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| | "There will be great [[scarcity|shortages]] of food and in some places | | "There will be great [[scarcity|shortages]] of food and in some places |
| − | great shortages of water."<ref name="gwc2"/> | + | great shortages of water."<ref name="gwc2">''The Great Waves of Change'', Chapter 2: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/great-waves-change/the-great-waves-and-your-life The Great Waves and Your Life]</ref> |
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| − | "The human family will have fewer resources to use in the future—limits on food production, very great difficulties in gaining access to fresh water and severe restraints on the energy resources."<ref name="nav"/> | + | "The human family will have fewer resources to use in the future—limits on food production, very great difficulties in gaining access to fresh water and severe restraints on the energy resources."<ref name="nav">''The New World Prophecy '': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/the-new-world-prophecy/navigating-difficult-times-ahead Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead]</ref> |
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| | "Everything has to be reconsidered in the face of the [[Great Waves of Change|Great Waves of change]]. Isolation here, even within a large city, is very hazardous. And this is particularly true for single mothers. It is particularly true for the elderly. It is particularly true for children and for people who have handicaps and are disabled. How will they know what to do when there are shortages of food, or shortages of water, or shortages of petroleum, or when they are unable to heat their homes or their apartments? For all these circumstances will arise within the Great Waves of change, even in the wealthy nations."<ref name="gwc8">''The Great Waves of Change'', Chapter 8: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/great-waves-change/the-danger-of-isolation The Danger of Isolation]</ref> | | "Everything has to be reconsidered in the face of the [[Great Waves of Change|Great Waves of change]]. Isolation here, even within a large city, is very hazardous. And this is particularly true for single mothers. It is particularly true for the elderly. It is particularly true for children and for people who have handicaps and are disabled. How will they know what to do when there are shortages of food, or shortages of water, or shortages of petroleum, or when they are unable to heat their homes or their apartments? For all these circumstances will arise within the Great Waves of change, even in the wealthy nations."<ref name="gwc8">''The Great Waves of Change'', Chapter 8: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/great-waves-change/the-danger-of-isolation The Danger of Isolation]</ref> |
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| | resources, food resources."<ref>''The Allies of Humanity'' Book Two, Fifth Briefing: [https://www.alliesofhumanity.org/the-briefings/book-two/biological-resources/ What They Want]</ref> | | resources, food resources."<ref>''The Allies of Humanity'' Book Two, Fifth Briefing: [https://www.alliesofhumanity.org/the-briefings/book-two/biological-resources/ What They Want]</ref> |
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| − | This is a very alert state. Caution is like that. Some people may think this
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| − | is being fearful, but it is not."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 29: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/faith-fear-idea-self Faith and Fear]</ref>
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| − | family has ever had to face before."<ref name="nav">''The New World Prophecy '': [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/the-new-world-prophecy/navigating-difficult-times-ahead Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead]</ref>
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| − | "Only this deeper Knowledge, this sacred Knowledge, will know how to navigate the difficult times ahead, will know how to sail the troubled waters, for troubled waters there will be."<ref>''The Great Waves of Change'', Chapter 1: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/great-waves-change/the-great-waves-of-change The Great Waves of Change]</ref>
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| − | "Now at this great threshold, you will have to read the signs very carefully and very objectively, both from what the world is telling you and from what Knowledge within you is indicating, in order to begin to navigate a changing set of circumstances, a changing set of situations—navigating the troubled waters ahead."<ref>''The Great Waves of Change'', Chapter 3: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/great-waves-change/escaping-the-past Escaping the Past]</ref>
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| − | "When the ship begins to list and takes on water, you will be ready. You will not be frozen. You will not go down with the ship."<ref name="shock">''The New World '', Chapter 12: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/new-world/the-shock-of-the-future The Shock of the Future]</ref>
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| − | "The ship is already taking on water, you see. It is already beginning to list to one side."<ref name="shock"/>
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| − | "You must follow an inner urging and an inner direction, without really
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| − | understanding what is happening and what your future or the outcome will look like. If you do not have the [[strength]] or [[courage]] to do this, you will just stand where you are, becoming increasingly full of [[anxiety]] and [[confusion]], increasingly worried, increasingly [[Frustration|frustrated]] and compulsive until your circumstances just fall away and erode your life, like a person who is standing on a slowly shrinking island or in a boat that is taking on water increasingly."<ref name="gwc2">''The Great Waves of Change'', Chapter 2: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/great-waves-change/the-great-waves-and-your-life The Great Waves and Your Life]</ref>
