It is amazing to see how the lives of Noah, Daniel, and Job reveal the Triune God dispensing Himself into us to fulfill His eternal economy; with Noah we see God the Father in His faithfulness to dispense Christ into us, with Daniel we see Christ the Son as coming as the crushing stone to end this age and bring in God’s kingdom, and with Job we see God the Spirit transforming His people to make the same as Christ.
Lord Jesus, we open to Your divine dispensing today. Work Yourself into us a little more today. Grant us to be open vessels to You so that we may live an overcoming life on the line of life to fulfill the economy of God. Amen, Lord, we stand on God’s faithfulness and we allow You to work in us and around us to produce us as Your overcomers. Make us the same as You are. Make us the counterpart of Christ matching Christ in every possible way! Amen!
The entire Bible is written according to the governing principle of the Triune God dispensing Himself into us for us to experience Him, enjoy Him, and express Him for His divine economy.
We can see God’s dispensing everywhere in the Bible, for the objective God outside of us desires to become subjective to us by coming into us, even entering into our being to be our life and our everything. The Triune God is the way, the governing principle in which the Bible was written.
He wants to make His home in our hearts through faith, so He strengthens us as the Father through the Spirit into the inner man so that Christ may make His home in our heart. Step by step, God works Himself into us.
Just as we eat and drink every day, as we take food into us, we need to realise that God is our food; He is our real water and our real food for us to receive Him and enjoy Him.
God doesn’t want us to merely worship Him and serve Him in an outward way; God wants us to enjoy Him! This is why, right after God created man, He placed man in front of the tree of life, and the commandment He gave man was related to eating.
May this really impress us. The Bible is not here to teach us to do this and not do that, to please God and not do things that God doesn’t like; the governing principle of the entire Bible is the Triune God dispensing Himself into us so that we may enjoy Him, for Him to be everything to us.
In coming to these three patterns of living an overcoming life, Noah, Daniel, and Job, with Noah we see God the Father in His faithfulness to keep His eternal covenant.
He is faithful to dispense the all-inclusive Christ into us, His chosen and redeemed people, to make us a wise exhibition of what Christ is. Hallelujah!
With Daniel we see Christ as the Centrality and Universality of God’s Move and that the Goal of God’s Eternal Economy is to have the Corporate Christ – Christ with His overcomers, as the Crushing Stone becoming the Kingdom of God!
In the book of Daniel we see this dear one, Daniel, who is a pattern of living an overcoming life.
With Daniel we see that Christ the Son is the centrality and universality of God’s move, and that the goal of God’s eternal economy is to have the corporate Christ (see Dan. 2:31-45; 7:13-14; 10:4-9; Joel 3:11; Rev. 12:1-2, 5, 11; 19:7-21). Hallelujah!
The corporate Christ in Daniel is actually Christ with His overcomer as the crushing stone to be His dispensational instrument to end this age and become a great mountain to fill the whole earth, making the whole earth God’s kingdom.
King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, which God revealed to Daniel; this dream was of a great human image – its head was of fine gold, its breast and arms were of silver, its abdomen and thighs were of bronze, its legs were of iron, and the bottom of the feet were of iron and clay mixed together.
This great human image is a picture of the human government in the last six thousand years; it signifies the aggregate of human government throughout history from the human government in Babel (Babylon) in the land of Shinar (Gen. 10:6-12) to the Roman Empire.
The Babylonian Empire is signified by the head, and the Roman Empire with the ten kings is signified by the ten toes.
The destiny of this great human image, which seems to be prevailing everywhere today, is to be crushed by a stone cut out without hands at its appearing (see Dan. 2:34-35; 44-45; 7:13-14).
This stone cut out without hands is Christ. He was cut by being put to death in His crucifixion (Acts 2:23), and in His resurrection He was cut out to be, first, the cornerstone for the building up of the church and the crushing stone to destroy the totality of human government (v. 24; Matt. 21:42-44).
This stone cut out without hands is not only Christ but also His overcomers; Christ with His newly married bride, His overcoming saints, will come as a corporate smiting stone to destroy the totality of the human government.
