A New Paradise on Earth

Good afternoon, brethren. Good afternoon, brethren. Ah, that's much better. It was a very pleasant singing of the children. We all enjoyed it. It's always nice to hear the children singing. It really is a pleasure, and it's an honor to see two ordinations in the church today. So it's really a blessing as well. So a double blessing. Brethren, I bring you greetings from Cincinnati and from the ministry there and from Mr. Luca. I just want to mention to you that it really is a pleasure to be at the Home Office. The spirit is always very positive, particularly for instance, every Monday morning we have a meeting. And in a Monday morning meeting, what is happening now is it gets a bit difficult to get the people quiet before we can start the meeting. You know, it's that feast-like atmosphere in a Monday morning. And that's a pleasure to see that. Another time I was asked by Mr. Luca to brief a situation about Brazil. After a trip I went there to brief some of the needs. So they asked me to attend one of the management meetings that they have on a regular basis in Mr. Luca's office. And one of the first things, we walked in there and they closed the door. We all knelt down, held hands, and we prayed for God to bless the work in everything we do. And Mr. Luca said, that's what we do all the time. And that's encouraging, brethren, because that was not done before. It really is encouraging. It's encouraging that God is opening doors, and we have to look to Christ as our head, as our lead. And as a little bit of an update, we have one member here from Dallas that is going to be joining me in my next trip down to Brazil. So I'm very pleased to say that. And we're very excited about that. Very pleased that the person wants to do it of his own free will. And that's a pleasure. I want to update you also that this is the cover of the next good news. The only difference is it's in Portuguese. So you can see that's what the next good news will look like. You should be receiving it soon. It's the first time we're doing concurrent with the English. It's not all full pages that it has, 32 pages. It's only 16, but still is something, and it's in full color. So it's really exciting. It's the first time we're doing it. Previously, it was just a few pages supplement. So it is another door that God is opening for us, and we are happy about it.

Brethren, this year alone, we have seen amazing devastation in the world. Look at the first week of January this year alone. On the 1st of January, there was an earthquake of magnitude of 6.9 in Argentina. And by the way, we just had one in the East Coast recently as well. On January the 2nd, we have an earthquake of 7.1 in Chile. And we had more than a thousand dead birds fall from the sky in Arkansas, and some dead fish covering a 20-mile section in the same Arkansas River. On the 3rd of January, we had an outbreak of yellow fever in Uganda, killing more than 40 people, an earthquake of 7 magnitude again in Argentina. We had hundreds of dead black birds found in Louisiana, ten thousands of birds in Manitoba, and thousands of birds fell from the sky in South America. And there was a major flood that you probably have already forgotten about in Australia, if you remember, on January the 3rd. On January the 4th, 100 tons of dead fish washed up in Brazilian shores. And on January the 3rd, hundreds of dead birds were found in East Texas, as you may recall. Dead birds were also found in Sweden, millions of dead fish in Maryland, Brazil, and New Zealand. On January 6th, 40,000 crabs. Not that you were too worried about that. But nevertheless, something is in the environment happening. We're found in England beaches, and heavy floods were encountered in Brazil, killing 35 people. Brethren, that's in less than a week. I really cannot go on at that rate telling what has happened this year. So let me just highlight some of the bigger things. Some of the bigger things we have, for instance, on the 11th of March, an earthquake of a magnitude of 9.0 and a tsunami in Japan. On the 16th of April, we had deadly tornadoes to heat North Carolina and Virginia, killing at least 47 people. We had a massive thunderstorm that spawned 137 tornadoes, killing at least 180 people, and mangled sections of the Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Huntsville, Alabama. In May, we had dead tornadoes in Minneapolis, Missouri, and Oklahoma City. We had also in May 800 tons of dead fish in the Philippine fish farms, and at least 10,000 metric tons of dead fish in Bolinau and the Andawaters in Pangasinan. In June, we had a volcano erupting in Chile, affecting the flights in South America. For the first time in 50 years, we had massive wildfires in Arizona, claiming more than 30 homes. And 40 tornadoes ripping through Nebraska. And then we have the drought in the South, as you're pretty well aware, and particularly the heat that we have here in Texas pretty well testifies. The drought gripping the West could be the worst in 500 years. The effects in the Colorado River basin are even worse than during the Dust Bowl years. For instance, scientist Robert Webb of the U.S. Geological Survey stated, The water flow levels are close to half of those of the drought of the dirty 30s of the previous century. Half of that level. We won't mention, therefore, brethren, the starvation in Somalia, the troubles in Sudan, the U.S. debt crisis, the financial crisis in Europe that you can see all the effects, and we won't talk about your 401K and your 403Bs in the stock market. And then, brethren, we have riots motivated by young people. And I want you to turn with me to Isaiah 5, verse 4-7. Isaiah 5, verse 4-7.

