Page 23 - Gods Plan of the Ages

John 3:30
"He must increase, but I must decrease."

The work of this present creation is to see Christ formed in every one of the sons of
God.

Galatians 4:19
My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you...

Romans 8:29
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of
His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren...

God is at work in us to form a perfect revelation of Himself, even as He has revealed
Himself perfectly in His firstborn Son.

Ephesians 4:13
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a
mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

Yahweh will not rest; His work will not be complete, until everything in creation
resembles the firstborn Son, who is the perfect expression of the Father. There can be
nothing left of sin in the world. All lust, envy, malice, pride, self-seeking, covetousness and
every other evil thing must be expunged from the creation. All that remains must be holy
and righteous and true. Christ will reign until He subdues the entire creation, bringing all
into conformity to the Father.
In the book of Ephesians the apostle Paul describes the gathering of all things into
Christ.

Ephesians 1:9-10
He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He
purposed in Him with a view to a stewardship suitable to the fullness of the times, that
is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth
in Him.

When the Romans performed addition, they added up individual amounts and wrote
the sum at the top of the list of numbers. This is the opposite of the manner in which we do
things today, for we write the sum at the bottom of a list of numbers. It was the Roman
practice of putting the total at the top that led to the expression "to sum up."
It is fitting to describe the work of Christ in subjecting all things to Himself as a
summing up. One day Christ will stand as the Sum of all creation. Everything will be
brought into subjection to Him. Everything will be beneath Him. There will be nothing left
in creation that is not fully contained in Him.
Since Yahshua is light, there will be no darkness left in the creation. Because Christ
is righteous and holy, there will exist no more sin. Christ is humble, therefore no pride can
remain to be summed up in Him. Everything that remains must be a pure representation
of some part of the whole. Only then can everything be brought back into the Father so that