100 years of kingdom rulership

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[old kingdom song to the tune of "battle hymn of the republic" (Glory, Glory Halellujiah)]

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"Every one of us are well and happy every day we're still working away and we feel

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as brother Russell has said the Gentile times have ended and their kings have

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had their day, so we know not what awaits us.

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May you day by day

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keep close to the master and his presence will so cheer you that nothing

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shall be able to dismay you"  - Edith Kessler, October 11, 1914.

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at the Kingdom's birth in 1914 the Bible students were not exactly sure what was

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going to happen but they knew it would be a pivotal year. for decades they had

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been saying that the Gentile times were closing and that the Kings they had

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their day, and they had been using every means available to focus attention on

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this monumental event. Newspapers had carried sermons to millions. Volunteer

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workers had distributed millions of free tracts.

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Colporteurs were zealously preaching. Pilgrims were busy organizing

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congregations and the message was expanding globally.  but with the end of

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the Gentile times approaching so quickly

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how could so few Bible students reach an entire world?

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How could they quicken the pace?

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"It is unanimously resolved to use moving pictures in teaching Bible truths. The

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Lord sanctioned this in his use of word pictures

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so this should not be neglected." -- The Watchtower

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July 1, 1913. With that resolution the Bible students were galvanized to

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present the Photo Drama of Creation. But such a mammoth undertaking would not

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come without challenges. Some of the young brothers learned to operate to

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projection machine by volunteering at the local theaters. Being too young I

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used to sit in the booth with the brother. i can remember how exciting it

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was when a film caught fire

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how the brother had to act quickly to put it out and proceed with the

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performance.

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-- Dwight Kenyon. It was excellent

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It's very amazing you had individuals back in those days that were able to do

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that without modern instruments and that's very impressive.

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That's really what helped my father to come into the truth.

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They got to the meeting the next day after it was finished and eventually

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started studying and within a few months they were baptized and my mom told me

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that she was one of the usherettes when they put on the Photo-Drama there in

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their town in Texas. But they had little pictures, postcard size of the pictures

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that were used the slides and it was a joy to look at those from time to time

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when I was a kid.

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Nine million people saw the photo trauma during his first year. A precious message

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they would not soon forget

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and there was more to come. From every part of the field has come to cry saying

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what more is there that we can do?

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The result is a new magazine under the title the Golden Age -- Joseph F Rutherford

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After that announcement brother Rutherford ask of everyone there

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how many desire to do this work? 6,000 Bible students stood up as one

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and over the next decade the thousands who would participate in that service

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work would use many creative methods to reach more people

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faster among them was a book the heart of God people were encouraged to get the

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Harp Study Course by mail

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then when I went to the home of our service director his wife and I ran

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speed races typing addresses on these cards sent out hundreds each week

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-- Trudeau McKittrick. Soon another technique would come to the fore, the

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radio station WBBR. The studio for this new radio broadcasting station was

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located in the attic. The microphone that we used at the beginning was taken from

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an ordinary telephone.

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Finally after some weeks of preparations we were ready for the first broadcast

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that occurred on Sunday evening

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February 24, 1924. The call letters were WBBR. these call letters are

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enemies that meant: 'Wicked Buzzes By Radio.'

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It was my privilege to throw the power switch on for that first broadcast and

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away we went

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hoping for the best -- Ralph Leffler. The people to this earth are now numbered

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with the thousands of millions many of them. WBBR in many respects was a

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forerunner to the videos because we had final questions answered there we had

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public meetings we had booked studies we had news

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the first piece of equipment that someone got when they came into the

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truth was a really good radio so they could hear WBBR and that's like i

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mentioned earlier how my parents first heard the truth was a radio discourse

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that I brother gave a talk on where the dead i had the privilege of times of

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giving talks on WBBR. young minister speaks

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I gave that once or twice I was encouraged to take part in one of their

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bible study groups i was privileged to be on it

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it was a program that was designed as a family bible study but even before that

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quite a number of years ago Fred Franz was on WBBR. imagine him on the air

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and youngsters listening to him:

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"good evening boys and girls I know it's drawing close to bedtime for many of you

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but before you take yourselves to bed

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I would tell you a story . . . "  I had never imagined I'd ever be on a radio program

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of any kind

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and here i was presenting the truth as a part of a program so it was a real joy

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to be on WBBR.

