“Let no one therefore judge you in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of the Sabbath, which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ. Let no one defraud you by judging you unworthy of your prize” (Col. 2:16-18a): […]
In the Bible vision denotes an extraordinary scene; it refers to a special kind of seeing -a glorious, inward seeing- and to the spiritual scenery we see from God. God’s visions are His revelations, which enable us to see divine, spiritual, heavenly things. In order to have a vision, we need revelation (unveiling), light, and […]
“And he … showed me the holy city, Jerusalem … having the glory of God” (Rev. 21:10-11): Glory is the expression of God, God expressed in splendor. An outstanding feature of the New Jerusalem is that it has the glory of God, His expression : The entire city of New Jerusalem will bear the glory […]
The three kinds of precious materials for the building of the holy city signify that the Triune God is the triune constitution of the New Jerusalem : Gold signifies God the Father in His holy nature as the base of God’s organic building : We need to partake of and be constituted with the holy […]
In the New Jerusalem Christ, the Lamb, is the lamp with God as the light in Him : Because the divine light shines through the Redeemer, this light has become lovable and touchable. Through the Lamb, the redeeming One, God’s light becomes an enjoyable shining for His dispensing. God as the light is in the […]
In this message we shall begin to consider God’s work as revealed in the New Testament. Our God is a working God. The Lord’s word in John 5:17 indicates this: “My Father is working until now.” In the New Testament we see God’s work in eternity past, in His old dispensation, in His new dispensation, […]
In the foregoing message we saw that God’s good pleasure, God’s heart’s desire, is to have many sons for the expression of His Son so that He may be expressed in the Son through the Spirit. For this purpose, God has manifested Himself, first in Christ as an individual expression in the flesh and then […]
The intrinsic significance of the name New Jerusalem applies to our living out and working out the New Jerusalem. The holy city is “new”: The New Jerusalem, the holy city, is created in Christ as the new creation with the divine element: So then if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The […]
Ephesians 1:5 says, “Having predestinated us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.” Ephesians 1:9 goes on to say, “Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself.” God has a will in which is His […]
Attributes refer to something more than virtues. When we speak of God’s attributes, we refer to all that belongs to God. Of course, when the things that belong to God become our experience, they become our virtues. Therefore, with God there are attributes, and with us there are virtues. For instance, life is an attribute […]