New Jerusalem is a Living Composition of God and His People
Revelation 21:2 speaks of the New Jerusalem. “I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” We have strongly emphasized the fact that the New Jerusalem is a living composition of all the saints redeemed by God throughout all generations. It is the bride of Christ as His counterpart and the holy city as God’s habitation.*
An angel said to John, “I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God” (Rev. 21:9-10). New Jerusalem is a living entity!
Many other verses also show us that New Jerusalem is a living entity, not a physical city:
• “the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple” (Rev. 21:22)
• overcoming believers are pillars in this temple (Rev. 3:12)
• the city has no natural or man-made light (Rev. 21:23; 22:5)
• “the Jerusalem above [which will come down out of heaven]…is our mother” (Gal. 4:26)
We have the life of New Jerusalem now and we are growing into its full reality.
* This post is the last from Life-Study of the New Testament, Conclusion Messages: The Church, the Kingdom, and the New Jerusalem, message 264, p. 2749, by Witness Lee. Published 1998 and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California.
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Posted by Don on April 23, 2025
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