171: Tom Graham – Exhortation: The Joy of the Kingdom

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Hello and welcome back to
another talk.

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This past week, brother Tom
Graham from the Thousand Oaks

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cliche fell asleep in Christ,
brother.

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Tom had been a member of
several, Southern California

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closures, over the years but
what many of you listening to

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may know him for especially
those of us in North America,

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the know him and his wife Nene
for was their tireless work in

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distributing books to
christadelphians throughout

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North America, he maintained a
library of books and if you

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needed any particular
christadelphians Book he was

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your go-to person throughout
most of North America to get a

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copy of that book beyond his
love of books and sharing them

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with everyone who needed them,
brother, Tom loved prophecy and

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current events.
He would give a weekly current

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events class at his Ecclesia in
Thousand Oaks every Sunday.

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He came behind even the Sunday
prior to when he fell asleep

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because of his love of Prophecy
and the hope and the vision that

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he had of the king.
Do it felt appropriate to share

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this excitation by Brother Tom.
The last one that he gave back

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in August of 2021 where you
could feel the passion and

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eagerness that he felt for the
coming Kingdom.

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That passion and vision of the
Kingdom, reminds us all of the

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joy that awaits us when Jesus
returns and was a driving force

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in Tom’s life.
We hope that this excitation

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will ignite a spark in you that
will burn just as brightly as

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the one that did and brother,
Tom and pray that his sleep will

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be short it over.
Now, to brother, Tom for his

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exhortation on the hope of the
Kingdom morning with the getting

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my new brothers and sisters in
the Lord.

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Jesus Christ.
We have to realize what a

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privilege it is to be called the
Brethren and Sisters of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
That really puts us in a

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category when we think about it
them, no equal, no equal on this

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Earth.
Never has been equal on this

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Earth to be amongst the
Brotherhood of Christ Brethren

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and Sisters of the Lord.
Jesus Christ.

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There are many, many so-called
brotherhood’s in the world

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around us today aren’t are like
those of a labor union.

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They call themselves the
Brotherhood and social

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organizations called themselves
A brotherhood, but None of these

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hold a candle.
To the Brotherhood of Christ.

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What a privilege benz’s history
Department Brotherhood that will

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rule the world throughout
eternity with the kingdom of

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God.
We dare not take this

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Association.
We have with the multitudinous

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Christ.
Granted.

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Hopefully.
Those in this room and our

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Brotherhood will be those that
we will live together with, for

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forever throughout eternity,
really get used to each other,

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huh?
This is it.

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What a glorious Prospect
brothers and sisters is coming

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soon.
It’s just what is coming soon

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that we want to take a look at
this morning?

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Proverbs 29.
Solomon says, where there is no

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vision.
The people perish.

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But he that keepeth the law.
Happy is he?

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Solomon is giving his advice
here will for us to heed.

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The word in the Hebrew here for
Parish actually, can be

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translated unrestrained.
The idea, the problem is that,

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without any Vision, the plan and
purpose of God, mankind would

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just go on unrestrained
following the ways of the flesh.

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If he has a vision of that plan
of God and encourages, it

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encourages us all to keep that
law, they keep that Vision to

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keep those Commandments.
And he’s goes on, says, happy as

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she or has the word in the
Hebrew often is translated.

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Blessed, is he It keeps this
vision.

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It means that we might take a
look at this morning brothers

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and sisters.
Our vision of the kingdom of

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God.
To begin with our poor.

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First, portion of radium Kings.
10 is taking us to the story of

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Solomon and his temple in a way
kind of a sequel to it.

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Brother, Jimmy brought forth to
his last nine days.

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We talked about Solomon’s
kingdom being a type of the

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kingdom of God on earth when
Christ returns.

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We see there’s a Queen of Sheba
visit Solomon here in this 10th

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chapter and note her remarks.
As we start in verse 4, there is

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mention stands by the killer red
Force this morning.

