Dear Brethren and Co-Workers in Christ:
Greetings from the Five Cities region of California.
Because of the computer hacking attack last week, I was unable to link an article that I had intended to link in last week’s Letter. Then, the online version was corrected later last Thursday.
Anyway, here is a link to that article that was supposed to be linked in the Letter to the Brethren for July 30, 2026: Continuing Church of God, Elijah, and Restoring All Things.
Feast of Tabernacles’ Sites
The Feast of Tabernacles pictures several events in God’s plan. Church services for the Feast in 2026 are to begin the evening of September 25th and run (including the Last Great Day) until sunset October 3rd.
We now have a contract for the Feast of Tabernacles in Canada.
Ramada by Wyndham London, Ontario
Services are to be held at the Ramada by Wyndham London at 817 Exeter Road, London, ON, N6E 1W1, Canada. Telephone: (833) 311-2642.
Note: You do NOT need to stay at the Ramada to attend Feast of Tabernacles’ services there.
For more information, you can contact Steve Dupuie, who lives in Michigan, but who is scheduled to speak at that site.
His email address is: steve.dupuie@yahoo.com
Our site in the USA is in Branson, Missouri.
Evangelist Evans Ochieng emailed me that he was meeting with CCOG leaders in Kenya to plan the sites there.
For a listing of planned and expected sites, check out the following link: Feast of Tabernacles’ Sites for 2026.
No Trinitarian Discussion Podcast
Two weeks ago, I mentioned that I was supposed to be a guest on a Confessional Lutheran’s podcast. The host then delayed that to better prepare himself to read more of my writings, and he set up for us to discuss the trinity on his podcast yesterday. So, I agreed and that was scheduled. But he backed out without informing us or responding to emails from our team.
Why?
Let me speculate.
He probably could not handle the truth and was afraid his audience would have trouble with the truth about the trinity.
The fact is that I do NOT believe that one can have a rational scriptural discussion about the beliefs of the original Christians and conclude the Church was trinitarian if one can accept the plain truth on that subject.
I speculate that host may have seen that he did not have valid arguments against the scriptures and historical facts related to the Godhead.
Below is a drawing that trinitarians use to explain their faulty view, which logic shows contradicts itself:
(Public Domain via Wikipedia)
Anyway, partially because of the podcast host’s non-brave approach to cancelling, this motivated me to add some more to my sermon schedule. So, I plan to give a couple of new sermons on the trinity.
Gospel Translation Project
Joan Galloway sent the following update related to our translations of our English language book The Gospel of the Kingdom of God:
Dr. Thiel,
Here’s where we stand on the Gospel of the Kingdom of God translations: 72 of 118 tracked languages are complete (uploaded or ready to upload) — about 61%. Samoan just finished. Another 43 are actively in progress with translators and checkers assigned.
Completed languages already span major world languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Russian) alongside smaller strategic ones (Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Samoan). Near-term priority is closing out the 43 in-progress languages, several of which just need a final pass. Once those are clear, we’ll be past 90% overall. …Here are the … completed (Uploaded/Completed) languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cantonese, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew (right to left), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Marathi, Nuer, Pangasinan, Pashto (right to left), Persian (right to left), Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho (South African), Shona, Sindhi (right to left), Somali, Spanish, Sundanese (Indonesian language), Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu (right to left), Wolof, Yiddish (right to left), Yoruba, Zulu …
Joan
She also sent the following:
Our goal is to make our book The Gospel of the Kingdom of God available in as many languages as we can.
Why?
To support the following that Jesus prophesied:
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14).
Furthermore, the Bible shows that the proclamations will ultimate results in massive numbers of followers from all over and in all languages:
8 Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 And they sang a new song, saying:
“You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, 10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.” (Revelation 5:8-10)
9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” (Revelation 7:9-11)
11 For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God.” (Romans 14:11)
Thus, it makes sense to get materials into whatever languages God will open up to us.
My thanks to the team of volunteers that are working on this as well as the rest of you for your support.
Suggested Sabbath Services
Here is a suggested Sabbath day service for our scattered brethren and other interested people for this Sabbath service:
- 2-3 hymns (our songbook, The Bible Hymnal, contains the materials from the 1974 Bible Hymnal from the old WCG with new covers, plus ten additional hymns; there is also some Choral Accompaniment online).
