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Box 111, Pasadena, California
September 10, 1948
GREETINGS! Brethren and Co-Workers:
Here we are only about a month from the Feast of
Tabernacles. It comes LATE this year---October 17th (evening)
thru, and including October 25th. Many have been planning for this
for a year. Many of the brethren have followed God's instruction
to lay aside a second tithe to provide for expenses of the trip.
Some have arranged to provide food and meat. We will arrive at
Belknap Springs, 65 miles east of Eugene, on October 17th, after-
noon before sundown, in time to get settled in our rooms and ready
for the first evening service. This evening, and thru the next
day, October 18th, is a holyday, one of God's annual Sabbaths which
He set apart and commanded us to keep.
Unfortunately a few of you have not been going the past
two or three years. Do you plan to go to the Feast of Tabernacles,
after Jesus returns? Of course we know that then there will be
both ordinary mortal humans, just as we all are today, and also the
saints then changed to immorality, in bodies of spiritual flesh.
Of those mortals not yet saved, including all heathen and gentiles
it is written that every one of them "shall even go up from year to
year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast
of Tabernacles."
But of course some of them will say "I can't come." Some
will say, "I can't afford it this year." Others will say, "I don't
believe in leaving home for the Feast of Tabernacles---I'd rather
stay right here at home and have it in our local church." Others
will make various other excuses. But God answers, "And it shall
be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth
unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep
the Feast of Tabernacles, even upon them shall be no rain."
But even this famine will only sour and embitter some.
They will say "God isn't fair," or, "now that we have famine I
can't afford it as well as I could before." God replies, "And if
the family of Egypt (sinners---those disobedient to God) go not up,
and come not, that have no rain, there shall be the PLAGUE, where-
with the Eternal will smite the heathen that come not up to keep
the Feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the PUNISHMENT of Egypt,
and the punishment of ALL NATIONS that come not up to keep the
Feast of Tabernacles." (Zech. 14:16-19).
As for the converted immortal saints,---well, if they KNOW
this will and warning of God---if they KNOW God has commanded us to
go to the Feast of Tabernacles---if they KNOW its holydays
especially are HOLY CONVOCATIONS where their presence is commanded
as a command of God, will they even BE saved immortals at the time
if they have made excuse or refused during these sober, serious
last days before the coming of Christ?
Brethren, we will do well to ponder this question---and
remember, we ourselves will not make the answer---GOD is the judge.
We will do well to consider how GOD looks at it, and to what degree