The Triune God: The Center, Substance, and Essence
The Bible begins “God created.” God is plural in Hebrew and created is singular. This is the first indication that God is Triune, Three-One.
The Bible consummates with New Jerusalem where there is “a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street.” This also shows that God is Triune—the river, portraying the Spirit, is the unique flow out of one throne occupied by God and the Lamb.
Throughout the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation we see one divine wonderful person—the Triune God. The ultimate consummation of the divine revelation in the Holy Scriptures and of everything that the Triune God has done and achieved is the New Jerusalem, which is the composition of the Triune God mingling Himself with the tripartite man. The New Jerusalem as the divine composition of the Triune God mingling Himself with His redeemed, transformed, tripartite man is the ultimate, universal consummation of all of God’s divine revelation and His divine doing.*
The Triune God created man for His purpose. Man fell into sin and death but God redeemed and regenerated man. Now He is working so that regenerated humans will be transformed “from glory to glory” by beholding the Lord with unveiled face (2 Cor. 3:18). We are also being “conformed to the image of His Son” (Rom. 8:29).
These humans in the process of transformation and conformation are being built together as the Body of Christ today to prepare the way unto New Jerusalem’s appearing with God’s image and glory.
* From chapter 28, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
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Posted by Don on December 19, 2022
