In order to make His Church one perfect Bride the Lord will send His Word, His Glory, His Spirit, and fiery tribulation. These working together will purify the members of the Bride and form them into one perfect Bride and Body of Christ.

The Spirit of God will be poured out without measure in the days to come. The Word of God will be revealed. There will be the greatest signs and wonders ever to follow the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom.

There will be more sin practiced by people than has ever been true. An age of moral horrors is on the horizon. Every form of perversion, bestiality, pornography, every conceivable expression of lust and rage will be openly practiced as people give themselves over to demons and fallen angels. Murder and torture will be common. Satan will be worshiped. The Judaic-Christian faith will be scorned as being the worst of all evils ever to affect mankind. The love of the majority of believers will grow cold because of the availability of sin.

The worship of man will trigger a tribulation unequaled in intensity or scope. People will mock and curse God because of their pain. However, the same tribulation working together with the outpouring of the Glory of God will bring together the elect Jews and Gentiles and create them a perfect, unblemished Bride for the Lamb.

Verse five.

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (Isaiah 40:5)

When the world began, God walked in the garden in Eden on the earth. Because the first people sinned God withdrew into the spirit realm, into Heaven. Since that day God has been invisible and His Glory not readily available.

The Good News of the Kingdom is that God will return to the earth when the way has been prepared. All the people of the world will behold His Glory. This is the Lord's promise to us.

But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. (Numbers 14:21)

So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. (Isaiah 59:19)

For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. (Isaiah 60:2)

It is the task of the witnesses to prepare the way for the coming of the Glory of God to the earth. This they will do, not by their own strength or resources but by the Spirit of the Lord. In the case of John the Baptist the witness was confined to a small area of the Middle East. The witness that will prepare the way of the Lord will speak to the whole world of the coming of the Glory of God—Glory that will shine to the ends of the earth. The Good News of the soon coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth will be proclaimed to every nation as a witness. After that the end will come, not the end of the world but the end of the opportunity for people to repent and be saved.

The time to work in the Lord's vineyard is now. The hour is coming when no person in the cities of the earth will be able to do the work of the Lord.

To be continued.