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Wil em Henderson

Feast of Tabernacles - 2013

Welcome, everybody, on this day of the Feast. Let's go directly into the sermon for today.

Normal y when we address the subject of the Feast of Tabernacles we read Leviticus 23:33-44. But

today I want to start by considering the 'god of this world', who is described by Paul in 2 Corinthians

4:4. And it states there, In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which

believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine

unto them. So early on [in] the existence of the Church Satan blinded the knowledge about the

thousand years.

The knowledge about the Mil ennium and the belief in the Mil ennium hadn't been lost yet in the

third century AD. A certain Tertul ianus speaks of it on his writings dated in the 3rd century AD. He

says that in the days after the resurrection there wil be a physical realm of Christ that wil last a

Mil ennium. One century later, in the 4th century AD, Eusebius Pamphili of Caesarea also wrote

about the Mil ennium, but from then onward the belief in the Mil ennium gradual y was lost. This

happened when the Catholic church put the book of Revelation on their list of forbidden books; in

Revelation 20:1-6 the thousand years are addressed. From that time on the Roman empire began to

be considered as God's Kingdom. But we know that the Kingdom of God is composed of God's

Family, who wil form the government in the Mil ennium, as was explained to us by Mr. Armstrong.

So as we can see, Satan twisted and turned everything that God had in store for humankind

considering His Family, therefore we must stay close to Him and repent every hour and every minute

of our life so Satan doesn't get a chance at spreading doubt about any of the 57 Truths at al . We

must cherish them and go through them again and again and ask for Gods help to hold fast to what

He revealed to us through His apostles and prophets; never to give up but to continue steadfast,

because what God has in store for us is so fantastic and beautiful.

Let's now go to Leviticus 23:33 – And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children

of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of the seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for

seven days unto the LORD. The Feast of Tabernacles, symbolizing the Mil ennium, starts with a High

Day, a yearly Sabbath.

Verse 35 – On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do not servile work therein. And

then six more days to this 8th day, which again is a High Day, a yearly Sabbath, and is cal ed the Last

Great Day, which we wil celebrate in a few days from now.

Then in verse 40 – And you shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of

palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before

the LORD your God seven days. Mr. Weinland explained at the Feast of Tabernacles in 2006 that we

are temporary dwel ings that must bear fruit. So we are temporary until we are thus molded and

fashioned that we can be placed into the spiritual Temple of God, which is eternal. How exciting is

God's plan for us!

On in verse 41 – And you shall keep it a Feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a

statute forever in your generations: you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. It says there 'it is

an eternal statute forever in your generation' – how then can the religions of this world claim that

these Feasts have been done away with? We know that they cannot see because they have not yet

been cal ed.

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Let's also have a look at John 6: 44 and 65. We know these verses wel , but it's expedient to review

them again. John 6:44 – No man can come to Me except the Father which has sent Me draw him:

and I will raise him up at the last day.

And then verse 65 – And He said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto Me,

except it were given unto him of My Father. They can't help it, but therefore for us it is even more

important that we do take heed. It's extremely important for us to cherish the cal ing that God has

given to us. That is something that wil be easier in the future for the masses because one wil no

longer be influenced by Satan and his demons. They wil be bound at that time in the bottomless pit

(abyss) as we find in Revelation 20:2-3 – And he laid hold on the dragon, that is that old serpent,

which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless

pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more till the

thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

One wil no longer be restricted by the people in power who carried high positions. Those have been

destroyed in the bottomless pit as stated in Revelation 19:20 – And the beast was taken, and with

him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had

received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. Both were cast alive into a

lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Let's go to Joel 2:28 – And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My spirit upon all

flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your

young men shall see visions. Al stumbling blocks wil be taken out of the way and God wil pour His

spirit upon al flesh. Al wil have the ability to see the truth …your sons and your daughters shall

prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. They wil be able to

see the truth!

Let's now go to Isaiah 11:9 – They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain: for the earth

shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. The earth wil be fil ed with

the knowledge of the Lord, and at that time this knowledge must [be] used /worked with, and this to

the point that God can say, "Now I know you. Come and inherit My promise, My Family Elohim."

I want to go to Matthew now, to see what Jesus says in the sermon on the mount about that

knowledge, the knowledge that we must have for to grow into the Kingdom of God. He says in

Matthew 5:3 – Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. The 'poor in

spirit', those who know they are poor in spirit, needy of Gods spirit. That means we must ask for

God's spirit daily in prayer – in our car or wherever we are; we must continual y ask for His spirit to

be able to fight temptations and our own human nature.

Verse 4 – Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. And on in verse 5 – Blessed are

the meek: for they shall inherit the earth . Meek – the dictionary states the following about this,

'pleasant, gentle, mild, humble, submissive, soft, mild, modest, sweet.'

And then verse 6 – Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall

be fulfilled. This means judging justly, righteously, striving to be righteous with God's help that lives

in us.

Then verse 7 – Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. We must also strive to be

merciful, for that is also a characteristic that God expects of us; have pity on and take care of the less

fortunate and the spiritual y weak in God's Church, and help them.

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And verse 8 then – Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Are we 'pure in heart’? Am I 'pure in heart', honest and fair? When I look at myself I tend to see quite some rough spots, and

then I ask God, "Help me, please, because I want You, You and Your Son! Convert me and forgive me

through the blood of Your Son who has delivered me. Help me Father!"

