be confused by that title; the book is about much more than repentance and baptism. This book includes studies in […]
The Corporate COG Struggle with Law and Grace
Historically from the days of the first century many false teachers have crept into the Ekklesia, not understanding the scriptures and attempting to use God’s forgiveness of repented sin as a license to justify minimizing the law and Word of God. Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of […]
What is The True Gospel?
The Mosaic Covenant was an agreement between the people of Israel and their Creator that the Eternal [YHVH] would be their God and king and that they would be his people, his nation. The people promised to live by every Word of God and God promised that if they did so they would be physically […]