Apostles' Teaching, The

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in the full-time training in Anaheim, California, on February 7 through June 13, 1990.

The entire speaking of God in the New Testament concerning God’s New Testament economy _ch.1

The entire speaking of God in the New Testament
The apostles’ speaking
God’s speaking in the Son as the man in the four Gospels
God’s speaking in the Son as the Spirit through the apostles from Acts to Revelation
Concerning God’s New Testament economy from the incarnation of God to the consummation of the New Jerusalem
The incarnation of the Triune God
The all-inclusive death of Jesus Christ
The resurrection of Jesus Christ
The ascension of Christ
The secret Part
The open Part

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit for the baptizing of all the believers into one Body (1) _ch.2

The entire speaking of God in the New Testament
Concerning God’s New Testament economy from the incarnation of God to the consummation of the New Jerusalem
The outpouring of the Holy Spirit for the baptizing of all the believers into one Body
To be the Body of Christ having Christ as the Head
To be the bride of Christ
To be the universal new man

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit for the baptizing of all the believers into one Body (2) _ch.3

To be the household of God — the family of God
To be the temple of God, where God as the Spirit dwells and where we as His people worship God
To be the church — the called-out assembly
Two aspects of the church

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit for the baptizing of all the believers into one Body (3) _ch.4

To be the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the heavens
The kingdom of God
The realm of God’s governmental administration, like His existence, being from eternity to eternity
Its section of the divine life in God’s New Testament economy
Of the seed of life sown by Christ
Not with observation
Brought in by the gospel of God
Taught by Christ and the apostles for the producing and the establishing of the church
The saints of the churches being the citizens of the kingdom of God
The life of the kingdom of God being the life of the Body of Christ in the local expressions
The church of God referring to the believers’ life and right, and the kingdom of God referring to their obligation and exercise
The realm of the divine life’s rule and discipline
Regeneration being the initial entrance into the divine realm

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit for the baptizing of all the believers into one Body (4) _ch.5

The kingdom of the heavens
The strict section of the kingdom of God in God’s New Testament economy, including only the church age and the kingdom age
The realm of God’s heavenly rule in the New Testament believers in Christ
The reality of the kingdom of the heavens, as revealed by the Lord’s sermon on the mount in Matthew 5—7
The victorious living of the overcoming believers
A living surpassing that of the law, with the highest standard of ethics
A living by the divine life expressed in the human life
A living that is the expression of the processed Triune God mingled with the regenerated and transformed believers
A living that brings the heavenly rule to the earth for the fulfillment of God’s New Testament economy
Beginning with the formation of the church on the day of Pentecost
The appearance of the kingdom of the heavens, as revealed by the Lord’s parables on the seashore in Matthew 13
As the tares (the nominal Christians) growing together with the wheat (the real believers)
As the mustard herb growing abnormally into a tree
As leaven taken by a woman and hidden in three measures of meal
This appearance beginning immediately after the formation of the church on the day of Pentecost
The manifestation of the kingdom of the heavens, as revealed by the Lord’s prophecy on the mount of olives in Matthew 24—25
At the Lord’s coming back
Being the reality of the kingdom of the heavens manifested as the heavenly part of the millennium
As a reward to all the overcoming saints of both the Old Testament and the New Testament
Ending at the close of the millennium

The ministry of Christ in His ascension (1) _ch.6

The Christ in ascension
The offices of Christ in His ascension
The heavenly ministry of Christ being the continuation and complement of His earthly ministry

The ministry of Christ in His ascension (2) _ch.7

The heavenly ministry of Christ for His church and His believers
As the Head of the church to take care of the church
As the Mediator, the Executor, of the new covenant
As the High Priest in His humanity and by His divine life
As our advocate to take care of our case before God
As a minister to minister heaven with the heavenly blessings to us
The heavenly ministry of Christ for the universe

The rapture of the saints _ch.8

The consummating step of God’s full salvation in life
The time of the rapture of the saints
Sections of the rapture
The section of the overcomers
The man-child
The firstfruits
The overcomers in Philadelphia
The watchful and beseeching saints
The watchful one of the two saints
The section of the majority of the saints, including the resurrected ones and the remaining ones
The section of the two witnesses
A concluding word

The seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls in relation to the rapture of the saints and the second coming of Christ — as the secrets of the universe concerning man from the time of Christ’s ascension to eternity in the future without ending _ch.9

The seven seals — the mystery of God’s economy
The first four seals
The fifth seal
Insertion 1
The rapture of the overcomers
The sixth seal — the shaking of the earth and heaven
The seven trumpets — the contents of the seventh seal
The first four trumpets — the intensified supernatural calamities to damage all the sources of natural provisions for men’s living
The fifth trumpet — the first woe — God’s judgment on men to torment men by Satan collaborating with Antichrist
The sixth trumpet — the second woe — God’s further judgment on men by two hundred million horsemen killing the third part of men
Insertion 2
Christ’s coming down out of heaven to the air
The seventh trumpet — the finishing of the mystery of God
The eternal kingdom of God and of Christ and the judgment of the dead
Insertion 3
The rapture of the majority of the saints
Insertion 4
The rapture of the two witnesses — Moses and Elijah
The seven bowls — the third woe, the last plagues of the great tribulation — the negative contents of the seventh trumpet
Insertion 5
The preparation for the war at Armageddon
The seventh bowl — the concluding plague of the great tribulation
The giving of the reward to the overcomers, judged at the judgment seat of Christ
The war at Armageddon
The destruction of the religious and mysterious Babylon and of the political and physical Babylon
The binding of Satan, and his being cast into the abyss
The judgment on the nations
The setting up of the millennial kingdom, the last rebellion of the nations and Satan’s perdition in the lake of fire, the eternal judgment at the great white throne, and the new heaven and new earth as the realm with the New Jerusalem as the center of the eternal kingdom of God
A word concerning the day, the hour, and the year

The second coming of Christ _ch.10

The promised parousia (presence = coming) of Christ
Christ’s complete presence with His believers
Beginning from the rapture of the man-child and the firstfruits to the heavens
Ending with Christ’s appearing on the earth
The secret aspect of Christ’s parousia, presence, coming, in the heavens
On the way of His parousia
Christ being clothed with a cloud in the air
Rapturing the majority of the believers into the clouds in the air
Judging all the saints at His judgment seat
Marrying His overcomers
The open aspect of Christ’s parousia, presence, coming, to the earth

The kingdom of a thousand years _ch.11

The heavenly section
The earthly section
What the heavenly section of the kingdom of a thousand years should be to the believers in the present age and what it will be to the believers in the coming age
The kingdom of a thousand years as the kingdom age to be used for the Lord to discipline and perfect the defeated saints

The New Jerusalem _ch.12

The finalization of the completed divine revelation of the entire Scriptures
The consummation of God’s New-creation work throughout the ages of the old creation
The composition in a smaller scale of all the overcoming and mature saints as a reward to them in the kingdom age
The bride to marry the consummated Triune God and then become the wife of the Lamb
The eternal tabernacle as God’s habitation among men
The eternal temple (the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb Themselves) for God’s redeemed to worship Him within it
The composition of all of God’s chosen and redeemed people
Built with the processed Triune God
A square city
The measurement of the city
The glory of God in the Lamb being the light of the city
The measurement of the wall of the city
The wall of the city being of jasper
The twelve colors of the foundation of the city
The throne of God and of the Lamb with the river of water of life and the tree of life
All of God’s redeemed and transformed people as kings within the city and the purified nations as the people outside the city
A city full of living water

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