Verse 9 – Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Peacemakers...

mmm...there's stil some work to be done there isn't it for us, for myself and for everybody.

Verse 10 – Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the Kingdom

of Heaven.

Then in verse 11 – Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all

manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. Persecuted, yes we are, the world and some of the

scattered Churches persecute us by spreading false rumors about us, but God promises for those,

the persecuted ones, is the Kingdom, "My Government, My Family".

Continuing in verse 12 – Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so

persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Be happy and joyful…uh-huh, that’s not

always easy isn't it? …when they do these things to us. Stil , God wants us to be thus and He helps us

as long as we keep asking this help of Him daily. The prophets were persecuted, and now again a

prophet is being innocently 'put in chains'. You know, to me this actual y is one of the many proofs

that this is God's Church! Think about that, brethren.

Let's go to Isaiah 2:1-5 – The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and

Jerusalem.

Verse 2 – And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S House shall

be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations

shall flow into it. This 'in the top of the mountains, and shal be exalted above the hil s' means above

al governments of this world. Jesus sits on His throne in Zion, in the House of the Lord.

Verse 3 – And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the

LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His

paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem. The

nations wil go there out of their own free wil . But what do these people say? I found a better

translation for the scripture, but what do these people say? I found a better translation for this

scripture… 1Many people will come and say, "Let's go to the mountain of the Lord God of Jacob and worship in His Temple – into the House of spiritual Israel, is that.

Verse 4 – And He shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat

their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up swords

against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. What a beautiful world, the world that is

coming. Imagine no more war. But that wil take a lot of work to accomplish. As Mr. Armstrong said,

it wil take up to four generations to erase a lot of wrong thinking that is passed from generation to

generation.

Then verse 5 – O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

A beautiful time is approaching brethren, and we who are pioneers wil be al owed to be

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instrumental in helping it to come about. It's fantastic to fight for that right now, and not to give up,

because of what Paul says in Romans 8:18-19 – For I consider that the sufferings of this present

time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Verse 19 – For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.2

This is talking about the ultimate goal of being born as divine beings. And to us it is given to be

instrumental in that time that is now before us, either as physical humans or as one of the 144,000.

How awesome is God's plan! We must hold fast and stay in God's Church, otherwise God cannot

work with us and we won't be al owed to enter this age and to partake in it.

So we do what is stated in Isaiah 2:5 …we walk in the light of the LORD, meaning we walk according

to His laws and His commandments.

By the way the title for this sermon is The Thousand Years. (The 1,000 Years.)

We shal go now to Jeremiah 31:1-14 – At the same time, said the LORD, will I be the God of all the

families of Israel, and they shall be My people. This said the LORD, The people which were left of

the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

Verse 3 – The LORD had appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an

everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. Again, I will build thee, and

thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shall go

forth in the dances of them that make merry . Israel that wil be restored.

Verse 5 – Thou shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and

shall eat them as common things. For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the Mount

Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion and unto the LORD our God. For thus said the

LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you, praise

you, and say, O LORD, save the people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the

north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the

lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall

return thither . Gathered together from al over the world, that's what here is noted, gathered from

al over the world.

Verse 9 – They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them

to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am the

Father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Verse 10 – Here the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say,

He that scattered Israel will gather them/him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the

LORD has redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

Verse 12 – Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the

goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of

the herd: and they shall be as [a] watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Verse 13 – Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will

turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Brought to Zion.

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Then verse 14 – And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be

satisfied with My goodness, said the LORD.

This wil be built upon gradual y, and God wil dwel only in those that are committed to Him, and He

wil work out His plan in every individual's life, and not one wil be the same as the other. Everyone is

unique, and God moulds and fashions everyone so they wil fit as stones in His Temple. So again, do

not give up! And hold fast, because what is now right before us is so great!

As I'm preparing this sermon I suddenly realize that I too sometimes forget how beautiful this al is,

and how I must push myself more and be diligent and ask over and over again every day, "Father,

please help me and forgive me through the precious blood of Your Son. And please keep living in me

to do Your works, because only You real y know me and know what I need most to grow more and

more towards you."

We al need to do these things more in our lives, brethren; that is what God expects of us. Through

trial and error we must pick ourselves up again and again, and never give up – sometimes, that some

have done in the past few years. It hurts to no longer have them among us. I can't help but notice in

al conversations I've had lately, that it hurts and that people wonder " How is this possible?" How is this possible? And I’ve told those who have not experienced the apostasy the following, "You can

compare this on a smal scale to what happened back then on a massive scale, and compare it to

that hurt and pain of no longer being able to have them in our midst."

Let's go to Ezekiel 36:1, one chapter after Jeremiah…Ezekiel 36:1 – Also, thou son of man, prophesy

unto the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD; this

verse, the whole house of Israel, the mountains, are being addressed – the twelve tribes.

On in verses 8-11 we can see how God is going to accomplish al this, But you, O mountains of

Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people of Israel; for they are

at hand to come.

Verse 9 – For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and you shall [be] tilled and sown:

Verse 10 – And I will multiply men upon you, and the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities

shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built: And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and

they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better

unto you than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am the LORD.

And in verses 22-27…verse 22 – This said the LORD God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of

Israel, but for Mine holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, whither you

went. And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have

profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, said the LORD

GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

Verse 24 – For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of the countries, and

will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be

clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you . The 'clean water' means

that everyone wil receive of God's holy spirit; they wil receive God's spirit and thus they wil be

cleaned up of al corruption and of al idols they have worshipped in the form of worldly habits and

customs and everything that is against God. They loved the mammon more than He who created

them.

