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Dear Brothers and Sisters in IAUA (ee-ah-oo-ah) our Father,
Greetings on this day of preparation for the weekly Sabbath. I pray this newsletter finds you in good health and happy in the service of IAUA. This is the 20^th day of the 4^th month of God's Sacred Calendar in the estimated year 6014 Anno Mundi.
The yearly Fall Sabbaths begin in 9 weeks and 6 days starting with Trumpets Sabbath the evening of the 1^st day of the 7^th month (Thursday, September 29^th on the 2011 Gregorian Calendar, beginning sunset on Wednesday, September 28^th).
An amazing thing occurs in the Gregorian Calendar years of both 2011 and 2012. Those who follow the Millerite Calendar and the Jewish Calendar agree with what my research, and many others, has determined for the Gregorian Calendar dates of God's Sacred Calendar!
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God has impressed on my mind important thoughts about changes this past couple of weeks in my meditations. There are things we limited human beings cannot change.
²³ Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Jeremiah 13:23
The wording of the verse in the KJV is rhetorical and makes it sound like it should end with a question mark and not a period. The wording of the Contemporary English Version is more straightforward.
²³ Can you ever change and do what's right? Can people change the color of their skin, or can a leopard remove its spots? If so, then maybe you can change and learn to do right.
Jeremiah 13:23
We are not left without hope. What we cannot do, God can.
⁴ And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Zechariah 3:4

²⁰ For our conversation (citizenship) is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
²¹ Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Philipians 3:20-21

There are things man tries to change which cannot be changed.
²⁵ And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Daniel 7:25
The pride and arrogance of man thinks they can change or ignore God's Law. God includes the Law of Moses as His command. His truth will be revealed.
⁷ As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
Hosea 4:7

Lies can distort the truth.
¹⁴ For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Acts 6:14

God has said He does not change His Word.
³⁴ My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psalms 89:34

⁶ For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Malachi 3:6

Outside of God's Word, things change all the time. Life in this confused world filled with sin is in a state of constant change and turmoil. Sometimes this is good, when changes are needed. As you get older, it becomes harder and harder to make changes. It is important to remain flexible and willing to make changes, when they are needed. It is also important to be firm and not shaky, changing only what needs to be changed and not bending with every whim or pressure.
I have made a major change in the formatting of my web site. I am surprised at how hard it was for me to be willing to make this change. I developed a web design style fifteen years ago when the Internet was quite different than it is today. I resolutely resisted all the latest fads and flamboyant styles, which try to make web sites more exciting and flashy.
However, the way the Internet is used has changed significantly and I finally decided I needed to make an adjustment. Fifteen years ago the typical computer screen was 13" or less and the resolution was 640 by 480. Using the entire screen to display a web page was common and appropriate because it was about the width of a page in a book. This was ideal for my web site because it is like a book or a paper.
As the size and resolution of the screen slowly increased, I felt it was best to allow the user to choose the width they wished to display, instead of forcing what I thought was best on them. Others began forcing wide page sizes, multiple columns, small print, and other outrageous design styles, which I considered inappropriate. This resulted in the display of the web page browser often being maximized. My web site would become difficult to read because maximizing resulted in long lines. Shorter lines are easier to read. I did not change because I believed the user could change the width and should be allowed to choose whatever width they wanted.
Today, the typical screen is often four times the size and I have noticed people would maximize and not change the width of the screen, which makes my web site awkward to read and unsightly. Though it was a difficult mental adjustment for me, I have changed to specifying the width of my web site to keep it easy to read.
Email formatting is another issue but I don't want to get too technical so I will leave it at this.
This difficult mindset change in what I do on my web sites was part of what led to my meditations on changes, with religious applications. Web sites are not as critical as the decisions we make, which affect our eternal destiny.
Restraining Spirit of God Being Withdrawn
"The restraining Spirit of God is even now being withdrawn from the world. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and flood, disasters by sea and land, follow each other in quick succession. Science seeks to explain all these. The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause. Men cannot discern the sentinel angels restraining the four winds that they shall not blow until the servants of God are sealed; but when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there shall be such a scene of strife as no pen can picture.--Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 408. {ChS 52.1}
"The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude. The agencies of evil are combining their forces, and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones.--Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 11. {ChS 52.2}
"The time is at hand when there will be sorrow in the world that no human balm can heal. The Spirit of God is being withdrawn. Disasters by sea and by land follow one another in quick succession. How frequently we hear of earthquakes and tornadoes, of destruction by fire and flood, with great loss of life and property! Apparently these calamities are capricious outbreaks of disorganized, unregulated forces of nature, wholly beyond the control of man; but in them all, God's purpose may be read. They are among the agencies by which He seeks to arouse men and women to a sense of their danger.--Prophets and Kings, p. 277. {ChS 52.3}

Will you make changes, when they are needed, or refuse to change?
I pray we may all continue to seek love, peace, and unity in truth preparing for the soon coming of Iaushua (ee-ah-oo-shoo-oh) Messiah, the Son of God.
Frank T. Clark
Eliau@IAUA.name
www.IAUA.name
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