Holy and Spiritual for God’s Building
The Bible concludes in Revelation 21–22 with a city built by God in Christ with the cooperation of God’s people. This is New Jerusalem. John tells us in 21:2, “I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.”
God’s purpose is the building, and this can be proved by the end of Revelation. All God’s work throughout the centuries and the generations is for the building up of the New Jerusalem. What comes forth at the end of the Bible is not a group of spiritual persons or holy people but a built-up city.*
God desires that we be holy and spiritual. One expression of this desire is 1 Peter 1:15, “according to the Holy One who called you, you yourselves also be holy in all your manner of life.” However, the goal is not holiness; the goal is to be holy for the building of “the holy city, New Jerusalem.”
Likewise, we need to be spiritual; to live and walk in spirit for the building. Ephesians 2:22 states “you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit.” This dwelling place is New Jerusalem, a city that is spiritual, not physical.
* A quote from Witness Lee, Life and Building as Portrayed in the Song of Songs, chap. 16; published also in Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1972, vol. 1, p. 358; both © by Living Stream Ministry.
Posted by Don on August 12, 2024
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