{"id":1160,"date":"2024-07-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/303-levi-gelineau-exhortation-the-final-consolation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:40:49","slug":"303-levi-gelineau-exhortation-the-final-consolation","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/303-levi-gelineau-exhortation-the-final-consolation\/","title":{"rendered":"303: Levi Gelineau – Exhortation: The Final Consolation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to an Exhortation from Bro. Levi Gelineau titled \u201cThe Final Consolation” that was given at the Verdugo Hills Ecclesia on August 13, 2023.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good Krysofian talks.
\nI’m Levi. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m Chris.
\nI’m Gisten. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I’m Brian, thank you for
\njoining us this week. <\/p>\n

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\nOn this.
\nPodcast. <\/p>\n

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\nWe select one.
\nTalk a week to help. <\/p>\n

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\nUs Get the Bible in our Daily
\nNews feed. <\/p>\n

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\nEach week we post a talk that we
\npreviewed from suggestions sent <\/p>\n

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\nin by listeners from around the
\nworld. <\/p>\n

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\nThen we record a short intro
\nbeforehand as a personalized <\/p>\n

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\nrecommendation to you on why we
\nare sharing the talk. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd now let’s talk more about
\nthis week’s talk. <\/p>\n

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\nThis week’s talk is my own
\nexhortation that I gave in <\/p>\n

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\nAugust of 2023, as was a little
\nover a year ago. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s called the Final
\nConsolation and I really enjoyed<\/p>\n

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\nputting this exhortation
\ntogether. <\/p>\n

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\nI open with a reading of a
\nportion of The Final Consolation<\/p>\n

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\nby Brother Robert Roberts.
\nAnd then? <\/p>\n

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\nTalk about the reality of our
\nhope being that there is kind of<\/p>\n

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\nan apocalypse.
\nAnd I think I have struggled <\/p>\n

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\nwith that for years.
\nAnd I, I, I tell a personal <\/p>\n

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\nstory in this talk about that
\nand just, you know, just how it,<\/p>\n

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\nhow it.
\nCan be so. <\/p>\n

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\nSurreal or and sometimes feeling
\nvery illogical and just very <\/p>\n

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\nstrange to to maintain the faith
\nthat we have in saying yes, I <\/p>\n

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\nbelieve the world’s going to end
\nright, which a lot of people <\/p>\n

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\nwouldn’t say right.
\nAnd that’s, I think that’s this <\/p>\n

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\ntalk is me kind of struggling
\nwith that. <\/p>\n

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\nI actually.
\nGave this version of the talk in<\/p>\n

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\nat Verdugo Hills, which is
\nChris’s meeting, the long time <\/p>\n

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\nmeeting of Bob Lloyd.
\nIt’s a very nearby meeting. <\/p>\n

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\nVaduga Hills and Simi Hills are
\nabout half an hour apart. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so I also wanted this, I
\nwanted to post this version of <\/p>\n

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\nit.
\nI’m, I’m saying that because I <\/p>\n

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\ngave this exhortation three
\ntimes that summer and this is <\/p>\n

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\ndefinitely the best performance
\nof the exhortation, which is <\/p>\n

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\nsomething I’ve, I, I thought was
\nworth sharing ahead of time <\/p>\n

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\nbecause there’s a reason I
\nthink, you know, that I haven’t <\/p>\n

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\nbeen on good Chris, good
\nChristopian talks yet. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we’re all, you know, there’s
\na, there’s definitely a tongue <\/p>\n

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\nin cheek to this July special of
\nus posting our own talks. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, it’s just, it’s just
\nfunny. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we’re.
\nAnd we’re not, you know, and I’m<\/p>\n

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\nnot a particularly great
\nspeaker. <\/p>\n

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\nI don’t get invited to teach a
\nBible school. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that’s OK.
\nI wouldn’t, I would probably <\/p>\n

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\ndecline if someone said that I
\nneeded to give 5 lectures. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s just not my strength.
\nIt’s not, not, not, not not <\/p>\n

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\nreally the part of the body, you
\nknow, of First Corinthians 12 <\/p>\n

