The Triune God in Revelation is the building and builded God; the Bible consummates in the New Jerusalem, which is the unique God being enlarged, even the Triune God wrought into His chosen and redeemed people, and today we need to learn to let God build Himself into us and minister the building and builded God into others for God’s building.
Amen, Lord, unveil us to see You as the building God and the builded God! Praise the Lord, our God is a Builder, and He builds Himself into us and builds us into His being! Amen, Lord, we open to You today. We open to Your building work. Build Yourself into us today. Make us those who are so filled with God that we minister the building and builded God into others for the church as God’s building! Amen!
The Triune God revealed in the Bible is a mysterious and wonderful matter; from the first to the last chapter of the Bible, we see that God is not just one but also three.
The Bible unveils to us that God went through a process in His economy. First of all, in His essence He can never change, and in His very essence He is both one and three – He is the unique God, and He is also the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
We just say Amen to this. But God has an economy; He has a heart’s desire, for He wants to accomplish something that He has purposed, and for this He went through a process. This is amazing!
The infinite God who created all things, who needs nothing and depends on nothing, one day became a man. Wow!
The infinite God became a finite man, and the eternal God became a mortal man. This is beyond our capacity to comprehend.
But here He was, a God-man, God incarnated to be a man, and then He went through human living, death, and resurrection, and in His resurrection He became something again: He became a life-giving Spirit.
This is the process He went through. 2 Corinthians 3:17 says that now the Lord is the Spirit. Similarly, in Revelation we see the Spirit and the bride in oneness.
In His economy, God was processed and consummated to be the Spirit; now as the Spirit He can be enjoyed by us, for He can enter int us, dwell in us, transform us, conform us to His image, and make His home in us.
God can now be related to man; He can be experienced by man subjectively, personally, intimately, and spiritually.
And the centre of the processed Triune God is Christ, for it is in Christ that God went through a process.
May we know Him, enjoy Him, and experience Him as the Spirit with our spirit today for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ!
The Triune God in Revelation is the Building and Builded God becoming the New Jerusalem
In the book of Revelation, we see a particular aspect of the Triune God: He is the building and builded God (Rev. 21:18-19, 21).
We may wonder what does the processed and consummated Triune God have to do with the building of God.
As we consider this matter before the Lord, we realise that God gives us Christ as the all-inclusive One, and this Christ went through a process and was consummated to be the Spirit.
The Spirit is not merely for our enjoyment, satisfaction, and rest; the Spirit is consummated for the fulfilment of God’s eternal purpose, His eternal economy.
God’s eternal purpose is to gain a building; this is not a physical or outward building nor is it just people put together to coordinate together.
This building is God wrought into man and man being brought into God; it is the mutual building of God and man.
This is what Jacob saw in a dream in Genesis 28: God and man mingled together. God wants to be mingled with man so that He may be united, mingled, and even incorporated with man to gain the building of God and man. And He will gain this: the New Jerusalem is the building of God.
The New Jerusalem doesn’t just appear out of heaven from God; the New Jerusalem is being built up and prepared today.
The way the New Jerusalem comes into being is by our experiencing and enjoying the processed and consummated Triune God with Christ as the centre and focal point.
We need to see, enjoy, and experience the Christ who passed through the processes to become a life-giving, consummated, indwelling, all-inclusive, sevenfold intensified Spirit.
Through such a Spirit we can enter into such a mingling with the Triune God to result in God’s building.
The Triune God in Revelation is the building God and the builded God; at the end of Revelation we see the holy city built with God and man, actually with God built in man and man built into God!
In the holy city we see gold, which signifies the divine nature of the Father, precious stones, signifying the Holy Spirit’s transforming work, and pearls, signifying Christ’s redeeming and regenerating work.
We may say that the entire holy city is the Triune God built into man and with man to be a mingling of God and man.
The Bible consummates in the New Jerusalem, which is the very god who was in the beginning (Gen. 1:1; Rev. 21:10).
The very God who created all things in Genesis 1:1 went through a process in His economy to become the holy city in Revelation 21:10. Wow!
In the beginning He was the bachelor God, the creating God; He was great and powerful, but He was alone.
One day, this bachelor God became an incarnated God, when He was incarnated to be a man.
