New Jerusalem is Perfect and Complete
The twelve precious stones are for the completion of God’s eternal administration signified by the number twelve. Twelve is the number of absolute perfection and eternal completion in God’s eternal administration. Hence, the twelve precious stones of the foundation of the New Jerusalem indicate that the foundation is absolutely perfect and eternally complete for God’s administration.*
Many aspects of New Jerusalem have twelve or one hundred forty-four (twelve times twelve). The entirety of New Jerusalem is perfect and complete because it comes out of the perfected and complete God, is constituted with this God, and express such a God.
The city is His enlargement in His people to be a corporate expression of Him. Anything less than perfect would not be a proper display of what He is.
* Life-Study of the New Testament, Conclusion Messages: The Church, the Kingdom, and the New Jerusalem, message 260, p. 2719, by Witness Lee. Published 1998 and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California.
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Posted by Don on January 8, 2025
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