The Crucifixion of the Church    57 

    The Church will love the world by suffering in order to bring the whole 

world to repentance, conversion, and holiness. Christ Jesus suffered and was 

crucified to bring the Church and the world to God. So also will the Church 

suffer greatly in order to complete the transformation of the Church and the 

world into Christ's image of holiness and love. Therefore, after the time of 

great suffering described in the book of Revelation, there will be a time of 

great holiness, when Christ's teaching and Christ's Church will rule the 

whole world. 

    During that earlier suffering of the Church (during the Forty Years), the 

Church will also suffer much and, to some extent, begin to transform the 

world to greater holiness and love. A time of peace and holiness also 

follows, in the 2040's, but does not last and is not complete at that time. 

That They May Be One (John 17:20 26) 

      `The glory which thou hast given me I have given  to them, that they 

may be one even as we are one, I in them and thou in me, that they may 

become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me 

and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.'   (John 17:22 23). 

    Jesus is telling us that the Church will become one, that Christianity will 

become united and the divisions of the present time will end. Jesus prayed 

that all His disciples be one. His prayer cannot fail. Therefore, the time must 

arrive when all Christian Churches will be united in the Catholic Church, as 

one Church with one Faith and one Shepherd. All Christians shall worship 

God in one Church, with unity of beliefs and leadership. Jesus prayed for 

unity; there shall be unity. 

    This unity will occur in the early  A.D.  2020's. Then Christians will be 

united in one Church for a long time. Eventually, there will again be 

divisions within the Church.  Then I broke my second staff Union, 

annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.  (Zech 11:14). This 

disunity occurs prior to the time of the Church's Passion and Crucifixion, as 

is clear from the previous verses which refer to events prior to Jesus' 

Crucifixion (Zech 11:12 13). 

The Twelve Tribes of Israel (Luke 22:28 30) 

      `You are those who have continued with me in my trials; as my Father 

appointed a kingdom for me, so do I appoint for you that you many eat and 

drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve 

tribes of Israel.'   (Luke 22:28 30). 

    The twelve tribes of Israel are the twelve parts of the Church. The Church 

will have twelve parts just as Israel had twelve tribes, because the Church is