CHAPTER ELEVEN

IN THE CONSUMMATION OF
THE NEW JERUSALEM

Scripture Reading: Heb. 11:10; Gal. 4:26; Heb. 12:22; Rev. 3:12; 2:7; 20:4-6; Col. 2:19; Eph. 4:13; Col. 1:28b; Rev. 14:1-4, 14-16; 21:1-3, 9-23; 22:1-5

OUTLINE

1. The New Jerusalem being the city with foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God and for which the Old Testament saints such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob eagerly waited—Heb. 11:10.
2. The Jerusalem above, the mother of the New Testament believers—Gal. 4:26.
3. The heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God, to which the New Testament believers come forward—Heb. 12:22.
4. The New Jerusalem, the city of God, descending out of heaven from God and appearing in the millennium—Rev. 3:12.
5. The Paradise in the millennium—Rev. 2:7.
6. The composition of all the overcomers of both the Old Testament and the New Testament up to the beginning of the one-thousand-year kingdom—Rev. 20:4-6:
1. God moving in the overcomers by growing in them—Col. 2:19.
2. God making them mature to arrive at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ—Eph. 4:13; Col. 1:28b:
1. The firstfruits before the great tribulation—Rev. 14:1-4.
2. The harvest at the end of the great tribulation—Rev. 14:14-16.
7. The New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth—Rev. 21:1-3, 9-23; 22:1-5:
1. The eternal habitation of God constituted with the Triune God and God's redeemed people—21:3, 10-23.
2. The mingling of the processed and consummated Triune God with the regenerated and glorified tripartite men for the eternal manifestation and expression of the Triune God through His redeemed people.
3. The greatest sign in the book of Revelation as an organism of the Triune God in eternity.
4. The Triune God's flow as the river of the water of life to water, nourish, sustain, and maintain the entire city for eternity.
5. The move of God in the redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified humanity as the ultimate consummated part of the move of God in man for eternity, thus to be a great part of God's history in His union with man.