The World We’ll Inherit!

Good afternoon, everyone! Nice to be here with you on this first holy day, 2019 Feast of Tabernacles. And, wasn't that corral wonderful? If you didn't get any chills up your arm or back, then I'll share some with you, because I got plenty of them. It was very beautiful. Thank you, Mr. Graham. Thank you for the chorale. And it also shows that people who have gray hair can still sing. So, the voice bellows and is stronger and better, and so the time goes on. So it's really nice to be here with you. It's a pleasure. I think we were here in 2007-2008. I think I spent two times in Cincinnati.

I think we were downtown at one of the drawbridge. Drawbridge Inn down there. So, had the opportunity to spend time in Cincinnati, and there's lots to do in Cincinnati. So, if you get bored, just look at the table out there.

There's plenty of things to do, plenty of things to see, and a great opportunity. Thank you for being here. Welcome to the Feast of Tabernacles. We heard about the Last Trump, and at the Last Trump, which we celebrated the Feast of Trumpets, will be changed or resurrected to join Jesus Christ and other Christians in His kingdom. And as you arrive amid hugs, handshakes, tears, and kisses from other resurrected saints, you look around to see if some of those that you knew who may have moved away or preceded you in death, if they're there.

And as you're looking to see them and checking out if they're still in God's kingdom, made it to God's kingdom, you have an angel show up to explain to you all your new equipment as a spirit being. Because, after all, you're not going to be physical anymore. You've been changed in a moment and a twinkling of an eye. Now you're going to have all this extra equipment that angels have to explain to you. Now here's what you can do, and I'll tell you, for instance, you can appear and disappear. You can go faster than the speed of light.

You have the power to heal and to discern hearts, to read how people are, what they're thinking. You have a mind with supernatural grasp of information. I remember hearing some defeat say, Well, I don't know. I hope God doesn't give me any Spanish area because I don't know Spanish.

I'm not good. You know what? If the God of heaven who confounded all the languages doesn't understand them, and you're going to be his child in the kingdom of God, and if God tells you one time you have perfect remembrance, you'll remember God says, do it this way. Okay, you don't have to write it down. Our minds will be so expansive.

We'll learn quickly. We'll grasp quickly. We'll have perfect memory and perfect forgetfulness. If we need to forget people's sins, we'll forget them. So a lot of people like to beat themselves up over their past sins. You go to God again after you've already repented, Oh, I'm just, God says, what are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about. I forgave that. I don't even know. I forget it. I forget it, and I will remember it no more. You can defy physical laws and limitations among your many optional equipment that God gives to you. Think about that as you arrive and the joy that will be. And I don't pretend to know what that's going to feel like, but sometimes I wonder, you know, with aches and pains that we all get as we get older, how's that going to be to be a spirit being in the family of God with no more pain and no more sorrow and no more aches?

In Luke 12 and verse 32, Jesus Christ said, It's your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. God's going to give us the kingdom of God. But you know what? What kind of a world is it that we will inherit? We've been seeking the kingdom of God. That's Matthew 6, 33. Seek you first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you.

And also you should seek His righteousness. Seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness. That's our goal. That's our hope. And God says, I'll give it to you. In Matthew 25, verse 34, in this instance, he's talking about separating the sheep from the goats. But I'll use this analogy just to show what God means for us. Two, in Matthew chapter 25, Matthew 25 and verse 34, here's what he says to those on his right hand.

Then the Lord, then the King will say to those on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. You're going to inherit the kingdom of God. You're going to be a part of the ruling class, you might say, the ruling beings of this that will take over and look over this earth.

But what kind of a world will we inherit? Is that going to be presto chango? You become a spirit being, God comes back. Immediately there's a millennial setting. I don't think so. In fact, I know so. Scriptures show that won't happen that way. How will the world be after God breaks in pieces all these kingdoms of this world? When Jesus Christ returns, after the six trumpet plagues, and then Christ comes back and adds the seven last plagues, but before that time you had the tribulation and you had warfare going on on this earth. This earth is going to be chaotic.