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| − | "There is a deeper mind within you now, and it is this greater intelligence that will respond to God’s New Message. It is this greater intelligence that will be your raft to navigate the difficult waters ahead."<ref>''The New Way Forward for Humanity'': [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/new-world/what-will-save-humanity What will Save Humanity]</ref>
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| − | these waters. You need to take responsibility, become effective and learn to become a leader of your
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| − | mind and emotions rather than their victim or captive. You cannot tell where you are sailing, and you
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| − | do not know what is in the cargo of your ship, but you must be the captain on deck, negotiating the
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| − | changing circumstances of your life and the pleasures and tribulations that present themselves on your
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| − | voyage."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 2, Chapter 33: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-2/perseverance-give-yourself Perseverance]</ref>
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| − | "You have come into the world for your own advancement and for the
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| − | you will find your way home to God, which is the source and destiny of all relationships."<ref>''Living The Way of Knowledge'', Chapter 7: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-3/living-way-knowledge/your-relationship-with-your-spiritual-family Your Relationship with Your Spiritual Family]</ref>
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| − | "The person of Knowledge is only looking for Knowledge. If you get
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| − | not really getting to the other shore.You think things are happening
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| − | because you are making such a splash, stirring yourself up. Going from a
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| − | hot shower into the cold ocean, back and forth, back and forth, is very
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| − | stimulating to the body, but not much is really happening."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 31: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/healing Healing]</ref>
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| − | "Your connection is very deep.
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| − | It is like the rivers that run underground
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| − | But which cannot be seen from the surface
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| − | And which cannot be found except by other means."<ref>''God Has Spoken Again'', Chapter 3: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/god-spoken-again/the-engagement The Engagement]</ref></blockquote>
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| − | "At the surface, life looks chaotic and unpredictable. It looks mundane. There is nothing really extraordinary about it. It is full of stimulation, some of which gives pleasure and much of which gives pain. But deeper down, there are deeper currents moving your life, moving you into proximity to learn something, to see something, to respond to something—both within yourself and within the world at large. It is like the ocean, which is turbulent at the surface—swept by the winds of the world, moved by
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| − | trivial forces. But at its depths, the ocean is being governed by greater forces, by planetary forces, by immense and mysterious forces that are moving water from one part of the Earth to another.
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| − | Your life is like that. At the surface, it is calm, it is turbulent, it changes from day to day, but it gives no real indication of its real movement and real purpose. From the surface of the ocean, how can you determine what the great movement of the waters really is? You cannot. You would need to have a greater wisdom, a greater insight of Knowledge here to really comprehend the fact that the water of the [[Earth]] is moving in a conveyor-like manner from one part of the globe to another—something you could not see or understand from the [[Surface mind|surface]]."<ref name="gwc12">''The Great Waves of Change'', Chapter 12: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/great-waves-change/your-purpose-and-destiny-in-a-changing-world Your Purpose and Destiny in a Changing World]</ref></blockquote>
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| − | "You begin to experience the deeper current of your life that is flowing deeply within you like the water flowing beneath the desert surface. Where everything appears to be arid on the surface, there is the purest water flowing deep down underground."<ref>Honesty (November 18)</ref>4
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| − | "You walk down to the ocean with a little cup in your hand, and you dip it in the water and you look at the water. Is that water the ocean? Yes and no. Yes, it is part of the ocean, but is it the ocean? People try to claim the reality of God, the intention of God. People are even so arrogant as to think that God will not send another Messenger into the world, thinking that all of the Messages have been sent and no more are really needed. They take their cup to the ocean, and they fill it, and they walk away thinking that they have the ocean. But they only have a tiny, tiny little bit—so tiny that it does not give the reality of the ocean and all of the life that lives within the ocean.
