How much do you know about the Hutterian Brethren, Amish, and some of the Mennonites and other religious communities in the United States and Canada? As members of the intentional communities, they have been self-sufficient of their needs for foods, clothings, shelters, and other daily needs for the past 300 to 460 plus years, including the years of persecutions since they first started in Western Europe. They are twice older than the founding of the United States Government!

Being practicing Christians, they do not immigrate or migrate illegally across the international boundaries just to find jobs or to seek better opportunities for their future. As members of the unique Christian groups, they have been existing and living successfully in their states, provinces and few countries for several centuries. The Hutterian Brethren, Amish, Mennonites, and some other Christian intentional communities are continually growing in the villages which they themselves have started and maintained, unlike the world's popular Christian churches, denominations, congregations, and other religious groups in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, America, and other countries that are just surviving through the tithes, offerings and other means of support from their members, guests or visitors, sponsors, etc.

When the communal groups outgrow their self-sufficient communities, they simply branch out to other states or provinces and few countries at their own expenses instead of over-crowding their present self-sufficient environment! They immigrate or migrate and create their own self-sufficient communities. They build their own housing, farms, livestocks, cottage industries, construction, heating, air-conditioning and other enterprises. They establish and administer their own schools and retirement centers, etc.! Some Mennonite churches have their own educational institutions from grade school to college levels.

They, of course, pay taxes to their respective governments but when they are too old to work, they do not depend on the social welfare and other services from, for example, the American and Canadian governments to take care of their senior citizens.  They are the ideal and successfully-tried “church government” within the world's secular governments - either capitalistic, socialistic, democratic, parliamentarian, dictatorial or military junta, authoritarian-aristocratic, the godless systems of the communist and Nazi groups, or other future earthly forms of government!

Thus, the 7th Millennium Community is the proposed self-sufficient cooperative composed of a Christian camp, conference/retreat center, kibbutz, cottage industry, and general consulting enterprises.  It is a weekly Sabbath and annual Sabbath-observing community of Christians that are following the lifestyles of the original New Testament Church, which was founded on the Day of Pentecost in 31 A.D./C.E.

Christians ought to be the creators of jobs and suppliers of goods and services, rather than mere employees and consumers of the New World Order!  They ought to be working for God rather than for the material-oriented societies. Christianity is a way of life totally different and separate from the lifestyles of the Hollywood movie, TV, other entertainment celebrities, and the world's famous personalities!

First, we are going back to the early Messianic era by emulating some of the living and working practices of the New Testament Church (Acts 2:44-45; 4:32-35). We are seeking to affiliate and fellowship with the remnants of the original Messianic/Christian Church, which started on the Day of Pentecost in the same year that Christ died for our sins and resurrected for our salvation. We believe that the original church founded in 31 A.D./C.E. has the best of the best in knowledge and wisdom about the Heavens and Planet Earth. The Holy Bible is our #1 instruction manual for daily living!

Second, we are going to follow the excellent examples of the self-sufficient communes of the Hutterian Brethren, Mennonites, Amish and other groups. The fine Hutterite, Mennonite and Amish intentional communities have been operating successfully in Canada and the United States for 300 to 460+ years, including the years of persecution since they started in Europe. Some of their communes have turned into top tourists' attractions. We are also going to follow the successful kibbutzim in Israel. These groups are not homeless, squatters, hungry, malnourished, naked or wearing tattered clothes. They take good care of their senior citizens.

Third, we are striving to live our daily lives in preparation for our MESSIAH'S SECOND COMING (Mat. 24, Luke 21, I Thes. 4:13-18; 5:1-10, Rev. 19, Isa. 24, Dan. 12, Zech. 14, Mal. 4). We are preparing for our King of kings whether or not He will return in 3.5 years after His Church escapes into the "place of safety." He will intervene in the Battle of Armageddon (WW III). In Rev. 8:5-13; 9:1-2, Planet X, Wormwood, the asteroids, comets, meteors, and hailstones are predicted to appear which can cause deaths and destructions all around the Earth. Planet X is encoded in the Bible.

For complete details, please read our web sites at:

http://www.7th-mil.org

http://7th_millennium.tripod.com/7mc/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/sm7thmil/index.html