Taking Refuge at the Altar of Burnt Offering and Finding Home at the Incense Altar

The cross of Christ, typified by the bronze altar, is our “nest,” our refuge, where we are saved from our troubles and where we “lay” our young, that is, produce new believers through the preaching of the gospel. #ExoCS4, msg. 4

In looking at the matter of the three aspects of the tabernacle in the Scriptures we cannot overlook Psa. 84, where we see the psalmist's desire and love for the tabernacles of God; he even likens himself as a sparrow and a swallow finding refuge and … [Continue reading]

A Revelation of the Enjoyment of Christ as the Incarnated God in the House of God

Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God (Col. 2:9) is the fulfillment of the types of the tabernacle and the temple. This fulfillment commenced in His incarnation as the individual Christ (John 1:14; 2:21) and will continue (1 Tim. 3:15-16) until it consummates in the New Jerusalem as the corporate Christ, the great God-man (Rev. 21:2-3, 22). The enjoyment of Christ as the incarnated Triune God in God’s house is portrayed by the arrangement of the tabernacle and its furnishings. #ExoCS4 msg. 4

This morning I was enlightened and impressed to see that in Psa. 84 there's a secret revelation of the enjoyment of Christ as the fulfillment of the type of the tabernacle so that we, His believers and the members of His Body, may be incorporated … [Continue reading]

The Type, Reality, and Consummation of the Tabernacle, God’s Corporate Expression

The consummation of the tabernacle as the conclusion of the complete Bible is the New Jerusalem, a great corporate God-man as the eternal, enlarged, universal, divine-human incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with His regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite people (Rev. 21:3, 22; 22:17a). #ExoCS4, msg. 4

The consummation of all God's work in Exodus is the tabernacle, and in its spiritual significance, we can see the type, the reality, and the consummation of the tabernacle, which reveal the goal of God's economy to have a corporate people to be His … [Continue reading]

God’s Building is the Desire of God’s Heart and the Goal of His Salvation

Heb. 3:6 But Christ was faithful as a Son over His house, whose house we are if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.

The book of Exodus is a book of pictures, starting from the portrait of life in the world under Satan's usurpation and ending with God's building, the goal of God's salvation. The experiences that the people of Israel went through are a portrait and … [Continue reading]

God Saved and Sanctifed us to Serve God as Priests: we are a Kingdom of Priests!

In order for our service to have spiritual value and be acceptable to God, He must move through us and serve through us. This is the purpose of the altar. God is calling those who love Him and desire to satisfy His heart’s desire to offer themselves on the altar. Witness Lee

God saved us to serve Him: He delivered us from the usurpation of the world so that we may become a kingdom of priests, that we may serve God as priests. We need to see that God saved us to serve Him, and we need to choose to serve God, because if we … [Continue reading]

The Blood of the Covenant Enables us to Serve God with the Divine Fire Indwelling us

We praise and thank the Lord for giving us the blood of the covenant to enable us to serve the living God, and we want to allow the fire that comes from God to burn in us and on us in our service to Him. Without the blood of Christ freshly applied … [Continue reading]

Serving God according to the Vision of God and the Pattern Shown on the Mountain

God’s desire is to have a dwelling place on this earth. He has planned this; He has a pattern, a pattern according to His pleasure. We must know this; we must realize that God’s intention in the universe is to have a dwelling place built among His people and with His people on this earth. Witness Lee, The Vision of God's Building

God saved us and is constantly saving us so that we may serve Him, and we need to serve Him not according to our own natural concept but according to the vision of God and of the pattern shown on the mountain, the vision of God's economy. The … [Continue reading]