Then, He died for us on the cross to redeem us, and He was the redeeming God; He was the Lamb of God redeeming us on the cross.
In His resurrection, he became a life-giving Spirit to be the indwelling God; He now indwells us as the Spirit.
The bachelor God became the incarnated God, and He became the redeeming God, and then He became the indwelling God.
Eventually, at the end of the Bible we see the incorporated God – God incorporated with man, man in God and God in man! Hallelujah!
The unique God is eventually enlarged and expanded into a city for His eternal expression.
Wow, the New Jerusalem is just God Himself being expanded and enlarged in man and through man. In His economy, God has become the New Jerusalem.
In the New Jerusalem, the Triune God is wrought into His chosen and redeemed people (Rev. 21:18-21).
The gold, the pearl, and the precious stones refer to and typify God Himself; also, these materials refer to and typify God working Himself into us, His chosen and redeemed people.
We are becoming golden when we live according to the divine nature of our Father (1 Pet. 1:3); we have at least a speck of gold in our spirit, and when we exercise our spirit to live Christ, we shine Him forth.
We have been regenerated, and we have a little of Christ as the pearl wrought into us; as we flow Him out, we become an entrance for others into the holy city, New Jerusalem.
We have the Spirit working in us to transform us, and we become precious stones for God’s building; there’s some amount of transformation in our being.
God is working Himself into us to build Himself into us and to build us into God for the building of God, the New Jerusalem! Amen!
Lord Jesus, unveil us to see the Triune God as the building and builded God! Amen, Lord, thank You for Your desire to be wrought into man and to build Yourself into us. We open to You today. We allow You to work Yourself into us through all the things in our daily life. Build Yourself into us and build us into Yourself. May You gain what You are after in us. Oh Lord, we want to walk according to the divine nature today so that we may be golden and shining, even as You are. We open to Your flowing in us and through us so that we may be like the pearls, gates into the holy city, bringing others into God! Amen, Lord, we open to the Holy Spirit’s work of transformation to be made into precious stones, part of the building of God! Hallelujah, the unique God is enlarged and expanded into a city for His eternal expression, and we are part of this holy city! Praise the Lord, in His economy, God has become the New Jerusalem! Amen, Lord, work Yourself into us a little more today for the building up of the New Jerusalem! Amen!
Minister Christ to others for God to Build Himself into them and them into God for the New Jerusalem
On the side of life, we need to see that the Triune God went through a process and was consummated to be the Spirit who came into our spirit to be our life and our everything. On the corporate side, on the side of God’s building, we need to see that God is the building and builded God, and He is building Himself into us.
When we see a vision of God’s building, our work for the Lord will be affected; we will not try to help others to be more humble or gentle, but we will minister Christ to others so that God may build Himself into them.
What God wants is not better Christians or more people who are according to His heart, for it is possible to be good Christians and persons according to God’s heart yet do not have Christ wrought into us.
For example, Job in the Old Testament was righteous in every way, for he had the highest attainment in building up himself in integrity, uprightness, and perfection.
But God had to strip Job of all attainments so that Job would realise all he needed was just God.
Similarly, David, a man according to God’s heart, who fought for God’s interest and desired to build a house for God, had a great failure, because he did not have God wrought into him.
He desired to build a house for God, but God showed him in 2 Samuel 7 that first God needs to build Himself into David, and then something will come out of David that is good for the building up of God’s house.
What God needs from us is not our man-made uprightness or even that we would be according to His heart; He wants to build Himself into us and build us into Himself.
Even if we are persons according to God, if we don’t have God wrought into us, we’re no better than others. God desires to work Himself into us, His chosen people; if we realise this, we will simply open to Him and allow Him to work Himself into us. We may even tell Him,
Lord Jesus, work Yourself into us a little more today. We want to stop our doing and our working. We do not seek to have our own perfectness and uprightness. We come to You. We open to You. Work Yourself into us. Build Yourself into us. Oh Lord, nothing of our natural man is useful to Your purpose; we just open to You for You to work Yourself into us a little more today! Amen, Lord, build Yourself into us for God’s building!
As we open in this way, He will have a way in us. We need to enjoy and experience the building and builded God, to have Him wrought into us.
The only way we can build up the church is by allowing the Lord to build Himself into us (Matt. 16:18).
