A warning to America
December 22, 2018
By Bob Barney
I have written a new translation of the Bible that took over four years in the making of the Bible in Paperback on Amazon. The following is an excerpt of warnings to both Christians and the people of the United States of America. They are not from me but direct quotes from God and the Bible. I have, with poetic license, merged many warnings from different passages to bring clarity. I have combined God's warnings in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 also adding other prophetic verses from the Old and New Testaments including Christ and His apostles.
There are two peoples that the Bible talks about and is written for. The first people, are the Children of Jacob (Israel), as they are God's chosen people. The second are Christians, an even higher order of the chosen people. Unlike the first group, Israel, anyone can be a Christian! Israelites do not imply that they are Christians. Many are, many are not. They are who they are by DNA; whereas Christians are who they are by invisible spirit; The Holy Spirit. However, many Christians are also Israelites, but most of those don't realize it! The nation of Israel is made up of 12 nations! Nations are not small populations of tribal families. Germany, Iran, Russia, the USA are nations. One of the most misunderstood teachings of the Bible is the identity of Israel. Most people believe that this simply is another name for Jews. IT IS NOT! Yes, all Jews are Israelites, but not all Israelites are Jews! The children of Joseph are not Jews, nor are the children of Dan, Rueben, Issachar, Simeon, etc. These other nations have not and are not Jews! God told Abraham and later Jacob, that their descendants would never be able to be counted, because there would be so many of them. Are Jews that numerous? No they are not, and have never been! The promise of a huge large nation was given to the two sons of Joseph. God said that these two nations (the younger son becoming the 13th nation of Israel) would be the two most powerful nations to ever sit on the face of man's world. Too numerous to count, living in a “promised land,” flowing with milk and honey. What two nations fulfill God's world? The answer is simple. The people of America and those of Great Britain. If you are English, or an American of English, Irish, Scottish, Danish, Scandinavian, Dutch or French heritage, you too are Israelites, and every Bible prophecy that applies to “Israel” applies to you! The warnings to the children of Jacob applies to you, whether you are a Christian or not. You cannot escape your DNA no more than a Jew can. Check out my article on this subject in great detail here!
A GREAT TRIBULATION is coming. The Bible DOES NOT promise a pre-Tribulation Rapture! If you are alive during this time, you will go through this terrible event, Christian or not, so if we are living in the End Times, it may be a smart thing to be prepared! Again, the following are God's words, not mine..
One last doctrinal point I want you to understand. In this new translation of the Bible, I did something that will rise some eyebrows, but did so because it is accurate. I put every word of God in RED whether spoken in the New Testament or Old. Every time you read God speaking in quotes in the Bible, it is the God who became Jesus Christ that is speaking! In fact, if you believe in the words of Jesus, NO MAN has ever heard the voice of the Father God! So who spoke to Moses, David, Adam and Eve? John's Gospel answers this in the very first chapter. God, the Hebrew word Elohim, is a uni-plural word. The words church, Americans, and group are uni-plural words. A uni-plural word is a singular group, comprised of more than one being. God is not the personal name of the Father, it is what the Father and Jesus are, they are Gods. Even pagan gods are called elohim in the Bible. Reading John chapter 1 we see that Jesus was God, along with the Father, and it is He that was the spokesman for the Godhead. When God is speaking anywhere in the Bible, it is Jesus Christ doing the talking! So don't even try to make the argument that Jesus came to do away with His Father's Laws and prophecies, because He is the God of the Old Testament that did all the talking. Thus, the warnings from there are repeated by Jesus Himself in the new Testament and by the apostles. Here is His warning TO ALL OF US:
All the words in Red are the words of Jesus. My comments explaining them are clearly in black italics.
Blessings for Obedience . Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26 combined (along with other words of Christ and His apostles)!
Forward: This chapter is for ISRAEL. This is for Great Britain, and The United States of America for today as much as it was in the days of Moses! This is our message. These are our warnings and blessings, along with those of Jewish ancestry!
1 Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) your God (Elohim).
