THE EPISTLE TO THE CHURCH OF GOD and SAINTS OF CHRIST IN TEMPLE BETHEL I Cornelius, one from among your flock, that was led away by the light of Christ; am now called to give my testimony to the saints of your obedience. Giving honor to the Most High, Our Father which art in heaven, I speak before you this day as I spoke five years passed: We are not the keepers of a Sabbath ceremony that is decayed and without life. We are not as the synagogues of Satan, but the tabernacles of Christ. We are not keepers of the old doctrine, but the new. For given unto us is a new covenant: purged with the blood of our Christ. "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." (Hebrews 8:7-13) How then O Church of God can you raise a Temple Bethel like in the days of old, and be righteous still? Tear down this Temple built with the riches of the earth: for it is the spirit of Ephraim, and the devils that he honored. For if the Prophet brought the Church of God, then it came without spot or wrinkle. How then can you make that which is perfect, better? For fear you deceive yourself into damnation, return to the foundation of the Prophet upon which you left. Turn back from the way of Ephraim and Dan: for their seed is cut off and cast out from entering into the kingdom of God (Revelation 7:4-8). Hear me, I pray, O children of the prophet: And come out from your way and stand on fertile ground, so I may walk among you; for the filth that engulf your place is not worthy for the feet of the Lamb. Come back this way, unto the teachings of the Prophet: For as the branch of Ephraim and Dan, being the firstfruits, are cut off from the olive tree, so shall you be, if you stay in the err of your ways. For if you stay in your manner of worship, you make Prophet Crowdy false. How then can you serve God, by whom all prophets are sent? With you I will not hold my peace: for if you make the Prophet false, then you make the gospel of Christ a lie. How then can you be saved? For the words of Christ are True: if they were not, then the Prophet would not have been sent. How foolish is the man that is showed an oasis, yet turn into the way of an everlasting desert? O saints of Christ in Temple Bethel: You are surely led by the resurrection of Jeroboam, who rebelled against the house of David, and made a filthy Temple in Beth-el, and another in Dan (I Kings 12:19-33). Repent: and return to Christ; by whom you were given birth: or be as Ephraim and Dan; and the fate thereof. You are bold O Temple Bethel: and richer than the other saints in the Church of God. But what are the riches of earth without the grace of God? I come before you as a poor man: and you laugh at me for my pennies. But my pennies come from heaven: How then can the riches of earth prevail? I come before you as a shepherd: and you laugh at me because I have no flock. But as it is written: "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time" (Isaiah 60:22); so shall it be. Thus I turn my back to you and begin my ministry to the world as one, yet two, because a wife is beside me. Yes my sheep are lost, but come when they hear my voice. If you hear me and come not, then you are not my sheep, and I shall not want. Who are you O Temple Bethel: surely not the Church of God and Saints of Christ. For how can you be saints of Christ, and not accept Jesus as Lord? So why do you keep the name, except to deceive the people. Hear me O Temple Bethel: for I will not hold my peace: because it is not commanded unto me to do so. Who are you O Temple Bethel? You are an unclean spirit, and a deceiver of the saints, that has turned the sanctuary of God into the synagogue of Satan. You are a liar and a fool: the resurrection of Ephraim and the judgment of his fate. Come back this way, O children of the Church of God: And think not that you are saved because of my love for Ruth and Earl, and for my many kin and love ones among you. Think not that you are saved because you inherit the holy land of the Prophet: For blood nor land can save you: only the Lord our God and His Christ. But I will not let the souls of the old that are faithful among you suffer the fate of your spirit: For I will lift them up from out of your grip though they have no strength of their own, that they may stand before Christ, and receive the Holy Ghost. For I shall be to them as a shield and as a protector, that their souls be taken into the kingdom of heaven before their flesh inherit death in your place. Hear me O Temple Bethel: For I speak not as a stranger: but as one born among you. And my anger is against you, and I will not hold my peace: For you have turned from the way of the Prophet, to drink wine, and to serve wine to the saints in the Church of God. How bold you are: and how naive the saints. For the Second and Third Key is disregarded, even as you recite the Seven Keys each Sabbath before the saints. How bold you are: and how naive the saints. Who are you O Temple Bethel? For if you disregard the Third Key that is found in the new testament; and disregard the Second Key that is found in the old testament, which is the testament you claim to justify your worship; then what is your worship, but a confused state of mind. I speak not as a stranger: but as he that was called to the pulpit as a little boy by Bishop Howard Z. Plummer. And he took off his Sword and Crown and placed them on me: saying to the congregation in the city known spiritually as Jerusalem, "This child is blessed." Hear me, I Pray, O Church of God, for I tell you no lie: and let those that were a witness come forth. For I Cornelius, seed of Earl, come not as a stranger: but to fulfill the prophecy from one of your own leaders. Hear me, I pray, O house of Israel: for my words are as true as the Rock of Ages: Repent from your way, and confess your evil to the Father, that He may forgive you, and keep you in His grace: Lest you hear me not and this prophecy come to pass upon you: Jeremiah 7:13-16 "And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee." Proverbs 1:28-33 "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For they that hated my knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all of my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whose hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil." I leave you with this Scripture, that it might have an effect on you: Ezekiel 18:31 "Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?" Hear me, I pray, O house of Israel and Church of God: and let the Grace and Mercy of our God be upon you: and you be bathe in the sweetness of Christ love. For I am not sent to divide the house of Israel: but to make us whole again. Amen. Visit The Church of God Saints of Christ in Bethel Message Board