“By virtue of the foregoing conditions brought about by being born of the Spirit, men are to be drawn together by one common impulse, to unite in one organic structure, a structure which was revealed in the symbology of the temple of God, the cubical city. Herein is found the great truth referred to by the Apostle Paul when he said, “Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.”
When this Great Body is drawn together by the one Spirit, there can be no jealousies or schisms among the members, for each will love above all things to live in harmony with the mind and will of the Father, and to be the expression of that mind. As God is one but will have many manifestations through the varied organisms of men, each one will delight most in being what he or she really is, will delight in the use for which he or she was designed in creation. Therefore no one will desire the position occupied by another, and the whole Body will come into its functions of use “without the sound of a hammer”, without an effort on the part of any, except to know and to do the will of the Father. (1 Kings 6:7.)
Thus they will stand forth as a multitude of members constituting one “Grand Man”, one glorified individuality, as the Spirit proclaimed by the apostle speaking of the Christ: “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me), to do thy will, O God.”
After saying that God had no pleasure in sacrifice and offerings and burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin, which are offered under the law, the apostle adds, “Lo, I come to do thy will, O God”, “he taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.” This Glorified Man made up of 144,000 members or 288,000 individuals (male and female) will be the “Image of God”, and as God is the life and mind thereof (“The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silent before him”), therefore the “Likeness” will also be manifested.
As we have seen in a former chapter, Yahveh Elohim is the great center and God of the Solar System, and consequently, of all that belongs to our earth; and according to the revelation to John, when this Body is organized its members are made, “to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.” By virtue of being the embodiment and expression of Yahveh, they will inherit the earth. They will then be in truth and verity the sons of God, and they come into the image of their Father through coming into the unity of the Body that is composed of many members, a Body which becomes the Christ, the anointed Savior of the world, as well as the king and ruler of the planet earth.
The accomplishment of this will be the accomplishment of the work declared in the words: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing, that creepeth upon the earth.”
Hiram Butler