And when Christ comes back with his angels and with his saints who meet him in the air, there's going to be a lot of destruction. There are going to be a lot of sore losers. There's going to be a greatly diminished population on this earth. And there are going to be lots of signs on the earth of warfare and destruction. That isn't the way God wants us to be. But that's how it will start out. The kind of world we will inherit. In Daniel 7, verse 18. Daniel 7 and verse 18. I try to summarize some of these scriptures for the sake of time to make sure I don't keep you too long.

I have lots of study on this particular message. So I can give you more of the brief version or the longer version. I'm going to give you the briefer version. But anyway, Daniel 7 and verse 18. We read this, But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever. So you're going to create something according to God's specifications. God's going to be there. But you know, when do people take ownership of something when they have a part in creating it? When you make something, when you do something, you feel better about that, don't you?

You feel a part of it. That's my song that I just heard. That's my song that they just played. You tend to have ownership, and God's going to have the world, those who are left, from all the destruction, all the chaos, the people that will be hurting. They'll be afraid of God, many of them, because they've been deceived. They've been told this is going to be an antichrist coming back. And they're going to fight him when he comes back. Revelation 19, his sword is going to be dipped in blood.

And he's going to bring peace to this earth finally. A world is known a lot of trouble and a lot of turmoil. Notice verse 22. Until the ancient of days came, and judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom. So God's going to give you the kingdoms of this world.

Revelation 11, the angel said, I'm so glad that the seventh trump has sounded because now Christ is going to take to himself his power and rule. Not until then. The world has a lot of chaos to go through. A lot of trouble. A lot of turmoil. A lot of hurt. A lot of sadness. But we have a chance to bring them joy and teach them to rejoice and give them reason to rejoice because we will be part and parcel of those who help bring about the beautiful, wonderful kingdom of God.

Verse 27. Then the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, so we're not going to heaven, the kingdom is under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. Some say that's to our children, our progeny, who may not yet be converted when Christ's seventh trump it sounds. They may be the ones who are the foundational people. They've heard the truth, they know the truth, they know of the truth.

God will use them to start that kingdom as far as the physical peoples under the kingdom. He shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominion shall serve and obey Him. So after all the turmoil and trouble the world is going through and has gone through, I have six areas that explain how we will inherit the earth, and what we will inherit.

Number one, we will have a free world. God wants freedom in this world. It'll be a free world. I have a quote here. How many people are enslaved in these days? How many of them? I'll read to you. There's a quote. It comes from worldcounts, theworldcounts.com stories, slash modern-day slavery statistics. You might find it hard to believe since we are supposed to be a modern and sophisticated species. Slavery is still as brutal and inhuman today as it was in history.

It affects the lives of millions of people across the world. Do you know how many countries are affected? A hundred and sixty-one countries are affected by human trafficking, selling human beings into slavery. Twenty to thirty million slaves are in the world today. Twenty to thirty million people are being held against their will, are being used and abused. An estimated number of 800,000 are illegally trafficked across international borders every year. And there are 161 countries doing it.

The majority of modern slavery victims are between ages of 18 and 24, although 1.2 million children are enslaved. You young people, how would you like to be taken away from your parents and put in some type of a house or whatever to do slave work that you have nothing to say about it? They give you a meager amount of food and that's it.

You might get some sleep in between the time of doing all the chores that they assigned to you. And if you don't do it, you get beaten. 1.2 million children are enslaved. So there are a lot of people. The third largest international crime industry behind drugs and armed trafficking is slavery. There are people that need to be freed. People that need to be freed. But we have a world that needs to be free as well. Notice what Jesus Christ preached in Luke 4, verses 18 and 19. There are many other people who may not be literal slaves to someone else, but they are slaves to Satan and the world, wrote Romans 6, 16.