There will be a war at Armageddon, where the earth will fight against the heavens and man will fight against God. Antichrist will have ten kings with their armies on his side, and Christ will come with His bride, His overcomers.
After His wedding, Christ will come as the smiting stone and also as the One who will tread the winepress (Rev. 19:15; 14:19-20; Isa. 63:2-3).
When Antichrist gathers a vast number of evil and rebellious human beings around Jerusalem to fight against God’s people and against God directly, he prepares the “grapes” to be trodden in the “winepress” by Christ.
Antichrist will rebel directly against God, and he will even say that he is God (2 Thes. 2:4; Dan. 11:36), and for his enjoyment he will set up his tent between the good land and the Mediterranean Sea (v. 45).
But praise the Lord, Christ as the God-cut stone will come with His bride to strike the toes of the image, and the whole great human image will be destroyed, from the toes to the head!
In this way, human government will be crushed and terminated, and this great human image will be replaced with a great mountain, which is the increase of the stone to fill the whole earth – the kingdom of God (Dan. 2:35, 44).
After Christ crushes the aggregate of human government, He will usher in the eternal kingdom of God. What a Christ! This is the wonderful Christ we see in the book of Daniel.
He is the centrality and universality of God’s move, and He is becoming a corporate Christ.
When He comes as a stone cut out without hands, He will come as the corporate Christ, Christ with His overcomers, and this corporate Christ will be a dispensational instrument to end this age and bring in God’s kingdom! Hallelujah!
We need to know this Christ, be one with Christ, partake of this Christ, and enjoy this Christ in our daily life. We need to let Him make His home in our heart and become the centrality and universality of our being.
We need to let this Christ crush the enemy in our being. We need to let Him bring His kingdom in us, from our spirit to every part of our inner being.
May we enjoy and experience this wonderful Christ the Son as the centrality and universality of God’s move and may we be one with Him to be the corporate Christ returning as the smiting stone to destroy human government and bring in God’s kingdom!
Lord Jesus, unveil us to see You as Christ the Son, the centrality and universality of God’s move on earth! Amen, Lord, become our centrality and universality today. Be everything to us. We take You as our life, our person, and our everything. May we see that God desires to have the corporate Christ, Christ with His overcomers, as the crushing stone coming to destroy the great human image! Hallelujah, Christ is the stone cut out without hands who will return to smite human government and destroy it, and He will bring in the kingdom of God! Hallelujah, the corporate Christ is coming as a dispensational instrument to end this age and He will increase to become a great mountain to fill the whole earth, making the whole earth God’s kingdom! Amen, Lord, may Your kingdom come in us. May Your kingdom increase in us. Make us part of Your dispensational instrument to end this age and bring in the kingdom of God! Crush the enemy’s head and destroy his works in our being. Praise the Lord Jesus!
With Job we see God the Spirit Transforming His Loving Seekers by the Renewing of the Spirit to make them the Same as Christ for God’s Corporate Expression
In the book of Job we see God the Spirit bringing us, His loving seekers, through the process of transformation by the renewing of the Holy Spirit (see Job 10:13; 42:5-6; Eph. 3:9; Matt. 5:8; 2 Cor. 3:16-18; Titus 3:5; 1 Cor. 10:31; Eph. 3:20-21; Rev. 21:10-11).
God the Spirit is transforming us by the renewing of the Spirit in our seeing God to gain God and be transformed by God to carry out what is in the heart of God by becoming God in life, in nature, and in appearance, but not in the Godhead for the corporate expression of God, the glory of God.
Job was a pious man, very upright, a man who feared God; however, God allowed many sufferings to come upon him. We may say that, in the entire Bible, the deepest sufferings are the ones that Job experienced.
His three friends came to exhort him, and in fact they said to him that he is suffering these things because he must have done something wrong, something that is not pleasing to God, so he is being judged.
On his side, Job felt that he was suffering so much, but not because he was wrong, for he felt he did nothing wrong, but that God was dealing with him.
