Section 12
divine life, the divine nature, and the divine glory, not in the humanity, that all the "boards" are one. Although we are the boards in resurrec tion, this resurrected humanity is not the unit ing factor; the uniting factor is the divinity, the gold. The divine life, nature, and glory are the uniting factor. Likewise, our oneness is not in ourselves but in the Triune God who is our life, nature, glory, and expression. Eventually, we, like the forty-eight boards in the tabernacle, do not express ourselves but the glory of the Triune God as typified by the gold. Now we can see that the forty-eight boards are one in the divine glory, expressing the glory of the gold. This is real one ness. It is so clear that this oneness is not just a togetherness but the building. Togetherness is not adequate to have genuine oneness. This oneness must be the building.
When we come to the end of the Bible, we have the harvest of God's building work through the ages—the New Jerusalem, the ulti mate consummation of God's building enter prise. Is the oneness of the New Jerusalem a pile of precious stones? No, it is a building up. The appearance of the New Jerusalem is that of jas per (Rev. 21:10-11, 18a). In Revelation 4 we see that the appearance of God, the One sitting on