Experiencing the Transformed Human Nature, Standing in Faith, and Being Balanced

We must always be checked, tested, and confirmed by others that we may have the balance; otherwise, we will be peculiar and will go to an extreme. Witness Lee

The tabernacle in Exodus is full of spiritual significance and implication, and today we want to see more concerning the transformed human nature and how to be firm and unshakable, standing in the Body, being willing to be balanced by others. First … [Continue reading]

Experiencing the Redemption of Christ and the Manifestation of the Divine Nature

2 Pet. 1:4 Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust.

This week in our crystallization-study of Exodus we come to the eightfold significance of the tabernacle, and today in particular we want to see and experience the redemption of Christ as our base and standing, and we want to see and experience the … [Continue reading]

Requirements we must Fulfill for us as the Church to be the Breastplate of Judgment

Rev. 21:11 Having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, as clear as crystal.

The central item of the garments of the priest was the breastplate, which was like a heavenly, divine, and spiritual typewriter, since it was through it that God spoke to His people; today we need to experience the spiritual reality of the … [Continue reading]

Seeking God’s Speaking and Leading by Reading the Actual Situation in God’s Light

The breastplate of judgment for God’s leading was like a heavenly, divine, and spiritual typewriter, and His way of speaking through the breastplate with the Urim and the Thummim is the opposite of what we would expect. God speaks not through the stones that are shining but through stones that become dark; this means that God speaks through negative situations; because the Lord’s speaking by the breastplate of judgment is through negative situations, that speaking is a judgment. Witness Lee

It is quite impressive to see that the breastplate of judgment for God's leading was like a heavenly, divine, and spiritual typewriter (or keyboard), and His way of speaking through the breastplate with the Urim and the Thummim is the opposite of … [Continue reading]

The Breastplate of Judgment with the Urim and the Thummim give us God’s Leading

Rom. 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

After the Urim and the Thummim were put into the breastplate, it became not only a memorial (like the two shoulder pieces) but also a breastplate of judgment (see Exo. 28:30). This is very significant, and today we want to see what does it mean to … [Continue reading]

Being Transformed, Inscribed with Christ, and Built up to be Living Letters of Christ

How much the Lord can speak to us and through us is determined by how much we have been transformed into precious stones, how much we have been inscribed with Christ as the content, how much we have been made transparent for Christ to shine through us, and how much we have been built up as the church, the Body of Christ.

When we are inscribed with Christ in our heart, we become living letters of Christ with Him as the content, and He can shine through us for others to read Christ and see Christ lived out and expressed in us; this is a practical application of the … [Continue reading]

Being Mingled with God to be Transformed into Precious Stones Built up Together

As components of the church, the believers, who were created from dust (Gen. 2:7), must be transformed in their human nature by and with the divine nature through the working of the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:3, 18) to become precious stones for God’s eternal building (Matt. 16:18; John 1:42; 1 Pet. 2:5; Rev. 21:18-21); the Christian life is a life of transformation — daily God is seeking to transform us (Rom. 12:2-3; 2 Cor. 4:16). Witness Lee

The breastplate that the high priest had to wear on top of the ephod had twelve precious stones on which the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were engraved; this signifies that we as God's redeemed and transformed people are being built together … [Continue reading]