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Outline
Day 1
I. 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.
II. 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—Luke 24:25-27, 44-49:
A. The saints have been chosen, redeemed, and saved from the
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bondage of the fall; the saints have been saved from the
usurpation of the world and from the bondage of Satan.
B. 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.
C. Furthermore, we are being formed into a priestly army, which
fights for God and journeys with God.
D. Finally, we have been prepared by God in every way to possess
the all-inclusive Christ as the good land.
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III. 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:
A. God’s economy is His household administration to accomplish
His plan for the fulfillment of the desire of His heart; this desire
is to have a people not only created by Him but also
regenerated, sanctified, transformed, and conformed to the
image of Christ as the embodiment of the processed Triune God;
eventually, this people will be brought into glory, into the
corporate expression of the Triune God—1 Tim. 1:3-4, 18; 6:3;
cf. 1 Cor. 4:17; 2 Tim. 1:6-9; 4:7.
B. 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.
C. The history of the children of Israel in the Old Testament is a
type of the history of the believers in the New Testament—1 Cor.
10:6, 11; Rom. 15:4.
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F. 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—Exo. 25—40:
1. 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:
a.The boards of the tabernacle were made of acacia wood overlaid with gold;
the boards of acacia wood are a type of God’s people, and the gold
overlaying the boards is a type of the divine person—26:15-30.
b. Thus, the boards of acacia wood overlaid with gold signify God’s people
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being built up together with God to be His dwelling place; from this we
see not only that God’s people are the building materials for His dwelling
place but also that God Himself is the building material.
2. In the tabernacle we can see a picture of the Divine Trinity:
a. The Ark, the table of the bread of the Presence, and the incense altar all
signify Christ the Son.
b. The Father is signified by the gold, for in typology gold signifies the divine
nature of God.
c. The Spirit is signified by the oil in the seven lamps in the lampstand; if
the lamps had no oil, they would be useless, and there would not be any
light in the tabernacle.
d. Also, the lampstand, which was a single entity, signifies the Triune God:
1) The gold signifies the Father, the form signifies the Son, and both the lamps
and the oil signify the Spirit.
2) This is a revelation of God’s people being built up with the Triune God to be
His dwelling place on earth.
3. The forty-eight boards of the tabernacle correspond to the forty-eight cities
given to the Levites; six of these cities were to be cities of refuge; the most
striking point regarding the cities of refuge is that they were
enterable—Num. 35:6-7, 9-34:
a. Eventually, these forty-eight cities of the Levites will consummate in a
unique city—the New Jerusalem; the tabernacle revealed in Exodus is a
miniature of this unique city.
b. In the New Testament, God’s testimony is the church, the Body of Christ,
and in eternity this testimony will consummate in the New Jerusalem,
which is also called a tabernacle—Rev. 1:2, 9; 19:10; 21:3.
c. In the Old Testament, the tabernacle was with the children of Israel, and
in the New Testament the tabernacle is first Christ (John 1:14) and then
the church as the enlargement of Christ; in eternity there will be the
ultimate, consummate tabernacle, the New Jerusalem; in each case the
striking point is that the tabernacle is enterable; Hallelujah, the Triune
God is enterable!
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V. 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:
A. 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—Gen. 1:26-28; Exo. 12:41, 51; 13:18; Matt. 16:16-19;
Eph. 6:10-12; Rev. 17:14; 19:11-16; 21:2, 10-11.
B. 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—1 Tim. 1:18; 2 Tim. 2:3-4:
1. In order to be formed into a holy army, God’s people first had to be
numbered according to their maturity in life—Num. 1:3, 18.
2. God’s chosen and redeemed people were also built up into one body—vv.
44-46.
3. Then God’s people journeyed with God:
a. In their journey with God, the children of Israel had the presence of God,
signified by the cloud in the day and by the fire in the cloud at night—Exo.