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It was a Queen of Sheba had seen
Nolan Solomon’s wisdom in the

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house.
He had built and the meat of his

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table and sitting of his
servants, and the attendance of

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his ministers and their apparel
is cupbearers and his dissent by

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which he went up to the house of
the Lord.

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There was no more spirit in her
and she said to the king, it was

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true report that I heard in
mine.

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Own land of my accent, I wisdom,
you know, being I believe not

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two words until I came.
His, which may arise.

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Seaman Behold a half was not
told me the wisdom and

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prosperity, nine, wisdom and
prosperity exceeded the fame.

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Which I heard happier though,
I’m in happier, these thy

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servants, which stand
continually before thee, that

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hear thy wisdom, She took a look
at Solomon’s kingdom, it was

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speechless.
She had come into a land and she

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had frequent it before.
There’s no new to her.

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Jesus.
Wow, this is quite a place.

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You got quite a thing going or
stolen.

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This reminds us of Paul’s words,
doesn’t it in the Corinthians

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where he says in 2nd
Corinthians, but as it is

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written eye hath, Not Seen Nor
Ear heard, neither have entered

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into the heart of man, the
things which God hath prepared

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for those that love him.
I think this will be our similar

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response to.
We get to the kingdom.

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We witness the things of the
Kingdom for the first time just

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as Paul when he was caught up
into the third heaven, he says

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how that he was caught up into a
paradise, heard unspeakable

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Words, which is not lawful for a
man to utter.

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He could not put into words.
Those things that he witnessed

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as he saw a glimpse of that
Kingdom to come.

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This view of Solomon’s kingdom
which existed, literally about

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3,000 years ago, was a
remarkable experiments

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experience for someone who had
lived at that time.

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As we see the remarks from the
Queen of Sheba.

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But we need to understand is
that this Kingdom described here

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is the fact that he really had
type of the kingdom of God, that

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will be set up by the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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When he returned And Reigns for
a thousand years.

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This is a Biblical glimpse of
partly of what our vision of the

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future kingdom of God.
Can be like starting at first

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one, first Kings 10.
He notices Solomon, who was the

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type of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Of course, in this mini pair of

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was visited by the commune of
Shiva Shiva.

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And we learn from our biblical
studies is an ancient country,

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which is where Saudi Arabia and
the other water Arab nations are

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this day.
His arms. 72 verse 10, it says,

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the kings of tarshish from the
Isles, shall bring presents the

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kings of Sheba and see if I
shall offer gifts, and this is

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what she did.
In the time of Solomon, she gave

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the king a hundred and twenty
tons of gold spices.

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A very great store precious
stones.

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There came no more such
abundance of spices as these

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which the Queen of Sheba gave to
King Solomon.

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So I’ve written of the Kingdom
begins with the moderate Arabs,

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bringing gifts to the king to
Solomon here.

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Some 3,000 years ago and to the
Lord Jesus Christ when he

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returns.
And since of the Kingdom Another

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good prediction of this command
is found in Isaiah chapter, 60,

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verse 6.
It says the multitudes of camels

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who cover Thee, the dromedaries
of Midian he found there are

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there from Sheba.
They from Sheba shall come,

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she’ll bring gold and incense.
And they shall show forth the

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Praises of Yahweh.
Not only this point for of

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course, to the moderate Arabs,
recognizing the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
Came of age and also shows the

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acceptance of the Arabs to the
rulership of the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
As he begins to rule over the

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entire Earth.
I think will be amazed at that

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time, brothers and sisters.
We look at the wonders of the

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beauties of the Kingdom.
We hope to inherit in.

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Remember all the little things
that were prophesied, that will

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see come to pass in that Kingdom
age.

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Look at verse 9 + B, Yahweh thy
God, which delighted the knee to

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set the on the throne of Israel,
because the Lord loved Israel

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forever.
Therefore, he made me King to do

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judgment and Justice.
So, we look for a kingdom, of

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course, to be established in and
Israel with Jerusalem to be the

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capital, but will witness the
nation of Israel.