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| − | So you take, instead of a cup, a bucket down to the ocean, and you fill it full of the ocean water, and now you think you understand God. You look in the bucket and you say, “Oh, this is the ocean, this is God.” But God is so much greater, and your little bucket of water does not represent the diversity of life living within that ocean. For using this as an analogy, if you try to claim the reality of God and God’s purpose and intention for the world, and you say, “This is it! This is God! This is what God wills for humanity. This is what God has given to humanity. This is the ultimate!” then it is like calling the bucket of water the entire ocean.
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| − | The ocean is vast. The universe is vast. It is full of life, beyond human estimation. The universe is like an ocean without end, the product of evolutionary forces that God had set in motion at the beginning of the physical universe."<ref>''The One God'', Chapter 9: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/one-god/god-knowledge-and-the-angelic-presence God, Knowledge and the Angelic Presence]</ref></blockquote>
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| − | "Religious experience transcends all theological boundaries and then returns to life to give new structure and
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| − | others. It is as if the world were a garden that is constantly being watered. It is constantly drying out,
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| − | and it is constantly being watered. Even those who have developed within the context of the world’s
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| − | religions must break new ground."<ref>''Greater Community Spirituality'', Chapter 27: [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/greater-community-spirituality/what-is-the-evolution-of-religion-in-the-world. What is the evolution of religion in the world?] </ref>
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| − | "I knew I must follow this. I turned and returned. The pursuing armies did
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| − | not even see me. I passed through them like a knife passes through water. I
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| − | was not invisible; I had no magical powers, but I did not expose myself
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| − | unnecessarily."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 17: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/mastery Mastery]</ref>
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| − | "Jesus Christ is a person who has set sail. He is not in the shipyard
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| − | doing repairs. He is on the water. He is moving. He does not have to be
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| − | concerned about what he has to be in life. His only emphasis is to maintain
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| − | his sails and to adjust them according to the movement that is moving him."<ref name="wbi18">''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 18: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/personal-development Higher Education]</ref>
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| − | "You know you need to set sail. We can ride with the wind. We are
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| − | "It is like being in and out of the fish tank. When you are in the fish
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| − | tank, it is an all-consuming experience, yes? Yet, when you are out of the
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| − | fish tank, you can see things in the fish tank very clearly, but you cannot
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| − | easily interfere. We are out of the fish tank. You are in. You are underwater
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| − | in your world, but only for a little while."<ref name="wbi24">''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 24: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/happiness-in-the-world Happiness in the World]</ref>
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| − | "In the world, people live in a state of amnesia. Like fish in a tank.
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| − | Your world is that tank. Rarely can you see beyond the waters of your little
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| − | "You only need relatively few people with Knowledge to preserve life
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| − | here. Everyone drinks from their wellspring, yet only a few know where
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| − | the water comes from and who brought it here."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 1, Chapter 25: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-1/escaping-fear Escaping Fear]</ref>
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| − | "What does it take to wake someone up when the house is
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| − | situation. Then they look at you and they say, 'I owe you my life!'"<ref>''Living The Way of Knowledge'', Chapter 9: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-3/living-way-knowledge/sharing-the-way-of-knowledge-with-others Sharing The Way of Knowledge With Others]</ref>
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| − | "When the house is on fire, everyone must get involved. Some will take greater roles. Some will take lesser roles.
