Notice that the abundance of union and life is ours after the reconciliation stage has been accomplished:

And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. (Isaiah 12:1)

The material creation, including the inhabitants thereof, is dead because of the curse of God that has been placed on it. It awaits, in its corruption and futility, the living touch of the Wife of the Lamb.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (Romans 8:19)

The members of the Wife of the Lamb will pass throughout the earth bringing spiritual life and freedom to all who were not destroyed in the Divine fury of Armageddon. They are the trees of life. Those who eat of their fruit will live, and their "leaves" are for the healing of the nations.

The forty-seventh chapter of the Book of Ezekiel portrays the judgment and reconciliation of the saints, their entrance into life in ever-increasing fullness, and then their ministry of life to the dead creation.

The reconciling judgment is portrayed by "the man that had the line in his hand" (verse 3).

The entrance of the members of the Wife into ever-increasing depths of eternal life is typified by the waters "to the ankles," "to the knees," "to the loins," and finally by the waters "to swim in" (verses 3-5).

As soon as the process of judgment and life has been completed, the waters of eternal life will flow from the saints into the "dead sea" of humanity, bringing the creation into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Now will the earth be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Now will the Lord's trees of life bring deliverance to mankind. Now will the redemption performed on the cross of Calvary be revealed as to the full effects of its authority. Now will the Lord Jesus see the travail of His soul and be satisfied.

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. (Ezekiel 47:7-9)

Because the Wife of the Lamb has been called to the highest throne of the universe, her training is full of prolonged, tiring, and sometimes painful hardships. Only those Christians who are willing to give their first attention and energies to their discipleship have any hope of arriving at the first resurrection from the dead, that is, at the level of spiritual readiness that will enable them to be raised from the dead and glorified without further judgment and reconciliation.

Any individual may choose to be one of Jesus' conquerors, one of His victorious saints. Remember, the gate is small and the road is narrow and full of obstacles. Through His grace you can overcome every obstacle. Only believe.

Indescribable glory is waiting for those who endure to the end. (from The Marriage of the Lamb)