291: Dick Patterson – Exhortation: Without A Vision, The People Perish

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Welcome to Good Chris Selfie and
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Hello, welcome back.
This is Brother Chris.

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As we have mentioned a few
times, I have been working on

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digitizing some cassette tapes
that I have been gathering and

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recently I’ve been going through
several of them that were

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recordings of memorial services
that have been given over the

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years at the Los Angeles
Ecclesia.

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This particular exhortation
comes from that kind of store of

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tapes that I’ve been working
through.

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This is an exhortation that was
given by Brother Dick Patterson

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in December 5th of 1999, so just
before the turn of the

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millennia.
I mentioned that specifically

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because Brother Dick mentions
multiple times in his

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exhortation that they were 26
days away from the start of the

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new millennia.
And the focus of his exhortation

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is the reminder that at the turn
of the millennia is the time

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when you could be seen the
return of Christ coming sometime

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in this millennia, when it
started at the end of 1999,

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going into 2000.
For context, Brother Dick is

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basing his expectation and
pulling a lot from Micah Chapter

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4.
So if you wanna look through

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that before listening to the
exhort itself, feel free to

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pause and and go do that.
But what Brother Dick is pulling

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from and looking at is just a
reminder of the importance of

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having a vision, an idea of what
the Kingdom is and what it’s

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going to be like.
Several of the things he talks

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about are his own speculation on
what the Kingdom could be like.

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But I find that to be
interesting, ’cause I feel like

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one of the beauties of the
vision of the Kingdom is we want

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it to be personal and something
that makes you personally

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excited about being in the
Kingdom.

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And what is that vision?
What is that idea of what you

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picture being in the Kingdom
being in the forefront of your

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mind?
So this was a really interesting

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and encouraging exhortation.
It was a good reminder.

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It was a little interesting to
go back 25 years now and here or

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almost 25 years and hear what
the thinking was at the turn of

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the century.
I remember some of that when I

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was younger and everything that
was happening at in 1999 and the

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fear when it came from Y2K and
things that they were talking

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about and what did or didn’t
happen after the results of

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that.
So I find going back and

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listening to these exhortations,
especially from so many years

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ago, to be a almost interesting
time capsule of the mindset that

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some people in our community had
all those years ago and what

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things are the same now and what
things have changed.

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It makes it just to be both a
enjoyable and enlightening

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experience.
So I hope you find this

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exhortation to be encouraging
and helps you to think about and

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meditate on having a vision for
yourself as we wait for the

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return of our Lord.
And with that, I will turn this.

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Over to our brother.
Dick Patterson, for his

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exhortation, entitled Without a
Vision, The People perish.

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You’ll notice that we read from
the 4th chapter of Micah this

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morning.
Our scheduled reading is the

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second chapter, but I wanted to
consider this 4th chapter

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because of the wonderful vision
of the Kingdom that it has in

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it.
We’re going to talk about that

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vision today, and we’re going to
talk about what it means to us.

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And then you can meditate on it.
And when you do your readings on

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Tuesday, read it again and see
if it doesn’t take on a new

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meaning for you.
So let’s create a mental picture

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of that vision as we go through
it this morning.

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And it is important that we have
a vision.

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In the 29th proverb at the 18th
verse we are told that where

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there is no vision, the people
perish.

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And even in this prophecy of
Micah in the third chapter, in

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the sixth verse, just the
previous chapter, it says that

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if the people do not have a
vision, it is dark unto them.

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Now Jesus told us that we are to
be the light of the world.

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If we are in Christ, certainly
we cannot be in darkness, And so

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that we are not in darkness, we
must have a vision.

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A vision was so important to
Jesus Christ that God took him

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up onto that mount of
Transfiguration and let him talk

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with Moses and with Elijah.
So that vision would carry him

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through those dark days when he
was crucified and had to die

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upon that cross.
That’s how important it is for

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us to have a vision.
Now, in 26 days, according to

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our calendar, we’re going to
enter into a new Millennium.