2 Keep my Sabbaths, and revere my sanctuary; I am the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus).
Not Sunday, but The Sabbath Day, created by God for GOD to rest, and commanded for us to honor. Why are Jews the only children of God that knows who they are? God plainly tells us why, it is because they have always kept the Sabbath Day. It is the “sign” day given by God for His people to observe. Observe this day, and you will know just who you are!
Blessing for obedience: When you read the following blessing and warnings, ask yourselves truthfully if this is not America today that you are reading about.
3 If you follow my statutes and keep my Commandments and observe them faithfully, and you will experience all these blessings below:
4 I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. A blessing on you in the cities, and a blessing on you in the countryside.
5 Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land. A blessing on the fruit of your body, the fruit of your land and the fruit of your livestock - the young of your cattle and flocks.
6 I will grant you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land. Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed.
What a perfect picture of the USA in the 1880'5-1950's! America fed the world! America and the English speaking people freed the world from slavery and disease. We were the single greatest nation that ever has existed—but not today, and the Bible plainly states that no other nation to follow us will be greater until Christ returns with His government.
7 In fact, you will chase down your enemies and slaughter them with your swords.
Until Vietnam, we didn't lose a war! We won wars, and when we entered conflicts, the world feared us. Hitler did everything in his power to keep us from joining World War 2 because he knew that our entry into WWI sealed the fate of Germany.
8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand! All your enemies will fall beneath your sword.
9 I will turn toward you, make you productive, increase your numbers and uphold My covenant with you.
10 You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest! The LORD(Yahweh-Jesus) will order a blessing to be with you in your barns and in everything you undertake; He will bless you in the land the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) your God (Elohim) is giving you.
11 I will live among you, and separate you out from the world as My people; and I will not despise you- I will love you completely!
God has been with us! He was welcomed by our fathers before us and it is God, and not our form of government that has made us so rich and the envy of the world! It is about time we see that our blessing was not our Constitution, or the work of our forefathers, but this vast nation of resources that God gave to us! The overlooked fact is that we were destined to be a great nation no matter what. It is called the 7 times, or 2520 year prophecy found in these warnings!
12 I will walk among you; I will be your God (Elohim/Theos), and you will be my people. Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by the Me, the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus), and they will stand in awe of you.
God has walked with us! He has been here! He can walk with you today! Be His friend, obey Him and he will walk with you too! It is that easy! Whether gentile or Israelite, you can be a friend of Jesus and He will walk next to you, protect you and keep you, as he did HIS FRIEND Abraham. You too can be called “His friend,” Read here how:
13 I am the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) your God (Elohim), who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk with your heads held high. The LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) will open for you great treasures, and the sky above, to give your land its rain at the right seasons and to bless everything you undertake. You will lend to many nations and not borrow;
We were once a rich nation, lending to the world, now we owe trillions to China!
Punishments for Disobedience
This has been our fate now for almost 50 years! We have forgotten our God and GOD's LAWS, and we are reaping our reward for it... Read that “reward” for our sins here:
14 However, if you do not listen to Me or obey My Commandments,
15 and if you break My covenant by rejecting My Laws and treat my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my Commandments; Cursed will be your towns and your fields:
16 I will punish you with curses. A curse on you whenever you go and whatever you do, you will be cursed. I will bring sudden terrorism upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because aliens living among you will be your enemies – and they will eat them! The LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) Himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and abandoning Me.
Who does God say is causing our curses? Is it nature? Man-made global warming? Who caused the bad storms that killed so many, the terrorist attacks on our people, the invasion of aliens? Jesus – God is causing them, because we refuse to listen to His Laws, and live in His way. He says so right here.
Here is what Paul has to say about suffering and calamity and the author of our sorrows and terror. You find this warning in the NEW TESTAMENT by Paul in Romans Chapter 1:
Romans 1
18 God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who push the truth away from themselves.
19 For the truth of God is known to them instinctively. God has put this knowledge in their hearts.
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead (theiotēs), so they have no excuse whatsoever.
<The Godhead (theiotēs) is the Father and Jesus>
21 Yes although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, so they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused.
22 While claiming to be wise, they became fools.
23 They exchanged the glory of the ever-living God, for idols that looked like mortal humans, birds, animals, and snakes.
