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Sermon: First Day...a
sermon for Trumpets
by Chris Cumming
Today is the Day of Trumpets
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I want to begin by reading from our doctrine on the Annual Holy Days
under the heading, "Spiritual Meaning."
Feast of Trumpets: Trumpets were
an instrument often used to sound the alarm for war. They were also the
instrument of the watchman to arouse the sleeping populace if danger
threatened. This festival represents the preaching of the gospel to the
world by God's faithful watchmen who have the responsibility of arousing
the people from their spiritual slumber (Ezek. 33:1-16). At this point,
God has ceased to let mankind go his own way. The time has come to save
not just a few in His Church, but all peoples—to save man from himself.
Otherwise, man would succeed in destroying himself.
The Day of Trumpets also
symbolizes the resurrection of all who died in Christ and the change of
all who will be living in Christ. This stunning event—the achievement of
eternal life for millions through birth into the Family of God—will
occur simultaneously with the return of Jesus Christ at the last trump.
"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed" (1 Cor. 15:52).
Jewish tradition adds some interesting
parallels. For example, the Day of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) is said to
picture the most important judgment time, when the inhabitants of the
world shall be judged by the Creator. Furthermore, Tishri I was
considered by some Jewish commentators to be the beginning of
Creation—which would create a complete parallelism, since this shall be
fulfilled by the "Day of the Lord," the time of the Creator's physical
return to His creation as Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord and
lords. ~end quote~
So Trumpets pictures the return of Jesus Christ to earth to set up
His government and rule all nations with a rod of iron.
For the last couple of Trumpet Holy Days, we have been establishing and
reminding ourselves that Christ IS the trumpet. That is, He is
represented by the trumpet and all its tangent meanings throughout the
Bible…the voice of a trumpet, the horn of salvation, the horns on the
altar and the horn that held healing anointing oil to mention a few.
What I want to do this year is to take a look into the future that will
begin on the Day of Trumpets.
First the basics and then we will get into specifics.
JESUS CHRIST RETURNS
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144,000 and great multitude sealed.
Rev 7
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Christ
returns.
Matthew 24:29-31;
Mark 13:24-27;
Luke 21:25-28
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Saints
resurrected.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
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Saints
become Spirit beings.
1 Thessalonians 4:17;
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
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Jesus
Christ rules all nations.
Psalm 67:4
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Saints
reign with Christ 1000 years
Revelation 3:21;
5:10;
20:6
SATAN
BOUND 1000 YEARS
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Jesus
Christ binds Satan 1000 years.
Revelation 20:2
NO
MORE WARS
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Men
will beat their swords into plowshares.
Isaiah 2:4;
Micah 4:3
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Man
learns of war no more.
Isaiah 2:4
HEALTH
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All
health restored and all wounds healed.
Jeremiah 30:17
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People
will enjoy great health.
Isaiah 58:8
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Jesus
Christ wipes away all tears.
Revelation 7:17
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The
blind see and the deaf hear.
Isaiah 35:5
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The
crippled healed and the mute shall talk.
Isaiah 35:6
THE
LAND IS CHANGED
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Land
becomes like the garden of Eden.
Ezekiel 36:35
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All
the cities and waste places rebuilt.
Ezekiel 36:9-11;
33-34
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Israel
shall blossom and bud.
Isaiah 27:6
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Deserts will blossom as a rose.
Isaiah 35:1
6-7
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Bumper
crops and world full of fruit.
Leviticus 26:4-5;
Isaiah 27:6
LIFE
IN THE KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST
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There
will be peace throughout the land.
Leviticus 26:6
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Every
person has their own land.
Micah 4:4
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No one
will know fear.
Leviticus 26:6
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Food
and drink will be in abundant supply.
Isaiah 25:6
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No
more wild or predatory animals.
Isaiah 11:6-8
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There
shall be joy, gladness and song.
Isaiah 35:10
PROSPERITY (ECONOMICS)
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No
more taxes; everyone tithes 10%.
Malachi 3:8-10
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Everyone experiences prosperity.
Malachi 3:10
JUSTICE
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The
oppressed experience righteousness and justice.
Psalm 103:6;
97:2
Isaiah 33:22
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Jesus
Christ will give food to hungry and release all prisoners.
Psalm 146:7
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No
more crime; the methods of the wicked put down.
Psalm 146:9
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Widows
and fatherless relieved.
