The tares are growing today but so is the wheat. When the time of harvest comes the tares will be cast into the oven. Then shall the righteous shine in the glory of the Kingdom.

The nations of saved peoples of the earth, and the earth itself, will be released into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

All of this blessing and glory for the meek of the earth depends on the coming of the sons of God.

When the heavenly signs begin to signal the parousia, the presence of the Lamb of God, all the peoples of the earth will be terrified. They will seek refuge in the mountains and the rocks. They will mourn and weep in anguish. Well they may, for mankind is filled with wickedness. Men crucified the Lord's Christ when He appeared the first time.

The people will not be able to stand the sight of the slain Lamb. They will be terrified by the blinding light of the Glory of Almighty God. They will be aware the sky has rolled back as a scroll and directly overhead is the Throne of God and of the Lamb (Revelation 6:16). They will understand that the Day of God's wrath has come and no man is able to stand against it.

All would be lost were it not for the coming of the sons of God. They will appear on the earth, after their resurrection, in transfiguration glory. Their light will have come. Although the saints first must be raised to meet the Lord so they may descend with Him in the attack of Armageddon, the meek of the earth will soon know that the saints will return to earth and stand between them and the Lamb and intercede for them, and bring the goodness of God in Christ to them.

The saints will come as saviors and deliverers to the righteous nations of the earth:

And saviours [deliverers] shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's. (Obadiah 1:21)

. . . And the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. (Zechariah 14:5)

And the Gentiles [nations] shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. (Isaiah 60:3)

The saints will restore the earth:

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. (Isaiah 61:4)

The nations of the saved will revere the sons of God and accept them as priests:

But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles [nations], and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. (Isaiah 61:6)

All of the painstaking training we are receiving from the Lord, all the tribulations, testings, rebukes, blessings, gifts, confusions, denials, are preparing us to receive the nations of the earth as our inheritance. Christians do not automatically rule with God as kings and priests. Each saint must endure the transformation of character that God requires before he is qualified to represent God to the nations of the earth.

To be continued.