New Jerusalem is God and Man Blended Together
God’s purpose is eternal and is focused on man. Man was created in God’s image so that God could be expressed through man.
This expression requires that God be life to man in a blended way. God’s life in man is not like water in a cup which can easily be separated. Rather God and man become one mingled entity and divinity is expressed through humanity.
The mingling of God with man can be seen in typology in Leviticus 2:4 with the meal offering, composed of fine flour mingled with oil. The entire New Jerusalem will be the fine flour mingled with the oil….Humanity is the fine flour, and God is the oil. The coming New Jerusalem will be a great meal offering, a big cake, made of fine flour mingled with oil. The Triune God is being mingled with us today, and this mingling will consummate in the New Jerusalem.*
This mingling requires man to accept Christ’s redemption and to receive Him as life. Then, as presented 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.”
We live one with the Christ who lives in us. This mutual living is “in faith.” By this living, Christ is formed in us (Gal. 4:19). His being formed in us is His constituting of us with Himself, His conforming us to His image, that He may be expressed through us and ultimately through New Jerusalem.
* From chapter 26, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Posted by Don on October 17, 2022
