300 Study Paper Series

Cities of Refuge are to be established under the Law of God. They will be established under the Millennial Reign of Christ and also in the Second Resurrection period. Under the Law, God provides for a facility that ensures safety for a number of classes of people that have sinned and committed offences but did not deserve to be put to death summarily. These aspects will be reintroduced into the Millennium under Messiah over the 1000 year reign but will also be implemented and maintained in the Second Resurrection as we will see. Cities of Refuge Numbers 35:9-34 And the LORD said to Moses,10"Say to the people of Israel, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,11then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.12The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.13And the cities which you give shall be your six cities of refuge.14You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.15These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that any one who kills any person without intent may flee there.16"But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.17And if he struck him down with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.18Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.20And if he stabbed him from hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,21or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death; he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.22"But if he stabbed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait,23or used a stone, by which a man may die, and without seeing him cast it upon him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy, and did not seek his harm;24then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances;25and the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.26But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the bounds of his city of refuge to which he fled,27and the avenger of blood finds him outside the bounds of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slays the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood.28For the man must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.29"And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.30If any one kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses; but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.31Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death; but he shall be put to death.32And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.33You shall not thus pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him who shed it.34You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the people of Israel." There are specific laws for manslayers and these laws are covered in the texts concerning Law and the Sixth Commandment (No. 259) and also 259A). Christian Churches of God No. P300D - Cities of Refuge http://www.ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p300d.html

Open Discussion 2 - Millennial Reign of Christ (in Depth). Christ will come at the end of the period of the Witnesses to destroy the Empire of the Beast and for the Establishment the Millennium. Introduction During the time of Christ and the Apostles in the first century, primitive Christianity understood that a Millennial Reign of Christ, the Messiah, would occur. They understood that Satan had been allowed a rule of six thousand years and that would be replaced by the rule of Christ, who would reign for one thousand years, as we see in No. 299F. The biblical position presents clear and coherent evidence of a Millennium period that is specifically mentioned in Revelation 20:2-7. The thousand-year reign of the Messiah is referred to as a Millennium or Chiliad. That is represented by the Seventh Day Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment (No. 256). The restoration of the biblical system and the millennial advent of Messiah are also found in Zechariah 14:4-5. Christ said by parable that he had to go away and then return (Lk. 19:12). Contrarily, modern Christianity has lost the understanding of the Millennium. That loss of understanding was through the Gnostic Heaven and Hell heresy and the Trinitarian fabrications. Likewise the Churches of God in both Sardis and Laodicean eras, and especially the offshoots of Herbert Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God, are in total confusion, and do not biblically understand the development that is to occur during the Millennial Reign of the Messiah. All of the various branches of Christianity and pseudo-Christianity have become antinomian and polytheist. Most of the church academics knew that the end of Satan's rule was in the 120th Jubilee of 2026-2027. They did know that Adam was created in 4004 BCE and they were expelled from Eden in 3974 BCE when Adam came under Judgment and Eden was closed and the earth was cursed (Nos. 246; 248; 272). God laid out what was to occur in the last days in many prophecies in both the OT and NT works, and most importantly in the Book of Revelation at the end of the First Century with the Apostle John. These activities are explained in the works dealing with the Time of the End (No. 141D_4D). Over the last four Centuries, before the coming of the Messiah, there was to be a time of unmerited blessings (Four Hundred Years of Abraham's Legacy (No. 212J). That period ended in Chislev (Nov.-Dec.) 2023. Before the Day of the Lord, there will be a rebellion or apostasy, a falling away (from apostasia) from the truth and the law among the elect. The man of lawlessness (anomias), so named for the falling away from the laws of God, through his teaching among the elect, is revealed (2Thes. 2:3-8). He sits in the Temple of God and is called God. This is not physical. He sits in the Temple of God, being an edifice that was already destroyed in 70 CE, and is called God. So he is one of the elohim acting as an elohim from the early church. He will be killed by Messiah at his coming. This is obviously an ongoing entity. The time of Lawlessness has been ongoing under Israel and Judah since they occupied the Holy Land. As a result Israel was sent into dispersion and Judah was sent with them over the last two thousand years. In the Last Days there will be an Empire of the Beast (299A). That final empire was confined to forty-two months and was to occur within a period of Great Tribulation (No. 141D_2) that would occur over the last five years before the Coming of the Messiah (Nos. 210A and 210B; 300; 300B). Christian Churches of God No. 300C - Millennial Reign of Christ http://www.ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p300c.html

Open Discussion 1 - Millennial Reign of Christ .. Christ will come at the end of the period of the Witnesses to destroy the Empire of the Beast and for the Establishment the Millennium. Christian Churches of God No. 300C - Millennial Reign of Christ http://www.ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p300c.html

Satan's Rule ends in 2027 and with it all the religious and administrative systems he established. The Seventh millennium commences under the Messiah from 26 March 2028. The next six years will be a period of massive turmoil. Introduction God determined the Creation for a specific purpose as we saw in How God became a Family (No. 187). Mankind was to become Elohim as Sons of God (No. 001). The One True God Eloah detailed a specific Plan of Salvation (No. 001A; 001B; 001C; 001D). The Plan was to be in two divisions in the human phase up to the Second Resurrection (No. 143B). The First Division was to be under the Rule of Satan as Elohim and Morning Star of this planet. Adam was created in 4004 BCE and removed from Eden in 3974 BCE when Adam and Eve came under Judgment. Satan's rule commenced in 3974 BCE and went to 2027 CE over the 6000-year reign, or 120 Jubilees. The second part or division is the Seventh thousand-year Millennial reign of Christ. It commences on 26 March 2028 and lasts until 3027 and the Second Resurrection and the Judgment of Krisis or Correction of all mankind begins in 3027 and goes to 3127. Christ is in command of both phases in this Second Division. The purpose of the last phase of this creation and the final selection of the Holy Seed is explained in the two papers: The Holy Seed (No. 141E_3) and The Holy Seed Pt. II: The Final Selection (No. 141E_3B). Christian Churches of God No. 300B - Establishment of the Millennium. http://www.ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p300b.html

Introduction to the 300 Series Study Papers The Golden Jubilee and the Millennium (No. 300) http://www.ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p300.html Establishment of the Millennium (No. 300B) http://www.ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p300b.html Millennial Reign of Christ (No. 300C) http://www.ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p300c.html Cities of Refuge (No. 300D) http://www.ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p300d.html