And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 11:15)

The trumpet of the Lord announces a personal day of Christ in our hearts, which is the absolute dominion of Christ over our thought, motives, imagination, deeds, and words. Also there will be an earth-wide blowing of the trumpet of God—the sounding of the seventh angel, at which time Christ will return to the earth, glorify His Body, and extend His rule from the hearts of the saints until His will and glory cover the creation.

There is a personal day of the Lord, a spiritual fulfillment of the Blowing of Trumpets, when Jesus comes to us in the Spirit, judges us, drives the enemy from us, and then, with the Father, settles down to rest in us. The ministries and gifts given by the ascended Christ are for the purpose of creating the saint as the place of God's rest (Psalms 68:18). Every eye will not see Him at the personal coming, only those who are looking for Him.

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Hebrews 9:28)

Then there will be a historical, worldwide Day of the Lord in which every eye will behold Christ.

There is a personal kingdom age in the individual believer, and then there will be a worldwide Kingdom Age. The persons who will rule with Christ during the worldwide Kingdom Age are those who establish a personal kingdom age, a rulership of Christ over their own personalities, in advance of His worldwide appearing (I John 3:2,3).

If we have experienced speaking in tongues and other spiritual enablements, and have learned to yield to the gentle influences of the Holy Spirit at all times and in every instance, in matters great and small, listening for the voice of the Lord Jesus, let us press forward. A door has been opened before us that leads into the place where the Holy Spirit does not come occasionally but is an abiding Presence, an eternal fountain of resurrection Life.

Let us go through the door that has been opened before us by the Pentecostal experience and enter the life lived in unhindered communion with and absolute obedience to God through Christ.

The person who has come to Pentecost is neither in Egypt nor in the land of promise. He ought not to look back toward Egypt (life in the spirit of the world). He must press toward maturity in Christ. The land of promise has been attained when our whole personality is in accord with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Three more feasts are ahead of us, three observances that stand between us and the fullness of redemption. Most of us have not passed this way before. Christ surely has been in all that we have experienced to this point, and Christ surely is in that which lies ahead.

We never are to stop in our pilgrimage until maturity has been attained. There remains much land to be possessed. There remains a spiritual rest for the people of God.

"Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward." (from The Feasts of the Lord)