God’s City is Composed of Divinity + Humanity (2)
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God….And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us” (John 1:1, 14a). Jesus Christ is the God-Man, both God and man (flesh).
In Exodus 26 the acacia wood overlaid with gold shows divinity with humanity in the building of the OT tabernacle which is “a figure of the true” NT tabernacle (Heb. 9:24).
The meal offering shows two elements [humanity, divinity] not merely added together but mingled one with the other. In this offering we see the fine flour mingled with oil (Lev. 2:4). In the tabernacle we can see only the combination or addition of gold with wood. In God’s incarnation divinity came into humanity and was added to humanity. In this God-man’s resurrection, humanity was brought into divinity and added to divinity….These two natures—the human and divine—are not only added together but also mingled together as one entity, as one person, without a third nature being produced.*
The mingling of divinity with our humanity is also seen in Galatians 2:20, “it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith.” Christ lives in us and we also live. This is a mingled living in the realm of faith, not in the physical realm. We learn this living now and will experience it in full in New Jerusalem.
* From chapter 27, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Posted by Don on November 30, 2022