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Becoming the first Dominion of
all the Earth.

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The Earth being filled with
judgment and Justice verse 12.

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And the King made the almond
trees pillars for the house of

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the Lord for the King’s house
Harps.

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Also it’s all trees for singers
became known as such all my

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trees nor seen in this day since
installment and I built the

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temple from the materials that
they even helped gather together

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before his death.
The latter days to almond will

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see a temple that Directed for
the Nations to come in, to

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worship the creator of Heaven
and Earth all the nation.

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Verse 13, we read and King
Solomon.

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Gaiman of the Queen of Sheba.
All her desire was there she

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asked me say that once told me
gave her of his Royal Bounty,

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she turned and went to her own
country, she in her sermons.

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The type here was what is the
desire and Royal Bounty of the

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Lord, Jesus Christ will give to
The Mortals in the Kingdom age.

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The word desire, your can be
translated as food, pleasure.

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Good pleasure.
We find in Philippians 2:13 for

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it is God which worketh in you
both to Will and to do of his

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good pleasure.
God wants to give us good

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pleasure.
And what we deserve to do those,

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who would follow his
Commandments in the beginning of

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the Kiev, atleast even the more
population will be converted to

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righteousness and we’ll be
walking in Justice and equity

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and received the beauties of the
Kingdom age.

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Verse 27, the king made silver
to be in Jerusalem is stones and

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Cedars making to be a sycamore
trees that are in the vale or

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Independence.
So of course, symbolizes

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righteousness in the scriptures,
doesn’t it?

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We’re all aware of that.
What a wonderful place.

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This Earth will be if
righteousness is so abundant in

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this Kingdom, it will be as
common as Stone.

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Not when we experience today.
Rogers is far more rare than

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silver is today.
That’s for sure.

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We need only to look at the news
each day around us to see all

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the things that are going on in
our society or the shootings

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that killings of fraud the day
cyber fraud.

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This is so abundant none of us
can trust anything.

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We see everything we hear from
the world around us, because

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fellow men are so much pretty
hot, untruths and wrong wrong

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messages, things meant to
deceive us.

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Things meant to Bilk us.
Things been to steal from us.

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That’s so in the Kingdom age for
the sister righteousness, will

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be the prevailing atmosphere
atmosphere, and this is what we

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must keep in mind, as we live
our lives.

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Today, there are great and
wonderful things in store for

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those who love God, looking to
mate is indeed something works

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writing for isn’t it?
it’s worth striving for the day

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when God and his son will set in
the rule worship of the nation,

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not rulers of the Courts of the
land.

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The day when good guys were
ruled godliness will be the norm

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in our society.
What a beautiful hope we have

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brothers and sisters and where
else can we turn in scripture to

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get a glimpse done?
This Kingdom age about this

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magnificent Cayman is about to
come to this earth.

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Isaiah chapter 65, gives us some
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Doesn’t it starting in verse 17?
For behold.

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I create new Heavens, new Earth.
The former shall not be

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remembered or come into mind.
Go be a glad and rejoice forever

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met, which I create for behold.
I create Jerusalem and rejoicing

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her people that Joy rejoice and
reduce them drawer, and my

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people, the voice of weeping
shall no more be heard in her

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brother voice of crying.
There shall be no sense of

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infant of days.
You’re an old man which have not

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filled his days with the Alice
who died 100 years old because

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it’s thinner being 100 years
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So be accursed and they shall
build houses and inhabit them.

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And they shall plant Vineyards
and each of fruit from them and

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shall not build an another
inhabitant, they should not

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planted another eat for the day
that of a tree are the days of

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my people might election long.
Enjoy the work of their hands.

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They shall not labor, in vain
for bring forth trouble for

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their the seed of the Blessed of
the Lord.

