The Daily Word of Righteousness

The Light of the World, #2

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. (Revelation 21:1—NIV)

There is no more "sea" in the believer who has been brought to maturity, that is, there is no part of his personality that is a part of the undifferentiated mass of the peoples of the earth. He is known to Christ and knows Christ. He is a son of God.

He will be holy in personality and behavior. He has been called to be a saint, a holy one, someone who is to be an eternal priest of God, who brings God to the saved nations of the earth. He has cooperated with the Holy Spirit until he himself has become holy.

He is of Jerusalem, that is, he is a member of the holy nation that has been called of God to be a witness of God to the nations.

In the last days he will come down out of Heaven from God. He is a righteous person whose spirit has been made perfect by the operations of God.

He has been prepared to be married to the Lamb. His love of the world system, the lusts and passions of his adamic nature, and his stubborn self-will have all been removed from him. In their place has been formed the very Nature of Jesus Christ including all the dimensions of the fruit of the Spirit.

He is the eternal dwelling place of God.

He will live among mankind so God can live among mankind.

Through his priestly ministry and his witness of God the saved nations of the earth will become the people of God.

He will remove all tears, death, mourning, and pain from the members of the saved nations.

He will be as a river of life from whom the nations can drink and be refreshed with the Divine Nature.

He will inherit all that God has promised concerning the new age.

God will be his God and he will be God's son.

Cowardice, unbelief, vile behavior, a murderous spirit, immorality, the practice of magic arts, idolatry, and lying shall have been removed from him for eternity.

He will be the eternal Wife of the Lamb, the counterpart of Christ, a helper suitable for the Lamb.

He will be a great pearl, a gateway to God. The pearl that he is will have been formed as he reacted in the scriptural manner to the endless irritations of life on earth.

His personality will be a wall against sin. The foundations of the wall will have been built on the foundation of the Apostles. They will be adorned with the precious jewels of character that have been formed by the pressure and heat of life on the earth.

The wall against sin that has been created in him will be beautiful with the beauty of holiness, but it shall be hard and unyielding when approached by that which is unrighteous.

His way of life will be that of transparent gold, pure, undefiled.

He does not "go to church." He himself is the Church. The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb dwell in Him.

To be continued.