Transformed to be Precious Stones
Precious stones are the third element of the constitution of New Jerusalem.
The precious stones of the holy city signify the Spirit’s work to transform the redeemed and regenerated saints for the building of God’s eternal habitation that they may express God corporately in His all-permeating glory (Rev. 21:18-20). Transformation is not an outward change or correction but spiritual metabolism….In this spiritual metabolism, Christ with His riches as the new element is imparted into our being causing our old, natural element to be discharged….We must daily eat, digest, and assimilate Christ as our spiritual food in order to be transformed.*
Second Corinthians 3:18 tells us, “we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.” The Spirit imparts the new riches of Christ into us and washed out our old natural characteristics and living. This is spiritual metabolism.
To allow the Spirit to transform us, we turn our heart to the Lord (2 Cor. 3:16). This is to put away all that bothers or occupies us and look away unto Jesus (Heb. 12:1-2). He is the totality of our future; by turning to Him we are transformed to bring us into the reality of New Jerusalem.
* From page 31 of Ed Marks, The New Jerusalem—A Corporate Person, Affirmation & Critique Monograph, A&C Press, © Living Stream Ministry (2025).
Posted by Don on June 29, 2026
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