The Lord Jesus has been born a Man. He is the ruler in Israel. He has had to give up the Jews, leaving them to suffer through two thousand years of persecution while they cry for Christ to come and save them.

For what is the Lord waiting? He is waiting for the Church to bring forth His brothers—those in whom He has been formed.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be changed into the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:29)

"The remnant of his brothers." "The firstborn among many brothers."

We see in the above verse the merging into oneness of Christ's brothers and the children of Israel. This is the Kingdom of God—the convergence of the spiritual and natural Israel.

Wherever the saints are laying hold on God, entering the travail that is bringing forth Christ in them, they are experiencing a love for the people and land of Israel. This is in fulfillment of Micah 5:3. It is beginning to take place.

Perhaps for the first time in the history of the Christian Church there is a major move of God's saints toward recognition of the preeminence of Israel in the Kingdom of God, and a desire to love the Jewish people and to allow them to receive their Christ without becoming part of a "Gentile Church."

When she who travails has brought forth, and the brothers of the Lord return to the children of Israel, the nation of Israel will have the power to deal with its enemies.

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. (Micah 5:8)

As we have applied the four phases of restoration to spiritual Israel, to the members of the Body of Christ, we have seen that the Body will come together in the last days, in the time in which we are living. A clear line of demarcation will be established between the true saints and the institutionalized churches. The tribulation will serve to purify and perfect the remnant, which is the Church, the Wife of the Lamb.

There shall be a travail, as we have noticed, that will bring forth Christ in the Church, in the remnant who have entered wholly into the salvation that is in Christ. As Christ is brought forth He spiritually is caught up to God and to His throne.

The saint in whom Christ has been brought forth has begun to enter the authority and power of the Throne of God. As a consequence he is able to gain victory over Satan, over the world, and over his own lusts and self-will.

Bringing forth Christ in the saints enables them to overcome the accuser of the brothers. The result of the overcoming of the accuser is the empowering of Michael and his angels to cast Satan out of the heaven, as set forth in the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation.

To be continued.