When the worldwide, latter-rain testimony has been completed to God's satisfaction the majority of Christians, the lukewarm, will fall away because of the abundance of lawlessness. The forces that will fill the earth will cause the lukewarm to become cold. The Lord Jesus has announced that He prefers we be cold rather than lukewarm toward Himself. God will insure that the lukewarm become cold so the way of the Lord is made straight.

The apostasy of the Christians after the latter-rain witness has been given is typified by the young prophet who obeyed the Lord until his mission was accomplished, and then disobeyed the Lord, by listening to an older, backslidden prophet, and was eaten by a lion.

And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto him. (I Kings 13:26)

When we are young and fervent we serve the Lord successfully. But when we get older we may become soft. When we do we no longer are able to serve the Lord as He desires. There is no place in God's army for retired soldiers.

There will come an hour when "peace and safety" fill the earth. The demons will be reveling in the closing moments of the age, knowing that their punishment is near but hoping somehow to avert it. The Spirit-filled remnant will be hidden away in the wilderness areas of the earth, aided by some of the peoples of the nations. The glory of Zion will be upon them.

The help given by people to Elijah and Elisha, who are types of the "two-witness" testimony, reveals that the "earth" will assist the Lord's remnant (Revelation 12:16). The nations that help the Lord's remnant, His brothers, will be saved in the Day of Christ (Matthew 25:34).

Suddenly the Glory of the Lord will arise on the remnant in the fullness of the personal spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles:

And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. (Revelation 11:11)

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. (Ezekiel 37:10)

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: (John 17:22)

The glory of the Lord will be seen on the saints when the Lord enters into them:

And the Gentiles [nations] shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. (Isaiah 60:3)

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:23)

"That the world may know."

In that Day the peoples of the earth will understand clearly that God has sent Christ and that God loves the Church as He loves Christ. Christ will be glorified and we shall be glorified together with Him. We shall appear with Him in glory.

To be continued.