Crystallization-Study of First and Second Kings
Message Nine
The Temple of God Filled with the Glory of God
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
1 Kings 8:11 And the priests were not able to stand and minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah.
Eph. 3:21 To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen.
Rev. 21:11 Having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone…
Word of Appetizer
What is the inner relationship between the glory of God and the economy of God?
God created us in His image as vessels unto honor, prepared unto glory; we were predestinated in His sovereignty to be His vessels of honor to express what He is in glory. Christ’s redemption has fulfilled the requirement of God’s glory; Through the gospel of the glory of God, God has called us by and into His eternal glory. As we behold and reflect the glory of the Lord, we are being transformed into the Lord’s image from glory to glory.
God’s eternal goal is to bring His many sons into glory for the eternal corporate expression—the New Jerusalem; the glory of God in the economy of God involves the high peak of the divine revelation—God becoming man so that man may become God in life, nature, and function but not in the Godhead.
Spiritual Burden
The glory of God—God expressed in splendor— filled the temple of God, signifying that the glory of God, intrinsically related to the economy of God and wrought into the saints, will become glory to God in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations, and the entire city of New Jerusalem eternally will bear the glory of God, which is God Himself shining out through the city.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
Glory is an attribute of God; glory is the expression of God, God expressed in splendor.
The glory of God filled the tabernacle and the temple; the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah.
The Triune God is a God of glory. The glory of God is intrinsically related to the economy of God.
In John 17:22 the Lord Jesus prayed, “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one”.
In Ephesians 3:21 Paul declares, “To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen”.
An outstanding feature of the New Jerusalem is that it has the glory of God, His expression.
The Experience of Life
1 Pet. 4:14 If you are reproached in the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
This very Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God, rests upon the suffering believers in their persecution, for the glorifying of the resurrected and exalted Christ, who is now in glory. One aspect of this wonderful Spirit is that the Spirit is in us to reveal Christ, and another aspect of the same Spirit is that He is also the Spirit of glory resting upon us to express God. The more we suffer and are persecuted for the Lord’s sake, the more glory there will be upon us. Therefore, we should rejoice when we are reproached in the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and that of God is resting upon us.
Practice and Application
In our experience of the church life we need to advance by entering into the tabernacle—Christ as the embodiment of God—to enjoy the bread at the table and intercede at the incense altar so that we may experience the glory in God’s dwelling place.
Eph. 3:21 To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen.
As the household of the believers, the church, we take the lead to give the glory to God the Father by having God’s glory wrought into our being. If we take the lead to give glory to God, all the other families both in heaven and on earth will follow us to glorify Him.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 The same structure was both the Tent of Meeting and the tabernacle (Exo. 40:34-35)
(Please illustrate that with respect to man, it was the Tent of Meeting. But with respect to God, it was the tabernacle.)
T2 The relationship between the cloud and the glory (Exo. 40:34-35; John 1:14)
(Please illustrate that those who were outside the tabernacle could see the cloud; anyone who entered into the tabernacle would see the inward glory of the tabernacle.)
Day 2
T1 The glory of Jehovah filled the temple, bringing the God to the earth and joining the earth to the heavens (1 Kings 8:11; John 1:51)
(Please illustrate that the ladder which Jacob saw in his dream, was a type of Christ who, as the Son of Man, keeps heaven open to earth and joins earth to heaven.)
T2 Whenever God is expressed, that is glory (John 1:14; Acts 7:2)
(Please illustrate that this glory was a great attraction, encouragement and strengthto Abraham.)
Day 3
T1 God is leading many sons into glory (Eph. 1:17; Heb. 2:10)
(Please illustrate that the last step of God’s great salvation is to bring His many sons into glory.)
T2 Christ is the effulgence of God’s glory and the express image of His substance (Heb. 1:3; John 17:5)
(Please illustrate that Christ is the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the expression of what God the Father is.)
Day 4
T1 The Spirit of glory is the Spirit of God (1 Pet. 4:14)
(According to 1 Pet. 4:14, illustrate why we should rejoice when we are reproached in the name of Christ.)
T2 God’s salvation leads us into His glory (1 Thes. 2:12; Heb. 2:10)
(Please illustrate that we are being transformed into this glory and shall be brought into it.)
Day 5
T1 y Christ as our life who is the hope of glory within us (Col. 1:27)
(Please illustrate what are four aspects of glory.)
T2 There are three grounds or steps of the oneness of the believers: regeneration, sanctification, and glorification (John 17:22-23)
(Please illustrate that it is only in the third stage of oneness that the Lord’s prayer will be fulfilled, will the Son of God be glorified that the Father may be glorified in and through the Son.)
Day 6
T1 The way God is glorified in the church (Eph. 3:16, 21)
(Please illustrate that God’s glory, after being wrought into them, returns to Him.)
T2 When it returns to God, He is glorified in the church (Eph. 3:21, Rev. 21:11)
(Please illustrate that God’s glory is wrought into the church, and He is expressed in the church.)
