The Vision and Experience of Christ in His Resurrection (1) The Universal Incorporation of the Consummated Triune God with the Regenerated Believers in the Resurrection of Christ

Prophecy note, 1 March 2015
The Son as the vine
is the center
of God’s economy
and the embodiment of
all the riches of the Father.

The Father,
by cultivating the Son,
works Himself
with all His riches
into the vine,
and eventually
the vine expresses the Father
in a corporate way
through its branches.

This is
the Father’s economy
in the universe.

Both the cultivated olive tree and the true vine
signify Christ.
Hence,
to be grafted into the cultivated olive tree
is to be grafted into the true vine.

Its grafted branches
have been regenerated with the divine life,
brought into the life-union
with the crucified and resurrected Christ,
and incorporated with
the processed and consummated Triune God.

This is
for the unlimited Triune God’s multiplication
as the increase of the immeasurable Christ,
for His universal spreading
through the fruit-bearing
of the believers of Christ
as the branches
by their faithful abiding in Christ
for the glorification of the Father.

Day 5

John 15:1
I am the true vine, 
and My Father is the husbandman.

John 15:4-5
Abide in Me 
and I in you. 
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself 
unless it abides in the vine, 
so neither can you 
unless you abide in Me. 
I am the vine; 
you are the branches. 
He who abides in Me 
and I in him, 
he bears much fruit; 
for apart from Me 
you can do nothing.

This true vine (the Son) 
with its branches (the believers in the Son) 
is the organism 
of the Triune God 
in God’s economy. 
This organism 
grows with His riches 
and expresses His divine life.

The Father as the husbandman 
is the source, the author, the planner, 
the planter, the life, the substance, 
the soil, the water, the air, the sunshine, 
and everything to the vine. 
The Son as the vine 
is the center 
of God’s economy 
and the embodiment of 
all the riches of the Father. 
The Father, 
by cultivating the Son, 
works Himself 
with all His riches 
into the vine, 
and eventually 
the vine expresses the Father 
in a corporate way 
through its branches. 
This is 
the Father’s economy 
in the universe.

The second aspect 
of the incorporation 
of the consummated God 
with the regenerated believers
is the true vine. 
The Lord is 
not a tall pine tree 
but a spreading vine tree. 
The fruit of a vine tree 
is easy to reach and eat.
Today’s Christ 
is spreading Himself everywhere 
throughout the globe.
In 1958 
I saw a big vine tree, 
which is the vine of the queen. 
The British people 
are proud of this vine. 
When they asked me 
what I thought of it, 
I said 
that I had seen a vine tree 
which is much bigger. 
The vine tree 
I have seen 
is Christ 
as the true vine. 
This vine 
needs the entire globe 
for its spreading. 
In John 15 
the Lord said, 
“I am the true vine” (v. 1). 
This means 
that actually 
all of the other vine trees 
are false, 
including the queen’s vine. 
Only one vine 
is uniquely true.

The true vine 
is a sign of 
the all-inclusive Christ 
as the organism 
of the processed and consummated Triune God.
Its branches 
are the believers of Christ, 
who by nature 
were branches of the wild olive tree 
and have been grafted into 
the cultivated olive tree
through their believing into Christ. 
Both the cultivated olive tree and the true vine 
signify Christ. 
Hence, 
to be grafted into the cultivated olive tree 
is to be grafted into the true vine.
Its grafted branches 
have been regenerated with the divine life, 
brought into the life-union 
with the crucified and resurrected Christ, 
and incorporated with 
the processed and consummated Triune God.
This is 
for the unlimited Triune God’s multiplication 
as the increase of the immeasurable Christ, 
the embodiment of 
the processed and consummated Triune God, 
for His universal spreading 
through the fruit-bearing 
of the believers of Christ 
as the branches 
by their faithful abiding in Christ
for the glorification of the Father.

