came the Firstbegotten from the dead, the Firstfruits of them that
slept, He who is now as Man in Glory, the same Person, the
Firstbegotten, will be brought back to this world by the power of
God. Then worshipping angels will be His attendants and He will
bring His Saints with Him.

"For whom He foreknew, He also did predestinate, to be conformed to
the image of His Son, that He might be the _Firstborn_ among many
brethren" (Romans viii:29). Conformed to the glorious image of God's
ever blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the destiny of all, who
have cast themselves as lost sinners upon Christ and have been saved
by Grace through faith. It is true even now by beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord we are changed into the same image from
glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor. iii:18).
It is true if we abide in Him, we shall walk even as He walked (1
John ii:6). The exhortation in our great salvation Epistle is, not
to be conformed to this age, but to be transformed, or as it might
be translated, transfigured (Rom. xii:2). _But_ to be fully
conformed to the image of His Son is never to be expected in this
world, where sin is ever present; When the Firstbegotten calls us
into His own presence, when the Heir of God summons His beloved
co-heirs to meet Him and to enter with Him into the blood-bought
inheritance, then each saved sinner will be conformed to the image
of Himself. Each will shine forth the excellencies of the
Firstbegotten. _We shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is._
Hallelujah! This is why God gave up His Son, that He might be able
to lift those who are His enemies by wicked works into the Sonplace
and make them like His Son in Glory.

"Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare
the degree; the Lord hath said unto Me, Thou art my _Son_; this day
have I begotten Thee" (Ps. ii:6-7). In this prophecy He is likewise
seen as the Firstbegotten. It does not mean the eternal Son of God,
for as such He had no beginning, but the day in which He was
begotten is the third day when He was raised from the dead. Paul
gives us this truth when He spoke to the Jews in Antioch and said:
"God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that He hath
raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second Psalm,
Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten Thee" (Acts xiii:33). Up
to this time He is not yet enthroned upon the holy hill of Zion.
When He returns as