When Jesus appears, those who are part of His Life will receive their bodies from the dead. Then their bodies will be transformed by the flowing of power from His body. After that they will rise to meet him in the air, there to be seated on the thrones recently vacated by Satan and his followers.

The essential action that will change the present age into the Kingdom Age is the seating of Christ and the members of His Body on the thrones that govern the earth. They are the kings from the East, as we understand it.

The coming of the eternal, righteous rulers cannot take place until we have attained the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles. Christ must enter us, cast out all that is of darkness, and take His rightful place on the throne of our personality. Only then will we be eligible and capable of being raised at His coming.

Have you stopped at the born-again experience? Have you stopped at the "tongues" experience? To do so is not wise. We must press forward until we are "filled with all the fulness of God" (Ephesians 3:19).

The cross and the crown.

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; (Philippians 3:10)

If we would reign with Christ we must accept the suffering that God sends to perfect us.

Wasn't one of the sources of Jesus' suffering summed up in these words, "He came unto his own, and his own received him not"? We have stated that the feast of Tabernacles represents perfection—the fullness of redemption. Whoever would press through to God's mark of perfection may not always be surrounded with admirers. He or she may walk alone for a season.

The cleavage between Joseph and his brothers represents the separation that occurs between the multitudes of Israel and those whom God calls to Himself in a special manner.

They are dreamers of dreams, these called-out ones, and sometimes they are foolish enough to believe their brothers will listen gladly to their dreams of glory and authority. They may finally end up in a pit, cast out by their own (church) families.

Sometimes the world, as in the case of Joseph, is quick to perceive the gifts and abilities of the cast-out ones. In the end, the called-out victorious saints will serve to sustain the family of God (and the world also). These are the hundredfold Christians and they are a firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

(Make sure that you do not separate yourself from your brothers in Christ through your foolishness and pride. It probably is true that Joseph could have handled his revelations more wisely than he did.)

The rejection by one's spiritual family (Israel) occurred in the life of Jesus. The common people heard Jesus gladly. They always do. The world to this day recognizes the extraordinary gifts of Jesus of Nazareth. But His peers in Israel, those who should have embraced Him as the Israelite of the Israelites, cried for His blood. Here is a cruel cross—to be cast out by your own.

To be continued.