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 […]
[태그:] The Holy Word for Morning Revival
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 […]
Serving God
“Let My people go that they may serve Me in the wilderness” (Exo. 7:16; 5:1; 4:23; 8:1, 20; 9:1, 13; 10:3): The children of Israel had been usurped by Pharaoh to serve as slaves to carry out the purpose of the Egyptians. Pharaoh signifies not only Satan but also the self and the […]
Knowing God and His Ways
“I delight in…the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings” (Hosea 6:6): God delights in our knowing Him; therefore, He wants us to “pursue knowing Jehovah”. Our knowledge of God is more important than our service to God: We should not merely serve God without pursuing knowledge of Him. Our service […]
In Exodus the Ten Commandments are called the tablets of the Testimony; the commandments testify of God in two ways (32:15): First, they testify that God is the unique God. Second, they testify that God is a God of love, light, holiness, and righteousness. The law and its ordinances were decreed by […]
The universe is for the human race, the human race is for the church, and the church is the increase of Christ. The greatest prophecy in the Bible is in Matthew 16:18: “I will build My church”: The fulfillment of this prophecy has not been fully realized, so even today the greatest prophecy […]