5神打发蝗虫的最后阶段是罗马帝国。当罗马帝国在惩治悖逆的以色列时,神安静且奥秘的作了一些事。神使用罗马帝国维持地中海周围地区(当时人类居住中心)的和平秩序。罗马帝国建筑了公路,在海上建立了航道,各民族都说共通的语言-希腊语。就在那个时候,神来成为肉体,在伯利恒小城从童女而生,长于拿撒勒。这位永远之爱的神,在人性里来作人,活在地上三十三年半。然后,祂上了十字架,当作罪犯受罗马的死刑而死。虽然世人不知道,但基督的死却是包罗万有、代替的死。过三天祂复活了。在同一天,就在祂复活的早晨,祂升到父那里,又再降到地上,与祂的门徒相会。四十天后,祂在门徒面前升到诸天之上。再过了十天,在五旬节那日,祂又下来,将自己浇灌在三千个信祂的人身上,使这三千人每一个在生命和性情上都完全和祂一样。那灵这次浇灌的结果,乃是产生一个团体的基督,那就是基督的显现。
5The final stage of God’ss ending of the locusts is the Roman Empire. While the Roman Empire was chastising rebellious Israel, God did something silently and mysteriously. God used the Roman Empire to keep the region around the Mediterranean Sea—the center of human habitation—in a peaceful order. Highways were built, shipping routes were established on the sea, and a common language, Greek, was spoken by all the peoples. It was at that time that God came to be incarnated by being born of a virgin in a small city, Bethlehem, and eventually lived in Nazareth. For thirty-three and a half years the God of everlasting love lived on the earth in His humanity as a man. After this He went to the cross and died the death of a criminal under the Roman form of capital punishment. Although the worldlings did not realize it, Christ died a vicarious, all-inclusive death. After three days He resurrected. On the same day, in the morning of His resurrection, He ascended to the Father and descended again to the earth to meet with His disciples. Forty days later, in the presence of His disciples, He ascended to the heavens. After ten more days, on the day of Pentecost, He came down again by being poured out as the Spirit upon three thousand of His believers, making each of the three thousand the same as He is in life and nature. The issue of that outpouring of the Spirit was a corporate Christ, which is the manifestation of Christ