The Light of New Jerusalem
Revelation 21:23 declares, “the city has no need of the sun or of the moon that they should shine in it, for the glory of God illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.”
The New Jerusalem has God’s glory as the uncreated light and the Lamb as the lamp to shine forth the divine brightness through the entire city (vv. 23, 11; 22:5b). In the New Jerusalem there will be no man-made or God-created light, because God’s glory is the light. Within the lamp, Christ, is the light, God. By this way God shines through the entire city. God is the light; Christ is the lamp; and the church, the New Jerusalem, is the lamp container.*
Christ is our light of life today, as He spoke to us in John 8. This light shines in our being to expose what is still of darkness, that we may repent and ask the Lord to purify us with Himself. In Revelation 1:14 “His eyes were like a flame of fire” ready to burn away everything that does not correspond with God’s intention.
God’s glory fully shines through New Jerusalem because the entire city is pure, clear, and transparent (Rev. 21:11, 18, 21). Today we are being washed by the water in the Lord’s word to be without spot or blemish (Eph. 5:26). This living washing purifies us to the purity of New Jerusalem. The eternal result is that the entire city shines with the glory of God!
* This is the 17th of a series with quotes from chapter 28 of The Central Line of the Divine Revelation by Witness Lee, copyright by Living Stream Ministry.
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Posted by Don on August 25, 2021