And they do not direct their deeds towards turning to their God, for the Spirit of all the trees is in their midst. They do not know the Lord. The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore, Israel and Ephraim, interesting, it says, Israel and Ephraim, and stumble in their iniquity, and Judah also stumbles. With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find Him. And we see nowadays different movements of people wanting to seek God, but it says they will not find Him. He has withdrawn Himself from them. They have dealt treasureously with the Lord, for they have begotten pagan children. Brethren, we see what's happening in the world. Society has raised up pagan children.

But God will not allow this destruction to continue. He will intervene, and He will recreate a new earth and new heavens with rain in due season.

God will create a new paradise on earth. How will the world change? How will it move from this disaster that we have today into the wonderful world tomorrow? Today, brethren, in my sermon we'll see some key events leading to Jesus Christ establishing the kingdom of God on earth, and how that paradise will be created on earth.

Turn with me to Acts 3, verse 19, Acts 3, verse 19-21. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, from heaven, whom must receive until the times of restoration of all things. Christ is in heaven until the times of restoration of all things. The earth will be restored to a beautiful garden of Eden. The earth will be restored to a beautiful paradise, where adults and young children will be living in peace and happily. To a beautiful earth, turn with me, please, to Isaiah 11, chapter. This is a well-known scripture, and we start reading from 6 to 9. And it says, I mean like dogs. The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, and the winged child shall put his hand in the viper's den, and they shall not hurt nor destroy in my holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the eternal, as the waters cover the sea. Brethren, scenes like this will not have to be controlled and managed. We will be able to pet a little pet lion like this one, which is a little puppy of three months old lion. You wouldn't say it was three months old. Continuing, verse 10.

The resting place shall be glorious.

Brethren, there's going to be a new world order that will make this possible to be so in the world tomorrow. Because what will happen is the Israelites will come back to the area where it's called today, Palestine, or where is Jerusalem. Continue reading with me in verse 11.

And we'll gather together. And verse 12.

So, brethren, Israel and Judah will be gathered together, as we've seen. It's talking about both. So, we are talking about a second Exodus that will be bigger than the first Exodus. But how does it get to this stage? How will God create a new paradise on earth? Because we are in a world today where everything is dark and gloomy, but there will be a wonderful world tomorrow of great reconstruction. So, how will that come about? Well, Christ revealed to us in the book of Revelation how that will come about. And the church has a number of booklets that cover that, which obviously I would like to recommend you to study them, because they're wonderful study guides about prophecy. Prophecy is a difficult subject, so I'm not going to go into detail about the seven seals. And this slide, by the way, you have it as a handout when you leave today, so there will be a handout at the back. But there are seven seals that Christ given to us, and that is opened up. Of the first four seals are four horsemen of the apocalypse, and those four horsemen are riding in parallel. The important thing is they're riding and building up to a climax. In the meantime, there are seven things we need to watch. And Mr. Armstrong has continuously emphasized that many years ago that of those seven things to watch is Israel, Jerusalem, and daily sacrifices to come. Watch Israel, brethren. Things are going to happen there soon. Then we're going to watch United Europe. But a United Europe with ten nations, or groups of nations, not with twenty-seven. So something has to happen to reduce that number or create like a two-tier environment in which there is a core tier of ten nations, and that they would grant the power to that leader. There's also in the Bible things to watch about a king of the south. We need to watch the loss and of pride of the power of the United States and Britain, which basically is the weakness of the currency and of the military power. Then we have to watch false religions, particularly the Catholic but also Muslim. And they will have leadership and ideologies that will ride those two kings of the north, which is Europe, and king of the south. And obviously we have to watch God's church because a work will be done. A work will be done. And we have to watch declining values of morality. So those are the seven things we need to be watching. So as the four horsemen are riding up on the way towards a climax, we have to be watching these things because they will give us a pretty well indication as things are coming to us. To that apex or that peak. But there are a few things that are very important for us to watch that sometimes we don't pay attention to. I call them milestones. And there are three major milestones that are pretty significant. The first one is the man of sin or the false prophet. Turn with me to 2 Thessalonians 2.1-3.