33:14; 40:36-38; Num. 9:15-23.
b. As the children of Israel journeyed with God, the Angel of Jehovah took
the lead (Exo. 32:34); the title the Angel of Jehovah is a particular title of
Christ in the Old Testament, as revealed in Exodus 3:2-6.
c. In their journey the children of Israel were moving, walking, and living
with Jehovah, the Triune God.
d. God’s chosen and redeemed people passed through the great and terrible
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a. In their fighting together with God and for God, the children of Israel
defeated the king of Arad and destroyed his people; by doing this, they
overcame the first enemy among the Canaanites—Num. 21:1-3.
b. God’s people also defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites with his people
and Og the king of Bashan with his people; this means that they overcame
Canaan’s two”gate guards”—vv. 21-35.
c. The children of Israel also defeated the Midianites with their five kings;
by defeating them, the people overcame Canaan’s gate army—31:1-12.
d. The kings defeated by God’s chosen and redeemed people signify the
spiritual powers, rulers, and authorities in the air, whom we must
defeat—Eph. 6:10-20.
e. The fighting of God’s people against the kings was for the entrance into
the God-promised good land that the kingdom of God might be spread
and established there.
5. As the priestly army carrying out God’s holy war, God’s chosen and
redeemed people bore with them God’s dwelling, the Tabernacle of the
Testimony, with the Ark of the Testimony.
6. The key words in Exodus are redemption, leading, revelation, and building;
the key words in Leviticus are fellowship, service, and holiness; and the key
words in Numbers are formation, journeying, and fighting.
7. 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.
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Exo. 33:14 And He said, My presence shall go with you, and I will give you
rest.
Num. 9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered
the tabernacle…; and in the evening it was like the appearance of
fire…until morning.
22 [When]…the cloud extended its time over the tabernacle…, the children of
Israel remained encamped…; but when it was taken up, they set out.
[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 sketch:”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”; and”Possessed by God to possess the
all-inclusive Christ as the good land.” These slogans are a mingling of Old
Testament typology and the fulfillment of this typology in the New
Testament…. We may say that the New Testament is hidden in the Old
Testament and that the Old Testament is manifested in the New Testament.
(Life-study of Numbers, p. 345)
Today’s Reading
These four slogans apply to the saints in both the Old Testament and
New Testament. The saints have been chosen, redeemed, and saved from
the bondage of the fall. The Old Testament saints were saved from bondage
in Egypt, and we have been saved 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. We are being built up with the Son as the
embodiment of the Father and with the Spirit as the realization of the Son.
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Furthermore, we are being formed into a priestly army…. This priestly army
fights for God and journeys with God….Finally, we have been prepared by
God in every way to possess the all-inclusive Christ as the good land. This
preparation is revealed in the last five chapters of Numbers, where we see
the prearrangement of the distribution of the good land. This
prearrangement was the preparation of God’s people to enter into the land
and possess it. (Life-study of Numbers, pp. 345-346)
Exodus shows us that God took a big step in His move by coming down
to deliver Israel out of Egypt (Exo. 3:8) and bring them into the wilderness
(v. 18). Egypt typifies the world where people are occupied with making a
living and where people can enjoy a life with pleasures. The world is a place
of easy living and pleasure and also a place of sin and idolatry.
God delivered Israel out of Egypt and brought them into the
wilderness…. It is very good to be saved by God out of the noisy world to a
place where there is only the heavens and the earth and God, nothing else.
But for the long run, the wilderness was not a good place. Thus, they had to
be brought by a long journey through the wilderness.
God moved with them and brought them to Mount Sinai. Sinai
represents God’s presence….The children of Israel remained at Sinai with
God for about eleven months (Exo. 19:1; cf. Num. 10:11). God stayed with
His people day and night there, so God trained them.
At Mount Sinai God gave them the law and the pattern for the
tabernacle. On the one hand, God regulated them by the law, and on the
other hand, He encouraged them by the tabernacle. After the decree of the
law and the building up of the tabernacle at Sinai, God gave them all the
chapters of Leviticus to train them to worship and partake of God and to
live a holy, clean, and rejoicing life. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4,”The History
of God in His Union with Man,” pp. 147, 158, 169)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1960, vol. 1,”Synopsis of Numbers,” ch. 1;
CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4,”The History of God in His Union with Man,” chs.
