Outline
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The highest peak of the divine revelation given to us by God is the revelation of the eternal economy of God—God becoming man that man may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead:
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The entire Bible, which is the explanation of the eternal economy of God, is the autobiography of the Triune God, seen in the two sections of eternity and on the bridge of time:
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The Triune God came from eternity into time and with His divinity to enter into humanity to become the incarnated God for His direct move in man, seen in the four Gospels, for the accomplishment of His judicial redemption—John 1:14, 29.
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In resurrection He became the compounded God, the "processed" God, the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit, seen in the Acts and the Epistles, for the carrying out of His organic salvation—John 1:32, 42; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Phil. 1:19.
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In eternity future He will be the corporate God, the New Jerusalem, seen in Revelation 21 and 22.
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The universal, divine-human incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the regenerated, transformed, and glorified believers is the goal of God's eternal economy—John 1:51; Rev. 21:3, 22.
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The central revelation of God and the Lord's recovery is God becoming the flesh, the flesh becoming the life-giving Spirit, and the life-giving Spirit becoming the sevenfold intensified Spirit to build up the church that becomes the Body of Christ and that consummates the New Jerusalem.
Morning Nourishment
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us… 1 Cor. 15:45 …The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.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.
The Bible as the content of the Christian life is the autobiography of the Triune God…Who is God? What is God? What has God done, what is He doing, and what will He do? Where was God, where is God, and where will God be? There is only one autobiography that speaks of God, and this autobiography is the content of the Christian life.
The Bible is an autobiography of a wonderful person—the processed and consummated Triune God. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” p. 358)
Today’s Reading
The Triune God as a wonderful person is the contents of our Christian life. He exists from eternity to eternity, having no beginning or ending. As such an eternal One, He created the universe and man. After His creation of man, He remained the same for four thousand years. One day in time He entered into a long “tunnel” to get Himself processed.After those thirty-three and a half years, He became both divine and human…Thus, some particular element was added into Him, and that particular element was humanity. After passing through human living, He entered into death. According to the divine autobiography, His all-inclusive death has also become an element of His being. After this death, He entered into His marvelous resurrection with His ascension. Today…He has divinity, humanity, human living, an all-inclusive death, and an all-inclusive resurrection…When these five things are added together, we have today’s processed and consummated Triune God.
My God is a composition. He is composed of divinity, humanity, human living, an all-inclusive death, and an all-inclusive resurrection to be my God, my Redeemer, my Savior, my Lord, my Master, my Head, my reality, my life, my living, and my everything. This is my God!
This compounded person is typified by the compounded holy ointment in Exodus 30:22-31. The compounded ointment was not merely oil. It was an ointment…All the elements plus all the numbers related to the compounded ointment signify Christ’s divinity, humanity, human life, death, and resurrection. Some Bible teachers recognized that the compounded ointment is a type of the Holy Spirit…Through our own study we saw that olive oil typifies the unique God, myrrh typifies the precious death of Christ, cinnamon typifies the sweetness and effectiveness of Christ’s death, calamus typifies the precious resurrection of Christ, and cassia typifies the repelling power of Christ’s resurrection. Our God today is the compounded God. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” pp. 359-362, 364)
In the beginning of the Bible there was only God and nothing else [Gen. 1:1]. At that time God was only in His one aspect—the triune Father, Son, and Spirit. Therefore, God referred to Himself as “Us” and “Our.”…[Genesis 1:26] indicates that God is three—the Father, Son, and Spirit—and therefore has the aspect of being three…In the beginning of the Bible there is one single God, and at the end there is a great, corporate God—the New Jerusalem.
Just as the Bible begins with God, so it ends with God…The New Jerusalem is God’s enlargement and expansion, God’s expression in eternity, which is the corporate God. Those who participate in the New Jerusalem are all God’s children, God’s kind, God’s species. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “How to Be a Co-worker and an Elder and How to Fulfill Their Obligations,” pp. 256-257)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” chs. 2—3; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “How to Be a Co-worker and an Elder and How to Fulfill Their Obligations,” chs. 3—4