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the success of WBBR  was met with increased opposition so other

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methods were used to keep spreading the kingdom message when I was little

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we never had an automobile in our home but the sound cars big beautiful cars

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but these big horns on top and when they broadcast first music

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everybody came out to listen and every weekend the sum of the what we would

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call today elders would bring the sound card in and station it in our yard and

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from there they would play the records for the neighborhood

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every weekend we had a large group of people listening because of the location

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they could stay and listen and there was quite a gathering during that time

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another time I set up and started wonder brother other four lectures telling

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about the second coming of Christ a few days afterward a person told me that his

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fellow moonshiner was set up in the woods making a run of moonshot when all

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of a sudden here came a voice from above

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he got excited and want to run

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but it could not get away from the sound he finally ran home to get his axe and

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went back up there and chopped up this -

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he said he did not want the Lord to catch you making moonshine and his come

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see him

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personal

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yeah

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we would come up on a porch open our case set the arm in position on the

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record and push the doorbell when the householder open the door we would say I

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have an important message I would like you to hear and we would start the

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record it is often said CJ - did his snare and a racket and why when I was

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pioneering i use the photograph all the time

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I like the photograph this is an upright photograph we have the types that opened

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up and you could balance it on your hip if you were strong enough or you set it

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down on the porch and the message would be heard way down the street and I

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always enjoyed hearing when I put the record on brother

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Rutherford saying religion is a snare and Iraq and I'd look at the expression

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on the face of the people whether they were happy or not

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and I remember they told us now to help the householder concentrate on the

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message it would be good if you would watch the record so we were told to

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watch the record go around and around and around course we will get a little

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bit dizzy in time should not go to the door and shut up to the color the door

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shut up the party party didn't even know what was going on your side of playing

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the record the only thing is with the photograph you always have to make sure

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you have the right record on

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sometimes you would use that photograph at home and you'd play some hillbilly

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records

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I took mom's photograph and it put on my best water plan will be working in st.

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Louis Blues remember

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and so if you got out in service and you happen to have a record that was still

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on there she goes out in service with it

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photograph lets up to live they have an important message and here's a smaller

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playing we would

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some witnesses even nickname the phonograph Aaron because it did the

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talking for us

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that wasn't the only method that was used

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we also used a testimony card

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this one card would have a nice little presentation and with scripture to need

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to show that the householder and usually they don't we read a few lines and they

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hand it back to you so you'd have to finish the conversation and you give it

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to them to read and turn it over

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so some time we had to start giving it to them on the wrong side so they would

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turn into read it on the right side

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so finances Oh what I can just tell me why I'm there

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so which I did and and it - it was a little easier

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some people were a little short on funds and so we would offer to trade so many

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times out in the country they would trade you for maybe a dozen eggs four

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through four booklets or something like that or if it was a book you might end

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up with a chicken or two

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so when you went out and feel service in the country you have to be prepared to

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about pick up many different things usually probably bag the chicken up so

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he was in a bag back in the trunk

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got a little warm for the poor thing but they survived it and bring him home and

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then after we got to chicken out let him recover why we have a nice chicken

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dinner so back in those days we wait a lot of chicken

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in addition placards and information marches had also come on the scene

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and brother won the first of course with the shorthand expert and whenever you

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talk to him and he'd always be busy writing with nobody be writing about

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so you doing that this day and so he ripped it off and he gave it to me said

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what do you think of it and it said religions is here in the racket

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so I said my and that's pretty strong right

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as a matter of fact that that's hot when they said that's what i meant it to be

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so now he said don't think because I didn't know you were going to have a big

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information march and two days from now couldn't brother clay in the printing

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make up some signs written to snare in Iraq and put them on and poles and we'll

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have them for the prey and brother nor was also invited at that time so he and

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I let this pray that sprayed with six miles long and thousand brothers showed

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up for the parade

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it really was a spectacle every second side of your religion is snared in Iraq

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and the bobbies the police gave us protection as we went down Piccadilly

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Circus oxford street right in the centre of London

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we just put on the same which signs you know that had some kind of a message and

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slogans on it and they give us a minus sign that we carried you know and i'm on

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a stick

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we had a religion is a snare a racket then you have to put on the other stairs

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and breadth first wrong

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the on the other side there is so god and christ the king and we want to very

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slowly and down the street and then back the other way and an area and we would

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approach people with a handbill and everybody took them and they were

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looking at the placard they would try to not let you think they were looking at

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you but ten they were they were reading all of the information on the placard