Let's look at Luke 4. When Jesus Christ was handed the word to preach, stand up and preach, because he was recognized as a rabbi, he said, he wrote, he found the place where it was written in Isaiah. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Luke 4, verses 18 and 19. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal this brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, to those who are enslaved, and to the recovery of sight to the blind, and to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

How many dictators, despots, and rulers over people take advantage of them and hurt them? I remember saying this story from this Chinese girl, and how she and her mother tried to escape the clutches of China, only to be, sorry, Korea, only to be turned back. They beat them a whole lot more. She finally made it out, traveling by night, traveling without food, without clothes or tattered, to being taken advantage of people along the way.

It's a real issue, but you know in the world tomorrow, we're going to help solve this problem. We're going to bring about freedom and peace, freedom for those individuals. So, verse 19, he says, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. When is that acceptable year of the Lord? When Jesus Christ comes back and begins to take over. When he begins to write things that have been wrong for so long. Romans chapter 8, and you know who the world is waiting for? To do this. They're waiting for you and me.

The world doesn't even know you and doesn't know me. That's who they're waiting for. Romans chapter 8 and verse 19. Romans 8 and verse 19, for the earnest expectation of the creation, the whole world eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. They're waiting for you to make it into God's kingdom. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly. We heard a sermon, I think it was on a webcast from down in Panama City Beach. We talked about how people down there, the freedom that they need to have. But anyway, they're subject to the world.

Vanity of vanities is what it was. Vanity just means whatever you do is not lasting. Everything you do as a human being physically isn't lasting. The only thing it's going to be lasting is your character.

Everything else doesn't make it. Your car, your home, your bank account, your pleasures, your work. It's all vanity. What matters is who you are. What matters is who you are. Hopefully, godly. And that's what God's looking for. But Romans 8, verse 19, he says, They wait for the revealing of the sons of God. Verse 20, For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly. We didn't ask to be made vanity, but because of Him who subjected them and hope. But God wants you to see that. Come to see the vanity and change.

Come to see that everything in this life, if you put your hope in it, if you put your stock in the world, you're going to be disappointed. Everything the world has can be taken away like the blowing of wind. It can all be taken away. But you know what they can't take away from you? The kingdom of God. The hope of being a part of the very family of God. Nobody can take that away from you. Nobody can get you out of God's giant hand, except you can jump. God will never hold you so tightly that you can't jump.

But He wants you to stay there. If you start to get out, He kind of moves a little bit, reminded me of my kittens, or cats that I used to have on our farm in Glazewell, Pennsylvania. And my one cat, Blackie, she would crawl up on my shoulder and crawl around, and I'd be tickling her, petting her. And if she didn't want me to move my hand away, put her paws up and hold onto my hand.

And if I started to move it away, the claws would come out. Just a little bit. It's a kind of saying, don't go. I don't want you to go. Now God will say, I don't want you to go, but He won't stop you. Because you're a free moral agent. He isn't going to make you do anything. Now, in the world tomorrow, people are going to bend their knees or else to Jesus Christ.

Not now. And even at that time, they have to be free moral agents. But notice verse 21, because the creation itself will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. And verse 22, before we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. And people who have been enslaved, groan. There is a Freedom Center here, by the way, in Cincinnati.

I think it's still open if you get a chance to go see it. It's very sobering what humans can do to other humans because of their color of their skin and because they can and do want to take advantage of others. If you get a chance, you might want to look it up and go see it. It's worth it. They show a movie. Because the Underground Railroad came through Cincinnati, and Cincinnati helped a lot of slaves in the USA to escape to Canada.

So point number one, the world will be a free world. Free from people, domineering them. Free from people controlling them and trying to push them into doing what they don't want. Secondly, the world we'll inherit will become a law-abiding world. A law-abiding world. I'm going to read you a quote from Barkley. It's letters to James and Peter, page 60. Talking about the law, he says, he calls it the law of liberty. That is, the law in the keeping of which a man finds true liberty. All the great men have agreed that it is only in obeying the law of God that a man really becomes truly free.

To obey God, said Seneca, one of the philosophers, is liberty. The wise man alone is free, said the Stoics, and every foolish man is a slave.

All who are under the tyranny of anger and desire, Plato said, or any other passion are altogether slaves. All who live with the law are free.

