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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Glorified in His Saints, #2
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:4 NIV)
When the Lord is revealed from Heaven He will be "glorified in his saints" (II Thessalonians 1:10).
First the saints experience judgment in the form of persecutions and tribulations. Then the Lord Jesus is glorified in them.
The Christian churches of today are a mixture of righteousness and sin. They are not ready for the Lord Jesus to be glorified in them. The churches are not ready for the parousia the appearing of the Lord from Heaven with His mighty angels.
Therefore persecution and tribulation are about to come upon the Christian churches. From now until the Lord appears His churches will experience every possible form of chastening and testing. The purpose of the suffering that is coming is to purify and unify the one Church, the Wife of the Lamb, the Body of Christ, the new Jerusalem.
The persecution and tribulation will continue until the Church has been made ready for the Lord's appearing. Then the Lord will be revealed from Heaven and be glorified in His purified and unified Body. The saints will enter rest at the coming of the Lord because the power of the Lord will have made them more powerful than those who had been persecuting and afflicting them.
The Hebrew Prophets spoke of the purifying and unifying of the saints, of the creation of a holy remnant of people who will be ready for the coming of the Lord:
In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. (Isaiah 4:2-4)
Again:
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. (Zechariah 13:9)
Two problems are at hand for the Christian churches. The first problem is the great tribulation, including the fiery trials that will fall on the believers. The second problem is even worse: it is the hour of temptation produced by the seductive ability and spiritual power of Antichrist, a wisdom and power able to deceive all but the most diligent of the saints. The emphasis now being placed on money and lust is the herald of the enticing world of Antichrist, a world based on buying, selling, and pleasure rather than on the worship of God through Christ.
Of the two problems of the last days, the great tribulation and the hour of temptation, the most dangerous by far is the hour of temptation.
To be continued.