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled either by spirit or by word or by letter as if it was from us. It will not be deceived as if we are giving you some thing that Christ has already come. As though the day of the Lord has come or had come. Let no one deceive you by any means, but for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first. Brethren, a falling away, in my view, has already probably happened. And the man of sin is revealed. There is a major milestone. That won't happen until this man of sin is revealed. The son of perdition. And he can continue reading what he will do and which we'll do in a moment. So the man of sin is an important point for us to remember. Let's continue reading them on verse 4-7.

He says that he sits in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. So there will be a sanctuary, maybe not necessarily a temple, but an area where they are doing morning and evening sacrifices. And he is going to be inclined to do exactly what it says here. Show himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining that he may be revealed in his own time.

Now you know, brethren, he says, Paul is saying after the Thessalonians, whatever is holding him back, it's holding him back until the right time. Only God knows the time, Christ said. No man knows the day or the hour. Only God knows the time. So God is holding that back from happening until the time. And when the time is right, God lets his hand go and the man of sin will be revealed.

And he says, for you know the mystery of loneliness is already at work. Yes, this deception is already in the world. For only he, when he restrains it, will do so until he is taken out of the way. However, God, which is restraining it, will take it out of the way at the right time. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. In other words, that human being will be living when Jesus Christ comes back. So that is a very important milestone that we need to be watching to see that to happen.

Another one is the abomination of desolation, which you can read in Matthew 24, and you can use our booklets about prophecy, which basically says, when that happens in the daily sacrifices get stopped, then beware, flee, because the time has come. So as you can see in the slide, is the time when the church has to flee, or at least a portion of the church is protected from the Great Tribulation. And then the fifth seal comes. So that's a major milestone. Pretty well significant signs that we have there.

After that comes a major sign, which is the heavenly signs, which is God saying, is now going to act. And he says, that's it. He's had enough, and he's now going to intervene in the world affairs, and he's going to start the day of the Lord. But before he starts the day of the Lord, because the day of the Lord is composed of seven trumpets, before he starts the day of the Lord, he will seal his servants that have come out of the Tribulation, as you can see in the slide.

So, through during the period of the Tribulation, through our work now in the church area, or and the work of the two witnesses, which is in parallel with Satan's wrath for the Great Tribulation, some of the people come out of the Tribulation, and they'll repent, and they'll be sealed, because God will not allow his punishments to affect his people that have repented.

And so we'll come to a point in which God will finally bring the lost trumpet. During the six trumpets, God will humble mankind. Mankind will become a lot more teachable, not repented yet, but a lot more humble. And when the lost trumpet sounds, turn with me to Revelation 11. Revelation 11, the seventh trumpet, Revelation 11. 11, verse 15. And then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and it shall reign forever.

In other words, the kingdom of God will now, from now onwards, be established on earth to reign and rule on earth. And if you jump down your eyes to verse 18, it says, The nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the eyes the time of three important things. Look it up. And the time has come of three important things, of the dead that they should be judged, the time that you should reward your servants, the prophets, and the saints, and those who fear your name, small and great, and thirdly, the time to destroy those who destroy the earth.

That time will come where those three things have to happen at a Christ's coming. The first one, as we know, is the first resurrection, which is a judgment of those that are dead, because some will be judged to be righteous and to be in the first resurrection. So it will be a judgment of the dead. And those will be on the first resurrection at the last trump, as you can read in Corinthians 15 and Thessalonians 4, very well-known scriptures. Then it's a time to reward the saints.

And as we had in the first song today about the wedding supper and the wedding and the rewarding of the saints that goes there, you can read that in Revelation 19. I'm not going to go into there, but it is a rewarding of the saints. And they will be arrayed with fine linen, clean and bright. And it says the fine linen is the righteous acts or the works that they have.

And they are not their works. They are God's righteousness. The righteous acts is God's righteousness. And you see, people get confused today. And they say, well, we've got to become more righteous. And they start doing things, thinking they're becoming more righteous. And they forget that what we need to seek first is the kingdom of God and His righteousness. In other words, God's righteousness, not your own self-righteousness. And that's what the world does not understand. And many people have even fallen away from the church because they were seeking their own self-righteousness.

