Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd of the Twenty-third Psalm. Jesus Christ is the Lord of Hosts of the Twenty-fourth Psalm. We have known Christ as the Good Shepherd. Now He is coming to us as the Lord, strong and mighty in battle. He is asking that we open the everlasting gates of our heart that He may enter us and dine with us. We dine on His body and blood. He dines on our worship and obedience.

We of the Christian churches of today are sheep. Now the sheep must become warriors. The Battle of Armageddon will be a genuine battle, not a Sunday-school picnic. Therefore the next few years of the Church Age will include preparing the believers to fight the battles of the Lord. The face of Christianity, as we have known it, will change dramatically. The religious structure will go on to become Babylon the Great. But in the midst of the manmade activities, programs, and religious confusion will be the voice of the Bridegroom and the Bride—a warlike Head and Body who are being prepared to bring justice to the nations.

Do you feel this call today? Is it for you? Can you hear the war drums of El Shaddai, the powerful One?

Bringing Christ to the nations of the saved. It is not enough to drive Satan from the earth. In addition, the nations of saved people must be taught the law, will, and ways of the Lord.

Do you remember the following passage?

Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. (Isaiah 2:3,4—NIV)

Can you see in the above how the coming of the Lord will be associated with peace and justice? Obviously, Mount Zion will then be on the earth and the Lord will be there.

But Mount Zion is the Christian Church!

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, (Hebrews 12:22,23—NIV)

The heavenly Jerusalem will return with the Lord Jesus Christ and be superimposed on the earthly Jerusalem, just as our body from heaven will be superimposed on our resurrected flesh and bones.

The nations of the earth will not go up to Heaven to learn the ways of the Lord, they will go up to Jerusalem.

Will the saved nations come to God Himself? Not directly.

Will the saved nations come to Jesus Himself? Probably not directly?

To whom then will they come? They will come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem.

To be continued.