The Body lifeJacob’s dream was a dream of God’s goal, the dream of Bethel, the dream of the house of God, which is the church today and which will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the eternal dwelling place of God and His redeemed elect : God had a dream, and that dream was to have the […]
The burnt offering typifies Christ not mainly in His redeeming man from sin but in His living a life that is perfect and absolutely for God and for God’s satisfaction and in His being the life that enables God’s people to have such a living : The burnt offering is God’s food so that God […]
1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him; Because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father […]
We need to see a vision of the self so that the self may be exposed and denied and that we may hate our independence from God and from the Body. The self is the soul-life with the emphasis on human thoughts and opinions. In Matthew 16:23-25 three terms are related to one another: mind, […]
The church is the heart’s desire of God; the desire of God in this age is to have the church: The church is the hidden mystery in God’s eternal economy. According to Ephesians 3:9, there is a relationship between creation and the church; God’s intention in His creation of all things, including man, was that […]
“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 […]
