The River, the Spirit, Brings All God’s Riches to Us
In Revelation 22:1 the river of water of life proceeds out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
The Triune God reaches us in this river, and this reaching of the Triune God is the realization of all the divine riches. This reaching river makes everything that the Father is and has and everything that the Son is and has so practically real. The Spirit as the realization of all the divine riches is all-inclusive. The throne of God and of the Lamb is in this river, this river flows in the golden street, the divine nature, and in this river and along its banks is the tree of life (v. 2). All the divine things are wrapped up with this one flow.*
John 16 presents the Lord’s promise that “when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality….He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will declare it to you.” In resurrection the Spirit of reality came as the river of life reaching us. Now He guides us into all the riches of the Father and the Son.
As stated in John 16, this guiding is to glorify the Son (and to glorify the Father in the Son). This glorification is in this age and is a precursor to New Jerusalem’s greater glorification of the Triune God in eternity.
* From chapter 44, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986
Bible verses quoted in these posts are from The Holy Bible, Recovery Version, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim CA, 2003. The text of this Bible is at text.recoveryversion.bible; this too is © by LSM.
Posted by Don on December 1, 2023
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