The Living City with the Living Temple
Revelation 21:22b says, “Its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.” This reveals that the temple is not material or physical. On the contrary, the temple is a personal temple, even the Triune God Himself….The temple is a person, and this person is the Triune God, the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. Our God today is the Redeemer as well as the Triune God.*
New Jerusalem is a living city and its temple is the living Triune God. The Old Testament is filled with physical shadows (Heb. 8:5), examples of the New Testament reality.
In the New Testament Jesus Christ came, died to redeem and to release the divine life (John 19:34), and resurrected to impart this life into all His believers (1 Peter 1:3). Now He is in us and we are in Him. This is “of God” (1 Cor. 1:30).
“In Christ” we are “a new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17) and He is our real place of service and worship. This spiritual reality is expanding to the fullness of New Jerusalem presented in Revelation 21-22.
* Life-Study of the New Testament, Conclusion Messages: The Church, the Kingdom, and the New Jerusalem, message 262, p. 2730, by Witness Lee. Published 1998 and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California.
Posted by Don on February 7, 2025
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