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Continued from p. 11Continued from p. 11  humans  in  the  solar  system.   you get in space,” Bezos said.   peacefully  on  Earth,  perhaps
          develop  special  transport  cap-    Think  how  cool  that  would  be.                                         ambitions to expand into space
          sules  suitable  for  space  travel   You'd have a thousand Einsteins      This  plan  is  obviously  quite  are not such a good idea. When I
          that will allow tourists to venture   at any given moment - and more.      ambitious,  and  it  sounds  too     ponder  this  thought,  I  cannot
          beyond  our  planet  for  the  first   There  would  be  so  much  dyna-   fantastic to believe, yet men such   help  but  think  of  the  words  we
          time.  Incredibly,  it  is  expected   mism  with  all  of  that  human    as Jeff Bezos believe such plans     find  in  Obadiah  1:4  which  de-
          that Blue Origin will have these     intelligence. But you can't do that   will really be possible someday.     clares,  “Though  thou  exalt
          space vehicles ready by the year     with the resources on Earth or the                                         thyself as the eagle, and though
          2018.                                energy on Earth. So if you really     Could this be another attempt by     thou  set  thy  nest  among  the
                                               want to see that kind of dynamic      man  to  outsmart  God?   Perhaps    stars,  thence  will  I  bring  thee
          It is the hope of Mr Bezos that the   civilization as we expand through    they  think  that  if  the  Earth  is   down, saith the Lord.”
          human race will someday expand       the  solar  system,  you  have  to    destroyed, they can simply move      [Last  Trumpet  Newsletter,  Vol.
          beyond the constraints of Earth.     figure  out  how  to  safely  move    into  space.  Considering  the  XXXV, Issue X, October 2016].
          “I  wish  there  were  a  trillion   around  and  use  resources  that     inability of the human race to live   www.lasttrumpetministries.org












                  HEREFORE  THEN,  since       course  of  the  race  that  is  set   shame, and is now seated at the
                we  are  surrounded  by  so    before us.                            right hand of the throne of God.
          Tgreat a cloud of witnesses          Looking  away  [from  all  that  will   Just  think  of  Him  Who  endured
          [who have borne testimony to the     distract]  to  Jesus,  Who  is  the   from  sinners  such  grievous
          Truth], let us strip off and throw   Leader and the Source of our faith    opposition  and  bitter  hostility
          aside every encumbrance (unne-       [giving the first incentive for our   against  Himself  [reckon  up  and
          cessary  weight)  and  that  sin     belief]  and  is  also  its  Finisher   consider it all in comparison with
          which  so  readily  (deftly  and     [bringing  it  to  maturity  and  your trials], so that you may not
          cleverly) clings to and entangles    perfection].  He,  for  the  joy  [of   grow weary or exhausted, losing
          us,  and  let  us  run  with  patient   obtaining the prize] that was set   heart and relaxing and fainting in
          endurance and steady and active      before  Him,  endured  the  cross,    your minds."
          persistence  the  appointed  despising  and  ignoring  the  (Heb. 12:1-3, Amplified Bible).
                                                                                                                          things that will help us to finish
                                                                                     Hebrews  12  develops  the  theme    life's race well:
                                                                                     of  endurance.  The  first  three
                                                                                     verses  teach  us  that  the  key  to   1. Consider them (verse 1):
                                                                                     persistence is passion.              Since a great cloud of witnesses
                                                                                                                          has gone before us, we must look
                                                                                     All the men and women of faith in    at their example and get serious
                                                                                     Hebrews  11  "made  it"  because     about finishing well.
                                                                                     they  felt  passionate  about  their
                                                                                     cause.  The  writer  compares  our   2. Consider ourselves (verse 1):
                                                                                     lives  to  a  race  and  tries  to   It is now our turn to run the race
                                                                                     convince us that we must run with    and  watch  for  pitfalls.  We  must
                                                                                     endurance  if  we  plan  to  finish   lay  aside  every  encumbrance
                                                                                     well.                                that  would  prevent  us  from
                                                                                                                          finishing well.
                                                                                     The text also suggests that if the
                                                                                     key  to  persistence  is  passion,   3. Consider Jesus (verses 2, 3):
                                                                                     then  the  key  to  passion  is  Jesus  ran  His  own  race  and
                                                                                     purpose.  We  must  run  with  endured  hardship  by  fixing  His
                                                                                     purpose, not aimlessly.              eyes  on  the  rewards;  we  must
                                                                                                                          follow His example.
                                                                                     And  the  key  to  purpose?  Pers-   [The  Maxwell  Leadership  Bible,
                                                                                     pective.   The  writer  of  Hebrews   John C Maxwell, Thomas Nelson
                                                                                     admonishes us to consider three      Inc., 2002].
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