The New Jerusalem as the consummation of God’s work throughout the ages and the accomplishing of God’s purpose is a living composition of God and man: God has been fully processed and consummated, being wrought into man to be united, mingled, and incorporated with man for God’s corporate expression. There are many details concerning the […]
Being Produced as Pearls and Precious Stones by the Triune God for the New Jerusalem
The New Jerusalem is constituted and built up with gold (the base and the street), pearls (the gates) and all kinds of precious stones (the wall, the foundations, etc). All throughout the Bible we see that the Triune God is likened to this three kinds of precious materials: the Father in His divine nature is […]
Being Headed up in Christ by Life and Light in the Church for the New Jerusalem
The New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new heart is the consummation of God heading up all things in Christ, the complete fulfillment of Eph. 1:10. Throughout the ages God has been doing the work of recovery by heading up all things in Christ – first in the church and then, through the church, […]
The Shining God is our Unique Light; We have no Need for Natural or Man-Made Light
Because we have the Redeeming and Shining God as the unique light in the New Jerusalem, there is no need for natural or artificial light (see Rev. 22:5). This is true both for eternity and in the church life today. As genuine believers in Christ we have the Triune God as the unique light in […]
Living and Walking in the Light Today – a Foretaste of the Light in New Jerusalem
God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all, and in the New Jerusalem God Himself in Christ as the Lamb is the light of the holy city, illumining everyone in the city. Such a great city in a cubic form, greater than any other metropolis in the world, needs a great […]
God as Light Shines through the Redeeming Christ as the Lamp to Dispense God into us
The light of the New Jerusalem is God Himself in the Lamb as the lamp. There’s no need for sun or moon or any other natural or man-made luminaries in the New Jerusalem, because God Himself in Christ is the light of the city. If we were to come to God Himself, He dwells in […]
Experiencing the Universally Vast Dimensions of Christ and Caring for God’s Presence
The dimensions of the New Jerusalem apply to our living out and working out of the New Jerusalem, and today we can experience the Lord in such a way that we can become the New Jerusalem in the aspect of its dimensions. According to its measurements, the New Jerusalem is a cube – the width […]