SEXUAL PERVERSION- HOMOSEXUALS
Don't be fooled, Christ's death did not do away with the Law, only the penalty of it IF YOU REPENT from Sin! So what is Sin? “Sin is the Breaking of the Law”. So if we break God's Law, it is God who will cause death, suffering, sorrow and slavery. This probably doesn't sound like the Christ in your Sunday School class, but it is the Jesus of your Bible!
24 For this reason God allowed their lusts to control them. As a result, they dishonor their bodies
by sexual perversion with each other.
25 These people have exchanged God's truth for a lie. So they have become ungodly and serve what is created rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God allowed their shameful passions to control them. Their women have exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
27 Likewise, their men have given up natural sexual relations with women and burn with lust for each other. Men commit indecent acts with men, so they experience among themselves the punishment they deserve for their perversion.
28 And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these sinful things.
<9 of the 10 Commandments mentioned here.>
29 Their lives are filled with all kinds of sexual sins, wickedness, and greed. They are mean. They are filled with envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, haughty, arrogant, and boastful. They think up new ways to be cruel to each other. They don't obey their parents,
31 don't have any common sense, don't keep vows, and don't show love to their own families or mercy to others.
32 They are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.
Chapter2:
1 No matter who you are, if you judge {wrongfully} anyone, you have no excuse. When you judge another person, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.
2 We know that God's judgment is right when he condemns people for doing these things.
3 When you judge people for doing these things but then do them yourself, do you think you will escape God's judgment?
<Notice here that Paul is not saying we should not judge sinners (for we should), but we should not judge others, than go on sinning ourselves. We should judge sinners boldly, but with love; the same love Jesus showed to us before we saw the right way to live. We are not to hate, but we are to scold and condemn in an attempt to scare sinners back to God's way of eternal life. You are not truly a friend if you allow people to sin without warning them. It is our duty to warn, and nothing else.>
4 Do you have contempt for His goodness and patience with you? Don't you realize that it is God's kindness that is trying to lead you to him and change the way you think and act?
5 But no, you won't listen. So you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself because of your stubbornness in refusing to turn from your sin. For there is going to come a day of judgment when God, the just judge of all the world,
6 will judge all people according to what they have done.
7 He will give everlasting life to those who search for glory, honor, and immortality by persisting in doing what is good. But He will bring
8 Anger and fury on those who, in selfish pride, refuse to believe the truth and who follow what is wrong.
9 There will be suffering and distress for every person who does evil, for Jews first and Gentiles too.
10 But there will be glory, honor, and peace for every person who does what is good, for Jews first and Greeks too.
11 God does not play favorites.
12 For as many as have sinned without Law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the Law will be judged by the Law
<The Law here clearly means God's Law- The Torah.>
MUST OBEY THE LAW:
13 People who merely listen to God's Law don't have His approval. Rather, people who do what those Laws demand will have God's approval.
Now back to the narrative of cursing on us from Jesus:
17 I will turn against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you! The LORD (Yahweh -Jesus) will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy. The LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) will strike you down with wasting diseases, fever, inflammation, fiery heat, drought, blasting winds and mildew; and they will pursue you until you perish. The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker. They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail!
<Aliens, illegals will rule over us, gain the vote and actually be voted in as our leaders! Is this happening? We will see the continued “minority rights” and minority laws oppressing us and eventually enslaving us. Like President Obama and others to come, plus the Liberal Left who hates us! They despise who we really are! Now these, our enemies are ruling over us! God has warned us, will we ever listen? We can change our fate and forestall our doom if we only, as a nation return to God and His Laws.>
18 And if, in spite of all this, you still disobey me, I will punish you seven times over for your sins.
<SEVEN TIMES = 7 times a time (a year) or 7 X 360 = 2520 years!>
19 I will break the pride you have in your own power by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze. The LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) your God(Elohim) will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will advance on them one way and flee before them seven. You will become an object of horror to every kingdom on earth. You will snatch defeat from victory instead of the other way around!
