Crystallization-Study of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth
Message Five
The Produce of the Land of Canaan
and the Intrinsic Significance
of the Allotment of the Good Land
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Josh. 5:12 And the manna ceased on that day, when they ate of the produce of the land…
Col. 1:12 …The Father,…has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light.
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive…an
inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.
Word of Appetizer
What is the intrinsic significance of the allotment of the good land?
The intrinsic significance of the allotment of the good land is that we, the possessors of the land, experience the one Christ in different ways.
Within God’s economy there is something called the allotment of the land; in His wisdom, God did not allot the good land as a whole to all the children of Israel; rather, He allotted that land, that is, Christ, to the different tribes; all the tribes were possessors of the land, but the tribes possessed particular portions of the land according to what they were; we all have the same Christ, but we experience Christ in different ways; the land (Christ) we possess is according to what we are.
Spiritual Burden
What helps us most in our daily living with the Lord is eating Christ as the heavenly food; by eating Christ, we become Christ; to reach the goal of God’s economy, we need to progress until we enter into the highest stage of eating Christ as the rich produce of the good land so that we may overcome the spiritual enemies, be built up to be God’s dwelling place, and establish God’s kingdom on earth; as we eat Christ as the produce of the good land, we are constituted with Him and are made the same as Christ in life, nature, and expression for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
After the children of Israel entered the land of Canaan, the manna ceased; there was no longer manna, but they ate of the yield of the land of Canaan; the rich produce of the promised land given by God to Israel in their fighting in Canaan typifies Christ as the consummated life supply given to the believers, which requires them to labor on Him.
The intrinsic significance of the allotment of the good land is that we, the possessors of the land, experience the one Christ in different ways.
The Experience of Life
Christ as the preeminent and all-inclusive One is the allotted portion of the saints; we all have the same Christ, but we experience Christ in different ways; the land (Christ) we possess is according to what we are.
As the result of having our eyes opened and of being transferred from the authority of Satan to God, we not only have the forgiveness of sins, but we also receive a divine inheritance; this inheritance is the Triune God Himself with all that He has, all that He has done, and all that He will do for His redeemed people.
Practice and Application
After possessing Christ as the land, we need to labor on Him to produce something of Him that will become our food, our life supply.
We need to labor on the good land. We need to till the ground, sow the seed, water the seed, cultivate the soil, and then reap the harvest; the good land in which we are living is Christ. Day by day we need to work on Christ. Morning watch, prayer, and dealing with the Lord are all aspects of working on Christ.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1: The children of Israel were constituted in three ways (Josh. 5:12).
(In the wilderness the people of Israel ate manna; in Canaan the people of Israel ate the produce of the good land; what’s the differece?)
T2: As believers in Christ, we are constituted according to what we eat (John 6:51, 57).
(Please explain that if we want to be overcomers, we need to labor on Christ as our good land.)
Day 2
T1: In Egypt, the wilderness, and the good land, the people of Israel experienced three stages of eating (Exo. 12:3; Num. 11:7; Josh. 5:11-12).
(Which three stages did Israel pass through in their eating?)
T2: All those who have been regenerated need to change their diet (Josh. 6:31-35).
(Please explain that by giving His people manna to eat, God indicated that His intention was to change their constitution by changing their diet.)
Day 3
T1: As His people eat the solid food and take in the minerals, God has His kingdom (Deut. 8:7-10).
(Why should the eating of Christ progress from the Lamb and the manna to the solid food of the good land?)
T2: Day by day we need to work on Christ as our good land (Deut. 8:7-10).
(Please explain with your own experiences what we should do to labor on Christ in our daily life.)
Day 4
T1: The intrinsic significance of the allotment of the land (Num. 26:55; Rom. 12:3).
(Please explain that the tribes possessed particular portions of the land according to what they were.)
T2: The experience of Christ among God’s people is not the same (Lev. 1; Num. 26:55).
(Please explain that there is only one Christ—one Christ in many types and sizes.)
Day 5
T1: Christ is our portion, our lot (Col. 1:12; Gal. 3:14).
(Please explain that the New Testament believers’ allotted portion is not a physical land; it is the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit.)
T2: When we walk in Christ, we grow in Him (Col. 2:6-7).
(Please explain that Christ is the fertile soil in which we, the plants, are growing.)
Day 6
T1: The all-inclusive Christ is our inheritance (Acts 26:18).
(What’s the inheritance?)
T2: We have been designated as God’s inheritance (Eph. 1:11, 13-14).
(Please explain that we are God’s inheritance, and the Holy Spirit is a seal upon us.)
