“The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together” (Isaiah 40:5)

Saints look forward to the Day when Christ will come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, when He’ll sit on His throne, and “all the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats” (Matthew 25:32).

That Day, God will change us, “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).

That Day, we’ll no longer have the lust of our flesh, the lust of our eyes, and the pride of our old life to draw us away from God, and our Old Man will be no more.

But until that Day, we “groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body”, and “stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Romans 8:23, Ephesians 6:10-12).

And until that Day, we need to be “confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the Day of Jesus Christ … And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ” (Philippians 1:6-10).