So what's God going to do after he frees these people? He'll teach them God's way, God's law, so that they can understand. Do we have a law-abiding world today? No, we don't. We have a world that hates God's law. Hosea 8, verse 12. Remember the Scripture, Romans 8-7? The carnal mind is not subject to God, neither indeed can be. It enmityeth the law of God, hates the law of God, hates God's way. But notice over in Hosea 8, verse 12, how this is beautifully put into minor prophets. Hosea 8, verse 12.

God said through Hosea, I have written for him the great things of my law, but they were counted, they were considered a strange thing. Strange thing, God's way, the way of truth, as we heard.

The way of truth is considered strange. You know why? Because secularists believe truth is changing. Truth is what you believe today. Truth might be different tomorrow, because you decide something else is truth. They like this slipping and sliding. They don't want anything definite. And secularists are very strong in wanting to overcome the world. They don't want anybody to stand for law and order. God has to teach them law so they can have order. Hosea 4, verse 6, he echoes this. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, but what kind of knowledge? There's all kinds of knowledge in this world. Because you have rejected knowledge, what knowledge? I will also reject you from being a priest to me. Because you have forgotten the law of your God. God wants to teach them righteousness. God wants to teach them goodness. God wants to teach them that there is a right and a wrong. And if you go the wrong way, you're going to be in trouble. Mentally, you're going to be in trouble. You lie enough, you cheat enough, and you will go wacko.

Your brain will respond. Your emotions will respond to living a wrong life. God wants us to learn His way, to know His way. And so what's going to happen? Micah, in the minor prophets again, chapter 4, verses 1 and 2. Micah chapter 4, verses 1 and 2. And it shall come to pass, in the latter days, right at the end time, that the mountain of the Lord's house, we saw that, shall be established in the top of the mountains, where everybody can see it. If you've ever been to Jerusalem, you have to walk up into Jerusalem. In fact, if you're a tourist there, they usually stop the bus before you get to the final incline to the city and let you walk into Jerusalem. We had that experience when we were over there in 1983. I still remember it. You had to walk up into the city, toward the city of Jerusalem. Not far, but it was the final push, walking up into the kingdom. Micah 4, they'll go up to the mountain of the Lord's house, and it shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above all the hills. And if you say, mountain is a kingdom, you say, hills are smaller kingdoms, and people shall flow to it. Feast of Tabernacles, we flow to the various sites we go to. We come in, we drive in from the various areas we fly in. We're flowing into it. It's a time when gathering, in gathering it's called. It's a time of reaping a harvest.

A small harvest to start with, but a big harvest afterwards. Those who come initially into God's kingdom will be the saints. There are not a lot of them in this world. But after that, a lot of people. A prodigious amount of people. In verse 2, he says, they'll come and say, come, let's go up to the mountain of the Lord.

Now they say, is there really a God? Let's get rid of under God in the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States.

One nation under God.

Let's get rid of the under God. What are we doing this? We try to get rid of a lot of dollar bills and other bills, as in God we trust, you know, and all the rest. So, what's going on? People hate God. They hate God and they hate His ways.

But they're going to come to say, let's go learn to the house of the God of Jacob. But what is He going to do? He's going to teach us His ways. And we will walk in His paths. He's going to tell us what path to go. He's going to tell us what way to be. For out of Zion, the law shall go forth and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

That's going to be proclaimed. That's what we've been trying to do as a gospel, to preach His message to the good news of the world tomorrow. And encourage those who do come to understand it to live like they are in the kingdom of God. It's hard in a world that's going the opposite way. But we must hang in there and keep on doing what God asks. And picture the kingdom. We're here at the Feast of Tabernacles.

To picture the wonderful world tomorrow. To rejoice. To listen to what people say. To be compliant. To be submissive. We learn. To God's way. Not to submissive the people who tell you to go jump off a bridge or something. No, we don't want to do that. But to listen. To follow. To learn. To learn God's ways. And finally, after they learn it, guess where it will ultimately end up? In their heart. Remember Jeremiah 31, verses 31-33? Eventually, He'll write it in their hearts. I don't carry a Ten Commandment Listeron with me, do you? If I see somebody else's goods, they might be nice going.

