Mike teaches on 02-04-2017.
Revelation Revealed Series
THE BOOK OF REVELATION CHAPTER 22:1-5
The Eternal Paradise of God

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THE NEW EARTH AND THE NEW JERUSALEM ARE GOD’S PLAN FROM THE PARADISE OF EDEN NOW FINALLY MANIFEST

New Jerusalem is represented to us from 4 different perspectives:
It is God’s Tabernacle. From this perspective it is His Temple, where He abides. It is the Bride of the Lamb, the consort to rule with Christ forever. It is the Paradise of God. It is like Eden, but superior to it, as it is His Glory-filled residence filled with His sons in closest harmonious and unbroken fellowship. It is a City with measurements and materials.

Revelation chapter 22:1-5 The Last Chapter gave us a view of the City from the exterior: Its light and beauty; and what its relationship to the Nations of the New Earth is as a place of pilgrimage, those who are looking from without upon the New Jerusalem. Now these few verses give us a view from the interior of the City of the Bride. In this chapter the Garden’s river and the tree are exposed to our view. And we are told of their relationship to the residents and to the nations without.

The Harlot’s cup was defiling, corrupting. The river of life flowing from the Bride carries refreshing life to all. Not a life that enables men to exist, but some other form of life. The word LIFE has several different meanings. Psuche is the individual soul life, the living being. Whereas Zoe is the force of life within that being. Jesus laid down His Psuche for us. Jesus came that we might have Zoe more abundantly. All beings living eternally have Zoe. Angels have Zoe and therefore will exist eternally. Human beings will exist on the New Earth because they have Zoe.

But the Bride has Zoe more abundantly. Abundant Zoe equates to Glory. It is the life that Christ attained to in His Resurrection. It is the Newness of life. [Romans 6] God gave Him this “glory”; this life as a reward for enduring the Cross. And Christ may give it to whom He chooses. [John 3:34; Hebrews 12:2; John 5] Born of Adam, we are all fallen living souls with greatly diminished Zoe. But the Last Adam is a quickening spirit. Giving more Zoe to our spirit as we are justified in receiving Him as our personal Redeemer. More Zoe enables/allows the enlivened spirit to draw upon the gift of the power of the Holy Spirit. Living in the newness of life in the spirit after becoming a Christian, capacitates for the more abundant glorifying Zoe at resurrection [1 Corinthians 15:35-49 with Matthew 25:4] Rank relates to Zoe. Justified Zoe falls way short of glorifying Zoe. Our glory relates to our cooperating work of the power of the Holy Spirit brought to bear upon our fallen nature.

Neither the water of the river nor the fruit of the tree of life can impart a further capacitating work upon that spiritual soul being. But nourishes and maintains to the level of rank or order. In type, physical water maintains, refreshes and is the chief necessity of living. They maintain relative strength and mobility, righteousness and wisdom in the partaker. [Proverbs 3:13,18 11:30]

There is no blood in the New Earth and New Heavens. The life is not found in the blood there, but in the Water and Tree. When a man loses his blood and dies, he does not lose his existence. He still lives, but he’s lost a form of life/gift of a certain way of living. When man is glorified in resurrection, he receives a new “body” with no blood. “For old things are passed away, behold all things are new.” But still a body-glorified. Now this body’s life is found in this water and fruit of the Tree of Life. As the blood supplied life, so now these supply life. It is not only sustaining power and mobility but character associations as it flows from God and the Lamb. As Christ relinquished His will and shed his blood and obtained unto this glorified life, so now those who follow Him in like suffering obtain unto this glorified life.

The River does not appear to leave the City. The Bride will administer and tend the Garden. [Genesis 2:15] There is no altar, no flesh of animal, no blood, no herb or vegetable, no wine. [Genesis 1:29; Leviticus 10:9; Numbers 6; Proverbs 31:4]

Turning water into blood has in view the refusal of the river of life.

The ban on blood to the Israelite has also in view the blood’s association of carrying death in its fallen state. Looking unto the abundant Zoe of the new heavens and new earth. “For the land....

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