Blessing, a word very much thrown around in Christianity today and yet so naturally understood, is nothing else than the Triune God dispensed into us to be our everything for our enjoyment. When Melchizedek met Abraham after he fought for his brother Lot and won, he blessed him with God the Most High. When God commanded […]
Jehovah Bless you, Keep you, Shine on You, be Gracious to you, and Give you Peace!
The real blessing is God Himself; blessing is not a thing but a Person – God in Christ as the Spirit to be everything to us for our enjoyment. When Jacob blessed his sons, God blessed them. In Numbers 6:22-27 we see a pattern of blessing – God commanded the priests to bless the people, […]
Christ Received Gifts in His Ascension and He Will Marry a Wife from the Gentiles
No one else in the Old Testament is such a perfect type of Christ in the things he went through and in his perfectness and reigning. Just like Joseph, Christ came to His brothers to shepherd them, but He was rejected, hated, and sold (betrayed) to be put into prison (death). Just like Joseph, Christ […]
The Significance of the Stone, the Pillar, the House of God, and the Oil in Gen. 28
The dream that Jacob had in Genesis 28 is the most crucial point in the whole book of Genesis and the most crucial word in the revelation of God. Jacob, a supplanter who ran away from his parents house for fear of his brother whose birthright and firstborn blessing he stole, was wandering in the […]
Seeing the Governing Vision in the Bible, the Vision of God’s Economy, Changes Us
The whole Bible is written and composed according to a governing vision, which is the vision of God’s economy. The governing vision in the word of God is the vision of God’s economy. This vision has been hidden throughout the ages in God, but He revealed it to His holy apostles and prophets in spirit […]
Christ is Coming to be Glorified in His Saints: He is in us as the Hope of Glory!
The Lord Jesus Christ is coming to be glorified in His saints. Today He is in us as the hope of glory, but He will return soon to be glorified, marveled at, and admired in all His believers. When Christ comes the second time He will not only come from the heavens – He will […]
We are Called by God through the Gospel to Obtain the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ
God has called us through His gospel unto the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ (see 2 Thes. 2:14). Paul didn’t say that through the gospel God wants to save us, deliver us from hell, and bring us to heaven; rather, just as through sin we come short of the glory of […]