The church is a corporate warrior fighting for all of God’s people to enjoy Christ as the all-inclusive good land. The good land of Canaan has two aspects: on one hand it is a type of the all-inclusive Christ with His unsearchable riches for us to enjoy, and on the other, it signifies the aerial […]
In gaining a Fighting Army God wants a Corporate Man to Subdue and Regain the Earth
In the forming of the house of Israel into a fighting army we see the principle revealed in Gen. 1:26-28, that is, that God desires a corporate man to represent Him in subduing and regaining the earth from the usurping hand of Satan. The book of Numbers show us how God’s people were formed into […]
Being Formed into an Army to Fight for the Protection of God’s Testimony on Earth
The book of Numbers records how God’s chosen and redeemed people were formed into an army – a priestly army – to journey with God and fight with God for His interest on earth (see Num. 1:1-4:49; 9:15-10:36; 12:16; 20:1-21:35; 31:1-54; 33:1-49). In ch. 1 of Numbers there’s a numbering of the people for the […]
Christ is the Testimony of God and the Center, Leader, Way, and Goal of God’s People
As the One who is the meaning of the life of God’s people, Christ the testimony of God, and He is the center of God’s people, the Leader, the way, and the goal. In order for us to be formed as an army to fight for God’s interest on earth we need to take Christ […]
Numbers is a Book of Victory and Glory: God is Forming an Army to Fight for His Interest
This week we come to the first part of the Crystallisation-Study of Numbers, and the title is simply, Being Formed into an Army to Fight with God for His Interest on Earth. Today we want to see that the book of Numbers doesn’t speak merely of the wanderings and repeated failures of the children of Israel, […]
Experiencing Christ to become the Pearls and the Jasper Wall in the New Jerusalem
For us to live out and work out the New Jerusalem to build up Zion as the reality of the Body of Christ, we must experience Christ in His death and resurrection (to become the pearls – the gates), the Spirit in His transforming work (the jasper wall with its foundations), and be involved in […]
We Partake of the Divine Nature by Exercising our Spirit in Fellowship with the Lord
For us to live out and work out the New Jerusalem to build up Zion as the reality of the Body of Christ, we must partake of God the Father in His divine nature, as typified by the gold as the base of the holy city (2 Pet. 1:4; Rev. 21:21b). Whatever is ascribed to […]