I.　The New Jerusalem being the ultimate consummation of the tabernacle, God's dwelling place:

A.　The New Jerusalem as the consummation of the tabernacle being God's dwelling place for eternity—Rev. 21:2-3.

B.　In the New Jerusalem as the consummation of the tabernacle, God having the utmost rest in expression for eternity.

C.　God's dwelling place, a place not only for living but also for enjoyment, being the place for Him to be the enjoyment of His redeemed and regenerated people.

D.　The New Jerusalem as the tabernacle of God being the temple of God—Rev. 21:22:

1.　In keeping with the principle of the tabernacle of God in the Old Testament becoming the temple—1 Sam. 3:3.

2.　The city being the temple, indicating that the temple will be enlarged to be a city.

3.　The entire city of New Jerusalem being the Holy of Holies—Rev. 21:22a, 16.

4.　The temple being the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb—Rev. 21:22b:

a.　The expression the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb referring to the redeeming God.

b.　The temple being the dwelling place not of God and the Lamb but of the redeemed saints, who serve the Triune God by dwelling in Him.

E.　The New Jerusalem, which is both the tabernacle and the temple, being a mutual dwelling place for God and His redeemed:

1.　The tabernacle being the redeemed, and the temple being the redeeming God.

2.　The tabernacle being built mostly with the humanity of God's redeemed to be God's dwelling place.

3.　The temple being built mostly of divinity to be the dwelling place of God's redeemed.

4.　God taking us as His dwelling place and giving Himself to us as our dwelling place.

5.　Indicating the mingling of divinity with humanity:

a.　The New Jerusalem being a mingling of God with His redeemed, and this mingling being a mutual dwelling place.

b.　This being a mingling in which both divinity and humanity become a mutual abode as the issue of the processes through which He has passed and the procedures in which they have shared.

c.　The processed Triune God and His redeemed being one mingled entity for eternity.

d.　"As man yet God, they coinhere / A mutual dwelling place to be.

F.　As the consummation of the tabernacle, the New Jerusalem being the consummate incorporation of God and man:

1.　The Bible unveiling to us that God's economy is to have God and man incorporated into an incorporation:

a.　God's work in the universe being to complete His economy.

b.　God's desire in His economy being to have a unique incorporation.

2.　God's intention being that all the believers in Christ would be incorporated into His incorporation to be an enlarged incorporation.

3.　The processed and consummated Triune God who has been united and mingled with the regenerated believers desiring to be incorporated with them to be a universal, divine-human incorporation.

4.　The union, mingling, and incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the regenerated believers consummating as the New Jerusalem.