As soon as Christ's Body has been brought to the necessary standard of maturity the Lord will appear with His Body. This is the return of the spiritual Seed of Abraham to the land.

The natural seed will have returned to the land of Israel by then. Those Jews who are dwelling in Israel when Christ returns will all be born again and filled with the Holy Spirit because of the overflow of the glory of His appearing. All Israel shall be saved.

We see an example of the effect of the overflow of glory when many of the inhabitants of Jerusalem were revived after the Lord rose from the dead.

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (Matthew 27:52,53)

The light of Christ will arise on all the elect and the nations will come to that light. The peoples of the earth will come to Jerusalem to learn of God: of His Person, of His Word, and of His will concerning them.

And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:2,3)

God will lay the foundations of the earth on Christ. Every saved man, woman, boy, and girl on the earth will live by eating of the Tree of Life, which is Christ. Every angel of the heavens will live and move and have his being according to Christ. Every created thing of the physical universe will reflect the Glory of Christ.

We who are being brought into total union with Him by eating His body and drinking His blood will be His fullness, His Bride, His living, holy city. Those who have suffered and have overcome Satan through Christ's Virtue and power will govern the earth as His kings and priests.

The new Jerusalem will be the capital city of the world, and the victorious saints of today will be as Zion, as the wall of protection surrounding the living Temple of God. The saints are the pillars, the strength of the eternal Temple.

Now we can see why it is so important the heavens be planted in and by Christ. Christ is totally righteous, totally the Personification of the Word and will of God.

Christ came to earth as the Babe of Bethlehem. As an adult He was known as the Rabbi from Nazareth.

Christ was crucified outside the city of Jerusalem as an offering for our sins.

Christ was raised from the dead and placed at the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens. Now God has given to Him a people chosen from the ranks of mankind, especially from among those who are Jewish by race. Each member of Christ is called by predestination, chosen on the basis of his response to his calling, and proven faithful in the furnace of tribulations and afflictions.

To be continued.