We've got to seek God's righteousness. So, brethren, after that, the third item is for destroying those that are destroying the earth. The armies will gather, and you can read that also in Revelation 19, 11 through 16. It shows Christ will come as King of kings and Lord of lords in a white horse.

And those that have the fine, white, and clean linen, they will come with Him, and they will destroy those who destroy the earth. And you can read about that, brethren, in Zechariah 14. Zechariah 14. I beg your pardon? Yes, Zechariah 14. Let's go to Zechariah 14.

Zechariah 14. Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, and your spoil will be divided in your midst, for I'll gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem. The city shall be taken, and it shows the devastation will happen. And then on verse 3, it says, then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.

So God will come out, Christ will come out, and will destroy those that destroy the earth. And in that day, His feet will stand on a Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and a Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from the east to the west. And continue reading in verse 12. Let's see how you will do that fight. Very specifically, Christ is coming, the saints are with Him, and this is how they will be.

It says in verse 12, And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand in their feet, their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths. In other words, they will not have time to press the button that will trigger the atomic bombs that will destroy the whole earth.

At that time, at the right time, when they see Christ coming, and when they see this happening, and they see the resurrected saints rewarded, intervening, then Christ will intervene miraculously, preventing them from destroying the whole earth. He will destroy those intent on destroying the earth. And it shall come to pass in that day that a great panic from the Lord will be among them.

Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor and raise his hand against his neighbor's hand. In other words, they'll start fighting amongst themselves as well. So they will be terrified. And look in verse 14. Now in verse 14, it's got an interesting point. It says, Judah also will fight a Jerusalem. This is very significant. The first nation, when they see Christ coming, they have been waiting for 2,000 years for the Messiah. And when they finally see him, they'll recognize that Christ, indeed, the one whom they pierced, is the Messiah.

And they'll be the first nation on a worldwide basis, the Jewish nation, that will repent, that will acknowledge Christ as the leader. And Judah will fight a Jerusalem. So we can see, Judah will be the first nation to be converted.

And so what we have, immediately after that, as God is creating a new paradise on earth, the very next thing that will happen is Satan is put away. Now with Satan being put away, it's like a pressure being lifted.

It's like a great pressure on one's back that will be gone. That pressure on one's mind is vibes continuously on society. That will be gone. Turn with me, please, to Leviticus 25. Leviticus 25. Leviticus 25, verse 9 and 10. Leviticus 25, verse 9 and 10.

Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the day of Atonement, you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land, and you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants.

It shall be a Jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. What a great joy it will be! When Christ has come, Satan is put away, the trumpet of Jubilee, the year of Jubilee will be there, that year that Christ comes, and a trumpet will be blown, and liberty will be upon the land. Because the kingdom of God is finally established over all the mountains of the earth. In other words, over all the nations of the earth.

Turn with me, please, to Isaiah 61. Isaiah 61, verse 1 and 2. The Spirit of the Lord, God, that's the Father, is upon me, that's Jesus Christ. Because the Lord, that's God the Father, has appointed me, Jesus Christ, to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me, Jesus Christ, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

And he closed his book and he sat down. Do you remember that? When Christ in Nazareth. You can read that in Luke the fourth chapter. When he read the Scripture, and he got to this point where there's a comma, and he closed the book and sat down. No wonder everybody looked at him. Because up to there reflected his first coming.

But now let's read about the second coming. Let's continue reading about the second coming. The time of the true Jubilee. It says, And the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of Evaness, they may be called trees of righteousness. Now who are the trees of righteousness? Are they human beings? No. It's those saints that have been resurrected that are with Christ that the coming, they are the trees of righteousness that they will be looking at.

Obviously human beings will become that too. The planting of the Lord that he may be glorified, and they shall rebuild the old ruins whose day those returning saints, you and I, resurrected or changed at that time, will then have a responsibility to rebuild all the ruins. And yes, human beings stand under our guide and direction will also perform. They shall rise up to former desolations. They shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigners shall be your plowmen and your wine-dresses.

And brethren, that will be a lovely time. And look at it in verse 6. But you shall be named the priests of the Lord. Who are going to be the priests of the Lord? You know, it says the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. So who are the lords of the Lord of Lords?

Those that have been resurrected. And they'll be the priests of the Lord. And they shall call you the servants of your God, and you shall eat the reachers of the Gentiles. And in their glory you shall boast those resurrected human beings will be glorious. That's what's waiting for you, the glory of Christ. Christ living in you and shining through you today.

