JEAN'S BIBLE STUDY

Chapter 6:

Millennium

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth – Mat 5-5

They celebrated the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in heaven during the bowls of God’s fierce wrath against the world of the ungodly. The Marriage Supper lasted about a million years, while the bowls of God’s judgment took less than ten years to complete, yet they both started and ended at the same time. Peter said that a day on earth is like a thousand years in heaven and vise versa (2Pet 3-8), meaning time is not the same in heaven. There are 365 days in a year, times the number of years of the bowls, a minimum of five years, and each day represents a thousand years in heaven. That gave a minimum of 1,825,000 years to celebrate the Marriage Supper between Christ and the Church.

Before God released His bowls on the world, he required the foolish virgins, who neither believed in Jesus nor received the Mark of the Beast, to migrate to Jerusalem from wherever they were hiding, and there wait for Him in the catacombs, where they will be nourished by God for as long as the Bowls lasted. Before Jesus released the seventh and final bowl of His judgment, He called His people from the catacombs to make a short walk to Mount Olivet and wait for Him there. This was the remnant spoken of in Isaiah 10-21 and Isaiah 37-32. They were about seventy people from eight billion who survived the Great Tribulation, consisting of both men and women, and these would become the seed that God would use to repopulate the earth during the Millennium (Rev 11-15). Just then an extremely severe earthquake occurred, the seventh and final Bowl. It toppled every mountain, filled every valley and removed every island (Rev 16,17-21), making for a flatter surface in preparation for the Millennium, maximizing the earth's habitable land space.

After the earthquake, Jesus mounted His white horse, and all of the saints mounted their horses, and they all rode behind Him, descending from heaven in resurrected bodies. Those that remained of the wicked on the earth assembled for the Great War against God of Armageddon, which they fought with rocks and spears. They had become mentally unstable and spiritually insane following the devil into a fight against God they could never win. The lottery represents one chance in six or seven billion, whereas these had zero chance of winning. With the lottery, playing and not playing offered about the same odds of winning, so if they fought, they thought they had at least a chance of winning the fight against God. They came at Him with the same weapons they carried when they arrested Him in the Garden of Gethsemane 2000 years earlier, with swords and clubs, but this time they were all destroyed by the deadly radiation exuding from Christ, who shined brighter than the sun. They were immediately liquidated where they stood.

After Jesus destroyed His enemies in the War of Armageddon, He commanded the angels to throw the false prophet and his antichrist into the lake of fire, and they grabbed Satan by the neck and threw him in prison and fastened a cover over it and kept him there throughout Christ’s thousand-year reign on earth. God’s intension was to prove that Satan was ultimately responsible for organizing the world in rebellion against God ever since man came to be upon the earth. There are three tiers of rebellion: Satan, his demons, and man. These three operate as it were an unholy trinity. God’s purpose for the Millennium was to prove that man could live in peace without butchering one another in one war after another. It also proved that man was unable to live in peace because of Satan, who would always rile the mind of man against one another.

He came to Jerusalem and dismounted His horse and set foot on the Mount of Olives, the very place where He ascended to heaven over 2000 years earlier. “This is where life will restart,” He said. He met the remnant there, who were the foolish virgins during the tribulation, foolish because they didn't follow Christ and virgins because they didn't take the mark of the beast, though they were not foolish anymore. The angels came and ministered to them. They got married and started families and built houses and began a new life under the protective shadow of their great shepherd. The saints also got busy building a temporary city of their own that would stand unchallenged for a thousand years, which they called "the Camp of the Saints" (Rev 20-9), in commemoration of the camps that where built in the wilderness around the globe during the Trumpet judgments, where believers in Jesus went to escape the antichrist, who hunted them like dogs during the Great Tribulation. There was little wood since the earth was scorched with the trumpet judgments and fiery bowls of God's fierce wrath, they built their city with stone. The saints during the Millennium lived like the Israelites who camped in the wilderness during the time of Moses. The saints had already entered eternity and therefore considered the Millennium to be a temporary stay. Time measures things that are destined to perish, so if something lasted a thousand years, a million years or even a billion years, it was still considered temporary to those who were eternal, and for this reason they called it the Camp of the Saints.