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And as we read the magazines and
as we look at the billboards and

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as we listen to the radio, we
see many, many different

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reactions to the new Millennium.
But what should be our reaction

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as Bible students, as brothers
and sisters of the Lord Jesus

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Christ?
Well, if we turn to a few

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Scriptures, I can think think we
will see what the Scriptures

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tell us should be our reaction
to the new Millennium.

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Going back to the very first
chapter of Genesis, we find that

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God created the earth in six
days and on the 7th day he

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rested.
Now he didn’t have to rest on

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the 7th day.
He was the creator of heaven, of

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the earth, all powerful, but he
did it to set a pattern. 6 days

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of creation, one day of rest.
Looking back in history, we see

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from that time of creation up
until Jesus Christ was roughly

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4000 years and from Jesus Christ
until now is 2000 years.

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So there are 6 periods of 1000
years and we think that this is

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following the pattern of the
creation.

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And so the next Millennium will
be the time of rest.

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It will be introduced into the
world.

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The Kingdom will be established.
We don’t know the exact date,

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but we feel that it fits the
pattern.

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Looking at the parable of the
fig tree in the 24th chapter of

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Matthew, we all know that the
fig tree is representative of

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the nation of Israel.
And that parable tells us that

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the generation that sees the fig
tree putting forth leaves, we’ll

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see the return of Jesus.
What are the leaves?

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What What happened with the
leaves coming out?

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Was it 1948, the establishment
of the nation of Israel?

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Was it 1967 when the nation re
obtained Jerusalem entirely as

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their capital?
Or was it something else?

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What is a generation?
40 years?

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Some people say we’re living
longer now.

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Maybe a generation, but it’d be
70 years.

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Maybe it’s something else.
But within all of these

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unknowns, there is still a
fairly small time period which

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can lead us to the conclusion
that the time of Jesus return is

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very near.
Now we can say this with

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confidence because over the
generations and over the years

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it seems like every generation
of people looked for the return

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of Christ in their lifetime.
But never has any other

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generation seen the re
establishment of the nation of

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Israel have seen the fulfilment
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So I think that it gives us
confidence that we are entering

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into the next Millennium and
Jesus Christ will return to

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establish His Kingdom during the
next Millennium.

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With that kind of confidence of
the establishment of the

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Kingdom, it’s certainly
important that we have a clear

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picture and that we have a clear
vision of what it will be like.

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So let’s turn back to this
fourth chapter of Micah, and

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we’ll read the first verse
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But in the last days it shall
come to pass that the mountain

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of the House of the Lord shall
be established in the top of the

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mountains, and it shall be
exalted above the hills, and

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people shall flow unto it.
And I’d like to read to you that

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for you the same verse from the
NIV in the last days, the

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mountain of the Lord’s temple
will be established as chief

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among the mountains.
It will be raised above the

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hills, and people will stream to
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That brings to my mind a verse
in Daniel in the second chapter

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and the 35th verse, where we
also read of a mountain.

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And Speaking of the image, it
says, Then was the iron, the

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clay, the brass, the silver and
the gold broken to pieces

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together and became like the
chaff of the summer thrashing

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floors, and the wind carried
them away, that no place was

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found for them.
And the stone that smote the

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image became a great mountain
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So what do we have in this
figurative language?

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We have a mountain that fills
the earth, and there is the

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Lord’s house up on the top of
this mountain, and it is above

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all of the other hills around.
What do we feel is the literal

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interpretation of that
particular vision, that

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Jerusalem will be established as
the center of a world empire?

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It won’t be Washington, DC, and
it won’t be London, or it won’t

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be Moscow, or it won’t be Tokyo.
It will be Jerusalem.

