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Site Last Updated Sunday, January 04, 2009
 The Philadelphia Remnant Magazine for  JAN-FEB 2009 is available online here, in PDF Format.
You can read about the Magazine, its purpose and goals. Our Magazine now has it’s own Internet Address.
http://philadelphiaremnant.com
We will keep the current issue as well as archived issues linked from this new site.
There are many excellent articles in this issue, learn about:
January 3, 2009
Walking with God
Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. ‘Noah walked with God.’ Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your household, for I have seen that YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE ME in this generation” (Genesis 6:9; 7:1).
Dear Brethren,
As we observe the ongoing and progressive evils in this society, and the world at large today, it becomes easy to equate the closing of this age to that of the End of the Antediluvian World in which mankind and all land living creatures died by a worldwide Flood!
This covered a span of time calculated to be 1656 years from the creation of mankind to its death. The number of people who perished in it has been estimated to be from about 2 to 12 billions of people, men, women, and children.
 Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong wrote about Noah’s generation in the Mystery of the Ages, Mystery of Civilization, pages 146-147.
“Notice to what extent humanity had been turned by Satan to evil. In Genesis 6:5, “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
The earth was filled with violence. Man’s thoughts, contemplations and plans were continually on self-centered, lustful and evil objectives.
This violence had become so universal that God determined to spare humanity from suffering longer in mounting misery and anguish.
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God took away their miserable lives, by the earth wide Flood to be resurrected in the next second of their consciousness in the “Great White Throne” resurrection (Revelation 20:11-12). They will be brought back to life in a time when Christ is ruling the earth in righteousness, peace and happiness. Satan will be gone. Their minds will be opened to God’s TRUTH, and eternal salvation will be opened to them.
But God intended to preserve human life—to give humanity a new and fresh start.
God found only one man, of all the millions, who was walking with God.  more....
Here is a Link to an Excellent World Tomorrow Broadcast by Mr. Armstrong [in Real Audio Format]where he discusses where the True Church is today.
The Three Elijahs
Chapter Three
Chapter Three has been edited and revised
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We are living in a time of world turbulence and upheaval! The daily news speaks of the many terrible unsolvable problems that abound in this country and in this world! It should be realized by each of us as members of God's Church that the end is very close at hand! Time is fast running out for this country and the other nations of Israel, and in particular, for the membership of the Church of the ever-living God; the three remaining eras of God's true Church!
The GOOD NEWS MAGAZINE, for the years 1978 - 1979 and 1980-1982 have been added to this site. Issues are now available from 1951-1982. More will be added as they are available and time allows.
 The Bible Story with pictures has been added to our available resources. Volume One and Volume Two are available for your viewing or to download. Frank Olive has added the scanned pictures from the original 6 book set and made them available in online format (html). Mr. Armstrong put great stock in this set up books as a teaching tool and Mr. Wolverton’s Illustrations added a great deal to it.
We have added the Worldwide News publications from 1975 to 1979 in the Library Section of the site.
An RSS Feed is now available for those of you who use News Readers, it will give you automatic updates on what has been added to the site each week. Just click on the RSS Icon.
Was the Sabbath given for Jews only? Is it binding today on Jews, but not on Gentiles? Does it make any difference which day, or whether kept?
INSTALLMENT IIT CERTAINLY is true—by the fourth century Sunday had come to be observed as the "Christian Lord's Day," superseding the seventh-day Sabbath.
But why? By what authority?
It was stated before that it is obvious all do not recognize the same authority. For there are those, even today, who say the Sabbath is still binding, and that it is SIN to profane it by non-observance. But if so, by what authority? Who has authority to determine SIN and enforce its penalty?
Sabbath observance has been the most controversial question in professing Christian ranks for 18 1/2 centuries. Such a question, involving SIN, becomes a matter of life or death—your life or death for ETERNITY! It becomes important! You are staking YOUR LIFE on the right answer. You can know only from the one supreme AUTHORITY!
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This begins a three part series reprint of the booklet Which day is the Christian Sabbath? Makes it easy to digest this topic in smaller segments.
Here is a link to the Sermon by Mr. Armstrong, where he refutes the primary objections to keeping God’s Sabbath Day.
Millions lack faith to receive answers to their prayers - to free their minds from fears and worries. To a large extent this is due to lack of understanding what faith is. Read this simple but thorough explanation of the subject.
THE WHOLE WORLD is now shaking with convulsions, preparatory to a tremendous event.
