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Life-Study of Exodus

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Life-study of Exodus
An introductory word _msg.1

I. A comparison
A. A picture of redemption
B. The Lord’s care for His redeemed people
C. The Lord’s leading
D. The revelation and building of God’s dwelling place
E. Individual experience and corporate experience
F. The glory of God
G. The fall
H. A book of pictures
II. The general sketch
III. The central thought
IV. The sections

Israel under slavery _msg.2

I. Related to their livelihood
A. Egypt typifying the world
1. Rich in material supply and full of physical enjoyment and pleasure
2. Usurping the people whom God had created and chosen for His purpose
B. The children of Israel falling into Egyptian tyranny
II. Pharaoh’s enslavement of Israel
A. Pharaoh typifying Satan
B. Pharaoh making God’s people work for him
1. Dealing with them wisely
2. Forcing them to serve with rigor
3. Making their lives bitter with hard work
a. In mortar, in brick, and in all manner of labor
b. Building two treasure cities for Pharaoh
c. The same as in Babel
III. Pharaoh’s killing the life of the children of Israel
A. Killing the males and keeping the females
B. Utilizing the midwives to kill the male life
IV. God’s sovereignty
A. Causing the children of Israel to multiply and become strong
B. Making the Hebrew women lively
C. Using the female life to save the male life
D. Dealing well with the midwives and making them households

Preparation of the savior _msg.3

I. Through the female life
A. A daughter of Levi
B. The sister of the male child
C. The female slave of Pharaoh’s daughter
D. Pharaoh’s daughter
II. Through learning the wisdom of the Egyptians
III. Through being rejected by the brothers
A. Endeavoring to rescue his brothers
B. Rejected by the brothers
C. Renouncing a royal position
D. Choosing to suffer affliction with the people of God
E. Leaving Egypt by faith and not fearing the wrath of Pharaoh
F. Persevering, as seeing him who is invisible
IV. Through being accepted by the heathen
A. Helping the weak and suffering females and being appreciated and recommended by the female life
B. Accepted by the mature male life
C. Gaining a wife in the gentile world
D. Staying in Midian for forty years
V. The need of a savior

The life useful to God _msg.4

I. God being the head of Christ
II. Christ, under the headship of God, being the head of every man
III. Man, under the headship of Christ, being the head of the woman
IV. Man, typifying Christ, signifying the independent life
V. Woman, typifying man, signifying the dependent life
VI. Man to be a real “female,” living a life dependent on God
VII. Man’s independence of God being rebellion
VIII. Woman, living an independent life, becoming a real “male”
IX. Only the real “female” life being useful to God
A. God dealing with Israel as His spouse
B. Christ regarding His believers as virgins
C. Christ loving His church as His counterpart
D. Christ marrying the New Jerusalem as His bride in the millennium
E. God enjoying the New Jerusalem as his wife for eternity

God’s calling of the prepared one (1) _msg.5

I. The motivation of God’s calling
II. The time of God’s calling
III. The place of God’s calling
A. The back side of the wilderness
B. The mountain of God
C. Holy soil
D. The midst of a thorn-bush
E. A flame of fire
IV. The calling One
A. The Angel of Jehovah
B. Jehovah
C. God
D. The God of our father
E. I Am that I Am
F. Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews

God’s calling of the prepared one (2) _msg.6

V. The purpose of God’s calling
A. To deliver the children of Israel out of the tyranny of the Egyptians
B. To bring the children of Israel out of Egypt, the land of bondage, and into Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey
VI. The called one
A. Having been dealt with and prepared for forty years
B. Having lost confidence in himself
C. Realizing his inability
D. Considering himself good for death
E. Charged to be a sent one, not the sending One
F. A thorn-bush burning but not consumed

The corporate thorn-bush _msg.7

I. The thorn and the flame of fire in Genesis 3
II. The thorn and the flame of fire in Exodus 3
III. Moses as an individual thorn-bush
IV. Israel as the corporate thorn-bush
V. In resurrection

The three signs _msg.8

I. A rod becoming a serpent
A. The rod signifying what we rely upon
B. The rod being cast on the ground and being exposed that it was the serpent
C. The serpent being taken by the tail and thereby becoming a rod of authority
II. The hand becoming leprous
A. By being put into the bosom
B. Cleansed by keeping the word of the Lord
III. The water becoming blood

The male help and the female help to the called one _msg.9

I. Aaron’s matching
A. In the principle of two as a testimony
B. To carry out God’s commission
C. Aaron becoming Moses’ spokesman and Moses becoming God to Aaron
II. Zipporah’s cutting
A. To complete circumcision in Moses’ family
B. With a sharp stone
C. Making Moses a bloody husband

The complete view of God’s call of Moses _msg.10

I. The burning thorn-bush
II. Who God is and what God is
A. I Am that I Am
B. The God of resurrection
III. The three signs
A. The rod becoming the serpent
B. The hand becoming leprous
C. The water becoming blood
IV. The brother’s matching and the wife’s cutting
A. The brother’s matching
B. The wife’s cutting

The purpose of God’s calling _msg.11

I. To deliver God’s chosen people out of the usurping hand of Pharaoh and the tyranny of Egypt
II. To bring God’s chosen people into the wilderness by three days’ journey
III. To bring God’s chosen people to the mountain to serve God and to sacrifice to Him
IV. To build a tabernacle
V. To bring God’s chosen people into Canaan, a good land flowing with milk and honey

The three stations in fulfilling God’s purpose _msg.12

I. To the wilderness
II. To the mountain
III. To the good land
A. By the ark with the tabernacle
B. Through burial in the Jordan River
C. By circumcision
D. To enjoy the riches of the good land
E. The warfare in the land

God’s demand and Pharaoh’s resistance (1) _msg.13

I. The first conflict
A. The demand of Jehovah, the God of Israel, the God of the Hebrews, on Pharaoh
1. To let His people go that they may hold a feast unto Him in the wilderness
2. To let them go three days’ journey into the wilderness
3. To sacrifice unto Jehovah their God
B. Pharaoh, symbolizing the usurping Satan and our Satan-possessed and usurped self
1. Denying Jehovah God, ignoring His demand, and not letting Israel go
2. Increasing their labor with rigor
a. Giving them no more straw
b. Requiring of them the same number of bricks
c. Condemning them as being idle
d. Causing them not to regard “vain words”
C. The issue of the conflict
1. Israel suffering more cruelty
2. Moses being bothered and discouraged
3. Jehovah God reconfirming His name and His covenant
4. Israel not hearkening unto Moses

Jehovah God’s name and His covenant _msg.14

I. Jehovah God’s name
A. His name denoting His person
B. El Shaddai
C. Jehovah
II. Jehovah God’s covenant

God’s further training of Moses _msg.15

I. God’s word of assurance
A. To deliver the children of Israel out of the Egyptian bondage
B. To take the children of Israel to Him for a people
C. To make them know that He is Jehovah, their God
D. To make the children of Israel His armies
E. To bring the children of Israel into the promised land
II. The children of Israel’s unbelief
III. Pharaoh’s stubbornness
IV. Moses’ natural concept
A. Cleaving to His uncircumcised lips
B. Neglecting God’s assuring word
V. God’s ordination
A. Chosen by God
B. Commissioned by God
C. Representing God
D. Represented by Aaron
VI. God’s strong hand of great judgment

