Crystallization-Study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther
Message One
God’s Move in Man’s History for the Carrying Out of His Eternal Economy
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Zech. 1:20-21 Then Jehovah showed me four craftsmen…These are the horns that have so scattered Judah…, but these have come…to cast down the horns of the nations who have lifted up the horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.
Rev. 19:7-8 Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints.
Word of Appetizer
What is the intrinsic significance of the twelve historical books in the Old Testament (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther)?
The intrinsic significance of the twelve historical books in the Old Testament (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther) is the revelation that God’s move in man’s history prepares the way for God to carry out His eternal economy by His becoming a man that man may become God in life and in nature (but not in the Godhead), for the producing and building up of the church as the organic Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem for His ultimate expression.
Spiritual Burden
To be the bride in the divine history, God’s move in man’s history, we need the beautifying word of God, and to be the warrior in the divine history, God’s move in man’s history, we need the slaying word of God. On the day of His wedding, Christ will marry His bride, the overcomers, who have been fighting the battle against God’s enemy for years.
With God’s move, as the divine history, in man’s history, there is the new creation—the new man with a new heart, a new spirit, a new life, a new nature, a new history, and a new consummation; we praise the Lord that we are in the divine history, experiencing and enjoying the mysterious, divine things for our organic salvation, so that we may make ourselves ready to become His overcoming bride to bring Him back.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The intrinsic significance of the twelve historical books in the Old Testament (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther) is the revelation that God’s move in man’s history prepares the way for God to carry out His eternal economy by His becoming a man that man may become God in life and in nature (but not in the Godhead), for the producing and building up of the church as the organic Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem for His ultimate expression.
The book of Zechariah reveals that the crucial point and major content of God’s move in man’s history are the two comings of Christ for the testimony of Jesus, the building of God.
The all-inclusive Christ is the history of God’s move in man’s history in order to gain the building of God for the manifestation of God.
Ephesians 5 and 6 reveal that the church is both the bride and the warrior; in Revelation 19 we also have these two aspects of the church.
The Experience of Life
Christ in His humanity is the Angel of Jehovah, Jehovah Himself as the Triune God, standing with God’s people in the lowest part of the valley in their humiliation to care for them, intercede for them, and bring them swiftly out of Babylonian captivity.
Christ came as a Shepherd, shepherding the flock with two staffs—one is called Favor (grace), and the other is called Bonds (binding); grace is for our being mingled with God, and binding is for our being bound into oneness. Often during our time of morning revival, the Lord whistles to us, calling us and gathering us to Him; the Lord’s whistling is not shrill but mild and gentle, somewhat like the singing of a bird.
Practice and Application
The way to fulfill God’s move in man’s history for the carrying out of His eternal economy is by exercising our spirit to experience and enjoy Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit。
We need to exercise our spirit to return to the Lord with all our heart; this establishes the principle that we must return to the Lord first, and then the Lord will return to us. We must pay full attention to our human spirit, that we may receive the Christ revealed in this book and may understand all that is revealed therein concerning Him.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 The central thought of 1 and 2 Chronicles (Rev. 11:15)
(Please illustrate Christ as the embodiment of God is not only for the one race chosen by God but for the entire human race created by God. )
T2 We need to see that God’s move is in man’s history (Psa. 2:4)
(Please illustrate we need to believe that God has been moving and is still moving in and through man’s history. )
Day 2
T1 The Christ unveiled in the book of Zechariah (Zech. 9:9)
(Please illustrate that the Christ unveiled in the book of Zechariah is a Christ who is intimately involved with human history.)
T2 The Messiah, as the proper Shepherd of Israel, was detested, attacked, rejected, and sold (Zech. 11:12-13)
(Please illustrate that the revelation in Zechariah 11:12 and 13 is prophesied here was fulfilled in the Gospels.)
Day 3
T1 Christ is intimately involved with human history, in particular with the Roman Empire (Zech. 14:3-4)
(Please illustrate how the Roman Empire has been used by God to fulfill His intention to make Christ the centrality and universality of His economy. )
T2 During the great tribulation Israel will be trampled underfoot by Antichrist and his army (Rev. 11:2)
(Please illustrate how Christ will save Israel at the very moment of peril. )
Day 4
T1 This man [in Zechariah 1:8a] is Christ in His humanity (Zech. 1:8)
(Please illustrate the spiritual significance of the man in this vision is riding on a red horse.)
T2 The vision of the four horns and the four craftsmen (Zech. 1:18-21)
(Please illustrate Christ is the One among the craftsmen who will come as the stone cut out without hands to smash the great image.)
Day 5
T1 The church is both the bride who is presented to Christ and the warrior who fights with Him (Rev. 19:7, 14)
(Please illustrate as the bride, the church must be beautiful; as the warrior, we must be equipped to fight against God’s enemy. )
T2 We need to experience the killing power of God’s word (Eph. 6:17)
(Please illustrate with experiences that as we pray-read, we are nourished on the one hand, but certain elements are killed on the other hand.)
Day 6
T1 God created a receiver for man so that they would have the capacity to receive all that Christ to be (Zech. 12:1)
(Please illustrate The heavens are for the earth, the earth is for man, and man was created by God with a spirit that he may contact God, receive God.)
T2 While the Lord is so favorable to us, we should ask Him to send us even more favor (Zech. 1:1, 8)
(Please illustrate the prophecy in Zechariah 10 concerns the Lord’s loving visitation to Israel.)
