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NEW has come to light that MUST BE CONSIDERED.
I will not now burden you with details. I have not had
time or opportunity, myself, as yet to study it carefully, as I
must before a decision. IF this new evidence or possible evidence
does hold water, it simply means that every translation we know of
Leviticus 23 has been misleading -- that all of the Hebrew scholars
who translated the King James, the American Revised, the Revised
Standard Version, the Moffatt, the Fenton, the Jewish translation
-- others -- have translated one Hebrew word into a misleading and,
at the least, ambiguous English word. And it is a word requiring
much technical research to run down.
I am writing this letter because Mr. McNair has given me
enough to feel that it is possible this NEW evidence may cause
--the Church to make a change. There is yet AMPLE TIME before the
next Pentecost, for me, and also Garner Ted Armstrong, to carefully
and minutely check on the complete technical facts. GOD WILL LEAD
US IN THE RIGHT AND TRUE CONCLUSION.
God did not reveal EVERY DETAIL of His Truth to me at once,
beginning 47 years ago. But, because I WAS willing to give up
error, and accept His Truth -- and, four or five times, to give up
what I had thought was His Truth, but when proved error to confess
it and change to proved TRUTH, He did call and choose me to raise
up this present era of His Church, and to be used in proclaiming
the true GOSPEL, for the first time in over 18 1/2 centuries TO THE
WORLD!
This particular doctrine, however, is one to be decided
by THE CHURCH -- with Christ at the Head of the Church, and next
those HE has chosen as His instruments by whom He guides His Church
-- first, Apostles, Evangelists, etc. (He has put no prophets in
the Church TODAY, except where "prophet" means, simply preacher.)
It is not a doctrine for individual members to decide, for the
Church must be ONE, and meet on the correct day AS ONE BODY!
Sincerely, Brethren, I want you all to consider this:
God sent Jesus Christ into the world over 1900 years ago
as a MESSENGER (Malachi 3:1) with a MESSAGE for mankind. Right?
Jesus came. Right? His Message (Mark 1:1, 14-15 and elsewhere)
was the Gospel of the KINGDOM OF GOD! Right? RIGHT! After the
end of the first century, there was a gap of a hundred years in
the history of the Church. After that LOST CENTURY of Church
history, history reveals a "Christian Church" NO LONGER PROCLAIMING
THE GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD -- but teaching almost the
very opposite doctrines and customs of Christ and the Apostles.
Revelation 12 shows the TRUE Church, persecuted, small, fleeing
for safety. Revelation 17 shows the great FALSE Church, "MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS." It never did proclaim
the KINGDOM OF GOD Message to the world.
The only sign Jesus gave that we are near the END of the
age is that "This Gospel of the Kingdom is being preached in all
the world as a witness unto all nations." That Great Commission
is not yet completed, but is WELL UNDER WAY, and now, the NEW DOORS