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Man, Realize the Reality
Just think this over for a few minutes: You are
destined for an extremely long and unbroken
lifespan. Death is by no means the termination
of this life: it is the commencement of a new
era. Death is simply the dividing-point between
the two stages of our life. Take the farmer’s
planting of a crop as an example. He invests his
capital in it and cultivates it, until such times as
the crop ripens and dries up. Then he harvests
it so that he can use the grain and store it up for
his year’s requirements. Harvest is the end of
one phase in the crop’s development, during
which time planting and cultivation had taken
place. Before the cutting of the crop there had
been only toil and expense, it is afterwards that
he will enjoy the fruits of his efforts.
This is the case with our life also. In this world
we are investing in and cultivating our afterworld
crop. Each one of us owns a field that is either
being cultivated or left barren. We have used a
seed that is either productive or mediocre. After
