If we are to move forward into the new day that is dawning we must come to understand there will be two classes of saved people in the future ages. The one class is the royal priesthood. The other saved class consists of those who are brought over into the new heaven and earth reign of Christ but who are not members of the elect, of Israel, of the priesthood.

I find this to be a difficult concept for people to grasp, but until we understand the Seed of Abraham has been called out from mankind to bring the Presence of God to the nations we cannot understand the Kingdom of God that shall be established on the earth.

There are numerous examples of this. One very clear episode has to do with the sheep and goat nations. Christ is seated on His throne surrounded by His brothers, the Israel of God. The nations are brought before Him. Those who assisted Christ's brothers while they bore witness on the earth are permitted to enter the Kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world.

It is not said of the sheep nations that they ever took "the four steps of salvation." Rather their salvation will be based on how they treated the Lord's brothers.

These are saved people but they are not members of Christ's Body, the Church. They are not part of the Olive Tree. They are not of Israel, of the elect, of the royal priesthood. Rather they are the inheritance of Christ and His saints.

In the sixty-first chapter of Isaiah we notice that the saved peoples of the earth refer to the saints as "the ministers of our God."

Rahab (before she married into Israel) is a type of the saved nations. She was not of Israel, knowing nothing of the Law of Moses. She was not following Joshua into the invasion of Canaan, into the rest of God.

But Rahab tied a scarlet cord in the window of her home. The scarlet cord represents the covering of the blood of Jesus Christ. She and her household were saved because they were under the blood, so to speak.

It is not true that the royal priesthood of God are the only people who will escape Hell and the Lake of Fire! This would be ridiculous. Over whom then would we serve as kings and priests of God? Over each other?

There is a Kingdom principle that states: whoever assists God's witnesses will be rewarded by the Lord. God's witnesses, His Church, His prophets, His elect, are Israel, from the time of the called-out Abraham. They often are scorned and persecuted. But whoever receives them and blesses them will be wonderfully blessed by the Lord.

If we would understand the Kingdom of God we must realize the Church comprises a governing priesthood that will serve God for eternity. Taken together the members of the priesthood form the new Jerusalem, the holy city.

The saved nations of the earth will be governed by the holy city and will walk in the light of it. The nations will bring their wealth to it. This is taught in both the Old Testament and the New.

To be continued.