"At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto Me into the mount, and make thee an Ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the Ark." Deuteronomy 10:1-2

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine: I am the LORD. And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites; thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs) and thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites: of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: and Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses." Numbers 3:44-51

"This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee.... After this He went down to Capernaum...and they continued there not many days. And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the feast day, many believed in His Name, when they saw the miracles which He did." John 2:11-13,23

Greetings, my dearly beloved! What a wonderful day this is going to be for everyone who has joined our happy throng of Kingdom people, who sing their way through the day from morning to night, rejoicing with an irrepressible joy. I speak of those who have been born into the Kingdom of God, and who are the sons and daughters of Jesus Christ.

I like to see people going to church, but also encourage my friends to attend a church which is alive and has the spirit of joy, even the consciousness of sonship and daughterhood to Jesus Christ. I dare say that all churches are doing a great and a good work, yet it saddens me to see so many of them putting on regular services in the spirit of a funeral dirge. How much more good they would accomplish, and what a far greater help they would be, if the ministers themselves had been born into the Kingdom of God and entered into sonship of Jesus Christ. Then would they break loose with the spirit of joy, which is the inescapable heritage of those who are truly the sons and daughters of Christ our Lord.

Look upon a family of normal parents, whose children have been brought up right. When they come into their middle and late teens and early adulthood, you will find that they are very happy. They have plenty to eat, everything they need to wear, a home, and parents who love them; they have no responsibility, absolutely nothing to worry about, and they are even told what to do. Their only concern is paying attention to what they are told and living according to the precepts which have been inculcated ever since they were very young.

Are we not told that God created man in His Own image and after His Own likeness? Therefore, God is the exemplary Parent, and His household the perfect household. We cannot escape the conclusion that those of us who have been born again into the Kingdom of God – we who through Jesus Christ have become sons and daughters in God's household, living as honorable citizens in the new Kingdom – are in this world precisely in the same position, comparatively speaking, as the properly trained youngsters I mentioned a moment ago, who are living in the home of normal parents. We have absolutely nothing to worry about, nothing to fret over, nor yet anything to stew over. Our heavenly Daddy owns the universe, and that includes this world and the fullness thereof. The riches of our Father are absolutely fabulous! And His goodness knows no bounds! Why shouldn't we shout and sing with overflowing joy from morning to night? And if you aren't doing that very thing, there is something seriously wrong with you and with your understanding of that which should be and which can be.

I recognize that there are a great many Christians who are well convinced that they are born again of God, yet who are very unhappy, and whose lives are little short of hell itself. But all of that links up with what I mentioned a moment ago: that is, the churches whose services are paced in the tempo of a funeral dirge. These people are like little children of four or five or six years of age, who have not been properly trained and instructed. They have been growing up and allowed to have their own foolish ways. They are like unto some families we might look in upon, where we find the baby yelling at the top of his voice for much-needed attention and where we find some pouting, others arguing and some fighting, while still others in a tantrum because they do not get their own way. That is the picture of Christendom at large. Yet what needless grief, pain, disappointment and heartaches such endure. Why? Because this night of spiritual darkness has been long, and its blackness as if out of the Pit itself. During its reign of horror, the enemy stole in and planted the tareseed; this rankest of weeds has grown prolifically: man has eaten thereof, he has grown blind, and is now ready to commit international suicide.

Yet hear again The Voice of Tomorrow, which, like the voice of God, is crying in the wilderness of this world, announcing again the joyous invitation voiced by Christ our Lord in the long ago: "Come unto Me...ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt. 11:28). Pointedly do I ask you: where can you find the slightest trace of disappointment, of grief or sadness, of sickness or death in the message which the Nazarene gave to His people, when He came to them as the very Son of God? The sick He healed, the sad He comforted, the poor He blessed, and the dead He brought back to life. Even of those who had died, He was loathe to admit that they were dead: He merely spoke of them as sleeping (Lk. 8:52-56; Jn. 11:11,43-44). Then He went and roused them out of their "sleep," that again they might jump and shout for very joy!

Hear again The Voice of Tomorrow, even as I brought it to you last time when showing you that great prophetic drama, which God wrought out through His Chosen People when they were about to cross the Jordan into the land promised unto their fathers. To remind you, Joshua sent officers to command the people that they should remain in their places until the sacred Ark of the Covenant of the Lord had gotten to a distance of about 2,000 cubits ahead of them, in order that they might clearly see the way by which they should walk, the route that they should take, even the way by which they should approach and cross over the Jordan into the land of their fathers, because, said Joshua, "ye have not passed this way hitherto" (Josh. 3:2-4). I showed you those approximate 2,000 cubits spoke to us prophetically of the approximate 2,000 years which it would take Christendom to get their eyes opened to clearly see the sacred "Ark of God" inlaid and overlaid with pure gold (Ex. 37:1-2); and how we might follow the proper footsteps in order to cross the Jordan and enter into the glorious heritage promised unto our fathers.