There's a nice phone down there. I'll say, hmm, let's see if I can figure out how to steal it. No! I don't even think that way. Why would I think that way? I don't. It's His phone. It's a nice phone. I could admire it. Nice phone. Not lust after it. God's law is written in our hearts. I don't have to say it.

Let's see, does God say, don't steal? Oh, yeah, let's see. My commandments. Yep, so it's not, thou shall not steal. I know that! Seventh day of the week comes. I know this is God's Sabbath. This is His Holy Sabbath. But the seventh day of the week, it's God's day. It's His day. He made it. I don't have to say, let's see now, does God really have any commandments? What does God say? I know it. You do too. You do too. If you're converted, God's law is being written in your heart, and it will be in theirs. So secondly, we will have a law-abiding world.

Won't that be great? No more locking your doors. No more having to lock your car. No more having to worry about being mugged or beaten up or taken or hurt in any way. No more people taking advantage of you. No more people lying to you. They'll speak the truth to each other. Third point is we will have and create with humankind a peaceful world. A peaceful world. Won't that be nice? I think of our brethren, Donna and Haiti, who couldn't keep the feast together in Port-au-Prince because it's so vile.

And how that man had to pay $15 a gallon to come and meet Jeff Lockhart to deliver some goods to them from us over in America. $15 a gallon to get for his truck to come and pick up these things to take it back to his remote village, which is still bad.

And they said everywhere they sat in the car and visited for a little while, a gang would gather around them. Lawless. Warlike. No peace. No peace at all. You know what God says? Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them.

Great peace. God's law teaches us how to be peaceful. God's law teaches us how to go. It's Amen. Micah doesn't say they'll beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. They're not going to learn war anymore. No more military academies. No more military academies. God's going to teach people love instead of hate. God's going to teach people blessings instead of having to create your own by stealing or taking away from others.

Zephaniah 3.9, God's also going to give us a pure language. A pure language so that people will understand each other. I remember counseling a lady for baptism who was Dutch. Thankfully, I had a deacon who spoke Dutch. So I took the deacon along so I would explain something to say something, then he would translate it in this huge translate fact. Then he would translate to me. Very difficult. But she was eventually baptized.

A pure language. Language, it doesn't have a lot of the false gods in it. Language, it does not equivocate or lie. Language is pure that God is going to give. Look at Isaiah 32, verse 16. It's a peaceful world. We'll be generating it. Again, we are at the Feast of Tabernacles. We need to be peaceful, not warlike, not quarrelsome, not picking a fight, not wanting to argue and debate.

It's okay to discuss things, but not argue and debate. What are you trying to get across? Your point of view? Are you trying to find God's point of view?

In Isaiah 32, verse 16, we find the effect of what God is going to be teaching. Isaiah 32, verse 16, then justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. The work of righteousness will be peace. When God teaches people how to obey, how to walk in His ways, teaches them His commandments and His laws, they tell you how to have peace.

And the effect of righteousness will be quietness. No more riots and assurance forever. Don't get me started on the Antifa people in Oregon. Did you see what they did? They blocked the way of the lady who was crossing the street with her walker, a gray-haired lady, and her husband was gray-haired also. And there were five of these gangsters standing there, who wouldn't let her cross. A private, a public street, not private driveway, and they tried to go this way. They blocked, move over there, they kept taunting them, putting their finger in their face. They better hope I wasn't there in my older days, when I younger days. I wouldn't have stood for it.

