(tm) Day 26
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I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:23)
Why is it so important that the world understand God has sent Christ and that He has loved the elect as He loves Christ? It is because it is only through the elect that the world can gain release.
Christ and we who belong to Him are God’s servants, God’s witnesses, God’s covenant. We are the new testament, living epistles, the flesh being created the Word of God. Christ is the Word made flesh. We are the flesh being made the Word.
God’s saints are the only light of the world, the only salt of the earth. Only in the Christian Church can be found the Light capable of enabling every person born into the world to see the truth and Person of God.
During the thousand-year Kingdom Age the nations of saved peoples of the earth will come of their own will to seek God in the saints. During the new heaven and earth reign of Christ the light of the Glory of God in the Church will guide the nations of the saved (Revelation 21:24).
The holy city, the new Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb, is the complete and perfect expression of the Glory of God given to the elect.
When the world comes to understand God has sent Christ and that He loves the elect as He loves Christ, many nations of the earth will accept the light, life, and love of God that the saints will bring to them.
Today the nations of the earth are imprisoned in a dungeon, bound in the chains of spiritual darkness, awaiting the maturing and unifying of the Church of Christ. There will be no true, lasting solution to the world’s problems until Christ appears in the Glory of the Father in and with His saints.