Psalm 146:9
ONE
WORLD LANGUAGE
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Jesus
will teach everyone one pure language.
Zephaniah 3:9
ONE
CHURCH
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Sabbath kept by everyone.
Isaiah 66:23
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Feast
of Tabernacles kept every year by all nations.
Zechariah 14:16
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God’s
knowledge covers the earth.
Isaiah 11:9
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Church
teaching ways of Jesus Christ.
Micah 4:1-2,
5
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Commandments kept by everyone.
Revelation 21:7;
22:14
THE
SECOND RESURRECTION
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Everyone who ever lived resurrected.
Revelation 20:5
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Everyone learns absolute truth of God.
Psalm 19:7-10
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Everyone given opportunity at eternal life.
Revelation 22:14,17;
20:12
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Death
and the grave are no more.
Revelation 20:14
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Jesus
will deliver the Kingdom to His Father.
1 Corinthian 15:24
NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH
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God
provides new heavens and new earth.
Revelation 21:1
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There
are no more oceans.
Revelation 21:1
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A new
Jerusalem descends from heaven.
Revelation 21:2
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Description (river of life, tree of life).
Revelation 22:1-5
All this is the basic information and we are familiar with the timeline.
Now lets go through the specifics. The reason for this is simply to
excite you and have you longing for the Kingdom.
Clearly some of what I say here will be under the heading of speculation
as we do not have a “thus saith the Lord” for everything I have on this
list, but most are here because of Spirit-driven logic.
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Government |
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No human in any
government position
No voting
No political
parties
No kings, queens,
prime ministers, presidents or dictators. No cabinets.
No Congress, no
House of Representatives, no Senate.
No supreme court,
no court system, no judges, no court rooms
No governors or
mayors or state governments
No social
security system or numbers
No trade deficits
No National debt and no deficit spending |
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Government Agencies -the numbers represent
how many departments within this agency. |
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No Dept of
Agriculture (57) including food safety & environment
No Dept of Commerce (59)
including the patent office
No Dept of
Defense (185) –army, navy, air force, missiles
No Dept of
Education (27)
No Dept of Energy
(80) –all nuclear facilities
No Dept of Health
& Human Services (81)—Food & Drug, Disease control
No Dept of
Homeland Security (21) –Border control, Coast Guard
No Dept of
Housing & Urban Development (26)
No Dept of
Justice (55) –prisons, Attorney General
No Dept of Labor
(28)
No Dept of State
(43)
No Department of
Transportation (26) --FAA, Federal Highway Admin
No Department of
Veterans Affairs (23) –no veterans or vet hospitals
No Department of
the Interior (85) --Indian affairs, Bureau of Land Mgt
No Department of
the Treasury (21) --IRS, taxes
No Social
Security Administration – Central Office,
10 regional offices, 8 processing centers,
approximately 1300 field offices, and 37 Teleservice Centers.
65,000 people employed.
No emigration
No health care
plans or programs |
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Military |
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No Army, Navy,
Marines, Air Force
No military bases
No Wars
No Guards
No weapons of
war----bombers, tanks, jeeps, PCs, artillery, rifles,
etc.
No Delta forces
or special forces
No landmines
covering the earth |
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Infrastructure - The basic facilities, services,
and installations needed for the functioning of a community or
society, such as transportation and communications systems,
water and power lines, and public institutions including
schools, post offices, and prisons. |
No freeway systems
No parking lots
No giant highway
and road systems---though there will be some roads.
No alleys
No bridges
No tunnels
No
pipelines---oil, gas, water
No telephone
poles or giant power transfer structures
No dams
No sewer systems,
no septic tanks, no sewage treatment plants
No police or
police stations, prisons or jails
No fires or fire
stations
No post offices
and no mail, as we know it. |
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No strip malls,
shopping malls, shopping centers.
No buildings over
3 or 4 stories and possibly not over 1
No parking meters
No schools,
colleges, universities, city libraries, trade schools
No power grids or
hydro-electric power systems
No water systems
or water towers
No nuclear power
plants
No fences, walled
neighborhoods or property markers
No zoos,
aquariums, sea worlds, circuses
No petting zoos
or anything where animals penned.
No hospitals,
clinics or first aid—ambulances
No garbage cans,
garbage collection, as we know it, no landfills.
No ditches and
other water drainage systems
No cemeteries,
funeral homes, morgues
No real estate
industries---buying of land as we know it. Mortgages
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Financial systems |
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No banks, no
banking systems
No investment
firms
No money as we
know it now. WT booklet feels there is some kind.
