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The street of pure gold (Rev. 21:21) which symbolizes the divine nature.
The Spirit is the River of New Jerusalem
This river is the flowing, life-giving Spirit.
Posted by Don on January 24, 2024
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Jesus Christ is the Street of New Jerusalem
Jesus Christ is THE WAY for all of God’s people. He is the reality of the golden street of New Jerusalem.
Revelation 21:21 declares that in New Jerusalem there is “the street.” Not many streets. Do not set your mind on earthly things (Col. 3:2) when considering New Jerusalem. Believe and receive the word of the Bible.
New Jerusalem does not have many streets like an earthly city, only Jesus Christ as THE WAY.
Posted by Don on January 10, 2024
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The River, the Spirit, Brings All God’s Riches to Us
In Revelation 22:1 the river of water of life proceeds out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
The Triune God reaches us in this river, and this reaching of the Triune God is the realization of all the divine riches. This reaching river makes everything that the Father is and has and everything that the Son is and has so practically real. The Spirit as the realization of all the divine riches is all-inclusive. The throne of God and of the Lamb is in this river, this river flows in the golden street, the divine nature, and in this river and along its banks is the tree of life (v. 2). All the divine things are wrapped up with this one flow.*
John 16 presents the Lord’s promise that “when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality….He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will declare it to you.” In resurrection the Spirit of reality came as the river of life reaching us. Now He guides us into all the riches of the Father and the Son.
As stated in John 16, this guiding is to glorify the Son (and to glorify the Father in the Son). This glorification is in this age and is a precursor to New Jerusalem’s greater glorification of the Triune God in eternity.
* From chapter 44, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986
Bible verses quoted in these posts are from The Holy Bible, Recovery Version, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim CA, 2003. The text of this Bible is at text.recoveryversion.bible; this too is © by LSM.
Posted by Don on December 1, 2023
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Walk in God’s Divine Nature, Have the Flow of Life
According to our experience, if we do not behave and live according to God’s divine nature, we feel dried up within, and we do not sense the flow of life within us. We have the flow of the water of life within us when we are living, behaving, and having our life according to God’s divine nature. If you do not walk in the divine nature as the divine street, you are dried up because there is no riverbed for the flow of the street.*
Second Peter 1:4 proclaims “He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust.”
Outwardly we are still living in the world and are surrounded by things of corruption. But inwardly we are partakers of the divine nature.
The divine nature is portrayed by the golden street of New Jerusalem. This shows that our Christian walk today should be according to the divine nature in us. When we feel dry, even this sense is from the Lord and indicates that we should confess our failures to be cleansed and live the divine nature (1 John 1:9).
The divine nature and the flow of the Spirit are our current foretaste of New Jerusalem. The more we enjoy them, the more we will eagerly await the Lord’s return which will fully save us from the world’s corruption.
* From chapter 43, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986
Posted by Don on November 8, 2023
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Walk in God’s Divine Nature, Drink the Water of Life
Revelation 21:21’s description of New Jerusalem is “the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.”
The river flows out of the throne, but it flows in the middle of the street. Revelation 21:21 tells us that the street of the city is pure gold….The street in the New Jerusalem is the very riverbed of this flowing river. The street being gold indicates that the way in the New Jerusalem is God’s divine nature. The Christian way for the Christian life is God’s divine nature. We should dress according to God’s divine nature, behave ourselves according to God’s divine nature, talk to others according to God’s divine nature, and deal with our spouse according to God’s divine nature.*
Practically, the walk according to God’s nature is to walk according to the Spirit (Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:16). It is not to walk according to a printed rule book. To walk according to the Spirit is described in Romans 8:6, “the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.”
The sense of death can be weakness, uncertainty, doubt, hesitation, etc.; the sense of life and peace can be joy, brightness, and more.° Life and peace should be our way today and will be our unique way in New Jerusalem where death will be no more.
* From chapter 43, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986
° For more about these feelings, see the chapters on the sense of life and the sense of the Spirit in Knowledge of Life which is available for free from Bibles for America and in many languages from Rhema Books.
