The Bible: A Pleasant Garden to a Precious City (2)
The Bible presents God working with and in man to fulfill His eternal purpose in moving from a 
pleasant garden to a precious city.
Based on the current human culture we might prefer the garden. Cities today are filled with traffic, contamination, and other problems. But these cities are in the old creation. God’s city, New Jerusalem, is in the new creation where everything is pure, transparent, and bright.
Here are two verses which foretell the beauty of New Jerusalem and the joy of being in it:
Psalm 48:2 “Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, the sides of the north, the city of the great King.”
Psalm 50:2, “Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.”
God shines forth from New Jerusalem, a city “having the glory of God.”
God works in this age to attract men to believe in Jesus Christ, receive Him, and be regenerated. Then He works in man to transform and renew man so that we can be conformed to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:29), shedding everything of the image of fallen man. Finally He saturates our mortal body with His life to glorify us.
Because God has saturated all the believers who constitute New Jerusalem, the city is pure, transparent, peaceful, joyful, and full of light.
Posted by Don on January 28, 2022