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Then in verse 26 – A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will

take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. ' A heart of flesh' He wil give us. Terry Wrozek gave a sermon on this subject last April. It would be good to review this

sermon and pray about it and consider how we can humble ourselves more before God so that He

can accomplish this in us… and He can, if we do so.

And look what is said in verse 27 – And I will put My spirit within you and cause you to walk in My

statutes, and you shall keep My judgments and do them. Awesome, brethren, awesome!

Verse 29 – I will also save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the corn, and will

increase it, and lay no famine upon you . No more famine! Everyone wil know the truth and wil be

spiritual y fed so they can live God's purpose in their lives. They wil be able to see what we can see

right now, and it wil be awesome to witness that happening!

Verse 34 – And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that

passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden; and

the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

Verse 36 – Then the heathen that are left round about, you shall know that I the LORD build the

ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it . The

attention of the nations, al people on earth, wil also be drawn.

Then verse 37 – This said the LORD God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the House of Israel, to

do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. As the holy flock, as the flock of

Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, and they shall

know that I am the LORD.

And where is Christ? Let's go to Revelation 14:1 – And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount

Zion, and with Him a hundred forty-four thousand, having the Father's name written in their

foreheads. This is Zion! The government is established there, in the House of God, as we just read in

Isaiah 2:2.

There are few people whose position is mentioned in the Bible; the positions that they wil occupy

after they have been resurrected in the first resurrection.

Jeremiah 30:9 – But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up

unto them. Here is that David shal be king over the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 34:23-24 – And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even My

servant David; he shall feed them and he shall be their shepherd. And I the LORD will be their God,

and My servant David, prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

Ezekiel 37:24 – And David My servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one

shepherd, they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them, with Jesus

Christ, a shepherd, as the head.

Luke 22:29-30 – And I appoint unto you a Kingdom, that My Father has appointed unto Me;

Verse 30 – That you may eat and drink at My table in My Kingdom and sit on thrones judging the

twelve tribes of Israel . The apostles wil each rule over one of the tribes of Israel, that's what Jesus

said here.

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Matthew 19:28 – And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That you which have followed

Me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, you also shall sit

upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And everyone wil have access to salvation.

Romans 11:26 – And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the

Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. Brethren, we must fight our own human

nature with the help of God's spirit, so that later we can also help out in that world that is coming.

And it doesn't matter whatever you are, physical or if you are a spiritual being at that time, what

matters is that God's plan to bring everyone to repentance and conversion grows and grows

throughout those thousand years.

I’d like to now quote part of what Mr. Armstrong wrote about repentance3:

" So, a Christian (someone who is truly converted) is someone who has received the holy spirit

of God and in who's mind that spirit lives."

But how can someone receive God's spirit? On the day that the Church was established the apostle

Peter said in Acts 2:38 …Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for

the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the holy spirit. Repent. Of what? …of sin? But

what is sin?

Check out 1 John 3:4 …sin is the transgression of the law. " Transgression of what law?" Mr.

Armstrong asked. "The law which carnal humans, who are by nature enmity to God, are not subject

to GODS LAW!"

Romans 8:7 – Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law

of God, neither indeed can it be.

In the same article of Mr. Armstrong we also read:

"...the holy spirit, that God has given to them who are obedient to Him . Acts 5:32 –

And we are His witnesses of these things; and so is also the holy spirit, whom

God has given to them that obey Him.

These are two conditions for receiving the gift of God, the gift of the holy spirit –

repentance and faith. Baptism is the outward sign of the inner belief in Jesus Christ.

Repentance isn't just being sorry about something you did, nor even about a amplitude

of sins, it is deep remorse and repentance about self (what you where and what you

are) – a sincere loathing of your former mindset and life without God. It is a total

change of yourself – of your thoughts, your heart and your way of life.

It's a change of lifestyle. It is a turning away of the selfish ways of vanity, selfishness,

greed, rebellion against authority, envy, strife and indifference about the wellbeing of

others. It means turning toward a Godly way of life, in obedience, submission to

authority, love towards God above love toward self, and love and care for fellow

mankind as much as the love for yourself.

3 Just What Do You Mean -- Repentance? (Translated from Dutch version of article so is not exact.)

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In Romans 13:10 it says …love therefore is the fulfillment of the law. And in

Romans 7:14 – For we know that the law is spiritual… and can only be fulfilled

because …because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts through

His holy spirit which was given unto us. (Romans 5:5)

On in Mr. Armstrong's article:

"The holy spirit opens one's mind for UNDERSTANDING of God's teaching

concerning His way of life, but will not force anyone to live Gods way of life – there

is no constraint involved. Each Christian must act upon their own initiative, but gets

help from God's spirit, faith and strength. But only those who are [and then it's the

verse from Romans 8:14] …led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. "

Beautiful how Mr. Armstrong captures the meaning of remorse and repentance, to be led by God's

spirit as sons of God … Incredible! And that's what it is al about, to become sons together with our

older brother and Redeemer/Saviour Jesus Christ. We must be made spirit, and that involves trial

and error, perseverance, never to give up. What is being offered to us is awesome! Those who wil

be born during the Mil ennium, and those who wil be resurrected at the Great White Throne wil

also have to do al this to attain to belonging to the God Family.