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\nthat I am.
\nBut I anyways, I, I was excited <\/p>\n

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\nto share it And, and it is
\nsomething that I’m still kind of<\/p>\n

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\nlearning at my age.
\nI’ve been, I’ve been giving <\/p>\n

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\nexertations for 20 years, but
\nwhen I, this is the third, third<\/p>\n

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\ntime.
\nAnd for me especially when I <\/p>\n

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\nhave actually given the talk,
\nthe 2nd and 3rd and 4th time is <\/p>\n

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\nsignificantly better.
\nSo now it’s part of my <\/p>\n

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\npreparation when I when I do
\ntake the time to properly <\/p>\n

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\nprepare and actually taking a
\nvideo recording of myself giving<\/p>\n

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\nthe talk 1st and then then going
\nand giving it at at the ecclesia<\/p>\n

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\nI’m speaking at.
\nAnyways, so. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s the that’s some of my
\ncontext before, before sharing <\/p>\n

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\nthis talk.
\nIt is the most recent <\/p>\n

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\nexhortation I’ve given.
\nSo it’s also funny when I look <\/p>\n

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\nback when I was asking myself
\nwhat is the best talk I’ve ever <\/p>\n

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\ngiven, I ended up with the last
\none. <\/p>\n

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\nSo that was also, you know, a
\nfunny thing. <\/p>\n

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\nBut I’m, I’m, I’m excited to
\nshare it. <\/p>\n

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\nI hope it’s helpful.
\nI hope there are some ideas in <\/p>\n

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\nhere that are helpful.
\nThank you again to everyone for <\/p>\n

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\nlistening to the show for so
\nlong. <\/p>\n

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\nI can’t believe we’re past 300
\nepisodes. <\/p>\n

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\nSo here is the final
\nconsolation. <\/p>\n

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\nGood morning, I’m going to start
\nmy exertation in a non advisable<\/p>\n

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\nway.
\nI’m going to read something for <\/p>\n

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\na long time.
\nSo. <\/p>\n

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\nWork really hard on your
\nattention, please, if you or me,<\/p>\n

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\nit’s this is a big struggle is a
\nquote from the final Consolation<\/p>\n

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\nwritten by Brother Robert
\nRoberts in the the year 1895 The<\/p>\n

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\nfinal.
\nConsolation is a. <\/p>\n

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\nSmall pamphlet that Robert
\nRoberts wrote and it was his <\/p>\n

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\nvision of the Kingdom.
\nWe approach Jerusalem, or rather<\/p>\n

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\nYahweh.
\nShema, the new name of the new <\/p>\n

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\ncity from the South.
\nIt stands in the southernmost <\/p>\n

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\nsection of the Holy portion.
\nIt’s an immense city built upon <\/p>\n

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\na plan of perfect symmetry and
\nproportion. <\/p>\n

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\nIt is very unlike the huddled
\nclusters of human dwellings <\/p>\n

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\ncalled towns with which we have
\nbeen familiar. <\/p>\n

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\nThe general plan is an exact
\nsquare marked by an outer wall. <\/p>\n

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\nThe square is of enormous
\nextent, measuring 9 miles <\/p>\n

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\nthrough at any point.
\nThe wall is of bright stone and <\/p>\n

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\nadorned with towers at regular
\ndistances. <\/p>\n

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\nKeep paying attention.
\nWe descended from the <\/p>\n

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\noverlooking hill and entered by
\none of these gates. <\/p>\n

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\nIt would be pleasant to stay and
\ninspect the city, but we want to<\/p>\n

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\nhurry on to the temple, and
\ntherefore we must be content <\/p>\n

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\nwith a rapid passage to the
\ncentral thoroughfare, which we <\/p>\n

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\nhave chosen to the northern exit
\nby one of the gates in the north<\/p>\n

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\nwall.
\nJust before passing on, we <\/p>\n

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\nnotice at a glance the stately
\ncharacter of the city. <\/p>\n

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\nThe streets are straight and
\nwide and shaded with trees, and <\/p>\n