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| − | together. All that matters is that the fire is put out and the house is saved."<ref>''Living The Way of Knowledge'', Chapter 11: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-3/living-way-knowledge/preparing-for-the-future Preparing for the Future]</ref>
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| − | "Developing discernment is becoming sober. It is shaking off the clouds that shroud your vision
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| − | himself back, to get himself straight."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community'', Book 2, Chapter 6: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-6/wisdom-greater-community-book-2/what-is-discernment Discernment]</ref>
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"Humanity has altered the circumstances of life through reckless abuse and overuse of the world’s resources and by polluting the world’s airs, waters and soils."[1]
Directives
"You will have to find ways to provide enough food, water and energy for the people of the world. That will be the prevailing and dominating need of the future here on Earth."[2]
"Maintain a supply of food, water and medicine to prepare for difficulties ahead—at least a supply for 90 days. If your living space is limited, store whatever amount of supplies that you can."[3]
"You must become aware of situations around the world regarding the availability of food and water."[3]
"If you live in a desert region, you may have to leave, as there may be no water for you in the future, and it may be very difficult for food to reach your community. Do not live near moving water, near rivers that will overflow in the face of violent weather and changing climate conditions. It is wise to move away from coastal regions that will be affected by violent weather and in many cases from certain large cities that will be subject to extreme social unrest."[4]
"You must look at your world as your storehouse for food, water and energy and for all the
things that you will need both now and in the future. If you exhaust these, you will
decline, undoing all of the progress that you have made."[5]
"You must establish through time, consensus and
cooperation a sustainable use of your world—maintaining its biological diversity, the
quality of its atmosphere, the quality of its waters and the quality of its soils and its lands."[5]
Water for life
"There are primary needs, of course—the need for food, water, shelter, safety and security."[6]
"The quality and the availability of water is more
important than any other resource could possibly be."[7]
"Many people today have lost sight of the utter dependence they have on their environment to provide them the bare essentials of life—food, water, shelter and clothing—and to make possible all of the conveniences and benefits they enjoy, to whatever extent these things are available to them."[8]
"A violent weather event. A hurricane, a tornado or extreme
drought as the planet heats, and all of a sudden, there is not enough water for both human beings and for agriculture. It would take so very little to throw your life into jeopardy."[4]
Water in the future
"The world will become warmer, producing greater loss of food production and great scarcity of water resources in many places in the world while there will be tremendous flooding in other places. Energy resources will diminish, creating economic upheaval and in some places even collapse."[9]
"There will be great shortages of food and in some places
great shortages of water."[10]
"The human family will have fewer resources to use in the future—limits on food production, very great difficulties in gaining access to fresh water and severe restraints on the energy resources."[11]
"Everything has to be reconsidered in the face of the Great Waves of change. Isolation here, even within a large city, is very hazardous. And this is particularly true for single mothers. It is particularly true for the elderly. It is particularly true for children and for people who have handicaps and are disabled. How will they know what to do when there are shortages of food, or shortages of water, or shortages of petroleum, or when they are unable to heat their homes or their apartments? For all these circumstances will arise within the Great Waves of change, even in the wealthy nations."[4]
"What will happen to your faith when people go hungry and starvation increases as the world’s supply of fresh water and food declines due to environmental degradation and overuse?"[12]
"Your visitors cannot live on the surface
of your world. They must either seek shelter underground, which they are doing, or they must live
aboard their own craft, which they often keep hidden in large bodies of water."[13]
"While the visitors want the mineral resources of your world, they also want
things that are much more elemental to the needs of life. They need water. They need oxygen. They
need blood. They need the resistance factors in blood. They need plasma. They need the biological
elements that constitute life and that are fundamental to life everywhere."
"Your world contains, then, great treasures—great treasures in its biological diversity, in its
water resources, in its temperate environment and in its hidden treasures."[14]
"Resources are precious in the Universe—mineral resources, water resources, biological
resources, food resources."[15]
References
- ↑ The New World, Chapter 7: Facing Planetary Instability
- ↑ The New Messenger, Chapter 1: The Will of Heaven
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Great Waves of Change: Recommendations for Living in a Great Waves World
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Great Waves of Change, Chapter 8: The Danger of Isolation
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Allies of Humanity Book Three, Seventh Briefing: Questions & Answers
- ↑ The Reformation : Real Change
- ↑ Rebellion, Revolution and War (February 22, 2011)
- ↑ The New Message on the Environment (December 15)
- ↑ The Great Waves of Change, Chapter 9: The Great Waves Prophecy
- ↑ The Great Waves of Change, Chapter 2: The Great Waves and Your Life
- ↑ The New World Prophecy : Navigating the Difficult Times Ahead
- ↑ The Pure Religion , Chapter 2: The Great Faith
- ↑ The Allies of Humanity Book One, Second Briefing: The Challenge to Human Freedom
- ↑ The Allies of Humanity Book Two, Second Briefing: Why the Intervention is Occurring
- ↑ The Allies of Humanity Book Two, Fifth Briefing: What They Want
See also
Quotes about food
The New Message Prophecy
Wars of desperation
Further study
