God ordained that His people would inherit the birthright; He wants them to enjoy their allotted portion of the good land and to be priests and kings for God to be His kingdom on earth. But unfortunately many of God’s people have lost their land and even themselves due to poverty, and they had to sell themselves into slavery. […]
In the New Testament Jubilee the Birthright is Shifted from Israel to the Church
In the Old Testament, the birthright belonged to the firstborn son of a family. According to Exo. 4:22, Israel is God’s firstborn son, and for many centuries the people of Israel enjoyed the birthright. But when the Lord Jesus came, Israel lost the birthright due to their unbelief, and the birthright was shifted from Israel […]
10 Vivid Pictures of the True Nature, Meaning, and Issue of the Life in the World
A picture is worth a thousand words, and when we see the clear picture of the world in the ten plagues God sent upon Egypt in Gen. 7-12, we will hate the world and desire to be rescued from it to be part of God’s people building up His dwelling place. In this portion of […]
Being Rescued from the Usurpation in the World by Seeing what Life in the World Is
In the New Testament we are clearly told that the whole world lies in the evil one (1 John 5:19), and that we should not love the world or the things in the world (1 John 2:15-17). But the clear picture of what the world is can be seen in Exodus 5-7, where God sent […]
Seeing the Vision of the World, the Evil System Arranged by Satan to Usurp God’s People
We need to see the vision of the world as the system arranged systematically by Satan to usurp God’s people from God and His purpose. We may see the vision of Christ and the church, but if we don’t see the vision of the world, if we are not aware of what the world really […]
Deny the Self, Take up Your Cross, and Follow the Lord by Exercising Your Spirit
When the Lord shows us what is the greatest hindrance to the building up of His Body, we will truly see what the self is and how much it frustrates the Lord in building up His church. Under the divine light, as the Lord exposes our self in all its activities, manifestations, and utterances, we […]
The Self is the Enemy of the Body and the Greatest Hindrance to Building up the Body
We need the Lord’s mercy in order to see the vision of the self so that we may deny it, abhor it, and repudiate it, identifying ourselves with Christ and with the Body of Christ and rejecting our self. Toward God, the self is independent. Toward ourselves, the self is our soul life being expressed, […]