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Re-Forming Formed: 1992
This page last updated:12/27/2011
7th Millennium Community
Maasin City, Southern Leyte,
Philippines
(Mercado Beach Resort - the prototype of the proposed intentional community.)
 "...On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to make ourselves a model for you to follow" (2 Thes. 3:6-9).
From our experiences in over 47 years of having regularly attended and/or visited over 45 different Messianic, Sabbath and Sunday-observing churches, congregations, Bible study groups, and having met hundreds of Christians at the college campuses and work places here in the Philippines and the United States, we have never heard them preach or talk on self-sufficiency! No wonder, for almost 2000 years since the founding of the New Testament Church, millions to billions of fellow Christians and the religious persons around the world are living way down below the poverty.
The 7th Millennium Community is the proposed intentional community or self-sufficient cooperative composed of a Christian camp, conference/retreat center, kibbutz, some cottage industries, general consulting enterprises, and other diversified products and services (photos of our prototype community service). Christians ought to be the creators of jobs and suppliers of goods and services, rather than mere employees and consumers. Christians ought to be working for God rather than for the material, market and credit-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 VIPs!
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. had the best of the best in knowledge and wisdom about the Heavens and Earth. The Holy Bible is our #1 instruction manual for daily living! We prefer to read and study the scholarly-recognized translations and versions.
Second, we are going to follow the excellent examples of the self-sufficient communes of the Hutterian Brethren, Amish, some of the Mennonites, and other groups. The fine Hutterite, Amish and some Mennonite intentional communities have been living successfully in Canada and the United States for 300 to 470+ years, including the years of persecution since they first 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 own senior citizens. They are "immune" from the current plague - the world's economic crisis!
Whereas the multitudes of the Catholic and Protestant retirees including the Sabbatarians in the West, they are lonely, sickly and running out of money! Over a million senior citizens from north of the border are living in Mexico and other foreign countries. They cannot afford to retire in their own country where they worked for their hard-earned money - printed and minted with the famous words, "In God We Trust." Meanwhile, some Americans back home have demanded that the name of GOD, JESUS CHRIST and the 10 Commandments be banned from any public domain. Christianity, Judaism and other religions are banned presently in the public properties but not idolatry! During a sermon, Dr. Charles Stanley, a well-known TV evangelist of the In Touch Ministries in the U.S., said that Americans spend over $30 billion annually just to lose their extra body weight!
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, the star or Planet X, Wormwood, the asteroids, comets, meteors and hailstones are predicted to appear which can cause deaths and destruction all around the Earth! Some members of the powerful Roman Catholic Church are preparing too for 2012 and beyond!. (For mathematical link: Earth's Polar Shift. Scientific link: Planet X, Comets & Earth Changes. The Return of Planet X. For photos: Planet X, Nibiru & Wormwood. Illustrations: Does Planet X Exist? More info: Details and Pole Shift Prepare, Planet X video & Flyby in 2012 to 2013).
The proposed intentional community, if it is managed professionally and with God's blessings, can create and provide jobs to our scattered brethren in the Far East that are discriminated, unemployed and/or underemployed. That is one reason why hundreds of the Filipino Sabbatarian college students and/or graduates are working and living abroad. Some of them have to sacrifice not seeing their own family and loved ones for a year or more. Furthermore, such job opportunities and professional careers are almost impossible to achieve if or when the Sabbath-observing employees are working for the New World Order (NWO).
The Beast has branded his "mark" through the Wall Street, World Trade Organization, European Union, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, NAFTA and other trading countries. Majority of the international economic establishments work from Monday to Saturday - the Seventh-day Sabbath - instead of Sunday to Friday. Buying, selling, working and doing business on the Sabbaths are part of the Mark of the Beast (Rev. 13:16-17). Beware of the popular currencies which are circulating in hundreds of countries. The currencies including Sunday as the Sabbath have become another Mark of the Beast!
According to the Holy Bible and the history of the New Testament Church, the seventh day of the week is the Sabbath of the Creator of Earth (Genesis 2:2-3, Acts 13:14, 42-44; 17:2). Observing the right Sabbath is the SIGN between God and His chosen people through all their generations. The Jews, Lost Tribes and the converted Gentiles are commanded to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it as the everlasting covenant. "It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work and rested" (Exodus 31:17). Millions and millions of "Christians" have nailed the Sabbath on the cross! Do you have the SIGN between the Creator and you?
Aside from the weekly Sabbath, the 7th Millennium Community observes the annual holy days of the Old Testament (Leviticus 23:5-41). They are still binding today, as they will be in the future. They are everlasting covenants! When the Messiah comes back to establish the Kingdom of Elohim on Earth, He will continue to observe His weekly (Isaiah 66:23) and annual Sabbaths in Jerusalem. Over 99% of the world's "Christian" population observe the Passover, weekly and annual Holy Days on the wrong day because they use the non-biblical calendar!
The Christians that expect to be the "bride" when Jesus Christ - the "groom" - comes back to unite with Him will miss the big "wedding day." Most of the "Christians" around the world do not observe the Feast of Trumpets which signifies the herald of the Messiah's Second Coming. Therefore, the Messiah will punish the "religious" persons and the United Nations including the Philippines' 94% Christian population (if they survive through the Seven Plagues, Great Tribulation and Battle of Armageddon), and millions or less of the survivors that do not observe the Feast of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14:16-19). Majority of them idolize their man-made feasts, holidays and other secular festivities, but not the Sacred Calendar (Lev. 23)!
