Our fruit will be borne as we minister as priests to the nations of the saved of the earth. The nations are our inheritance because we are coheirs with Christ (Psalms 2:8).

We are the firstfruits to God and the Lamb from the race of mankind. We have within us the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit—the same Spirit of life that one day will bring the whole creation into the glorious liberty of the children of God. The eternal Life of God will flow from us to the world as soon as we have been made the Throne of God.

The third judgment, the judgment on our self-will, is of critical importance. As we press into the spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles we find the Kingdom of God is entering us.

In order to receive this new dimension of grace we must be willing to trust God in all matters. Our will, which is linked to our personal desires and mental understanding, must be crucified. We must make the transition from the rule of self to the rule of Christ.

The transition from self-rule to Christ-rule is more than an acceptance of theological facts. It involves a bearing up under severe prunings, an imposing of God's will on us that leaves no room for our self-will and self-love.

The Lord God of Heaven enters every area of our personality, testing, probing, evaluating, rebuking, chastening, comforting. There is no other path to the first resurrection.

Finally we come up on the other side, as it were. We begin to embrace God's will. We find ourselves coveting the imposing of God's Presence on us in every detail of our personality and behavior. We crave the iron and fire of the Kingdom upon us and our loved ones so our life on earth is lived in Kingdom power and wisdom.

When we enter the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:34), thus becoming the Throne of God and of the Lamb, we begin to change from one kind of creature to another. We no longer are entirely "Adam." We are being made a life-giving spirit; not only a "living" spirit, but a "life-giving" spirit.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a living [life-giving] spirit. (I Corinthians 15:45)

We are being created a life-giving priest of God and Christ because God desires that His Life extend to the nations of the earth. The role of the members of the Church, which is Christ's Body, is to serve as mediators between God and mankind.

Every believer who desires to participate in the first resurrection must pass through the first three platforms of salvation before the seventh trumpet sounds—the trumpet that announces the coming of Christ and the first resurrection from the dead.

To be continued.