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\nat regular distances open out
\nonto squares and crescents. <\/p>\n

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\nThe houses are not high, and
\nstand apart in gardens, except <\/p>\n

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\nwhere here and there palatial
\nblocks of buildings spring from <\/p>\n

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\nthe midst of the squares.
\nWe asked what these are, and <\/p>\n

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\ninformed that they are reception
\nhouses for the accommodation of <\/p>\n

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\nthe visitors, who daily come
\nfrom all parts. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s an immense number of
\npeople in the city, but the city<\/p>\n

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\nis so vast that they do not
\nappear numerous except at <\/p>\n

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\ncertain points as we pass along.
\nTheir aspect is such as we never<\/p>\n

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\nsaw in any city crowd before, so
\nquiet and yet so cheerful, so <\/p>\n

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\nbrightly interested in
\neverything, yet so orderly and <\/p>\n

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\nrespectful, so apparently
\ncultured and well to do, yet <\/p>\n

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\nhaving none of the fussiness and
\narrogance usually associated <\/p>\n

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\nwith prosperity.
\nAll are well clad, clean, <\/p>\n

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\nintelligent, good, righteous and
\nhappy. <\/p>\n

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\nNo boisterous merrymaking, no
\nfoolish banter, no unseemly <\/p>\n

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\nutterance.
\nThere are few. <\/p>\n

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\nThese are few of the happy
\nsubjects of the Kingdom of God. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’ve come from all parts of
\neach of the earth, all parts of <\/p>\n

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\nthe earth, to do homage to the
\nKing, wives and families with <\/p>\n

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\nthem, leaving behind them
\nprosperous homesteads and <\/p>\n

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\noccupations to which they return
\nin a little season. <\/p>\n

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\nWe hasten in a straight line
\nalong our Nine Mile Ave. of <\/p>\n

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\npicturesque and happy human
\nhabitation. <\/p>\n

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\nWe could take the help of an
\nelectric tram if we liked, for <\/p>\n

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\nsuch has been provided in all
\nthe thoroughfares that’s fancy <\/p>\n

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\nfor the use of the people.
\nBut in our new state we prefer <\/p>\n

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\nto walk.
\nWe can quicken our pace when we <\/p>\n

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\nwant to do so, by gliding along
\nin the air, skimming the surface<\/p>\n

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\nof the road as we dreamt of in
\nour mortal days. <\/p>\n

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\nWe get out at the gate of Judah,
\nopposite which, after crossing <\/p>\n

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\nan ornamental common of about
\nhalf a mile in breadth that runs<\/p>\n

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\naround the entire city, there
\nopens a magnificent Hwy. running<\/p>\n

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\nin a straight line in a northern
\ndirection towards the temple, <\/p>\n

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\nwhich is distant about 30 miles.
\nAlong this highway we proceed <\/p>\n

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\nagain.
\nThat is written by Brother Rob <\/p>\n

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\nRoberts in the year 1895.
\nThat’s why an electric tram is <\/p>\n

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\nspecial, and that’s why I think
\nit matters that people are <\/p>\n

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\nclean.
\nI thought that was funny. <\/p>\n

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\nWhy does it matter that they’re
\nclean? <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s been our hope as
\nChristadelphians for a very long<\/p>\n

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\ntime for the Kingdom of God to
\ncome here on earth. <\/p>\n

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\nPretty neat that he wrote that
\n130 years ago. <\/p>\n

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\nGod will wipe every tear from
\nour eye. <\/p>\n

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\nWe just read from every tear
\nfrom every eye. <\/p>\n

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\nA couple years ago, I was at
\ndinner with a client who had <\/p>\n

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\ngrown to be a friend, and we
\nstarted talking about religion. <\/p>\n

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\nHis father was a pastor, but
\nhe’d sworn off organized <\/p>\n

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\nreligion when he was 17.
\nAnd he asked me, so how then do <\/p>\n

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\nyou think it all ends?
\nSo he said. <\/p>\n

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\nI said, well, there’s a big
\nbattle. <\/p>\n

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\nAll the nations of the earth
\nwill come together to fight <\/p>\n

