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Isn't it obvious that God has been communicating with Mankind? He's given us information about Himself in many ways. The Zodiac, the Great Pyramid, Jesus, and the Bible are a few of the more apparent ways.

The very first time we allow the idea that there is a God, we'll immediately be accepting that He's been saying things to Mankind. Would it be possible to reach the place where one would accept God's reality and that He was communicating with Mankind and not wonder what God was saying?


Don't we have to ask, "What's God telling us?" And when we ask that, won't we find in the answer an idea of what God has in mind as the purpose for the earth and Mankind? I think, "Yes," to both questions. Given God's reality, human curiosity would naturally want to know what God is saying when He talks. And certainly, when we were able to understand the Message, we would be able to see some overall plan/objective, which fostered the Message. I mean it's almost a sure thing that the two are virtually the same. If God's Message is that He's going to set up a thousand year Kingdom here on earth, that's the Message and the objective at once.

Not only do we find places in the Old Testament that allude to or definitely talk about the thousand year Millennium. That Message came through the Flood and then was expanded upon by the writers of the pre-Christian era. The idea was firmly established by the time Jesus came on the scene. Contrary to what most Christians would say, Jesus didn't preach salvation. When he instructed his disciples to "go into all the world and preach the Gospel," would it make sense that he wanted them to preach the same Gospel that he was preaching?

Look at all the times the Bible mentions Jesus' preaching and see if it virtually always says he preached "the Kingdom of God." When the term Gospel is used, "Kingdom of God" is meant. The large segment of Christianity that wants God to be their Backup, has changed the meaning of Gospel from "Kingdom", to "salvation".

It's no mistake that God is focused primarily on getting the earth and Mankind ready for the Millennium. Material prosperity, salvation and immortality are only small necessary parts of the plan.

It's only common sense that God would use the most effective means available to communicate something to mankind. The task of reaching the world requires much resources and personal ability of the earthly "channels."

By looking at history, we can determine which populations, empire, nations, groups and individuals were/are best suited to the task.

The resources of the Communicators must be vast in the context of each sized group, from the individual to the world empire. Not only will material resources of the Communicators be more abundant, they will be seen to have the numbers, ability and technology to spread the Message to a greater part of humanity than other populations of the earth.

A high degree of skills in communicating, i.e. education, would be necessary to know how to make the communication understandable to the listeners. This would require reading, writing and language translation.

The integrity of the Vehicle of Communication must be unassailable, irrefutable and exact. The original Message must be precise and not open to basic, or even moderate, interpretation. Only a language rich in detail and nuance will be able to withstand skeptical criticism. This language will have a "universal" quality to it. It will be seen to have emerged from the Root language of mankind, developing from simplicity to intricacy and universality, as greater needs of dissemination developed. The final stage of the Vehicle's development will be the product most able to reach the greatest number of people on earth.

The Communicators must have a wide audience and will be seen, in hindsight, to possess/have possessed a high degree of tenacity, commitment, and courage.



Please let me disclaim a second. Being God's Number One anything is not being picked out by God for some special blessing, to the exclusion of the rest of Humanity. Just the opposite is true. As God can be seen as a Server, so will His People be Servers. They are selected out of the rest of Mankind to do the grunt work of getting God's Message out to the world down through the last 6000 years. It's as though God knocked on the door one day and said, "Got a lifetime? I've got a task that you're going to do for Me." If you happen to be of a mind to say "No," God will make you forget that He's there, and you'll do your little part anyway. There won't be any joy in it, but you'll do it. God has a way of having folks act out His Message with their very lives. He manipulates all the names, numbers, and times so that they symbolically tell the same Message that the participants would have told directly, if they hadn't been so recalcitrant. I'm not positive of the exact meaning of recalcitrant, but it's a neat word, huh? Recalcintrant.

Now, when God knocks on your door and you accept the assignment consciously, and start putting the Word where you mouth is, you're going to need some extra help to accomplish the little goals along the path. In other words, you'll need some cash to pay the extra bills. It'll show up. You'll probably need a way of reaching more people than those in your immediate physical presence. It'll show up. If it's a book, you'll have the means to get it on paper, the money to print it, and a place to make it available to more than just the folks where you live. God will help you get a typewriter, bring in enough extra money for the printing and have more than one opportunity for your book to be seen by many, I have to emphasize many, people you don't and will never see or know. Remember, God is using your work to reach the folks who don't have another avenue available just now. God's not going to inspire you, give you a bunch of cash to print a book, then limit His Truth to a few friends. He wants to maximize His output, just like we do.

