The use of punitive justice and arbitrary injustice characterizes the current earthly Telestial Order.

Within this order, governments, churches, corporations, unions, councils, associations, executives, legislators, judges, bigwigs, and strongmen rule and reign with fear, force, and terror among the people.

Within the Telestial Order, ruling bodies claim the virtues of justice, goodness, mercy, and love. Yet, they repeatedly manifest by their actions arbitrary, capricious, unjust, unfair, irrational, prejudiced, despotic, discriminatory, partial, and unwarranted acts of tyranny and aggression against the people.

Within the Telestial Order, where everyone continuously endures the conviction of conscience for their many sins, in a futile gesture to compensate, they draw lines in the sand to show their goodness, virtue, and honor. In their minds, they would excuse the evil they do by the many good things they think they do, by the principles they stand for, by the holy associations they have, and by the evils they decry. And yet, they still overwhelmingly choose darkness rather than light, as evidenced by their suffering conscience.

And so, being unwilling to proactively increase in faith, repent, and always do what they already know and understand to be truly best, they outsource the goodness, justice, and order they should each individually characterize within their lives to governing institutions.

Unwilling to do good and be good independently, they will choose to submit to institutional rulers who rule and reign with fear, force, and terror, because that is the only way such a wicked population will systematically perform with any kind of predictability or semblance of order.

In short, those of the Telestial Order are unwilling to walk the path of justice, always doing good, or exert proactive faith in righteousness and holiness before God. Instead, they choose to wallow in sin and mediocrity, be ruled by institutions, generally seeking to do the least and get the most, rejecting repentance, rejecting faith in Christ, and rejecting the higher principles of holiness and righteousness that would elevate them into a higher order.

All this being understood, it should be easy to deduce what is required to ascend to a higher order, such as the Terrestrial or Celestial Orders. One must choose to be ruled by God. One must choose to be ruled by goodness, justice, love, light, and truth. One must choose to become a creature of mighty faith, superior intelligence, and advanced capability by always choosing to do good, by always doing what you sincerely believe is best, which is that which brings the best value, the best benefit, and the best outcome.

Ascending to a higher order requires an aptitude and mindset capable of attaining and maintaining perfect justice. You must become a student of justice. You must understand justice, live justice, and exemplify justice in every aspect of your life.

Those who understand justice understand that justice incorporates mercy. Justice does not contend with mercy or conflict with mercy. Rather, mercy appropriately functions as a fulfillment of justice.

Those who manifest mercy, in wisdom and order, can justly obtain mercy for themselves. And by manifesting mercy, as an act of grace, others can be elevated and advanced, and all are justified and rejoice together.

In conclusion, let me reiterate that a fundamental requirement for advancement to a station above the Telestial Order is that one break free of the institutional fetters that restrict the works of goodness and righteousness and instead be ruled by the Light of Christ.  One must exercise continuous, proactive faith.

Those of the Telestial Order surrender their faith in Christ in favor of faith in institutions and institutional leaders. Those of the Terrestrial and Celestial Orders are increasingly valiant in the testimony of Jesus. They follow Jesus. They are men and women of mighty, proactive faith. That is the key difference.