As we live in the age of mystery today, before the mystery of God is finished, we need to enjoy and experience Christ as the mystery of God so that we may be the church as the mystery of Christ, the corporate expression of Christ; we are the mystery of a mystery, for Christ lives in us as the embodiment of God to express God corporately. Amen!
Lord Jesus, unveil us to see the mystery of God, Christ! May we see that all that God is, all He has, and all He has done is embodied in Christ! May we enjoy Christ. We give ourselves to You not to do things for You but to just enjoy You! Amen, Lord, be our enjoyment and experience today! Hallelujah, as we enjoy Christ, we become the mystery of Christ to express Christ, for Christ lives in us and manifests Himself through us! Praise the Lord! Amen!
This week we have been prayerfully considering chapters 10 and 11 in the book of Revelation to see something concerning Christ as the eternal King coming to possess the earth and the finishing of the mystery of God.
Christ is the eternal King, and He is coming to possess the earth. Right now, the earth is under the illegal rule of Satan, for he usurps the earth and all things and people on it.
But Christ is coming back soon, and He will judge Satan, destroy his works, and pour out God’s judgment on the corrupted earth to renew it and make it the new earth with the new heaven where He can establish His kingdom.
Before He comes, however, He is looking to gain some overcomers. We are those who see the corruption, immorality, wickedness, and evil in the world today, and we pray for the Lord’s kingdom to come and His will to be done, for we stand with Him for His kingdom to come.
First, we let His kingdom come in us, and we place ourselves under His rule and reign. We want to be produced as His overcomers.
We want Him to take us, rapture us, at His secret coming. He is coming clothed in a cloud, in secret, to rapture the overcoming saints; then, He will come on the cloud, openly, for all to see Him.
As He comes, He has the rainbow upon His head, His face is like the sun, His feet like pillars of fire, and He places His right foot on the sea and the left on the land.
The Christ who comes with God’s judgment is fierce and fiery, and He judges what needs to be judged! Amen!
Soon, the mystery of God will be finished, for when this age is finished, the age of the kingdom will come, and eternity, where all things are made clear, no longer shrouded in mystery.
Amen, today we live in the age of mystery, and we need to enjoy Christ as the mystery of God so that we may be the mystery of Christ until the age of mystery is finished!
The mystery of the Universe is God, the Mystery of God is Christ, and the Mystery of Christ is the Church
Colossians 2:2 says that the mystery of God is Christ. First of all, the universe is a mystery; with its magnificence and largeness, ever expanding and very vast, the universe is a mystery.
What is the mystery of the universe? What gives the universe a sense, a meaning? The mystery of the universe is God. If there is no God, the universe has no sense, no meaning. But God is the meaning of the universe, and when we see God, the universe makes sense.
How can we know God? The Bible tells us that God dwells in unapproachable light (1 Tim. 6:16); humanly speaking, we cannot see God or touch God, for we can’t really see Him with our eyes nor can we hear Him with our ears.
The mystery of the universe, which is God, is also a mystery; God is a mystery. The mystery of God is Christ.
Christ came to define God, express God, and explain God. God is a mystery, and Christ as the embodiment of God to express God, is the mystery of God. Christ is the story of God, the definition and explanation of God.
When we try to find God, it is difficult and even impossible, but if we come to Christ, we see God expressed and defined.
In this one man, a God-man, Jesus Christ, we see God being defined and explained. As the mystery of God, Christ is the embodiment, definition, and explanation of God; all that God intends to do and all that He is, it is in Christ and it is related to Christ.
Outside of Christ, there’s no God; if we want to see God, we need to come to Christ. In Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; that is, the fullness of the Triune God dwells in Christ in a bodily form (Col. 2:9). Amazing!
How can we see Christ, touch Christ, and know Christ? Where is Christ today? How can we know Him, and how can we touch Him?
According to Ephesians 3:4, we need to have an understanding in the mystery of Christ; the mystery of Christ, according to this book, is the church.
If we want to see Christ today, we need to come not only to the Word of God, for Christ is embodied in His words, but also to the church, which is the mystery of Christ.
