Christ is Coming to be Glorified in His Saints: He is in us as the Hope of Glory!

The Lord Jesus Christ is coming to be glorified in His saints. Today He is in us as the hope of glory, but He will return soon to be glorified, marveled at, and admired in all His believers. When Christ comes the second time He will not only come from the heavens – He will […]

We are Called by God through the Gospel to Obtain the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ

God has called us through His gospel unto the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ (see 2 Thes. 2:14). Paul didn’t say that through the gospel God wants to save us, deliver us from hell, and bring us to heaven; rather, just as through sin we come short of the glory of […]

A Panoramic View of the Glory of God in the Economy of God: We are Destined to Glory

The New Jerusalem has the glory of God as its content, and it expresses God by shining Him out to the entire universe (Rev. 21:10-11). The glory of God is intrinsically related to the economy of God. In His economy, God wants to make the same as He is in life and nature (but not […]

Partaking of and Living According to the Divine Nature, the base of Gold in the New Jerusalem

The greatest sign in the Bible and the ultimate consummation of all of God’s work throughout the ages is the New Jerusalem. We need to see a vision of the holy city, New Jerusalem, and we need to realize that it is not a physical city – it is not the so-called “heavenly mansions” of […]

Seeing, Living out, and working out the New Jerusalem – God Put Eternity in our Heart!

The New Jerusalem is not a distant city that only some will attain to or be worthy to be there. Rather, the New Jerusalem is something we are becoming and working out daily. We need to open to the Lord that He may unveil us, unload us, and cause us to see a fresh new […]

In our Spiritual Experience Mount Moriah Becomes Mount Zion, the Reality of the Body

The God of Abraham is our God, and Abraham’s experience of God needs to become our experience of God also. One of the deepest and highest experiences Abraham had of God was at Mount Moriah, where God instructed him to go and bring his son, Isaac, as a burnt offering to Him. God tested Abraham […]

The Testimony of Jesus is the Bridal Army (Rev. 19) and the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21)

This week we have been tracing the eight main aspects of the church as the testimony of Jesus through the book of Revelation. We have seen that the testimony of Jesus is the golden lampstands, the great multitude, the universal bright woman with the man-child, the firstfruits and the harvest, the overcomers on the glassy […]