The account of the Great White Throne can be found in Revelation 20:12-13 – And I saw the dead,

small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened,

which is the Book of Life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the

books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell

delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their

works. This verse is usual y quoted on The Last Great Day.

Jesus explained this to Nicodemus, how that man can become a son of God. John 3:1-6 – There was

a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; he represented the Jewish religion.

Verse 2 – The same came to Jesus by night and said unto Him, Rabbi, we know that You are a

teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that You do, except God be with Him.

He did see at that time that Jesus was a teacher, a scribe from God, but he doesn't see the He was

the Messiah.

Verse 3 – Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born

again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. So how is it that worldly religions can say that they have

already been 'born again' and that the church itself is the Kingdom. Jesus says that we cannot see

the Kingdom! And they say that they've already been 'born again'…and they say that they have been

'born again'. I remember that that was one of the first things that Mr. Tkach changed in the

Worldwide Church of God, and at the time I thought, "Wel , That's not what I've been taught

through Mr. Armstrong from God." It comes from God. Mr. Armstrong told it from God given. And I

remember the first thing that I did after that, I went through the booklet again when I got home that

he had written on that subject. At that time I did not know what more would happen in the Church

later on…how practical y everything, what had so beautiful y been taught to us by Mr. Armstrong,

would be rejected.

Now back to John 3:4 – Nicodemus said unto Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he

enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? To be able to see this, we need God's

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smal amount of people that are in God's Church at this time. To me, again, that is one of the proof's

that this is the only one true Church.

Let’s go to Luke 12:32 quickly to see what Jesus says about this, Fear not, little flock ; not large as the worldly churches are. No, but smal , always has been 'little flock' …for it is your Father's good

pleasure to give you the Kingdom. His Family. We need to consider this cal ing every day of our life,

the reason why we can see and understand al this and thus live according to the way of life that God

expects from us… live according to the way of life that God expected from us.

John 3:5, going back… Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of

water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. Cleansed by God's spirit.

You don't have to turn there, but in John 7:38-39 it says, He that believes on Me, as the scripture

have said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water. But this spoke He of the spirit, which

they that believed on Him were to receive: for the spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not

yet glorified.

Go back to John 3:6 – That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is

spirit . Here Jesus says that we wil get a spiritual body, if we repent are baptized and keep God's Commandments.

Let's now go over to Isaiah 35:1-10 to look and see how these 1,000 years slowly but surely wil pan

out, because it wil not al happen al [at] once but spread out over years. It wil become to be more

and more beautiful in time as things are being prepared for the second resurrection, at which time a

'paradise-like' environment wil be achieved.

Isaiah 35:1 – The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice and

blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with the joy and singing; the

glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the

glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God. This, what God says, and He wil make it come to pass.

Amazing! We need to be more in awe for our Almighty God and Father and strive towards perfection

with His help. We must think upon these things that are before us more often in order to be more

motivated in our daily struggle, in our daily fight.

In Romans 8:18-19 Paul says, For I reckon that the suffering of the present time are not worthy to

be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward [in us].

Verse 19 – For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of

God . So brethren, whatever comes to pass with us in the physical tribulation and whatever we suffer

in our daily lives, spiritual y it does not compare to what Gods has in store for us! …it does not

compare to what God has in store for us – don't forget.

Back to Isaiah 35:3 – Strengthen the weak hands and confirm [make firm] the feeble knees. Say to

them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance,

with the recompense of God; He will come and save you. Magnificent what God inspired to be

written here and the promise that He gives us here – to be set free from the influence of Satan and

the deception that he has caused in the past 6,000 years – redemption through the blood and the

suffering of Christ. It also states ...be strong, fear not.

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That reminds me of what God says in 1 John 4:4 (you don’t have to turn there) Ye, you are of God,

my little children, and have overcome them, because greater is He that is in you than he that's in

the world.

Isaiah 35:5 – Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be

unstopped. Everyone wil be able to see and understand the truth, the Sabbath, God's Holy Days and

God's law, the 10 Commandments, the tithing system. Beautiful, those thousand years that are

before us, beautiful!

Verse 6 – Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the

wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert . ' Lame' can also be explained

spiritual y as 'deceived by Satan'. He has deceived the world with the exception, the true Church of

God – and we are part of that! We are part of that true Church of God…and he has the whole world,

but we, we are blessed who can see this al .

There wil also be physical healing, the right knowledge of healthy living, clean and unclean foods,

etcetera, etcetera. See Isaiah 33:24 – And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that

dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. Through repentance you receive …forgiveness of their iniquity it says. Our God 'forgives many-fold' is what we read in the Bible. Many scriptures in the Bible mention how God removes our iniquities far away from us.

Let's go to Psalms 103:10-13 – He has not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according

to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that

fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pitied them that fear Him.

On in Isaiah 35:7 – And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of

water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. What a

wonderful world, that 'World Tomorrow' that is coming, as Mr. Armstrong often stated.

Verse 8 – And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The Way of Holiness; the

unclean shall not pass over it but it shall be for those, the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not

err therein. The 'way of holiness' referred to by Christ as 'the narrow path', the way of growth

through the works that the Father wil accomplish in al humans. But one has to surrender to Him,

because it also says that 'no unclean' shal go over into it. So if you keep on holding onto your habits

and wrong ways, and you do not repent and keep on the broad way you won't get in. I'm speaking to

myself also because I realize that there is stil a lot of work to do here – pointing at myself – but I

know that I must persevere and hold fast to be able to keep on following this road, this way of life to

the end, and to keep on fighting, to overcome without ever giving up. It's so incredible, al that is

being offered to us.

