We have seen from the October 6th article how the under-tunic closest to Christ’s body before his crucifixion was seamless and how the soldiers had more sense than to try to tear it. (Matthew 27) We have also seen how this tunic represents a people near the time of Christ’s return who will be so close to his heart than they can’t be divided or torn apart. Many adversaries will have more sense than to even try to pry apart that unity, rather they will be puzzled or choose instead to marvel at it. They might even mistake it for some power or quality that could be purchased, or seek to discover if it has a price as did the magician in the Book of Acts. It is partly that incorruptible unity that will make His bride so attractive to Him that Christ will not be able to resist coming back for her.
But also a part of that seamless unity will be an integrity that precludes any contradiction or disparity between what this company of people says in public and who they are and what they do in private. We have seen glimpses of this already. Their functional theology will align nearly perfectly with its formal stated theology, as perfectly as their humanity will allow, for of course they will still be human. This seamless people will be so thoroughly healed, so whole, so delivered, so renewed and restored that they will hardly be recognizable to many who know them or thought they knew them, though Jesus will recognize and welcome them immediately as intimately His own.
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