Glory of God Illuminates New Jerusalem
Revelation 21:23 says, “The [New Jerusalem] has no need of the sun nor of the moon that they should shine in it, for the glory of God illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.”
In the millennium the light of the sun and of the moon will be intensified (Isa. 30:26). But in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth, there will be no need of the sun nor of the moon. The sun and the moon will be in the new heaven and new earth, but they will not be needed in the New Jerusalem; for there God, the divine light, will shine much more brightly.*
The sun, moon, and stars are physical portraits of God as the real light in the universe. “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). This God came in Jesus Christ to be life and light to us; “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4).
In the new creation the nations around New Jerusalem will still have the sun and moon but those who are part of New Jerusalem will live solely by the highest light, the divine light.
* Life-Study of the New Testament, Conclusion Messages: The Church, the Kingdom, and the New Jerusalem, message 262, p. 2731, by Witness Lee. Published 1998 and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California.
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Posted by Don on February 17, 2025
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