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Outline
Day 1
I. The emphasis of Numbers is how the Israelites, who had
been redeemed, received revelation, and been trained by God,
were formed into an army to protect God’s testimony and
fight for His move on earth—1:2-3, 19-20:
A. Since the earth created by God was ruined by Satan, God needs
to gain a group of people to be formed into an army for His
move on earth—v. 3.
B. Numbers shows how God formed His redeemed people into an
army to surround and protect His testimony—2:1-2, 32, 34:
1. In Numbers, particularly in the first four chapters, the Israelites were
formed into an army according to God’s arrangement.
2. In order for the children of Israel to be formed into an army, they needed
to be numbered; only after being numbered could the Israelites be formed
into an army—1:2-3, 19-20.
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III. In the Lord’s recovery today, there is an urgent need for the
growth and maturity required for the formation of God’s
army; we need to grow in life unto maturity—Exo. 30:14;
Num. 1:2-3, 18; Eph. 4:12-16:
A. Spiritually, males who are twenty years old and over signify
those among God’s people who, regardless of their natural
status, are strong in spirit and mature in the divine life; only
these are qualified to be formed into an army to fight for God’s
interest and move on earth—Exo. 30:14; Num. 1:3.
B. The growth of life is the increase of the element of God (Col.
2:19), the increase of the stature of Christ (Eph. 3:17a; 4:13),
the expanding of the ground of the Holy Spirit (5:18), the
decrease of the human element, the breaking of the natural life,
and the subduing of every part of our soul (2 Tim. 1:7).
C. To be transformed is to be metabolically changed in our natural
life, whereas to be matured is to be filled with the divine life
that changes us; the last stage of transformation is maturity, the
fullness of life—Heb. 6:1.
D. In the New Testament the word mature refers to the believers’
being full-grown and perfected in the life of God—Matt. 5:48;
John 3:3, 5-6, 15:
1. As believers, we need to go on, to be brought on, to maturity by forgetting
the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are
before, pursuing toward the fullest enjoyment and gaining of Christ for the
Day 3
F. Chapter 3 of Song of Songs shows us the maturity of the seeking
one, and chapter 4 explains that maturity is reached by the
subduing of the will:
1. The secret of the maturity of the seeking one is that her will has been
completely subdued and resurrected—3:6-9; 4:1b, 4.
2. The neck signifies the human will under God; the Lord considers the
submission of our will a most beautiful thing—v. 4.
3. First, our will must be subdued; then it will be strong in resurrection and
be like the tower of David, the armory for the spiritual warfare—Eph. 6:10.
4. If we have a submissive will, our will becomes like the tower of David that
holds all kinds of weapons for warfare—2 Cor. 10:3-5.
Day 4
IV. In order for the children of God to reach the spiritual age of
twenty, they need to pass through the first three stages of the
experience of life and enter into the fourth stage:
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A. The first stage of the experience of life is being in Christ, the
second stage is abiding in Christ, and the third stage is Christ
living in us, which is also the stage of the cross—Gal. 2:20; 3:1;
5:24; Matt. 16:24.
B. In the third stage the seeking believers deal with the flesh, the
self, and the natural constitution with the natural strength and
ability:
1. The flesh denotes the totality of the fallen old man, our entire fallen
being—Gen. 6:3; Rom. 7:18a; Gal. 2:16:
a. The flesh is the living out and the expression of the old man—Rom. 6:6.
b. The flesh cannot be changed or improved; thus, we need to be mindful of
the fact that the flesh is always with us—13:14; Gal. 5:16.
c. The flesh is the camp of God’s enemy and the largest base for his
work—vv. 19-21:
1) The flesh is the first among our enemies, taking the lead over sin, the world,
and Satan to fight against us—Rom. 8:3.
2) God hates the flesh in the same manner that He hates Satan, and He wants to
destroy the flesh in the same manner that He wants to destroy Satan—Exo.