That's the world that we're going to have to transform. That's the world that we're going to have to work with and bring people to understand what it means to love your neighbor as yourself. What it means to love the Lord your God with all your heart and have a heart to do it in a right way. A peaceful world. Verse 18, My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation. The people that are brought back, the Israelites, in the physical world, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. They're going to be peaceful, and God's going to ensure it, and you're going to ensure it. Because you're going to be a spirit being who has inherited that world that you're going to make into God's millennial kingdom. Look at also Isaiah 11, verses 6-10. Even animals for the children, even animals, are going to be at peace. I saw one place, a petting area man was there, lying, wrestling with a lion, and wrestling and petting it, and pulling its paw over in front of him, and petting it. Oh, that's going to be in the world tomorrow. That's the way the nature will be. Isaiah 11, verse 6. The wolf shall dwell with a lamb, and the leopard shall die down with a young goat, the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together, all of them together. And the little child shall lead them, and the bear shall graze, and their young ones shall lie down together. A lion shall eat straw like the ox, and the nursing child shall play on a cobra's hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand on a viper's den.

You know, children don't know they crawl over. Oh, look at the one that's in that hole. There's a viper in there. But it won't hurt. Just kind of lick it. Look at the child's fingers.

And he said, They shall not hurt nor destroy, and all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. First head, and in that day shall there be a root of Jesse, who shall stand as a banner for the people, for the Gentiles shall seek him, and his resting place shall be glorious. Peace on earth. You're going to help to bring about a peaceful world. Number four. How about a happy, healthy world? We heard about how many scriptures there are.

If you've seen the movie Pollyanna, which I love. I've seen it many times. Pollyanna is this little girl that thinks everything is happy, and this one crotchety preacher. Everything was done against the people. Everything was putting them down. Everything was criticizing them. Everything was hammering them for what they're bad. You're so bad. You're so evil. And this little girl said, did you ever know she happened upon him out in the field? Did you happen to know that the Bible has so many, 288 or however many, happy texts? Then I fumed at her, and she walked away. He was preaching. He said, I'm going to get you, and if you don't do this...

And over the time, he thought about it. And he gave a sermon about, we need to be a happier people. We need to be a joyful people. How do you approach people? Are you happy? If you're not happy being a Christian, I'm one of the poor, dirty, rotten sinners. You know what, brethren? You were a sinner when you came to Christ. Christ cleansed you if you repented, and were baptized. He cleansed you. That doesn't mean you don't slip and stumble, but don't call yourself a dirty, rotten sinner. If you're trying to walk in righteousness, you're... What is the Holy Spirit in you doing? Yes, we need to repent. Yes, we still slip and stumble.

But you're not the dirty, rotten person that you once were. You changed. God wants us to be happy. Remember, when Christ said, I am come, that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. And you look at that word, abundantly, it means super abundantly. You might have a great, wonderful life. That's what God wants. It's hard to have it completely now, when you know what's happening outside in our world.

But God wants us to have a happy world. God wants us to build and create a happy world. Isaiah 35, verses 1 and 2. Isaiah 35, verses 1 and 2. While you're turning there, let me read another scripture. It's not another scripture, another comment. How many people worldwide do you think died of cancer? 2017. 9.6 million people worldwide. How many died of heart disease, cardiovascular issues? 2016. 17.9 million. Heart disease and cancer is killing people right and left in our world. The world tomorrow is not going to happen. We look at Isaiah 35, verses 1 and 2.

In the wilderness, in the wasteland, shall be glad for them. It's going to be happy for you. It's going to be happy that God's going to do something about their plight. The desert shall rejoice. How can a desert rejoice when you give it some water? I always often think when some of my plants look like they're wilting, I give a little water to them, they bruise up. They're like, say, thank you!

I needed that! I used to talk to my blackberry plants, too, when we lived on a farm. I'd go, I'll be nice to you if you won't be nice to me. And by the way, if you'll be nice to me, don't jab me with your thorns. Do you know that even plants respond to being treated kindly?

You speak meanly to you, dirty rotten plant. You're not good for anything. It's not going to give you much. You talk to them, and they have actually proved that they have feelings, that the meter actually moves in a positive way when you speak nicely to them. They're not going to speak back, but you can imagine what they might be thinking. He says, it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice.

