New Jerusalem is the Universal Golden Lampstand, the Ultimate Consummation of the Lampstands

The New Jerusalem, the aggregate of all the lampstands, the totality of today’s lampstands, is a consummate, universal golden lampstand to shine forth God’s glory in the new heaven and new earth for eternity (Rev. 21:24). Witness Lee

The New Jerusalem, the holy city, is the universal golden lampstand, the ultimate consummation of the lampstands in the Scriptures. The entire city is like a mountain of gold, and on top of it there's the throne of God and the Lamb, where God shines … [Continue reading]

The New Jerusalem is the Real and Consummate Shulammite, a Corporate Shulammite

Rev. 21:2 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

From the angle of the divine romance, the New Jerusalem is the real and consummate Shulammite - a corporate Shulammite, including all of God's chosen and redeemed people; the New Jerusalem is the consummation of the divine-human romance in the … [Continue reading]

New Jerusalem is a Corporate God-man, the Consummation of the High Peak of Revelation

The New Jerusalem is the expansion and expression of the processed and consummated Triune God with His chosen, redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, renewed, transformed, built-up, conformed, and glorified people. Witness Lee

The consummation of the central vision of God's economy and of the high peak of the divine revelation is the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2, 9-11); the new Jerusalem is a corporate God-man and the consummation of the high peak of the divine … [Continue reading]

High Peak of the Divine Revelation: God became Man to make Man God to build His Body

The governing vision of the Bible is the Triune God working Himself into His chosen and redeemed people in order to saturate their entire being with the Divine Trinity for the producing and building up of the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem (Eph. 4:4-6; Rev. 21:2, 9-10). Raising Up the Next Generation for the Church Life, p. 255, by W. Lee

We are so grateful that the Lord has shown us the high peak of the divine revelation, which is that God became man so that man may become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead to produce and build up the organic Body of Christ for the … [Continue reading]

Seeing a Vision of the Central Matter in the Lord’s Recovery: Christ and the Church

Rev. 3:12 He who overcomes, him I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall by no means go out anymore, and I will write upon him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from My God, and My new name.

After seeing some of the main things that the Lord spoke to the seven local churches in Rev. 2-3, this week we have a conclusion on all this, focusing on the New Jerusalem, which is the consummation of the central vision of God's economy and of the … [Continue reading]

May we Hear the Lord’s Voice, Open the Door, Let Him in, Dine with Him, and Overcome!

The lukewarm church is filled with cooling knowledge but lacks the burning Spirit. She desperately needs the speaking of the living Spirit....If she forgets all her dead knowledge and listens to the speaking of the living Spirit, she will be delivered from her degraded condition. W. Lee, Life-study of Revelation, p. 210

In His concluding word to the church in Laodicea the Lord tells them that He's outside the door, knocking, and if anyone hears the Lord's voice and opens the door, He will come in to Him and will dine with Him, and he who overcomes will reign with … [Continue reading]

Living out Christ (white garments) and Gaining the Anointing Spirit (eyesalve)

Rev. 3:18 I counsel you to buy from Me...white garments that you may be clothed..., and eyesalve to anoint your eyes that you may see.

Christ is the One speaking to the church in Laodicea, and the solution to all their problems is Christ Himself as the gold - the precious divine nature, the white garments - living out Christ, and the eyesalve - Christ as the anointing Spirit who … [Continue reading]