THE GREAT NEED FOR A NEW REVIVAL –WEEK 2
Arriving at the Highest Peak
of the Divine Revelation
Related Verses
John 1:14, 29, 32, 42, 51
14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
32 And John testified saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He abode upon Him
42 He led him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Cephas (which is interpreted, Peter).
51 And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
1 Cor. 15:45
45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul”; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.
Rev. 21:2-3, 22
2 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.
22 And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
Related Reading
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)
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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
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