in this rejoice, except at the present what must happen briefly, grieved in various trials so that the proving of your faith (more valuable than gold that perishes) proven through fire, now found unto praise and glory and honor in revelation; Jesus Christ.*
A trial is a putting to the proof, trial, affliction. The root of this word trial means to the other side which speaks to the purpose of the trial, a testing, a proving, that gets you to the other side. Godly discipline is that we share in His holy character.* We count it all joy in the trial as the proving of our faith produces endurance and the work of endurance is maturity. Thus the other side is glory and honor and praise in revelation of Jesus Christ, that we share in His holy character, that we become mature in Christ, Christ like. We share in glory.
Revelation means an unveiling, uncovering, revealing, manifestation, disclosure. What is being revealed, uncover, manifested? Disclosure means the act of making new or secret information.* There is much to this, being a new creation, but also the secret information being revealed or manifestation of the mystery in Christ, Paul writes about. If godly discipline is that we share in His holy character and maturity is that we grow up in knowledge of the Son then the manifestation is that the glory is being manifested in us. In other words the glory is that we become like Jesus, holy. "But just as the one calling you is holy, also become you, becoming holy in all your mode of life"*
Yes, in heaven the fullness of glory will be revealed but at the present we are being transformed into glory. The glory of Christ revealed in us, "Now we all unveiling faces mirroring the glory of the Lord, transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit."* Oh, the glory is that we mirror His image. This is the service, sufficiency of grace, so glory is manifested in us. What is the end goal of the trials, affliction, and suffering? Glory. The trial by fire is a proving, right of adulthood, a passage into maturity, so to be like Jesus. This is our calling, it is our purpose, it is our destiny, to be like him in holy character. Accomplished in Christ, under grace through the power of God. A salvation, a preserving of our souls, the goal of faith, and a salvation ready to be revealed in the end time. I am a new creation in Christ, I have entered the kingdom of God. But I have been left in a body of death and suffering so that Christ is manifested in me, that I grow up in knowledge of the Son, I know Him, reflecting His image, his character outward. This is what it means to know Him, the fellowship of His suffering, conformed to his feath, also to his life. This is the salvation of our soul. And what is left to be revealed? The salvation, redemption of our body, a glorified body like that of Christ's body. Oh what a day that will be, so until then I run the race that has been prescribed, long suffering, enduring the proving through fire, now found unto praise and glory and honor in revelation; Jesus Christ, a glory being revealed in us.
now found unto praise and glory and honor in manifestation; Jesus Christ.*
about which preservation the prophets prophesied of, the grace unto you, seeking out also searching out, trying to investigate any, either sort, the time the Spirit of Christ in them manifesting, witnessing beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that follow.*
Peter writes, the goal of faith is preservation of our soul. The gospel is by grace through faith are you saved. Paul writes the Church is founded on the prophets and the apostles, and through the Church the mystery hidden in God in the beginning is being revealed, manifested in Christ, the manifold wisdom of God. The prophets foresaw this mystery, like Abraham whom the gospel was preached to beforehand and believed, they foresaw a revealing of the righteousness of God by faith, according to grace. They forsaw the sufferings of Christ and the glory that followed. What follows suffering? Glory. What new is being disclosed? The sons of Abraham are by faith, inwardly a new creation, circumcised of the heart through the Spirit. What secret is being disclosed? The mystery, revealed, manifested in Christ. Part of this mystery is that we become holy or mature or grow up in knowledge of the Son.
for considering that the suffering of this present situation is not comparable with the glory intended to be revealed to the extent; of us.*