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I have a world Atlas at home.
And when I open up that world

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Atlas and look at the first
page, it’s a picture of the

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world.
And the United North America is

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over here and South America and
over here is Asia, and right in

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the middle is Jerusalem.
And I would imagine if you

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looked at any Atlas of the
world, you will see the same

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thing.
Jerusalem is this picture as a

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center of the world, and I don’t
think that’s any accident.

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I think God selected it and
planned it that way to be at the

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crossroads of the world.
And you know, Jerusalem is, it’s

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in an elevated position.
It’s on that Ridge of mountains

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that runs North and South
through Israel.

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And you go to the West and it
falls off all the way to the sea

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level on the West side of the
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And you go over the Mount of
Olives to the east and it falls

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down into the Jordan Valley
below sea level.

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So it is in an elevated position
right now.

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And I believe that that is
unique of any capital, of any

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country in the world and being
in that elevated position.

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And then we’re told that people
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We’re told in Zechariah that
there will be a great earthquake

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at that time.
And the Mount of Olives that is

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to the east of Jerusalem, and it
is somewhat higher than

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Jerusalem, will break in
two-part of it will move to the

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north and part to the South.
So in that day, as you look out

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from Jerusalem, you’ll look down
into a valley that will go right

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down into the Jordan Valley to
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We’re also told that the Dead
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How will it be healed?
Well, I think that there will be

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enough water that it will be
filled to be a great inland lake

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and so that it can finally flow
out to the ocean in the Red Sea

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about 150 miles to the South.
And so in this way you have the

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Mediterranean Sea on one side
and this great freshwater inland

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sea on the other side.
And so there would be easy

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access to this new world.
Capital ships could come in on

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each side and have access to the
capital.

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And of course, there there are
the Airways.

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Let’s go on and look at verse
two.

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Many nations shall come and say,
come and let us go up to the

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mountain of the the Lord into
the House of the God of Jacob.

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And he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his

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paths.
For the law shall go forth of

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Zion in the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem.

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The law shall go forth of Zion.
Jerusalem will become the center

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of a world government, a
government that is moral,

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righteous, and has laws that are
the best for everyone that are

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in the world.
Jesus will be the Divine Ruler,

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and that law will go forth from
Zion and radiate throughout all

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the earth.
And that law will be

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administered by representatives
of Christ in every city on the

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earth.
These are ones that have been

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selected for these positions
from those that have come

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through the judgement have been
termed righteous.

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At that time there will be laws
that will be right for every

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nation and every people.
They will be fair.

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They will be firmly enforced.
There will be no corruption.

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There will be no lobbies, there
will be no special interests,

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but it will be a government that
will be best for everyone.

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We just read.
It says, Come, let us go up to

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the mountain of the House of the
Lord and to the House of the God

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of Jacob.
And he will teach us of his ways

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and we will walk in his paths.
And so emanating from Jerusalem

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will be one world religion.
There will be no PLO, which

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claims that Jerusalem is the
capital of their state.

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There will be no Islamic mosque
in the middle of Jerusalem with

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a gold Dome.
There will be no bulletins

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coming out of Rome issued by the
Pope.

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There will be no conflicting
messages from various churches

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throughout the earth.
There will be no TV evangelists

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putting forth their message so
that they can get rich.

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The temple of the Lord in
Jerusalem, the House of God,

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will be the source of the Word
of the Lord, which will go

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throughout the earth.
The word will come directly from

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God’s Son, and there will be no
human interpretation.

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And that word will be
administered in these same

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cities, probably by
representatives different than

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the ones that are governing.
And so you will have those

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governing the cities, and you
will have those administering

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the religion and they will be
working hand in hand, and you

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will have a perfect marriage of
church and state.

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And isn’t that exactly what we
saw in the time of David?

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David was the king and he had
those that were ruling over the

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cities and he had the Levites
that were administering God’s

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word in those cities.
And in ancient Israel there was

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a a picture of the coming
Kingdom when there was a perfect

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marriage, church and state.
And so you will have worldwide

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teaching emanating from
Jerusalem.

