People should begin to enter the process of resurrection as soon as they place their faith in Christ. The sacrament of water baptism has been given to us as a means of portraying our death to the world and the beginning of our new life in Christ. We are to count ourselves as dead with Christ and risen from the dead with Christ. The death we die as we count ourselves crucified with Christ and risen and ascended with Christ is a true death! The consequent resurrection and the ascension to the right hand of the Father in Christ are a true resurrection and true ascension!

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3)

Because the death we experience as we place our faith in Christ is a true death in the sight of God, in that we have separated ourselves from our adamic nature, Divine judgment takes place. It is appointed to people to die once and after this to be judged.

Because we have died in Christ, and through His Spirit are putting to death our sinful nature, the sentence of judgment is that we are totally forgiven and cleansed from all unrighteousness.

As we die and are judged, the process of resurrection begins to take place in our inner nature. Each time we are led to put to death, through the Spirit of God, some aspect of our adamic nature, we are forgiven, cleansed from all unrighteousness, and given to eat of the tree of life. This is a symbolic way of saying that a portion of Christ's Life is added to our personality. Because we have been forgiven and cleansed we are able to go past the guardian cherubim, past the flaming sword of Divine judgment, and eat of eternal, incorruptible resurrection life.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (Genesis 3:24)

Not only is the Life of Christ added to our spiritual personality but it is added also to the "house" of incorruptible life being formed in Heaven as we continually experience dying and then living in Christ.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: (II Corinthians 5:2)

In the Day of Christ the Life of Christ that has been formed in our entire personality, in our spirit, in our soul, and in our house from Heaven, will be revealed. The revelation of Christ's Life in the people that form the Body of Christ, the Church, will release the material creation from the bondage of corruption and bring the saved peoples of the earth into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

To be continued.