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A World Right Side Up
By Loren Chamberlain

Can you imagine, living in a world that is “Right Side Up?” That will be the case when the Millennium begins on earth. The Feast of Tabernacles looks forward to and portrays the Millennium, which will be a most encouraging and favorable time for people.

Satan and his demons will have been imprisoned and there will be no other over powering obstacles for people to deal with other than overcoming their own human nature, and bringing it into alignment with God’s will.

During the thousand years they will not be pitted against Satan, and a world that is totally upside down and backwards to God’s way of life.

In the world of today, the Apostle Paul tells us, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Romans 12:2).

In the future world of the Millennium, God’s way will become the broad popular way, and society will be, in general, going that way.

Humanity today is constantly pressured to conform to this present evil world. In the New World the pressures brought to bear on society will urge conformity toward God’s standard and overcoming the self, building true spiritual character.

Jesus Christ with great power and force will put down those who would fill the earth with violence. The fear of violence by warfare will be abolished for all time. “He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore” (Isaiah 2:4).

We are told here of a wonderful future of peace, when the whole world will be taught God’s laws and will obey them. We know that one day God will remove all sin that causes war, conflict and disruption. Yet, we do not need to wait to obey God. We are encouraged to obey God now. He has given us His Word for direction and guidance in order to obey Him now. Some benefits of obedience we will receive only in the future. But we may enjoy some benefits now as we apply God’s Word to our lives.

During the Millennium there will be no waste of human life through war as has occurred in the past and is still raging in numerous places around the world today. No more will young men and women be taken from their homes, trained to destroy life, only to come home and have to face a life handicapped by loss of limbs, eye sight, or even the loss of life itself.

In comparison to the world humanity has always known, this new world will certainly be a strange place. We will not have to fear the tyranny of world leaders ever again. Jesus Christ will rule all people with benevolence, from the least to the greatest. “Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness. He will judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice” (Psalms 72:1-2). What qualities do we want most in our rulers? God desires all who rule under Him to be righteous and just. As you think of world leaders today, think how the world would change if they would commit themselves to these two qualities.

God cares for the helpless and poor because they are precious to Him. We must be willing to reach out to them also with the “Good News” of the Kingdom of God that will be established on earth during the Millennium. “For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help. He will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death. He will rescue them from oppression and violence, for precious is their blood in his sight” (Psalms 72:12-14).

No one will be able to influence His judgment by bribery of any kind. And He will judge righteous judgment (Isaiah 11:1-5). There will be no mistakes in His righteous judgments, for His is without error.

There will be no fear of wild animals. During this coming Millennium God will make a covenant with the beasts, the birds and the little creatures of the ground. “In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety” (Hosea 2:18).

No one will be afraid to be out on the streets day or night. “Each man will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land” (Isaiah 32:2). Because of the Kingdom of God (God’s government) and right education, human beings will become a source of help for one another.

Nothing is more heart rending than to see an infant born deformed. In the “New World” of the Kingdom of God, established when Christ returns, parents will not have to fear giving birth to physically deformed children. God will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more. “No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, “Know the LORD,” because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,’ declares the LORD. ‘For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more’” (Jeremiah 31:34).

All physical ailments can be contributed to the sin of Adam and Eve, centuries of wrong living, and wrong eating habits. Children having children, general dissipation and the ingestion of all manner of drugs, which cause degeneration and genetic damage, are the cause of sickness. This irresponsible way of life means deformity and ill health for future generations.

In the New World of the Millennium, those of a fearful heart, (having an awesome respect for God), will be saved, the eyes of the blind will be opened, the ears of the deaf will be unstopped, and the sick will be forgiven of their iniquity (Isaiah 35:5,6; Isaiah 33:24).

Even the fear of drought and famine that plague the world today in many nations will be gone (Amos 9:13-14). Those who put their trust in God will dwell in confidence, and their confidence will be in Christ. They will be the ones who truly “know the Lord” because they obey Him. They will not be taught to have confidence in self, but in Jesus Christ. “They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.” (Ezekiel 28:26).

People will be re-educated to have a godly fear, (awesome respect) for Jesus Christ and God the Father (Jeremiah 32:39-40). They will be of sound mind and mature in thinking, realizing that to break God’s laws only leads to degeneration in all areas of life (Philippians 2:5; 2 Timothy 1:7).

One of the fundamental teachings of the Feast of Tabernacles is that we may “learn to fear God always” (Deuteronomy 14:23).