The purpose of the Christian Era is to construct the Body of Christ, to bring it to the standard of unity and maturity required for the indwelling of God and Christ.

God the Father dwells eternally in the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is the "Zion" in which God finds perfect rest. Christ is the House of God. There is no other house of God.

In the House of God there are many places of abode, many rooms. The saints are being built into an eternal dwelling place for God. It is the Holy Spirit who is accomplishing this. The construction of the eternal dwelling place of God is the spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles.

The power of the Lord's coming will be revealed in the heavens and also in the saints on the earth. The peoples of the earth will be able to behold not only the Glory of Christ in the heavens. but also the transfiguration of the elect who are on the earth. As the nations witness this transfiguring glory they will believe that God indeed has sent Christ, and loves the saints as He loves Christ (John 17:23).

We receive by faith the blood atonement made by Christ on the cross of Calvary.

We repent of our worldly, sinful ways and are baptized in water.

Christ is born in our heart.

We are baptized with the Holy Spirit. We learn to live, not by the wisdom and power of our fleshly mind and fleshly nature but by the wisdom and power of the Spirit of God.

Through the Spirit of God we overcome worldliness, the lusts of the flesh, and self-will.

The nature of Christ is formed in us, and by His Presence and Spirit we keep His commandments.

The Father and Christ love us because we are keeping the words of Christ. They come to us and establish Their eternal residence in us.

The coming of God and Christ to us results in further judgment and final purification of all that remains of sin and self-seeking in our personality.

At the end of the period of earth's greatest tribulation, just before the Lord returns from Heaven, or at the time of His appearing and as an integral part of His appearing, the anointed Christian testimony having been silenced by Antichrist and a number of saints having been purified by afflictions, God and Christ will reveal Themselves in us in unprecedented glory.

The Lord God Almighty will shout for the battle from within the Church. The heavens will roll aside as a scroll and the sign of the Son of Man will appear for all nations to behold. The Lord Jesus will descend surrounded by His holy angels. The Lord's victorious saints will be caught up to meet Him in the air.

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:4)

To be continued.