Friends of the Family
Library Begins
Ron and Donna McKown of Lorena, Texas, have volunteered
to manage a new Giving & Sharing activity, Friends of the Family Library. This is a free lending library of
family-oriented materials from Focus on the Family and other sources. Video tapes, cassettes, books, and pamphlets
supporting the Biblical family are now available for loan. This service is free to requestors in North
America only. USA tax deductible
contributions are welcome, to cover postage, supplies, and the addition of new
items to the library. If you have
worthwhile used videos and books supporting the family, we encourage you to
donate them to Friends of the Family Library, so that others can benefit from
them. Thanks for your help!
A team reviews materials for inclusion in the
library. Although most of the authors
of this material do not observe the Bible Sabbath, we have selected items based
on their overall content and beneficial service to the Almighty’s people. It is our goal to make this service
self-sustaining, and add more items to the list, as well as eventually
establish Friends of the Family Libraries in other countries. Write to:
Friends of the Family Library, 3127 Old Lorena Road, Lorena, Texas
76655, telephone 817-666-3682.
Earl Lewis Temporarily Swamped!
The Giving & Sharing Bookstore service
recently has had a deluge of orders, more than double our normal volume. To make matters worse, Earl Lewis, our
bookstore manager, had to tend to some critical household repairs. As a result, he got behind in filling
orders. He is in the process of
catching up, and we appreciate your patience and understanding. You may call Earl Lewis at 417-525-4211.
Earl Lewis needs a computer to help him in bookstore
operations. If anyone has a used
computer that you would like to donate to Giving & Sharing, we would
appreciate it greatly.
The “Lost” Tribes of
Israel . . . Found!
Many assume that the ten tribes of Israel “disappeared”
or “died out” in ancient history.
However, Hosea 1 prophesied that God would multiply their
population after their expulsion from Palestine around 721 B.C.! A century later, the prophet Jeremiah sent a
message to the ten tribes, and Josephus, the famous Jewish historian of the
first century A.D., wrote that the ten tribes were too numerous to count and
even named their western border. The
439-page book, The “Lost” Ten Tribes of
Israel . . . Found! by Steven M. Collins, gives
well-documented facts about Israel’s migrations, triumphs, and defeats
throughout history.
Chapters include:
King David and Israel’s Rise to Greatness, King Solomon and the “Golden
Age” of Israel, Israel — The Forgotten World Empire, Israelite and Jewish
Migrations from Palestine, Carthage — The Colony that became an Empire, The
Scythian “Sacae” — the Asian “Sons of Isaac,” Parthia — The Forgotten Ancient
“Superpower,” The Life of Jesus Christ — The Untold Story, The Missing Eighteen
Years (Age 12-20), Israelite Migrations from Asia after Parthia’s Fall, The
Tribes of Israel in the Modern World.
This interesting book is available for $16 (which
includes $4 for shipping) from: Steven
M. Collins, 3901 Crescent Drive, Sioux Falls, SD 57106. FOR ORDERS ONLY: Call Toll-Free, 1-888-687-5191
From our home in Gillette, Wyoming, we are providing a
toll-free telephone service for the Bible Sabbath Association and Giving &
Sharing. You are encouraged to use this
toll-free number (no orders taken on the Sabbath).
For Giving & Sharing, you may use our toll-free
number to order our free literature, request an order blank, or place your name
on our mailing list. For the Bible
Sabbath Association, you may request literature, subscribe to the excellent
magazine, The Sabbath Sentinel, as well as order the latest
edition of the Directory of Sabbath-Observing Groups. A special item available from the Bible
Sabbath Association is a 16-page Sabbath promotional booklet, “Why Do You
Observe Sunday?” available free to individuals and church groups. Your Church group may wish to advertise this
article as part of a local evangelistic activity.
Are you part of a Sabbath-keeping church group who
wishes to reach out to others? Contact
us about using our toll-free number service.
We can receive orders from your respondents, and either fill requests
for literature for you from our location, or mail (or E-mail) you shipping
lists for you to fill orders. We can
also maintain shipping records and addresses for you. You decide on the literature or program material, and we help you
with toll-free telephone ordering service, as well as optional shipping
service. Are you scheduling a festival
site, summer youth camp, or local
public Bible Study? Use our toll-free
telephone service for reservations and registration. We do the “busy work” on your behalf. For more information, contact: Shirley Nickels at 307-686-5191.
A network of independent Sabbath-keepers shares
resources for printing and shipping literature, tapes, and other material. We agree on the Bible Sabbath and many other
Bible essentials. We voluntarily work
together, and trust the Eternal to help us all to see eye to eye at some future
time as He wills. We believe it is foolish to “reinvent the wheel.” We must
share resources to work toward the common goal of proclaiming the good news of
the kingdom.
R.G., of Colorado, writes: “I read with interest your article in your latest newsletter
(April 1996) on ‘Finding Fault With Them.’
For the most part I agreed with your article.
“However, I strongly disagree with the following
statement, ‘There appears to be no Bible prohibition against an elder marrying
again after his first wife dies, provided that he marries a virgin.’
“To back this up you quoted Lev. 21:13-14. Those verses are referring only to the high
priest as the entire context makes clear.
