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We wonder and speculate about this last great move of God that is to take place and is already taking place in some areas. Two books I have read recently say similar things about this final revival before the Lord returns for His church. We are going to see Jesus in this move, and we are going to see Him face to face. This is not the Jesus we see in the Christmas manger scene. For many years now I have published every Christmas the article "Who do you say I am?" referring to Jesus' question to His disciples in His earthly ministry and His question to us today. But we are going to see Jesus even before His return in a dimension far beyond even what we are able to comprehend intellectually from His Word. He is going to reveal Himself to us as the glorified Christ. Mike Bickel, author of Passion for Jesus, says the true knowledge of God has been largely lost to the church. "We must come to know God as He is; the excellencies of His person; His extravagant passions; and His ravished heart. The church knows Jesus as her Savior. But the Son of God is getting ready to reveal Himself as her beloved, clothed in majesty and splendor. His love will ignite the passion of His people. A terminally bored church is about to be swept off her feet." This revelation, Bickel says, will change us into the Bride prepared and ready for the Bridegroom. Francis Frangipane in his book The Days of His Presence says we are going to have and experience more and more of the presence, the knowledge of God, and the glory of God as the day of Christ's return approaches. Those who are desiring Him are going to have Him. He is going to reveal Himself in His fullness. He is going to rise upon us as a glorious light, a dawning of glory. The veil is going to be removed from our eyes and we are going to see Him as He is. Face to face we are going to behold Him,and we are going to be changed to be like Him. Frangipane says, "When will the glory rise? Just as the morning star shines while it is still night so the glory of God shall rise within us when 'darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples.' (Isaiah 60:2) "Even as you read these words, the glory of the age to come 'which is Christ in you the hope of glory' (Col. 1:27) already resides in your spirit. Ours is an inheritance of glory, given to us by Jesus the night before he died. He said, 'And the glory which thou hast given me I have given to them; that they may be one just as we are one; I in them and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity.' (John 17:22-23)" Do you see how denominational barriers will begin to fall away? We are going to be in unity at last because nothing else is going to matter to any of us except Him and the passion He is stirring in our hearts and the fire of His love that is burning out all the dross from our lives. Begin to ask the Lord for a transforming revelation of the glorified Christ. Ask for that revelation that the Apostle Paul called the "overwhelming preciousness" of knowing Him. It's what we need. It's what we must have. And it's what we will have if we truly desire it.
Copyright © 2000 by Sandra S. Turner
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