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The Next Two Years
As events unfold do not expect any major movement to turn to God in the COG Groups. People have been so thoroughly ingrained with the lie that loyalty to men is the same as loyalty to God, and they are in such a deep rut and habit of following their idols of men and past false traditions without question; that if one rose from the dead to warn them most would not change.
Jesus himself warned of this in a parable.
Luke 16:27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him [Lazarus to warn] to my father's house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
In truth some will respond and embrace a passionate zeal for God and the keeping of the Word of God at this time, however the vast majority will not respond until they fall into what they fear.
Perhaps a few hundred will respond now, but the vast majority will not leave their idols until they are cast into the furnace of affliction. Then they will remember the warnings they have scoffed at and will sincerely repent.
I expect the tribulation to begin late in 2016. This is NOT a "thus saith the LORD;" it is only my personal opinion based on the trends that are unfolding and is subject to change based on further information.
Nevertheless these things are very close, at the very door. I believe that until the tribulation does come, this will be a hard difficult work; and I do not expect mass converts or a big income at all.
Yet I will be strong and persevere until the job of warning has been completed.
I now that the vast majority of the COG brethren will not turn to zealously keep the whole Word of God, until after they have experienced the full failure of their idols of men.
As they called the miracles of Christ satanic Mat 12:24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
Even so when God's two servants go to them with signs of miracles as Moses went to the elders of Israel; today's COG groups will reject them as doing miracles by the power of Satan. Because the two will teach sound doctrine and say things that are not consistent with their false traditions; the COG Groups being persuaded to stand on their false traditions against the scriptures and the warnings of God's messengers: will generally reject them!.
I am warning those who expect this work to snowball; or who expect much growth in numbers at this time; or who think that thousands will go to the refuge: That is not likely to happen; but if it does, I will surely rejoice!
This is going to be a very hard struggle to complete the job of warning. As we get closer to the tribulation, the going will get harder and harder, as Satan resists and seeks to stop this work.
Right now God is testing us to see what we are made of, to see how dedicated and how faithful we are to Him.
God has many offices in his government and he is working and testing to see who will be faithful and overcome and do his will, even under extremely adverse conditions.
God wants to know how we will respond to trials and discouragement; will we give up? or will we Get Up and Persevere?
Will we stand up before all the COG Groups of spiritual Israel today, as Joshua stood up before all physical Israel and say:
Joshua 24:15 . . . . but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
2015 Feast of Tabernacles
I request that everyone who wants to attend the Feast of Tabernacles with us in 2015 please contact Constance immediately at gloriousliving@aol.com So far only a very few have responded from the 2013 Feast.
Please do not assume that because you attended in 2013 you need not write in.
We need to have every interested parties write in to know if enough are able to come, to justify spending thousands of dollars for this Feast. I fully understand that matters of finance, long distances, health and other issues may interfere.
If only a very few are interested, I cannot justify the expense, as I am already in severe financial difficulties; and I will cancel and do an Internet Feast.
This is not a matter of what I want; the question for me is how to do the most for the most; with the resources I have. And to plan things early enough to avoid last minute difficulties.
James
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