The process of transformation begins now by the Divine enablements and virtues we have described previously. It may be true that the degree of image attained will continue to vary from person to person as it does today.

As children in a human family bear the family resemblance but may vary greatly in personality, abilities, and calling, so it is true that God's children will bear the family resemblance but will vary greatly in personality, abilities, and calling.

Salvation from emptiness to fullness takes place as the Father and the Son through the Spirit come to us and make us Their eternal dwelling place, Their home, Their temple, Their chariot. As we keep the Word of Christ, Christ is formed in us. As Christ is formed in us, God and Christ come to dwell in the holy habitation that has been formed in us.

God judges the living and the dead. When the hour of judgment came it began in the house of God: not just the house of God on the earth but the house of God in Heaven as well as on the earth.

As the seasons arrive for the spiritual fulfillment of the several feasts of the Lord (Leviticus 23:4) the elect are brought forward in the plan of redemption. We all are being brought forward together and will come to perfection together—old-covenant and new-covenant saints.

Those who have died in Christ continue to live as witnesses and, we believe, continue to profit because of the revelation of Christ coming forth through the apostles and prophets on the earth.

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (Hebrews 11:40-12:1)

We who are alive today have profited from the faithfulness of those who have gone before us. We think that those who have gone before us are now profiting from our faithfulness. The whole Body of Christ is built by that which every part supplies.

All of the elect have come to Mount Zion, whether they are living before Christ in the Spirit or are spending their appointed years in the crucible of the earth.

But ye are come unto mount Sion, . . . . (Hebrews 12:22)

It is not that we shall come to Mount Zion in the future; we are there now in spiritual reality. We have come to Mount Zion.

It is the season now for the spiritual fulfillments of the memorial of blowing of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:24-43). The personal spiritual fulfillments of the last three feasts are taking place in all the members of the Body of Christ in preparation for the coming of the Lord.

To be continued.