FRANKLIN  ENTERPRISES                  7th LAW OF SUCCESS SEMINARS: 1335 CHURCH OF GOD                                  MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM                                      11 Cattleya Street, Via 93 Mindanao Ave.                                                     Bahay Toro, QC, 1101                                        Tel.  259-7932    Cel.  0927-4686463                                        E-mail:  [email protected]                                      http://www.geocities.com/franklin_alcopra

                                                                                                                        June 12, 2005

                                                                                                Sunday, 10:00 a.m.

 

 

                 SABBATH LETTER 26:

               Pentecost 2005

           Wisconsin Shooting Rampage Flashback

 

 

Dear Brethren,

 

     Greetings and happy Pentecost to all of you worldwide! It is 10:00 a.m. as I begin to write my Sabbath Letter 26 inside Tropical Hut restaurant in front of Skyland Plaza building. Of course I am looking through its glass wall accross Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., which was formerly the familiar Buendia Street during the old days of the Work of God in the Philippines. In fact the Skyland Plaza building is the modern “resurrection” of the CCC building (Commercial Credit Corporation) where the Information Service of the Church of God in the Philippines officially started.

 

     I had planned to observe Pentecost 2005 with my wife and son – and daughter Dudes who is now married to Chris Pinili – at Philippines’ Women’s Medical Association Hall with the Living Church of God. But this morning, waking up, the first thought that came to my mind was to write my Sabbath Letter 26 in the Skyland Plaza because Pentecost reminds me of God giving power to his servants through the Holy Spirit. Brethren, in trying to organize the 1335 Church of God, it is important that I reestablish an office in the Skyland Plaza for the SHORT WORK of God no matter how difficult that might be. So as we rode the taxi at Mindanao Avenue, QC, I told my wife and son I will take off at the MRT North Station before they proceed to PWMA hall through EDSA, East Ave., and V. Luna road.

 

     Brethren, my topics today is of course about the Holy Spirit as well as the main program of the SHORT WORK of God, which is to blaze the trail of the 1335 Church of God to the Place of Safety in a Teachers Camp at the vicinity of Mt. Nebo and World Economic Forum in Jordan. Just like the grueling, heart-breaking, hope-crushing, and thirst-hunger temptations Israelites experienced for 40 years in the Exodus to the Promise Land, the SHORT WORK of God, likewise, had already experienced among other things 15 years of financial temptations since it formally started in the year 1989!

 

     In Sabbath Letter 4, I wrote: “One of the greatest forms of humility is never worship our own will but God’s will. I can assure you, Brethren, if God shows me that I give up THIS SHORT WORK, I will give it up to whom so ever He chooses before me. However, God is a faithful God. What ever he started with you, he will finish it no matter the odds. Let me quote to you 1Cor. 4:9: ‘For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a SPECTACLE unto the world, and to angels, and to man’. If you will read the whole chapter, Paul is saying the sufferings of the servants of God (not only apostles but also prophets) have something to do with the salvation of man and ANGELS! So take courage, Brethren, when you experience trials like poverty as long as you are RICH in submitting your will to God’s will”.

 

     When I reached the front walkway of Skyland Plaza this morning I watched with nostalgia the hard narra trees that grew in front of Skyland Plaza. I will embed here the pictures of the original office staff in front one of the narra trees that have grown half their sizes since we took the pictures 40 years ago in 1965!

 

     Just to give you a glimpse of how unfriendly forces “in high places” (Ephes. 6:12) worked continuously to prevent me from establishing an office in Skyland Plaza for the SHORT WORK of God, a recollection was brought to mind when I circled Buendia Street to get to this place. I saw the new building beside and before this Tropical Hut, which is labeled and owned by PeoplesSupport. I thought indeed call centers are very progressive business today because one of my clients approved for a bank salary loan is employed at Peoples Support Call Center. Before I saw this new building, I already evaluated their company to be progressive as other call centers I have already encountered judging from their prestigious office in Philamlife Tower at Paseo De Roxas. But yes, watching this new building recalls to mind the “misfortunes” in my SHORT WORK for God. Because while I was beginning to make good income working as a freelance agent for a bank’s Salary Loan Department, circumstances worked out to abruptly curtail my bank salary loan activities. In one short period I accumulated almost 500,000 pesos approved salary loans then I have to temporarily abandon the process. Of course I will get back to it with greater determination in due time.

 

     This last episode after 15 years since 1989 led me to conclude my lot would always be “between the devil and the deep blue sea”— nowhere to go except upwards to the throne of God! I might add if a Christian is determined to face every trial with HUMILITY and THANK God for the OPPORTUNITY to have experienced it, we will make it into his kingdom. I say this, brethren, because I have read many articles in the internet about the Wisconsin Shooting Rampage involving the Living Church of God. I wrote my Sabbath Letter 25 before I knew some of the deeper details of Terry Ratzmann’s life. Reading further details of his life from post mortem analysis of some writers only confirm what I wrote in Sabbath Letter 25. Sometimes God allows us to look unrighteous for various reasons and purposes of God. The final judge of every individual is Jesus Christ alone.

 

     Until recently I could not imagine how I could again fast every Tuesday without fail for 1 whole year like what I did in 1989 as I related in Sabbath Letter 13. But now having been confronted desperately with osteoarthritis, I decided I might as well fast again every Tuesday without fail or compromise until I see the face of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Place of Safety. As of this writing I feel healthier and I might mention, Brethren, that when I fasted every Tuesday for one whole year in 1989 God revealed to me the first and only booklet I wrote and published “Who Are the Laodiceans and Where Is the True Church of God Today?” which is the first thunder of Revelation 10. Not only that but during that year I was fasting every Tuesday, I used to run every morning at the oval of Benguet University in La Trinidad which was just in front of our residence in Betag along the hi-way. Each time I jog in the oval at that time, I close my eyes slightly lifting my face up to the cold wind and imagine Elijah running somewhere recounted in the Books of Kings. I whisper “like when you answered Elijah please give me enough capital to start a family business and to carry on my work for God”. After I finished fasting for 1 year every Tuesday God moved someone to provide me 150,000 pesos capital for a family business. But as I recounted in paragraph 3 of this letter this SHORT WORK of God has already suffered 15 years of financial trials. 

 

     I am editing my Sabbath Letter, Brethren, which I wrote Pentecost, June 12, 2005 and I would like to continue from the sentence ….

 

 

 

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