We are not speaking of passivity but of continually seeking the Lord, constantly pressing into His immediate will for us. What a battle it is to enter the rest of God! We soon learn that faith and prayer are not devices by which we convince God to do what we desire. Rather, faith and prayer are the means of finding out what God desires and receiving the strength to do what God desires.

Only those who have learned obedience at the deepest level of consciousness will be trusted with immortal bodies. The remainder of righteous people will enjoy the spirit paradise until such time that the conquerors have established righteousness in the earth, and God is satisfied that the remainder can return to earth in their bodies without causing another rebellion against God.

And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. (Ezekiel 47:10)

This is speaking of the varieties of peoples of the nations of the saved, who are the inheritance of God's conquerors. The saints will inherit these peoples. The nations of the saved will come from the farthest corners of the earth to be taught and blessed by the Lord's trees of life:

Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles [nations] shall come unto thee. (Isaiah 60:5)

Next to inheriting the Presence of the Lord, the greatest inheritance one can obtain is people. As Christ's love grows in us we understand this fact. The inheritance of Jesus is people. Our inheritance also is people. The overcomers will inherit the peoples of the earth as their possession.

But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. (Daniel 7:18)

Unfortunately there shall be people on the earth who will not consent to receive Christ through the saints. They will dwell in a dry land. Upon them will rest the Divine curse.

But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. (Ezekiel 47:11)

Those nations which are not willing to come up to Jerusalem to keep the feast of Tabernacles, to celebrate the Presence of God in Christ in the saints, will not be blessed by the Lord.

And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. (Zechariah 14:18)

The Lord's trees of life will bring eternal life and healing to the nations of the saved, to those to whom it has been given to enter eternal life in the Kingdom of God.

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. (Ezekiel 47:12)

To be continued.