The process of becoming a pearl as a gate into the New Jerusalem is very subjective and experiential: as a grain of sand, we wound Christ and are imprisoned in His wound, and He secretes His resurrection life around us and in us to transform us from a grain of sand into a precious pearl. […]
Experiencing Christ’s Death and Resurrection by the Bountiful Supply of the Spirit
Being Conformed to Christ’s Death by the Power of His Resurrection for the New Jerusalem
Through regeneration, we enter the kingdom of God and have access to enter into the New Jerusalem, and by remaining in the death of Christ (as the grain of sand remains in the wound of the oyster) we have a further entering into the New Jerusalem and a further becoming of the New Jerusalem. The […]
Letting Christ Live in us (our Wedding Garment) and Shining out Christ (our Beauty)
The many characteristics and aspects of the New Jerusalem need to be our enjoyment and experience today, and in the church life we need to have a foretaste of the New Jerusalem. Every genuine believer in Christ is a miniature of the New Jerusalem, and every local church is a “little New Jerusalem”. In Revelation […]
Experiencing the New Jerusalem as a City Representing the Kingdom of God Today
In the book of Revelation we see Christ as the center of God’s administration according to God’s economy carrying out God’s administration for the fulfillment of God’s purpose. Particularly, Christ is carrying out God’s administration to care for the churches. Revelation starts with the seven churches and has the following statement toward the end of […]
Eating the Tree of Life should be the Primary Matter in the Church Life Today
The New Jerusalem as the consummation of God’s work throughout the ages can be our enjoyment and experience today in our Christian life. Today we can enthrone the Lord in the center of our being and thus experience the throne of God and of the Lamb in the center of New Jerusalem. When the Lord […]
Drinking the River of Water of Life Flowing out of the Throne in the New Jerusalem
The New Jerusalem is not merely something that God will obtain in eternity – His miraculous structure of treasure constituted of the processed and consummated Triune God united, mingled, and incorporated with the transformed and glorified humanity – but something that we can enjoy and experience today. The many characteristics and aspects of the New […]
Whenever we Enthrone God in our Being, we Enjoy the Flow of Water of Life Within us!
As believers in Christ we have the throne of God set up in the center of our being, and whenever we enthrone the Lord and take Him as the Head, there’s a river of water of life flowing within us. In our daily life with all the day-to-day activities and things, we need to enthrone […]