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And Their offspring with them,
and should come to class before

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they call?
I will answer.

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Well, they are speaking.
I will hear the wolf and the

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lamb shall feed together.
The lion shall eat straw like

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the Bullock and dust shall be
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They shall not hurt, nor destroy
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So taking a close in-depth.
Look at those verses.

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We get the idea of a quite
marvelous place.

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This kingdom is going to be
like, The government of this

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Earth will be completely
replaced by a righteous perfect

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God-fearing government this
alone.

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When we think about it, would be
enough to change our lives today

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in the society, in which we
live, if nothing else were

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changed, but sad, Political
systems that rule our world

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today are so corrupt.
And we’ve been in such as our

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living, if one, if not the least
corrupt of the government’s ever

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to exist on the Earth.
And yet, look at what a mess.

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Here’s an excerpt from an
article dealing with someone in

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the world.
But our society today their

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opinion Say one question has
haunted me while researching

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this essay or we’re living
through a pivot or a decline.

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In other words is our society.
Just going through a change in

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going on, or is our society
really going down down there

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during past moral convulsions,
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They built new, cultures and
institutions initiated new

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reformed and renew.
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of greatness.
I spent my career be budding.

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The idea that America is in
Decline with the events of these

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last six years, especially of
2020.

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It made it clear that we live in
a broken Nation, the cancer of

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distrust has spread to every
vital organ renewal is hard to

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imagine.
Instruction, is everywhere and

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construction difficult to see
The the problem goes beyond

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Donald Trump.
The stench of national decline

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is in the air of political
social and moral order is

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dissolving America, lowly
remain, ho if she can build a

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new order in its place, And you
think America can build a new

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order and its place.
Course, we know brothers and

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sisters there.
Our society will not, and cannot

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build a new order of any time of
any kind of the terms of the

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Lord Jesus Christ, you will not
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So the question comes back to
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Will we do so on our oh and than
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I was throwing certain is our
vision in the future.

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We’re told here in Isaiah 65 and
the voice of weeping feel no

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more be heard in her in the
really be in time.

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Coming in the world is so full
of joy that there really will be

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no more sadness.
No more weeping.

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Note, the occurrence is MM, the
word.

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Joy here in the 65th chapter
verse 13, my people shall

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rejoice, verse 14, by certain
showroom, for Troy Verse 18,

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Rejoice forever and that much I
create for st.

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E her people.
Enjoy verse 19.

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Our joists in Jerusalem verse
19, joy.

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And my people.
This is what we have to look

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forward to, right?
This is just a time of pure joy

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and rejoicing unlikely.
Anything we can see in our

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society, we clamor for a few
moments of happiness.

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And then that’ll be every day
will be the norm.

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Joy and rejoicing.
Death itself, which has really

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been brought home to US during
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The meds and shows us how
fragile Life as we know it is.

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Drunken said, a little pandemic
to our society, it turns

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everything upside down, Hey,
everything’s turned upside down.

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And the bug man has conceived.
Especially the drape, the three

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running older people now,
because of the reluctance to

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vaccinate were told it’s
spreading to younger Generations

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as well. but not so in the
Kingdom age, someone dies at

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home years old Toby as if he
were a child.

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What a difference?
No more coyotes running around,

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it never know.
Neighborhood Animals.

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Epidemic in our MLA of that
right now, animals will

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definitely benefit from this
time.

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What day it is, we read verse
25, the wolf, and the lamb shall

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feed together.
Lion shall eat straw, like the

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bully.
They will be tamed.

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Your food will evidently
consists of other things than

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other animals, as it is supposed
to come today.

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The law of Moses taught an eye
for an eye, and a tooth for a

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tooth.
The top that you did something

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to someone else, then you
deserve to have it happen back

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to you. and even love Christ in
a way with that concept with

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place, but ionized, Place the
eye for an eye perspective, my

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during the other cheek and
forgiveness, it’s a heart of

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Christianity.
Society has not bought that

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perspective at all as it.
But it will in the Kingdom age

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brothers and sisters with
Christ.