17:16; Deut. 25:17-19; 1 Sam. 15:2-3.
2. The self is the soul-life with the emphasis on human thoughts and
opinions—Matt. 16:23-25:
a. In Matthew 16:23-25 three terms are related to one another: mind,
himself, and soul-life:
1) Our mind is the expression of our self, and our self is the embodiment of our
soul-life—vv. 23-25.
2) Our soul-life is embodied in and lived out by our self, and our self is
expressed through our mind, idea, thought, concept, and opinion—vv. 22-23.
b. The self is the embodiment of Satan; the self is the essence of Satan in the
soul, making the soul independent from God to express its self-opinion
and self-will—v. 23; Gen. 3:1-6; 2 Cor. 11:3.
c. The self is the soul declaring its independence from God—Matt. 16:23;
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C. The fourth stage of our spiritual experience and spiritual life is
the highest stage—Christ’s full growth in us—the stage of
spiritual warfare, where Christ is fully grown and matured in
us—Eph. 4:13-16; 6:10-18:
1. At the end of the third stage, we express God with His image, and in the
fourth stage, we represent Him with His authority—Gen. 1:26.
2. The experience of life in the fourth stage includes knowing the Body,
knowing ascension, reigning with Christ, engaging in spiritual warfare, and
being full of the stature of Christ—1 Cor. 12:27; Eph. 6:10-12.
3. In order to know the Body and live in the Body, we must first deal with the
flesh, the self, and the natural constitution—Gal. 5:24; Matt. 16:24:
a. If we still live according to the flesh, in ourselves, and serve the Lord in
our natural ability, there is no way for us to know the Body—1 Cor. 12:12.
b.Only when our flesh has been dealt with, the self-opinion has been broken,
and the natural life has been smashed will the divine life within us enable
us to know the Body and realize that we are simply members of the Body
and that the life within us cannot be independent.
4. If we want to fight the spiritual warfare and deal with God’s enemy, we
must first deal with our flesh, self, and soul-life—2 Cor. 10:3-5; Eph.
6:10-12:
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a. Engaging in spiritual warfare to deal with Satan and recover the earth for
God requires that we be wholly and absolutely for God and obey Him
completely—Gen. 1:26-28:
1) We cannot preserve ourselves or leave one bit for ourselves.
2) When we are dealing with Satan, self must be utterly abandoned.
b. The church must engage in spiritual warfare, fighting to bring in the
kingdom of God—Matt. 12:28; Eph. 6:10-18; Rev. 12:10a; 11:15.
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V. The prayer at the incense altar issued in the numbering of
the children of Israel for the formation of an army to fight for
God’s interest on the earth—Exo. 30:11-16; Num. 1:45-46:
A. As a result of the prayer at the incense altar, the Lord conducts
a”military census” of the saints in the churches; those who are
numbered are qualified to go to war for God’s move on the
earth—2:32; 4:23; 2 Tim. 2:3.
B. The intercession offered at the incense altar is for the growth
and maturity of the believers so that an army can be
formed—Eph. 4:13; 6:10-12:
1. The more we pray at the incense altar, the more we will realize that the
need for maturity is desperate, and the greater will be the urgency to pray
for the growth in life unto maturity—1 Cor. 2:6; 3:1-2; 14:20; 16:13; Heb.
5:14—6:1; Eph. 3:16.
2. Only when such an army is formed will God be able to move on earth for
His purpose; apart from an army formed of mature ones, there is no way
for God to move—4:13; 6:10-12.
1
O Jesus Christ, grow Thou in me,
And all things else recede;
My heart be daily nearer Thee,
From sin be daily freed.
Each day let Thy supporting might
My weakness still embrace;
My darkness vanish in Thy light,
Thy life my death efface.
2
In Thy bright beams which on me fall,
Fade every evil thought;
That I am nothing, Thou art all,
I would be daily taught.
3
More of Thy glory let me see,
Thou Holy, Wise, and True;
I would Thy living image be,
In joy and sorrow too.