No stock markets
No bond markets
No commodity
markets
No savings and
loan banks
No lending or
borrowing
No financial
instruments
No use of silver
and gold as money or investment commodity
WT booklet speaks of a gold standard but I am not sure.
No
interest---usury |
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City Design |
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No large cities
No tall
buildings—3-4 stories and possibly only 1
No block layouts
as we are used to, which are based on transportation
No zoning as we
know it. Industrial and commercial zones GREATLY reduced.
No city
parks-----whole city is park-like
City placement
will not be based on resource or transportation necessity
Bible speaks of
“building the waste places” but there is no indication that we
replace cities exactly as they were. More of a general
statement. |
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Transportation |
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No cars, trucks,
cabs, buses, motorcycles,
No trains,
tracks, stations
No airplanes, no
airports, airlines, hangers
No ships, docks,
cargo containers,
No subways
All industry that
makes, repairs and maintains these things all gone.
No mass
transportation |
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Sports |
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No professional
football, baseball, basketball, soccer, rugby
No horse racing,
race tracks, betting
No casinos or
anything like Las Vegas
No car racing of
any kind
No motocross
No professional
golf, tennis, chess, rodeo, pool, billiards, fencing, body
building, figure skating, swimming, martial arts, or weigh
lifting. |
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Resources |
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No mines,
including open-pit mines
No forest
industry, clear cutting, lumber mills
No resource
gathering as we see it today
No oil or oil
drilling or oil fields
No fisheries as
we see them today----all unclean fisheries gone. |
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Institutions |
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No labor unions
No secret
organizations
No trade unions
No exclusive
clubs or fraternities --skull & bones, Bohemian Grove
No research
institutions
No scientific
institutions
No Red Cross
No Humanitarian
institutions
No Human, animal
or plant’s rights institutions
No Greenpeace or
environmental groups |
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Industries-general |
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No insurance
companies
No large
industries
No assembly lines
No food
processing plants
No manufacturing
plants for anything
No outsourcing
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Industries—employment – which do you think will remain? |
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1. Wal-Mart
1,800,000 Employees
2. McDonald's
447,000
3. United Parcel
Service 407,000
4. Sears
Holdings 355,000
5. Home Depot
345,000
6.
Target 337,000
7. IBM 329,373
8. General
Motors 327,000
9. General
Electric 316,000
10. Citigroup
--investments 303,000
11. Ford Motor
300,000
12. Kroger
289,000
13. Albertson's
240,000
14. United
Technologies 222,200
15. Verizon
Communications 217,000
16. FedEx
215,838
17. Safeway
201,000
18. Altria Group
-cigarettes 199,000
19. Aramark - food
management services 195,000
20. Berkshire
Hathaway -insurance 192,012
21. AT&T
189,950
22. Delphi
–electrical systems for cars, boats, etc. 185,200
23. Bank of
America 176,638
24. JP Morgan
Chase 168,847
25. Yum Brands
-restaurants 165,920
26. HCA Hospital
Corporation of America 165,450
27. Lowe's
164,794
28. PepsiCo
157,000
29. Walgreen
155,200
30. Wells Fargo
153,500
31. Boeing
153,000
32. Darden
Restaurants 150,100
33.
Hewlett-Packard 150,000
34. Gap 150,000
35. JC Penney
150,000
36. Starwood
Hotels and Resorts 145,000
37. Marriott
International 143,000
38. Sara Lee
137,000
39. Lockheed
Martin 135,000
40. Walt
Disney 133,000
41. Alcoa
aluminum 129,000
42. Northrop
Grumman -airplanes, ships, subs 123,600
43. Electronic
Data Systems 117,000
44. Honeywell -
aircraft engines & parts, thermostats, home security
116,000
45. Johnson &
Johnson pharmaceutical & medical 115,600
46. Lear – auto
interiors 115,113
47. Starbucks
115,000
48. Emerson
Electric 114,200
49. CVS –drug
stories 114,000
50. Tyson
Foods 114,000 |
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11,539,535 total jobs |
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Employment---top 25 jobs of 2005-2009 |
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Personal finance
adviser
Medical scientist
Computer software
engineer
Chiropractor
Environmental
engineer
Biochemist and
biophysicist
Sales manager
Epidemiologist
Computer system
analyst
Athlete
Agent and
business manager for artists, performers, and athletes
Marketing manager
Producer and
director
Actor
Lawyer
Advertising and
promotions manager
Management
analyst
Postsecondary
education administrator
Financial manager
Actuary
Airline pilot,
copilot, and flight engineer
Geoscientist
Market research
analyst
Securities sales
agent
Medical and
health services manager |
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Employment: Highest paying jobs --which
do you think will be eliminated? |
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Surgeons
Anesthesiologists
Obstetricians and
Gynecologists
Oral Surgeons
Doctors of all
kinds
Psychiatrists
Chief executives
Airline pilots
Dentists
Lawyers
Engineering
Air traffic
controllers
Computer
information system managers
Marketing
managers
Natural sciences
managers
Sales managers
Astronomers
Law Teachers
Optometrists |
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Technology---technology is a state of the mind depending
on where you are now. Do not apply state of the art technology
to the World Tomorrow. Witness Star Trek in multiple centuries. |
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No TV, radio,
computers, electronic gizmos.
