The Light of New Jerusalem is like a Jasper Stone
After New Jerusalem comes “down out of heaven from God” (Rev. 21:10), the first description of the city is “having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, as clear as crystal” (21:11).
Revelation 4:3 also presents a jasper stone. “He who was sitting [on the throne in heaven] was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance.”
The One whom John saw sitting upon the throne was the same as jasper. In other words, the meaning of jasper is God seen, God made visible. When man stands before the throne, God will be known to him as jasper. This is how we will recognize Him when we go there, but not while we are here. What we realize today is quite obscure in many areas, but in that city the glory of God has the brightness of jasper. This means that when the New Jerusalem descends to earth we will be able to see God Himself.*
We will see God, and New Jerusalem, having a light like a jasper stone, will express God. This is the completion of God’s eternal purpose. This purpose is from eternity past and its accomplishment began in Genesis 1:26 when God created man in His image.
God intended that the created man would receive Him as life, pictured by the tree of life in Genesis 2. Man fell but Jesus Christ died to redeem us and resurrected to bring life into us. This life, by saturating our being, brings forth God’s expression unto New Jerusalem.
The Jasper Wall Expresses God.
* From chapter 5 of The Glorious Church by Watchman Nee, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, available at www.ministrybooks.org/ and www.livingstream.com/en/the-church/8012401-glorious-church-the.html.
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Posted by Don on May 23, 2022
