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Actual Salvation 16
The pattern of human history may be divided into five aspects:
1. Man is given an inheritance.
2. Man loses the inheritance through lack of experience.
3. God gives the vision of the restoration of what has been lost.
4. The work of fulfilling the vision takes place.
5. Man receives an infinitely greater inheritance.
Let us consider the fifth of these five aspects: Man receives an infinitely greater inheritance.
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts. (Haggai 2:9)
"The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former."
Jesus has kept the good wine until now. Many of those who are last in time will be first in the Kingdom of God.
It is difficult to grasp how the Lord God of Heaven can bring us to an inheritance greater than that set forth in the opening chapters of Genesis and in the Book of Acts. Nevertheless what God has given in vision is much greater than these.
The original physical and spiritual inheritances will be restored but in an exceedingly glorified form.
The garden of Eden witnessed two imperfect people, dwelling in a perfect environment, who had been given a marvelous role to fulfill. The end of God's workings will be perfected people in a perfect environment having an exceedingly superior role to fulfill.
Eternal man in an eternal environment performing eternal service to God—this will be the outcome of the work of restoration.
As to eternal man:
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (Revelation 21:7)
As to an eternal environment:
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Revelation 21:1)
As to eternal service:
And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: (Revelation 22:3)
Once again Paradise and the tree of life will be on the earth. Once again God will walk in the garden in the cool of the day. But how much more marvelous, how exceedingly glorious, will be the new heaven and earth reign of Christ!
Adam and Eve were the children of God but to an incomplete extent. God is a consuming, creating, eternal Fire who fills all things. Adam and Eve merely were the dust of the ground.
When we receive Christ we receive the authority to be children of God but we still are the dust of the ground. Then we are born again and the Nature and Substance of God in Christ begin to be formed in us.
If we continue to nourish the Divine Seed, not allowing the things of the world to choke out the Seed, we will become the sons of God by Substance and Nature, having been begotten through the Lord Jesus Christ. Here we have restoration on a level infinitely higher than the original creation.
The same is true of the image of God. Adam and Eve were in the image of God to a superficial and faint extent. But we have been predestined to be changed into the express image of Christ in spirit, in soul, and finally in body. We shall be the very image of God in Divine Substance and Nature, whereas Adam and Eve were but the form of God shaped in clay.
Continued. Actual Salvation 17