Al that wil be born during those 1,000 years, that wil be able to instantly see the truth from a very

young age and who wil come to the point of baptism at some time in their life, wil also have to walk

in that 'way of holiness'.

Verse 9 – No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up therein, it shall not be found

there, but the redeemed shall walk there. Satan won't be around but human nature wil stil be.

Verse 10 – And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with songs and

everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall

flee away. Ransomed by the blood of our elder brother given for al mankind.

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God says in 1 Peter 1:18-19 – Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with

corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your

fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Before the 1,000 years can begin, al governments of this world must first be replaced by Gods

government. That is the 4th Truth, and the first truth given by Mr. Armstrong during the Philadelphia

era. We can find a description of those different governments in Daniel 2:31-35 – Thou, O king,

sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before

thee; and the form therefore was terrible.

Verse 32 – This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his

thighs of brass. The first kingdom (gold) was the Chaldean, the second kingdom (silver) was the

Persian kingdom, the third (the copper) was the Greek-Macedonian kingdom and splintered into

four parts.

And final y verse 33 ..his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. The fourth empire, that

Roman made of iron consists of 10 kingdoms, which the last seven were ful y controlled by the beast

power.

This is described in Revelation 13 and 17 . Mr. Weinland gave a sermon series on this subject entitled

'Late in the Night'. It consisted of three sermons, of which the later two thoroughly covered this

subject. They are dated the 20th and 27th of October, 2012. We are now living in the last of those

seven kingdoms. See Revelation 17: 10 – And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and

the other is not yet come; and when it comes, it must continue a short space. Mr. Armstrong saw

this when Hitler and Mussolini were in power – 'five are fal en and one is – the German Reich at that

time – 'and another is not yet to come; and he must continue a short space'.

And then verse 34, back from [to] Daniel 2:34 – Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without

hands, which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces.

(35) Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together and

became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no

place was found for them. And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and

fulfilled the whole earth. This 'became a great mountain and fulfil ed the whole earth' wil be Gods

government.

Verse 44 – And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a Kingdom which shall

never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break

in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Jesus Christ wil come with

the 144,000 and then the Mil ennium, the thousand years wil start.

We can read more about this in Revelation 20:1-6 – And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven

having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. Satan and the demons wil be replaced by

Christ and His firstfruits.

Verse 2 – And I saw an angel coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss and a

great chain in his hand. Satan wil be bound for a thousand years.

Verse 3 – And cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive

the nations no more until the thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a

little time. He can no longer deceive the nations! That is the good news, the gospel. The Kingdom, The 1,000 Years

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God's Family, wil be established and Satan can no longer broadcast through the air. This was also so

beautiful, explained to us by Mr. Armstrong, the broadcast of Satan in the air.

On in verse 4 – And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them:

and I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word

of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon

their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Judgment was given to them. We are now being judged.

1 Peter 4:17 now. We go to 1 Peter 4:17 – For the time is come for judgment to begin at the House

of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?

So al who have been cal ed and are in Gods Church, are now being judged. The same is true for

everyone who wil be born during the thousand years; and at the end of that thousand years many

wil be added to the numbers of the 144,000. Then the second resurrection wil come and judgment

wil be passed on those who then wil live for a second time during the hundred year period in which

they wil get time to walk according to God's way of life.

And in verse 4 of Revelation 20; we go back to Revelation 20:4; it says that same thing about the

144,000, that judgment wil be passed on them. And this verse 4 also mentions ...the souls of them

that had been beheaded.. this was explained to us by Mr. Weinland. I always had trouble

understanding this verse and thought, "So then my head shal also roll when that beast power is

going to persecute us in the future. Would indeed this beast power behead those who wil not

accept their teachings?" (Ha Ha!)...so I was very happy with the explanation given by Ron, and I

have slept better ever since! (Ha ha!)  What this here means is that they are cut off from the world

because of holding on to God's ways, it's not your head that must go off, but you are cut off from the

world. It's good that Ron has explained this. And that is what we must strive to do, to be as strangers

and pilgrims in this world.

We go now to Hebrews 11:13, the belief chapter we are going [to] often – These all died in faith,

not having received the promises but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and

embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Verse 14 – For they that say things declare plainly that they seek a country, and that they look

forward to that better world, that’s being offered to us.

And then a couple of pages further in Hebrews 13:14 – For here have we no continuing city, but we

seek one to come. This world wil come to an end and we look forward to the one stil to come.

Back to Hebrews 11:39 now And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received

not the promise. We have not received the promise yet; we also, brethren.

On in Revelation 20:4 – And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them and judgment was given unto

them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word

of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark

upon their foreheads or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

The 'mark on their foreheads and on their hands' is not just the weekly Sabbath but also pertains to

God's Feasts, like the Feast we are now observing. And the later part of this verse talks about the

144,000 who wil reign with Christ during the thousand years.

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Verse 5 – But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is

the first resurrection. This verse refers to The Last Great Day, to the second resurrection, a Holy Day

that we wil observe a few days from now.

