The revelation of Christ comes through the ministry on the earth but it always affects the entire Body. The Body will be perfect. The Wife of the Lamb will be perfect. What God begins He finishes. Christ not only is the Alpha, He also is the Omega. The work was finished in God's vision from the creation of the world, and through Christ it will be brought to completion in living reality.

Our part is not to build the Church or to save the world. Our task is to cease from our own works and to enter that perfect plan of God that always is unfolding. The Divine plan is causing all things to work together for good to those who love God, who are called according to His purpose. The Word of God, the most powerful of all forces, always is bringing forth and always will continue to bring forth what God has spoken from the beginning. Let us learn to rest in, to work in, and to flow with the perfect flow of God's wisdom and power.

Those who are part of Christ cannot be shaken or moved. They are eternal. But each saint must walk carefully and prayerfully. We are partakers of Christ only as we hold fast our confidence to the end. It always is possible to lose our inheritance through carelessness. We have a formidable enemy.

At the conclusion of the thousand-year Kingdom Age, the spirits of the last two states, death and Hell, will be thrown into the Lake of Fire; for they are enemies of God. The state of the sea will cease to be. All who are permitted to enter the new heaven and earth reign of Christ will be part of Him, although the extent to which each individual possesses Christ will vary from person to person.

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21:2)

All the glory and wonder we associate with "Heaven" is coming to the earth. The Kingdom of God is coming. What has been invisible to earth's peoples will become visible.

The Kingdom of God is the joining of the Divine and the human, the spiritual and the material. It is God in Christ in the saints governing and blessing all of God's creatures.

Apart from the light and Glory of God the earth is the valley of the shadow of death. While we are on the earth in our mortal bodies we are in prison. We are in an "honor camp," so to speak. If we misbehave we may be thrown into a literal prison on earth, confining us even more closely.

Let us understand that life on the earth in its present form is not life at all. The world of flesh and blood is a dungeon when compared with the freedom that all of the children of God will enjoy one day.

Mankind is living under the Divine curse. Those who receive the Virtue and Glory of Christ will be totally released from the curse in the Day of the Lord. They then will experience true life and liberty. The will of God shall be done in the earth in them as it is in Heaven.

To be continued.