<We were once a power, and somewhat arrogant people. That is what the “pride of your power” means. We forgot that it was God who made us the greatest nation every to be, because of a promise to Abraham, nothing else, it had nothing to do with us! So what happens? After years of bounty, we find famine, shortages and loss of power. We lost wars and be defeated like in Vietnam, Iraq and soon the entire Middle East.>
20 All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.
<Famine coming to the USA! Yes, I know that we smugly see those poor children starving to death in Africa, and say that this could never happen to us. IT WILL HAPPEN TO US, and if we continue to disobey, it will happen in your lifetime.>
21 If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey me, I will inflict disaster on you seven times over for your sins.
<Remain hostile to God? How are we doing this? By allowing millions of abortions, gay marriage, calling filth holy, and holy things filthy. We are being punished by God, but do we repent and ask God to help us? No, we get mad as hell and thumb our noses to the God of Heaven because we are Americans! We have separated our religion from our government- and from our lives, and are reaping the rewards of sin—DEATH! You see, death is a reward! It is what we earn from hard labor, as Paul says, “the wages (our earning) of sin IS DEATH!”>
22 I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock. Your numbers will dwindle, and your roads will be deserted. Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.
23 And if, in spite of all this, you refuse My correction and still go against Me;
<Which is exactly what this nation has done now for over 50 years! Americans have thrown God out of their lives, and are too stupid to read these words from God IN RED and believe them! These are not my words! These are God's words from the very Bible that so many of you claim to believe! If you believe God, then tremble at what you see! For Isiah writes: “Tremble, you women of ease; throw off your unconcern. Strip off your pretty clothes, and wear sackcloth in your grief.” Is 32:11>
24 Then I myself will be hostile toward you. I will personally strike you with calamity seven times over for your sins.
25 I will send armies against you to carry out the curse of the covenant you have broken. When you run to your towns for safety, I will send a plague to destroy you there, and you will be handed over to your enemies. I will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic. You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping in the darkness, but you will not find your way. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you. Yes, I will send your enemy against you; and you will serve him when you are hungry, thirsty, poorly clothed and lacking everything; He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he destroys you. Yes, the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) will bring against you a nation from far away that will swoop down on you from the end of the earth like a vulture, a nation whose language you don't understand, a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young. Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, and you will be destroyed. They will leave you no food, water oil and essential supplies, and you will starve to death! They will attack your cities until all the soldiers in your land—those human walls you trusted to protect you—are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) your God (Elohim) has given you.
<The continental USA is to be attacked, cities in ruins, more powerful than 9-11,which was merely a foreshadow of the coming destruction of this self serving nation of liberal killers. Yes, liberalism is a brain disease, and it brings death to everyone it touches. Liberalism means what? It is a statement of belief that man will not be ruled by the Laws of God. This lie is spread by our own churches, that teach that God's Law has been abolished by Jesus, when Jesus Himself said, “do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to magnify them!
Notice I use the proper term of magnification. Christ did not come to fulfill the Law, meaning to end it, He came to magnify the Law's true meaning! He came to take the Law from the stone tablets, and write them into our hearts and mind. Here is what he said (click here for more):>
“For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the Law (Torah), until all things are accomplished. Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least of the Commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Continue with the warnings from Deuteronomy and Leviticus:
26 I will destroy your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake bread for their families. They will ration your food by weight, and though you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied. The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children. He will refuse to share with them the flesh he is devouring—the flesh of one of his own children—because He has nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns. The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter.
<We see this today where women care more for their own happiness and abandoning their God given duties. So-called woman's lib, which is really enslavement! They murder their unborn children in order to “be free” and call it their right. They sleep around, as if they will have no consequence to pay for their “Sex in the City” lifestyle. And what is their reward? Death.>
27 If in spite of all this you still refuse to listen and still remain hostile toward Me,
28 Then I will give full vent to My hostility. I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins.
29 Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will have sex with her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit. You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break for them, but you won’t be able to help them.