4
Fill me with gladness from above,
Hold me by strength divine;
Outline
Day 1
I. The heavenly Christ is the reality of the heavenly manna sent
by God to be the daily life supply of His chosen people—John
6:31-35, 48-51, 57-58, 63:
A. He is the heavenly bread as the bread that came down out of
heaven—vv. 31-32, 41-42, 49-50.
B. He is the bread of God as the One who is of God, who was sent
by God, and who was with God—v. 33.
C. He is the bread of life as the bread with eternal life, with zoe;
the bread of life refers to the nature of the bread, which is life;
it is like the tree of life, which also is the life supply”good for
food”—vv. 35, 48; Gen. 2:9.
D. He is the living bread; this refers to the condition of the bread,
which is living—John 6:51.
E. He is the true bread; He is the true food, and all other foods are
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merely shadows of Him as the real food; the reality of the food
that we eat daily is Jesus Christ—v. 32.
II. “As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the
Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me… It
is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the
words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life”—vv.
57, 63:
A. To eat is to take food into us that it may be assimilated
organically into our body; hence, to eat the Lord Jesus is to
receive Him into us that He may be assimilated by the
regenerated new man in the way of life.
B. We live not merely by Christ but because of Christ as our
energizing element and supplying factor; we live Christ in His
resurrection, and we live Christ by eating Him—Gal. 2:20; Phil.
1:19-21a.
C. We eat the Lord Jesus as our spiritual food, receiving Him as the
Spirit who gives life, by eating His words of spirit and life,
receiving His words by means of all prayer—Jer. 15:16 and
footnote 1; Eph. 6:17-18:
1. His spoken words are the embodiment of the Spirit of life; He is now the
life-giving Spirit in resurrection, and the Spirit is embodied in His words.
2. When we receive His words by exercising our spirit, we get the Spirit who
gives life—cf. Hymns, #612.
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IV. We need to see and experience the characteristics of Christ as
our unique food, our daily manna, for our metabolic
transformation:
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G. Manna is fine, indicating that Christ is even and balanced and
that He became small enough for us to eat—Exo. 16:14; John
6:12.
H. Manna is round, indicating that as our food, Christ is eternal,
perfect, and full, without shortage or defect—Exo. 16:14; John
8:58.
I. Manna is white, showing that Christ is clean and pure, without
any mixture—Exo. 16:31; Psa. 12:6; 119:140; 2 Cor. 11:3b.
J. Manna is like frost, signifying that Christ not only cools and
refreshes us but also kills the negative things within us—Exo.
16:14; Prov. 17:27.
K. Manna is like coriander seed, indicating that Christ is full of life
that grows in us and multiplies—Num. 11:7; Luke 8:11.
L. Manna is solid (implied in the fact that the people”ground it
between two millstones or beat it in a mortar, then they boiled
it in pots”—Num. 11:8), signifying that after gathering Christ as
manna, we must prepare Him for our eating by”grinding,
beating, and boiling” Him in the situations and circumstances
of our daily living—cf. 2 Cor. 1:4; Eph. 6:18.
M. Manna’s appearance is like that of bdellium, indicating the
brightness and transparency of Christ—Num. 11:7; Rev. 4:6, 8;
Ezek. 1:18.
N. Manna’s taste is like that of cakes baked in oil, signifying the
fragrance of the Holy Spirit in the taste of Christ—Num. 11:8;
Psa. 92:10.
O. Manna’s taste is like that of wafers made with honey, signifying
the sweetness of the taste of Christ—Exo. 16:31; Psa. 119:103.
P. Manna is good for making cakes, indicating that Christ is like
fine cakes good for nourishment—Num. 11:8; 1 Tim. 4:6.
Outline
Day 1
I. The striking of the rock is a clear, complete, and full picture
of Christ’s crucifixion—Exo. 17:6:
A. In this type, Moses signifies the law, and the staff represents the
power and authority of the law.
B. Hence, the striking of the rock by Moses’ staff signifies that
Christ was put to death on the cross by the authority of God’s
law—cf. Gal. 2:19-20a; 3:13.