No NASA or space
programs as we know it
No video games,
game boys, or other such technology |
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Communication and Information Science |
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No phones or
telegraph
No competing
newspapers
No competing news
networks
No Internet as we
know it.
No magazines
No blogs
No debates
No mail systems
No e-mail
No marketing
No advertising,
no billboards, no junk mail, no spam |
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Socially |
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No race problems
No class system
No poverty
No rich
class---everyone is prosperous
No exclusive
groups or clubs or fraternities
No culture wars
No religion or
language problems
No crime, riots,
causes
No slaves or
bondservants
No retirement,
rest homes, or aging, as we know it.
No gangs |
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Food |
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No food
plants---no food processing
No food marketing
No food regulation
No chain food
stores
No super markets
No organic food
marts as all food will be perfect
No food
preparation that is unhealthy---deep fat frying, etc.
No unhealthy food
dishes, preparation
No wholesaling,
massive distribution, transportation
No brand names,
product names or food packaging
No chemicals,
colorings, additives or preservatives
No agrichemicals
or anything to do with hybrid plant production
No
slaughterhouses, rendering plants, feed lots, chicken mills.
No warehousing of
food as we see it today---freezing
No canning plants
or canned and bottled foods as we see today
No high calories
foods----no sodas----no junk food. |
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Pastimes |
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No dangerous
situations—bungee jumping, sky diving, hang-gliding, BASE
jumping
No hunting
No competitive
endeavors for the most part
No board games
Nothing that is
deemed a waste of time
No swimming pools |
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Items I am not sure about: |
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Music:
application and types
Lodging: Hotels,
inns
Resorts
Convention sites
Libraries—in some
form---probably paperless
Audio-Visual:
application and types. Visions?
Recreation: types
and applications—hiking, camping
Exercise: type
and application
County
Fairs---maybe some modified form without competition, sales, or
wild rides.
Tourism
Olympics—clearly
not as it is today. I am leaning toward there not being any in
any form.
Art—forms,
composition, subjects |
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Items I am pretty sure about |
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Agrarian
culture----equal distribution of land for farming
Thomas Jefferson, the patron of American agrarianism, wrote in
his Notes on Virginia (1785), "Those who labor in the earth are
the chosen people of God.
Farming has a
spiritual dimension that generates many virtues, among them
self-reliance, moral integrity, and honor, because direct
contact with nature leads to a meaningful relationship with God.
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Economy: One
based on mutual giving rather than profit.
World trade limited or non-existent.
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Education:
Massively different and most direct from God through spirit
beings.
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Craftsman
culture: Everything made by hand and built to last
indefinitely.
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Goal of world: to
prepare for 2nd Resurrection.
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Everyone in
Salvation Process
---spiritual maturity—turn to spirit
---fall away—lake of fire immediately.
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Water, air, earth
and food pure and pollution free
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Everything
provided by God including energy, resources and transportation.
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All land reclaimed
for cultivation
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All people healed |
So all this is just a glimpse into the Kingdom of God and what it will
be like that first thousand years that will begin on this day of
Trumpets.
I want to leave you with a thought on Trumpets as found in our doctrine
on the Holy Days and speaking to the Day of Trumpets…
”Tishri
I was considered by some Jewish commentators to be the beginning of
Creation—which would create a complete parallelism, since this shall be
fulfilled by the "Day of the Lord," the time of the Creator's physical
return to His creation as Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord and
lords.”
Let us all be there on the First Day. |
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