He even told God that He is unfair, and he admitted that there must be something in God’s heart, something hidden there, which he does not know.
In this long book of Job with 42 chapters, 36 chapters are the record of these three friends discussing and debating with Job – 36 or 37 chapters of wasted words, empty arguments, and reasoning.
But then in Job 38 something happened; God came out to speak. When Job heard God’s voice, he was enlightened, and he said, I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, / But now my eye has seen You; / Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent / In dust and ashes (Job 42:5-6).
He realised that, no matter how upright and perfect he thought he was, he could not stand on his righteousness before God. God came to expose him and show him that he needs to be renewed by God.
We see this in the light of the New Testament, for in Titus 3:5 we are told of the renewing of the Holy Spirit.
God the Spirit is bringing His lovers through the process of transformation by the renewing of the Holy Spirit in their seeing God to gain God.
We need to see God; when we see God, we gain God (Matt. 5:8). To gain God is to receive what God is in His element, in His life, and in His nature.
In this way we become one with God and even more, we are constituted with God and even become the same as God in life, nature, expression, and function, but not in the Godhead.
We go through many things in our Christian life, and sufferings are our portion in many ways and at many times; we need to realise that God the Spirit is working to transform us by renewing us as we see God to gain God.
May we come to the Lord again and again to simply behold Him. May we look to the Lord, looking away unto Jesus so that He may infuse Himself into us.
For eternity, our destiny as God’s redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, transformed, conformed, and glorified people is to see God’s face (Rev. 22:4).
Today, we need to behold His face, for seeing God transform us; as we behold the Lord face to face, we will be transformed into His image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18).
When we see God, not only do we abhor ourselves and therefore deny ourselves, but we are also infused with God.
The new element of God is infused into us, our old element is being discharged, and we are transformed into the glorious image of Christ, the God-man.
We become the same as He is! We even become part of God, the corporate Christ, to express God in His life and represent Him in His authority! Hallelujah!
Lord Jesus, thank You for all the things You allow to happen in our life to bring us through the process of transformation. We open to You as God the Spirit to bring us through the process of transformation by the renewing of the Holy Spirit! Amen, Lord, we want to see God so that we may gain God! We come to You in Your word with the exercise of our spirit and with our heart turned to You. Infuse us with Yourself more today. Transform us into Your image. We want to behold You and be infused with You so that we may become the same as You are. Oh Lord, the more we behold You, the more we deny ourselves and the more we gain You! May Your new element operate in us and transform us inwardly to make us the same as Christ! Praise the Lord, we are becoming God in life, in nature, and in appearance, but not in the Godhead for the corporate expression of God, the glory of God! Amen, Lord, gain Your glorious expression today. Make us the same as You are to be the corporate Christ expressing God in His life and representing Him in His authority! Amen!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Daniel (pp. 16-18) and Life-study of Job (pp. 151-152) by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Noah, Daniel, and Job – Patterns of Living an Overcoming Life on the Line of Life to Fulfill the Economy of God (2026 International Chinese-Speaking Conference), week 1, Living and Working according to the Vision of the Age to Change the Age – day 2.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Christ is God’s centrality / And His universality; / He is God’s delight and joy / Throughout all eternity. / He’s th’ embodiment of God, / In Him all God’s fulness dwells; / His unique supremacy / And His Godhead none excels. / All God’s purpose is for Him, / That He might be all in all; / All the things in heav’n and earth / With Himself are made withal. (Hymns #495 stanzas 1-3)
– Changed into His likeness! / He the Spirit is! / If the Spirit governs, / He’ll fulfill my wish. / As a glass, beholding / With uncovered face, / I can see His glory / And reflect His grace. / O that no more covering / May the Lord obscure, / That I may reflect Him / With a heart made pure. (Hymns #399 stanzas 2-4)
– Within God’s sovereign kingdom / His Christ is magnified; / When Christ in life is reigning, / The Father’s glorified. / When God is in dominion, / All things are truly blessed; / When Christ for God is reigning. / God’s glory is expressed. (Hymns #941 stanza 5)
