[태그:] The Holy Word for Morning Revival

The prophecy  concerning the apostasy with Dan  indicates Jacob’s concern about  the setting up  of a divisive center of worship: Dan fought as a young lion  to gain more land (signifying Christ),  but after being successful and victorious,  he became a serpent —proud, individualistic, and independent;  he acted in his pride  to set up  an […]

Jacob’s twelve sons  eventually became the twelve tribes of Israel,  a type of the church  as God’s house, the Israel of God,  composed of all the believers: Jacob’s maturity in life,  the zenith of his life,  issued in the overflow of life,  his prophesying with blessing  for the building up of God’s house. Whatever was […]

To be transformed  is to be metabolically changed  in our natural life,  to be mature  is to be filled with the divine life  that changes us,  and blessing  is the overflow of life: As Jacob was about to bless  the two sons of Joseph,  he spoke of  the Triune God in his experience: The God  […]

According to spiritual experience,  Jacob and Joseph  are one person;  Joseph represents  the reigning aspect  of the mature Israel,  the constitution of Christ  in Jacob’s mature nature;  as a mature saint  constituted of Christ, the perfect One,  Jacob reigned through Joseph: The reigning aspect  typified by Joseph  is Christ  constituted into our being. The reigning […]

Joseph’s life  was a copy of the life of Christ  in the following aspects: In his being a shepherd. In his being his father’s beloved. In his being sent by his father  to minister to his brothers  according to his father’s will. In his being hated, persecuted, and betrayed (sold)  by his brothers. In his […]

Genesis 37—45  is a record  of the process of Jacob’s maturity: In Genesis 27  we see a supplanter;  in chapter 37,  a transformed man;  and at the end of chapter 45,  a mature person. To be transformed  is to be metabolically changed  in our natural life,  whereas to be matured  is to be filled with […]

Since God created man  to express Him  with His image  and to represent Him  by exercising His dominion  over all things,  by birth  every human being  has a birthright —the right by birth  to express God  and represent Him;  however, every fallen person  has sold  this birthright  by being independent of God. In the Bible  […]

In Genesis 35  the vision of Bethel  came again;  however, this time  it did not come  as a dream —it came as a reality: We all  come into the church life twice: The first time  we come in a dream,  and the second time  we come in reality;  we need  both the dream and the […]

We need to be  enlightened by  and fully saturated with  the thought  that in the universe God  is doing only one thing —building His eternal habitation —Bethel: The entire Bible  is a book of building;  the main subject of the Bible  is the building of God. The central and divine thought of the Scriptures  is […]

Jacob was chosen by God;  therefore, in Jacob  we see God’s selection: God loved Jacob  and selected him. Jacob was chosen before his birth,  even before the foundation of the world: Jacob was chosen by God;  it was not of his own works,  nor was it  the issue of his own struggle and strife. Jacob’s […]