In Lev. 21:7, in speaking of the priests [in general], there is
no mention that they must marry a virgin.
“Lev. 21:1-4 states that a priest shall not
defile himself for the dead, except for close relatives such as mother and
father.
“In speaking of the high priest it says, ‘nor shall he
go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother,’ (verse
11).
“The reason for these differences between the priests
and the high priest is that the high priest was symbolic of Christ. Christ now holds the office of high priest
and is going to marry a chaste virgin.
That is why the high priest had to marry a virgin. But there is no such prohibition for a
[regular] priest.”
COMMENT: Thanks
for correcting us. Note that, regarding
a regular priest, the Bible says, “They shall not take a wife that is a whore,
or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God,” Leviticus
21:7. Today, there are scores of
professing ministers among the various Church of God groups, who have not feared to remarry a divorced woman. This is a great sin, as the leaders of the
Eternal’s people are to be holy examples to the flock.
Sharing Disks, our
computer disk service, has some new disks available. Disk D006 ($2.50 suggested donation) contains A History of
the True Church, by Andrew N. Dugger and C.O. Dodd, as well as The
Bible Home Instructor. These
Church of God (Seventh Day) classics are the crown jewels of Church of God
history, and formed the basis for the Biblical knowledge of Herbert W.
Armstrong. Reprints of these books have
long been available from Giving & Sharing (donations of $7.50 and $9.00
respectively).
Disk D007 ($5.00
suggested donation) is a two-disk set, containing our 500-page book on Biblical
Holy Days. The printed form is
planned for printing when funds are available, but a LOAN copy is available now
for a donation of $5.00.
Write to: Giving
& Sharing, PO Box 100, Neck City, MO 64849. For correspondence, comments, and questions, write to Richard
C. Nickels, 3316 Alberta Drive, Gillette, WY
82718, telephone 307-686-5191.
It is a great joy to
see the enthusiasm of those who have newly come into the Truth. But, it is a cause of great sorrow to see
some who have returned to false doctrines that they once rejected.
Evangelist Ralph
Woodrow’s well-documented, easy-to-read, 167-page book, Babylon Mystery
Religion, is a monumental expose of pagan influences in professing
Christianity. Giving & Sharing has
long promoted this excellent book. The
Spanish version, Babilonia, Misterio Religioso, has helped many
Hispanic Catholics to come out of the great false church.
Yet in the past few
years, Woodrow has rejected much of the foundational teachings he formerly
taught. Does this sound familiar? Although not a Sabbath-keeper, Woodrow once
eschewed Christmas and Easter, because of their pagan origins, which he
convincingly proved in Babylon Mystery Religion. Also, he rejected the traditional Good
Friday-Easter Sunday teaching; instead, Woodrow supported the Biblical teaching
of three days and three nights from the Master’s death to His resurrection.
Following the
current tide of religious liberalism, Woodrow’s short, scantily documented
booklets, “Christmas Reconsidered,” “Easter, Is it Pagan?” and “Three Days and
Three Nights — Reconsidered” are an about-face from his formerly Bible based
teachings. Although Woodrow currently
does not promote Babylon Mystery Religion, he still has an
inventory of these books he does not believe in, available to Giving &
Sharing at wholesale discount.
If you would like to
help keep alive the classic book, Babylon Mystery Religion, write
Giving & Sharing for a copy ($3.50 suggested donation). Don’t follow Ralph Woodrow’s new departure
from Truth. Don’t return to Babylon.
For some time, we
have recommended Fred Coulter’s excellent book on the Passover, The
Christian Passover, What Does It Mean?
When Should It Be Observed — the 14th or 15th? Coulter’s 303-page book is a definitive
study of this important subject.
Dr. Samuel
Bacchiocchi rejected Mr. Coulter’s book outright, saying that no reputable
scholar believes that the Passover is to be observed on the beginning of the 14th
day of the first Hebrew month. Is your
faith based on what so-called “Bible scholars” say, or what the Bible
says? The Bible takes a very dim view
of scholars in general, Malachi 2:12, I Corinthians 2:1-16. While we need ministers to teach and lead
us, the Almighty ordained that His truth come to us individually by His Spirit,
not through “scholars.” Unlike
Bacchiocchi, who admitted to me that he did not read Coulter’s book, I hope you
will not reject the Truth without an honest study.
Mr. Coulter informs
me that now he will send a copy of his book, FREE, to anyone who identifies
himself or herself as a member of the Sabbath-keeping Church of God. You may call him at 408-637-1875, or
write Fred Coulter, PO Box 1442, Hollister, CA 95024.
Biblical Doctrine Book Updated
The third edition of
our book, Biblical Doctrine, has just been re-printed. It has been updated for the massive
doctrinal changes of the Worldwide Church of God since 1993, as well as the
inclusion of the United Church of God.
From Seventh Day Adventists, to Church of God (Seventh Day), to the
Assemblies of Yahweh, we compare and analyze doctrinal beliefs of many
Sabbath-keeping groups. This 92-page
book is available for a suggested donation of $4.00 from Giving &
Sharing, PO Box 100, Neck City, MO 64849.
— written by Richard
C. Nickels
Giving & Sharing,
PO Box 100, Neck City, MO 64849