Verse 6 - Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death

has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand

years. The second death has no power, meaning eternal life! Eternal life! Let us persevere and not give up for that which God has set before each of us, a place in His Family. We are al unique to Him

and al are different, and God uses that to mould us into His Temple.

Now I would like to quote part of what Mr. Armstrong wrote in 'Mystery of the Ages' in chapter 7

titled 'The Mystery of the Kingdom of God.' And more specific about the financial policies of this

world compared to that which is coming in the 'World Tomorrow', which is based upon Gods 1st, 2nd

and 3rd Tithe system. Mr. Armstrong wrote the following:

Economy of the World Healed

Since governments will be in the hands of the spiritual family of God, and partially

administered by those human leaders directly under that great ruling family--and since

there will be no huge bureaus watching other huge bureaus, which are suspiciously

watching other bureaus; no military establishment; no "intelligence" (spy) agencies or

members of Interpol; no huge cartels, monopolies, unions, or giant government

spending--the economy of the world will be healed.

Think of it! No more foreign aid programs, no more wasted billions to buy ‘lovers’

(allies). (Ezek. 23:9, 22; Lam. 1:2, 19; Ezekiel, 16th chapter)

Ezekiel 23:9 (he mentioned in this article, he noted) Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand

of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. And verse 22 – Therefore, O

Aholibah [Israel], thus said the LORD God; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from

whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side.

And now in Lamentations 1:2 – She weeped sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;

Among all her lovers she had none to comfort her: her friends have dealt treacherously with her;

they are become her enemies. And verse 19 – I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My

priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought them food to refresh their

souls.

And Mr. Armstrong goes farther... and you can also read Ezekiel 16 at home if you want. He goes

[says] in the article:

No more foreign aid--none of the wasted billions to buy "lovers" (allies) who turn and

rend you later. No more string-attached government grants to industry, to science and

space technology, to schools and institutions for research.

Instead, every necessary industry, educational institution, and business will be in

sound financial condition.

"What a world that will be!" Mr. Armstrong wrote.

Let's now turn to Micah 4:1-4 – But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the Mountain of the

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House of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, the larger nations, and it shall

be exalted above the hills, the smal er nations, and people shall flow into it. And many nations

shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the Mountain of the LORD, and to the House of the

God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways – what was just covered, God's laws – and we will

walk in Hs paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Then in verse 3 – And He/Christ shall judge among many people and rebuke strong nations afar

off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation

shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Incredible! No more

war, but peace that wil come to pass by people living by God's laws. And the farther we go into the

thousand years, the more blessing wil be added, and along with those also, prosperity.

Verse 4 – But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make

them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.

Everyone wil live in a world reigned by Jesus Christ. And under that Godly Government the earth wil

be flooded with happiness and abundance, as we saw in the scriptures we just read. Education wil

also be transformed , no more evolution rubbish! Paraphrasing what God says, '…man's wisdom is

foolishness unto Me'.

There wil also no longer be different religions, but one truth and one faith, and that truth and that

faith can only come from God. Ghetto’s and slums wil disappear and be replaced by decent housing.

Man wil be able to see the suffering that Satan has instigated during al 6,000 years: unhappiness,

pain, hate, discrimination, jealousy, envy, and so on, and they wil see that al these things came

about because mankind would not live by God's laws – the Laws that are based upon love, Godly

love, agape!

Mankind shal also experience prosperity and good health by when they do keep God's food laws.

And their happiness wil be the result of the powerful execution of Gods government. And yes, of

course there wil be those (maybe even many), who wil stil rebel and reject God's way and wil

refuse to repent and accept the sacrifice and the blood that Christ gave for them too.

But let's hope and pray that most people wil come to salvation and eternal life. Without Satan's

presence, as we said, human nature wil stil be there, but the fight wil be less intense than what we

experience now. That's why what God gives to us now (and Satan the instrument in this) is a great

opportunity to be pioneers in that world, in His 'World Tomorrow' that is now quickly coming. Just

imagine how incredible that is.

We're such a smal group right now and God has decided to give this to you and to me personal y so

that later on we can tel people how we fared in this age. We can tel them about the Apostasy that

took place under Mr. Tkach, and even how people stil fel away up to the very end. We can also tel

them then that they must take heed never to take anything for granted, and how this wil be a battle

for them too, a battle that they can win with God's help and His indwel ing. They wil hear about

Laodicea and what happened during that era. They wil hear about how people in God's Church…

Ach… you know, let's just read it. It's good to read those verses again; Revelation 3:15 – I know thy

works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot. So then because you are

lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth. People had become

lukewarm and were spewed out.

Verse 17 – Because you sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and

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knowest not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. This 'rich, and

increased with goods' is an attitude of "Wel , we know it al ," and then you started to take

everything for granted. We must battle this attitude and stay close to God so He can help us not

getting lukewarm.

I counsel thee to buy of Me gold, tried in the fire, that thou may be rich; and white raiment, that

you may be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes

with eye-salve, that thou may see. So that we wil repent from being 'naked and poor' and stand on

our two feet again to put on the 'white raiment', white clothing/garments that God is offering to us

to wear.

So those who wil stil be mortal in God's Church that wil enter the Mil ennium, wil work together

with they who wil be immortal: the woman/144,000 with her husband/Christ.

God's household is a Family that rules and reigns, one Government and one Kingdom, as we just

read. Daniel described this establishment of this Kingdom of God and how Jesus Christ wil remove

al ruling governments at His return, and how He wil be at the head of one world government.