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some people would say something to the effect that you're doing a good work and

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that was always a blessing to me and always remember the sister who looked up

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at the sign that she was carrying she looked back up over her head and it's

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that serve god and christ the king and she looked at the one in front of her

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and the back of that sign said religions to start a racket

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she said well I'm sure glad I don't have to carry that sign

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well she was carrying that side it was on the back of birds but then who is she

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didn't know what she was happy

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they had adult size placards and they had little fill out placards

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well I was only about four feet tall but whenever I got 30

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the little ones were gone so i only got a big one that came underneath here and

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every time i took a step I kicked it with my feet but it doesn't make any

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difference

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we enjoyed working with placards

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nobody ever trained me in the ministry so one day I was at the meeting and the

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brother passed out the publishers cards and I said where's mine he said well you

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know get one you're not a publisher and I said well what's that and he said you

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got to go preaching

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I said how do you do that he said we'll come on saturday and go over there and

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get magazines and then they went out and they pointed me out the door

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I was scared but I just went anyway I didn't care my first experience in field

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service was really cute

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I knocked on the door and they said hello I've got something for you and you

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can have it for a penny or you can have it free if you promise to read it

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I placed one in every door one morning I was taking group out in the field

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ministry and a Navy man shows up at the kingdom hall

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he's got his uniform on and I didn't know what to do so I took him door with

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me and it was really very interesting go i thought it was pretty neat me going

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door-to-door with the guy in the military standing next to me and I'm

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giving my presentations and he's got a Bible were following along with me

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of course later on I learned really it's not the most appropriate thing to take

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someone in military uniform out in a ministry with you but at that time I did

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it so my father and in December said well he's going to go ahead and service

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so I got ready and went with him now

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neither one has ever been out in service before the presiding over Syria and

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handed my father territory and send it to us out together

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my father said you take that side and I'll take this side and that's what it

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was like and of course I was no more prepared than the man in the moon we had

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pioneers come to our house and they studied with us and she decided to get

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it started in the ministry we would begin with Street work but i said no i

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said i don't want to do that and she said well that's too bad you think

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because I can see the book of life now there's the names of your sister is

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written there no Lorraine

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as I got older there was a pioneer brother and the congregation that asked

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if I'd like to go with a mom to work with him he carried a rifle in the back

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of his car which i thought was kind of unusual

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we'd see a rabbit he'd stop the car and shoot the rabbit put it in the car as it

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got toward the end of the day i would ask him did they know of any place where

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we could stay overnight because we were out in the ministry in and that people

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and two different s not recall this when you can stay with us every one of them

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said well we don't have enough food for suffering of the brother said well i

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have a couple of rabbits here if you want to scan the key

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so they did that I don't think that this would work

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now the and caring arrival in the car certainly is not enjoy it

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it gradually became clear that the individual Minister needed further

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cultivation

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so the brothers started perhaps the only school from which not one single

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solitary person has ever graduated the theocratic ministry school

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I recall the time I gave my first six minute talk

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I was not confident in myself so I wrote it down but when I got out to give it

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audience fear gripped me and I started in the matter

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losing my thoughts then there is only two living from the manuscript but my

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hands were trembling so much that the lines were dumping up and down

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Zords gangis

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well I don't know when the minister school started you know and I remember

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the brother gave her first talked and he was so no she was kicking the podium all

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the time

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boom boom boom boy didn't know he was doing it and I was sure is my heart

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could be heard for the first four rows because it was beatings or back that

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sister didn't get talks

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the brothers gave the talks the sisters did we just laughed and giggled at the

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brothers

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I know we were all very very excited as sisters when we were invited to be part

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of the school and I remember we were just I was just so excited I jumped up

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and was clapping the sisters behind me but crying I have to give dogs now i

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know they didn't like it but I was I couldn't figure out why they were crying

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but we were in west virginia and little tiny congregation and guess it was to

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give the first talk is me of course

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so I was scared to death but we did it - I think everybody was quite nervous and

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apprehensive in the very beginning

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so it's really quite a marvelous training program it is

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besides just not just public speaking it's it's a training in life

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this school would prove invaluable and training God's people to use their gift

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of speech and proclaiming the kingdom good news

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but at the same time another school was also having a powerful effect on the

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ministry

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the watchtower bible college of Gillian

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that was five and a half months of some of the happiest of my life

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it would seem like everybody else was a mental theocratic giant so we were