Jesus called those who had been martyred in their former lives to govern the remnant. The people of the remnant (Jeremiah 23-3) paired up, got married and had children and started a new life. They became the seed that Christ used to repopulate the earth during the Millennium. Those of the remnant did not live very long, but their children lived to be a ripe old age of at least a hundred years, and in their younger years they too got married and had large families to help on the farm. During the Millennium the people exclusively worked the soil as farmers and led a simple life and were happy and content. God sent rain on their crops and on Israel and the whole Middle East, and the desert that lay dormant for centuries blossomed into the “land flowing with milk and honey,” as it was described in the Old Testament when the Israelites first discovered it in the days of Moses (Numbers 16-14), producing much fruit. The families of the earth quickly grew and filled the earth; the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren were each identified as a son or daughter of a handful of parents who were original members of the remnant.

The saints who were martyred in their former lives became city mayors and state governors, and Jesus was their king, and they showed the people how to live in peace. There were no wars during the thousand years. The other saints, counting in the millions, were not needed to govern such a small number of people, especially at the beginning of the Millennium; they had this time to explore the earth and do many of the things they wanted but couldn’t do in their former lives. The children of the remnant were directed to develop a type of economy that was never attempted in human history, being essentially the opposite of capitalism. When Satan was free, man instituted a m-economy, which was based on self, but during the Millennium man was directed to establish a l-economy (the 'l' stands for "love"). In capitalism people took care of themselves first, and other people inadvertently benefited; whereas in a l-economy people took care of other people first and they were inadvertently benefited. A l-economy required everybody to participate and be honest to the system, and when there was abuse, it was immediately reported to the government, the saints, and they took care of it. Belligerent people who refused to comply were reported to Christ, and He dealt with the matter personally, restricting rain to fall on their land (1Kings 8-35).  

Many of the saints who were not required to govern the Millennium returned to the places where they once lived to see their old neighborhoods, if their house was still standing or what remained of it after the Great Tribulation devastated the earth, and to collect their time capsule if they had prepared one in their former lives. Jason went looking for Jeanie and found her in the company of her friends and asked her to come with him to look for Nancy, Jason’s wife from his former life, and the three of them went searching for the town where they lived and looked for any remains of their former lives. They were still amateurs at teleporting in their new bodies; they first needed to orient themselves to the place where they wanted to go. In the flesh they were a body with a soul living in it, but now things were just the opposite; they were a spirit with a body superimposed over it, like clothes. They remembered when they were disembodied spirits in heaven before the First Resurrection, they could just think of a place they wanted to go in the New Jerusalem and suddenly be there. They didn’t need to walk or ride a bike or take a bus or board a plane; they just teleported, but they had to be familiar with the place or understand its location such as on a map to get their bearings and at least approximate where they were going.

Holding hands in prayer they asked the Lord where they could find a post-tribulation map of the earth. He told them to look under a familiar rock where Jason often sat, but it was too large for him to move, so he called on his angel, Mendorf, to help, and with one hand he nudged the rock just enough for Jason to get his hand under it. His fingers fumbled under the rock until he felt a piece of paper and retrieved it; Jason nodded at Mendorf, and he let the rock come back to its place (Mat 17-27). “Thanks Mendorf, would you like to come with us to find our old house where Nancy and I used to live in our former lives?” Mendorf agreed, so they put their heads together and studied the map, using it to create a spatial orientation of the earth.

