The New Jerusalem is a Corporate God-man Composed of God’s People who have been Deified

The New Jerusalem is the ultimate goal of God’s economy and the goal of our Christian work; the New Jerusalem is a corporate God-man, a composition of God’s chosen, redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, renewed, transformed, conformed, and glorified people who have been deified, and who are united, mingled, and incorporated with the processed and consummated Triune God. Hallelujah!

As believers in Christ, we need to see a vision of the New Jerusalem, for this is what we are becoming.

The high peak of the divine revelation in the Bible is that God Himself became man to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead so that He may obtain the church, the Body of Christ, for His corporate expression.

The church consummates in the New Jerusalem, the ultimate goal of God’s economy.

If we read Rev. 21-22 with much prayerful consideration we will be amazed at the spiritual significance of all the features and characteristics of the New Jerusalem.

First of all, the holy city is not a physical city; it is a spiritual entity, even a corporate entity, composed not merely of God but even more, God and man.

And the God we see in the New Jerusalem is not the fearful God we see in the Old Testament, whose presence is full of thunders and lightning and fire; it is the processed and consummated God, even the God who can flow into us and supply us.

Throughout the Bible, we see that God went through a process, from incarnation to resurrection and ascension, and because of this process, He is now a life-giving Spirit.

He is dispensing His divine life into us to make us the same as He is in life, nature, expression, and function. Hallelujah!

The man that we see in the New Jerusalem in type is not just clay or stone; it is precious stone, many kinds of precious stones, which show that man also went through a process to be transformed and glorified.

Actually, the One sitting on the throne has the same likeness as the wall of the city; we as the wall express the One on the throne.

We are now in the process of being transformed into the same image as Christ, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18) to the extent that we will eternally look like God.

God is working Himself into us in a metabolic way through our fellowship with Him in His word and through our fellowship with the saints, so that we look like Him.

He will gain a corporate expression of Himself, a corporate reproduction of the first God-man. He Himself is the center, life, and light of the city, and we are His illumination, His shining out, and His flowing out to bring God to man and man to God.

May the Lord enlighten the eyes of our heart for us to see a vision of the New Jerusalem, and may we enter into the reality of the New Jerusalem today, even having the holy city as the goal of our Christian work.

The New Jerusalem is a Composition of God’s People who have been Glorified and Deified

The New Jerusalem is a composition of God’s people who have gone through a process to be glorified and even deified to become part of God’s corporate expression in eternity.

The holy city is a composition of God’s chosen, redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, renewed, transformed, conformed, and glorified people who have been deified (see John 3:6; Heb. 2:11; Rom. 12:2; 8:29-30).

This is us: we as believers in Christ are in the mysterious and wonderful process of being not only chosen and redeemed by God but even more, regenerated with the life of God, sanctified with the nature of God, renewed with the mind of God, transformed in the image of God, conformed to the image of Christ, and glorified to be like Him in glory. Amazing!

This is what the entire New Testament speaks about.

We are in the process of being deified; that is, we’re in the process of being constituted with God until we look like Him and we are like Him in every possible way.

Day by day we’re in the process of being constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God so that we may be made God in life and in nature to be His corporate expression for eternity.

How do we know that we will be like Him?

1 John 3:2 tells us that, when we see Him, we will be like Him, for we will behold Him and be just as He is.

Rev. 4:3 says that the One sitting on the throne looks like jasper, and the wall of the city, even the entire city, is like jasper (Rev. 21:11).

This means that we will become like Him. We are becoming His corporate expression.

We are being deified. We will never become God in the sense of being worshipped or being almighty, omniscient, and omnipresent, but we will become God in life, nature, expression, and function, yet not in the Godhead.

For us to be deified means that we are being constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God so that we may be made God in life and nature to be His corporate expression for eternity. Hallelujah!

The process of the deification of the believers will consummate in the New Jerusalem; this is the highest truth and the highest gospel (Rom. 1:1, 3-4; Rev. 21:2; 3:12).

The New Jerusalem is nothing but God who is processed and consummated and who has been enlarged to include man and be expressed corporately through man.

He is constituting Himself into us, mingling Himself with us, and uniting and incorporating Himself with us to the extent that we and Him, He and us, become one corporate entity, a corporate God-man for eternity to express God in glory (John 3:29-30; 14:20; 15:4; 1 Cor. 6:17).

May we have an uplifted view of our Christian experience in our Christian life.

May we realize that we’re in the process of becoming the New Jerusalem – we are in the process of deification.

On His side, God went through a process – the Triune God was incarnated to be a man, and He went through human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension.

He has been processed and consummated, and He has even been intensified sevenfold to produce the overcomers and consummate the New Jerusalem.

On our side, we also are going through a process to be deified, that is, to be constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God to be made God in life and in nature to be His corporate expression for eternity. Praise the Lord!

This indeed is the highest gospel, the highest truth in the Bible.

And this is what is happening in our life, even through all the experiences that we have and all the failures: our old man is being weakened and consumed, and our inner man is renewed with God Himself until what is inside of us, the constitution of God throughout the years, will be manifested on the outside for all to see. Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see that the New Jerusalem is a composition of God’s chosen, redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, renewed, transformed, conformed, and glorified people who have been deified! Hallelujah! What a marvellous destiny we have and what a glorious consummation God has in and with us! We open to You today, dear Lord, to enjoy You, partake of You, and be one with You. Deify us. Work Yourself into us and constitute us with Yourself little by little, day by day. We want to be constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God so that we may be made God in life and nature to be His corporate expression for eternity! We open to Your constituting work of God into man. Make us one with You. Mingle Yourself with us. Amen, Lord, gain the New Jerusalem, the ultimate corporate expression of God in man in glory!

