God’s Blessing to Us: “All Things New”
Revelation 21 often has “And” because it is coupled with and dependent on all that transpired before. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth” (v. 1). “And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem” (v. 2). “And He who sits on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new” (v. 5).
The difficulty that we face today is that even though we are the new creation [2 Cor. 5:17], we still live in the old creation. But in that day all things will become new; all things will be in the new creation. Not only will the inward being be new, but the outward will be as well. The entire environment and all things within it will be made new. This is called eternity.*
All things will be new because God will be preeminent in the new creation, without any opposition. The entire new creation will be under God’s shining. Revelation 21:23 tells us that “the city [New Jerusalem] 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.”
Furthermore, the next verse continues “And the nations will walk by its light.” Everything around New Jerusalem will be blessed by being in the light of this wonderful city.
* From chapter 5 of The Glorious Church by Watchman Nee, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, available at www.ministrybooks.org/ and www.livingstream.com/en/the-church/8012401-glorious-church-the.html.
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Posted by Don on May 9, 2022