Nancy said, “The earth sure looks different after the tribulation; I can hardly recognize it, especially after that giant earthquake; look how much the oceans have shrunk.” Jeanie asked, “Where did all the water go?” Jason said, “look above you. The sun never shines; instead, there is a high mist from the top of the atmosphere that extends most of the way to the earth, and at night the mist descends and waters the earth” (Gen 2-6; Isaiah 4-5,6). They were able to pinpoint their current location on the map and then searched west and slightly north beyond the Atlantic Ocean, putting his finger on the map where he thought was near their hometown. Jason said, “First we need to bodily disappear and then ‘will’ ourselves to the new location where I have my finger. Of course Mendorf had no problem with this, since he had been alive millions of years before man was created. They recalled that they were essentially spirits with a body merely superimposed over it, focused on that fact, and their bodies became opaque and disappeared. It felt like they had disrobed. They thought about the place on the map where they wanted to go and willed their spirits there. They looked around, and Jeanie said, “This doesn’t look right. Nancy added, "Which way should we go now?” Jason looked at some of the land features, comparing them to the map and determined that they were about fifty miles off target. Jeannie said, “This was so easy when we didn’t have a body. Jason answered, “Yes, but we were in the New Jerusalem and had already been to the places we wanted to go. Our bodies have nothing to do with the problems we’re having; we simply don’t know where we’re going; we need help.

They held hands again and prayed to the Lord, “Father, you see our dilemma. You know our hometown, please show us the way.” Jason looked at the map again and was able to pinpoint a place that looked more like where their hometown should be, so they took each other’s hand, disappeared again and reappeared in what was once Beloit Wisconsin and found the town in ruins. They walked to the house where Jeanie and Jason grew up that had fallen like the others. Jeanie ran to a post that once supported a porch swing outside the house that they used to ride together, and they reminisced old times; then they went into the house as far as they could, looking for mementos and Jason pointed out a scratch on the fallen pillar that he made while twirling the dog’s leash.

Jeanie found remnants of what was once her upstairs bedroom and recalled the terrible headaches she had in the middle of the night, causing her to wake up screaming. Jason looked at her and said, “I remember those days too.” Jeanie answered, “It was a very painful, scary, and confusing time for me; I didn’t know what God was doing, but I do now.” Jason asked, “What do you think He was doing?” She said, “Look at us; we are together again, and look at our bodies; He made us immortal and immune to pain. We couldn’t understand God or appreciate our new life if we didn’t go through those hard times with Him. We survived without a scratch and much the wiser because we willingly suffered with Him.” Jason asked, “What do you understand about God because of your suffering?” Jeanie answered, “I understand that suffering is not evil.” They came out and stood a distance from the house and looked at it again; Jason pointed at the house on the left and said, “There’s where the Tolmie’s lived.” Then Jason pointed at the ruins on the right and said, “That’s where Gramma lived and where mom took care of her until she died.” Jeanie said, “I wish I would have been there. I missed so much.” Jason replied, “You were always in my heart.”

Jason took Nancy and Jeanie on a tour of some of the places where he lived that became landmarks and locations of various production stages of Jean’s Bible Study, a topical concordance of the New Testament that the Lord called him to create from scratch. It was his life’s work. He uploaded it to the Internet as a website, and it became a very popular website just before the antichrist came to power, and it led many people to the Lord, resulting in most of his rewards. They walked south one block to the ruins of an efficiency apartment where Jason once lived. He pointed at the heap and said, “That is where Jean’s Bible Study was conceptualized. I heard the Lord speak to my heart on a rainy day about embarking on the project, and I accepted the mission, but I didn’t start untill ten years later. “The Lord wanted it to germinate in my heart before He released me… and now I’ll show you where I started working on it.” They kept walking down the same road for about a mile until they came to a Mobil home park, and he pointed out the broken down trailer where he lived for about five years and said to his comrades, “This is where I created the topical concordance; it took about three and a half years to finish; I held down various odd jobs at minimum wage to fund my way.”

Jason said, “Let’s walk across town to another house where I did most of my work on the website that led so many people to Jesus.” They held hands and started backtracking, then turned right and followed a road across a bridge over the Rock River and across town, navigating the streets and suddenly stopped at a brick house that was still standing, though most houses around it had fallen. All the bricks were loose, not mortared together anymore but still in place. The mortar between the bricks had cracked and some of the bricks were missing, because of the massive earthquakes that rattled the earth during the Tribulation, yet the roof miraculously remained intact. They went inside and up the stairs and into a room. Jason stopped at the top of the stairs and peered into the room, hugging Nancy, looked at Jeanie and said, “This is where I created the bulk of Jeans Bible Study, and I couldn’t have done it without Nancy; she supported me through much of it. It all happened right here in this room.”