Posted by Don on November 6, 2023
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Walk the Divine Nature in New Jerusalem
Revelation 21:21 declares, “the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.” New Jerusalem has only one street, one unique, divine way for us to live. It is absolutely NOT like 
human cities with many different streets going in many directions.
New Jerusalem has “a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street” (Rev. 22:1). The street and the river are together—a way for us to walk and a supply to energize us to walk. All of this is under the throne of God and the Lamb.
Furthermore, the Triune God dwells within us so we have the living throne. We do not get commands from a throne far away but we have the Spirit leading us and supplying us inwardly to keep us on the golden street.
In the New Jerusalem there is one unique street—God’s divine nature….We are walking on the divine street, which means that we are walking in the divine nature. The divine nature has been given to us, and 2 Peter 1:3-4 says that God has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness and that we may be those partaking of the divine nature. To partake of the divine nature means that we have received the divine nature already. Partaking of the divine nature means enjoying the divine nature….We do not need to receive His nature again, but we have to enjoy it every day.*
* From chapter 40, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Posted by Don on August 14, 2023
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Have the Golden Nature, Walk on the Golden Street
Gold is mentioned twice in John’s description of New Jerusalem: “the city was pure gold” (Rev. 21:18) and “the street of the city was pure gold” (21:21). This gold portrays the divine nature which God has given us to partake of.
Since we as the children of God have the divine nature, this divine nature should spontaneously be our street and our walkway. The reason we do not go dancing is because this is against the divine nature. The divine nature regulates us, not by a written regulation but by being a street in our inner being. Our driving a car is not only regulated by a street but also by the lines painted on the street. Our Christian life should not be regulated by a church code or by a written regulation but by the divine nature as our unique street.*
This unique street is also “the law of the Spirit of life” in Romans 8:2. It regulates us to stop by the inward sense of death or to go ahead with the inward sense of life and peace (8:6). This is in contrast to the struggles and failures in Romans 7 from trying to live by the outward law.
May we all learn in this time to live Christ (John 6:57, Phil. 1:21) by walking according to the Spirit (Gal. 5:16, 18). Walking in this way we experience the golden street of New Jerusalem before we actually see the city.
* From chapter 40, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Posted by Don on August 11, 2023
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The Street, the River, and the Tree are Together
Repeating Revelation 22:1-2a, “A river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street. And on this side and on that side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit each month.”
When we take the divine way, the street of God’s divine nature, we have the life flowing in us, and we also have the life supply nourishing us. Day by day, as we are living such a life and walking according to God’s divine nature, we enjoy the water of life and the tree of life as our supply. We all need a day-by-day experience of the divine street of gold with the river of water of life and the tree of life in its middle, signifying that the life water and the life supply flow in the divine way.*
The river of life is in the middle of the New Jerusalem’s street and the tree of life spreads on both sides of the river. Thus, we experience all three together. When we have one, we have all three; when we are away from one, we are away from all three.
A key to having this rich experience is in John 6:57— “he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.” In this chapter Jesus is the bread of life, our nourishment for us to live Him, and this bread is presented to us in the words He speaks, which become spirit and life to us (v. 63). This is a foretaste of New Jerusalem. Let us take in the living word every day!
* From chapter 36, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Posted by Don on April 12, 2023
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Jesus Christ is the Reality of the Tree of Life
Revelation 22:1-2a, “A river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street. And on this side and on that side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit each month.”
The one tree of life growing on the two sides of the river (v. 2) signifies that the tree of life is a vine, spreading and proceeding along the flow of the water of life for God’s people to receive and enjoy. The fruits of the tree of life will be the food of God’s redeemed for eternity. They will be continually fresh, produced every month, twelve fruits yearly. This means that when we walk and move in the divine nature of God, we not only sense the flow of life within us but also sense the supply of life, the nourishment of life, the spiritual food.*
This vine tree, spreading along both sides of the river of life, is a picture of our Savior Jesus Christ who is available to all men, as seen in the words “everyone who will confess in Me” (Matt. 10:32), “whoever does the will of My Father” (Matt. 12:50), “everyone who believes” (John 3:15, 16), “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord” (Acts 2:21), and “rich to all who call upon Him” (Rom. 10:12).
