Scripture Reading: Eph. 4:15-16; Col. 2:19; Psa. 36:8-9; Rev. 2:7; 21:18-23; 22:1-5

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«　WEEK 6　DAY 1　»

　　Psa. 48:1-2 Great is Jehovah, and much to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

　　Rev. 21:2 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

　　In the Old Testament, there was the city of Jerusalem with Zion as the center.... Mount Zion was one of the mountains on which Jerusalem was built. Zion is the center, and Jerusalem is the circumference. The church life is today's Jerusalem; within the church life there must be a group of overcomers, and these overcomers are today's Zion. According to Revelation 14, the overcomers are standing on Mount Zion with the Lord (vv. 1-5). Actually, in typology the overcomers are today's Zion.... Without Zion (the overcomers), Jerusalem (the church life) cannot be kept and maintained.

　　Zion is the high peak, the center, the uplifting, the strengthening, the enriching, and the reality of the church, the holy city.... [The] overcomers are the peak and the center of [the] local church. They are the uplifting, the strengthening, the enriching, and the reality of [the] local church....The overcomers as Zion are the highlight, the center, and the reality of the church. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, "The Training and the Practice of the Vital Groups," pp. 274-275)

　　The overcomers as today's Zion are for the consummation of the holy city (the church). They are to consummate, to finish, the building up of the local church and to bring in the consummated New Jerusalem in eternity (Rev. 21:1-2). In order to complete the building up of the Body, the Lord needs the overcomers, and the building up of the Body consummates in the New Jerusalem. This is why at the end of the Bible, in the last book, there is the calling for the overcomers. In Judges 5:15 Deborah said, "Among the divisions of Reuben / There were great resolutions in heart." We have to make a resolution to be the overcomers, the vitalized ones. An overcomer overcomes anything that replaces Christ or that is against Christ. In the Bible there is the age of the overcomers, and there is the calling for the overcomers. Furthermore, there is a way for us to be vitalized so that we can be the overcomers. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, "The Training and the Practice of the Vital Groups," p. 275)

　　Our goal is to reach Zion, to have Zion today, for the fulfillment of God's eternal economy.... The last book of the New Testament sounds out the call to be overcomers (Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21), and these overcomers will be Zion (14:1)....In the new heaven and new earth...the entire New Jerusalem will become Zion, with all the believers as overcomers. The church life in the Lord's recovery must go on and on until at least some of us, if not all, reach Zion. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Kings, p. 57)

　　Jerusalem typifies the church. Within Jerusalem, there was Mount Zion....The stronghold of Jerusalem is Zion. Whenever there is something that has to do with God's heart desire, Zion is mentioned....God always allowed Jerusalem to be trodden down, but He always protected Zion. There is a New Jerusalem, but there never will be a new Zion, because Zion can never become old. Every time the Old Testament speaks of the relationship between Zion and Jerusalem, it shows us that the characteristics, the life, the blessing, and the establishment of Jerusalem come from Zion. In 1 Kings 8:1, the elders were in Jerusalem, and the Ark of the Covenant was in Zion. Psalm 51:18 says that God did good to Zion and built the walls of Jerusalem. Psalm 102:21 says that the name of the Lord was in Zion and that His praise was in Jerusalem. Psalm 128:5 says that the Lord blessed out of Zion and that the good was seen in Jerusalem. Psalm 135:21 says that the Lord dwelt at Jerusalem but that the Lord was to be blessed out of Zion.... Joel 3:17 says that when God dwelt in Zion, Jerusalem would be holy. (CWWN, vol. 11, "God's Overcomers," p. 762)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, "The Practical Points concerning Blending," chs. 2-3, 5

«　WEEK 6　DAY 2　»

　　Eph. 4:15-16 But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ, out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.