God is a mystery, Christ is the mystery of God, and the church is the mystery of Christ.
We truly live in the age of mystery. In the old times, when the prophets and the psalmists lived, even when David lived, they all tried to know what is hidden in God’s heart, but they could not see it or know it.
The mystery of God was revealed only to us in the New Testament, in spirit (Eph. 3:9).
We need to exercise our spirit to perceive and understand that the mystery of God is Christ and the mystery of Christ is the church.
No one has ever seen God; however, the only begotten Son of God came to make Him known (John 1:18). God is a mystery; however, this mysterious God is embodied in Christ.
Christ is not only God; He is God embodied, God defined, God explained, and God expressed. Christ made God visible; He told us that he who has seen Him has seen the Father (John 14:9).
The first mystery in God’s economy is Christ, who is God expressed; Chris tis the mystery of God.
The second mystery in God’s economy is the church as the mystery of Christ (Eph. 3:4). God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in us, the hope of glory. What a mystery: Christ is in us as the hope of glory!
When others look at us, they cannot see Christ, for it is us who live, human beings, but within us we have Christ as the mystery of God living and being expressed.
Christ is a mystery, and we as the church are the Body of Christ to express Him, and we are the mystery of Christ. The church is the story of Christ.
If you want to see Christ, enjoy Christ, know Christ, and touch Christ, you need to come to the church.
When someone comes to the church, he sees not only human beings who gather as a social group and do religious things; he sees or should see Christ.
The church is nothing but God manifested in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16); God was manifested in the flesh not only individually in Christ but also corporately in and as the church.
The church is truly the mystery of Christ, for God is manifested in the flesh in the church and through the church.
This is the mystery of God’s economy, which is to dispense Christ as the embodiment of God into us, God’s chosen people, for Him to produce a Body to be the increase of God’s embodiment in Christ, so that God may have a corporate expression. Amen!
Finally, Christ and the church as one spirit are the great mystery (Eph. 5:32). Amen, great is the mystery of Christ and the church – the embodiment of God and the expression of Christ!
Lord Jesus, unveil us to see that the mystery of the universe is God and the mystery of God is Christ. Amen, may we know God by coming to Christ to enjoy Christ. Oh Lord, we come to You in Your word with the exercise of our spirit so that we may know You and enjoy You. Hallelujah, the mystery of the universe is God, for God is the meaning and the sense of the universe! Praise the Lord, even though God dwells in unapproachable light, we can know God, enjoy God, and touch God by coming to Christ! Amen, Lord Jesus, we come to You as the embodiment of God. We want to know God. We want to experience and express God by enjoying Christ. May we know Christ as the definition, explanation, and expression of God. Oh Lord, keep us coming to You in Your word with the exercise of our spirit to know You. Make us the mystery of Christ, the church, as the corporate expression of God. Hallelujah for Christ and the church, the great mystery! Amen, Lord, may we see this great mystery and be part of it today!
Enjoy Christ as the Mystery of God to be the Church as the Mystery of Christ today
In Revelation 10:7 we are told that the mystery of God is finished; when the seventh trumpet sounds, the mystery of God is finished. Today we are still in the age of mystery; we are still in the mystery of God, for everything related to God is a mystery.
The kingdom of the heavens, the gospel, the indwelling of Christ, and the coming resurrection and transfiguration of the saints as the end of the dispensation of mystery are all mysteries.
At the trumpeting of the seventh trumpet, all these mysteries will be completed; therefore, the mystery of God will be finished. Until then, however, we are in the age of mystery.
We need to learn to enjoy Christ as the mystery of God so that we may be the church as the mystery of Christ today.
We are still here enjoying this mystery. We are not merely saved persons who are waiting for Christ to come and bring us to heaven where He is, and until then, we do our best to live the Christian life. Rather, we are here enjoying Christ as the mystery of God.
As we live our Christian life and church life in this age of mystery, we are learning the secret for us to apprehend and experience all these mysteries: we exercise our spirit of faith (2 Cor. 4:13).