The desert's going to rejoice. Even with joy and singing, the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it. That's verses 1 and 2. The excellence of Carmel and Sharon, and they shall see the glory of God, the excellency of our God. God's here to protect the world. But God didn't give the world for you to suffer. He gave the world for you to have dominion over, and He still wants you to treat it decently.

But notice, that's verses 1 and 2, 5 and 6. Then the eyes of the blind shall be open. It's going to be a happy world. It's going to be a healthy world. And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. I know what that's like. I've got two hearing aids. I'm not deaf, but they've diminished over the years. I've got two hearing aids. They're not fun to have to wear all the time, but they sure enable me to hear you and hear me. And I'm glad for them. But I'll be glad.

And I wear glasses. So I'll be glad, but I don't have to wear glasses. I'll be glad, but I don't have to have hearing aids. And I'll be glad for anybody who has infirmities, because God's going to heal them. Then the lame shall leap like a deer. I see basketball football players running down and getting tackled and they're on their knees.

I say, my knees couldn't handle that anymore. They're going to leap. The lame shall leap. And he said, like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing. That doesn't mean they're stupid. Just they can't speak. Their mouth is going to be opened. Dumb shall sing. Water shall burst forth in the wilderness, in streams, in the desert. Verse 10. We have heard about this in the sermon at verse 10. And the ransom of the Lord shall return. God's going to bring the Israelites back first in his plan.

He's going to bring the Israelites back first. And he's going to work with them and teach them. And then people are going to go to them and say, teach us about God, because we've heard that God is with you. But he's also going to work with Gentiles as well. He says, and they'll come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads.

And they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. No more sadness. They're going to be healed. No more aches and pains. What a beautiful world that's going to be, a happy, healthy world. Jeremiah 31, verses 12-14, echo that same thought. Jeremiah 31. I'm going to move on to point number five. Point number five is, it's going to be a busy world. The world tomorrow is going to be a busy world. You see, there'll be a lot of waste cities.

There'll be a lot of destroyed fields and farms and arable ground. And it's going to have to be worked. And guess who's going to get to build it? The peoples, under God's direction. And you're going to be there to help supervise cities.

You say, well, how will I learn? I've never overseen a city. What does God have to tell you? Do this, this, this, this, and this, and it'll work. Okay, you got it. Go do it. According to God's specifications. But He's going to let people do it. They are going to work to do it. Let's notice the Scripture. Isaiah 51, verse 3, just real quickly, since we're in Isaiah. Isaiah 51 and verse 3, what do we find here? That God is going to create this world like the Garden of Eden.

Why like the Garden? Well, who planned the Garden of Eden? Who made it? God. He's going to make a world that's beautiful like that. Isaiah 51 and verse 3, for the Lord will comfort Zion. He will comfort her waste places. He will make her wilderness like Eden. And her desert like the Garden of the Lord. And joy and gladness will be found in it.

Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. God's going to make it like the Garden of Eden. How's He going to do it? Ezekiel 36. Ezekiel 36, that's going to be a busy world. The farmer talks about the plowman is going to overtake the reaper. They're still gathering the produce from the bumper crops. Still gathering it when it's time to start planting again. The plowman's getting ready to tool the soil to get it ready for planting.

They're still reaping. Who's doing the planting? The plowman. Who's doing the reaping? The reaper. So over in Ezekiel 36 and verse 33. Ezekiel 36, verse 33. Thus says the Lord God, on the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in cities. Some think there's only going to be one big farm on the earth. Sorry. Be cities, too. I like cities. I've been in New York. I worked in New York City. I worked in London, England.

I visited over in London. I visited in New York City. I like cities. They're not great, but I like them. I lived in Buffalo. I lived in St. Louis. I lived in L.A. I lived in Dallas. I know cities. I also know their flaws. I look forward to God building them His way. Notice what he says.

Verse 33, Shall dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. Desolate land shall be filled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by. God's going to make it beautiful. He's not going to just leave craters in the earth from all the warfare that has taken place. Verse 35, So they will say, This land that was desolate has become like the Garden of Eden, and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited. Verse 36, The nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate.

