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We see the apostle gave a graphic example of the resurrection of the Church: those that were in the grave, the dead in Christ will come out and be converted to be as Christ, and those prepared that are living on the earth will be converted in the twinkling of an eye and we will then be as the fullness of Christ, and we will then ascend with Him to His Father’s throne to be presented to receive that great gift from His Father which will be the Kingdom of God, a thousand years of peace on this earth, where there will be no death, and there will be no sickness or sorrow, or want; there will only be continuous peace for a thousand years.

It is a wonderful promise that we have and it is only available unto us if we allow Christ to become the Head of the Church. We know He is the way, the truth and the life, and we have to go through Him to receive this blessing.  God remains on His throne in heaven. God could not come down to the earth to fulfil this labour, for God is so glorious that no one on the earth would have been able to survive His visitation. Jesus has to remain in His Father’s throne because He is the bridegroom. With a Jewish wedding, once the wedding is announced the bridegroom has to return to his father’s house and prepare the bridal chambers, and the bride then had to make herself ready, and that was done when she returned to her house which is the church, to receive that preparation for that wonderful day.

Jesus cannot come down to earth again because He has to wait until He is sent by His Father, so God in His love through Christ has sent the Holy Ghost into the world to be the labouring deity, that Spirit of God that cannot be seen for it is like the wind but it can be felt, that Spirit that will lead and guide all of those who wish to attain this wonderful gift. This required a special time where it could be sent as a power to His apostles so that they could begin the work, for the work has to be done by earthen vessels inspired by the Holy Spirit.

This we know happened on the day of Pentecost.  This was foretold that this would happen in this way through the Prophet Hosea who prophesied in Hosea Chapter 1:8-11 “Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. Then said God, Call his name Loammii: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.”

Hosea when he brought that prophecy stood in a street in Jerusalem, a street called strait, and he delivered that message to the people that God was so disappointed in them that He would say unto them that they are no longer His people. That happened we know when our Lord was on the cross, when the Jewish nation said that they would take upon themselves the blood of Christ for their generation and for all generations thereafter. Our Lord was saddened for He knew now that they were not the people of God. The promise was that there would be a greater promise to them and that same Street, and that was on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell from heaven as flaming tongues of fire and sat on the apostles head, and they were able to proclaim to the people that they were now to receive a better title than being the people of God. They were able to take hold of the title to be sons and daughters of God through the workings of the Holy Spirit. Now there was this greater blessing.

It is recorded all of those that were assembled were Jews at that time from all the tribes, and there had been a great dispute on who should become the next king, but they put those disputes aside and they elected one to be head over them and that was our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and He became Head of the Church.

He ascended to heaven. He was anointed to be the Highpriest forever, was anointed to be the future King, and He was to become our Prophet forever. His words will stand forever and if we give ourselves to those words then we will receive the great reward that He has promised through His grace.