One day you'll even be more because you'll be able to exemplify the proper glory of Christ in your daily living. Read in verse 9. And their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles. Our children will be living and they'll be known amongst the Gentiles. And they offspring amongst the people and they shall see them and acknowledge them. That they are the posterity. They are the seed.

The Portuguese Bible says they are the family. Interesting, isn't it? The family of God. They are the children of God. They are the family whom the Lord has blessed. Reverend, that is exciting. And that is the section that Christ did not complete reading, but he will read when he comes back. He will read that section in the future. Now we can take up the point that we are discussing a little earlier when the nations come back to Jerusalem. Because liberty has been proclaimed.

Christ is ruling on earth and now the nations can come back to Jerusalem. The Israelites and the Jewish. Look with me in Isaiah 27. Isaiah 27.

Isaiah 27 verse 12 and 13. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will fresh from the channel of the river to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one. You will be gathered one by one after the great trumpet has been blown.

It says, yeah, continue reading. O you children of Israel, so it shall be in that day the great trumpet will be blown. Which trumpet? Of the Jubilee, of liberties proclaimed on the land. And therefore the people be gathered one by one. That is beautiful, brethren. And it says, they will come who are about to perish in the land of Assyria. And they who are the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Israelites will come from all over. From the area of the states, from England, from Ireland, from Belgium, from Norway, from France, from Australia, from South Africa. And they'll come from all corners of the earth, gathered one by one. And they'll come to build that new nation under the government of Jesus Christ as the King of Kings. And so, brethren, they'll be gathered. That will be the second Exodus. Turn with me to Jeremiah 23.

Jeremiah 23 explains a little bit more about the second Exodus. Jeremiah 23, verse 5 to 8. Be all the days are coming, says the Lord, that I'll raise to David a branch of righteousness. That's Christ. A king shall reign and prosper. That is Christ as the king, is a branch of righteousness from David. And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

In these days, Judah will be saved. In these days, when Christ comes back at the second coming, the Jews will be saved. But not just the Jews and Israel, which means Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, Zebulun, and all the other tribes will be saved. Now, this is his name by which he will be called, the Lord, our righteousness.

Brethren, that's the righteousness we have to seek. Not our own ideas of what righteousness is. But we've got to follow Christ's example. And the teaching he's given us through himself and through the apostles, that's who we've got to follow. Therefore, be all the days are coming, says the Lord, that they shall no longer say, as the Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt. They'll never again be talking just about all the first Exodus when they came out of Egypt through the Red Sea.

But, verse 8, as the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the North Country and from all the countries where I've driven them, and they shall dwell in their own land. People will be talking about the second Exodus. Now think about it. Think about it. You have this Exodus of people coming into the area of Palestine. Remember, the only ones that were killed at Christ's coming were the military forces that were there, not the people. So think about the people that live in those areas when they see the same flux of other people coming into that area, what will happen?

They all rebel. They say, well, these people can't come in here. And so you can read that there will be problems. There will be implications. We'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment. But you see, as people coming in, there are other implications. There are housing issues. There's shelter. There's clean running water. There's food. There's jobs. There's schools. All these things need to be catered for. But remember, we have a very unique government now on earth.

Remember, there are two types of beings on earth at this moment. There's physical human beings, as you and I are today, physical human beings. And there are spiritual beings, those that have been resurrected, those that have been born again into the kingdom of God, that are no longer flesh and blood. They will be organized, and the spirit beings will represent the kingdom of God ruling over the earth. Jesus Christ gave a description of that, or a vision of that. You can read that in your own time, about Peter, James, and John, which they went up onto a mountain, and they had a vision.

And that vision you can read in Matthew 17, 1-9. And in that vision, they saw Moses and Elijah representing church and state. And so we can see there will be an organized spiritual organization, which is the kingdom of God ruling on earth, with two, let's call it legs to it, or two areas of control of management. One will be under Moses, which will be the ruling government, and the other one will be under Elijah, which will be the church.

So brethren, not only the church understand and Elijah, because that will be religion, church, education, it will be the Lord. So we have kings and priests controlling, in the right way, in the right spirit, guiding industry, guiding technology, guiding science and agriculture, guiding commerce, and the overall social order. And it all will be under the Father. All will be under the Father, under the control of Jesus Christ on earth, and will have the state and the church governing the people. As you can read, the twelve apostles will rule over the twelve tribes. You can read that in Matthew 19 as well. And some will rule over five cities. Some will rule over ten cities, depending on according to reward. Remember the parables of Christ, which some will rule over five cities, some will rule over ten cities. Matthew 25 and Luke 19. But brethren, what we have is that Jesus Christ will now rule and bring peace to earth. Look with me, please, in Ezekiel chapter 34.

