New Jerusalem is a Mutual Indwelling

The New Jerusalem is the tabernacle, and in another sense it is a temple. This is a strong proof that the New Jerusalem is not a physical city but a personal entity. The New Jerusalem is the believers, God’s tabernacle, and God, the believers’ temple. He dwells in us, the tabernacle, and we dwell in Him, the temple. We serve God in God. This is God’s expansion. The New Jerusalem as a spiritual, divine constitution is God’s dwelling place, God’s corporate expression, and God’s expansion to be our temple for us to live in and to serve Him. Praise the Lord for the triune constitution!*

These aspects of New Jerusalem are the eternal fulfillment of John 14:20, “I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you” and John 15:4, “Abide in Me and I in you.” The Lord is in us, the disciples, and we are in the Lord.

The Lord prayed for this in John 17:21, “That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us.” His prayer continues “the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one” (v. 22). This points to the glory expressed by New Jerusalem.

Also, in Revelation 21:22, “the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its [New Jerusalem’s] temple.” In this living temple we will live and serve God as priests (22:3).

* From chapter 40, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986

Posted by Don on September 4, 2023

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