God's Sabbath first started at the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:2-8). It was made for Adam and Eve and the next generations since 6000 years ago. Each new day and new month of God's Sacred Calendar began also at the same longitudinal line of Eden. It surely did not start at the International Date Line, which existed only in 1884 C.E. The holy Sabbath was made for Mankind, not for the fish and the whales in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The Sabbath keepers and billions of the people working and living between east of the Garden of Eden and west of the IDL had violated, and most of them are still violating the Sabbath since its original observance was "lost" for 6 millennium.
The proposed kibbutz can solve the needs of the brethren for food and shelter. Giving the unfortunate brethren with drinks, foods and other necessities is charitable, but we believe in helping them how to plant, harvest, market the products and be self-sufficient forever. In Israel, the kibbutzim have been the vital sources of goods and services for decades. They have been providing the basic needs of the youths, senior citizens and the new immigrants.
As a matter of foresight and wisdom, real Christians around the Earth should have been building and living in a kibbutz to prepare for the MESSIAH'S Second Coming (Luke 21:7-36); preparation time before His Church will "exodus" or flee into the "place of safety" to take refuge for 3 and 1/2 years from her enemies (Revelation 12:6,14), and the Great Tribulation. Christians must prepare for the collapse of the global economy! True or not, since millions of the Filipino students are Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts as well as the former scouts who are presently the top politicians and leaders in the Philippines, they must "be prepared" at all times!
It has been long overdue that Christians in Metro Manila, for example, should have gone out of the city instead of needlessly suffering from the usual and mega floods, lack of clean water, uncollected garbage, heavy traffic, overcrowding, crimes, etc. Due to their refusal to use the hydrogen fuel and other alternative cleaner fuels, they are suffering from the smog, pollution, cancer, and high cost of living. They are suffering from stress because of working for some companies with "corporate crooks" and the international cartels. They are suffering from barely existing under the "eternal" power struggles of the "balimbing" and self-centered millionaire politicians, political dynasties as well as the less educated ex-entertainers turned politicians. Once elected into the positions of authority, the former entertainers will hire the top college educated experts and professionals (at tax payers' expenses of course) to do the jobs of the ex-entertainers turned politicians.
Some of the politicians would escort the religious groups, such as the Iglesia Ni Cristo, El Shaddai, Kingdom of Jesus Christ, Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association and other super large religious groups, to buy or get their votes. The Christians should have escaped from the modern "Tower of Babel," far away from the gigantic and deadly Marikina's earthquake fault lines, the usual and future mega floods, and other deadly and destructive forces. "Earthquake devastation is linked to corruption"! Christians should escape from Metro Manila so as to build, work and live for YHWH and Yahushua or Christ in self-sustainable communities.
Fellow followers of Yahushua or Jesus Christ in Metro Manila, do no get caught in the crossfire of the unconverted "Christians." For your safety and sanity, join the exodus to the provinces as soon as possible before the Great Tribulation forces you to be marooned (Luke 21:34-36). It is much better for you to prepare your lives for the soon-coming Messiah in the countryside than to continue existing in Metro Manila!
Again, again, and again Planet X, Wormwood, the asteroids, comets, meteors, 100-pound hailstones are predicted to appear from the space which could cause the solar storms, turn the Earth to shift on its axis, break and melt the 2-mile high, trillions and trillions of tons of ice on top of the Antarctica. They can cause "natural cleansing" all over the world! (Rev. 8:5-13; 9:1-2; 16:21 and see the movies 2012, An Inconvenient Truth, The Day After Tomorrow, Armageddon, Deep Impact and Meteor, for example.)
To all the Messianic, Christians and non-believers in our endangered planet, are you ignoring the fulfillment of the biblical prophecies? Are you ignoring the warnings in the Bible Codes, just like the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel? Are you ignoring the apocalyptic messages of the scientists and other experts? Are you still too busy working and coveting to secure the material things, such that you do not care for the on-going crises in the Middle East, which will affect your livelihood and existence? Are you waiting for the 11th-hour to repent? (Acts 3:19-20, 1 John 5:18-21)
Unfortunately, you cannot take with you your earthly possessions, your idols, your status symbols, your nationalism, your patriotism, your protectionism, your pride (1 John 2:15-17), even in the soon-coming Kingdom of Elohim on Earth. Yahushua or Christ said, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:33-36).
To jump-start our self-sustainable projects, we welcome with much gratitude for your kind assistance and from the financially blessed Messianic and fellow Christians, and the humanitarian millionaires and billionaires around the world before the dollars, euros, pesos, other paper currencies, the bonds, stock certificates, and some minted wealth will continue to diminish their values, be demonetized and be replaced someday with the New World Order's medium of exchange - one of the marks of the beast. We also need your generous help before your comfort zones, your hard-earned wealth and worldly possessions will be wasted away and be lost forever to Planet X, Wormwood, the Great Tribulation and/or the Battle of Armageddon. We are praying, hoping and urging you brethren and friends to join hands together to build your own self-sustainable communities in safe areas outside of the big towns or cities in your respective provinces, states and countries before the prophecies in Mat. 24:20-31, Luke 21:25-28, Rev. 16:18-21 will be fulfilled.
If you are one of the Sabbath-keeping and other Bible-believing Christians who is suffering, it is our mission to help you. We will help you as soon as God and His blessed people would provide us the means and moral support to establish the self-sustainable 7th Millennium Community. For the reason that we advocate and practice the biblical command:
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth" (1 John 3:16-18).
 