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People will learn the ways of
God, and they will want to walk

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in His path.
And then it says, many nations

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shall come.
Let’s turn over to the 14th

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chapter of Zechariah.
And we have some other words

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that are similar to this
Zechariah 14 and 16.

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And it shall come to pass that
everyone that is left of all the

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nations which came against
Jerusalem shall even go up to

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from year to year to worship the
king, the Lord of Hosts, and to

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keep the feast of Tabernacles.
In ancient Israel the feast of

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the Tabernacles was in the fall,
when there was the in gathering

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of all of the crops.
I think it was a looking forward

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to the establishment of the
Kingdom when there would be the

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in gathering of all of the
righteous people.

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And so the Millennium will be
the time when the Kingdom will

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be here and they can celebrate
the existence of of the fact

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that the Kingdom is here and
they can do it all year round.

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And so when we read in Zechariah
that those from the nations will

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come up from year to year to
worship to celebrate the Feast

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of Tabernacles, I believe I can
picture a continual pilgrimage

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to Jerusalem.
Representatives of various

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nations coming at times
throughout the year to give

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tribute to the new religious
leader, to acknowledge the

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worldwide Kingdom, and to
continuously celebrate the fact

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that the Feast of Tabernacles is
here.

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The Kingdom is here.
The establishment of God’s plan

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for the earth has taken place,
and so I think we can see then a

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a continuous year round
celebration of the Feast of the

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Tabernacles.
Let’s go on to verse three in

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Micah, and he shall judge among
many people and rebuke strong

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nations afar off, and they shall
beat their swords into

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ploughshares and their Spears
into pruning hooks.

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Nations shall not lift up a
sword against nation, neither

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shall they learn war anymore.
He will rebuke strong nations.

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When Christ is established as
the world ruler, He will have

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destroyed that host that came
down into Israel from the north,

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and he will have established
himself as king.

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Now there will be some nations
that will accept him, but that

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there will be others that will
rebel against him, and so it

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will be necessary for himself to
forcibly establish this new

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government.
And he will have with him the

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irresistible force of the forces
of nature, and nothing that

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mankind can produce in the way
of armament and compare to the

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forces of nature.
And so this world government

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will have been established
because of the rebuke of strong

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nations.
And as we said, there will be

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representatives of this
government in all of the cities.

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In the second part of the verse,
it talks about true World Peace,

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a kind of peace that man just
cannot establish by himself.

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It requires divine power to do
it when they beat their swords

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into Spears and their swords.
Let’s go back and get the right

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one.
Storage into ploughshares and

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their Spears into pruning hooks.
We can see that the billions of

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dollars that are being spent now
for the Army, the Navy, the Air

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Force, the nuclear weapons, all
of this money will now be

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available for the good of the
people on the Earth.

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And it will be put in the place
where it is most needed, and it

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will make sure that it gets to
the people that need it, and it

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isn’t siphoned off through
corruption and other kinds of

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government.
And the differences that exist

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between nations will be settled
because of a fair and a

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righteous administration.
And we go on to verse 4.

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But they shall sit every man
under his vine and under his fig

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tree, and none shall make them
afraid, for the mouth of the

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Lord of Hosts has spoken it.
You know how you discover little

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gems in the Bible and it sort of
lights up.

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While I found one first kings
4th chapter and a 25th verse, I

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didn’t realize this one was
here, but it talks about the

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same thing.
And this is in the time of

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Solomon’s reign.
And it says Judah and Israel

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dwelt safely every man under his
vine and under his fig tree from

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Dan even to Beersheba, all the
days of Solomon.

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Why did they exist under their
vine and their fig tree during

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the days of Solomon?
Because there was no war.

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It was a time of peace.
Now many have taken this verse

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in Micah and said, well, that
indicates that we’re going to

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have an all agricultural
economy.

