At what point and in what manner will the physical creation

The deliverance will come when the sons of God are revealed.

The sons of God, as Christ lives in them and works through them, will release the physical creation from its slavery to corruption and will bring it into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

The Church, the Body of Christ, is being created as an enlargement of the Head—Christ. When the Lord Jesus returns to the earth it will be for the purpose of manifesting His glory through His saints.

The Head cannot return until the Body is ready. Therefore each of us should give full attention to the work of the Holy Spirit in forming Christ in us. If Christ intended to return to the earth apart from the perfecting of the Body, He would have come long ago and would have spared earth’s peoples the unimaginable anguish that fills each day of history.

The fact is, the coming visible demonstration to the peoples of the earth of the triumphant victory over death accomplished by the Lord Jesus is related to the forming of that same resurrection in His saints now. Our inner resurrection and His open manifestation to the world are all part of the one resurrection of Christ. We shall appear with Him in glory.

He in us will pass from person to person on the earth, releasing each of the saved into God’s glorious liberty. This will not be a mass, impersonal action. It will be fashioned in the most tender, loving care for the persons involved, just as our own resurrection always will be a personal relationship between ourselves and the wonderful Person and power of the Lord Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:21).