| I preface my comments by giving credit where | | | | on a Sunday. Instead they observe it on Sivan 6. |
| credit is due, showing a great love and | | | | However the early New Testament Church of |
| appreciation for Raymond F. McNair being blessed | | | | God (like the Sadducees) followed the biblical |
| to serve as one of the pioneers in the Worldwide | | | | command to observe Pentecost by counting 50 |
| Church of God and to have such an active and | | | | days from the Sunday (the "morrow after the |
| important role in the holy Work of fulfilling the | | | | Sabbath") that occurs during the Feast of |
| Great Commission under God's apostle Herbert W. | | | | Unleavened Bread. This means that when |
| Armstrong, serving thousands of brethren over | | | | Pentecost is counted correctly, it always falls on a |
| the years. I want this on record since he is an | | | | Sunday-thus creating tandem Sabbaths. |
| elder and deserving of biblical respect, while I | | | | Furthermore, no biblical or historical sources |
| respectfully and strongly disagree with him on the | | | | indicate that Christ and His apostles had any |
| sacred calendar, as a brother in the Lord. | | | | calendar disputes with the Jews (the Sadducees |
| I am very happy to see Raymond McNair | | | | were then in control of the calendar and the |
| acknowledge the Jews have a God-given | | | | Temple ritual until a short time before the fall of |
| authority to include postponements in the sacred | | | | Jerusalem in 70 A.D!) regarding the calendar that |
| calendar. Some Church of God members reject | | | | they were using in New Testament times. |
| this plain truth and go off the deep end, creating | | | | What a crying shame that Raymond McNair |
| their own calendars in the confusion of a spiritual | | | | refuses to submit to the government of God and |
| anarchy, a Laodicean | | | | hear the Voice of the Shepherd who clearly |
| everybody-decide-for-himself wrong attitude. | | | | stated THE PHARISEES SIT IN MOSES' SEAT - |
| I am grieved to see Raymond McNair assume it's | | | | not the blind Sadducees that some Church |
| the Sadducees God's Church should submit to on | | | | members continue to blindly follow. God has |
| these matters, rather than the Pharisees whom | | | | restored this truth to His Church, and some have |
| Christ clearly supported on these biblical issues of | | | | repented of their vain Church traditions, choosing |
| the sacred calendar. | | | | to get back on track like the early Church that |
| Quotes from Raymond F. McNair's article, "WHAT | | | | followed the correct calculations of the Pharisees, |
| ARE THE "POSTPONEMENTS"? -- | | | | like the Apostle Paul. |
| Modern Jews don't observe Pentecost (Shavout) | | | | |