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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Heavenly Jerusalem
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. (Galatians 4:26)
The new Jerusalem is in Heaven today. It is free in God. It is the mother of every member of the Body of Christ.
"All" refers to the members of the Body of Christ whether Jewish or Gentile by race. The current idea that Christianity is Gentile by nature is false. Christianity is first, last, and always of the Jews and for the Jews. We Gentiles are added when we place our trust in Christ.
Christianity began with the Jews (the New Testament was written by Jews) and will end with the Jews. It is we Gentiles who are the strangers, not the Jews.
The heavenly Jerusalem, the new Jerusalem, will come down from God from the new heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. This will take place after the Millennium, the thousand-year Kingdom Age, has been concluded.
The holy city will come down out of Heaven from God because it is formed in Heaven. The Church, the new Jerusalem, the Body of Christ, the Wife of the Lamb, is not being fashioned from the flesh and blood of the earth. It is being constructed by the Holy Spirit of God working in heavenly places, using the Divine Virtues that come from the Tree of Life—the Lord Jesus Christ.
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:13)
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3)
The members of the Church, of the new Jerusalem, began their existence as flesh and blood people. Through the various workings of the grace of God in Christ the members of the Church are transformed—spirit, soul, and (in the day of resurrection) body—into heavenly creatures, into the complement of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. (I Corinthians 15:46-49)
Christ, the Divine Son of God, partook of human nature. We who are human are partaking of the Divine Nature. Christ and His Bride are an eternal union, a marriage, of what is Divine with what is human and material. Such is the glorious destiny of the Church, the Body of Christ, the Wife of the Lamb, the new Jerusalem.
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children. (Isaiah 54:11-13)
The above is the Word of the Lord for us today. The Church, the Body of Christ, must be "prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." There must be preparation and adornment.
To be continued.