This present world breakdown, following the two greatest, most destructive wars in history, with world economic collapse, social unrest, religious confusion, is merely the WARNING SIGNAL that the END of the present civilization is here. The second coming of Christ to establish a new order of world peace on earth is near - much nearer than people think!
Any Faith Today?
And speaking of His own second appearance on earth, Jesus Himself asked, prophetically:
"When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"
When Jesus uttered those words He was looking into the future - into our very present generation - which He clearly foresaw. And, foreseeing the almost total absence of FAITH in our time, He asked this question!
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Bible Study
Our New Bible Study area contains many new study tools to help you understand and internalize the word of God.
 Mini-Bible Study Series:
Each Week we will be putting up a Mini Bible Study that had been developed as a Good News Series. These are brief excursions into the study of the Bible, delving into topics relevant to the development of the future members of the God Family. Bible Study is one means by which Christians are renewed daily (II Corinthians 4:16). so lets refresh ourselves with more of the precious truths of God's word!
We have a number of these mini studies available at the link above. More will be added after we finish the original Ambassador College 58 lesson Correspondence Course. A new lesson will be available each week.
This Weeks Lesson:
Each week we will showcase a new lesson from the newly designed 58 lesson Ambassador College Bible Study Course. There are online tests available with each lesson for your review.
Bible Study Course Lesson 26
DID YOU KNOW that most churches today do NOT baptize their members the way Jesus commanded?
The churches of this world are in utter confusion regarding baptism. Most are actually employing COUNTERFEIT FORMS of "baptism" in place of the ONE TRUE BAPTISM commanded in the Bible!
This lesson reveals the surprising TRUTH. Study it carefully!
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Topical Index “Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.” How true this seems to me. This Topical Index is not finished and cannot be. It is simply an effort to list basic related scriptures under subject headings to assist in bible study and in answering questions. It has been compiled with input from many individuals but it has inherent limitations. There is simply no right or complete set of scriptures except the Bible itself. Also, different people take into account different things. This is a start though and I hope a profitable one to you.- Mark Mickelson (December 2002)
New Booklets and Brochures have been added to our site as Study Resources and can be reviewed via a Graphical Index located here. A number of Reprinted Articles from the magazines are included in Booklet Form.
We have added a new Scripture search tool that is powered at this site. The Scripture Search Tool can be accessed from the left margin of any page. You will be able to look up word or phrases in the King James Bible along with the String’s meanings of the Hebrew or Greek.
Use our new Online Bible Hymnal to sing along with us during the Live Sabbath services or Feast Day Broadcasts.
We now have a Daily Bible Reading resource for your Bible Studies. Each month we will post links to each day’s bible reading. It will be completed in one year.
We now have available from our site a series of 7 Bible Classes recorded at Ambassador College. These are mp3 format. These class tapes are a range of subjects from the major and minor prophets, the acts of the Apostles, A study of the Ancient Culture of Israel, Church History and the Psalms and Proverbs.
We have archived the list of difficult scriptures developed at Ambassador College to prepare you to give answer to the faith that lies within you. 1Pe 3:15 . The link above will take you to the completed list for a quick answer to some of the puzzling questions that arise from time to time.
Here is a link to the Fundamental Doctrines of the Church. This listing of scriptures relating to each of our primary doctrines was composed by ministers of the Worldwide Church of God approximately 1984 or before and was used in the Graduate Spokesman's Club in the Chicago area and is presented here unchanged. While this listing is very detailed, it is not an exhaustive listing of the doctrines of The Church of God.
If you have any questions about the bible, what it says please feel free to ask. biblestudy@cog-ff.com
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Here is the new Online Version of the 58 Lesson Correspondence Course. The free bible study course features interactive tests with each of the lessons. The word of God is the foundation of knowledge. This online course is offered free without tuition cost to those who earnestly desire to understand the bible.
Free Bible Tools
Here is a link to several tools that you can use online to study the Bible. Look up Strong’s Numbers, words or phrases anywhere in the bible as well as some searches in topical indexes and dictionaries.
 New Bible Study Tools Online:
We are adding the audio versions of many of Mr. Armstrong’s Books and Booklets to the site. There will be a link to streaming versions that will have explanations of each of the links. For now you can begin enjoying them by using our open HWA Audio Books directory link.
In addition to the many files located below we have added 300 World Tomorrow Broadcasts cataloged by primary subject matter in Real Audio format.
The Robert Taylor Collection of a series of 80 Daily World Tomorrow Broadcasts form April - August of 1979 has been uploaded to our site as well. These are being presented to you each week below.