Ezekiel chapter 34.

We'll read verse 24 through 26.

And they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the wilderness.

I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will cause showers to come down in this season. There will be showers of blessing. Brethren, how much do we need today? Showers of blessing in the land. The heat outside its unbearable brethren, it clearly is not a blessing. God has removed the blessings from the nations of Israel, specifically Kamanassa and Ephraim and other nations, and all the whole is affected likewise. So brethren, under God's rule, God will change the nature of human beings. God will bring blessings of rain and dew season, and the earth will therefore change. Under Elijah, you know what's the priests, the lords, and under John the Baptist, let's see what they will do by reading Micah chapter 4 verse 6. Turn with me, please, to Micah chapter 4 verse 1 and 2.

Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow to it. And many nations shall come and say, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths. For out of Zion the law shall go forth. That's the teaching. That is the Torah. The teaching is not just the Ten Commandments. It's all Christ's teachings, which He expanded in the New Testament, not just the Old Testament. That stands, but it's expanded and large, magnified with Christ's teachings and the apostles' teachings. And it says, And the law shall go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. So that's what will happen, brethren, under the leadership of the church of Elijah. And all nations will come forwards. They'll keep the feast. And with the right teaching and the right government, God will make the earth a paradise. This, therefore, will spread over the whole world, starting from Israel. Then it will spread onto the Israel. That means all the nations of Israel that will come together. But as I mentioned to you before, the nations surrounding nations, which are the Arabs, will be the first ones to object. And they will kind of rebel against these things and start shoving their weight and say, No, this is our land. Whatever. And you can read in Jeremiah 46 to 51, and you can read in the minor prophets how Christ will deal with them and will correct them. First will be the Arab nations. Why? Because they're children of Abraham. You see, God will first work with the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And then will work with the remaining children of Abraham, Abraham and Ishmael. And will work with them. And then from there, you'll expand it to Europe and to Africa, because you read there'll be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. So it'll spread around to that area. And the last ones will be the land of Gog and Magog, as you can read elsewhere in other scriptures. You see, the people starting to obey God throughout the world, and it's like a stone dropping in a pool of water. And as that stone drops in a pool of water, there's a ripple effect that just spreads out to the whole world. Starting from Judah first, then to Israel, then to the other nations of Abraham, and then to the other Gentile nations. It'll spread to the whole world. Turn with me, please, to Isaiah 34. Isaiah 34, verse 4.

Be upon Isaiah 35, verse 4. Isaiah 35, verse 4. Say to those who are fearful-hearted, Be strong, do not fear, Be old, your God will come with a vengeance. With the recompense of God, He'll come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened. Brethren, yes, God will heal physically. But we need to read this, as always, we need to consider the Bible that prophecies have duality, have dual meaning. So we need to read this also spiritually speaking. The eyes of the people be opened, and they'll understand God's truth and God's ways. And the years of the death shall be unstopped. Doesn't it say in Revelation, it says, He that has years to years here, well, those years that are dull of yearning will be opened, they will understand the truth. And the lame shall leap like a deer, not just physically, but people spiritually are down, are despaired, are downtrodden. They will be healed of that spiritual trouble. And the tongue of the dumb will sing, and for water shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. The parched ground will become a pool. There will be water coming out. There will be, the earth will just become beautiful, spreading, as I said, from Jerusalem all the way around the whole world. And the thirsty land springs of water, and the inhabitants of jackals where they lay, there shall be grass of reeds and bushes. So brethren, the soul will spread in amazing way. Continue there in verse 10, it says, And the ransom of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion of singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. What a happy time where people will just be happy, because God is blessing the people as they obey God. Basically, what do we have? People are healed. There is clean water. There is good agricultural land. They start rebuilding schools, building roads, building sewerages, building new electrical outlets and capabilities, all through a non-polluting environment. The government and public servants will be true public servants. They will dare to serve the public, not for their own personal power and wealth. Education will now be sound of a sound mind of how to live and how to develop character, the stature of Jesus Christ. The schools will be teaching, but they will include God's revealed knowledge in schools. Commerce and industry will be reconstructed, not based on competition and greed and dishonesty or misrepresentation. The financial system will be completely over-rolled. We'll have a seven-year cycle and a fifty-year cycle, stopping these financial bubbles. And we'll see deserts to bloom. The deserts, like you see a picture of the Namib Desert, and the deserts will bloom because we'll have raining dew season, the former rain and the latter rain, allowing the land, therefore, to have its dew rain, having the proper land sabbaths, allowing the land to rest, having proper crop rotation, avoiding pests and no insecticides. The breeding of animals will be natural, not full of hormones and based on the greed motive. People will just be healthy because of the whole environment, mentally healthy, physically healthy. And brethren, there will be plenty of fresh running water. We will not need to have bottled water. We'll have plenty of good drinking water. But here's another miracle, brethren. You see, the Earth will be polluted. You see, the waters will be contaminated to one way or another with nuclear radiation. Either through tsunamis or through explosions, there will be contamination of the waters and the seas. And look how many fish have been dying and birds falling off the skies and things like that. There are troubles out there that we don't even begin to understand the pollution and what is affecting mankind.