That Ark contained the ten commandments engraved in solid stone (Deut. 10:1-5), all of which was a beautiful portrayal of the Son of man, even of Jesus the Nazarene Who lived as the Son of God, keeping the fullness of the Law to its utmost iota, and therefore entered into the power of very God here on earth. Why did He perpetually speak of Himself as the Son of man instead of the One and Everliving Son of God? In order to put it across to the people, and for you and me, that He, being the Son of man, was like unto us, and that we should be like unto Him. Not merely like unto Him in living a proper life, but that like unto Him we should enter into the glorious heritage promised unto our fathers. Now because those 2,000 years are almost up, we are beginning to see that the spiritual rays of the returning Daystar are shooting high over man's horizon. Now we can see to pace our steps in the path of the Son of man, that we too may fully enter into the wonderful joys of the sons and daughters of Jesus Christ!

Usually my messages are founded in the very words of Jesus Christ, because they are the most marvelous which have ever been penned for man to see. Still, there are marvelous treasures in the Old Testament, so once more I bring you a message out of that ancient tome. If your Bible is convenient you can look up the Book of Numbers, which is the fourth book in the Old Testament, for I will shortly quote from its 3rd chapter. It would also be well to have paper and pencil convenient, because I will be giving you a few numbers showing prophecy. It will help you to understand and also to remember if you write down these numbers, that you may study them at your leisure.

Moses was that great and outstanding character of old who led his people out of Egypt and performed signs and wonders, which were not duplicated either before or since. As the great deliverer he became a type of Christ our Lord, Who later came to also deliver His people from bondage to Lucifer, and from every grief and heartache in the "Egypt" of this world. But God showed us through the experiences of Moses, that Jesus Christ would suffer the same fate with His people as did Moses. I refer to the sad fact that when Moses had led his people to the proper place and time, and commanded them to go in and take possession of the land, they stubbornly refused.

Precisely that is what Christendom has done: Christ our great Deliverer took His followers to the very border of that Kingdom promised to their fathers, but they, like their fathers of old in the wilderness, imagined they saw giants within the land, which they had no hopes of being able to conquer; and so, like Israel of old, Christendom has died in the wilderness of this world because of a stubborn refusal to go in to take possession of the land. We have refused for the simple reason that we have only looked to our own puny strength, willfully forgetting and refusing to believe that the risen Lord is still with us, and will go before us to completely deliver. Now let me read to you verses 49 through 51, from the 3rd chapter of the Book of Numbers.

"And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites: of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: and Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses."

When you have plenty of time, you may read the previous verses, and you will find that from the beginning every firstborn belonged to God (verses 11-13,40-41,45, 8:14-18). But as commencing from that great Passover in the land of Egypt, when God delivered His people, He changed this ordinance, and took for Himself the Levites instead of the firstborn of all people.

Now please write down the number 2,666.53. If you are fond of adding numbers, you can go back to the 10th chapter of Genesis and a few other passages, and add up the various years given until you come to the time that Moses delivered Israel, and you will find that they add up to 2,666½ years. According to the Bible, that was the time of the Exodus, even though our great chronologers have a different story to tell us. But if we want to understand the Word of God, we must accept His Word, not the word of man. Now under that number given you, place 1,365, draw a line, and add them together, and you will get a result of 4,031.53. That number of 1,365 you will find mentioned in verse 50 in the words of "a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels," which was arrived at through a taxation of five shekels per head of the 273 firstborn of Israel, which was their number in excess of the Levites. It was called the redemption money, and it was given unto Aaron the High Priest and to his sons. Call this 1,365 shekels that many years which were given, symbolically, into the hands of the Aaronite priesthood to carry on and fulfill their work, at the conclusion of which the absolute redemption would have to be a realized fact. Now, according to the Great Pyramid chronology, which I always use, that number of 4,031.53 measured precisely into the first festival of the Passover which Jesus the Nazarene attended after He launched His Spirit-fired ministry. An even three years later, He was crucified on Calvary.

Do you get the point? The commandment had come from God to tax the children of Israel in order that they might be free, and the full amount of that redemption price amounted to 1,365 shekels. That was the tax of the price to be paid to accomplish their absolute redemption, which meant their total freedom. Since all of this was prophecy wrought out in drama, we call those 1,365 shekels that many years added to the time of Israel's exodus from Egypt, and, as stated, it measures precisely to the first Passover festival which Jesus attended after the Jordan baptism. How could God make it any clearer that the time was at hand that the fullness of truth was being set before the people; that the era of His redemption price had expired to the end that the people should be set at absolute liberty? Therein we also see the witness of God Almighty that Jesus the Nazarene was the true Son of God!

Today we have two great testimonies unto the joyous news of our absolute deliverance. The first is composed of the numerous prophecies which pinpointed the birth of the Son of God into this world, and the time of His ministry; by which numerous and agreeing prophecies we are expected to believe that the absoluteness of our redemption was accomplished. And the second rests in the indisputable proof that this is a truth which works in human life. As and when we accept this glorious truth, and commence living accordingly, then do we find indeed that we have been redeemed! And then our very life becomes a melody, and we commence to sing. Yes, even those of us who don't know how to sing get so happy that we can't help but sing – for glorious indeed is the heritage of the sons and daughters of Jesus Christ!