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The Hebrew Calendar Parts 1 & 2 By John Ogwyn Since 1986, the calendar has been a recurring source of doctrinal controversy in the Church of God. Many articles and papers have proposed different methods of calculating the dates of the annual festivals, and at least a half-dozen different calendars and calculation methods have been offered. This has troubled many sincere brethren who want to do what pleases God. With all the controversy, they are unsure. But does God really expect each individual Church member to become an expert on calendar matters? We can understand the “calendar issue” by asking three simple questions, and then answering them from the Bible. Do the rules of the current Hebrew calendar conform to Biblical principles and guidelines? Does God expect each Christian to determine the calendar for himself, or did He entrust some authority to make calendar decisions? And can we really know what calendar Jesus Christ and His Apostles used? Is the Hebrew Calend...

THE COMING MARTYRDOM OF THE LAODICEAN CHURCHES Written by Aleksandar Veljic Contact: aveljic@protonmail.com If you were new to the church and you were starting to really open up the Bible for the first time in your life, what would you consider to be the strangest prophecy of all?  Because we are very concerned with Bible prophecy, particularly as we understand that we are living in the very end-time. There are prophecies, particularly if you are new, that strike you as very strange; for instance, Ezekiel as a prophet lying 13 months on one side and 40 days on the other.  Or it could be some of the prophecies in Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar's image composed of different metals. Perhaps different horses riding off in different directions in Zechariah?  Or the book of Revelation with locusts coming up out of a bottomless pit.  There are many prophecies that, on initial reading, when we are new in the Church of God, may strike us as very strange.  But re...