Those who are eligible to participate in the first resurrection receive back their bodies at the coming of the Lord. Their role is to flood the earth with deliverance and life during the thousand-year Kingdom Age. They are the Lord's trees of life. Out from their bellies shall flow rivers of living water.

Jesus spoke the above words on "the last day, that great day of the feast." This is the eighth day of the feast of Tabernacles. The rivers of life that will cover the earth during the thousand-year period flow from the Throne of God. When we experience the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles, the Throne of God is established for eternity in our heart.

As soon as we arrive at the waters to swim in, which is another way of saying we have attained the first resurrection from the dead, we return to the bank of the river. There we find many trees of life.

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. (Ezekiel 47:7)

The one Tree of Life, Christ, was in the garden of Eden. Now there are many trees of life who have grown out from the root of Christ.

The trees of life are the saints—those who have been raised at the coming of the Lord. Now they are the sources of the Life of God. That which had been created in them during their discipleship on the earth will flow to the dead creation.

Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. (Ezekiel 47:8)

The rivers of eternal life will flow from Jerusalem.

And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. (Zechariah 14:8)

Truly (as the Lord has declared on several occasions) the Glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. The waters of eternal life shall cover the dead sea of mankind. This is the restoration of all things, as proclaimed by the Hebrew Prophets. It is the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11:9)

All that was lost to Adam and Eve will be restored under the ministry of the members of the Kingdom of God. Some of the saints will compose the army of the Lord. Their role is to destroy the wicked from the face of the earth. They wield the rod of iron and shall smash the resistance of the nations of the earth. Christ shall reign supreme (Micah 5:8,9)!

Other saints will serve as priests, as rulers, as teachers, as helpers, as bringers of joy and blessing to mankind. The waters of the "sea" (of earth's multitudes) will be healed.

To be continued.