As ambassadors, we are representatives of our homeland – heaven, and are assigned to a foreign land – earth , the devil’s world.
Some of us who have been assigned overseas have an idea of what it is like to be in a foreign land as a US citizen, carrying out a mission for the USA in a land that may or may not be friendly.
So as citizens of Heaven, we are called to carry out God‘s mission here on earth; even though we may face hostility, we are to remain focused on our mission and bring glory to our spiritual authority.
If the nation in which we have ambassadors becomes too hostile and or on the brink of war, the nation will recall it’s ambassadors. So shall it be in the case of the resurrection of the church . God closes his embassy, the church, and calls His ambassadors home. Before the time of the devil’s desperation and intensified stage of the angelic conflict plays out on earth.
If God‘s plan for the individual believer is complete before the resurrection, the believer will receive his PCS orders, permanent change of station in the form of physical death and so shall ever be with the Lord.
So in conclusion, we are in this world, but not of this world. Even though chaos and evil reign on this planet, we can rest in absolute confidence that in our permanent home, will know no evil, sin, pain, or sorrow.
By Mitch Jenkins, Spiritual Ministry Team Member