God

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Gods Plan for the Future-vs-Mans Plan for the
Future
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Gods Plan for the Future

• As truly as I live, all the earth shall be
  filled with the Glory of the Lord (Numbers
  1421)

For thus saith the LordGod himself that formed
the earthhe created it not in vain, he formed it
to be inhabited (Isaiah 4518)
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Gods Plan for the Future

• The heaven, even the heavens are the Lords
  but the earth hath he given to the children of
  men.
• Psalm 11516

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Elpis Israel
• Revolving upon its own axis, and describing an
  ample circuit through the boundless fields of
  space, is a planet of the solar system bearing
  upon its surface a population of over a thousand
  millions subject to sin, disease and death. This
  orb of the starry heavens shines with a glory
  similar to that of its kindred spheres. Viewed
  from them, it is seen sparkling like a diamond
  in the sky and with the rest of the heavens,
  declares the glory of God, and shows forth the
  handiwork of Him that did create it.

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Elpis Israel
• This celestial orb, which is a world or system of
  itself, is styled THE EARTH. It is the
  habitation of races of animals which graze its
  fields, lurk in its forests, soar through its
  atmosphere, and pass through the paths of its
  seas. At the head of all these is a creature
  like themselves, animal, sensual and mortal. He
  is called MAN. He has replenished the earth and
  subdued it, and filled it with his own renown.
  His crimes, however, rather than his virtues have
  illustrated and distinguished him with an unhappy
  pre-eminence above all other created

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Elpis Israel
• things. His heart is evil and, left to its
  uncontrolled impulses, he becomes licentious,
  merciless, and more cruel than the fiercest beast
  of prey.
• Such is the being that claims the independent
  sovereignty of the globe. He has founded
  dominions, principalities and powers he has
  built great cities, and vaunted himself in the
  works of his hands, saying Are not these by the
  might of my power, and for the honour of my
  majesty? He repudiates all lordship over him,
  and claims the inalienable right of
  self-government, and of

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Elpis Israel
• establishing whatever civil and ecclesiastical
  institutions are best suited to his sensuality
  and caprice. Hence, at successive periods, the
  earth has become the arena of fierce and
  pandemoniac conflicts its tragedies have
  baptised its soil in blood, and the mingled cries
  of the oppressor and the victim have ascended to
  the throne of the Most High.
• Skilled in the wisdom which comes from beneath,
  he is by nature ignorant of that which is first
  pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Elpis Israel
• entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without
  partiality and without hypocrisy. This is a
  disposition to which the animal man under the
  guidance of his fleshly mind has no affinity.
  His propensity is to obey the lust of his nature
  and to do its evil works, which are adultery,
  fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
  emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, sects,
  envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and
  such like. All these make up the character of
  the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Elpis Israel
• the eye, and the pride of life, upon which is
  enstamped the seal of Gods eternal reprobation.
  They who do such things shall not inherit the
  Kingdom of God, but they shall die.
• Such is the world of human kind! The great and
  impious enemy of God upon the earth. Its mind is
  not subject to His law, neither indeed can it be.
  What shall we say to these things? Is the world
  as we behold it a finality?
• To the Bible, then, all must come at last if
  they would be truly wise in Spiritual things!

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Mans Plan for the Future
• More of the same he revels in darkness
• War and famine have characterised the last 6,000
  years hostility between nations based on
  man-made religion
• No matter how advanced man has become, he has not
  altered even the basic laws of nature through
  advances in medicine, life expectancy may have
  increased a little, but man is still subject to
  disease and death. Man has no control over the
  basic elements, rain, wind etc

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Mans Plan for the Future
• The Scriptures tell us O LORD, I know that the
  way of man is not in himself it is not in man
  that walketh to direct his steps. (Jeremiah
  1023)
• the whole world lieth in wickedness (1 John
  519)

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Mans Plan for the Future
• Basic Statistics
• Between a third and one half of the worlds
  population today is starving (those starving are
  mainly in Africa and India)
• 90 million children are suffering from a
  chronic lack of food and are on the brink of
  starving to death. One out of three lives in
  India.
• 270 million children have no one to take care
  of their basic or complex medical needs. In
  India, 2.2 million die every year to preventable
  childhood disease.

