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Why will the family farm again become home to millions now living in urban areas?  What will be the benefits of such a massive change from the way families are living today?

A few farms today still reflect the mixed family farm of the 1900’s: raising multiple crops, cattle, sheep, fowl (such as chickens and turkeys) and also growing vegetables.  
However, many farms are now large commercial operations with basically one or two crops, and no animals or poultry.

The prophets were given a vision three thousand years ago of what the world in general and farming in particular would be like after the second coming of Jesus Christ.  

This period is generally referred to as the Millennium--one thousand years of peace on the earth.  That vision is of farmers and their families living on what is now called the family farm.  
And others living in cities will have spacious lots, which will give them opportunity to do some farming on a smaller scale.  
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Here is what the prophet Amos foresaw.
“They shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them” (Amos 9:14).

The prophet Micah, writing about what God revealed to him would happen after Jesus Christ returns.
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“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks”... they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree” (Micah 4:3-4).  The vine and fig tree picture peace, prosperity and farming! 

What a fulfilling experience that must have been.
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Farming in the coming World Tomorrow, will be a privately run business to provide a home for the family and also a place of employment for them--a place where every member of the family can contribute to the success of every project.  Just like a sports team, each individual doing his or her best.  

And this is where the beauty, the benefits and the rewards will come to fruition--a daily fulfilling of the basic human urge to be creative.  New experiences, increased confidence, hope and a genuine environment of love and purpose will abound on the family farm.

As we can plainly see, the farm was and will again be a wonderful and exciting place to live, where parents and children will be able to spend lots of time together learning by doing and then seeing the results.  

Imagine children completing the process of making cottage cheese from the milk that they brought into the kitchen. After having had the experience of milking their Jersey cow.  
Think of parental feelings of joy in children who are able to help with all of the daily chores.  

Consider the excitement the children will have the next day when the evening meal is served, by seeing something that their own hands have produced as part of the meal. I can so clearly remember going out into the corn field, as a young boy and picking about twenty cobs of sweet corn for the evening meal. Having watched the corn grow from a very small plant, and now picking and eating corn on the cob hours later.  What a delicious treat that was. I can still remember the taste.

When fully understood the farm is an amazing place for learning, by actually doing and then enjoying the fruit of that effort.  
This principle was recorded by the prophet Isaiah.
 
I  quote:
“And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.  They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat: 

For as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands” (Isaiah 65:21-22). 
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 What a wonderful picture of the soon coming reign and rule of Jesus Christ!  Think of the meaning of, long enjoy the work of their hands.  They won’t build, and another person live there!  
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A well built house can be lived in for hundreds of years!  They shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

Yes, the Bible prophecies confirm that after Jesus Christ returns, He will restore all things.  And then:

There will be a mass return to the family farm in the World Tomorrow, and the benefits will be far beyond what we can fully grasp now!

This is Garry Schaeffer with the Constant Church of God.
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