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As the king things will be done
his way throughout the Earth.

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Just imagine living in a society
that is fair and just, and

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righteousness. we were all still
mortal a great that would be if

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everything was fair and just the
righteous Everyone was kind

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thoughtful, generous forgiving.
Would be as though the glory of

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the Lord filled the Earth today.
Wouldn’t that could be

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happening.
And just listing those glories

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that are found in Exodus 34
about the glory of the Lord.

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Mercy graciousness.
Long-suffering abundant in

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goodness truth, keeping Mercy
for thousands.

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Forgiving iniquity transgression
and sin.

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This is what it’ll be like the
glory of the Lord fills the

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Earth.
This is what’s in store for us,

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brothers and sisters.
This is the vision that we need

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to keep in front of us at all
times.

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His vision of that beautiful
kingdoms going to come for the

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Roberts, wrote A booklet
entitled.

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The final consolation in this
booklet, gives his vision in the

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Kingdom of you’d like to
paraphrase a little bit of his

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remarks from at Brooklyn this
morning.

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He’s just come to the land of
promise and the day of Glory, as

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we are now a close with
immortality, which is not easily

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fatigued that burden with the
infirmities.

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Mmm, not with eyes soon, dimmed
or power soon spin.

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Come on.
You can step joyously and

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lightly upon the Earth in the
freedom of spirit nature, behold

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the unfolded love and wisdom and
glory of God ever.

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Thought is one of joy.
Every movement, one of pleasure,

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every breath expression of
praise to him and sits on the

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throne, come to the city that
has been prepared whose

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Foundation maker and Builder is
God.

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God has filled his people and
made her Wilderness like Eden

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for Desert.
Like the garden of the Lord, the

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hills of Judea are clad in
vegetation or valleys are filled

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with Vineyards, fruits, flowers,
corn and wine.

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The air is clear and clean and
fill the pleasant orders.

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Nearby are Pleasant Homestead
standing at each of their own

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plot.
Neatly trimmed will kept it.

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Come to Jerusalem.
Near the temple situated on top

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of a hill off in the distance.
The exact City plans, the square

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of perfect proportion of them
laid out to accommodate the

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precise requirements through
sacrifice and worship.

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When we approached the city, we
only see the huge South Wall

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which stretches as far as we can
see upon, entering, one of the

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city Gates.
We see a city laid out in

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perfect symmetry, the streets
are straight and wide and

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shallow.
Shade of a tree, you notice that

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there are many people inside who
have come to the city, to pay,

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homage to the king.
There’s an immense number of

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people there.
But the city’s so large that

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does not appear crowded with her
demeanors different than we’ve

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ever seen in a large city
before.

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They’re also quite so peaceful,
so cheerful, so orderly, so

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respectful, these are a few of
the happy subjects of the

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kingdom of God.
Eventually a magnificent Highway

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which runs toward the temples
from 30 miles away.

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The highway is bordered by trees
and grass.

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Lawns of states that are
occupied by the Levites who

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serve that have home, the
country becomes more magnificent

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than we travel alone with Avenue
shooting off the returning to

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the main road.
Again running through with the

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areas of solitude and Beauty.
No darkness is there.

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No walls?
No fences.

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No one is at Liberty to pick up.
Everyone is at Liberty to pick a

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piece of fruit from the trees
line.

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The way along the streams of
water, then we hear the sound of

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music playing off in the
distance, being sung by a dozen

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people, and they are singing
songs of praise to our Heavenly

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Father.
We draw closer to them and learn

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that they are.
Those that have been in the

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grave, for hundreds of years, we
ask who they are.

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And one says, well, you, yes,
Graham, Legit On The Run, who

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wrote hundreds of songs King
David wonderful.

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Here, we sing a few songs
together.