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Mans Plan for the Future
• Basic Statistics
• 640 million homeless children will go to bed
  tonight sleeping against walls and in the
  streets.
• 500 million children do not have access to
  proper sanitation while another 400 million have
  no safe water.
• 440 million children do not have access to
  education while 190 million women in India remain
  illiterate
• 143 million orphans fend for themselves without
  care or supervision, whilst 211 million children
  work in labour markets where they are exploited,
  they suffer and are abused

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Gods Plan for the Future
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Gods Plan for the Future
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the
earth was filled with violence. And he looked
upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt for
all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
(Genesis 611-12)
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the
earth, and gross darkness the people (Isaiah
602)
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Gods Plan for the Future
Hope of a Brighter Future around the Hope of
Israel
Israel
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Gods Plan for the Future
ISRAEL Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest
with the daughter of Babylon. For thus saith the
Lord of hosts after the glory hath he sent me
unto the nations which spoiled you for he that
toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Zechariah 27-8 Israels Restoration When they
therefore were come together, they asked of him,
saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the
Kingdom to Israel? (Acts 16)
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Gods Plan for the Future

• The Promises to Abraham
• Abraham was asked to leave his country and
  enter a country which God would shew him (Genesis
  121)
• He would be made a great nation, he would be
  blessed, and his name would be made great
  (Genesis 122)
• All families are to be blessed in Abraham and
  in his seed (Christ Jesus) (Genesis 123)
• The Land of Israel was to be given to him as an
  everlasting possession (Genesis 127)

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Gods Plan for the Future

• The Promises to Abraham
• He would become a father of many nations, kings
  shall come out of him (Genesis 174,6)
• World was promised to him and his seed for ever
  (Romans 413)
• His seed in number to be compared with the
  stars of heaven and the sand upon the sea shore
  (Genesis 2217)
• Abrahams seed to possess the gate of his
  enemies (Genesis 2218)

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Gods Plan for the Future

• The Promises to Abraham
• Promises repeated to Isaac (Genesis 264)
• We are told the reason why Abraham was to be
  blessed in this way
• Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
  commandments, my statutes and my laws (Genesis
  265)
• The gospel message summed up in a sentence
  all nations to be blessed in Abraham and his
  seed (Christ Jesus). (Galatians 38)
• Galatians tells us that we can become partakers
  of the promises through baptism into Christ
  (326-29)

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Gods Plan for the Future

• The Promises to Abraham
• Promises repeated to Jacob (Genesis 2814)
• Jesus Christ presently sits in the heavens at
  his Fathers right hand, but the promise is that
  he will return to establish the ancient Kingdom
  of Israel.
• And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before
  was preached unto you whom the heavens must
  receive until the times of restitution of all
  things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all
  his holy prophets since the world began

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Gods Plan for the Future

• The Promises to Abraham
• Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the
  covenant which God made with our fathers, saying
  unto Abraham, and in thy seed shall all the
  kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first
  God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to
  bless you, in turning away every one of you from
  his iniquities. (Acts 320,21,25,26)

