The Shining God is our Unique Light; We have no Need for Natural or Man-Made Light

Rev. 22:5 And night will be no more; and they have no need of the light of a lamp and of the light of the sun, for the Lord God will shine upon them; and they will reign forever and ever.

Because we have the Redeeming and Shining God as the unique light in the New Jerusalem, there is no need for natural or artificial light (see Rev. 22:5). This is true both for eternity and in the church life today. As genuine believers in Christ we … [Continue reading]

Living and Walking in the Light Today – a Foretaste of the Light in New Jerusalem

1 John 1:5 And this is the message which we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all, and in the New Jerusalem God Himself in Christ as the Lamb is the light of the holy city, illumining everyone in the city. Such a great city in a cubic form, greater than any other metropolis in … [Continue reading]

God as Light Shines through the Redeeming Christ as the Lamp to Dispense God into us

Rev. 21:23 And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon that they should shine in it, for the glory of God illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

The light of the New Jerusalem is God Himself in the Lamb as the lamp. There's no need for sun or moon or any other natural or man-made luminaries in the New Jerusalem, because God Himself in Christ is the light of the city. If we were to come to … [Continue reading]

Experiencing the Universally Vast Dimensions of Christ and Caring for God’s Presence

Eph. 3:18 May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are.

The dimensions of the New Jerusalem apply to our living out and working out of the New Jerusalem, and today we can experience the Lord in such a way that we can become the New Jerusalem in the aspect of its dimensions. According to its measurements, … [Continue reading]

The Divine Trinity is Working Together to Bring us into the Holy City (the 12 gates)

The Divine Trinity is Working Together to Bring Man into the New Jerusalem, the Holy City!

At the end of the Bible we see the New Jerusalem, the wife of the Lamb, the city-bride who marries Christ and the place where God dwells, is expressed, and reigns (see Rev. 21-22). If the New Jerusalem is the consummation of God's work throughout … [Continue reading]

Enjoying and Experiencing God as Our Peace in the Church to Become the New Jerusalem

And let the peace of Christ arbitrate in your hearts, to which also you were called in one Body... Col. 3:15

The New Jerusalem is the city of peace, the city in which peace reigns. On the one hand this city is NEW - it has God wrought into it and it has God as its constitution - and on the other hand it is the city of peace, a city which is solidly grounded … [Continue reading]

Being Renewed Day-by-Day and Being Constituted with Christ for the NEW Jerusalem

Col. 3:10-11 And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.

Every believer in Christ is "a little New Jerusalem" and every local church should be "a miniature of the New Jerusalem". Our life and work as believers today should be to work out and live out the New Jerusalem, since this holy city is what God … [Continue reading]