A new child, a new man, 
was born by the consummated Spirit. 
This new man 
was created by Christ 
on the cross 
by abolishing 
in His flesh 
the law of the commandments in ordinances. 
While Christ was dying on the cross, 
He was creating this new man. 
Also this new man 
was regenerated by the Father 
with the resurrected Christ 
in His resurrection 
and born by the Spirit 
in the believers’ spirit. 
The first group of Christ’s believers 
who suffered Christ’s departure 
through His death 
was the delivering woman. 
The Christ 
who returned in His resurrection 
was the newborn child 
to be the new man. 
Now 
we believers 
have to put on this new man 
through the renewing 
in the spirit of our mind.
Our putting on the new man 
by being renewed 
in the spirit of our mind 
will eventually consummate 
the Body of Christ, 
and this Body of Christ, 
which is the church, 
will consummate the New Jerusalem.

Day 3

John 14:10-11
Do you not believe 
that I am in the Father 
and the Father is in Me? 
The words that I say to you 
I do not speak from Myself, 
but the Father 
who abides in Me 
does His works. 
Believe Me 
that I am in the Father 
and the Father is in Me; 
but if not, 
believe 
because of the works themselves.

Christ’s believers 
have been brought into the union of life 
with the processed Triune God 
and mingled with the consummated God 
into an incorporation. 
Formerly, 
we had nothing to do with God, 
but regeneration has brought us 
into the union of life 
with the processed Triune God. 
Union, however, 
is not sufficient 
to bring us 
into an incorporation with the Triune God.
To be incorporated with the consummated God, 
we need to be mingled with Him. 
Thus, 
through Christ’s glorification 
we have not only been brought 
into a union 
with the processed Triune God, 
but we have also been mingled 
with the consummated God 
into an incorporation.

God in His Divine Trinity 
is an incorporation. 
The three of the Divine Trinity 
are an incorporation 
both in what They are 
and in what They do. 

The three of the Divine Trinity 
are incorporated by coinhering mutually. 
Concerning this, 
the Lord Jesus said, 
“Do you not believe 
that I am in the Father 
and the Father is in Me?” (John 14:10a). 
In verse 11a 
He went on to say, 
“Believe Me 
that I am in the Father 
and the Father is in Me.” 
The Son is in the Father 
and the Father is in the Son 
by a mutual coinhering.

The three of the Divine Trinity 
are an incorporation 
also by working together 
as one. 
In verses 10b and 11b 
the Lord said, 
“The words that I say to you 
I do not speak from Myself, 
but the Father 
who abides in Me 
does His works.
… Believe 
… because of the works themselves.” 
Here 
the Lord seemed to be saying, 
“You have seen all the works 
which I have done. 
These works 
were not done by Me, 
for I never did anything 
of Myself. 
Whatever I did 
was the Father’s work. 
The Father and I 
work together mutually.” 
This working together as one 
reveals that the Divine Trinity 
is an incorporation.

The Spirit, 
the third of the Divine Trinity 
as another Comforter, 
being the reality of the Son, 
the second of the Divine Trinity 
as the first Comforter 
and the embodiment of the Triune God, 
does not only abide with 
the regenerated believers 
but also dwells in them.

The Son as the first Comforter 
left His believers 
through His death 
and came back 
to be another Comforter to them 
through His resurrection 
to make them live with Him. 
This is 
why He said, 
“Because I live, 
you also shall live” (v. 19b).

The consummated Triune God 
and the regenerated believers 
became an incorporation 
in the resurrection of Christ. 
John 14:20 says, 
“In that day 
you will know 
that I am in My Father, 
and you in Me, 
and I in you.” 
“In that day”: 
This is 
in the day of the Son’s resurrection. 
“You will know 
that I am in My Father”: 
The Son and the Father 
are incorporated into one. 
“And you in Me”: 
The regenerated believers 
are incorporated 
into the Son 
and into the Father in the Son. 
“And I in you”: 
The Son in the Father 
is incorporated 
into the regenerated believers. 
Here 
we have three ins. 
In verse 17 
we have a fourth in: 
“The Spirit of reality
… abides with you 
and shall be in you.” 
The in of the Spirit of reality in verse 17 
is the totality of the three ins in verse 20. 
The in in verse 17 
is a general statement, 
and the three ins in verse 20 
are the detailed statement.