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\nagainst Jesus and the Saints.
\nJesus wins. <\/p>\n

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\nThe armies and might of men are
\neasily overthrown. <\/p>\n

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\nJesus rules from Jerusalem or
\nYahweh Shema for 1000 years. <\/p>\n

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\nStreets are paved with gold.
\nWe float and you know we can. <\/p>\n

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\nWe can float instead of walk.
\nElectric trams, all that stuff. <\/p>\n

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\nI didn’t say that exactly, but
\nit was close. <\/p>\n

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\nHe started laughing and he said
\nreally like fantasy movie <\/p>\n

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\nthings.
\nAs he said. <\/p>\n

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\nI laughed too, because it was
\nthe social thing to do. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I said, yeah, I guess I’m
\npretty apocalyptic when it comes<\/p>\n

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\ndown to it.
\nAnd I never thought about that, <\/p>\n

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\nthat I’m I’m someone who
\nbelieves in an apocalypse now <\/p>\n

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\nsome days.
\nI don’t really disagree with <\/p>\n

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\nhim.
\nWill the world really end with a<\/p>\n

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\ntrumpet sound?
\nWill there really be a last <\/p>\n

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\nbattle?
\nI was in a CYC class once where <\/p>\n

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\nthe brother described the final
\nbattle and he said the Saints <\/p>\n

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\nwill be able to shoot lasers out
\nof their hands. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m looking forward to that.
\nWhat? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd after class, I stood with a
\nfriend of mine and I said that <\/p>\n

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\nwas crazy lasers out of the
\nhands. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd she said, yeah, and she
\ndoesn’t come around anymore. <\/p>\n

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\nOur hope is not lasers out of
\nour hands. <\/p>\n

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\nThe complexity of revelation,
\nwhat we just read, I think makes<\/p>\n

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\nit easy to hand wave away.
\nI think it makes it easy to <\/p>\n

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\nignore.
\nI think it makes it easy for <\/p>\n

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\nsmart, intelligent people to
\nsay, well, this can’t be it. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is too confusing.
\nThere’s a philosophical argument<\/p>\n

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\nthat’s called the puddle
\nanalogy, which I’m going to try <\/p>\n

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\nto explain, that you also can
\npair with revelation being <\/p>\n

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\nconfusing, and actually Douglas
\nAdams described it in The <\/p>\n

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\nHitchhiker’s Guide to the
\nGalaxy. <\/p>\n

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\nSo here’s another short reading.
\nThis one’s shorter, but still <\/p>\n

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\nfunny.
\nThis is rather as if you imagine<\/p>\n

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\na puddle waking up one morning
\nand thinking, this is an <\/p>\n

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\ninteresting world I find myself
\nin, an interesting hole I find <\/p>\n

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\nmyself in.
\nThis fits me rather neatly, <\/p>\n

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\ndoesn’t it?
\nIn fact, it fits me staggeringly<\/p>\n

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\nwell.
\nMust have been made to have me <\/p>\n

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\nin it.
\nThis is such a powerful idea for<\/p>\n

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\nthe puddle.
\nAnd as the sun rises and the sky<\/p>\n

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\nand the air heats up, and as
\ngradually the puddle gets <\/p>\n

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\nsmaller and smaller, frantically
\nhanging on to the notion that <\/p>\n

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\neverything’s going to be all
\nright. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause the world was meant to
\nhave him in it was built to have<\/p>\n

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\nhim in it.
\nSo the moment that he <\/p>\n

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\ndisappears, it catches him
\nrather by surprise. <\/p>\n

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\nI think this may be something we
\nneed to watch out for. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s what Adam said.
\nAnd there’s a there’s a <\/p>\n

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\nphilosopher who describes it.
\nWilliam Lane Craig describes it <\/p>\n

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\nas one appealing one appeals to
\na self selection effect in order<\/p>\n

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\nto eliminate surprise that one
\nobserves, however improbable. <\/p>\n

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\nThe anthropomorphized puddle can
\nbe surprised at its own <\/p>\n