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But it applied to Solomon’s time
and it wasn’t an all

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agricultural economy.
They used the technology they

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had available, but they did
trading and they had ships going

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to various parts of the world,
and they had commerce and they

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had agricultural also, but they
had a society that was working

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for the good of the people, and
they were not afraid because

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there was no war.
I’d like to turn to the third

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chapter of.
And so I believe that in our

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time that this is describing a
time of of peace, that man can

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sit under his vine and under his
fig tree.

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And in our time we will have the
technology being used as it can

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in the world.
But men can dwell peaceably

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among each other.
And I think this is borne out in

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the third chapter of Zechariah,
in the 10th verse, where it says

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in that day.
I think it’s talking about the

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day of the Kingdom, saith the
Lord of hosts.

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Shall you call every man his
neighbor under the vine and

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under the fig tree, So at that
time then everyone can call

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everyone else its neighbor.
And so under this new world

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administration, the PLO
terrorists will be eliminated.

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The Jewish Arab fighting among
each other will be eliminated.

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The bloodbath between the Serbs
and the Croats will be

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eliminated under a firm fair
government where everyone is

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treated equally and none shall
make them afraid.

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Looking at verse 5 going back to
Micah says all people will walk

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everyone in the name of his God
and we will walk in the name of

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the Lord our God forever and
ever.

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I believe the sense of that
verse is that somewhat like this

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though now all people walk
everyone in the name of his God,

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yet in the future we will walk
in the name of the Lord, one

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religion, one God acknowledged
throughout the earth, brothers

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and sisters and young people.
There is the vision and we must

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keep it brightly before
ourselves.

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But we must ask ourselves, how
will each one of us fit into

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that vision?
Well, first, we can enjoy the

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benefits of the improved
conditions on the earth and and

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we in the United States, I don’t
think, realize how important

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this is.
But those who have come from the

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strife in El Salvador and those
who are experiencing the strife

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in the Balkans, the brothers and
sisters at the present time can

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see the strife and the hatred
and the suffering that’s going

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on in the world.
And that will all be eliminated

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in this new order of things.
And that’s one way that all can

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fit into that wonderful things
that are planned for this earth.

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We can, each one become an
integral part of what’s going on

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in the earth.
Each one, in accordance with

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their abilities will be assigned
a part.

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And there will be many, many
responsibilities in this new

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order of things in this vision
that we see from that 4th

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chapter of Matthew, Micah.
And each one of us will have a

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place there in a very important
place.

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One of the important things is
to spread the word, because

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there will be many in the earth
who need to learn about the God

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of Jacob and to walk in his
paths.

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And we can all do that.
We will not be hindered by the

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frailty of mortality.
We can spread the word in that

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day to the our friends, our
neighbors, and to the nations of

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the earth.
And there won’t be any problems

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where someone can say I don’t
have the ability or I don’t have

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the confidence or I don’t have
the memory to remember things or

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I have a speech impediment.
All of those things were gone.

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We all all have the ability to
preach the Word to everyone on

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the earth so that the gospel
will go forth to all the world

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and go into the world and preach
the gospel as it has never been

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done before.
So in conclusion, we have 26

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days before us before, according
to the calendar, we have a new

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Millennium.
During that Millennium, the

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vision that we have obtained
from the 4th chapter of Micah

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that we have created in our
minds this morning, we believe

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will take place.
We pray that each one of us will

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be there.
We pray that it will happen

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during our lifetime, and if it
doesn’t, we know that we will be

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resurrected to enjoy the
benefits.

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Keep the vision brightly before
you.

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It will help you to overcome the
ways of the world.

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It will help you to stay on that
path that leads to the Kingdom.

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Just as Christ needed the vision
to help him through the hard

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times that he was envisioning,
so we need a vision so that we

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can overcome the attraction of
the world around us.

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So it is our prayer this morning
that this vision will become a

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reality very, very soon.
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