God’s demand and Pharaoh’s resistance (2) _msg.16

II. The second conflict
A. On God’s side
B. On Pharaoh’s side
C. The issue
III. The third conflict
A. The time and the place
B. On God’s side
1. Demanding that Pharaoh let His people go
2. Making Pharaoh to know that He is Jehovah
3. Smiting the waters
4. To make the Egyptians know that their worldly supply and enjoyment issue in death
C. On Pharaoh’s side
D. The issue

God’s demand and Pharaoh’s resistance (3) _msg.17

IV. The fourth conflict
A. On God’s side
B. On Pharaoh’s side
V. The fifth conflict
A. On God’s side
B. On Pharaoh’s side

God’s demand and Pharaoh’s resistance (4) _msg.18

VI. The sixth conflict
VII. The seventh conflict
VIII. The eighth conflict

God’s demand and Pharaoh’s resistance (5) _msg.19

IX. The ninth conflict
X. The tenth conflict
XI. The eleventh conflict

Pharaoh’s subtle bargaining _msg.20

I. God’s demand
A. To let his people go a three days’ journey into the wilderness
B. That his people may hold a feast to Him and sacrifice to Him
II. Pharaoh’s subtle bargaining
A. Rejecting God’s demand
B. Offering to let Israel sacrifice to their God in Egypt
C. Offering to let Israel go a short distance to sacrifice to their God in the wilderness
D. Offering to let only the men go to serve their God
E. Offering to let Israel go to serve their God, but not with their flocks and herds
III. God’s insistence
A. On His absolute demand
B. Using the last plague to force Pharaoh to drive Israel out of Egypt
C. Making the Egyptians willing to give Israel jewels and raiment

The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart _msg.21

I. God’s sovereignty
II. God’s mercy
A. According to His own will
B. In His sovereignty
III. Man’s free will
IV. Pharaoh’s hardening of his heart

God’s demand and Pharaoh’s resistance (6) _msg.22

XII. The twelfth conflict
A. On God’s side
B. On Pharaoh’s side

The Passover (1) _msg.23

I. A type of Christ
II. The time of the Passover
A. The month
B. The date
III. The Lamb of the Passover
A. For the unit of a house
B. Without blemish
C. A male of the first year
D. Examined for four days
E. Killed by the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
F. The blood put on the side posts and on the upper doorposts of the houses for redemption
G. Its flesh to be eaten for life supply
1. Roasted with fire
2. Not raw
3. Not boiled with water
4. With its head, legs, and inwards
5. With unleavened bread and bitter herbs
6. With nothing left until morning
H. Its bones not broken

The Passover (2) _msg.24

IV. The way to apply the Passover lamb
A. To eat with loins girded, with shoes on the feet, with staff in the hand, and in haste
B. To touch the lintel and the two side posts with the blood applied by a bunch of hyssop
C. To remain in the house whose door has been touched with the blood

The Passover (3) _msg.25

D. Not to eat leaven or to have any leaven
E. To observe the feast of unleavened bread as a continuation of the feast of Passover
1. For seven days
2. Not to work on the first day and the seventh day but to eat
F. Not to be eaten by strangers or hired servants
G. The purchased and circumcised servants qualified to eat
H. To continue the enjoyment of the Passover lamb by the Exodus from Egypt as God’s army
V. God’s judgment upon all the firstborn
VI. God’s judgment upon all the gods of Egypt

Israel’s exodus from Egypt (1) _msg.26

I. Pharaoh and the Egyptians having been subdued by God
II. Pharaoh and the Egyptians driving the children of Israel out of Egypt
III. The children of Israel having no time to leaven their bread
IV. The children of Israel having plundered the Egyptians of their silver, gold, and raiment
V. The children of Israel having gone forth from Egypt with their children and their flocks and herds
VI. The time of Israel’s dwelling in the gentile land having been completed
VII. A night of observation unto Jehovah
VIII. The children of Israel becoming the armies of Jehovah

Israel’s exodus from Egypt (2) _msg.27

IX. The children of Israel having been sanctified unto Jehovah
X. A day of memorial in the month of Abib in which no leavened bread was to be eaten
XI. The bones of Joseph brought out of Egypt with the children of Israel
XII. The way of God’s leading
A. In resurrection
B. Following the Lord’s command
C. According to certain conditions
D. Not through the short way, but through the roundabout way
E. By Himself in the pillar of cloud by day and in the pillar of fire by night

Pharaoh’s last struggle _msg.28

I. A type of the struggle of Satan and his world over the believers who are to be baptized
II. Pharaoh tempted by Israel’s turn in the wilderness
III. Pharaoh’s heart hardened by Jehovah for his glory, and the heart of Pharaoh and of His servants turning against Israel
IV. Pharaoh and his army pursuing the children of Israel to the shore of the Red Sea
V. The Angel of God protecting the children of Israel from the army of the Egyptians by the pillar of the cloud
VI. Pharaoh and his army pursuing the children of Israel to the midst of the Red Sea
VII. Jehovah defeating Pharaoh and his army
VIII. Pharaoh and his army drowned and buried in the sea

Israel’s crossing of the Red Sea _msg.29

I. A type of baptism
A. Baptized unto Moses
B. In the cloud
C. In the sea
D. By faith
E. Pharaoh and the Egyptian army buried in the sea
II. Saved through water
III. The praising of the saved
A. The song of Moses
1. Praising God’s salvation and victory
2. Leading to God’s habitation and God’s kingdom
B. The song of Miriam

Israel’s experience at Marah _msg.30

I. Three days’ journey from the Red Sea in the wilderness of Shur
II. No water in the natural way
III. The waters of Marah
IV. The Lord to be the Healer

Israel’s experience at Elim _msg.31

I. The experience of resurrection
II. Issuing from the experience at Marah
III. Twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees
IV. Twelve and seventy being numbers for the Lord’s people to carry out His ministry
V. Encamping as an army
VI. From marah to Elim

The experience of manna _msg.32

I. The flesh of the children of Israel still remaining after the experience at Elim
A. Murmuring against Moses and Aaron
B. Exposed because of the lack of the heavenly life supply
II. God’s dealing with the flesh of His people
A. Hearing their murmurings and showing them His glory
B. Sending them quails
III. The way manna is sent
A. In the morning
B. With the dew
C. Around the camp

God’s dealing with the flesh of His people _msg.33

I. The people’s greedy lust
II. God’s dealing
A. Satisfying their lust with quails
B. Showing the people His glory
C. Showing the people His sufficiency

The change of diet _msg.34

I. The Egyptian diet
A. Making people Egyptian
B. Fitting the lust of the flesh
C. Provoking God’s holy anger
D. Causing death
II. The heavenly diet
A. Making people heavenly
B. Fulfilling God’s purpose
C. Testing the people in relation to God’s will
D. Keeping the people alive to fulfill God’s purpose

The heavenly diet — manna (1) _msg.35

I. A type of Christ
II. The unique food for God’s people

The heavenly diet — manna (2) _msg.36

III. Its characteristics
A. From heaven
B. With the dew
C. In the morning

The heavenly diet — manna (3) _msg.37

D. Small
E. Fine
F. Round
G. White
H. As frost
I. As coriander seed
J. Solid
K. Its appearance like that of Bdellium
L. Its taste like that of fresh oil
M. Its taste like that of wafers with honey
N. Good for making cakes
O. A mystery

The heavenly diet — manna (4) _msg.38

IV. A memorial before God
A. Christ as the reconstituting element for God’s people
B. Christ as the Heavenly Supply to God’s People for God’s Dwelling Place on Earth
V. The hidden manna
A. An omer — the tenth part of an ephah

The heavenly diet — manna (5) _msg.39

B. In a golden pot
C. Within the ark of the testimony in the Holy of Holies
D. Before the testimony
E. For the overcomers for the building of God’s dwelling place