Turn with me to Zechariah 14, verse 8.

Zechariah 14, verse 8.

Any that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem. Do you understand what living waters are? Does it turn on in your brain what a living water is? Now, if I tell you there's a living plant, there's a little plant that you plant in a little vise and I say that's a living plant, what happens to that plant over time? It grows.

Living waters means water that grows.

Living waters that has life. They will heal. They'll come out from Jerusalem and go towards the Dead Sea and from there and to the Mediterranean. And from there they'll grow and spread around the whole ocean of the earth and will heal the oceans. God will create some sort of thing in those waters that will heal the waters of the sea around the whole world.

It will be like an unpolluting agent that you pour it in the water, think of it, and cleanses the water. And it grows, it multiplies, it just goes out.

Where will these waters come from?

Turn with me to Ezekiel.

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Thank you. Thank you. All right. Where will these waters come from? I don't know if I said let's go to Ezekiel 47, Chapter 1. Ezekiel 47, Chapter 1.

We read there that the waters will come out of Jerusalem. But let's be more specific where they all come from. We're going to read 47, Verse 1. So brethren, there's going to be a temple rebuilt. A temple of enormous proportions of about two miles by two miles in size. And the Levites will do their job again. The job of offering sacrifices. And you may say, why offer sacrifices again? Because they are a physical lesson, a reminder. It's like at Unleavened Bread. Why do we have the Unleavened Bread? It's a teaching tool to help us learn certain principles. So those sacrifices will point and will be reminders, will be education, to point to the true Christ, to the true sacrifice. So that's why they will be doing it again. And then read in Verse 8 of the same chapter. And then He said to me, This water flows towards the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea, and when it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. And if you read this section, you'll see that the water, when it first comes out, it's just a little bit of water, like up to your ankles. And then as it goes further, it grows to your knees, and as it goes further, it goes to your waist. As you go further, it's so tall that you have to swim in there, otherwise you drown. It's a growing, living water, and it's a healing water, that when it reaches the waters of the sea, it heals. In other words, a dead sea will no longer be a dead sea, which means if you want to see it, see it before this. So the dead sea will not be a dead sea, but the waters will be healed around the world, the Mediterranean, etc. And that water will come down, as the picture shows, from the right-hand side, they will come out and will spread to the whole world. So brethren, the Israelites nations will now be an example. You can read in Romans 11 how they were, with their falling, it's only temporary because they will get up again, and God will work with them, and they will be an example to the rest of the nations. They will be a blessing to all nations. And what they will have is that their riches will be the fullness of the Gentile nations. It will just spread it around the world, and it will be a blessing to the whole world. So brethren, what we have is, we will have a new paradise on earth. That's how God will create that new paradise on earth. There will be a new world order. There will be peace from Jerusalem to all the world, and the waters will heal the whole world. And no wonder, Christ said to the thief on the cross, He said, surely I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise. Yes, because the earth would have been replenished to be reconstructed back to a paradise, so that when the second resurrection happens, the earth will be a paradise, so that everybody can live when the resurrection is in a beautiful paradise. So brethren, under God the Father, and under Christ, the kingdom of God on earth, under the direction of the resurrected spirit beings, which is obviously under Christ and under God the Father, through Israel, all nations will be blessed. God will indeed recreate a new paradise on earth. The big question, though, brethren, is will you and I be there?