THE THIRD PART: 24 CRUCIAL LINES IN THE BIBLE
The Divine Economy
Message Seven—The Ultimate Consummation of God’s Eternal Economy
—the New Jerusalem
Scripture Reading: Rev. 21:2, 9-10; John 4:14b; Rev. 22:17
I. The New Jerusalem is the conclusion of the entire divine revelation and the central and ultimate consummated significance of the entire divine revelation—Rev. 21:2, 9-10: (The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 264)
A. The New Jerusalem is the conclusion and the total composition of the entire revelation of the Bible. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
B. All the revelations and visions of the Scriptures consummate in the New Jerusalem. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
II. The New Jerusalem is not a physical city, but an organic constitution, constituted of the redeeming, processed, and consummated Triune God and the redeemed, transformed, and glorified tripartite man, as the organism of consummated Triune God that He may gain the eternal enlargement and expression through the glorified tripartite man: (1997 WT, msg. 12; A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
A. The New Jerusalem is composed of all the Old Testament and New Testament saints who are built together as the eternal building of God. (1997 ST, msg. 12)
B. The New Jerusalem is the mingling of all the redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite men with the processed and consummated Triune God. (1997 ST, msg. 12)
C. The New Jerusalem is the ultimate manifestation of the processed and consummated Triune God for Him to be expressed for eternity. (1997 ST, msg. 12)
III. The New Jerusalem is a sign—the greatest and ultimate sign in the Scriptures (Rev. 1:1), signifying the aggregate of the result of God’s work of the new creation in all the dispensations within the old creation: (The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 257)
A. God’s work in the dispensation of the patriarchs on the patriarchs. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 257)
B. God’s work in the dispensation of the law on the children of Israel. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 257)
C. God’s work in the dispensation of grace on the New Testament believers. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 257)
D. God’s work in the dispensation of righteousness on the saved Israelites and on the rest of the New Testament believers not yet perfected. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 257)
IV. The New Jerusalem is the ultimate goal of God’s economy: (2012 ITERO-F, msg. 9)
A. God has only one ultimate goal – the New Jerusalem – to be God’s enlargement, expansion and expression. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
B. According to the entire revelation of the New Testament, the unique goal of the Christian work should be the New Jerusalem. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
1. The New Jerusalem is the highest point of the apostles’ living and working. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
2. We must take the goal of God’s eternal economy, the New Jerusalem, as our unique and the ultimate goal. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
V. The New Jerusalem is the destination of the flowing Triune God—John 4:14b: (2000 ST, msg. 12)
A. John 4:14b says, “…the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life”: (1997 ST, msg. 12)
1. Into (unto in Romans 5:21) speaks of the destination, indicating that the eternal life is the destination of the flowing Triune God. (2009 WT, msg. 5)
2. The eternal life will eventually be the New Jerusalem, the totality of the divine life; [thus,] into eternal life means “into the New Jerusalem.” (2009 ST, msg. 12)
B. The New Jerusalem is the issue of God’s flowing in three stages: the stage of the Father, the stage of the Son, and the stage of the Spirit: (The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 278)
1. The Father is the fountain as the source, the Son is the spring, and the Spirit is the flowing river, and this flowing issues in the eternal life, which is the New Jerusalem. (Crystallization-Study of the Gospel of John, msg. 14)
2. The fountain emerges, the spring gushes, and the gushing is the flowing as a river into the New Jerusalem. (Crystallization-Study of the Gospel of John, msg. 14)
VI. The New Jerusalem, which is both the tabernacle and the temple, is a mutual dwelling place for the redeeming God and His redeemed—Rev. 21:2-3, 22: (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
A. The tabernacle is God’s redeemed, and the temple is the redeeming God: (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
1. The tabernacle is built mostly with the humanity of God’s redeemed to be God’s dwelling place. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
2. The temple is built mostly with the divinity to be the dwelling place of God’s redeemed. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
B. The New Jerusalem is the mingling of God with His redeemed, and this mingling is a mutual dwelling place. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
C. The processed Triune God and His redeemed will be one mingled entity for eternity. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
VII. The New Jerusalem is a universal couple─ “a loving pair eternally” ─ the consummation of the divine romance ─Rev. 22:17: (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
A. According to its humanity, the New Jerusalem is the human wife (with the divine life and nature) of the Lamb –21:2, 9. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
B. According to its divinity, the New Jerusalem is the divine Husband (the redeeming God in His consummated embodiment, Christ, with His human life and nature) of God’s redeemed elect. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
C. Revelation 22:17 indicates that Christ and the New Jerusalem as His wife will be a universal couple for eternity. (1997 ST, msg. 12; cf. A Pattern of the Healthy Words, Series 3, lsn. 22)
1. The Spirit, who is the totality of the processed and consummated Triune God, becomes one with the believers, who are now fully matured to be the bride. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 258)
2. The consummation of the processed Triune God and the consummation of His chosen, redeemed, regenerated, and transformed people become a universal couple expressing the Triune God for eternity. (1997 ST, msg. 12)
VIII. The New Jerusalem is ultimate incorporation of God and man—the processed and consummated Triune God and His redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified elect are incorporated to be an incorporation: (1997 ST, msg. 12)
A. God’s intention is for all the believers in Christ to be incorporated into the incorporation of God Himself to be an enlarged and divine-human incorporation. (1997 ST, msg. 12)
B. The Bible reveals to us that the economy of God is for God and man to be incorporated into an incorporation, and this incorporation is first the Body of Christ and then the New Jerusalem. (1997 ST, msg. 12)
C. The union, mingling, and incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God and the regenerated believers will consummate in the New Jerusalem. (1997 ST, msg. 12)