The living water out of the smitten rock (1) _msg.40

The manna and the living water
Following the Lord’s leading
Seven outstanding experiences
Our need for living water
Smitten by the authority of God’s law
The rock and the Spirit
The rock following God’s people
A proper understanding

The living water out of the smitten rock (2) _msg.41

The children of Israel tempting God
Massah and Meribah
A serious failure
Exposed by dryness
The waters of strife
Eating, drinking, and breathing

The water of life in resurrection _msg.42

I. The water of life being the Triune God flowing out to be our life
II. God embodied in Christ to reach humanity
A. Incarnated to live among men
B. Crucified to be released
C. Resurrected to be the life-giving Spirit
III. The Spirit being the water of life
A. Flowing out of God on the throne
B. Flowing through the smitten Christ
C. Flowing in resurrection
1. With the power of Christ’s resurrection and with His ascension and enthronement
2. For the formation of the Body of Christ
3. For the preparation of the bride of Christ

Drinking the water of life (1) _msg.43

Eating and drinking in Genesis, Revelation, and the Gospel of John
The way God works Himself into us
How to eat and drink the Lord
Facts, not parables or metaphors
The importance of drinking
The completing ministry and the mending ministry

Drinking the water of life (2) _msg.44

I. Positioned to drink
II. The need of thirst
III. Coming to the Lord
IV. Asking of the Lord
V. Calling on the Lord
VI. Receiving and taking by believing
VII. Drinking and the worship of God

Flowing the water of life _msg.45

Drinking and flowing
The seriousness of losing our thirst
Inflow and outflow
Flowing by speaking
Speaking in the church meetings
The best repellent
Welling up into eternal life
Identified with the smitten Christ

The defeat of Amalek _msg.46

I. The support for fighting
II. Amalek
A. Warlike, destroying, disturbing
B. A descendant of Esau
C. Close to Jacob
D. Fighting against Israel
E. The first enemy on Israel’s way to the good land
III. The defeat of Amalek
A. By weak men
B. With Moses lifting up his hand on the mountaintop
C. With Joshua fighting for the people
IV. The destiny of Amalek
A. The remembrance of him to be blotted out from under heaven
B. God to have war with Amalek from generation to generation
C. The name of Jehovah-nissi called at the altar as a memorial

The continual fighting against Amalek _msg.47

I. Amalek — the flesh full of enmity against God
II. Jehovah having war with Amalek from generation to generation
III. How to fight against Amalek
A. By praying with the interceding Christ
B. By putting the flesh to death with the fighting Spirit
C. By putting to death all good or bad that is of the flesh
D. By obedience to the Lord’s word

Amalek versus kingship _msg.48

I. Ishmael, the issue of the flesh, versus Isaac, the issue of grace
II. Amalek versus kingship
A. A hand against the throne of Jehovah
B. Hur of the tribe of Judah staying up Moses’ praying hand against Amalek
C. The kingdom coming after the war against Amalek
D. King Saul losing his kingship
1. Not utterly destroying Amalek
2. Sparing Agag, the King of the Amalekites, and the best of the cattle
3. Evil in the sight of Jehovah to spare the best of the cattle for sacrifice unto him
4. Committing a presumptuous sin by offering sacrifices to God according to man’s will
5. Committing rebellion as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness as iniquity and idolatry

A type of the kingdom _msg.49

I. History
II. Doctrine
III. The portrait of the kingdom
A. The Israel of God having defeated God’s enemy
B. The gentiles coming to praise God and worship Him
C. The church participating in the kingdom
D. The authority and order of the kingdom

Brought into the presence of God and into the knowledge of Him _msg.50

I. Having experienced God’s full salvation
II. Brought into the presence of God
A. At Mount Sinai
B. Through sanctification
C. In resurrection
D. To hear the speaking of God
III. Brought into the knowledge of God
A. To know the grace of God
B. To know the holiness of God
C. To be God’s personal possession and peculiar treasure
D. To be a kingdom of priests unto God
E. To be a holy nation

The testimony of God revealing Him to His people _msg.51

I. The law as the testimony of God
II. A revelation of what God is
A. Jealous
B. Holy
C. Loving
D. Righteous
E. Truthful
F. Pure

The law being the living Word of God infusing His substance into His loving seekers _msg.52

I. The law
II. Two kinds of people dealing with the law
A. The loving seekers of God
1. The psalmists
a. Loving God
b. Seeking God
c. Dwelling with God
d. Beholding His beauty
e. Infused with the riches of God
f. Enjoying the riches of life
g. Supplied with God to keep His Word
h. Treasuring the law of God
i. Tasting the sweetness of the law
j. Hoping in the word of God and dwelling on it
2. Simeon and Anna
B. The letter-keepers of the law
1. The Judaizers
2. Saul of Tarsus
III. The true worshippers of God

God seeking lovers in giving His law to His people _msg.53

I. God desiring to express Himself through a people
II. God having sought His people as the beloved seeking love
A. Having revealed Himself to them as Jehovah their God, the great I Am
B. Loving them with everlasting love
C. Dealing with them as His spouse
D. Revealing to them what He is by giving them His law in a courting way

Keeping the law of God by loving Him and His word and becoming one with Him (1) _msg.54

I. To keep the law of God by loving Him
A. God’s love for His people
1. Courting them
2. A book of engagement
B. Receiving God’s life
1. The type of Adam and Eve
2. Love and life
3. A process of divine conception
C. Two illustrations of oneness
1. Grafting
2. Husband and wife
D. The law uplifted, not changed
E. God’s ultimate goal

Keeping the law of God by loving Him and His word and becoming one with Him (2) _msg.55

II. God’s romance with man
A. Creating man with the purpose of having a counterpart
B. Choosing Israel to be His spouse
C. Coming to be the Bridegroom for the bride
D. Regenerating the church to be His bride
E. Marrying His redeemed as His wife
F. Enjoying a married life for eternity
III. The whole Bible being a divine romance
A. Full of God’s “datings” of man
B. Full of God’s courting of man
C. Both the Old and New Covenants being espousal covenants
1. The entire Old Testament spoken in this way
2. The law given in this way
3. The entire New Testament written in this way
4. The entire Bible being God’s courting word
5. A responsive, affectionate love needed to keep the courting word of God
IV. To keep the law of God by becoming one with Him

How the Old Testament seekers of God enjoyed His law (1) _msg.56

I. Seeking God
II. Loving His name and remembering it
III. Entreating His countenance
IV. Asking for His face to shine upon them
V. Walking in His presence
VI. Considering God’s law to be His word
A. Believing it
B. Choosing it
C. Lifting up their hands unto it
D. Loving it
E. Delighting in it
F. Tasting it
G. Rejoicing in it
H. Singing of it
I. Respecting it
J. Having a sound heart in it
K. Inclining their heart unto it
L. Seeking it, longing for it, hoping in it with prayer, and trusting in it

How the Old Testament seekers of God enjoyed His law (2) _msg.57

M. Musing upon it
N. Considering it
O. Esteeming it right concerning all things
P. Entering into it
Q. Learning it
R. Treasuring it
S. Hiding it in their heart
T. Remembering it and not forgetting it
U. Standing in awe of it
V. Cleaving to it
W. Not forsaking it, not swerving from it, not turning aside from it, and not going astray from it
X. Turning their feet unto it
Y. Keeping, observing, practicing, and doing it
Z. Walking in it and running the way of it

