The Triune Existence of New Jerusalem
In Revelation 22:1 John says that an angel “showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street.”
The river of water of life proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb signifies the Triune God as the triune existence of New Jerusalem…God the Father is our wonderful Creator, God the Son is our precious Redeemer, and God the Spirit is our vivifying Regenerator.…The vivifying Spirit imparted the divine life into our human spirit to make our human spirit life (Rom. 8:10). To be regenerated is to have the divine life in addition to our created, human life. Praise and thank our God, the God to whom we owe our entire existence, the God who in His Divine Trinity is our Creator, Redeemer, and Regenerator!*
Genesis 1 records God’s creation of man “in His image, after His likeness” so that man could corporately become God’s expression. To fulfill this intention man needed God’s life, symbolized by the tree of life in Genesis 2. Man failed to take in that life and instead received sin which cause death.
God came in Jesus Christ to accomplish His purpose by living a God-man life, dying on the cross to redeem man from sin, and regenerating men in resurrection (1 Peter 1:3). These regenerated people are now being built together in the divine life (Eph. 4:16) to be the Body of Christ now becoming New Jerusalem in eternity.
* From pages 34-35 of Ed Marks, The New Jerusalem—A Corporate Person, Affirmation & Critique Monograph, A&C Press, © Living Stream Ministry (2025).
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Posted by Don on July 6, 2026
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