　　To be no longer little children (Eph. 4:14), we need to grow up into Christ. This is to have Christ increase in us in all things until we attain to a full-grown man (v. 13). (Eph. 4:15, footnote 3) Head here indicates that our growth in life by the increase of Christ should be the growth of the members in the Body under the Head. (Eph. 4:15, footnote 4) To grow in life is to grow into the Head, Christ, but to operate in the Body of Christ is to operate out from Him. First, we grow up into the Head; then we have something that is out from the Head for the building up of the Body. (Eph. 4:16, footnote 1)

　　The Lord's concern is to gain the New Jerusalem through the precursor of the organic Body of Christ produced in the churches and composed of all the believers, not physically but spiritually. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, "Crystallization-study of Song of Songs," pp. 282-283)

　　In [the consummation of the book of Revelation] all the seven lampstands disappear. In the first chapter we see the seven lampstands. But in the last two chapters we see only one city. Eventually, the local churches will be over. Only the Body will remain and remain forever, and this Body of Christ is the unique tabernacle as God's dwelling place on this earth, the unique bride of the Lamb (21:2-3).... Therefore, we must pay much more attention to the Body of Christ than to the local churches.... As a person, we have a physical frame. That is our body. But a body by itself is a carcass. A physical body needs an inner life. Today the church is the same. On the one hand, it does have a frame, a body, but this frame is not the nature, the essence, or the element of the church. Ephesians 4 tells us the church is the Body, and within this church is the Spirit, the Lord, and the Father (vv. 4-6). The Father is the source, the Lord is the element, and the Spirit is the essence of the Body. These four entities are built together.

　　We need to see that there is something on this earth structured as a kind of organic constitution, which is called the Body of Christ, and this Body of Christ is the organism of the unseen God.... At the end of the Bible, there is only one consummation, and this consummation is the New Jerusalem. In this consummation we can see God (the Father, the Son, and the Spirit) and God's redeemed humanity. We can see Israel...(Rev. 21:12). We can see the believers... (v. 14). The New Jerusalem is the consummation of God and man. God has constituted Himself into our humanity, and our humanity also has been constructed into His divinity. Now divinity and humanity are joined, united, mingled, and blended together.

　　The reality of the Body of Christ is a living by all the God-men united, joined, and constituted together with God by mingling humanity with divinity and divinity with humanity. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, "The Practical Points concerning Blending," pp. 117-118, 120)

　　The holy city, the New Jerusalem, is not a material city but a person, ...a corporate person, and this corporate person is a couple—the processed Triune God married to the transformed, tripartite man. This is the Spirit and the bride becoming one (Rev. 22:17a). Divinity and humanity are married together, mingled together, to be one entity.... The holy city as the tabernacle of God is for God to dwell in (21:2-3), and God and the Lamb as the temple are for us to dwell in. God is our temple, and we are His tabernacle. In the new heaven and new earth the New Jerusalem will be a mutual dwelling place for both God and man for eternity. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, "Living in and with the Divine Trinity," p. 388)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1988, vol. 4, "The Perfecting of the Saints and the Building Up of the Body of Christ," ch. 3

«　WEEK 6　DAY 3　»

　　Rev. 14:1 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads.

　　4 ...These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He may go. These were purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

　　The New Jerusalem is the totality of the overcomers.... Only a relatively small part of the believers will be the overcomers.... At the Lord's coming, He will take away only the overcomers, leaving the rest of the believers...because they will not have the maturity in His divine life.... [They] will suffer discipline in outer darkness (Matt. 8:12; 22:13; 25:30). This is so that they can be perfected for their maturity.

　　The earlier overcomers will be rewarded. The Lord will reward the overcomers in this age with what they are in Christ.... Eventually, the majority of the believers will enjoy what they are in Christ for eternity.

　　To overcome...means that we love Him more than our self, more than our soul-life. An overcomer knows and loves only Christ.