The function of God’s law as His living word to His loving seekers _msg.58

Giving light and life
Restoring the soul and rejoicing the heart
Bringing salvation
Strengthening, comforting, nourishing
Upholding, keeping safe, causing hope
Causing us to enjoy God as our portion
Causing us to enjoy God’s countenance
Causing us to enjoy God as our hiding place and shield and to enjoy God’s help and well-dealing
Making wise and giving understanding
Giving discernment and knowledge
Keeping us from sinning and from every evil way
Keeping us from stumbling, establishing our footsteps, and causing us to overcome iniquity

The blessing received by the loving seekers of God through His law as His living word (1) _msg.59

Problems of the heart
No exercise of heart
A divided heart
A lack of heart
Coverings, hindrances, and frustrations
The need to humble ourselves
Enlightened by the Word
A realm of light
The entrance of the Word giving light
A lamp unto our feet
Enlightening the eyes
Receiving the supply of life through the Word
Light becoming life
Exercising our whole being
Watered by the Word
Other blessings that come through the Word
Caring for the enjoyment of God in the Word

The blessing received by the loving seekers of God through His law as His living word (2) _msg.60

The enjoyment of God as our portion
The enjoyment of God’s countenance and of the shining of His face
The enjoyment of God as the hiding place and shield
The enjoyment of God’s help and well-dealing
Knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and discernment
Preserving, establishing, and overcoming

The negative aspect of the giving of the law and of its function (1) _msg.61

I. The twofold significance of Mount Horeb
A. The mountain of God
B. Mount Sinai
C. Different people at different distances with respect to Mount Horeb

The negative aspect of the giving of the law and of its function (2) _msg.62

II. The negative aspect of the giving of the law
A. To bring the children of Israel into a position to know themselves
B. To put the children of Israel to a test

The negative aspect of the giving of the law and of its function (3) _msg.63

III. The negative aspect of the function of the law
A. To expose sin
B. To subdue sinners
C. To guard God’s chosen people and bring them to Christ

Apart from the living God the law becoming killing letters _msg.64

I. The law as the word of God being spiritual, holy, just, and good
II. The law intended unto life but not able to give life of itself
III. Separated from the living God as the source of life, the law becoming the condemning and killing element to a sinful person
IV. The case of the Judaizers
V. The need of a new heart, a new spirit, and the Spirit of God
VI. The case of the Galatians
VII. Faith needed for an organic union with the living God that we may be the new creation

The veil over the glory of the ministry of condemnation and death _msg.65

The glory of the ministry of condemnation and death
The veil over the glory of the ministry
The need for a proper heart
Beholding the glory of the Lord with an unveiled face
A serious warning
The veil on the heart of God’s people
The experiential meaning of being under the Old and New Testaments

The ordinances of the law concerning the worship of God _msg.66

I. No idols
II. Through the altar — the cross
III. With the sacrifices — Christ
IV. Remembering the name of the Lord
V. God’s visiting and blessing

The pollution caused by man’s work and the nakedness exposed through man’s way _msg.67

I. The pollution caused by man’s work
A. Fallen man being sin in the eyes of God
B. No work of man acceptable to God
C. The addition of man’s work to the cross abominable to God
II. Nakedness exposed through man’s way
A. Nakedness denoting the shame of fallen man
B. God preparing Christ as our righteousness to cover our nakedness
III. THE ALtar — the cross — being the termination of fallen man with all his works and ways
IV. The virtue of Christ as the burnt offering and the peace offering in the worship of God

The first ordinance of the law concerning man’s relationship with others _msg.68

The spirit of the first ordinance
A type of Christ
With an open ear
Obedient unto death
Taking Christ as our pattern
Love as the basis for service
A slave’s position
Slaves of Christ in the church life
Love and obedience

Sundry ordinances of the law _msg.69
The implications, indications, and significances of the ordinances of the law (1) _msg.70

I. The decree of the law with all its ordinances indicating man’s fall and man’s living in the fall
II. The altar and the sacrifices for the worship of God indicating that fallen man needs to be redeemed, terminated, and replaced by Christ with His cross
III. The freedom of a slave in a sabbatical year signifying that fallen man under bondage may be freed by God’s rest
IV. The murder and the lying within man signifying that the Devil, the source of murder and the father of lies, is working in man
V. One who slays a person by error signifying that in the eyes of God fallen man is a sinner by mistake who may flee into Christ
VI. Stealing signifying that fallen man is not satisfied with God’s sovereign assignment and tries to make base gain by transgressing God’s regulation
VII. Coveting signifying Satan’s lusting nature becoming the indwelling sin within fallen man to deaden his body
VIII. Adultery signifying Satan’s sinful nature working in man to corrupt him by confusing him in breaking God’s regulations
IX. Strangers, widows, orphans, and the poor signifying fallen man becoming a stranger to God’s blessing, a widow without Christ as the husband, an orphan without God as the Father, and the poor deprived of the riches of God
X. Submission to God and His authority signifying the subduing of the rebellious nature of Satan within man
XI. Bringing the lost cattle to the enemy and helping one who hates us with his burdened animal signifying Christ bringing the lost things of life (livestock) to fallen man and helping him in releasing his burden

The implications, indications, and significances of the ordinances of the law (2) _msg.71

XII. Not delaying to offer the fullness and the tears, the fullness of the harvest and the outflow of the wine and oil presses, signifying that the fullness of our harvest of Christ and the outflow of our experience of the cross should be offered to God without delay
XIII. The firstborn of the sons and of the cattle to be given unto God signifying that the people redeemed through Christ as their substitute should be separated, made holy, unto God
XIV. To be holy men unto God indicating that we, God’s chosen people, should be saturated with Christ as our holiness before God
XV. Not eating any flesh that is torn of beasts, but casting it to the dogs signifying that we should take only Christ as our life supply, not anything of death, which should be food for the unclean men
XVI. Keeping the Sabbath day that the cattle may rest, and the son of the handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed, typifying taking Christ as our rest that others may also be benefited
XVII. Keeping the sabbatical year that the poor and the beasts may eat typifying taking Christ as our rest to a fuller extent for others to have food
XVIII. Keeping feasts unto God three times a year typifying the full enjoyment of the Triune God in Christ
A. The feast of unleavened bread
B. The feast of harvest
C. The feast of ingathering

The implications, indications, and significances of the ordinances of the law (3) _msg.72

XIX. The blood of God’s sacrifice (Christ) not being offered with leavened bread signifying that Christ’s redemption should be separated from our sinful life
XX. The fat of God’s feast (Christ) not remaining until the morning signifying that the riches of Christ should be for our enjoyment with God today, not tomorrow
XXI. The first of the firstfruits brought into the house of God typifying Christ as the firstfruit being brought to God’s dwelling place for His satisfaction
XXII. Not seething a kid in his mother’s milk typifying that the word of God (the life supply of Christ) which nourishes the new believers should not be used to kill them

The Angel of Jehovah for His people to take possession of the promised land (1) _msg.73

I. The Angel of Jehovah
A. Sent by Jehovah
B. Jehovah’s name in him
C. Jehovah Himself
D. His voice being Jehovah’s speaking
E. Going before the children of Israel
F. Guarding them in the way
G. Bringing them into the good land
II. The promised land
A. Its boundaries
B. Its frustraters
III. The way to take possession of the land

The Angel of Jehovah for His people to take possession of the promised land (2) _msg.74

A. By obeying the Angel of Jehovah
1. Not provoking him
2. Not pardoning our transgressions
B. By Jehovah’s cutting off the pagan tribes
1. Defeating them
2. Driving them out little by little

The Angel of Jehovah for His people to take possession of the promised land (3) _msg.75

