By pressing forward into Jesus the saints now have attained the resurrection from among the dead. They have become life-giving spirits. Not only are they filled with eternal life but in addition they are able to give eternal life to others.

There will come a day when all the nations of saved peoples of the earth will have partaken of the fruit of Christ through the members of His Body. Christ—Head and Body, who is the Tabernacle of God, will minister eternal life to the saved peoples of the earth. Then there will be no more death:

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. (Revelation 21:4)

When the Lord appears He will send His saints throughout the earth to minister life to the saved peoples of the earth:

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. (Ezekiel 47:8)

The waters are those of the Holy Spirit. The "sea" represents the mass of mankind. "The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea" (Habakkuk 2:14). The waters of eternal life flowing out of the personalities of the saints will cover the sea of mankind. Saved mankind will be healed.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7:38)

Jesus spoke the above verse during the observance of the feast of Tabernacles. The rivers of life that are being created in us are not for our blessing, primarily, but for the release of the peoples of the earth. We saints have been called out from mankind so mankind may have the light of God and be saved.

The "sea" will be healed until there is no more sea of people who do not have Christ in them.

. . . And there was no more sea (Revelation 21:1)

No longer will there be a mass of people without the knowledge of God and His Christ.

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 47:9)

The above verses parallel the sixtieth chapter of the Book of Isaiah, where we read of the conversion of the nations of the earth as they behold the Glory of God abiding on the members of the Body of Christ.

The sixtieth chapter of Isaiah demonstrates the permanence of the parousia. As soon as Christ and His Body are revealed, the work of restoring Jerusalem and establishing it as the center of government of the earth will begin. The parousia, the coming of Christ and His Body, will continue throughout eternity in the form of the new Jerusalem.

To be continued.