He picked up a special rock from a jar of rocks and handed it to Jeanie, “Do you remember this rock?” She answered “No" “I found it in California when I was three years old; you were only two. We all went for a walk and collected rocks along the way, and during that walk the Lord visited me in a very special way. It was a wonderful experience, making this rock very special to me.” He handed it to Jeanie saying, “I heard God speak to me for the first time that day, and it had a profound impact on me, and for that reason I saved this rock as a memento of the experience.” Jason continued, “Let’s ask the Lord if we can keep it forever, if we can take it to the New Jerusalem after the Millennium.” Jeanie asked, “I thought we couldn’t take anything with us from our former lives, because the substance is not the same. Won’t the rock eventually erode into sand in only a couple million years?” Jason answered, “That’s why we need to ask the Lord.” They held hands and prayed in that upstairs room of the house where Nancy and Jason lived, “Dear Lord, can we keep this rock forever and take it with us to our heavenly kingdom?” Suddenly the rock began to glow between Jeanie’s fingers, and then the glow diminished. They looked at the rock that had been converted to an eternal substance, though it looked the same; then Jason put it in his pocket, and they went to see other parts of the house.            

They went down the basement and he showed Jeanie all the copies of a book that he wrote and ordered from a publisher that almost no one read, and he said, “These books are the reason God protected this house, which is mostly intact while all the other houses are laying in ruins. We’re going to take these books back with us to our home in Jerusalem, and wait till the populations of the earth grow, and then hand them out to people. They will read it, because they have seen the face of the Lord and have experienced His love firsthand, but the godless world that invited the antichrist to rule over them was not interested in this knowledge.” He asked his angel, Mendorf, if he would call some of his angel friends to come and carry all these books to Jerusalem and store them in a safe place. Mendorf was happy to do it.

Jason said, “Come with me; I have another surprise for you.” They went outside the house and stood next to a small bur oak tree growing, which stood about fifteen feet high, being one of the only trees in the area that survived the Great Tribulation; all the other trees had burned up, though there were many saplings that started growing only recently. The Lord took care of Jason’s tree, having planted it in faith that he would return during the Millennium and show it to Nancy and his sister and wait a couple hundred years, and then build a tree fort in it’s branches and use it as one of their favorite hangouts. Jason pointed at the tree and said to Nancy and Jeanie, “Do you see this tree; it’s our tree.” Nancy asked, “How do you mean?” “I planted it for us.

They went back to Jerusalem, which was a lot easier finding it than their hometown, since they knew the way like homing pigeons, no matter where they went or how far, they always knew the way home, for the Lord hardwired a beacon in their hearts that always pointed the way home, where Jesus lived. They returned to the Camp of the Saints and helped build the city, 2 1/4 million square miles, like their heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, which was their permanent home, but this one was only meant to last a thousand years. They built high-rise apartments and lived in them, though admittedly they didn’t spend much time there. They were busy exploring the planet, meeting new people and visiting old friends, continually networking relationships and broadening friendships.

Jason was glad he wasn’t popular like Bible characters who always had a crowd around them; he wanted to explore the earth and swim in the ocean with the dolphins and whales and climb tall mountains and brave fast rivers for the next thousand years. About two hundred years into the Millennium Jason, his brother, Fred, and about twenty of their friends got together and prayed to the Lord, “Where is a good place to go canoeing?” The Lord answered, “Try the northwest territory in the summer, and in winter there are places in South America that are sure to pique your interest with beautiful waterfalls, whitewater rapids, calm places you can camp and spend a week or two.” Jason said to the Lord, “I want to take a ten-year adventure trip; would that infringe on any plans you may have for us?” The Lord said, “That’s fine, but I want you to report to Me whenever you return, because I will have an assignment for you by then.” They all agreed and ended the prayer with thanks, praise and a worshipful amen to their loving heavenly Father. They decided to go north to the region the Lord mentioned, and they left empty-handed. They didn’t pack any bags or take any provisions; they just took a map of the area, how the earth looked after the Great Tribulation reordered the topography of the earth; they used it to find a river that would challenge them.

