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Enjoying Christ as the Topstone of Grace for the Completion of God’s Building

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In God’s building Christ is the foundation stone to uphold the building, the cornerstone to join together the Gentile and Jewish members of His Body, and the topstone to consummate everything in God’s building (Isa. 28:16; 1 Cor. 3:11; Eph. 2:20; 1 Pet. 2:6; Zech. 4:7).

The Bible clearly shows us that Christ is everything for God's building. First of all, Christ is the One who builds His church, His Body, as the building of God (Matt. 16:18). Christ is the foundation stone, the only foundation laid by God for His … [Continue reading]

Christ as the Stone with Seven Eyes Infuses us with Himself for God’s Building

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The seven eyes combine Jehovah, the Lamb, and the stone; the Lamb is the stone, and the stone is Jehovah (Zech. 3:9; 4:10; Rev. 5:6).

The Bible is so amazing, and as you study it in a prayerful way, with an exercised spirit and a clear mind, having a vision of God's economy, you will realize that all things in the Bible are connected and make sense! From Genesis to Revelation, … [Continue reading]

Enjoying and Experiencing Christ as the Lamb-Stone-Savior with Seven Eyes

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Zech. 3:9 For here is the stone that I have set before Joshua—upon one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave its engraving, declares Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. [NASB version in the picture]

In Zech. 3:9 we see that Christ is the stone with seven eyes, engraved by God, for God's building (the temple of God). The stone which was set before Joshua is not merely a type of Zerubabel (the leader of the Jews then) but a type of Christ, the … [Continue reading]

In God’s Building, the Mingling of God with Man, Christ is Everything

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In God's Building, the Mingling of God with Man, Christ is Everything [picture via, surfingthewavesofgrace]

The entire Bible talks about one thing: God's building. The Bible is a book of building, and God's purpose as revealed in all the Scriptures is that He desires to have a building. If we see the vision of God's building, we will have a correct … [Continue reading]

We Need Certain Crucial Experiences of Christ for the Building of the Church

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For the building of the church as the temple of God, we need to experience Christ as the foundation, the One who holds and supports the entire church (1 Cor. 3:11).

In order for God to have a built-up church as His temple where He can dwell with man on earth, His people need to experience the all-inclusive Christ as their everything. We need to have certain crucial experiences of Christ, as revealed in the New … [Continue reading]

The All-Inclusive Christ is Everything to Us for the Building of the Church

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Matthew reveals that for the building of the church (16:18), Christ is the King (2:1-2; 21:5), the Son of the living God (16:16), the Son of Man (8:20; 11:19), the Baptizer (3:11), the light (4:12-16), the Physician (9:12), the Bridegroom (v. 15), the unfulled cloth (v. 16), the new wine (v. 17), the Shepherd (v. 36), the Lord of the harvest (v. 38), the Friend of sinners (11:19a), wisdom (v. 19b), the One who gives rest (vv. 28-30), the real David (12:3), the One greater than the temple (v. 6), the greater Jonah (vv. 39-41), the One greater than Solomon (v. 42), the bread and crumbs under the table (15:26-27), and the resurrected One in His humanity with all authority in heaven and on earth (28:18-19).

In the first part of Zechariah (the first eight chapters) we see eight visions with many aspects of Christ related to the recovery of God's building. In the second part of Zechariah (the last six chapters), there are some prophecies concerning Christ … [Continue reading]

“That the World may Believe that You Have Sent Me” implies “Incorporation”

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The man with the measuring line intended to measure Jerusalem so that Jehovah might repossess it after the seventy years of Israel’s captivity (Zech. 2:2, 4b).

In the first six chapters of Zechariah we see eight mysterious revelations of Christ, beginning with Christ as a Man riding on a red horse among the myrtle trees. Throughout the book of Zechariah we see many aspects of Christ and many prophecies … [Continue reading]