Let's go to Daniel 7:13 – I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with

the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought Him near before Him.

Christ ascended to God's throne in heaven. God is almighty over the whole universe. What Daniel

saw in this vision was the Almighty God and Father (here described as 'the Ancient of days') of Jesus

Christ giving that rulership to Him, Jesus.

In the dictionary it says the following about 'reign' – 'rule, govern, power, dominion, hold sway,

command, sovereignty'. And He [Christ] wil receive Royal Power.

Now in verse 14 – And there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a Kingdom, that all people,

nations, and languages, should serve Him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall

not pass away, and His Kingdom which shall not be destroyed. The peoples and nations al over the

world that speak different languages wil al be ruled over by God's Family, God's Government, God's

Kingdom with, at its head He who is worthy, Jesus Christ.

So what wil the 144,000 and al who wil later be added (once having been born again) look like?

Let's go to Philippians 3:21 – Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His

glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.

Fashioned like His glorious body.

Let's go to 1 John 3:2 – Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we

shall be: but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He

is. And what does the glorified Christ look like?

Let's go to Revelation 1:14 – His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His

eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass as if they burned in a furnace, and His

voice as the sound of many waters. So this is what al who are born from God wil look like. And let’s

not forget what Jesus told Nicodemus: 'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of

God'. So one needs to be made spiritual first. They wil be able to manifest themselves in human

form, as we’ve read about Christ after His resurrection when He appeared many times to the

disciples.

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And so brethren, when reading these verses again, we must go on and ask God in prayer day after

day to help us with our conversion so that we can grow and be diligent in keeping this way of life, so

that we can fight against the sin within us and resist it, and live like al that have gone before us,

about whom we can read in Hebrews 11. Do read this when you get back home, and pray about it

that you may be able [to] follow their example. I wil do this because I and you, al who are present

here, must hold fast and never give up if we want to be born into God's Family.

Let's now go to Zechariah 14:4 – And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives,

which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave into the midst thereof

toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the

mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south. We know that that wil be

on a Pentecost and that the 144,000 wil stand there alongside Him.

Verse 8 – And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them

towards the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it

be. Living waters is the holy spirit that wil be available to al . Fantastic! Final y everyone wil be able to see the truth and do as we do now, walk in God's ways with the help and thanks to the sacrifice of

Jesus Christ, His Son.

Verse 9 – And the LORD shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and

His name one. King over the whole earth. We’ve just seen how that is going to come about.

Verse 11 – And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem

shall be safely inhabited. No longer driven out of their countries as happened to the Lost twelve

tribes – eleven tribes of it. Joseph's sons were divided into two tribes by his father, Jacob, Ephraim

and Manasseh.

And Satan wil no longer be able to spiritual y exile humanity. In other words, humanity that has

been forced to be blinded and cut-off from God's world during those ful 6,000 years. The promised

land that is just ahead of us. But we can see that now because God has opened our mind to see that

we are strangers and pilgrims in this world. We are so incredibly blessed brethren to be able to see

this; to be freed from the shackles of Satan as Jesus said, "…the truth shal make you free," in John

8:32. And we are free because God lives in us and we can change because of that and be freed by

putting these sins out of our life. We have also learned that God is reproducing Himself, and steadily

the Family of God grows, final y delivered from exile, final y out of the clutches of Satan and his

demons.

Verse 12 – And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have

fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they [are] standing upon their

feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in

their mouth. That is what is now ahead of us and what must come to pass. Humanity must be

brought low and then, and only then, man wil listen and let go of their pride and surrender to God

to be baptized and start to learn how to live His way of life. Only then man wil start to observe His

Sabbaths, and wil they put away their pagan holidays like Christmas, Easter, and al the other pagan

days they hold on to.

Verse 16 – And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of all the nations which came

against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and

to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. To also start observing this Feast, the Feast of Tabernacles! Jesus

Christ also observed the Feast of Tabernacles!

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Let's go and see in John 7:8 – Go you up upon this Feast: I go not up yet unto this Feast for My time

is not yet full come. Now His time has been fulfil ed! Now He is ready to go into the Feast… now, at this moment.

Verse 10 – But when His brethren were gone up, then went He also up unto the Feast, not openly,

but as it were in secret. This states that He not only observed the Feast of Tabernacles but also al

the other Holy Days that His Father instituted. How then can the worldly religions say that these true

Feasts of God are abolished? We know, but only because God has been so merciful to us to place us

into His only true Church on earth. Incredible! This humble al of us even more, and should be cause

us even more to pray and ask daily, "Father, thank you for giving me this, for being to understand

this. Please keep me humble and forgive me my iniquities, because I want You and nothing else!

Help me against the attacks from Satan. Help me to put on the ful armour and to keep it on,

because what you have in store for me is so great! And it is that, what I want, and no matter what

happens I – (we) – just want to overcome."

We need to look out for each other in the Church, and offer a helping hand where needed, or just

build each other up with uplifting words. We must love each other, because we are al His children,

of He who has cal ed us.

Verse 11 – Then the Jews sought Him at the Feast, and said, Where is He? Here it is again, they’re

clearly talking about the Feast of Tabernacles.

And in verse 14 – Now about the midst of the Feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

Again, in the middle of the Feast, so the Feast was halfway through.