The point I make is that it takes a lot of resources, education, commitment and courage to be a Communicator. God will, of course, supply our usual daily needs plus the extra required to advance His objectives. This will be seen on the practical, everyday level as prosperity.

It follows that those who are reaching the most people will be seen as the most prosperous. They HAVE to be, in order to pay the bills of their Communications. A way that reached the world's whole population, like satellite, would be the way God would use, right? If you were going to mail a letter across the country, wouldn't you rather send it by plane than pony express? God would certainly use the most effective means to Communicate His Message.

Another, and even more world-inclusive, is short wave radio. It takes much less to implement worldwide Communication over short wave than it does satellite. Short wave is available on every square inch of the earth. Satellite transmission is not.

If there is a voice backed by God today, that voice will surely be broadcasting from satellite, and absolutely be found covering the globe by short wave. That's what I'd do if I were God. I sure wouldn't limit my Message to Topeka, and hope that some of the good folks there had email.

Well, how much do you guess it costs to rent a transponder on a satellite? We don't even have to inflate our guess to arrive in the $100,000's range. A satellite that doesn't have all the popular channels, that may not have more than four channels that aren't scrambled or vacant, will still cost a considerable sum. You want to go on satellite, it takes Bucks, more than you're used to having around.

Wow! Did you ever guess when you first found that garage-sale typewriter that your eventual outreach would cost a $1,000,000 a month? You only wanted to get some thoughts down on paper.

Let me say it again. The prosperity seen in God's Number Ones, is not a blessing, it's a necessity. These folks weren't singled out to be treated better than the rest of Mankind. They were drafted into the hard job of trying to convince other people that there is a Supernatural Force in the Universe that is going to be here soon to set up a thousand year Kingdom. He's recruiting people to inform the world. Then, with only those who chose to trust and help Him, He'll start from scratch. Those humans-turned-Immortal, will help God as He outfits a whole new Universe. Have you ever tried to convince someone of some strange, invisible force that had an effect on your life? A voice? A tangibly felt force that you knew was with you, even though you couldn't see anything? That's hard enough, without trying to see what it takes to tell people that you're in touch with a Force that created them.

The outline below can help give a more inclusive perspective of the worldwide scene, and answer many questions. If we just look at history, we should be able to tell who God's Number Ones were. We can simply answer the questions below.

Progressing from the largest to the smallest groups of people:



PREMISE: God-things will be the Best, Biggest, most effective.

LANGUAGE:

Greek: The language most precise for communicating God's Message is/was Greek. The Septuagint long preceded Jesus' advent. Despite much evidence that the original Gospels and some of the letters were written in Hebrew/Aramaic, the overwhelming volume of MSS that exist, the three oldest, complete codices are in Greek.

German: First Bible printed, that enabled Tyndale to begin the wide dissemination of the Bible, beginning with Englishmen.

English: Greek is no longer the universal language. The language most used to reach the world is English, the language of God's main messengers.

POPULATION: The population group that is most responsible for getting God's message to the rest of the world. The population group that is most beneficial to the world in general.

EMPIRE: The world empire that is the largest, most prosperous. The empire that has been most responsible for getting God's message to the rest of the world.

British Empire: The most powerful, prosperous, extensive, expansive, well-educated, humanitarian empire of history.


NATION: The single nation that is most prosperous, and most beneficial to the world. The nation that has been most responsible for getting God's message to the rest of the world.

United States: The most powerful, prosperous, expansive, well-educated, humanitarian nation of history.

TEACHERS: The men who are/have been most responsible for disseminating God's Message. The men who have reached/are reaching the greatest number of people. The men most qualified to present the Message.

Joseph of Arimathea: Highly educated. Courageous. Committed. Rich, influential. Widely traveled. He was responsible for the birth of Christianity in Britain, 37 AD, and the training ground for the early missionaries.
Paul: Highly educated. Committed. Energetic. Ability to reach many people, well traveled. Almost single handedly made his way from Palestine to Britain, establishing many churches, and confronting much Royalty with the Message.
Luther: Highly educated. Courageous. Committed. Energetic. Ability to reach many, a Priest. All Catholicism was available to Luther. He helped common people get in touch with the Bible.
Tyndale: Highly educated. Zealous. Courageous. Committed. Ability to reach many.He translated the Bible into English, and finally lost his life getting the Bible into the hands of the common people.
Dr Gene Scott: Highly educated. Zealous. Courageous. Committed. Ability to reach many, global network. His voice can be heard over the whole earth, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty-five and a quarter days a year.