　　The New Jerusalem in the new heaven and the new earth for eternity...will be the totality of all the believers throughout all the generations of the Old Testament and the New Testament. By then all of God's chosen and redeemed people will have been made overcomers. (CWWL, 1991- 1992, vol. 4, "The Overcomers," pp. 182, 184-185)

　　On the one hand, we have entered into God; on the other hand, we are still on the highways to enter into God. That the highways are in our heart means that we need to take the way of the church internally, not merely externally. (Psa. 84:5, footnote 1)

　　At the bronze altar, a type of the cross of Christ, our problems before God are solved through the crucified Christ as the sacrifices. This qualifies us to enter into the tabernacle, a type of Christ as the incarnated and enterable Triune God, and to contact God at the incense altar. At the golden altar of incense in front of the Holy of Holies..., the resurrected Christ in His ascension is the incense for us to be accepted by God in peace. Through our prayer at the incense altar we enter into the Holy of Holies— our spirit (Heb. 10:19)— where we experience Christ as the Ark of the Testimony with its contents. Through such an experience of Christ we are incorporated into the tabernacle, the incarnated Triune God, to become a part of the corporate Christ (1 Cor. 12:12) as God's testimony for His manifestation. (Psa. 84:3, footnote 1)

　　The cross of Christ, typified by the bronze altar, is our "nest," our refuge, where we are saved from our troubles and where we "lay" our young, that is, produce new believers through the preaching of the gospel. When we experience the resurrected Christ in His ascension, typified by the golden altar of incense, we are accepted by God in such a Christ and find a home, a place of rest, in the house of God. This house is the processed and consummated Triune God united, mingled, and incorporated with all His redeemed, regenerated, and transformed elect (John 14:1-23) to be the Body of Christ in the present age and the New Jerusalem as the mutual dwelling place of God and His redeemed in eternity (Rev. 21:3, 22). (Psa. 84:3, footnote 3)

　　The reason that the Lord still has not closed this age is that He is still waiting...for a group of overcomers to live in His Body in resurrection to be the means for Him to usher in His kingdom age. In Revelation 14 we see that even though many have been saved, the overcomers number only a hundred and forty-four thousand. May the Lord have mercy on us to make us the overcomers in the present age for Him to close this age and bring in His kingdom age. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, "A General Outline of God's Economy and the Proper Living of a God-man: A Fellowship with the Elders from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia," pp. 524-525)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1963, vol. 1, "Experiencing the Mingling of God with Man for the Oneness of the Body of Christ," chs. 4-5

«　WEEK 6　DAY 4　»

　　Matt. 1:23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel" (which is translated, God with us).

　　Ezek. 48:35 ...And the name of the city from that day shall be, Jehovah Is There.

　　We must hold on to this principle: God's presence is the criterion for every matter.... Do we have God's presence while we are saying certain things or taking a certain attitude? Is God's presence in our suggestion or proposal? If we touch the presence of God in all things, we will see that God will be there as the temple, and the building of God will be with us.

　　The more we reason, the more we lose God's presence. Please remember that the temple in the New Jerusalem is God Himself. God's presence is the center of the city. Therefore, in the church we must have the presence of God; we must have God as the temple. Then we will be built up to have the condition of the New Jerusalem. (The Building Work of God, pp. 89-91)

　　If the church is built up, it will have the throne of God, the ruling of God. In the New Jerusalem there is the throne of God....Because the throne of God is established, God can exercise His authority. If we want to know whether a certain church is being built up, we need to see whether there is God's throne and God's dominion among them. (The Building Work of God, p. 91)

　　Second Corinthians 2:10 mentions [that] ...Paul forgave a brother in the person of Christ. [The] Greek word [for person] means the face, the part around the eyes, which is the index of all the inward thoughts and feelings to signify the presentation of the whole person. The part of the face around the eyes is the index of all the inward thoughts and feelings, signifying what a person is thinking and how he feels within. Paul forgave that brother in the person of Christ, according to the index of His whole person expressed in His eyes. Paul lived not only in the presence of the Lord but also in the index of the inward feelings and thoughts of Christ. This is so deep, so tender, and so delicate. (CWWL, 1967, vol. 2, "An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit," p. 158)

　　A builded church has the flow and supply of life. The Scriptures show us that there is a river of water of life proceeding out of the throne, and on both sides of the river there is the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, and yielding its fruits each month (Rev. 22:1-2). This indicates that in God's presence and God's reigning there is the flow of life. Here there is the water of life which quenches people's thirst and causes people to be watered. Here there are also the fruits of the tree of life which enable the hungry people to be satisfied.

