lse than what we
have in the first epistle of John, "We shall be like Him for we shall
see Him as He is." Read also Romans viii:29, 30, "For whom He did
foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His
Son (in resurrection on the day of His coming for His Saints) that He
might be the Firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did
predestinate, them He also called, and whom He called, them He also
justified and whom He justified, them He also glorified."
Justification and glorification are inseparably connected. They cannot
be severed. Both are from the side of God, the result of the finished
work of our Lord Jesus Christ. God has justified and God has
glorified. The glorification begins when our Lord leaves the Father's
throne and comes into the air to meet those whom the Father has given
to Him. Not one will be left behind. And who are they whom the Father
has given to the Son? Everyone who believed and came to the Son.

It is in that rich unfathomable epistle to the Ephesians, where we read
God's gracious purpose towards everyone who believes in Christ,
accepted in Him, blest with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies
in Christ. We would have to go through all the precious words in the
opening chapters, where we learn more fully than elsewhere that _it is
all the gift of God_, not of works, lest any man should boast. "Even
when we were dead in sins hath quickened us together with Christ (by
grace ye are saved). And hath raised us up together and made us sit
together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus; that in the ages to come He
might show the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us
through Christ Jesus." Now we are there by grace. God see us there in
Christ and bye and bye we shall be there actually. It is clear from a
number of passages that when the Lord comes for His Saints _all_
believers without any distinction, whether they are full grown in
knowledge, fathers, young men or babes in Christ, will be taken
_because_ they are Christ's and God's grace has put them there. This
is not only clearly seen in 1 Thess. iv:13-18, but also elsewhere.
"For our commonwealth is in heaven, from whence also we look for the
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; Who shall change our body of
humiliation, that it might be fashioned like unto His glorious body,
according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things
unto Himself" (Phil. iii:20, 21). But every man in h