Crystallization-Study of Numbers (2)
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Message One
A Vital Sketch of the Divine Revelation in the
Books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers concerning God’s Economy with
His Chosen and Redeemed People
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
This charge I commit to you, ………according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you might war the good warfare,-1Tim1:18.
Even as I exhorted you, when I was going into Macedonia, to remain in Ephesus in order that you might charge certain ones not to teach different things, Nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than God’s economy, which is in faith.1Tim1:3-4.
Word of Appetizer
In presenting a vital sketch of the divine revelation in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers concerning God’s economy with His chosen and redeemed people?
We may use four slogans to summarize certain crucial aspects of this vital sketch:
A．God’s chosen and redeemed people are purchased, redeemed, and saved from the bondage of the fall.
B.God’s chosen and redeemed people are enjoying Christ, receiving revelation, and being built up in the Triune God.
C.God’s chosen and redeemed people are formed into a priestly army to fight for God and to journey with God.
D.God’s chosen and redeemed people are possessed by God to possess the all-inclusive Christ as the good land.
Spiritual Burden
The entire Bible shows us one thing—God’s intention is to have a people formed into an army to take Christ as their meaning of life, testimony, center, Leader, way, and goal and to proceed on and fight for God so that He may have a people built up as His kingdom and His house, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The word economy is not used in the Old Testament books, but the typology in these books (such as Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers) unveils God’s economy. God’s chosen and redeemed people need to receive the divine revelation concerning God Himself and His economy for their training and building up as His testimony; in Genesis God’s people were chosen, and in Exodus they received the divine revelation concerning God and His dwelling place.
The central thought of Numbers is that Christ is the meaning of life, the testimony, the center of God’s people, and the Leader, the way, and the goal of their journey and fighting.
The Experience of Life
The saints have been chosen, redeemed, and saved from the bondage of the fall; the saints have been saved from the usurpation of the world and from the bondage of Satan.
Having been saved, we are now enjoying Christ; like the children of Israel at Mount Sinai, we have also received the divine revelation and are being built up with the processed Triune God, that is, with the Son as the embodiment of the Father and with the Spirit as the realization of the Son.
Practice and Application
God’s chosen and redeemed people need to receive the divine revelation concerning God Himself and His economy for their training and building up as His testimony.
(We) God’s chosen and redeemed people to be formed into an army to carry out the holy war; As a priestly army, God’s chosen and redeemed people fought together with God and for God.
This charge I commit to you, ………according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you might war the good warfare. -1Tim1:18.
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline
Key Verses (1)
And He said to them, These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all the things written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and Psalms concerning Me must be fulfilled.-Luke.24:44.
Even as I exhorted you, when I was going into Macedonia, to remain in Ephesus in order that you might charge certain ones not to teach different things, Nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than God’s economy, which is in faith.1Tim1:3-4.
I.A Vital Sketch of the Divine Revelation in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers concerning God’s Economy with His Chosen and Redeemed People
.God’s chosen and redeemed people are purchased, redeemed, and saved from the bondage of the fall; enjoying Christ, receiving revelation, and being built up in the Triune God; formed into a priestly army to fight for God and to journey with God; possessed by God to possess the all-inclusive Christ as the good land.
. These four slogans apply to the saints in both the Old Testament and New Testament, because the New Testament is hidden in the Old Testament, and the Old Testament is manifested in the New Testament.
.The word economy is not used in the Old Testament books, but the typology in these books (such as Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers) unveils God’s economy, The history of the children of Israel in the Old Testament is a type of the history of the believers in the New Testament.
Key Verses (2)
Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance and upholding and bearing all things by the word of His power, having made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; -Heb.1:3.
Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my musing. – Psa. 119:97.
And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up. -Exo.26:15.
How lovely are Your tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts! My soul longs, indeed even faints, For the courts of Jehovah………-Psa.84:1-2.
II.in Genesis God’s people were chosen
III.in Exodus they received the divine revelation concerning God and His dwelling place
God’s chosen and redeemed people need to receive the divine revelation concerning God Himself and His economy for their training and building up as His testimony.