C. By cooperating with God in the destruction of the pagan tribes
1. The source of sin against Jehovah
2. Making no covenant with them
D. By destroying the idols
E. By Jehovah’s complete care
1. Blessing His people’s food and water
2. Taking sickness away from them
3. Granting them multiplication
4. Causing them to live to full age

The enactment of the covenant (1) _msg.76

I. Through the altar
II. With twelve pillars signifying the twelve tribes of Israel as the testimony of the law of God

The enactment of the covenant (2) _msg.77

III. With burnt offerings and peace offerings
IV. By the blood
V. The ignorance of the children of Israel

The blood of the covenant (1) _msg.78

The enactment of the law
God’s intention in decreeing the law
The redeeming blood and the presence of God
The basic principle of the divine economy
The way to become pillars

The blood of the covenant (2) _msg.79

I. The blood indicating that one party is sinful and that the other party is willing to forgive
II. No forgiveness without the shedding of blood
III. The blood for forgiveness of sin ushering the sinful party of the covenant into better things
A. A new heart
B. A new spirit
C. The Spirit of God
D. The inward law of life
E. The ability of life to know God
IV. The blood of atonement leading the redeemed into the Holy of Holies
V. The blood of Christ of the new covenant
A. Redeeming the believers
B. Bringing the believers to the tree of life
C. Leading the believers to the waters of life
D. Ushering the believers into the Holy of Holies
E. Enabling the believers to serve the living God
F. Bringing the believers into the temple of God to enjoy God for eternity

The vision of God in a transparent and clear heaven and the stay with God under His glory _msg.80

I. The vision of God in a transparent and clear heaven
II. The stay with God under His glory

The vision of the tabernacle and its furniture concerning the materials and the pattern (1) _msg.81

I. Seeing the vision
A. After the initial experiences
B. In intimate fellowship with God
1. Receiving the revelation of what God is
2. On the mountain of God
3. By staying with God
II. Concerning the materials
A. Referring to the virtues of Christ’s Person and work
B. A heave offering

The vision of the tabernacle and its furniture concerning the materials and the pattern (2) _msg.82

C. Of minerals
1. Gold, signifying Christ’s divine nature

The vision of the tabernacle and its furniture concerning the materials and the pattern (3) _msg.83

2. Silver, signifying Christ’s redemptive work
3. Bronze, signifying the testing of God’s judgment
4. Onyx stone, signifying Christ’s redemptive work as the base for the Spirit’s transforming work
5. Other precious stones, signifying the transformation of the Spirit
D. Of Plants
1. Linen, signifying Christ’s conduct
a. Blue, signifying heavenly
b. Purple, signifying royal
c. Scarlet, signifying redemption
d. Fine, signifying even, perfect, and beautiful
2. Acacia wood, signifying Christ’s human nature
3. Oil, signifying the Spirit of Christ
4. Spices, signifying the effectiveness and the sweet odor of Christ’s death and resurrection
E. Of animals
1. Goats’ hair, signifying Christ made sin for us
2. Rams’ skins dyed red, signifying Christ’s redemption through the shedding of His blood
3. Porpoise skins, signifying Christ’s strength in bearing sufferings
III. Concerning the pattern

The ark of the testimony (1) _msg.84

I. The first item of the furniture of the tabernacle
II. Typifying Christ
A. As the embodiment of God’s testimony
B. For God’s redeemed people to contact Him and enjoy Him
III. The center of the tabernacle of testimony
A. Signifying the center of God’s dwelling place
B. Signifying the contents of the house of God
IV. The materials of the ark
A. Acacia wood
1. Signifying Christ’s humanity
2. Signifying that Christ’s humanity is the basic substance for expressing God
B. Pure gold
1. Signifying Christ’s divinity
2. Overlaying the acacia wood inside and outside
V. The size
VI. A rim of gold around the ark

The ark of the testimony (2) _msg.85

VII. Four rings of gold, signifying the divine nature of christ as the linking factor and power
A. Being cast
B. Four, signifying the four corners of the earth to reach all men
C. Two rings on each side, signifying a testimony in every aspect
VIII. The two poles
A. For the ark’s moving by being carried
B. Made of acacia wood
C. Overlaid with gold
D. The move of Christ as God’s testimony being by His two natures mingled as one
E. Two poles
F. The poles put into the golden rings for carrying the ark
G. The two poles staying in the rings of the ark
IX. The testimony put into the ark

The ark of the testimony (3) _msg.86

X. The propitiatory cover
A. Signifying Christ
B. Made of pure gold
C. The size
D. With two cherubim
E. Put upon the ark from above
F. God meeting with His redeemed people here
G. God speaking to His redeemed people from between the two cherubim

The ark of the testimony (4) _msg.87

The Christ who dwells in our spirit
God’s testimony
The God-man
The topmost part of Christ
A portrait of God meeting with man
The blood on the propitiatory cover

The ark of the testimony (5) _msg.88

Opening the way to the tree of life
Enjoying Christ as the ark in the Holy of Holies
Living Christ
The ark in the mending ministry of John
Christ as the propitiatory cover

The ark of the testimony (6) _msg.89

The place of propitiation
The ark in the mending ministry of John
The ark in Hebrews
The throne of grace in our spirit
The blood and the cherubim
Controlled by vision

The table of the bread of the presence (1) _msg.90

I. A table signifying Christ as the food for God’s priests
A. Before God
B. Within the tabernacle
C. To be their daily life supply

The table of the bread of the presence (2) _msg.91

D. Made of acacia wood
E. Overlaid with Gold
F. A rim of gold round about
G. The size
1. Two cubits its length and a cubit its width
2. A cubit and a half its height
H. A frame round about
1. For connecting and strengthening the legs
2. Of a handbreadth
3. With a rim of gold
I. Four rings of gold
1. Signifying the Spirit of Christ as the linking factor and power
2. Put upon the four feet of the table for moving
3. Close to the frame as receptacles for the poles to carry the table
J. Two poles of acacia wood
K. The dishes, cups, jars, and sacrificial bowls
II. The bread of the presence signifying Christ as the food for God’s priests
A. The presence-bread, the face-bread
B. Most holy of the people’s offerings to Jehovah by fire
C. On the table within the holy place of the tabernacle
D. To be eaten in the holy place
E. The display of the bread

The lampstand (1) _msg.92

I. The expression of the Triune God
A. The substance
B. The stand
C. The lamps
II. Within the dwelling place of God
III. After the table of the bread of the presence
IV. Of pure gold
V. Of beaten work
VI. Without measurement
VII. The base and the shaft
VIII. The cups with the knobs and blossoming buds
A. The cups shaped like almond blossoms
B. The knobs, the calyxes, the external green leafy parts of the flowers, containing the blossoming buds
C. The blossoming buds
IX. Three branches on each of the two sides
X. Three cups shaped like almond blossoms on each branch with knob and blossoming bud

The lampstand (2) _msg.93

XI. Four cups shaped like almond blossoms on the lampstand with its knobs and its blossoming buds
XII. A knob under every two branches
XIII. The lampstand and its knobs and branches all being one beaten work of pure gold
XIV. Seven lamps
XV. The lampstand giving light in front of itself through the three lamps on each of its two sides
XVI. The shining of the six branches in three pairs taking the central stalk of the lampstand as the object
XVII. A priest lighting the lamps
XVIII. The snuffers and the snuff dishes for trimming the charred wicks
XIX. The snuffers and the snuff dishes made of pure gold
XX. The lampstand with its utensils being of one talent of pure gold
XXI. In the holy place the lampstand being over against the table of the bread of the presence close to the ark
XXII. In the making and display of the furniture of the tabernacle, the lampstand followed by the incense altar
XXIII. Three layers of different lights with the tabernacle
A. In the outer court
B. In the Holy Place
C. In the Holy of Holies
XXIV. The lampstand becoming the church to bear the testimony of Jesus and the seven lamps becoming the seven Spirits of God to express the Triune God