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So we joined in with the chorus
led by David, what a blending of

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liquid Milanese, what a delight
this is because we were about to

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depart.
We continue on our journey,

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David asks where hidden we have
no particular destination So He

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suggests we spend the night at
Abraham’s Palace Some 20 miles

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off yet.
As we use our Angelic mode of

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transportation, by a simple fact
that will Air immediately at the

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palace, the neighborhood.
And when we arrived there, we

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meet Jonathan ASAP.
Nathan Raya Pesci, women.

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Many others of David’s friends
when he was in the flesh.

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And we are led to a large dinner
table, where a great meal of

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invited for us, not to sustain
our Immortal bodies.

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But to enjoy the pleasure of the
feast in the company of saints

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around us, including Moses,
Joshua follow, many others.

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And all of a sudden, the room is
lit up with brightness as the

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sun of righteousness appears in
all his glory.

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Not a glaringly the subdued
light full of war with joy.

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He lifted his eyes and looked
all around and said it is

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written that in the midst of my
brethren, when I sing praise.

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Now, praise our god.
Oh, you just serve the whole

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assembly then joined together
and saying, Thou Art, Worthy for

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thou Wast slain has redeemed.
His to God by thy blood out of

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every Kindred tongue people and
Nation Worthy is the Lamb that

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was slain to receive power, and
riches, wisdom and strength,

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honor or a blessing.
Blessing and honor and glory,

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and power, be unto him and sit
upon the throne, and by the lamb

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forever and ever.
The kingdoms of this world are

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become the kingdoms of our Lord,
and of his Christ and he shall

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reign forever.
And ever, as the end of brother

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Robert has remarks.
So, just how important is it for

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us to have a vision of the
future?

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Is it really that important
brothers and sisters?

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Look at Hebrews 12:2.
Looking unto Jesus, the author

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and finisher of our faith.
Who for the joy, that was set

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before him.
Endured the cross despising.

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The shame sat down at the right
hand of the Throne of God, We

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are able to see that the joy
that was set before the Lord.

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Jesus Christ, The Vision that he
had of their keep coming.

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Kingdom is what drove him to be,
who he was the joy set before

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him.
Look what he went through

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brothers and sisters.
The suffering embarrassment.

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Shame torturing and because of
the joy of the Kingdom, he was

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able to endure that if he could
endure that How much more can we

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enjoy?
The things that were put through

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in our life?
If we have that Joy set before

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us?
It’s the beauty of the can.

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The brother Roberts was just
give us a glimpse of here in his

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book.
The Loud him not only to die for

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us but to suffer bread.
Just imagine how our Master New

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Years in advance.
What was going to happen.

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Do this.
And then this happened to all of

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us, all of a sudden here, we are
crucifying me from your either

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about this years in advance.
You knew what he’s going to go

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through.
How many of us could do that

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Brothers?
There’s how many of us could

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keep the joy of the key?
And so strong, that those things

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didn’t affect our perspectives
and our responsibility is having

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a father, imagine is going over
and over in his mind Through The

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Years, what he did for us is
unbelievable.

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If this kind of vision could
allow him do what he suffered.

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He was what he dealt with how
much more should help us.

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The kingdom of the Lord.
Jesus Christ has promised as

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his, a perfect kingdom was a
perfect King, the perfect set of

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laws for the perfect government
and filled with perfect people.

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This is the joy we have before
us assist comparison that we

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have around us today system
unrighteous through the

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unrighteous subjects,
unrighteous laws.

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How can we not seek first?
The kingdom of God, there’s no

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comparison is there?
Well, you know, come to remember

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him, who was able to give his
very life for us as he focused

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on that joy of the kingdom and
was able to overcome all things?

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Let us give our deepest.
Thanks giving to the one that

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did this brothers and sisters.
Follow his example, he gave me

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the joy of the Kingdom for our
eyes or he’s keeping in mind.

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The probably over with this
morning for there’s no vision.

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The people perish.
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