God glorified His name when Jesus the Lord walked on the earth. God will glorify His name again when Jesus and His saints appear in glory (John 12:28).

Antichrist will gather the kings of the earth and their armies in an attempt to prevent Christ and His saints from bringing the Glory of God to the prisoners of the earth. But to no avail. The Lord's army will encircle the armies of Antichrist and destroy them.

Then all the ends of the earth will come to Jerusalem to "keep the feast of Tabernacles": that is to say, they will come to be blessed by the members of the Body of Christ who now are filled with the Glory of God in Christ. The nations of the saved will receive of the eternal Life of God and become part of the Glory of Christ.

Perhaps the strongest type of the Lord's coming to be found in the Scriptures is that of the events concerning Gideon and the Midianites.

First there was a screening process. The army of the Lord was diminished in number from thirty-two thousand to three hundred.

So it is today. There is a screening process taking place. All who are fearful will be sent home, so to speak. Also, those who "drink water in a careless fashion" (who act foolishly and in an unguarded, unrestrained manner in spiritual matters) will be removed from the delivering remnant. There are practices in the Charismatic churches of today that remind one of Aaron and his naked dancers (Exodus 32:19).

Three hundred men of war remained—a tiny remnant left to face the multitude of the Midianites, the Amalekites, and "all the children of the east" (Judges 7:12). The number three hundred (the length in cubits of Noah's ark) typifies the concluding of an age by judgment.

Each man was given three things: a trumpet, an empty pitcher, and a lamp within the pitcher.

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. (Judges 7:16)

The trumpet speaks of the coming of the Lord to us in the personal spiritual fulfillment of the Blowing of Trumpets.

The empty pitcher signifies the cleansing of our personality in the personal spiritual fulfillment of the Day of Atonement. The breaking of the pitcher reminds us of the need to crucify the old adamic nature so the resurrection Life of Jesus can be revealed.

The lamp within the pitcher refers to the coming of the Father and the Son into us in the personal spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles.

At the beginning of the middle watch of the night (midnight—another type of the coming of the Lord), Gideon and the three hundred men blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, held the lamps in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands, and cried, "The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon."

Then "all the host ran, and cried, and fled" (Judges 7:21).

To be continued.