Christ’s glorification 
produced an issue
—an incorporation.
The three of the Divine Trinity 
are an incorporation 
by coinhering mutually 
and by working together 
as one.
This is 
the beginning of the universal incorporation, 
an incorporation 
which started with God Himself. 
God’s intention 
is that all the believers of Christ 
would be incorporated into His incorporation 
to be an enlarged incorporation.

Day 1

John 12:23-24
And Jesus answered them, 
saying, 
The hour 
has come 
for the Son of Man 
to be glorified. 
Truly, truly, 
I say to you, 
Unless the grain of wheat 
falls into the ground 
and dies, 
it abides alone; 
but if it dies, 
it bears much fruit.

Christ as the second of the Triune God 
possessed the divine glory 
from eternity past, 
and His humanity, His flesh, 
through His incarnation 
became a shell 
to conceal 
the glory of His divinity.
The glory of Christ’s divinity 
was released 
through the breaking of 
the shell of His humanity 
by His death. 
The death of Christ 
was a release.
For Him 
to be glorified 
was not to be exalted 
but to be released. 
This is clearly indicated 
by verse 24: 
“… Unless the grain of wheat 
falls into the ground and dies, 
it abides alone; 
but if it dies, 
it bears much fruit.”

If a grain of wheat 
does not fall into the ground and die, 
it abides by itself alone 
and no one knows 
what is within the grain. 
But when the grain 
enters into death, 
its content 
is released. 
In John 12:24 
the Lord Jesus likens Himself 
to a grain of wheat. 
When He was living in His humanity 
for thirty-three and a half years, 
no one, including His mother, 
knew who He was. 
Others regarded Him 
as nothing more than a man, 
but no one knew 
what He was 
according to the contents of 
His inner being. 
He was a man 
in the flesh, 
but there was another One 
in this man. 
This other One 
was God Himself, 
and God 
is glory. 
Since God as glory 
was concealed in His flesh 
as a shell, 
He needed the release 
spoken of in John 12:24. 
In order to be released 
and not to remain alone, 
the one grain of wheat 
had to fall into the ground and die. 
Through the Lord’s death 
the glory of His divinity 
was released.

When the shell of the Lord’s humanity 
was broken 
through His crucifixion, 
which was the baptism 
He went through, 
all the elements of His divinity
—His divine life and His divine glory—
were released. 
In Luke 12:50 
the Lord Jesus said, 
“I have a baptism 
to be baptized with, 
and how I am pressed 
until it is accomplished!” 
The Lord’s baptism 
was His crucifixion. 
He longed to be baptized, 
to be crucified, 
in order to be released. 
He was pressed, constrained, 
in His flesh, 
and He desired to be released 
by the baptism of His death. 
Through the breaking of 
the shell of His humanity 
by His death, 
His glory 
was released. 
His release was 
His being glorified.

In the sense 
explained above, 
Christ’s death 
is considered the life-releasing death 
with His glory released simultaneously. 
We cannot separate His life 
from His glory. 
When His life was released, 
His glory was released also.

The release of 
the glory of Christ’s divinity 
was His being glorified 
by the Father 
with the divine glory 
in His resurrection 
through His death.

The release of 
the glory of Christ’s divinity 
was to cast fire 
on the earth. 
In Luke 12:49 
He said, 
“I have come 
to cast fire 
on the earth, 
and how I wish 
that it were already kindled!” 
This fire 
is the impulse of 
the spiritual life, 
an impulse 
that comes from 
the Lord’s released divine life.
When Christ was baptized 
with the baptism of His death 
on the cross, 
the glory of His divinity 
was released. 
From the time of His resurrection 
a fire has been burning on earth. 
This fire started from Jerusalem, 
and then it spread 
through Judea and Samaria 
to the uttermost part of the earth. 
Today 
this fire is burning 
all over the earth
—in America, in Russia, in Romania, 
in Poland, in Brazil, in Africa, 
in Australia, in New Zealand.

Christ today 
is a burning fire. 
We all have been burned 
by this fire; 
we have been brought together 
by this fire; 
and now we are burdened 
that this fire 
would burn many others. 
When the concealed glory 
of Christ’s divinity 
was released, 
a divine fire 
was cast on earth 
to burn the whole earth. 
Let the fire burn on! 
No one can stop it.