- Opening prayer.
- Sermonette: Toxins: The invisible assault. Other sermonettes are available at our Prophecy channel on BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/channel/prophecy/
- Announcements (if any; though for many it will be this letter) and one hymn.
- The suggested sermon is: 18 Tips About Prayer. Other sermons are also available at the COGTube channel on BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/channel/cogtube/
- Final hymn.
- Closing prayer.
Note: If you have a slow internet connection, you can watch these by starting the video, then below it (and towards the right) look for an outline of a gear–if you click on that, it will allow the YouTube video to be played with lower video quality, but at least it will not stop often–you can select a quality as low as 144p. If your internet connection is still too slow (as my home one is) and/or you prefer audio messages to audio-visuals ones, go to the YouTube link for the message, click on SHOW MORE related to the description. You will then see something that says, “Download MP3.” Below that is a link to an MP3 file. Most computers (and even some cellular telephones) will allow MP3 files to be downloaded and played. This is an option we have made available (but we are also looking into ways to improve that as well)–and, of course, we have written article options. Some people have found that if their internet connections are not fast enough, that they can simply listen to the messages that are found at the Bible News Prophecy online radio channel.
IN CASE YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A ‘LETTER TO THE BRETHREN’ FOR ANY WEEK, REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE MANY SERMON MESSAGES ON THE ContinuingCOG channel AND MANY SERMONETTE MESSAGES ON THE Bible News Prophecy channel. There are also some messages at the CCOGAfrica channel. There are also messages in the Spanish language at the CDLIDDSermones channel.
World News Items
Last Thursday and Friday, tens of thousands of mainly Moroccan males rushed into the Spanish territory of Ceuta (see Spain still dealing with thousands of migrants from Morocco that ‘invaded’ Ceuta). Ceuta is actually on the African continent and borders Morocco. This event, combined with terror, crime, and other matters associated with Islamic migrants, is helping to push the European Union to have a stronger stance against migrants. The Bible shows that the time will come when the European Beast power will defeat a power based out of the Muslim dominated areas of the Middle East and North Africa (Daniel 11:40-43; Ezekiel 30:1-8).
There has been speculation that the Imam Mahdi of Shi’ite Muslim prophecy will rise up this month in Iran (see ‘Has the Mahdi Arrived?’ Is he to appear in August 2026? Could he be the ‘King of the South’ of Bible prophecy?). Yet, since in the Shi’ite view, this man has supposedly been in ‘occultation’ (suspended animation) since 941 A.D., this is not possible.
However, the fact is that the Sunni Muslim view of the Imam Mahdi, who would be a regular man, is possible. The Sunni view is somewhat consistent with prophecies related to the biblical King of the South of Daniel 11:40-43. While the identity of that man is not yet clearly known, the fact is that there have been discussions between the Arabs and Turks about setting up an alliance that is consistent with the biblical King of the South prophecies as well as part of a prophecy held by some Jews (see Jewish prophecy on the destruction of the King of Persia by an Arab King; Is this a prediction of neutralization of Iran relating to the rise of the King of the South?).
One consequence of the USA-Iran war is that it has gotten a lot of Sunni-Muslim dominated nations to consider some type of military confederation consistent with biblical prophecies.
Today, a Saudi Arabian general was just announced to be the head of a naval military alliance of numerous countries who will likely be part of the coming King of the South alliance (see Saudi Arabian general appointed head of a multinational military confederation: Another step towards the ‘King of the South’?).
Concluding Comments
The prophecy Zephaniah was inspired to write:
1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together,
O undesirable nation,
2 Before the decree is issued,
Or the day passes like chaff,
Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you,
Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you!
3 Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth,
Who have upheld His justice.
Seek righteousness, seek humility.
It may be that you will be hidden
In the day of the Lord’s anger. (Zephaniah 2:1-3)
Brethren, this is a prophetic warning to end time Christians that we are not to be independent at this time. It is telling us that those non-Philadelphians who think that they will be protected/hidden at the last minute from “the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 3:10) are deceiving themselves.
Support this end time Philadelphian work, uphold God’s justice, seek righteousness, and seek humility, then it “may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.”
Sincerely,
Bob Thiel
Pastor and Overseer