Verse 16 – Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not Mine, but from His that sent Me. He

always gave al the credit to the Father. That is something we al must do too, and never to think that it al came from us.

Verse 17 – If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or

whether I speak of myself.

verse 18 – He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he that seeks His glory that sent Him,

the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him. The simple fact of this sermon that I must give

shows me even more that al must come from Him. He has to inspire and I have to receive it in

humbleness, and then the words and scriptures come to me. Incredible! Incredible, brethren!

Now a little further in verse 28 – Then cried Jesus in the temple as He taught, saying, You both

know Me, and you know whence I am: and I am not coming of Myself, but He that sent Me is true,

whom you know not. Likewise, we did not come to God's Church on our own initiative. No! God

placed us in His Church and opened our minds, and that is how we know Him. If we just stay close to

Him every day, so that He can accomplish in us, to be wil ing and able …both, to will and to work…

Philippians 2:13, that He both do the wil and the work in us so we can grow and bear fruit, so that He, our Father, at the given moment in time can say to us as He said to Abraham, "For now I know

you. You wil inherit My Kingdom, My Household, My Family."

And verse 33 – Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto Him

that sent Me.

Verse 34 – You shall seek me and shall not find Me: and where I am, there you cannot go. Yet again

Jesus is crystal clear about this and stil the worldly religions proclaim that we al go to heaven.

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We wil not touch upon verses 37 and 38 for they pertain to The Last Great Day, the final Feast in

God's plan.

Let's return to Zechariah 14:17-18 – And it shall be, those who will not come up of all the families

of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no

rain.

Verse 18 – And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the

plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the Feast of

Tabernacles. Look at that! So if you do not observe the Feast of Tabernacles during those thousand

years that are coming, you wil not be blessed. The same counts for us now. We are observing the

Feast, brethren, and look how blessed we are by God with al the Truths that we have been given

over the past few years, and look at the growth we can see in each of us. This is also the result of

going through the 4½ years without giving up. And it is physical y as wel as spiritual y; God blesses

al who keep His commandments and statutes, who go on in obedience, even if things don't pan out

as we expected it. We must continue to follow God and not give up. We must go forward even when

we find ourselves right before the Red Sea.

Verse 19 – This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all nations that come not

up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles . Everyone, meaning al people. And it also states that it is a sin not to observe the Feast, and this counts for al the other six Feasts of God as wel .

Let’s look at Deuteronomy 16:13 - Thou should observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, after

that thou have gathered in thy corn and thy wine: Hmmm… .. after thou hast gathered. This means we have to set aside 2nd Tithes. That is also commanded, that God gives us to do apart from 1st

Tithes, which everyone who has an income, a job, must also give unto God. Those 2nd Tithes are for

you, yourself, to observe the Feast of God. And they are mainly used for the Feast of Tabernacles. It

is for al the Feasts but mainly for the Feast of Tabernacles.

Verse 14 – And thou shalt rejoice in thy Feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy

manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,

that are within thy gates. To 'rejoice', that is what God asks of us, and we must be grateful that we

can do this. He opened our minds to this. He showed us that we should observe the Feast. We must

be grateful that we are no longer blind as the world is. We must rejoice and be thankful and have

love amongst ourselves and involve everyone in the Church; make everyone be a part of it. It is a

Feast that we al observe together, so no one should be left out on their own. No! No! No! We must rejoice together!

Let's look at what David wrote about that joy and that happiness that we should have. Psalms 100:1

-2 – Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all you lands.

Verse 2 – Serve the LORD with gladness, come before His presence with singing. Make a joyful

noise and sing.

Paul writes in Ephesians 5:19-21 (you don’t need to turn there) Speak to one another with the

words of psalms, hymns, and sacred songs; sing hymns and psalms to the LORD with praise in your

hearts. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, always give thanks for everything to God the Father.

Verse 21 – Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ.

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We go back to Psalm 100:3 – Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to

Him; we are His people, we are His flock. He is our God and Father. We belong to Him through

baptism, and through that baptism He and His Son, Jesus Christ, can live in us, in His people, His

sheep. Fantastic what it says here, 'we are His flock'. As sheep, God leads us, moulds and fashions us

to be made ready to go into those thousand years, and to develop more and more until we can

become Elohim. Incredible!

Verse 4 – Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise: Give thanks unto

Him, and bless His name. Strive to go into these gates, His courts, with thanksgiving and praise.

"Father, please help us to continue and not to give up, because what You have done for us is so

beautiful. Help us to have that joy during this Feast, so that we can be pleasing to you. And give us

Your agape, Godly love, through Your spirit that lives in us."

Verse 5 - For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, His faithfulness to all

generations. 'His loving kindness…' that is mercy, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, forbearing, and

kind into al eternity! And 'His faithfulness'; He won’t forsake us, He helps us in every situation,

always, even though it may sometimes seem that He is not in us, that's not the case. If you purge out

sin and repent time and time again, then He is in you. We know that God cannot and wil not live in

someone who sins, but He is faithful and does help us in al that we ask of Him, al things concerning

our repentance and spiritual growth. Beautiful, the God that we serve. I cannot state it enough!

What a beautiful plan our God has for us!

To finish now we go to Deuteronomy 16:15 – Seven days shall you keep the Feast unto the LORD

thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose; because the LORD thy God will bless thee in all

thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shall be altogether joyful.

And those thousand years which we have discussed today are celebrated in this Feast of

Tabernacles! Let us therefore be joyful!

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