The Lord Jesus is accessible to all men now and to all His believers in New Jerusalem. Let us enjoy and appreciate Him every day!
* From chapter 36, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
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Posted by Don on April 10, 2023
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Walk by the Spirit to Have the Spirit’s Flow of Life
John saw in New Jerusalem “a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street” (Rev. 22:1).
This river of life is a symbol of the Spirit. (The Spirit plus God and the Lamb on the throne are the Triune God.) In John 7:38 Jesus promised, “He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.” Then verse 39 explains, “But this He said concerning the Spirit.”
In the middle of this street is the river of water of life (22:1-2), which indicates that when you take the way according to God’s nature, the life of God flows within you. The divine life flows in the divine nature as the unique way for the daily life of God’s redeemed people. If I do not buy a tie according to God’s nature, there is no flow of life within me. However, if I buy a tie according to God’s nature, I sense the flow of life….Whatever we do according to God’s nature, we immediately have the deep sensation of the flow of life watering us.*
As Christians, we are one spirit with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17). We have a choice: walk by the flesh or walk by the spirit. When we walk in spirit (Gal. 5:16, 25), the Spirit within us flows. This is our current experience of the eternal flow in New Jerusalem.
More posts about the Spirit as the river of life: Take Freely the Water of Life
* From chapter 36, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
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Posted by Don on April 7, 2023
https://newjerusalem12.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/walk-by-the-spirit-to-have-the-spirits-flow-of-life/
The Golden Street is our One Way (2)
New Jerusalem is a city of gold. This gold represents the divine nature which we partake of in our experiences of the salvation we have received (2 Peter 1:4).
God’s divine nature is the unique regulation, and this is the way that we have to take and the street that we have to walk on. God’s divine nature is our way and our strength. I praise the Lord that in all the churches so many saints are not regulated by a written code but by the one golden street, which is the divine nature of God. Revelation 21:21 tells us that “the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.” If we take God’s nature as our unique way, we will be pure, without mixture, and transparent, without opaqueness.*
Galatians 3:1-5 presents a strong contrast between the works of law and the Spirit by faith. If we are living by a written code, we are living in the Old Testament environment—works (by our effort) of law. Instead, we should seek the things above (Col. 3:1) and take Christ as our life and as the moment by moment leading for our living.
When we take Christ as the Way for our living, we manifest Him. People whose inner eyes are open and whose hearts are soft toward God will notice this. In the next age and in eternity through New Jerusalem, everyone will see this manifestation very clearly.
* From chapter 36, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Posted by Don on April 5, 2023
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The Golden Street is our One Way
Revelation 21:21b declares about New Jerusalem, “the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.”
The street of the city is gold (v. 21b), signifying God’s nature. The street is a part of the city proper, and every part of the city proper is gold. The street being gold means that God’s nature is the way in the city and the way in the church life….Even the way we dress and what we buy should be according to God’s nature. As brothers in the Lord, we should buy our ties according to God’s nature and wear our shoes according to His nature. Some Christians who are concerned about being holy have regulations, but in the New Jerusalem there is only one regulation—the golden street.*
The golden street as the one way corresponds to the words of Jesus in John 14, “I am the way.” The New Testament does not have a regulations on how to dress, what to do, where to go or not go, and so many other aspects of daily life. We do not decide by outward regulations but by the living Christ within us as our way.
The Lord is with our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22) and our mind set on our spirit is life and peace (Rom. 8:6). Our mind away from our spirit brings uncertainty, anxiety, hesitation, etc. Jesus Christ is our way today, our way unto New Jerusalem, and our golden way in New Jerusalem.
* From chapter 36, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Bible verses quoted in these posts are from The Holy Bible, Recovery Version, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim CA, 2003. The text of this Bible is at text.recoveryversion.bible; this too is © by LSM.
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Posted by Don on April 3, 2023
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