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Gods Plan for the Future

• Five Elements of a Kingdom
• Land
• King
• Law
• Rulers
• Subjects

Israel (Capital Jerusalem) Jesus Christ Gods
Law Re-introduced The faithful of the ages The
Nation of Israel
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Gods Plan for the Future
Land The land of Canaan (Israel) promised to
Abraham and his seed for ever (Genesis 12 v
7) Zechariah tells us And the Lord shall inherit
Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall
choose Jerusalem again. (212) Ezekiel says
Thus saith the Lord GOD In the day that I shall
have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will
also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the
wastes shall be builded. 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. (3533-35)
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Gods Plan for the Future
King Jesus Christ Daniel tells us 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. 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 that which shall
not be destroyed. (713-14) John tells us in
Revelation And he hath on his vesture and on
his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD
OF LORDS (1916)
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Gods Plan for the Future
Laws And it shall come to pass in the last
days, that the mountain of the Lords house shall
be established in the top of the mountains, and
shall be exalted above the hills and all nations
shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and
say, Come ye, 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.
(Isaiah 22-3)
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Gods Plan for the Future
Rulers Daniel also supplies us with the rulers or
the aristocracy of Gods Kingdom the saints of
the most High shall take the Kingdom, and possess
the Kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
(718) And the Kingdom and dominion, and the
greatness of the Kingdom under the whole heaven,
shall be given to the people of the saints of the
most High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting
Kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey
him. (727)
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Gods Plan for the Future
Subjects The Jews Who will be the Kings
subjects? For thou art an holy people unto the
LORD thy God the LORD thy God hath chosen thee
to be a special people unto himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth.
(Deuteronomy 76) Thus saith the LORD of hosts
In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men
shall take hold out of all languages of the
nations, even shall take hold out of all
languages of the nations, even shall take hold of
the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will
go with you for we have heard that God is with
you. (Zechariah 823)
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Gods Plan for the Future
House of Prayer for All Nations Is it not
written, My house shall be called a house of
prayer for all nations? (Mark 1119) RV The
strangers that join themselves to the Lordeven
them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make
them joyful in my house of prayerfor my house
shall be called a house of prayer for all
people. (Isaiah 566-8)
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Gods Plan for the Future
they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more Isaiah 24
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Gods Plan for the Future
they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more Isaiah 24
And suddenly there was with the angel a
multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and
saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men Luke 213-14
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Gods Plan for the Future
Gods plan is to bless all nations when they are
righteous and respectful to Gods laws and
ways. God will setup a Kingdom which shall not be
left to other people and he will rule the nations
with a rod of iron. All dominions shall serve
and obey him. The impending changes to the
constitution of the world is such that the new
order is described as new heavens and a new
earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. For,
behold, I create new heavens and a new earth and
the former shall not be remembered, nor come into
mind. (Isaiah 6517)
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But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that
which I create for, behold, I create Jerusalem a
rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will
rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people and
the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in
her, nor the voice of crying. (Isaiah
6518) Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew
69-13) Behold, he cometh with clouds and every
eye shall see him, and they also which pierced
him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail
because of him. Even so, Amen. (Revelation 17)
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Gods Plan for the Future
The Book of Daniel shows the two constitutions
Kingdom of Men and Kingdom of God. The main
elements are that the Most High Ruleth in the
Kingdoms of men and is intent on destroying every
dominion that will not bow the knee and submit to
His sons iron rule. In Daniel 2 we see five
universal empires, the first four of which are
crushed by succeeding powers, the final one to be
victorious at the hands of the King of Kings!
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Gods Plan for the Future
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son
of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto
him the throne of his father David And he shall
reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of
his kingdom there shall be no end. (Luke
132-33) Violence shall no more be heard in thy
land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders
but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy
gates Praise. (Isaiah 6018) Thus saith the
LORD I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in
the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be
called a city of truth and the mountain of the
LORD of hosts the holy mountain. (Zechariah
83)
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Gods Plan for the Future
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole
earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north,
the city of the great King. (Psalm 482)
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Gods Plan for the Future

• ALL NATIONS SHALL BE BLESSED
• The nations will become righteous, knowing of God
  - if they stray, they will hear a voice behind
  them this is the way walk ye in it. Children
  will be taught the Law.
• No more war implements to become farming
  utensils
• No more famine plenty of food for all
• Life expectancy will increase significantly
• Israel to be exalted
• People will not be afraid doors will be left
  unlocked

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• ALL NATIONS SHALL BE BLESSED
• The commercial world as we know it will cease
  no more plastic factories, no more sweat shops,
  no more child labour or unjust exploitation of
  the vulnerable
• Desserts are to blossom and water will flow
  freely
• Most of the worlds cities which are commonly
  characterised by sin will be cleansed and
  subsequently rebuilt, around the principles of
  righteousness and for the purpose of giving Glory
  to God
• The kings and queens will lay their crowns before
  Christ there will be no more tyrants. Human
  rights will be crushed as the nations serve God
  and not themselves

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Gods Plan for the Future
SALVATION How do we become partakers of the
promises of Salvation? Gods plan requires man
to put off the old man, the man who serves sin,
in the association of baptism, and God requires
that we put on Christ and emulate Christs
actions and thoughts in our lives. Paul points
out that only in death is man free of sin (Romans
67). He shows symbolically that man dies in
baptism and comes forth to a newness of life
(Romans 69) in Christ Jesus. In this we have
hope of everlasting life and being one of
Christs brethren who will rule the nations for a
thousand years.
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SALVATION Commitment Required For I am
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come, Nor height,
nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able
to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 838-39)
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SALVATION Seek REFUGE from the coming storm!