Christ takes care of the churches in His divinity with His divine love to nourish the churches, for He walks among the churches to know their condition and speaks to them as the Spirit to trim and fill the lampstands; Christ nourishes the churches in His divinity and cherishes them in His humanity to help […]
Christ takes care of the Local Churches by Cherishing them and Nourishing them
The golden lampstand in the tabernacle is a mysterious sign of the mysterious Triune God in His expression: the gold shows how God the Father is the nature and element, the form shows how God the Son is the expression of God the Father, and the seven lamps show how God the Spirit is the […]
Christ as the Son of Man is the High Priest Cherishing the Churches in His Humanity
The glorious Christ that the Apostle John saw in Revelation 1 is different from the Christ he walked with and was with while on earth. This One was “the Son of Man”, and He was clothed with a garment reaching to the feet, and girded about at the breasts with a golden girdle (Rev. 1:13). […]
Christ human life qualified Him to be our High Priest – now, He understands us thoroughly!
In order for the Lord Jesus to accomplish redemption for us, He had to be incarnated. It was as a man in the flesh that He was able to accomplish our judicial redemption. But, why didn’t He just become incarnated as a grown-man, maybe giving Himself a few years to perform some miracles and call […]