Contact:
S. V. Mercado
Ibarra Beach, Ibarra
Maasin City, Southern Leyte 06600 Philippines

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This page last updated:12/27/2011
 
Visitors Accepted
Visitor Process: You are most welcome to visit the Mercado Beach Resort, which is the prototype of our proposed intentional community. You can reach our humble and native beach resort by reading the web pages "Visit Southern Leyte," "Canigao Island Resort" and "Wanted: Developers, Investors & Retirees."
Network Affiliations:
Network Affiliations:
Fellowship for Intentional Community
:: Messiah the Living Torah Center, Manila, Phil.; Tikvat Yisrael, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.; Central Highlands Christian Publications, Creswick, Victoria, Australia; Churchlight Publishing Association, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Statement of Housing Non-discrimination:
Our community is a legally sanctioned church or religious organization and living in our community is restricted to members of that religion as allowed by law. Our religion does not discriminate based on race, color, or national origin. Housing in our community is non-commercial (i.e. not intended to make a profit).

Population
Open to new members:
Yes
Government
Decision Making:
By a group of elders or other leaders
Identified Leader:
No
Leadership Core Group:
No
Labor and Money
Financial Style:
Other
Labor Contribution:
Expected
Join Fee:
No
Regular Fees:
No
Land and Buildings
Rural
(Small city by the sea with coral reefs, mangroves, valleys, hills, moutains, forests, rivers, springs, waterfalls, caves...)
Area:
12 acres (4.9 hectares)
(We have agricultural lands at various locations.)
Land Owned By:
Another form of Non-profit
(Cooperative)
Number of Residences:
2
(Our beachfront property needs to replace the roof into rust-proof, the ceiling, to repaint the interior and exterior walls.)
Cohousing:
No
Food, etc.
Percentage of Food Grown:
21-50%
Share Community Meals:
2-5 times/week
Dietary Choice or Restrictions:
There are some dietary restrictions
Dietary Practice:
Kosher
Alcohol Use:
Prohibited
(Passover wine and special occasions.)
Tobacco Use:
Prohibited
Social Factors
Common Spiritual Practices:
Yes
(Study the Holy Bible.)
Which Spiritual Traditions(s):
Other
(Combination of Messianic Jews/Israelites, weekly and annual Sabbath-observing Christians or followers of the Messiah.)
Educational Style(s):
Other
(Both private and public school)
 
 


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