Christ said that He will build His church; this was not yet fulfilled, but He is doing this in us and through us today. The church was raised up, and throughout the ages, the Lord is building His church.
We can cooperate with Him today by letting Him build Himself into us. And in our care for others, as we minister to them, we want to minister Christ to them so that the processed and consummated Triune God would build Himself into their inner man.
God in Christ as the Spirit carries out the building work, and this work is inward, in the inward parts of our being. We need to pray that the Lord would teach us to work in such a way that we would minister the building and builded God to others.
We don’t just want to help others to be better Christians, to behave better, to have more patience and joy, etc; we need to minister Christ to them.
The God we worship, preach, and minister to others is the processed and consummated Triune God embodied in Christ and realised as the consummated Spirit.
He is building Himself into us today to produce a house with Himself as the element, and also with something from our redeemed and uplifted humanity.
This is the church as the Body of Christ, the enlargement and expansion of Christ. And praise the Lord, the God who has become the New Jerusalem is the building and builded God (2 Sam. 7:12, 14a; Matt. 16:18; Eph. 3:17).
He is building Himself into us. The processed and consummated Triune God as the source, the element, and the essence is building the church by building Himself into our being.
God is fulfilling His desire to build Himself in Christ into our being and to build us into His being; eventually, the outcome of this building will be the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2, 10).
Amen, may we be those who carry out the God-ordained way in the four steps of begetting, nourishing, perfecting, and building up by ministering the building and builded God to others for God’s building, the church as the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem!
Lord Jesus, teach us how to work for You and with You in such a way that we minister the building and builded God to others. Oh Lord, we don’t want to build with the wood, grass, or stubble of our natural man, our flesh, and our self. Build Yourself into us. Work Yourself into our being. May we be one with You to minister Christ to others so that God may build Himself into them for God’s building. Oh Lord, gain Your house with Yourself as the element and with something of our redeemed and uplifted humanity! May we know, enjoy, experience, and minister the building and builded God to others for the building up of the church! Amen, Lord, build up Your church today! Fulfil Your heart’s desire to build Yourself into our being and to build us into Your being for the New Jerusalem! Hallelujah, the God who has become the New Jerusalem is the building and builded God! Praise the Lord!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, msg. 30 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The All-inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew (2025 Thanksgiving Blending Conference), week 4, Christ as the Centerof the Processed Triune God – day 5.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– The new Jerusalem as the ultimate consummation of the mingling of divinity with humanity, a portion from, The Building of God, Chapter 1, by Witness Lee.
– We Prophecy for Building Up the Church, via, New Jerusalem blog.
– To Be Married at Christ’s Coming Back, via, Lesson Book, Level 5: The Church—The Vision and Building Up of the Church, Chapter 5.
– Heaven or the New Jerusalem—Is there a Difference? More via, Holding to Truth in Love.
– The New Jerusalem – a corporate person, article by Ed Marks in, Affirmation and Critique.
– What is the New Jerusalem? More via, The Hearing of Faith.
– Jesus Said, “I Will Build” (1), via, New Jerusalem blog.
– Consummated in Enjoying the Eternal and Divine Life of the Processed and Consummated Triune God, a portion from, Lesson Book, Level 5: The Church—The Vision and Building Up of the Church, Chapter 12, by Witness Lee.
– God’s Building of New Jerusalem, via, New Jerusalem blog.
– Consummating in the New Jerusalem, a portion from, The Constitution and the Building Up of the Body of Christ, Chapter 1, by Witness Lee. - Hymns on this topic:
– Oh, may my spirit flow, / Oh, may it flow! / Answer my prayer, dear Lord, / Oh, may it flow! / Not just commune with Thee, / I long to builded be, / Mingle with others free / In spirit, Lord. (Hymns #846 stanza 6)
– By Thy life and by its flowing / I can grow and be transformed, / With the saints coordinated, / Builded up, to Thee conformed; / Keep the order in the Body, / There to function in Thy will, / Ever serving, helping others, / All Thy purpose to fulfill. (Hymns #840 stanza 2)
– To the lost world minister Christ, / The precious One you possess, / Imparting Christ to those you love / As all their gain and success. / To the lost world minister Christ, / The very Christ you enjoy, / Imparting Christ to all your friends / As all their boast and their joy. (Hymns #922 stanzas 2-3)
