In Exodus, we see how God wanted to deliver His people from Egypt and bring them to the good land where they could serve Him and build up His habitation, His dwelling place. First, God called Moses and sent him to deliver His people from Egypt and, after displaying His mighty works and exposing the […]
The Church is a Corporate Thornbush Burning with the Triune God of Resurrection
February 21, 2015 by 1 Comment
The God who called Moses and the God who calls us is the Triune God of resurrection. This means that the church today is the corporate thornbush burning with the Triune God of resurrection. The God who called Moses was the God of his fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the […]
The Church is Glorious: it is a Corporate Thornbush Indwelt by the Triune God!
February 20, 2015 by 1 Comment
In God’s eyes and in Moses’ understanding, the people of Israel were a corporate thornbush as the dwelling place of God as the divine fire burning within and upon them. God redeemed them (Exo. 13:14-16), sanctified them (Exo. 13:2), transformed them, and built them up to become the reality of the tabernacle, the dwelling place […]
Based on God’s Redemption, the Excluding Flame has Become the Indwelling Spirit!
February 19, 2015 by 2 Comments
When God created man He had a specific purpose in mind: He wanted man to be in His image and according to His likeness to express Him and represent Him on earth by taking God in as his life and living by Him. After creating man, God put him in front of the tree of […]
The Divine Economy: the Church is the Triune God Burning within Redeemed Humanity!
February 18, 2015 by 1 Comment
God’s desire is to obtain a dwelling place; the heavens are His throne, the earth is His footstool, but where is the man in which He is pleased to dwell? God dwells in man – His dwelling place is in our mingled spirit today (Eph. 1:21-22). The thornbush in Exo. 3 and the tabernacle later […]
The Thornbush is Gradually Sanctified and Transformed to Become God’s Dwelling Place
February 17, 2015 by 1 Comment
Throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation we see that God’s goal ultimately is to obtain a dwelling place; what He is focused on today is building up His habitation. From Jacob’s dream in Genesis to Revelation 22 what God desires is to gain a dwelling place in man, a mutual habitation with man, where […]
Individually and Corporately we are a Thornbush Burning with the Triune God as Fire
February 16, 2015 by 1 Comment
This week we are having a closer look at the matter of the burning thornbush in Exodus; there is much more than meets the eye concerning the matter of the burning bush in Exo. 3, since even at the end of his life, Moses still recalls God as the One who dwells in the burning […]
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