They held hands and disappeared and traveled to the general location where they expected to find large, fast rivers, and reappeared in a place that didn’t seem right. They looked at the map again and went northwest another forty miles and found themselves in the midst of a virgin forest with pine trees five feet wide at the base; the canopy was full and the under story was easy to navigate; birds and animals scurried back and forth seeking sustenance, and the air was clean. It was a rich land with food for the flourishing life. One of his friends, Terry, said, “I’m gonna look for a good river to canoe.” Just then his feet lifted off the ground, and he rose about a thousand feet above the tree tops; he pointed northwest. He came down and they all walked to the river. There was a large marsh and a smaller river they would have to forge, but they just walked over them, and there before them was the object of their quest, a river gone wild from the winter runoff, being early spring.

They helped each other build their canoes, finding a fallen log and wrapping willowy branches halfway around it and pinning them in place with two smaller trees running along the top on either side. Then they coated the willow branches with pinesap to make it waterproof and reinforced it with birch bark, coating over it until the hull was strong enough to withstand the raging river. Then they fashioned paddles, bending a willowy branch in the shape of a tall “U” and tied smaller sticks in the middle and pine-sapped them into place. The river went through pristine land that received a lot of rain. They all piled into their makeshift canoes and went down the river. They had about a thousand miles to travel before they got to the Mississippi. The plan was to canoe it to the Gulf of Mexico, but they didn’t get twenty miles before disaster struck. They happened upon some terrible white water that led to a great waterfall that they would have to portage, but some of them didn’t make it that far. They were supposed to keep left, but the current dragged one to the other side of the river where treacherous water awaited him. Huge boulders lined the riverbed, and the water was in such a hurry to get downstream that it took shortcuts under the boulders beneath the surface. The drag was so fierce at the surface that it sucked down Laurence’s boat and lodged him underwater between two boulders. They all waited for his boat to return, but it never did; then a breathless moment later they found Laurence standing on the shoreline, dry as a bone and smiling from ear to ear. The tragedy was they had to build another boat.

They braved whitewater, portaged over waterfalls, drank from the water and picked berries along the river, though eating wasn’t necessary. Many things they experienced summoned memories; and in the evening hours as they sat around the campfire, and on many nights they told stories of their former lives, conveying memories of friends and family who didn’t make it to heaven, and they wondered why they would turn down eternal life for their selfish pride, accepting instead the miseries of a never-ending hell, because they refused to bend their knee to God. If God allowed them into His heaven, they would eventually organize a revolt against Him, never allowing God to deal with their sin nature, having no regrets for their sins, only their consequences. They sat along the river and thought about some of the people who would have loved to be with them, had they just surrendered to the authority of Christ. They postulated their own future and tried to imagine what God might have in store for them, and mused on this wonderful life of theirs. Jesus was their best friend; He was committed to them and they were committed to Him with an everlasting love, and they regularly communed with Him every day. That night they worshipped God around the campfire next to the river trickling in the background, knowing the Father was looking upon them with favor even now, imbibing their comradery. They canoed to the ocean, swam with the dolphins and whales and explored the seabed along the coast, watching the fish swim in schools around reefs and explored sunken ships. When the dolphins ran and Jason couldn’t keep up with them, he disappeared and followed them in spirit, until they slowed down again, finding a school of fish or a favorite place and settled there shortly, allowing Jason to reappear and play with them again.

They eventually returned home to Jerusalem and found that it had been rebuilt while they were gone. They found Beautiful joining palaces, greater than King Solomon, built atop the rubble, and beside it they assembled a great throne where Jesus sat and received praise from all the people for locking Satan in prison for a thousand years and for saving them from the Beast. The people were reproducing, and their mortality rate was low, and their numbers climbed very quickly, filling the whole earth. Most people lived to be a hundred years old or more, because of the mist in the stratosphere that blocked out direct sunlight. Three hundred years into the Millennium there was already a billion people.