WE DON'T FIND:

For a more practical look at this, lets' overlay these qualifications on a world population group.

The Chinese haven't demonstrated more than one qualification for God's Number One Communicator. The Chinese people qualify as one of the four major population groups of the world. They have the numbers.

But they have not been a world empire. If so, it certainly didn't rival even Alexander's Grecian Empire. They haven't the world's richest resources. While educated, they haven't used their education to relate God's Truth to Mankind. Their language is less precise than some other languages and open to more interpretation. As a nation, they have not surpassed all other nations of the earth in prosperity, education, power and humanitarianism. They are also also-rans in the technology required by worldwide dissemination of a message (even though they contributed by inventing gunpowder, which often accompanied and facilitated the Communicators and their task).

This is not a slam at the Chinese. This is only an example, that can as easily be placed on at least two other world population groups. All of the above is equally true of the Black race, and the Brown race. Only one world population group shows All the qualities that would be apparent in God's Number One population group.



One final question. How did Britain and the United States end up in the Number One slot? Why not the Jews?

The major portion of the whole of God's selected Communicators has taken up the major portion of the work. He gave this task of communicating His Message to ALL the descendents of Jacob, all the Israelites. There are ten or eleven other groups of God's selectees beside the Jews. The Jews are only one tribe out of a possible thirteen. But what ever happened to all those other tribes? Didn't they get lost? We sure can't find anything about them in our history books. About 700 BC, we lose track of them.

So can we conclude that God's selection came to nothing? Did these other Ten Tribes not accomplish the task God set for them? Did their disappearance precipitate God's choice of Britain and the US as His Number Ones? That would have meant a major change in the Plan. A famous British atheist once proclaimed the Bible and God false. He based his claim on the fact that all the promises God had made to the Jews were given to England.

God has never deviated from His Selection. Those original Israelites from the northern Kingdom of the House of Israel were never let off. God was just moving them to a safe place and building their strength until it was time to take up the yoke in earnest. They had to be ready to get Christianity out, not just to the Middle East, or Europe, or North America, but to the whole the world. The area to be covered had grown exponentially. The Israelites needed those centuries to get ready to take on the world. This task was fairly long term, also. It was going to be a 2000 year job! ! !

Those Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel became the traditional Christian nations of the British Isles, northwest Europe, and the United States. These people have been a controlling force of the world throughout history. Even the mighty Roman Empire, at its prime, couldn't completely conquer a stretch of ground not much bigger than their Italian Boot. And from that historical point to the present, the descendents of the Israelites have come to dominate the world, in war, in trade, in culture.

They couldn't continue in God's task without being a dominant force in the world.

I used to use an email tag that said, "How will you know what to do for God today?" Given all of the above, it should be clear that our main job as believers/faithers is to go along with what God's trying to do. If you go to any of the places where God has left His Message and verify what I've been saying, you'll soon have an idea of how you can get on track with your own actions.

Now that you know what God wants done, maybe you can look at your life and see how He's already equipped you to be part of getting His Message to someone else.

As a last reminder, stay focused on the Kingdom. Traditional Christianity will brush this off as "getting the Word out." They'll hear "salvation" when "Kingdom" is said. They will be able to discount this information as something that they've been doing for centuries. The paradox is, they are right and wrong at the same time. They have been getting the Word out. It's just not the same Word that was preached by our primary example. The example that we can most relate to, the mere example of another human being. The human being called Jesus.

Jesus was Right on track with what he told us about God. He, better than any other human being, completely understood and exactly communicated the Message. Why concentrate on a smaller aspect of a greater Message? Why waste time telling how great it is be to be saved, when that's just a small part of the total plan to set up a Kingdom on earth and, then later, recreate the whole universe?

You want to "get the Word out?" Tell people about the Kingdom, and how God's put up a Help Wanted sign. Below is a version of a Help Wanted ad that appears in the hard edition of Fifty Pieces. The electronic version of some of the books' other essays on faithing are in the Fifty Pieces section of this site.



