Looking ahead

Kingdom passages:

“AND IN THAT DAY,
it will be that the mountains will rain down YHVeH’s Spirit,
as though flowing down forth an intoxicating New Wine;
and the hills will gush forth and flow with fatness;
and all the deep channels of Judah shall flow forth with Living Waters;
and an overflowing River shall pour forth as a spring from the Mountain of G-D -- from out of the House of Y*** will it go out;
and a refreshing and a watering will it give,
as it fills even the Valley of the Pierced Tree.”
(Joel 3:18, fully amplified with word pictures from the Hebrew, translation mine)


“AND IN THAT DAY,
will the BRANCH of Y*** be glorious and beautiful,
and the fruit of the Earth (will be) for glory
and for pride for the survivors of Israel.” (Isaiah 4:2)


AND IN THAT DAY --
“The days will come when the vines will grow,
each having 10,000 shoots;
and on each shoot 10,000 branches;
and on each branch 10,000 twigs;
and on each twig 10,000 clusters;
and in each cluster 10,000 grapes;
and each grape when crushed will yield 25 measures [ca. 150 gallons].

And when one of the Saints takes hold of a cluster,
another cluster will cry out,
‘I am better. Take me. Bless the LORD through me.’

Similarly, a grain of wheat will produce 10,000 heads;
and every head will have 10,000 grains;
and every grain (will yield) 10 pounds of fine flour, white and clean.

And the other fruits, seeds, and grass will produce in similar proportions -- and all the animals feeding on these fruits produced by the soil, will in turn, be harmonious toward one another, and fully subject to man.”

-- Papias…who was a hearer of John and…saw John the disciple of the L-RD, recalled having heard how the L-RD used to teach about those times…and he goes on to say [that Jesus, the L-RD, said]:

‘These things are believable to those who believe.’

And according to John, ‘when Judas the traitor did not believe,
and asked, ‘’How then, will such a growth be accomplished by Y***?’’,
the L-RD said, ‘’Those who live until those times will see.’’ “
Irenaeus, Against Heresies 5.33.3-4
(Irenaeus was a 2nd generation student from John, through Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna - - Polycarp being the disciple of John, whom John also ordained. Polycarp was martyed ar about age 116.)