　　A builded church has light. In the New Jerusalem there is light (Rev. 21:23). This light is not natural light, neither is it the light of the sun or of the moon; this light is God Himself. God is the light, and Christ is the lamp. (The Building Work of God, pp. 93-95)

　　The New Jerusalem will have a particular kind of light— the redeeming and shining God (Rev. 21:23). The redeeming God shines as the shining God. The illuminating glory of God is the light within Christ, and the redeeming Christ is the lamp containing the light.

　　Also, the entire city of the New Jerusalem is the diffuser, diffusing the divine light over the nations outside the city (v. 24a).... Today this diffuser to spread the divine light is the Body of Christ. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, "The Application of the Interpretation of the New Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers," pp. 240-241)

　　[In Psalm 73] the solution to the psalmist's perplexity concerning the prosperity of the wicked was obtained in God's sanctuary. First, God's sanctuary, His habitation, is in our spirit (Eph. 2:22) and, second, it is the church (1 Tim. 3:15)....In our spirit and in the church we receive divine revelation and obtain the explanation to all our problems. (Psa. 73:17, footnote 1)

　　Further Reading: The Building Work of God, chs. 7-8; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, "The Application of the Interpretation of the New Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers," chs. 4-5

«　WEEK 6　DAY 5　»

　　Rev. 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was, respectively, of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

　　2 Pet. 1:4 Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature...

　　The New Jerusalem is built of three kinds of precious materials, signifying that she is built with the Triune God. First, the city proper, with its street, is of pure gold (Rev. 21:18, 21). Gold, the symbol of the divine nature of God, signifies the Father as the source, from whom the element for the substantial existence of the city is produced. (Rev. 21:21, footnote 1)

　　In the New Jerusalem, although there are twelve gates, there is only one street....The street is not straight but spiraling. In the first circle the street goes around the twelve gates, then as it turns inward, the circles become smaller and smaller until finally it reaches the throne. Thus, ...no matter which gate you enter in, you are on the one street. You can never get lost here. Ultimately, this street will take you to the center, to the throne. The street is pure gold....This indicates that the city is filled with God and the nature of God... [with] absolutely no earthy element. The street is...one—without any complication, and it is pure gold—without any mixture. (The Building Work of God, pp. 104-105)

　　The divine nature is what God is....The Bible tells us emphatically and directly that God is Spirit (John 4:24), God is love (1 John 4:8, 16), and God is light (1:5)....The divine nature is a constitution of these three items—Spirit, love, and light. To be a partaker of the divine nature is to be one partaking of God as Spirit, as love, and as light. Spirit denotes the nature of God's person, and love denotes the nature of God's essence. God is a divine being with a divine essence. The essence is more intrinsic than the element of something. Within the element is the essence, and this divine essence has love as its nature.

　　Furthermore, the divine light is the nature of God's expression. John tells us that the divine birth brought a seed into us (1 John 3:9). In this seed is the divine nature. Peter, furthermore, tells us that God has granted to us all things which relate to life (2 Pet. 1:3). Based upon this fact, God gave us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these we might become partakers, enjoyers, of the divine nature.... When you partake of the divine nature, you enjoy God as the Spirit, as love, and as light.

　　[When we] fellowship with the Lord, ...we realize and enjoy the Lord as the Spirit, and simultaneously we enjoy the nature of God's essence, which is love. Love then saturates us and even becomes us. Before this time we may have been disgusted with many things. After this kind of fellowship, however, everything is lovable....This love has not only filled us but saturated us. The reason we Christians can love persons whom others cannot love is because we enjoy God as love. We enjoy the divine nature of this loving God....Only those who partake of the divine nature love people genuinely. They are not taught to love others, but they have become love toward others.