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intimidated

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I guess I should speak for myself mainly how they felt intimidated there and I

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thought that everybody else probably know a lot more than i did a classes

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were delight our instructors were brothers Schroeder brother Maxwell

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friend

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a jak Redford and Bob Porter well tell you a story from brother friend after I

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gave one of my talks and Gilead

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he said to me mr. Brooks I admire your grandchildren

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he said you'll be able to tell them to wonderful bedtime stories said brothers

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Hebrews 4:12 says God's Word is alive he said don't kill it

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by the way you read it I think one thing was the little white house and the

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kingdom in our preaching classes with brother Redford

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I'm telling you that little white house and had a door mill and the door and you

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would get sent out the class would decide what objection you were gonna get

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you come back and I'm telling you to push that door bill not knowing what was

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going to happen behind that door and just see how you handle it it was real

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real real formation believe me it prepared us really for the for the

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ministry and what was ahead of us

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it was wonderful training for the ministry I loved it

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the next several decades will see more new schools and training programs

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but it would also witness a monumental conventions and groundbreaking new

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releases

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more tools to help God's people stay focused on the harvest

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nineteen fifty i don't think there's ever been a convention that had that

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kind of almost electricity in the air

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everybody is excited they're looking forward to the public talk and the

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releases everybody wants to get the new publications

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it was eight days at that convention not sure that people could endure that much

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these and his he's well I was so happy that will happen the convention because

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the people used to think we were just some little dinky religion you know and

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I knew when the Yankee Stadium was going to straighten the mouth of the book but

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when that new world translation in Greek scriptures was released it was it really

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brought the house down

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everybody's express themselves and they clapped and there was cheering and

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clapping and and everybody needed to sit until after the session before they got

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their new books have the New World Translation even though it was the green

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Bible was just such a wonderful tool for us in the ministry

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it was exciting than just like it is now every time you get something new and of

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course you appreciate it more as you use it

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another thing I loved about those conventions and a live orchestra and

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singing with a live orchestra was already exciting but boy when you would

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sit in those stadiums and see all your brothers and sisters it just was so

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heartwarming and made me feel safe inside your hole his organization and it

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was just wonderful every time you went to the convention it was something

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thrilling and when it ended

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we didn't want it 10 this period of expanded activity would result in

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publishers pioneers Bible studies return visits placements and all aspects of the

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ministry reaching record highs the work was growing in more countries than ever

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but most importantly the good news of the kingdom was being preached

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but as has often been the case there was much more to go

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just think of some of the events that you

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have witnessed in recent decades the pioneer service school

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the ministerial training school

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the school for Kingdom evangelizers special Metropolitan Public witnessing a

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newly-designed jw.org Caleb and the become jehovahs friend series

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the revised new world translation

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and now a new language at to further train publishers to learn to speak the

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pure language and multiple languages video on demand an entirely new website

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where people can watch morning worship and other video publications and finally

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a return to broadcasting our own TV station

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JW broadcasting

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taking the Bible's message from world headquarters to the farthest reaches of

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the planet imagine what we will look back on at the 1000 for 1 million

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anniversary of King Aroo the past 12 years helps us to appreciate that God's

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kingdom is real and that Jehovah God has been using that Kingdom to accomplish

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his will on earth today but how real is that Kingdom to you

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looking back on our heritage and speaking to those with years of

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experience will make the kingdom more real to you and will prepare you to

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benefit from that came the governing body have been anxious to get whatever

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they can for the ability of the brothers and teaching him to walk the upright

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world

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oh I think the revised new world translation is is a marvel

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the word love isn't big enough to say how much i love that Bible

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k WR is fantastic I mean my ipad all the time and then using videos i'm i'm in

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love with caleb is keeping abreast with what we need to be efficient ministers

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and fulfill our responsibilities everything at the society has done has

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been proud good

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we're growing faster today that we ever have a general are really moving the

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chariot and we're trying to keep up with it and

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have been very grateful for having Jesus brother's to take the lead for us

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there is no question about the King being in control

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what else can be Mariano Martinez I hope it holds

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I just feel privileged to have some share in inviting others to join us a

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certain some general GOG

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if the sun comes up but we know that Kingdom is going to accomplish just what

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the Bible says that it

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this is the reality God's kingdom everything else is the solution

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the kingdom is in control we only have good things to the problem

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yeah

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yeah

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yeah

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yeah