The New Jerusalem, the holy city, is the universal golden lampstand, the ultimate consummation of the lampstands in the Scriptures. The entire city is like a mountain of gold, and on top of it there’s the throne of God and the Lamb, where God shines in the Lamb as the lamp, and this light is […]
Enjoying and Experiencing Christ for the Church, the Dwelling Place of God (Psa. 84)
September 17, 2016 by 6 Comments
Psa. 84 is very enlightening and encouraging as we try to deepen our study of the tabernacle in the Bible; in this psalm we see the yearning, desire, and love of the psalmist for the house of God, and at the same time we see God’s desire being fulfilled and Him blessing those who are […]
Preaching the Complete Gospel from Forgiveness of Sins to Living in the Body of Christ
May 27, 2016 by 1 Comment
Knowing merely that the gospel is the glad tidings saying that man has to repent and believe in Jesus to be saved from perdition – this is inadequate according to the standard set in the New Testament. The gospel as revealed in the New Testament is not a low or diluted gospel but it is […]
How the History of the Ark and the Tabernacle Prefigures the History of the Church
April 2, 2016 by 1 Comment
What God desires to obtain today is not only the local churches but the reality of the Body of Christ being lived out and expressed in the local churches all over the earth. What God desires is not merely the “tabernacle church life”, that is, the many local churches with many saints who enjoy the […]
God’s Final Recovery is the Testimony of the Reality of the Body of Christ Today
March 30, 2016 by 2 Comments
The tabernacle and the temple are the center of the Old Testament and the consummation of the New Testament, and both of these typify the church. First, it was the tabernacle, which was portable, movable, and transient; the tabernacle typifies God’s church on earth – the many local churches which are the expression of the […]
Having an Enlarged Experience of Christ in all His Riches for the Temple Church Life
March 29, 2016 by 2 Comments
We need to go on with the Lord from the tabernacle church life to the temple church life, and for this we need to go on from the wilderness to the good land where we have the all-inclusive Christ as our everything for the building up of the solid temple of God. It is good […]
Christ takes care of the Local Churches by Cherishing them and Nourishing them
February 7, 2016 by 1 Comment
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 […]
