September 19, 1998

Dear Fellow Christian,

Those of us who are spiritually awake realize that the time of the End is near. But, really, this is very "Good News", since 3 1/2 years later God’ Kingdom will be literally established on earth (Rev 13.5; 11.2; Lk 21.24; Dan 7.25; 12.7). It is comforting to know from the Bible that God’s saints will win in the end through Christ’s intervention and return to the earth!

However, we must also recognize that the Bible does contain several verses that show, before that final victory by Christ when He returns, His saints will be defeated by the "Beast" (Dan 7.21,25; 12.7; Rev 13.7; Isa 47.6; 10.5-7; Jer 5.15-24; 30.7-15; Ezek 20.33-44). It seems the only way that these verses foretelling this defeat could fail (1 Cor 13.8) is if we as a people really turn to God so He can heal the land (2 Chron 7.14). However, the promise of this verse occurs in the context of keeping the Lev 23 Feast Days of God, as He declared them to be perpetual, "forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations" (Lev 23.21,41).

This Autumn may be the last chance to warn God’s people to keep the Feast of Tabernacles, and perhaps change God’s mind about our prophesied defeat (Jer 18.8; Ezek 18, 33). These Feast Days are NOT obsolete or done away by the New Testament (Zech 14; 1 Cor 5.8; Acts 18.21; 20.6,16; 27.9)! God’s Feasts days this Fall are 9/20 (Feast of Trumpets), 9/29 (Day of Atonement), 10/4-10/10 (Feast of Tabernacles – 7 days), and 10/11 (Last Great Day), according to the 7th month New Moon (when its waning crescent becomes invisible at Jerusalem). Note that on these dates, the Holyday actually starts at the previous day’s sunset.

The specifics about the True New Moon that starts the Fall Feasts can be obtained from the Roper Mountain Science Center in Greenville, South Carolina (Steve Morgan: 864-281-1188) and the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh (Kenton J. D’Mellow: 011-44-131-668-8100, 2-4pm, [email protected]). Most "Holyday-aware"churches (and the Jews) are observing these Holydays ONE DAY LATE. We should be starting the observance of the Feast of Trumpets (the day that pictures Christ’s return) at the sunset that occurs on Saturday evening September 19th. This is because the TRUE New Moon occurs sometime between 0600 and 1412 UTC on Sunday September 20th when the last visible portion of the waning crescent disappears to the naked eye. Note that the TRUE New Moon occurs BEFORE the astronomical New Moon (the conjunction that occurs at 1702 UTC). The average time that the new moon remains invisible to the naked eye is about 36 hours. The shortest time for seeing it from the conjunction to a crescent is 13 hours and 24 minutes, which was recorded on Friday, May 5, 1989 (Newsletter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Volume 83/3, page 34-36). This September, at 1412 UTC, the astronomical illumination of the moon is 0%, according to the calculations provided by the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, and stays at 0% until 1906 UTC.

There is no specific reference in the Bible to when the new moon occurs – at the disappearance of the waning crescent, the astronomical conjunction (Molad), or the appearance of the waxing crescent. However, from Gen 1.5, Lev 22.6-7 and Deut 16.6 we understand that the Creator starts the days at sunset, at even, when the sun is down, when it "disappears" from view. It would seem logical, then, that the Creator would also start the new month when the moon "disappears" from view, when the waning crescent becomes invisible to the naked eye before the start of the next day at sunset – not at the middle between the two visible crescents, which would have to be calculated AFTER THE FACT 2-3 days later; thus actually preventing you from observing the first day of the 7th month as the Feast of Trumpets!

These Holydays are important because they reveal the Creator’s Plan for humanity. Through our ignorance and/or rejection of these Holydays, we are telling God we do not want to be part of His Plan – His "New World Order" – His "Kingdom"! So why then SHOULD He save us when we are opposing Him, and, BY DEFAULT, choosing Satan’s counterfeit Illuminati New World Order – the one world government that Christ is coming back to destroy (Dan 2; Rev 13, 19)?

My hope is that those who want to keep these days would get together locally and have services in which the Bible was just read, as it was done in Neh 8 and Deut 31.11 during the Fall Feast days. Who knows whether this may be the last chance for "The Turning" to occur before the Great Tribulation – "the time of Jacob’s trouble" (Jer 30.7), with Jacob’s descendants being the peoples of America and Britain (Gen 48.19). But even if "The Turning" does not occur, we will be brought back from captivity, and restored to the original land of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and it will be a much greater event than the Exodus from Egypt (Isa 11.11; 14; 27.13; Jer 23.7-8; Ezek 20)! This is our true hope and heritage (not because we are better – only because we are chosen for a job).

I share all of this with you because you are in a position to raise this issue and influence this "Turning". This "Turning" is the one thing that Satan (the Lucifer of the New Age, One World, Nature Worship movement) is counting on NOT happening.

May God be with you, and all of us, in perhaps this last chance to show our Creator that we want to be aligned with His Righteous and Holy "New World Order" -- The Coming Kingdom of God -- by keeping His Feasts on the correct dates this September and October. If we miss this chance, we will most likely have to learn its importance the hard way, by having to suffer and endure Satan’s counterfeit for 3 1/2 years -- the Internationalist Bankers’ "New World Order".

With hope,