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 […]
Based on God’s Redemption, the Excluding Flame has Become the Indwelling Spirit!
When God created man He had a specific purpose in mind: He wanted man to be in His image and according to His likeness to express Him and represent Him on earth by taking God in as his life and living by Him. After creating man, God put him in front of the tree of […]
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 […]
Knowing the Purpose of God’s Calling and Dealing with Satan, the Flesh, and the World
Just as Moses was called by God from the burning thornbush so we as believers in Christ are those called by God in the same principle. As persons called by God we must first see the vision of the thornbush, realizing that we are nothing but sinners saved by grace, those having God as the […]
Having a Revelation of the God who Calls us: the great I AM, the God of Resurrection
Moses was the first complete, qualified, and perfected servant of God in history, and the record in Exodus concerning God’s calling of Moses is longer than the record of His calling of any other person in the Bible. Moses is the standard model of God’s servant, and God’s calling of him is the standard for […]