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\nexistence only if the whole
\nexists, so it shouldn’t be <\/p>\n

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\nsurprised how well the whole
\nfit. <\/p>\n

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\nIf the whole were not there, the
\npuddle would not exist to be <\/p>\n

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\nsurprised about it.
\nA fear that I have sometimes <\/p>\n

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\nwhen my faith is weak is have I
\nused Revelation as an ending to <\/p>\n

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\nthe story I’ve made-up in my
\nlife to explain my own <\/p>\n

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\nexistence?
\nI mean, it is pretty confusing. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m the wrong brother to invite
\nto explain to you every part of <\/p>\n

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\nRevelation 21.
\nAnd am I really? <\/p>\n

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\nIs it really fair for me to
\nexpect of myself or especially <\/p>\n

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\nothers to believe?
\nTo really believe that our <\/p>\n

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\nregular day-to-day life and the
\nreal physical experiences that <\/p>\n

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\nwe have will all end in a moment
\nor in a twinkling of an eye. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, yes, the answer is yes.
\nYes, Revelation is real. <\/p>\n

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\nThe river of life is real.
\nThe lion sleeping with the Lamb <\/p>\n

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\nis real.
\nThe lame man leaping like a deer<\/p>\n

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\nis real.
\nAll nations will come to <\/p>\n

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\nJerusalem, and they will come to
\nJerusalem to worship. <\/p>\n

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\nThere will be no more need for
\nthe sun. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is reality.
\nGod has shown to keep His <\/p>\n

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\npromises.
\nProphecies we read have been <\/p>\n

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\nfulfilled, and if part of this
\nBible is true, then I think the <\/p>\n

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\nwhole thing is true.
\nDoes anyone know what the newest<\/p>\n

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\ncountry in the world is?
\nIt’s South Sudan. <\/p>\n

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\nSouth Sudan was founded in 2011
\nand actually right now South <\/p>\n

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\nSudan is competing in the World
\nCup of Basketball. <\/p>\n

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\nThey have a basketball team
\nthat’s competing in the FIBA <\/p>\n

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\nbasketball tournament.
\nSouth Sudan thirteen years old. <\/p>\n

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\nI wonder if you know, so that
\nthat was 2011. <\/p>\n

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\nI was baptized in in oh,
\nshouldn’t, shouldn’t have said <\/p>\n

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\nthis. 2000 I was baptized in
\n2000. <\/p>\n

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\nI wonder if I had been taught
\nfor years and years that there <\/p>\n

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\nwould be a nation called South
\nSudan, how that would impact me <\/p>\n

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\nwhen it then happened.
\nI’m saying that because, as we <\/p>\n

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\nall know, as Bible students,
\nEzekiel 37 and other passages <\/p>\n

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\npredicted the establishment of
\nthe nation of Israel, which <\/p>\n

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\nhappened in 1948.
\nAnd Robert Roberts and John <\/p>\n

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\nThomas wrote about that almost
\n100 years before that, the <\/p>\n

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\nnation of Israel would be
\nfounded, People would be drawn <\/p>\n

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\nout from the world and the
\nnation of Israel would be <\/p>\n

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\nfounded.
\nI wonder, I think about South <\/p>\n

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\nSudan, just as an example,
\nbecause I think for some it <\/p>\n

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\nwould be just that random, just
\nthat weird. <\/p>\n

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\nLike what if we had, what if we
\nhad spent 20 years? <\/p>\n

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\nWhat if we’d spent 100 years
\npredicting the establishment of <\/p>\n

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\nSouth Sudan?
\nRight then we would see it <\/p>\n

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\nhappen and we would see their
\nteam play in the basketball <\/p>\n

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\ntournament and we’d think, wow,
\nthat’s amazing that the Bible <\/p>\n

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\nsaid that we’ve got we’ve, we’ve
\ncome far now. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat’s it been 70 plus years
\nsince the establishment of <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael for my generation, It’s
\neasy to forget how amazing of a <\/p>\n

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\nmiracle that was.
\nIt’s easy to forget that <\/p>\n

