GIVING
& SHARING NEWSLETTER May,
1994 No. 27
Six Papers on the History of
the Church of God
We are pleased to announce the printing of
the revised edition of Six Papers on the History of the Church of God. As a companion book to our History of
the Seventh Day Church of God, Volume I, the Six Papers
book covers the history of Sabbath-keepers from seventeenth century England to
America, through the Adventist period and the formation of the modern Church of
God (Seventh Day) and also covers the independent movement of G.G. Rupert, who
seems to have had a great influence on Herbert W. Armstrong. John Kiesz, elder statesman of the Church of
God (Seventh Day), wrote paper number six.
Why should you study Church history? Because you cannot understand what is happening
today in the Sabbath-keeping Churches of God without a background of what has
happened in the past. Unless we learn
the lessons of the past, we are destined to repeat the mistakes of our
ancestors. The history of God’s Church
is both fascinating and educational.
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches,” Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29, 3:6, 13, 22. Beware of those who are now attempting to
cover up church history.
America’s Godly Heritage
Recently, I viewed an excellent VHS video,
America’s Godly Heritage. I was
excited to see how the history of the United States of America is based on
Christian Biblical principles in government and education. In the early 1960s, when the Bible was taken
out of our schools, the rampant moral decline began. This video exposes the lie of a constitutional separation of
Church and State. For a copy, contact Wallbuilders,
PO Box 397, Aledo, TX 76008. Show
this video to your children! Keep God’s
heritage alive in your family.
Pentecost, May 23, 1994
This year was unusual in that Passover
fell on a weekly Sabbath, which happens only once in ten years. Passover fell on a weekly Sabbath in 1954,
1974, 1977, 1981, 1994, and will not occur on a Sabbath again until the year
2001. When Passover falls on a weekly
Sabbath, Wavesheaf Sunday, the start of the count of 50 days towards Pentecost,
falls on the morrow after the Sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. In 1994, Passover was on the Sabbath, March
26, Wavesheaf Sunday was on April 3, and Pentecost is on May 23.
I have written an extensive article
proving these points, entitled “When Does the Pentecost Count Begin?” We plan to include it in the next reprinting
of our book, Biblical Holy Days. Ω