God’s chosen people received the divine revelation after their participation in God’s initial salvation, as realized in the Passover. Christ is the reality of the law as the testimony of God.
God brought the people out of Egypt to the mountain of God, Mount Sinai, and there gave them a full revelation of Himself and His dwelling place; we may say that this revelation contained the “blueprint” for the building of God’s dwelling place.
In addition to receiving the divine revelation concerning God Himself, the children of Israel received the divine revelation concerning God’s economy so that they might be built up together with God in His Divine Trinity as His dwelling place on earth for His testimony.
In the book of Leviticus, God trained His people to worship and partake of Him and to live a holy, clean, and rejoicing life.
Key Verses (3)
This charge I commit to you, ………according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you might war the good warfare, -1Tim1:18.
Suffer evil with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please the one who enlisted him. -2Tim.2:3-4.
Finally, be empowered in the Lord and in the might of His strength.Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil. -Eph.6:10-11
IV.The central thought of Numbers is that Christ is the meaning of life, the testimony, the center of God’s people, and the Leader, the way, and the goal of their journey and fighting
. The entire Bible shows us one thing—God’s intention is to have a people formed into an army to take Christ as their meaning of life, testimony, center, Leader, way, and goal and to proceed on and fight for God so that He may have a people built up as His kingdom and His house, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem.
. The book of Numbers as a whole reveals the need for God’s chosen and redeemed people to be formed into an army to carry out the holy war; In order to be formed into a holy army, God’s people first had to be numbered according to their maturity in life; God’s chosen and redeemed people were also built up into one body; Then God’s people journeyed with God:
. the key words in Numbers are formation, journeying, and fighting.
. The book of Numbers is a record of God’s chosen and redeemed people being formed into a priestly army to fight for God and to journey with God so that they may be prepared by God to possess the all-inclusive Christ as the good land.
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
D1
T1 God’s Economy with His Chosen and Redeemed People.（Num.15:15~23，Exo.33:14）
（Please illustrate that What is of the divine revelation in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers concerning God’s economy with His chosen and redeemed people）
T2 the New Testament is hidden in the Old Testament and that the Old Testament is manifested in the New Testament.（Luke24:27、46）
（Please illustrate that These four slogans apply to the saints in both the Old Testament and New Testament.）
D2
T1 In the Old Testament we have a picture of God’s economy; in the New Testament we have a clear speaking concerning God’s economy.（Eph.1:10）
（What is the economy of God？）
T2 God’s people need to receive the divine revelation concerning God Himself and His economy（Exo.20:1~17）
（how to they received the divine revelation concerning God Himself in Exodus?）
D3
T1 The law is God’s testimony and God’s expression( Exo. 16:34;，20:1~17）
（Please illustrate that the law reveals that God is a God of love, light, holiness, and righteousness.）
T2 Christ is the reality of the law（John.1:1、18，Rev19:13）
（Please illustrate that The reality of keeping the law is to live God and express God.）
D4
T1 the children of Israel received the divine revelation concerning God’s economy（Exo.26:15~30）
（Please illustrate that That God’s people were to be built up together with Him is indicated by the materials that were to be used for the building of the tabernacle.）
T2 the tabernacle was a portrait of the Triune God.（Exo.25:8）
（In the tabernacle we can see a picture of the Divine Trinity?）
D5
T1 The central thought of Numbers（Gen.126~28，Rev21:2、10~11）
（The entire Bible shows us one thing, What is it of this thing？）
T2 God’s people journeyed with God（Exo.33:14，40:36~38）
（Please illustrate that How did the children of Israel move, walk, and live with the Triune God in their journey.）
D6
T1 he fighting of God’s people against the kings was for the entrance into
the good land（Exo.4:23，1Pet2:5）
（Please illustrate that God’s people signify the spiritual rulers, and authorities in the air.)
T2 The tabernacle with the Ark was the testimony borne by God’s chosen and redeemed people.（Col.2:9，1Tim3：15）
（Please illustrate that in the church life today we are bearing God’s testimony with God Himself）