The lampstand (3) _msg.94

Growing, branching, budding, and blossoming to shine the light
I. Christ as the resurrection life growing, branching, budding, and blossoming to shine the light
II. Shining in the Holy Place
III. Directing us to enjoy Christ as our life supply
IV. The life supply becoming the light of life to us
V. Leading us to enjoy Christ as the fragrant incense of resurrection in the prayer of fellowship with God
VI. Guiding us into the Holy of Holies to enjoy Christ as the testimony of God with the throne of grace
VII. The shining light becoming the shekinah glory for our closest fellowship with God

The covering of the tabernacle (1) _msg.95

I. The first layer of the covering
A. Typifying Christ’s humanity
B. Ten curtains
C. Fine linen
D. Blue
E. Purple
F. Scarlet
G. Cherubim of the work of an embroiderer
H. The measurement
I. Two sets of five curtains each
J. Blue loops
K. Fifty clasps

The covering of the tabernacle (2) _msg.96

II. The second layer of the covering
A. Typifying Christ being made sin for us
B. Goats’ hair — sins of sinners
C. Eleven curtains
D. The measurement
E. Two sets of curtains
F. Fifty loops
G. Fifty clasps
H. Doubling over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent and the overhanging half curtain at the back of the tabernacle
I. One cubit hanging over each side of the fine linen tabernacle
III. The third layer of the covering — a covering of rams’ skins
IV. The fourth layer of the covering — a covering of porpoise skins
V. One layer of plant life and three layers of animal life

The boards of the tabernacle (1) _msg.97

I. Typifying the believers built together to be the dwelling place of God
II. The enlargement of the ark
III. Acacia wood overlaid with gold
IV. The measurements
V. The number

The boards of the tabernacle (2) _msg.98

VI. The tenons
VII. The sockets
VIII. The rings
IX. The bars

The veil within the tabernacle (1) _msg.99

Typifying the flesh of Christ
The boards and the pillars
Hooks of gold and sockets of silver
Placed on four pillars
A way opened

The veil within the tabernacle (2) _msg.100

Two tabernacles
Soul or spirit?
Direct contact with God
Crucified with Christ
The veil signifying Christ’s flesh
The breaking of the flesh

The curtain for the door of the tent (1) _msg.101

The covering, the veil, and the screen
Entering the tabernacle
Christ dying for our sins
Christ dying for us
Two aspects of Christ’s death
Three entrances
Two kinds of pillars
Identified with Christ

The curtain for the door of the tent (2) _msg.102

A place for enjoyment
The entrance into the enjoyment of God
Christ as a screen
Crucifying the flesh
Pillars bearing the testimony
The goal — the Holy of Holies
The all-inclusive death of Christ

The curtain for the door of the tent (3) _msg.103

Two aspects of reconciliation
God condemning sin in the flesh
A new creation
Living to Christ
Paul’s use of metaphors
Captives in Christ’s procession
Bearers of incense
Living epistles
Uncovered mirrors
Earthen vessels
The need for further reconciliation

The altar of burnt offering (1) _msg.104

I. Typifying the cross of Christ
II. Made of acacia wood
III. Made squared
IV. Five cubits long and five cubits wide
V. Three cubits high
VI. With horns upon four corners
VII. The horns being one with the altar
VIII. Overlaid with bronze
IX. All utensils made of bronze

The altar of burnt offering (2) _msg.105

X. A bronze grating of network
XI. Four rings of bronze upon the four ends of the grating
XII. The ledge of the altar under which the grating of bronze is hung
XIII. The poles of the altar
XIV. Made with planks to be hollow: its size sufficient to contain all the utensils of the tabernacle

The altar of burnt offering (3) _msg.106

A type of the cross of Christ
The grating and the four rings
The rings divorced from the grating
God’s requirements fulfilled

The altar of burnt offering (4) _msg.107

The contents of the altar
Redemption accomplished through the Spirit
Why Christ offered Himself through the eternal Spirit
The issue of Christ’s redemption
The power of Christ’s redemption
The grating, the rings, and the poles

The altar of burnt offering (5) _msg.108

The redeeming Christ
An eternal death
The ashes and the fragrance
The redeeming Christ issuing in the Spirit
A personal Christ and a personal redemption
The move of the cross by the church in the Spirit
The Spirit moving with the church

The altar of burnt offering (6) _msg.109

The location of the grating
The efficacy of Christ’s redemption
The revelation of the New Testament

The court of the tabernacle (1) _msg.110

Categories of materials
Righteousness and holiness
Living in the kingdom
The expression of the righteous God
A testimony of the whole
Becoming the righteousness of God
Righteousness coming out of God’s judgment

The court of the tabernacle (2) _msg.111

I. Signifying the sphere and boundary of God’s building
II. Its size
III. The hangings
A. Of linen
B. The size
IV. The pillars and their sockets
A. The sockets of bronze
B. The pillars
C. Sixty, the number of both the pillars and the sockets
D. The area between two pillars equaling that of the top of the altar
E. The capitals, the hooks, and the connecting rods of the pillars

The court of the tabernacle (3) _msg.112

The appearance of the gate
Interpreting the picture
Basic principles of the gospel
The goal of God’s gospel
The alphabet of God’s salvation
Bronze, the basic material
Bearing God’s righteousness
A scene of bronze
Stabilizing the church life
Judgment and redemption
Bronze, silver, and gold

The court of the tabernacle (4) _msg.113

Enjoying the divine nature
The experience of judgment
A life under God’s judgment
Expressing the righteousness of God
Bronze, silver, and linen
Preaching an uplifted gospel
Knowing and experiencing the gospel

The lighting of the lamps and the garments for the priesthood (1) _msg.114

A priestly service
Light from the lampstand
Olive oil
Lighting the lamps in the meetings
The priesthood
The expression of Christ

The lighting of the lamps and the garments for the priesthood (2) _msg.115

Meeting to light the lamps
The need for spiritual experience
Pure olive oil
Before the testimony
Seeing different aspects of Christ
A serious matter

The priestly garments (1) _msg.116

The tabernacle and the priesthood
A living house
The need for the building
Serving in coordination
Two aspects of the church

The priestly garments (2) _msg.117

Life and building
Precious building materials
Our unique need
Nourished for the building
The shortage of the building
God’s goal
The building and the priesthood
A preserved remnant

The priestly garments (3) _msg.118

Six items
The expression of Christ
Qualifying the priests to serve
Sanctifying the priests
For glory and for beauty
The glory of Christ’s divinity
The beauty of Christ’s humanity
A life that expresses Christ

The priestly garments (4) _msg.119

The breastplate and the ephod
For glory and beauty
Fastened to Christ
The experience of being held to the Lord
The materials of the ephod
The golden settings

The priestly garments (5) _msg.120

Onyx stones
Fastened and transformed
A memorial before God
The breastplate
Mutual beauty
A picture of mingling
Attached to Christ

The priestly garments (6) _msg.121

The materials of the ephod and its colors
A mingling of divinity and humanity
Schools of Christology
The God-man
Divinity and humanity woven together
Christ’s heavenliness, kingliness, and redemption
Treasuring the picture of Christ

