By receiving the fullness of God's Presence into our lives we shall become pillars of strength, a great help to the weaker Christians and also to the unsaved who will be tossed to and fro on the waters of violence and lust rising in the earth. We shall be prepared, as was Joseph, to nourish the family of God in the time of famine with the "manna" that Christ will pour into our souls.

No matter how dark the hour there will be light in the hearts of all the saints, just as Goshen remained lighted when Egypt was wrapped in thick darkness. Our Light will be the Father and the Son who will be dwelling gloriously in us and dining with us on the unlimited abundance of the internal kingdom.

Then, at a moment that will catch the ungodly unprepared, God in Christ will rise up in the Church. The Lord will roar out of Zion. He will bring terrible destruction on His enemies. The Lord Jesus will descend from Heaven and the powers of darkness will find themselves surrounded on every hand by both the internal and the external ferocity of the Kingdom of God.

Christ will be in the saints, saving those who call on the name of the Lord. Christ will be with the saints, coming in external form in the clouds so every eye will see Him. The external Christ, the avenging Lamb, will hurl down the thunderbolts of God on the wicked. Their destruction will be total. The memory of sin will be wiped clean from the planet Earth.

Then will the creation break forth into singing. All of nature will be released into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. The saints will have God and Christ eternally in them, and God and Christ without in the external kingdom. Can you think of anything more wonderful than that?

"So shall we ever be with the Lord"! (from What Comes After Pentecost?)