To gain some idea of the Day of the Lord let us turn to the Book of Isaiah. The following verses or fragments of verses are taken from the second chapter.

The mountain of the LORD's temple will be established as chief among the mountains. When mountains or hills are mentioned in the Prophets the reference is to places of authority and power. The above sentence means God's Temple, which is Christ—Head and Body, will be established as the supreme authority on the earth. But before this is possible, as we have mentioned, the Father and the Son must be established as the supreme authority in us. Can you see the reason for this?

All nations will stream to it. When Christ and His saints return, the armies of Antichrist and the kings of the earth will be destroyed. But there will remain multitudes of peoples on the earth. They will come to the saints because of the Glory of God resting on the royal priesthood.

Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob." The sons of God will occupy the thrones in the air that govern the spiritual atmosphere of the earth. They will drive Satan from every area of the earth where he is entrenched. This is why people will choose to go up to Jerusalem to seek the Lord—the demons will not be present to confuse their thinking.

He will teach us his ways, so we may walk in his paths. People will want to learn about God and His righteous ways and our job will be to teach them. Unfortunately this does not mean some of them will not be stubborn and rebellious and have to be chastened severely.

The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. You can understand if we are to enforce the commandments of Christ and His Apostles on mankind we first will have to obey them ourselves. The massive error of Evangelical teaching is that Divine grace is an alternative to keeping God's commandments. It is true rather that Divine grace is the enabling wisdom and power to keep Christ's commandments. If we do not keep Christ's commandments we do not love Him. Numerous American Christians do not actually love Christ. They prove this by refusing to keep His commandments. The "four steps of salvation" is their fire insurance. The love of God is not in them or they would keep His commandments.

The commandments given in the Sermon on the Mount will be enforced on the saved nations of the earth with an iron scepter.

He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples.

The great need of today is for Christ to come and bring justice to people. The meek are being stepped on, crushed down into the mud. The wealthy and ambitious hoard the earth's resources to themselves as they indulge in every luxury. God sees everything that is taking place and has a plan for correcting the problem. The meek yet shall inherit the earth and there is nothing the wicked can do about it.

To be continued.