Everything related to God, Christ, God’s economy, and the church are matters of faith, and faith is in our spirit.
We exercise our spirit of faith to enjoy Christ as the mystery of God, and we exercise our spirit of faith to live the Christian life and the church life.
As we are travelling through this age of mystery, we are people of faith.
We do not look at the things which are seen, for they are temporal; we look at the things which are not seen, which are eternal (v. 18).
We exercise our spirit of faith to substantiate what is of God and of Christ. We believe into the Lord, we have an organic union with Him in spirit, and we exercise our spirit to touch Him, enjoy Him, and experience Him.
Even more, we exercise our spirit of faith to also speak something concerning Christ as the mystery of God.
In ourselves, we fail time and time again; however, we do not look at our failures but to the Lord to be infused with Him as our faith.
We look away unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith (Heb. 12:2), to be infused with Him as our faith and run the Christian race.
As we exercise our spirit of faith, we realise that there’s a throne set in the heavens and also in our spirit, and Christ is the eternal King.
We submit to His throne, we enthrone Him in our being, and we allow Him to rule and reign in us.
When we go shopping, for example, and the cashier gives us more change than we should receive, we do not pocket it and rejoice; rather, we return what is not ours.
This is mysterious to those around us, for we live not for ourselves or by ourselves but by the divine life in our spirit.
We come together with the saints and enjoy the Lord; we don’t just do things together but we exercise our spirit to call on the name of the Lord Jesus, for we love Him.
We come together in trainings and conferences, and we spend time with the Lord to have Him dispensed into us.
In this age of mystery, which is also the age of faith, we exercise our spirit of faith to live by faith (Rom. 1:17).
We are people of faith, we live by faith, and we want to increase our faith by cooperating with the Lord in all the details of our Christian life.
We see something of Christ as the mystery of God, and we see as in a mirror, obscurely, but we know that, when He comes, we will see Him face to face (1 Cor. 13:12).
We have a foretaste of the full taste of what Christ is and what He will be to us.
When He returns, we believe that faith will be turned to facts and praise will replace our prayer. Love will consummate in a shadowless perfection, and we will serve the Lord in the sinless domain! Hallelujah!
Lord Jesus, we exercise our spirit of faith to contact You and enjoy You as the mystery of God. Oh, what a mystery that Christ dwells in us to be our life! Praise the Lord, God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in us, the hope of glory! Amen, Christ as the mystery of God is in us, and we have the hope of glory! Oh Lord, we exercise our spirit to enjoy Christ as the mystery of God so that we may be the church as the mystery of Christ! We exercise our spirit to substantiate what is of God; we want to realise and apprehend what Christ is as the mystery of God. We open to Your divine dispensing. Keep dispensing Yourself into us and keep us open to You. Amen, Lord, may we grow in life unto maturity until You are fully expressed through us as the church, the mystery of Christ! Praise the Lord, we are people of faith who exercise our spirit of faith to live by faith in this age of mystery until the mystery of God is finished!
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, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 190, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (4) (2025 December Training), week 42 (msg. 6), Christ, the Eternal King, Coming to Possess the Earth and the Finishing of the Mystery of God – day 6.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Christ is the mystery of God; / God is invisible, unshown, / His image man hath never seen, / But Christ the Son hath made Him known… / The Church the myst’ry is of Christ, / For He is now to man unshown; / No man on earth may see Him now, / But thru the Church He is made known. (Hymns #818 stanzas 1 and 4)
– I praise Thee for Thy mystery, / That I may truly contact Thee; / In unapproachable light Thou wast / But now as Spirit nigh to me… / If I in spirit worship Thee, / In spirit live, in spirit pray, / The Holy Spirit I will touch / And Thee enjoy in every way. (Hymns #609 stanzas 1 and 11)
– As the body is the fulness / To express our life, / So to Christ the Church, His Body, / Doth express His life… / Thus the Church and Christ together, / God’s great mystery, / Is the mingling of the Godhead / With humanity. (Hymns #819 stanzas 1 and 9)
