The evil spirits have been thrown out of Heaven. All they have left to enjoy is the flesh and personalities of people on the earth. When they are cast out of people, the evil spirits indeed walk through dry places. There is no place left for them except the air, and finally the Lake of Fire. This is why they so fiercely resist being dispossessed, being cast out of people. They cry for mercy but no mercy is to be shown to them.

We now are bearing witness of the soon coming to earth of the Lord Jesus Christ in the power of His Kingdom. God enables us to display, as part of the witness, some of the powers of the age to come. Also, we ourselves are being prepared to serve in establishing the rule of Christ over the nations of the earth.

Because we will be serving God forever, ruling over the nations of saved peoples of the earth (Revelation 22:5), it is much more important we become what Christ wants us to be than it is that we go forth and "do something for Christ."

God can use whom or what He will to perform His work in the earth. But the creation of the members of the Body of Christ, the Wife of the Lamb, the sons of God, the brothers of Christ, the living stones of the eternal Tabernacle of God, is the primary reason for all the elements of the world and the events of history. All are working together for good for those who have been called according to the eternal purpose of God in Christ.

Today we are given some opportunities to work God's will in this sin-cursed earth. Tomorrow we will march through the land as conquerors, bearing in ourselves the Presence of God in Christ. Then the nations of the earth will understand that God indeed is the One who has sent Christ, and that God loves the saints as He loves His firstborn Son.

For the first time in the history of the creation the holy ones (saints) of God stand at the brink of the spiritual Jordan. The transition from Moses to Joshua is taking place. The disciples are beginning to understand that death to the world and to sin are not enough; we must die also to all self-will and self-seeking. There is no place in the army of the Lord for those in whom King Self still is reigning.

The Lord's soldiers are living dead men. They themselves have been "crucified" (by actual suffering, not just by faith or in their mind) with Christ. Now it is Christ who is living in them. They are living by His faith, not by their own faith.

There first will come the most powerful of all testimonies—the latter-rain anointing of the Body of Christ (Revelation, Chapter 11) and the pouring of God's Spirit on all flesh. Then will follow a brief period of worldwide tribulation. After that, the Lord Jesus will appear from Heaven with His army of saints, driving all unclean spirits from the earth and judging and teaching the peoples of the nations of the saved.

To be continued.