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 be "changed" tc the same plane of spirit being, and will not "sleep" for a moment, though the "change" will ne oessitate the dissolution of the earthen vessel. No longer weak, earthly, mortal, corruptible beings, these will then be fully born of the Spirit heavenly, spiritual, incorruptible, immortal beings. i Cor. 15 : 44, 52.

We know not how long it will be after their "change," or perfecting as spirit beings (plane Z), before they, as a foil and complete company, will be glorified (plane X) with the Lord, united with him in power and great glory. This unifying and full glorification of the entire body of Christ with the Head we understand to be the "marriage of the Lamb" to his Bride, when she shall fully enter into the joys of her Lord,

Look again at the chart n, m, /, q are four distinct Jasses which unitedly represent the nominal Gospel Church as a whole, claiming to be the body of Christ. Both the n and m classes are on the spirit-begotten plane, M. These two classes have existed together throughout the Gospel age; both covenanted with God to become living sacrifices ; both were " accepted in the beloved ' ' and begot- ten by the Spirit as "new creatures" The difference be- tween them is this: n represents those who' are fulfilling their covenant and are dead with Christ to earthly will, aims and ambitions, while m represents the larger company of the spirit-begotten children who have covenanted, but who, alas 1 shrink back from the performance of their covenant. The n class consists of the overcomers who will be the Bride of Christ, who will sit with the Lord in his throne in glory plane K. This is the "little flock" to whom it is the Father's good pleasure to give the Kingdom. (Luke 12 : 32.) Those of the m class shrink from the death of the human will, but God still loves them, and therefore will bring them by the way of adversity and trouble to plane Z y the perfect

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