The Day of Reconciliation (the Kingdom Age), as witnessed to by the Head and Body of Christ (the "two witnesses" of Revelation, Chapter 11), has found fulfillment as God's servants see His face and bring God's Presence to every member of the nations of saved people.

The rebellion of the angels alienated them from the Father. When they came down into the earth they alienated Adam and his descendants from the Father.

Each descendant of Adam comes into the world as a rebel against God. Our personality is deceitful and desperately wicked. Every nerve in our body as well as our fleshly mind hates the ways of the Father.

Christ, the Leader of our salvation, was reconciled totally to the Father as He agreed to drink the cup, to submit to the foul spirits of Hell, to be separated from the Glory of the Father that always had been His dwelling place.

Next in order comes the firstfruits of the Church. We spend the days of our discipleship learning to put to death the deeds of our adamic body and to live in the power of Christ's resurrection and the sharing of His sufferings. Little by little, command upon command, we are reconciled to God.

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing (ascribing) their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. (II Corinthians 5:19,20)

We begin the program of reconciliation by accepting the atonement made by Christ instead of attempting to please God by our own efforts. But the tremendous darkness of the depths of our personality must be reconciled to the Father one step at a time. The process is lengthy, full of pain and perplexity, and requires much patience on our part as we endure numerous afflictions and frustrations. All of these tribulations and chastenings are necessary, however, if we are to be reconciled to the Father.

The thousand-year Kingdom Age, the millennial Jubilee, serves, as we have stated, as a buffer between our present existence and the resplendent glory of the new heaven and earth reign of Christ. The Kingdom Age is the rule of a rod of iron, a Davidic reign of war that will subdue all opposition to the Father, making possible the Solomonic, peaceful new heaven and earth reign of Christ.

The purpose of the Kingdom Age, as we understand it, is to reconcile the whole Church to the Father, and also those nations that are alive on earth during the Kingdom Age. It is the Day of Reconciliation, the last step before the beginning of the manifestation of the new world of righteousness, the world that began in actuality when Christ rose from Hell and stepped out of the cave of Joseph of Arimathea.

To be continued.