"This honour [of executing judgment and vengeance on the nations] have all his saints."

The judgment of the great Day will result in the destruction of all who oppose Christ—people as well as wicked spirits. But the judgment will result also in the deliverance of multitudes of righteous people who are oppressed by wicked spirits.

What the Christian Church seems to be largely unaware of, however, is that Christ consists not only of Jesus Christ, the Head, but also of a Body. Christ is the Head, the Center of authority and power, of the great Anointed Deliverer, Christ. The Christian Church is the Body of Christ.

When the Church has been adequately prepared by the work of the Holy Spirit, Christ—Head and Body—will then accomplish God's mission of judging, cleansing, and liberating the peoples of the earth, or else sentencing them to banishment or torment.

The Body of Christ consists of Christian believers who are dwelling in Christ and God, and Christ and God dwelling in them. The Body of Christ is to abide under the clear and untroubled control of the Head at all times!

The sending of Christ and the resulting judging of evil and release of the earth was promised to Abraham because of his obedience in offering his son, Isaac.

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. (Genesis 22:17,18)

The two verses above may be among the most significant passages of the Scriptures because they reveal that God intends to remove the harm done to the earth by Adam's disobedience.

There is an interesting concept contained in the passage. The "seed" will be multiplied "as the stars of the heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore." Apparently the Seed will be very large in number. Yet the Apostle Paul carefully instructs us that the term seed is singular in number, and that the "seed . . . is Christ" (Galatians 3:16).

The Seed is to be very great in number, yet the Seed is singular in number.

The answer is, the Seed is Christ, and Christ is to be as the stars and as the sand on the seashore. But how can Christ be so numerous when there is but one Lord Jesus Christ?

It is as we have stated. Christ, the Anointed Deliverer who is to come, the Servant of the Lord, includes the Head, Jesus, and a Body, the Christian Church. It is not true that there is more than one Lord Jesus. But it is clear in the New Testament that the Holy Spirit of God is creating Christ in the victorious believers.

Christ is being formed in us. We are the Body of Christ. In the last days the entire Anointed One—Head and Body—will be used of God to release the earth from the slavery into which it was sold by the disobedience of Adam and Eve. The breaking forth of God's unlimited power and glory in the end-time is referred to in Romans, Chapter Eight as the manifestation (revealing; showing; unveiling) of the sons of God. (from The Land of Promise)