　　If we would spend an adequate amount of time in the morning with the Lord, we would be full of light inwardly.... [Then] whatever we do and whatever we say would be full of light. This is the issue of our enjoying of the divine nature....If we would all spend time to fellowship with the Lord, we would have the sensation that we are enjoying the Lord as the Spirit, and we would become a person of love. Love would saturate us. Furthermore, whatever we would say would be light, and whatever we would do would be transparent as crystal. This is an evidence or proof that we are partaking of the divine nature. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 3, "God's New Testament Economy," pp. 392-394)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1984, vol. 3, "God's New Testament Economy," ch. 30; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, "The Application of the Interpretation of the New Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers," ch. 1

«　WEEK 6　DAY 6　»

　　Rev. 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was, respectively, of one pearl...

　　Phil. 3:10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.

　　The twelve gates of the city are pearls, which signify the Son's overcoming death and life-imparting resurrection, through which entrance to the city is gained. (Rev. 21:21, footnote 1)

　　When an oyster is wounded by a grain of sand, it secretes its life-juice around the grain of sand and makes it into a precious pearl. Pearls signify the issue of Christ's secretion in two aspects: His redeeming and life-releasing death and His life-dispensing resurrection....The death of Christ secretes, dispenses, to produce the gates of the city. The twelve gates are the issue of Christ's secretion also in His life-dispensing resurrection. (CWWL, 1994- 1997, vol. 3, "The Application of the Interpretation of the New Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers," p. 218)

　　Both Christ's death and resurrection have an issue, a secretion....Both kinds of secretion (dispensing) require the seeking believers' daily experience of the death of Christ subjectively by the power of Christ's resurrection that they may be conformed to the death of Christ (Phil. 3:10). We have to put not just Christ's death itself but the secretion of His death into our daily experience subjectively.

　　We cannot do this in and by ourselves....Everyone likes to argue. Arguments come from our natural life, from "I," not Christ. But we should have this "I" all the time crucified on the cross. We have to put this application of the subjective death of Christ into our daily experience. We can experience His death only by the power of the resurrection of Christ.... Yes, we have been crucified, but how can we keep ourselves on the cross all the time? No human beings can do it except those who know the power of the resurrection of Christ; they have the capacity, the ability, to practice this. By the power of the resurrection of Christ, we have the ability and the power to keep our pitiful self on the cross.

　　The New Jerusalem's transformed and built-up wall functions in four main ways. First, it sanctifies all the things belonging to God. God would not let any of His things be mixed up with the things that are not of Him, so there is the need of separation. The New Jerusalem's wall functions to separate the New Jerusalem unto God as something holy. This is why it is called the holy city.

　　 Second, ...the wall of the holy city protects the interest of the riches of God's divinity and the attainments of Christ's consummation.

　　The third function of the wall is to express God....Revelation 21:11 reveals that the city's glory is like the glory of jasper. That is God's appearance [4:3]. Today, the function of the Body of Christ, which consummates in the New Jerusalem, is to express Christ.

　　The fourth function of the wall with its foundations is to guarantee God's unfailing faithfulness for eternal security. The New Jerusalem standing upon the twelve layers of its foundations in the colors of the rainbow guarantees God's faithfulness.

　　In our created state we were dust, but...by His Spirit [God] transforms us through the renewing of our mind, emotion, and will....The soul is the natural man, the natural man is the fallen man, and the fallen man is the man abandoned by God. If we want to change our status, we need transformation. In order to be transformed, our mind, emotion, and will must be renewed.

　　Day by day, we should live a life not according to our natural concept but according to our renewed mind. Our mind is renewed by the word of God. Only the word of God can renew our mind. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, "The Application of the Interpretation of the New Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers," pp. 218-220, 232-234)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, "The Application of the Interpretation of the New Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers," chs. 2-3; The Building Work of God, chs. 9-10