The dealing with a wife over whom her husband is jealous in Num. 5:11-31 typifies Christ’s jealousy over His believers and the church; we have a jealous God, and God is jealous whenever we love anything or anyone in place of Him. This portion in Num. 5 is very particular, and if such a procedure […]
A Built-up Church is both Lovely to the Lord and a Warring Church to Defeat Satan
March 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
As believers in Christ, we are members of the Body of Christ, the church, and we are both the loving bride of Christ and the warring church, the church who fights the battle against the enemy to defeat him and stand in the victory of Christ. The church as the bride of Christ must be […]
The Church as the Bride is a Corporate Army Fighting for God’s Interest on Earth
March 14, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The church as the bride of Christ must also be a warrior to defeat God’s enemy, and Christ will return for his prepared bride and defeat God’s enemy. The church is composed of a group of people who are regenerated with the divine life, and they are built up on God’s life to be the […]
Christ came as the Bridegroom to Court us and Marry the Church as His Bride, His Wife
March 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
When the Lord Jesus came, He came as the Bridegroom for the bride; now we as believers in Christ are produced to be the bride of Christ, and at the end of this age there will be a wedding feast culminating in our eternal married life with the Lord. The entire Bible, from Genesis to […]
As the Counterpart of Christ, we need to be Romantic Christians Loving the Lord
March 12, 2019 by 4 Comments
The relationship that God wants to have with man is of love, and the Bible is a book of romance, for God created us not only to be in His image and with His likeness but that we would become the counterpart of Christ. In the Old Testament in particular we see that God came […]
In a Pure and Holy Sense, the Bible is a Romance: God has a Love Relationship with us
March 11, 2019 by 1 Comment
If we were to enter into the deep thought of the Bible, we will realise that the Bible is a romance, in a most pure and holy sense, with God as the male and we as His people as the female, for us to enter into marriage together. In our Crystallisation-study of the book of […]
Our Work in Serving God is a Warfare, and Christ is our Unique Portion and Inheritance
March 9, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The service of the priests was in nature a spiritual warfare, and the portion of the priests was nothing other than Christ – Christ was their house, inheritance, land, clothing, food, and everything. As believers in Christ we are priests to God; we are a holy priesthood, a royal priesthood, priests to God and to […]