Jason found Jeanie, and they went searching for Nancy, and the three of them returned to their old hometown and to the burr oak tree that Jason planted in the front yard in his former life for the Millennium. He and Mendorf built a tree fort in it after giving the trunk a few hundred years to grow five feet wide, its branches reaching a hundred-fifty feet in the air. Jason returned about every ten years and did repairs on it. The tree had a ladder leading to the fort, and the fort had three rooms, with each room separated by a round doorway with no door, requiring a body to squeeze through the openings. The sections were separate rooms that were allowed to independently sway with the wind. The fort had windows with no glass and no chairs; they sat on the floor. They would come to the tree fort every year and bring Fred, Jason's brother, and another friend or two and stay a couple days and talked, laughed and giggled about anything that came to mind. Mostly the conversations revolved around Jesus, how good He is to us, how kind and generous, and how wonderful their life is now with a resurrected body that cannot feel pain, never gets sick and cannot die, no longer strapped with endless needs.

Jeanie said, “Remember King David who wrote many of the Psalms?” “Yeah” “I met him a while back.” Nancy said, “What was he like?” Jeanie answered, “He was very approachable and personable, and we talked for a long time.” Jason said, “What did he say?” “I introduced some of my friends to him and we asked him some questions about his former life, and he told us how different God worked with him compared to today, and he explained that they were different circumstances but the same God. And then we talked about Jesus and how wonderful He is, so kind and generous. David said something that I will never forget” “what’s that?” Fred asked. Jeannie went on, “He said that Jesus is very careful not to make distinctions between Himself and us. He wants us to understand that we are on the same level with Him.” “How could that be; He is God and we are His creation?” Jeanie answered, “That’s what I said, but David replied that He has lifted us up and made us to sit on His throne with Him” (Eph 1,15-23; Eph 2,1-7). Nancy said, “I have never seen anybody sit in Jesus’ chair.” Jeanie answered, “He told me that this is our position with Him, maybe not physically, but regarding the authority He has given us.” “Authority, what authority and for what?” Jason inquired. “Yeah, I wondered about that too, but that is what he said and I believe it. Nancy said, “You know, he is pretty close to the Lord, and so I think he would know what he was talking about.” Jason said, “Yeah, I wouldn’t doubt him either” (Rev 3-21). They went on imagining their lives in the eons to come, sitting in their tree fort and musing on God’s goodness, grace and generosity.

Shortly after returning to Jerusalem, Jesus spoke to Jason and requested his presence. When He came to the Lord, He bowed low to His majesty. Jason looked directly into His face and saw a great intensity of emotion love and acceptance that was pouring from His eyes in the form of light. Jason could read in His countenance that Jesus was reviewing his acts of faith; He was recalling Jason’s loyalty in his former life. At that moment Jason realized something: his status with the Lord was squarely based on his faithfulness that he showed in his former life, and that this would remain true forever, that in a billion, trillion years from now the rewards that He received from His former life would forever follow him. Just then he felt sorry for many people in heaven who showed the Lord little to no faithfulness, knowing that the consequences of their complacency would also follow them throughout eternity, but then he started thinking about so many people who glowed brighter than him, and regretted his own complacency. All these things flooded Jason’s mind before a word was uttered between them, and he could tell on Jesus face that none of his thoughts escaped His notice.

This was the first time Jason spoke face-to-face with the Lord since his initial judgment, though they had continuous fellowship in the spirit through prayer. Those who never developed a life of prayer in their former lives could only speak to Jesus face-to-face, which resulted in a continuous line of people waiting to speak with Him about their questions, and the Lord happily accommodated them.

The Lord said to Jason, “llrtorhlkudf, I have an assignment for you; being that you were shot dead in the doorway of your house by a religious zealot, I consider you a martyr, and you know that all martyrs become governors of My millennial kingdom.” It was 900 years into the Millennium, indicating that there were many people more faithful than Jason who were first called into public ministry and consequently received far more authority; many were called as presidents of nations, whereas Jason was merely called as mayor of a city. Jesus explained to him, “They are building a new city in the horn of Africa, and I need you to go there and be its mayor. Teach them the ways of God, so they don’t start bickering, fighting and starting wars against each other about the smallest things as you know people of the curse can do.” Jesus placed the coordinates in his spirit where he should go. They talked for a while before Jason excused himself from the Lord, and he and Mendorf went to Hargeysa in the province of Somaliland. They discovered how things were going there, that complaints were already mounting. People were treating each other unfairly, and Jason tried to show them how to resolve their differences and find better ways to conduct business with justice and equity, and explained to them that everyone would benefit by treating their fellow man with kindness and building trust, rather than taking advantage of each other. The city was growing very fast with over 10,000 people, being only a hundred years old.

