If we are going to see the vision of the glorious Christ and of the seven churches in Revelation 1—3, we must care for the following things: We must take the position of a slave: Paul says that he was a “slave of Christ Jesus” (Rom. 1:1); his use of this term indicates that he […]
[글쓴이:] branch
a branch in Christ Jesus our Lord
With respect to man, the tabernacle was the Tent of Meeting, but with respect to God, it was the tabernacle; the tabernacle is related to God’s testimony, whereas the Tent of Meeting is more outward, external, related to God’s interest on earth and to His move. The first item of the furniture to be put […]
“…See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with understanding and with knowledge and with all kinds of workmanship, to fashion skillful designs, to work in gold and in silver […]
We need to see and experience the redemption of Christ: The one hundred silver sockets, upon which the entire tabernacle rested, signify that the church is built on the basis of the redemption of Christ and rests on the ascended Christ experienced by us. Sockets signify stability for standing; each socket was made of a […]
According to Exodus 28:15-30, the breastplate of judgment is the central item of the priestly garments and the central and ultimate point of the priesthood: The main purpose of the breastplate of judgment was for God’s leading; God’s people act according to God’s leading obtained through the reality of the breastplate. The breastplate typifies the […]
God is light, and the believers in Christ, as children of God, are children of light: Light is the nature of God in His expression. Light is God’s shining, God’s expression; when God is expressed, the nature of that expression is light. As God is light, so we, the children of God, are the children […]
In the tabernacle a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet strands and fine twined linen was hung upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold: The veil, signifying the flesh of Christ, separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies and also covered the Ark of the Testimony: This signifies the separation between God […]
The oneness of the Body of Christ is the oneness in the Triune God, revealed in the Lord’s prayer in John 17; the oneness of the Body of Christ is the enlarged oneness of the Divine Trinity. The oneness for which the Lord prayed in John 17 is the oneness typified by the tabernacle in […]
Life and building are the basic and central revelation of the Bible: Life is for building, the corporate expression of the Triune God, and the building is of life: Life is the content, and building is the corporate expression of the content. Life is God Himself, and building is the expression of the Triune God […]
The Three Tabernacles
The three tabernacles in the Holy Scriptures —the type of the tabernacle, the reality of the tabernacle, and the consummation of the tabernacle— reveal the goal of God’s economy to have a corporate people to be His dwelling place for His expression and representation in eternity: The type of the tabernacle in the Old Testament […]