The priestly garments (7) _msg.122

Onyx stones signifying the believers
Plaited settings of gold
Chains of gold
Held to the Lord by His expression
Mutual beautification
An eternal memorial

The priestly garments (8) _msg.123

The central item of the priestly garments
The Lord’s leading
The formation and constituent of the church
A perfect testimony
Christ’s unlimited care for the church

The priestly garments (9) _msg.124

One entity composed of twelve stones
Signifying transformation
Four rows of stones
Reproduction in life

The priestly garments (10) _msg.125

Christ with the church
Chains of gold
Rings of gold
Held and upheld
Ribbons of linen
A precious picture
A memorial before God

The priestly garments (11) _msg.126

God’s speaking through the Urim and the Thummim
Reading the saints
The conditions for having the Urim and the Thummim
Transformed, transparent, inscribed, and enlightened
Built up as one entity
God’s judgments and His leading

The priestly garments (12) _msg.127

Types of Christ
The application of the Urim and the Thummim in the Old Testament
Aaron
Eleazar for Joshua
The priests of Levi for Israel
Abiathar for David
Not for Saul
Christ as witness and illuminator
Christ shining through the Spirit and through the cross

The priestly garments (13) _msg.128

Christ as the completer and perfecter
The need for Christ to be added to us
Christ as the alphabet for inscription and completion
The shortage of the inscription of Christ
The proper experience of Christ

The priestly garments (14) _msg.129

Today’s application
Receiving the Lord’s leading concerning the church
God’s way of speaking
Judgment and supply
The need for the adequate experience of Christ
Recognizing our need for more experience

The priestly garments (15) _msg.130

The expression of God
The fullness of Christ
The earth covered with the expression of Christ’s virtues
Christ with the church
Held, sustained, and joined
Features of the robe
All of blue
Its opening
Pomegranates and bells

The priestly garments (16) _msg.131

Five other items
Holiness and righteousness
Normal and proper persons
The golden plate
Four degrees of holiness
The tunic, the girdle, and the turban
Covered by Christ as righteousness

The priestly garments (17) _msg.132

Concepts of holiness
Two aspects of sanctification
The operation of the Triune God and its results
God wrought into us
Holiness in divinity, righteousness in humanity
Absolute holiness

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (1) _msg.133

Filling our empty hands
The sin offering
The mark of separation
Set apart to serve God as priests
The need to be cleansed
Clothed with priestly garments
The crucial need of food
Our emptiness filled with Christ

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (2) _msg.134

Two kinds of burning
Christ as the sin offering
Realizing that we have a sinful nature
Details of the sin offering
Our need to be filled with Christ
Preparing to enjoy Christ
The way to feed on Christ
Caring for the experience of life

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (3) _msg.135

Not ordained or consecrated but sanctified
Sanctified by having our hands filled
Washed and clothed
Redemption and generation
Being reminded of our sinful nature

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (4) _msg.136

One with the burnt offering
God’s food
The blood and the fragrance
The blood of the peace offering
Two kinds of anointing
Other aspects of the peace offering

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (5) _msg.137

A universal priesthood
A detailed description of sanctification
A thorough cleansing
Clothed with priestly garments
The need for redemption
The burnt offering
The peace offering

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (6) _msg.138

Redemption and germination
God’s portion of the peace offering
The wave offering and the heave offering
Fully sanctified
Feasting on Christ
A complete view of sanctification

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (7) _msg.139

A conclusion
God’s desire to dwell among us
Inviting God to dinner
God drinks
The goal of sanctification

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (8) _msg.140

Anointed in the priestly garments
Wearing the priestly garments seven days
Enjoying Christ in the holy place
Experiencing Christ before His coming back

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (9) _msg.141

Ministering food to God
God’s food
The need for the sin offering
Sin and sins
The sin offering for propitiation

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (10) _msg.142

Propitiation made upon the altar
The food offered to God
Growing Christ and raising Him
Proper spiritual education
Bringing the groceries to the meetings

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (11) _msg.143

The function of the sin offering
Sin not eradicated
God’s food
Obedient to God
A testimony of our daily life
Living by Christ as the Lamb
Raising a flock of lambs
The offerings for God’s eating

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (12) _msg.144

The life producer and life supply
Rich in spiritual groceries
Christ as the anointing Spirit
Producing olive oil
The drink offering
Food for God’s satisfaction

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (13) _msg.145

Attitudes toward typology
A picture of Christ

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (14) _msg.146

A radical change in our daily life
Praying spontaneously and intimately
Listening and speaking
Our way of meeting
Two cultures
Experience Christ in a practical way
Grinding and pressing
The Lord dwelling in our midst

The golden incense altar (1) _msg.147

The place where the priestly service begins
The location of the incense altar
The center of God’s administration
The prayer life of the corporate Christ
A representative book
The effectiveness of the incense altar

The golden incense altar (2) _msg.148

The need for intercession
Christ as the intercessor
Its materials and dimensions
Having four horns
Having a crown of gold
The rings and the poles

The golden incense altar (3) _msg.149

The incarnated God
Christ as the offerings
Praying in God and with God in us
Burning Christ as incense
Praying Christ

The golden incense altar (4) _msg.150

Prayer related to Christ and the church
A serious prohibition
A sad situation
How the two altars are connected
By the anointing
By the blood of the sin offering
By the fire that burned the offerings
The psalmist’s appreciation of the two altars
The two altars in our experience

The golden incense altar (5) _msg.151

Christ interceding
A deep concept
The blood and the fire
Reduced to ashes
Our conduct, sight, and virtue

The golden incense altar (6) _msg.152

One with Christ in intercession
The destination of the divine tour
Our person revealed by our prayer
Strange incense
Strange fire
Natural prayers
What God desires

The propitiation silver (1) _msg.153

Questions concerning the propitiation silver
A military census
Fighting for God’s expression
Coming to the incense altar to intercede for God’s interests
God’s move on earth

The propitiation silver (2) _msg.154

Prayer and the formation of the army
The Passover lamb and the redemption silver
The urgent need of maturity
FIGHting by the precious Christ in ascension
Interceding at the incense altar
The church resting on Christ experienced as the ransom silver

The propitiation silver (3) _msg.155

A half-shekel for a memorial
The highest experience of Christ
Each one required to pay the amount
Paying the half-shekel in every meeting
Fighting for God’s move

The laver of bronze _msg.156

Bronze, silver, and gold
The laver for the tabernacle’s operation
Our need to be washed from the earthly touch
The result of serving in the tabernacle without first washing in the laver
Experiencing the laver for the operation of God’s dwelling place
The laver in relation to the altar
The bronze of the altar and the laver
The washing of the life-giving Spirit
An eternal statute
The incense altar, the propitiation silver, and the laver

The holy anointing oil (1) _msg.157

The position of the ointment
A deeper truth
Its significance

The holy anointing oil (2) _msg.158

Its materials
Four kinds of spices
Flowing myrrh
Fragrant cinnamon
Fragrant calamus
Cassia
Olive oil
The four spices signifying humanity in God’s Creation, and the oil signifying divinity in the Godhead
Its measure
Five hundred shekels of myrrh
Two hundred fifty shekels of cinnamon and two hundred fifty shekels of calamus
Five hundred shekels of cassia
Three units of five hundred shekels each in four spices
Its function
For all generations
Not to be poured upon the flesh of man
Not to make any like it in its proportions

The holy anointing oil (3) _msg.159

The need for spiritual experience
A compound ointment
The Spirit and the anointing
The tabernacle and the priesthood
The Spirit compounded through Christ’s sufferings
The extract of Christ’s death
The Spirit of Christ
Contacting the Spirit
No imitation of the Spirit

