Enter New Jerusalem through the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Revelation 21:21 says about New Jerusalem, “The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was, respectively, of one pearl.”
These pearls are the produce of Christ with Himself as the life-essence through His all-inclusive life-releasing death and life-secreting resurrection.
Pearls are produced by oysters in the waters of death. When an oyster is wounded by a particle of sand, the oyster secretes its life-juice around the sand and makes it a precious pearl. This depicts Christ as the living One coming into the death waters, being wounded by us, and secreting His life-essence over us.*
Thank the Lord that He came into our death situation to redeem and regenerate us out of death! “Our Savior Christ Jesus, who nullified death and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel” (2 Tim. 1:10).
He accomplished this by His death and resurrection, and God applied it to us: “Even when we were dead in offenses, [God] made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)” (Eph. 2:5). This life now grows in us and is bringing us onward to New Jerusalem.
In Revelation 20:14 we are told that death is cast into the lake of fire. New Jerusalem is a city one hundred percent of the Lord’s resurrection life!
* Life-Study of the New Testament, Conclusion Messages: The Church, the Kingdom, and the New Jerusalem, message 261, p. 2727, by Witness Lee. Published 1998 and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California.
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Posted by Don on January 31, 2025
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