Jesus wanted the people to remain agrarian, using horse and buggy, because such a way of life would last indefinitely, but the people were seeking easier, more efficient ways to live. Easier is not always better, though. The people were swiftly headed toward the end of their Millennium; they had already discovered radio waves and electricity and were making inventions that would use these new power sources. Jason was stunned at how fast they were progressing, and then he discovered that some people were going into the ruins of big cities in search of knowledge that would catapult their society hundreds of years into the future, using the designs and formulas they found in the abandoned ruins that were destroyed during the Great Tribulation to forge themselves in a breakneck pace in redevelopment of a technological society through reverse engineering. The people were starting to go in the direction that mankind went that led to the Great Tribulation: modern society, skyscrapers and destroying the earth in the process, polluting air and water. Jason was trying to talk them out of these things, saying that this is not the way the Lord would have them go, that it leads to disaster, but they wouldn’t listen. Shortcuts proved to be a road that leads to a steep cliff.

Jason was entreating the people to listen to their advise, wanting them to remain farmers, and knowing that man in his sinful nature was not mature enough to be sophisticated without destroying himself. Man through his technology made life simpler, but without dealing with his sinful nature, he remained the same inwardly. It only fueled his pride to live in a way that no other civilization has ever lived, yet through man's bloody history wars never ended. In Jason’s former life man invented war machines to more effectively kill each other.

Five guys dragged Jason outside the village and started beating on him with their fists and with clubs, telling him, "We don't need a mayor telling us what to do." He could have just disappeared, but he stayed there and took it, and he didn’t let Mendorf intervene; Mendorf just stood aside and watched. Jason didn’t feel any pain, though he was severely injured. While they had him on the ground, one took a rock and threw it on Jason’s head and splattered him all over the ground. They looked at him, feeling satisfied, dropped their clubs, wiped their hands, turned and started to walk away. They got about ten feet and looked back at the mess they made of Jason and saw that he had already vanished. They couldn’t harm his soul, and his body was just a physical replica of his spirit; Jason vanished and then reappeared, standing on his feet, completely unharmed, as though they never laid a hand on him. Jason just glared at them and then dematerialized before their eyes with Mendorf, remembering all the happenings in his former life that precipitated the second coming of Christ and realized that something similar was happening again.

Jason returned to the Lord and reported the chaos that was mounting in his city. They broke into the line of people waiting to talk to Jesus, the people looking at them with admiration. Jason returned the look, and then put his attention on the Lord, telling Him that the people were getting out of hand. Jesus answered, “This is not unique to your city but is happening throughout the world, and eventually they will make it clear that they want another king, and I will give them one; I will release Satan from his prison and he will become their new king, and we will see how they like that (Rev 20-7,8). Do what you can, and stay in touch with Me in prayer, and later I will give you new orders. Jason bowed before the Lord and departed.

Darnell standing in line, when it was his turn asked the Lord, “Will I ever be given a city to rule like other people.” Jesus answered, “Yes eventually, but don’t you like being here with Me and worshipping at my throne and enjoying the intimacy you have with God? You know that those who are ruling cities don’t have the intimacy that you have with Me. They return to Jerusalem and worship at My throne for a little while and then leave again, but you can stay with Me. This is going to pay dividends in the eons to follow, so when you are finally called to rule a city, you will do it through the intimacy that you have acquired worshipping at My throne.” Darnell bowed low before Christ, gave Him a big hug and went to tell his group what the Lord said to him, and the group praised the Lord with a loud voice that could be heard throughout the city, and it ignited another round of praise and worship that continued without pause for six months.

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