1. The Hope of Ages
Written by Evelyn Pointer
I!ustrated by Melissa C. Pointer
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2. Hope
Hope is the catalyst that pushes us to our goals. It is the
forth that we have that sustains us Hebrews 11:1.
We know that faith is the substance hoped for the evidence
of things not seen. What is the hope of the ages?
When did it began? What meaning it for us in the latter
days?
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3. The hope of the ages began at the garden of Eden. When
God created man he gave then a commandment which they
broke and caused the consequences of death to befall us.
Genesis 2:16-17. “And the Lord God commanded the man,
saying, of every tree of the garden though mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt
not eat: for in the day that thou latest there of thou shalt
surely die.”
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4. Doomed to an eternal death and damnation for sinning against
God Adam and Eve accepted their fate and yet...there was a ray of
hope
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5. The Hope
was the
Lamb of God
From the beginning of his sin man
was brought up to the mercy seat of
God and was given hope to escape
eternal death and damnation. God
made a sacrifice on behalf of Adam
and Eve for their sins. Genesis 3:15.
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6. As time passed...Hope was still there
As we know Adam and Eve had many
children but only 2 righteous sons and
they had hope in them that the
righteous seed would flourish, one lived
and the other killed.
During the time of the flood when
wickedness flourished God saved only 8
souls before he destroyed everything
that breathed. Even though all of the
wicked died and the animals selected
survived as well as 8 souls of the
righteous evil survived as well, and
multiplied greatly upon the face of the
earth.
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7. Hope
Yet there was a ray of
hope in Abraham who was
looking for a city who
builder and makes was
God. Hebrew 11:10.
Genesis 12:19. Though
Abraham had many sons
he had only one seed
which would bring about
the hope and the ages.
Genesis 17:19.
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8. Through the dark times there was
hope
Isaac them Jacob who bore the 12 patriarchs,
who traveled to Egypt and become slaves unto
Pharaoh and even still there was a ray of hope.
The Lord raised up a delivers. “Come now
therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh
that thou mayest bring forth people the
children of Israel of out of Egypt” Ex 3:10.
Moses and Aaron and Miriam led the children
of Israel out of Egypt with great signs and
wonders. Just as our hope rose and we were
delivered from Egypt, so did wickedness rose
also to try and prevent the children of Israel
from searching the promise land. Moses and
Aaron nor Miriam never walked in the land
promised by God and Israel wondered in the
wilderness 40 years.
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9. Waiting for the True Hope
Throughout the years as time went
on even until Israel was established
as a great nations and multiplied as
the sands of the sea and the stars of
heaven. Wickedness continued to
multiply even faster but there
remain with the seed of hope that
traveled down throughout the ages.
It travel throughout the judges and
the kings and the prophets as well
as the captivities and rebuilding of
the temple
waiting...waiting..waiting for that
great light, that great hope the
seed of the gospel.
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10. “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his
shoulders: and his none shall be called Wonderful, counsellor, the might God , the everlasting
Father, the prince of peace. Of the increase of this government and peace, there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it and established it with judgement
and with justice from henceforth even for even. The zeal of the Lord of has will perform this.
Isaiah 9:6-7.
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11. The desire for the hope of the ages has always been with the seed of the righteous even
when they didn’t always understand. Acts 1:6. Even when Jerusalem fell and many Israelites
were killed and scattered to all nations, kindred and tongue and there numbers decreased
dramatically that say of hope remain within them. For in their darkest hours and enslaved
and brought again to Egypt in slave ships. When truth was trodden down, and no shepherds
were found, and strange and mysterious religious abounded upon the earth.
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12. Hope in Songs
The ray of hope was in them even
though the could not read or write.
These songs war of hope. “Go
down moses way down in Egypt
Lord tell O’ Pharaoh to let my
people go.”
Swing low sweet church come for
to cary me home.”
“My Lord calls me he calls me in
the thunder, I ain’t got long to stay
here.”
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13. Our Hope and Today
In our day we are enlighten not
only by the wisdom of the world
but the Wisdom of God. We are
fed pure truth and we have
shepherds and God; directs us in
his word. We don’t have great
judges or kings, neither do we have
the beautiful temple made of gold
or jewels that was made during
Solomon time yet the ray of hope
has been passed unto us and
remains strong and stand fast.
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14. Yet we have fears, not only for ourselves but our children and families. So we have
prepared them to survive in this world or the next.
We know that many of us are weak. Our sons have left us, and we have just a little
strength. What would we give to have our sons returns? What would we give to have our
children healed? We are just a handful of corn on the mountains. We must bend our
backs to the burdens and bore the infirmities of the weak.
We hope for the best for ourselves dwell as our children. What wouldn’t we do to save
ourselves? What wouldn’t we do to save our children. We desire the blessing of God more
than anything else. “Bring ye all the tithes unto the store houses, that there may be next
in mine house, and prove me now here with, south the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open
you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing and there shall not be room
enough to receive it.”
The hope of our ancestors in here within our hearts, and the hope of the ages is the
building of this church and others like. It is the restoration of the children of Israel. The
raising up of the truth.
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15. The release of those who are imprisoned and the most important is the ascending of
Christ “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings;
that published peace; that bringeth good tiding of good, that published salvation; that
sayeth unto Zion thy Dod reigneth.”
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