In order for us to become suitable materials for God’s building, we need to experience Christ in His death (signified by cypress), Christ in His resurrection (signified by cedar), and Christ as the Spirit (signified by olive wood), being filled with the Holy Spirit and being in spirit for God’s building. Amen! This week […]
Allow the Crucified and Resurrected Christ as the Spirit to Build Himself into us for the Church
The Crucified Christ is God’s Power, and God’s way to Solve Problems is the Cross
The unique subject, center, content, and substance of the apostle’s ministry is the crucified Christ, and God’s way to deal with every problem in the universe is to terminate everyone and everything through the cross. As we are prayerfully considering the crystals in the book of Ezekiel, the matter of the cross is quite critical […]
Experiencing Christ at the Two Altars to be Incorporated into God as seen in Psa. 84
Psalm 84 is a wonderful and mysterious psalm speaking of the psalmist’s appreciation and longing for the house of God; the two altars are mentioned in particular, as they refer to the leading consummations of the work of the incarnated Triune God for us to be incorporated into God. The psalmist loves the lovely tabernacles […]
Taking Refuge at the Altar of Burnt Offering and Finding Home at the Incense Altar
In looking at the matter of the three aspects of the tabernacle in the Scriptures we cannot overlook Psa. 84, where we see the psalmist’s desire and love for the tabernacles of God; he even likens himself as a sparrow and a swallow finding refuge and making their nest at the two altars – the […]
The Covenant God made with Abraham to Ensure he Believes God’s Promise of the Land
God promised Abraham that He will give him a seed, even though both Abraham and Sarah were in their old age; Abraham believed God, and this was accounted to him as righteousness. However, when God promised Abraham the good land, that all the land he sees in Canaan will be his, Abraham found it hard […]
a detailed picture of Christ in His suffering of death – the redeeming death of Christ in Psalm 22
In the recent Crystallization Study of the Psalms(1) I was very much impressed by the vivid portrait of Christ’s death in Psalm 22. In message 5 entitled, Christ in His Redeeming Death and Church-Producing Resurrection, the center and the main burden is the church-producing resurrection of Christ (Psa. 22:22), but in the beginning the brother encouraged […]