I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it. But who's He going to do it through? You and me and the physical peoples that are still on the earth. They're going to have ownership of this world. It's going to be a beautiful time. The farmers are going to be there. They'll build the waste cities.

So it will be a busy world. Point number six, We'll create a godly world. A godly world. I have a quote that I looked up. It's called, from a religioustolerance.org world religions. And it's under the subject, Number of Adherents in World Religions. This will dumb-found you. It dumb-fathered me. According to David Barrett and all, editors of the World Christian Encyclopedia, a comparative survey of churches and religions, from AD 30 to 2200.

How many major religions are there? 19. Which are subdivided into a total of 270 large religious groups. And many smaller ones. How many Christian groups do you think there are? 34,000. Separate Christian groups have been identified in the world. Over half of them are independent churches that are not interested in linking up with any large organization.

Skipping down. Thus, as of 2015, about 70% of adults in the United States and Canada are Christians. Then they go on to say the term Christian is interpreted by some demean. You follow the way that that religion teaches. And others say Christian is in name only. So he says, Some of the approximately 1,000 Christian faiths in the United States and Canada believe themselves to be the only true Christian denomination. 1,000 others out there say, We're the truth. We're the truth. Who is the truth?

Isaiah 25. After this world gets a beating, Isaiah chapter 25, verses 7 to 9, Isaiah 25 verse 7, He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that was spread over all nations. God's going to take away the veil of deception that Satan the devil has spread when he's deceived the whole world. He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all their eyes.

And the rebuke of his people he will take away. Verse 9, And it will be said in that day, Behold, this is our God. They'll recognize the true God, not some false gods. We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is the Lord. We have waited for him, and we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

That's going to be an awesome time. Isaiah 11.10 shows that Gentiles are going to come. Zechariah 14.9 says, God's going to be king over all the earth, and his name won. God wants oneness. In Ephesians 4, he says, We should endeavor to keep in the unity of the faith, unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. We should endeavor with God's Spirit. One Spirit, one Lord, one baptism, one church, not a bunch of fractured groups, one true church. God's going to bring people together who are true believers, wherever they are, ultimately. Won't that be great? Zechariah 8, 22, 23, I'll just give that to you. He talks about the nations coming to Jerusalem and coming up to a person who's a Jew and saying, Teach us about God because we've heard that he is with you.

Teach us. We've heard that God is with you. These are obviously converted after the days of the All-Millennial setting. Zechariah 8. No more will there be false preachers, false ministers. The man who proclaims, I've got the prophecy, I know it's going to happen. In that time, God's going to say, don't prophesy. And if he persists, his parents are going to say, You're not true, and they'll do him in, literally kill him.

That's in Zechariah 13, verses 2-5. God will not have false religion anymore on this earth. Jeremiah 31. Let's read that. Jeremiah 31. One more scripture after this. Jeremiah 31. In a godly world.

And verse 33. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days, remember, he starts with Israel, then he moves on to all the other nations. After those days, says the Lord, I'll put my law in their minds, write it upon their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Listen to verse 34. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother say, Know the Lord, brother, do you know the Lord? Do you know the Lord? Do you know the Lord? They don't have to do that.

He said, For they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin, and I will remember them no more. That's a beautiful time that God has. All will come to know and follow God. The world we will inherit will be a godly world. It'll be a free world. It'll be a law-abiding world. It'll be a peaceful world. It'll be a happy, healthy world. It'll be a busy world. 1 Corinthians 2, verse 9, my last scripture. 1 Corinthians 2, verses 9 and 10.

Here's what the Apostle Paul wrote to the Christians at Corinth. But as it is written, I has not seen nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. I hope that my reading of His Scriptures and expounding God's Word has given you a better view of the wonderful world tomorrow, the world that we will inherit and the world that we will build God's way. The Millennium, the Thousand Years, the coming Kingdom of God promises to be an exciting time.

Let's use this feast and every feast and every week and every day and every Sabbath and every hour. Let's use this feast for us as individuals to make our calling an election sure.