The New Jerusalem is the Corporate God-man – the Enlargement and Expression of God

The New Jerusalem is not only not a physical city: it is a person, a corporate person, even a couple – the processed and consummated Triune God married to His elect.

Rev. 22:17 shows us that the Spirit and the bride are one – divinity and humanity are fully mingled together, married together, to be one entity.

The New Jerusalem is a corporate God-man – the enlargement, expansion, and expression of God (Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:10-12; Rev. 4:3; 21:10-11).

Hallelujah! The New Jerusalem is the corporate God.

This may sound strange or unusual, for we think that God never changes – and we are correct in thinking this way.

However, the New Testament reveals to us that God went through a process, and at the end of the Bible we see a wonderful consummation.

The Bible opens with Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God.”

In the beginning, we see God, who is Triune, for He refers to Himself, “Let Us…in Our image…according to Our likeness” (Gen. 1:26).

God is three – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and yet He is one; He is one yet three, three yet one – He is the Triune God.

However, at the end of the Bible, we see not just God but the New Jerusalem, a universal couple, the Spirit and the bride.

Many things are happening in many ages from the beginning to the end of the Bible, but at the end of the Bible, we clearly see the corporate God-man.

Somehow, throughout the ages, God has been constituting Himself into man and man into God until God and man, man and God, become one corporate entity, which the book of Revelation calls, the New Jerusalem.

There are the ages of patriarchs, the age of the law of the children of Israel, and the age of grace of the New Testament; in these ages, many things take place and God does a great deal of work.

The goal is one: the New Jerusalem, the corporate God-man.

In the beginning of the Bible, we see one single God with one man in the garden of Eden, but at the end of the Bible, we see a corporate God-man, a corporate God, the New Jerusalem.

In the beginning of the Bible, we don’t see a building, but throughout the ages, this has been God’s goal: to gain a building, not something physical and outward but the building of God in man and with man.

The New Jerusalem is the consummation of God’s building work; He has been building Himself into man and man into God, and the New Jerusalem is the consummation of God’s building work.

The New Jerusalem is the expansion and expression of the processed and consummated Triune God with His built-up people.

We need to see such a high and lofty vision of the New Jerusalem and realize that it is God’s enlargement and expansion, God’s expression in eternity, which is the corporate God (Gen. 1:1; John 1:1, 14; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rev. 22:17).

At the beginning of the Bible we can see one single God and at the end of the Bible a city appears, the New Jerusalem, God’s enlargement and expansion – the corporate God! Wow!

The ones who participate in the New Jerusalem are all God’s children, God’s kind, His species.

The people of God are innumerable – millions and millions of children of God, all built up together to be the New Jerusalem, the corporate God-man!

Hallelujah, the New Jerusalem is the corporate God-man, the enlargement, expansion, and expression of God! Wow, Lord, praise You for taking us through the metabolic process of transformation so that we may be glorified and deified to be the New Jerusalem! Hallelujah, the one single God in Genesis becomes a corporate God in Revelation, the New Jerusalem, and we all are included and incorporated with God! Amen, Lord, we open to You today. Grow in us. Work Yourself into us. Saturate us with Your life and nature. Mingle Yourself more with us and mingle us with Yourself. Amen, Lord, gain the corporate entity You desire, the New Jerusalem, the corporate God-man that expresses You for eternity! We want to be part of that enlargement and expanded expression of God in glory! 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 Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament (msgs. 256 and 428) by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery Before His Appearing (2023 July Semiannual Training), week 12, entitled, Becoming the New Jerusalem.
• Similar articles on this topic:
  – “I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem” – the vision of the New Jerusalem as a corporate God-man, article by Ron Kangas in, Affirmation and Critique.
  – New Jerusalem is a Corporate Man in the Triune God, article via, New Jerusalem blog.
  – The two mysteries being the contents of the divine economy, a portion from, Life-Study of Job, Chapter 22, by Witness Lee.
  – Aspects of the New Jerusalem – Deification, article in, Affirmation and Critique.
  – Being Constituted with the Processed and Consummated Triune God and Becoming the New Jerusalem, outline via, Church in Auckland.
  – New Jerusalem: the Highest Point of the Apostles’ Living and Work, a new song via, Hymnal.net.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Now behold the greatest wonder—New Jerusalem descend! / She’s the building of the Triune God with man—a perfect blend! / She’s the Bride, prepared, adorned for Christ—of all God’s work, the end! / The victory is won! / It’s the tabernacle of our God, His dwelling place with men; / In His holiness and glory He’s expressed through all of them. / “It is done!” O brothers, see it! See the New Jerusalem! / The victory is won! (Hymns #1101 stanzas 11 and 12)
  – ’Tis the holy city, / New Jerusalem; / With His saints God mingles, / Makes His home with them. / He becomes their content, / His expression they; / They shall share His glory, / One with Him for aye. (Hymns #971 stanza 4)
  – ’Tis the city God hath built, / ’Tis the dwelling God requires, / ’Tis the new Jerusalem / Which fulfills His heart’s desires. / ’Tis the building of the saints, / ’Tis the blend of God and man, / Purposed by the Father’s will / Long before the world began. (Hymns #972 stanzas 4-5)