The compounded ointment — the compound Spirit (1) _msg.160

God’s dwelling place and the priesthood
The enjoyment of the Lord in Exodus
The significance of the numbers three and five
Deciphering the word
Seeing the revelation concerning the compound ointment
Titles of the Spirit

The compounded ointment — the compound Spirit (2) _msg.161

In God’s creation — the Spirit of God with the element of divinity
In God’s relation with man — the Spirit of Jehovah with the element of the divine Trinity
In incarnation — the Holy Spirit with the element of the holy divine nature
The Spirit not yet, not compounded with more elements, before Christ’s resurrection
The Spirit of reality
The Spirit of Jesus with the elements of humanity, human living, and crucifixion
The Spirit of Christ with the element of resurrection
The Spirit of Jesus Christ with the bountiful supply of all the elements of humanity, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection
The Spirit of life with the riches of the divine life
The life-giving Spirit with the impartation of the divine life
The Lord Spirit with the elements of ascension and lordship
The Spirit of grace with the element of the enjoyment of the Triune God
The seven Spirits with the sevenfold intensification
The Spirit with all the elements of the titles — the all-inclusive Spirit
The function of the compound Spirit

The compounded ointment — the compound Spirit (3) _msg.162

Constituted of God’s nature
The Spirit of reality
The Spirit of Jesus
Other titles of the Spirit
The Spirit of glory
The Spirit of holiness
Not systematizing the divine revelation

The ingredients of the compound Spirit typified by the compounded ointment (1) _msg.163

The ingredients of the compound Spirit
The only God — the one hin of olive oil
The Triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit — the three units of the measure of the four spices
Man, the creature of God — four spices of the plant life

The ingredients of the compound Spirit typified by the compounded ointment (2) _msg.164

The precious death of Christ
The sweetness and effectiveness of Christ’s death
The precious resurrection of Christ
The power of Christ’s resurrection
The mingling of divinity with humanity
The power for responsibility
The building element
The anointing of the compound Spirit
To anoint the believers with the Father and the Son
To anoint the believers with the eternal life
To inoculate the believers against the heretical teachings concerning the Person of Christ
The anointing teaching the believers to abide in the Lord

The ingredients of the compound Spirit typified by the compounded ointment (3) _msg.165

The impossibility of separating Jesus from Christ or the Son from the Father
Letting the reality of the Triune God abide in us
Eternal life
The compound anointing abiding in us
The teaching of the anointing
Abiding in the anointing
Christ — the Creator and a creature
The Christian life

The ingredients of the compound Spirit typified by the compounded ointment (4) _msg.166

Jesus, Christ, the Father, and the Son being one
An all-inclusive Person
The Triune God
Anointed with the elements of the all-inclusive Person

The incense (1) _msg.167

Three fragrant spices
Prayer ascending to God
The sweetness of genuine prayer
Christ for God’s administration
The way to the incense altar
A picture of two-way traffic

The incense (2) _msg.168

The composition of the ointment and the incense
The Triune God
Generating life and redeeming life
Humanity
The resurrection of Christ
The picture of a wonderful Person
Oiled and salted
Our need to be salted
The salt of the cross applied to our prayer
The incense tempered with salt

The incense (3) _msg.169

Fragrant spices
Stacte
Onycha
Galbanum
Frankincense
An equal proportion of the four basic elements
Seasoned with salt
The incense ground and put before the testimony in the tent of meeting
Not for man’s smelling

The workers of the tabernacle, the furniture, and the priestly garment (1) _msg.170

The master builder
Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur
Filled with the Spirit of God

The workers of the tabernacle, the furniture, and the priestly garment (2) _msg.171

To devise skillful works
To work in all workmanship
The co-master builder
The builders
Wisehearted
Stirred up by the heart
The things built

The Sabbath in relation to the building work of the tabernacle _msg.172

The significance of the Sabbath
God’s refreshment
A divine principle
A sign that we are one with God
An eternal covenant
A matter of sanctification
Suffering spiritual death
All the tabernacle and its furniture leading to the Sabbath of God
The building work of the tabernacle beginning with the enjoyment of God

The breaking of the law _msg.173

The way of grace prepared before the law was broken
The breaking of the law through idolatry
Self-beautification leading to idolatry
Satan’s usurping of God’s gifts
The worship of enjoyment
Pretending to worship the true God
Mixture in worship
Idols made by gifted people

The principle of the golden-calf idol _msg.174

Two scenes
Mixture in worship
Not using God’s gifts for God’s purpose
An idol made by God’s redeemed people
Division, idolatry, and fornication
The idol related to amusement and entertainment
Man-made miracles

The dealing with the idol and the idolaters _msg.175

Moses’ petition for the idolatrous people
Jehovah’s word regarding the idolatrous people
Moses’ word of petition
Moses’ dealing with the idol
Moses’ dealing with the idolaters

A companion of God (1) _msg.176

The need of a mediator
Intimate with God
Knowing what is on God’s heart
More than a friend

A companion of God (2) _msg.177

Made manifest by and among the idolatrous people
Propitiating for the stiff-necked and idolatrous people
By conversing with God intimately
Interceding at the risk of his eternal destiny
According to God’s heart
Causing the people to mourn and to cleanse themselves
To be with God in the tent outside the camp
Bargaining with God for His presence and glory
For God’s presence to go with His people
For God’s glory to be shown to Him
Some difficult questions

Moses’ stay with God (1) _msg.178

Types, figures, and shadows
Recovery of the broken covenant
Meeting with the Lord alone
The Lord’s declaring His name
The Lord’s promise
A warning concerning idolatry

Moses’ stay with God (2) _msg.179

Feasting and resting
Three feasts
Daily feasting and resting
The feast of unleavened bread
The feast of weeks
Enjoying three feasts daily
Fighting the enemy by enjoying the Lord

Moses’ stay with God (3) _msg.180

To redeem the firstling of a donkey with a lamb
Not offering the blood of the Lord’s sacrifice with leavened bread
Not allowing the sacrifice of the feast of the passover to remain until the morning
Bringing the first of the firstfruits to the house of God
Not boiling the kid in its mother’s milk
The sequence of the five conditions

Moses’ stay with God (4) _msg.181

The key to understanding Exodus 34
A word of repetition
God’s infusion
The veil on Moses’ face
A lengthy stay with God
The kind of speaking that infuses us with God

The making of the tabernacle with its furniture and the garments for the priests (1) _msg.182

A word concerning the Sabbath
A review of chapter thirty-four
Five conditions for enjoying the Lord
Three feasts
Feasting and resting
Resting before we work
The significance of the Sabbath

The making of the tabernacle with its furniture and the garments for the priests (2) _msg.183

The offering of the materials
The preparing of the workers
An uplifted heart
Filled with the Spirit of God
The sequence in making the tabernacle
Counting the offered materials
Making the garments for the priests

The erection of the tabernacle (1) _msg.184

God’s side and our side
God’s intention to have the ark
Two beginnings
Moses doing what the Lord commanded
The need for reality
Finishing the work

The erection of the tabernacle (2) _msg.185

The sequence in erecting the tabernacle
The cloud covering the tent of meeting and the glory filling the tabernacle
The tent of meeting and the tabernacle
The relationship between the cloud and the glory
Moving with God’s dwelling place
A comparison of Genesis and Exodus
A coffin and a tabernacle
An individual Israel and a corporate Israel
A transforming vision
A sketch of Genesis and Exodus
The recovery and God’s purpose

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