HELP WANTED



I'm looking for some people to fill a space/position in a somewhat different part of My Creation. But I don't want people I can't trust. I need folks who are able to take and carry out complicated and risk-bearing orders; which many times must depend upon My help in some way. These people must have the capacity to rely upon Me completely to back them up when needed.

Also necessary is the capability to focus on one's own tasks to the exclusion of ALL the other elements of a whole project. Those who can Trust Me implicitly while performing assignments, for which they may have little understanding, but are sure of their capability to accomplish the work given.

Although I've sent this Message to you in many ways and times, somehow your curious Nature always twisted the Word out of shape. You won't be able to deny My Message this time. I hope.

I have prepared a Special Envoy to deliver the Word. He will be known mostly as Jesus. This time I have decided to present My Word to you in Living Human form.

His Special Task is to review for you My Ways, and My Will. Concerning My Ways, He is to spend a season on Earth teaching again the lesson of Sinai. In Flesh He shall speak and Live My Way; as a Living example of how to function best in My Creation. The Way in which the Creation interacts most efficiently.

My Envoy, in addition, will teach, by His acts, My Will. It is My Will to make known My need to the whole Earth. He will teach people that Dependence on Me will qualify them to fill the above-mentioned Position.

I need intelligent, Truth seeking minds, so He will speak of the Dependence only in parables. I have commanded Him to teach the Dependence with each and every healing, by saying, "Your Trusting Action has made you whole."

I have given Him My permission to express the Dependence, but very subtly, by raising some from the dead, His Trusting Act being obscured by the commonality of simple prayer.

And lastly, I have asked Him to perform one Monumental Act of Trust in Me; to show finally and clearly what I need for My work. He has agreed to give up His life, upon My Word, that I will place My Holy Spirit back into His Body, and He will raise from the dead. Whole, Pure, Glorified, and Immortal. I have, for My part, agreed to give Him everlasting rule over certain portions of My Greater Creation. I thought that only fair.

Lastly, all applicants must be informed that the positions to be filled are subject to many perquisites. Joy. Peace. Harmony. Growth. Light. And Me, of course. All those desiring application, do what Jesus did. Act in Trust of Me. If someone can't tell you how, find your own way. It's the main theme of My latest Book.





Like Paul, Luther and Tyndale, much reliance on God is necessary to get the Kingdom Gospel out to the world. You should notice that the Help Wanted Ad doesn't even address the implantation of the Holy Spirit in people who depend on God. It doesn't mention that this implantation results in the salvation of the Truster. All that does happen, but it's not God's main objective.

Recruiting staff members of for the running of the Kingdom, and to facilitate the re-creation of the Universe is the primary purpose of God.

We must remember that, like us, God does things for Himself. Fortunately for us, he's strong enough to tell us this up front. People will almost never admit that they do things for their own reasons; especially when the action is related to individual or community service.

But not God. If you look up in the Bible the places where God talks about why He's doing something, you'll find him saying, " for my sake/glory/name." Even when we can't see it, he says it. Behind the New Testament English is Greek. The simple word, "chosen ", which is used 39 times in the New Testament, contains that same message. If we were to write it all out in English, the Greek would say, " has already named (with words) for Himself. " Out of those 39 times, 36 are in the middle voice , something we don't have in English. Whenever the action described by the root is done for the actor, the middle voice is used. The Greek word is eklegomai. It breaks down as, ek, already done, lego, named/called, mai, for the namer/caller. But all we see Paul saying in Ephesians 1:4 is this, ". . . and hath the chosen us in Him. . . " It doesn't even say "for" Him.

In Luke 10:42 we find the same nuance in Mary's action. Jesus himself uses the concept. The Greek version of this story has Jesus telling Martha that her sister had chosen the better of two things. When Martha complained that Mary wasn't helping in the kitchen, but sitting around listening to his teaching, Jesus says, "... hath chosen that good part." Luke wrote the word "eklegomai" for chosen. I'm with Mary. If I had to choose between Jesus and the dishes, we'd better have some paper plates. : -)

If God was acting mainly for us, we probably could conclude that our salvation was His aim. We sure wish that this were the case. But God is the Served, not the Server. He does stuff for Himself, and because we are included in the process, some good stuff falls out on us.

God's plan, and his Message about that plan, can be found out. Now, the only question remains, "Is your God-action operating within God's plan or are you spinning your wheels being Good or trying to be a neighborhood evangelist?

How will you know what to do for God today?




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