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 […]
The Divine Economy: the Church is the Triune God Burning within Redeemed Humanity!
God’s desire is to obtain a dwelling place; the heavens are His throne, the earth is His footstool, but where is the man in which He is pleased to dwell? God dwells in man – His dwelling place is in our mingled spirit today (Eph. 1:21-22). The thornbush in Exo. 3 and the tabernacle later […]
The Thornbush is Gradually Sanctified and Transformed to Become God’s Dwelling Place
Throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation we see that God’s goal ultimately is to obtain a dwelling place; what He is focused on today is building up His habitation. From Jacob’s dream in Genesis to Revelation 22 what God desires is to gain a dwelling place in man, a mutual habitation with man, where […]
Individually and Corporately we are a Thornbush Burning with the Triune God as Fire
This week we are having a closer look at the matter of the burning thornbush in Exodus; there is much more than meets the eye concerning the matter of the burning bush in Exo. 3, since even at the end of his life, Moses still recalls God as the One who dwells in the burning […]
God Called us in the Fellowship of Christ, into His Sufferings, and unto His Glory
The New Testament reveals many aspects of God’s calling. In the Gospels, the Epistles, and in the book of Revelation we can see a clear picture of God calling us. First, God called us according to His predestination, His foreknowledge and choosing in eternity past. God called us according to His purpose and His grace. […]
God’s Calling is According to His Purpose in Christ through the Gospel to be Holy
The Old Testament is a book of pictures, types, figures, and signs; the New Testament is a book of the spiritual reality of the signs and types in the Old Testament. If we have a bird’s-eye view of the whole Bible we will realize that many truths and principles are sown as seeds in Genesis, […]
Journeying Onward to Enter into the Good Land and have a Corporate God-man Living
The history of the people of Israel in Exodus is a type and figure of our spiritual history with the Lord, and Moses being called by God is a pattern for our being called by God. The purpose of God’s calling of Moses was to deliver God’s people out of Egypt and bring them into […]