All persons who would be saved to life in the new world, to the new heaven and earth reign of God through Christ, must be born again in the inner man. The race of Adam was finished on the cross of Calvary. The Life of the resurrected Jesus is the Life of the new world. It must be in every creature. There will be no more "sea" of people who do not have Christ in them.

Each person in the new world will have a reborn inner man in a resurrected flesh and bone body. The degree of eternal life possessed by the individual will depend on his role in the Kingdom of God.

The members of the priesthood are undergoing now the transformation of the inner man. We are a firstfruits of the race of people who are to come.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. (James 1:18)

The firstfruits are appearing before the Judgment Seat of Christ now—today. Every element of our inner man is coming before the Lord. He is revealing to us what is ungodly in our personality. Our role is to follow the Holy Spirit as He leads us to the destruction of each aspect of our personality that is displeasing to God.

As part of our sinful personality is overcome by us, the Spirit of God puts it to death and removes it from us (Romans 8:13). God forgave it on the cross and now has removed it for eternity. An eternal judgment has taken place.

The Life of Jesus enters the part of us that has been cut away. As this process of cutting away and replacement continues, Christ is formed in us. Then the Father and the Son come through the Holy Spirit and dwell in the newly formed Life of Christ that is in us. Christ (and God in Him) dwells in His own Life that has been formed in us. The temple is formed from Him, and then He dwells in His temple.

For those who are willing to endure all the way through to the completion of this process of replacement and indwelling the rewards are staggering. Such will attain the inner resurrection while yet in the flesh and blood body. When they die they will be brought to the very Presence of Jesus. In the Day of the Lord their flesh and bone body will be raised and filled with their transformed and Christ-filled inner man. On this resurrected person the Lord Jesus will place a great weight of Divine Life and Glory.

The faithful saint then will have the unimaginable joy of appearing with his Lord at the beginning of the thousand-year Kingdom Age. He will inherit all things; not merely participate in all things but inherit all the works of God's hands.

The Blowing of Trumpets portrays the King coming to us to make war against the part of our inner man opposed to His rule (Leviticus 23:24; compare Psalms 24).

The Day of Atonement typifies the process of judging and slaying the ungodliness in us and filling us with the Life and Presence of Christ. This is the necessary preparation for the marriage of the Lamb.

To be continued.