We have uploaded 668 audio files recorded by Mr. Armstrong. This is a three disk set, a compendium of Mr. Armstrong’s recordings. You can see a linked list here, or you can search for a specific audio file by title or subject here.
If you have a problem using the database tool you can also find links to the 3 disk set in html format in the Audio Page of this site.
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 We now have a searchable index of over 13,000 articles printed in the Plain Truth, Good News or World Tomorrow magazines. You can browse the entire list, browse by Subject listing or search using keywords for an article of interest. Once you find the magazine and Date of publication use the link at the bottom of the page to go to the online version of the magazine to print or read the material.
In addition we are now providing titles from the Philadelphia Remnant Magazine in our search tool linked above. Now articles from the New Philadelphia Remnant will come up in the search using keywords or subjects. THE FIRST THREE ISSUES HAVE BEEN ADDED MORE COMING SOON! Also the Philadelphia Remnant Archive Link has been added to the Library Sections’ publication page
We have an index of over 500 articles and booklets available on this site. You can scan down the list of these html and text formatted documents for any of interest. We will be placing these and the PDF-Word Documents in a searchable index like the articles above shortly.
Prayer Requests
We welcome anyone seeking a prayer request to contact Mr. Billingsley by E-Mail, or by phone, at (209) 772-0737 to have their request posted on our prayer requests page.
Articles of Interest
The book of Hebrews, chapter 11, is the story of faith in an entirely different light than most people conceive of it. Faith, as we normally perceive it, is the belief that what you ask God to do for you, He will perform, if it's in accordance with His will.
Unfortunately that's where many people limit faith. But faith involves much more. It involves an aspect that is far greater than merely receiving, an aspect that we call enduring.
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for." Once you have the substance and you're no longer hoping for it, faith is not relevant to that matter. "Faith is . . .the evidence of things not seen." It is the comprehension and understanding that there are ideas, there are beings, there are realities that we do not see with The human eye. We were not here when God created the world. Faith is that aspect whereby we recognize God as a creator.
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Special Topics
 YOUR FAITH
It May Be the Death of YOU!
Some will not make it into God's Kingdom — and all because of their faith! What about you?
Without faith you will not be saved — you cannot qualify for God's Kingdom.
Yet no subject pertaining to salvation is more misunderstood in professing Christianity than that of saving faith!
Some time ago, I had lunch with some friends who considered themselves Christians. A couple of the men asked me, during our conversation, to prove
that what I believe is true.
Being put on the spot at a lunch table, it was difficult to come up with all the right scriptures. But I was able to quote several, only to find that nothing I said made much difference to these particular individuals.
Even though I proved several of my beliefs — I particularly remember proving that the Sabbath should be kept today — it still had little effect on those men.
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Teachings of the Apostle
How many times have you heard non-Christians, judging one who professes Christ, say in disgust, "Well, if that's Christianity, I don't want any part of it"?
How many judge GOD by the way they see professing Christians live? How many assume that one must live a perfect life before he can become a Christian?
How many say, "If I could only give up smoking, I'd become a Christian"?
How many think a Christian is supposed to be perfect, never doing anything wrong? Suppose you do see or hear about a Christian doing something WRONG. Does that mean he is a hypocrite — that he is not really a Christian, after all?
Is it possible for one to actually sin while he is a Christian, and still remain a truly converted Christian?
I suppose nearly everyone would reply in the negative. But here is a vital point you need to UNDERSTAND!
It's hard to believe but TRUE! Few know just what is a Christian. Few know how one is converted — whether suddenly, all at once, or gradually. Does conversion happen immediately, or is it a process?
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Audio Broadcast from Mr. Armstrong each week
The End Time Prophecies Part 7
MP3 Format
This Weeks World Tomorrow Broadcast by Mr. Armstrong, is part 7 of an 8 part series on the End Time Prophecies given in the Bible
Links to the Past Broadcasts in this series:
The End Time Prophecies
A new Series of Sermons, Bible Studies and World Tomorrow Broadcasts are being shared here. They are high quality and cataloged by topic
Open Letters
Mr. Billingsley's Open Letters that have appeared in The Journal.
True Womanhood
(Titus 2:3) The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
(Titus 2:4) That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
(Titus 2:5) [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
True Womanhood - Is It a "Lost Cause"?
(Plain Truth article - November 1965)
’Ruling on Womens Dress
(Good News Article 1962 Herbert W. Armstrong)
Truth About Makeup
Here are the eye-opening FACTS -- where, when, by whom, and why the use of makeup began -- its history, and what the BIBLE says about it!
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