<Cannibalism: This could be abortion, but probably in the famine that is coming, most likely people will start feeding on the dead, even their dead children. This has happened before, quite recently in fact. Thanks to Communism (you know, what Obama and ilk love) read what happened in Stalin's Russia: “In the midst of this unfettered industrialization and collectivization drive, Red Brigades, consisting of misled Komsomol youth, raided the villages and collected all the grain accumulated by the peasants for their own use and for seed grain for the following year. After such raids nothing remained in the villages and famine spread through the whole region like pestilence. Hungry peasants tried to stay alive by eating grass, straw, and their draft animals. Then came the dogs and cats, and finally, in some instances, even the children of the village. Some peasants, driven by hunger, fell into temporary insanity and began to feed on the dead bodies of their own and their neighbor's children. This cannibalism reached a point where the Soviet government--instead of stopping the mad exportation of grain--began to print posters with the following warning: "To eat your own children is a barbarian act.">
30 I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your churches. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.
31 I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your gifts to Me, that should be a pleasing to me. A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
32 Yes, I myself will devastate your land, and your enemies who come to occupy it will be appalled at what they see. You will go crazy from what your eyes have to see. I will bring you and your king (president) whom you have put over yourselves (elected) to another nation you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors; and there you will serve other gods (elohim). You will be so devastated as to become a proverb and a laughingstock among all the peoples to which the I will drive you.
OUR TERRIBLE FUTURE to come before the Great Tribulation:
33 I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins. You will lose your children, and they will be led away into captivity. Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops, making you poor.
<Our fate is that we will be overtaken by our aliens living among us and selling us into slavery, winding up in other foreign land.>
34 Then at last the land will enjoy its neglected Sabbath years as it lies desolate while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. Then the land will finally rest and enjoy the Sabbaths it missed.
35 Yes, as long as it lies desolate it will have rest, the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths, when you lived there.
36 As for those of you who are left, I will fill their hearts with anxiety in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will frighten them, so that they will flee as one flees from the sword and fall when no one is pursuing.
<PANIC ATTACKS.. Mass panic attacks will be caused by TERRORISM! Terrorism = panic!>
37 Though no one is chasing you, you will stumble over each other as though fleeing from a sword. You will have no power to stand up against your enemies.
38 You will die among the foreign nations and be devoured in the land of your enemies. You will be left few in number, whereas you were once as numerous as the stars in the sky -because you did not pay attention to the voice of the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) your God (Elohim).
39 Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemies’ lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
<We will become captives, probably Europe and the Middle East, even before the Great Tribulation begins.>
Thus it will come about that just as once the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) took joy in seeking to do you good and increase your numbers, so now the LORD (Yahweh-Jesus) will take joy in causing you to perish and be destroyed, and you will be plucked off the land you are entering in order to take possession of it. In the morning you will say, 'Oh, how I wish it were evening!' and in the evening you will say, 'Oh, how I wish it were morning!'-because of the fear overwhelming your heart and the sights your eyes will see.
<TAKE JOY!!! Read that line from God in Red! This is the Jesus Christ of your Bible. Wake up Americans, wake up Christians, we are under a self-imposed curse unless we repent and change our ways. If not, as Jesus says plainly, “You will all likewise perish”>
BUT>>>>>>>>>>> Yes the BIG but..... We can stop this:
40 "But at last if My people will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors for betraying Me and stop being hostile toward Me;
41 Finally, when I have given full expression to My hostility and have brought them to the land of their enemies, then at last their disobedient hearts will be humbled, and they will pay for their sins.
42 Then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
43 For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually hated My Laws and despised my ways.
44 But despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise My people, while they are in exile in the land of their enemies. I will not cancel My covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am the LORD (Yahweh) their God (Elohim/Theos).
45 For their sakes I will remember My ancient covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of all the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD (Jesus Christ!).'
Yes, “we can” stop the misery coming our way. We can't stop it through just electing godly people, we must as a nation be a godly people, willing to follow the rule of God. If not, then we may see, in our own lifetime, all these things happen. However, one last note...... Even if this nation does not turn back, and your neighbor doesn't listen, and even if terrible calamity befalls us all, YOU CAN MAKE THIS WALK WITH GOD ALONE, as Noah did- and Abraham did. Be God's friend, yes, be a friend of Jesus. Don't just “believe on Jesus,” BUT OBEY HIM---Be His friend, and no matter what happens around you, He will be your friend- The best friend you will ever have in this lifetime and the one to come.