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Christ is the Holy One and the true One (Rev. 3:7); to the church of brotherly love, the Lord is the Holy One, the true One, by whom and with whom the recovered church can be holy, separated from the world, and true, faithful, to God.
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Christ is the Amen and the faithful and true Witness—v. 14a:
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The confusion at Babel destroyed the universal language, but two words were not destroyed, Hallelujah and Amen; Amen simply means “that’s it.”
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Amen is a kind of eternal yes; “That’s it” is just Christ Himself; Christ has a name, and His name is called Amen—That’s it!—this is for life dispensing.
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Because Christ is the Amen (meaning “firm,” “steadfast,” or “trustworthy”), He is faithful and true as God’s Witness.
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Out of such a Christ ministered, the children of God have been brought forth to have eternal life (John 3:16), to partake of the fellowship of the eternal life by abiding in the Lord and walking in the light (1 John 1:3-7; 2:6), to be taught by the anointing (vv. 20, 27), to enjoy the virtues of the divine birth with the divine seed (3:9; 2:29; 4:7; 5:1,4, 16-21), to be the testimony of Jesus—the lampstands as the expression of the Triune God (Rev. 1:9-12, 20), to be the harvest with the firstfruits as the expression of life (14:1-5, 15-16), and to be the bride of the Lamb as His increase and satisfaction (John 3:29-30; Rev. 19:7-9).
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Eventually, the Triune God united, mingled, and incorporated with His redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite people will become the New Jerusalem as the ultimate consummation of the dispensing of the Triune God into man—21:2-3, 9-10, 22-23; 22:1-2.
Morning Nourishment
1 John 2:27 …The anointing which you have received from Him abides in you…His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.Rev. 21:9-10 …Come here; I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
When we enjoy the fellowship of the eternal life by abiding in the Lord and walking in the light, we are under the teaching of the divine anointing (1 John 2:20, 27). The children of God are also brought forth to be taught by the divine anointing. The anointing may be considered as a kind of oiling. Many machines need to be oiled. If they are not oiled, they do not run smoothly. Instead, they make a lot of noise. Sometimes we Christians make a lot of noise, either to our wife or to our husband or to the elders or to the brothers. This means that we are short of anointing. We need to get oiled. Hallelujah! We have a source of oil because the anointing is within us. All the time it anoints us. This again is life dispensing. This anointing teaches us, oils us, and regulates us all the time…This is life dispensing. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” p. 243)
Today’s Reading
We were begotten not just of our parents but also of God with a divine seed (1 John 3:9). This divine seed is God’s eternal life…By the virtues of this birth and seed we can practice the divine righteousness (2:29), we can practice the divine love (4:7; 5:1), and we can overcome the world, death, sin, the devil, and idols (vv. 4, 16-21)…In the spiritual language virtue means life energy…We can overcome the negative things because we have the energizing life. This energizing is the dispensing of life.The church is…the harvest with the firstfruits as the expression of life (Rev. 14:1-5, 15-16). A harvest is a gathering of all the living produce of the farm. This signifies the maturity of life and the riches of life by life’s dispensing.
We also become the bride of the Lamb as His increase and satisfaction (John 3:29; Rev. 19:7-9). In John 3 Christ is the Bridegroom, and the church is the bride as His increase. In Revelation 19 the church as the wife has made herself ready for the marriage of the Lamb for His satisfaction.
Eventually, there will be the ultimate consummation of the dispensing of the Triune God into man. This will be the New Jerusalem, the holy city, the tabernacle of God, the bride, and the wife of the Lamb as the consummate expression of the Triune God (21:2-3, 9). Such a corporate entity is built with God the Father’s nature, signified by the gold, God the Son’s overcoming death and life-imparting resurrection, signified by the pearls, and God the Spirit’s work of transformation, signified by the precious stones (vv. 11, 18-21). The New Jerusalem, as a consummate expression of the Triune God, is supplied and nourished by the Triune God (22:1-2, 14, 17). God as the Father is the source, the Spirit as the water of life is the flow, and the Son as the tree of life is the life supply. In Revelation 22 a river of living water flows from the throne of God. Within this river grows the tree of life. This is a clear view of the Triune God in His dispensing. The Father as the source is on the throne with the Lamb because He is the redeeming God, the Lamb-God…Out of this redeeming God flows the river, signifying the Spirit. In the flow of the river of water of life, the Lamb becomes the tree of life…The life-dispensing river circles the entire city as it flows downward from the throne of the Lamb-God in a spiral flowing. This flowing is the dispensing of the Triune God into His chosen people as life and the life supply in fullness for eternity. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 244-246)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1982, vol. 2, “The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,” ch. 3