Praise the Lord, in the eyes of God the church is sanctified, perfect, and beautiful, for the church is full of Christ! Balaam’s parables in Num. 23-24 portray Israel as being holy, perfect, and fair; in its standing the church is holy, in the sight of God the church is perfect, and in appearance the […]
Seeing a Vision of the All-Sufficient One and having a Divine View of God’s People
Like Balaam – a Gentile prophet who was brought into a vision – we also need to see the vision of the All-sufficient One and have a divine view of God’s people, having God’s view of things and of His people. This week in our crystallization-study of Numbers we come to Num. 23-24, and the […]
The Church is Glorious: it is a Corporate Thornbush Indwelt by the Triune God!
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 […]
Christ Died for the Church to Sanctify her and Present her to Himself Glorious
In order for the church to display the multifarious wisdom of God to the enemy and to the whole universe, Christ Himself became wisdom from God to us as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. We were sinners, lost and even dead in sin, but Christ came and died for us to redeem us and bring us […]
In God’s Eyes Each Believer is a Sheaf Full of Life, since God Sees us in Christ!
Jacob had one dream – the dream of Bethel, the house of God – but Joseph had two dreams – the dream of sheaves of wheat full of life and with the heavenly bodies full of light. In order for the dream of Bethel to be accomplished in reality today we need to have the two […]