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\nrevelation is real.
\nI think again, maybe it’s easy <\/p>\n

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\nfor me.
\nIt’s easy for me to forget this.<\/p>\n

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\nI’m a very busy person.
\nI have a baby. <\/p>\n

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\nYou heard her before we started.
\nShe hit her head on the chair. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was really sad.
\nI have stressful client <\/p>\n

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\nrelationships at work.
\nI have so many people I’m <\/p>\n

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\nconcerned about.
\nI have a mortgage. <\/p>\n

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\nI have all these things, all
\nthese external pressures. <\/p>\n

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\nJess and I often quote in a
\njoking way, Second Corinthians <\/p>\n

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\n11\/28.
\nPaul says, besides all this, I <\/p>\n

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\nhave the pressure every day of
\nall the churches. <\/p>\n

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\nSo we say besides all this, it’s
\nwhen, when you get your, your <\/p>\n

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\nhead so clouded with so many
\nthings, it’s hard to remember <\/p>\n

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\nthat revelation is real.
\nAnd I think as I’m, as I’m <\/p>\n

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\nstanding up here speaking to
\nyou, that’s different for some <\/p>\n

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\nof us, for some of you,
\nrevelation is more real. <\/p>\n

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\nYou think more about it,
\nfrankly, you’re older than me. <\/p>\n

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\nYou’re looking forward to that
\nday and you look forward to it <\/p>\n

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\nand you focus on it every day.
\nAnd I’m, I’m envious of that <\/p>\n

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\nfocus.
\nIt’s hard to keep the faith that<\/p>\n

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\nthat the sun really will go away
\nand all the light of the world <\/p>\n

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\nwill come from the temple.
\nAnd really this apocalyptic <\/p>\n

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\nreality, because we are a little
\napocalyptic, should inspire <\/p>\n

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\nconstant good, for we know that
\nJesus could come at any moment. <\/p>\n

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\nCS Lewis said the doctrine of
\nthe second coming has failed so <\/p>\n

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\nfar as we are concerned if it
\ndoes not make us realize that at<\/p>\n

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\nevery moment of every year in
\nour lives, Jesus is knocking at <\/p>\n

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\nthe door.
\nThat’s a warning for me. <\/p>\n

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\nI believe in an apocalypse and
\nan ending, but that should only <\/p>\n

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\ninspire positive actions in
\neveryday. <\/p>\n

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\nThat doesn’t mean that I get to
\nput my head in the sand and <\/p>\n

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\nignore injustice or ignore the
\nsad things that happen in the <\/p>\n

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\nworld, not take action when I
\ncan. <\/p>\n

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\nI can’t just say, well, it’ll
\nall be over soon and shrug off <\/p>\n

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\nthe terrible headlines in the
\npaper. <\/p>\n

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\nI need to respond to hunger or
\nto climate issues. <\/p>\n

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\nMatthew 25 says whatever you
\nhave done to the least of these,<\/p>\n

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\nyou have done to me.
\nOur Father wants to be with us, <\/p>\n

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\nand He looks forward to that day
\nwith nothing standing between <\/p>\n

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\nus, with the end of this
\ndispensation in the coming of <\/p>\n

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\nthe final consolation.
\nHe wants to hold us. <\/p>\n

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\nHe wants to hear about us.
\nHe wants to hear about our <\/p>\n

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\nstory.
\nRevelation is very real. <\/p>\n

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\nThankfully, that day is coming.
\nWe’re finished reading <\/p>\n

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\nRevelation 22 at verse 5, but
\nI’m going to close now with <\/p>\n

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\nverse six and seven.
\nAnd he said to me, these words <\/p>\n

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\nare trustworthy and true.
\nAnd the Lord, the God of the <\/p>\n

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\nspirits of the prophets, has
\nsent his Angel to show his <\/p>\n

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\nservants what must soon take
\nplace. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd behold, I am coming soon.
\nBlessed is the one who keeps the<\/p>\n

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\nwords of the prophecy of this
\nbook. <\/p>\n

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303: Levi Gelineau – Exhortation: The Final Consolation<\/a><\/blockquote>