C. Christ as the living, spiritual rock was smitten by the authority
of God’s law so that the water of life in resurrection could flow
out of Him and into His redeemed people for them to
drink—Exo. 17:6; 1 Cor. 10:4:
1. Christ is our begetting rock and the rock who is our salvation, strength,
refuge, hiding place, protection, covering, and safeguard—Deut. 32:18; 2
Sam. 22:47; Psa. 95:1; 62:7; 94:22; Isa. 32:2.
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D. The water that came out of the rock is the water of life in
resurrection:
1. Resurrection denotes something that has been put to death and is alive
again; it also denotes life that springs forth out of something that has
passed through death.
2. The water that flowed out of the smitten rock sprang forth only after the
major steps of incarnation, human living, and crucifixion had been
accomplished; hence, Exodus 17:6 is a profound verse, implying Christ’s
incarnation, human living, and death.
3. The Spirit as the living water for us to drink and flow out could be received
only after the Lord Jesus had been glorified, that is, only after Christ had
entered into resurrection—John 7:37-39; Luke 24:26.
4. Actually, the water of life, the flowing water, is resurrection; resurrection is
the Triune God—the Father as the source, the Son as the course, and the
Spirit as the flow—John 5:26; 11:25.
E. The source of the water of life is the throne of God and of the
Lamb—the redeeming God; hence, the water of life is the
Triune God flowing out to be our life—Rev. 22:1:
1. The flow of the living water began from the throne in eternity, continued
through the incarnation, human living, and crucifixion of Christ (John 4:10,
14; 19:34), and now flows on in resurrection to supply God’s people with all
the riches of the divine life (Rev. 22:1-2).
2. The flowing of the water of life in resurrection is for the building up of the
Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:13) and the preparation of the bride of Christ (Rev.
19:7), both of which will consummate in the New Jerusalem (21:9-10; cf.
Eph. 5:23, 28-30).
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Day 3
F. John 4:14b reveals a flowing Triune God—the Father is the
fountain, the Son is the spring, and the Spirit is the flowing river,
issuing in the totality of the eternal life, the New Jerusalem.
G. The entire Triune God was involved in the water flowing out of
the smitten rock for the people to drink—God [the Father] was
standing upon the rock, the rock was Christ [the Son], and the
living water coming out of the rock signifies the drinkable and
outflowing Spirit as the ultimate issue of the Triune God—Exo.
17:6; 1 Cor. 10:4; John 7:37-39.
H. Our drinking of the one Spirit in resurrection makes us
members of the Body, builds us up as the Body, and prepares us
to be the bride of Christ—1 Cor. 12:13; Rev. 22:17.
II. To receive the living water from the crucified Christ, we need
only to”take the rod” and”speak to the rock”—Num. 20:8:
A. Since Christ has been crucified and the Spirit has been given,
there is no need for Christ to be crucified again, that is, no need
to strike the rock again, that the living water may flow; in God’s
economy Christ should be crucified only once—Heb. 7:27;
9:26-28a.
B. To take the rod is to identify with Christ in His death and apply
the death of Christ to ourselves and to our situation.
C. When we identify ourselves with the smitten Christ, that is,
when we are one with Him as the smitten Christ, the divine life
as the living water flows out of us—Exo. 17:6; John 7:38; cf. S. S.
2:8-9, 14; Phil. 3:10.
D. To speak to the rock is to speak a direct word to Christ as the
smitten rock, asking Him to give us the Spirit of life based on
the fact that the Spirit has already been given—cf. John 4:10;
Hymns, #248.
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E. If we apply the death of Christ to ourselves and ask Christ in
faith to give us the Spirit, we will receive the living Spirit as the
bountiful supply of life—Phil. 1:19.
F. Moses should have simply spoken to the rock, telling it to flow
forth with water (Num. 20:8); if we deal with the contending of
God’s people in this way today, the church life will be glorious.
Day 4
III. Whereas the rock in Numbers 20:8 typifies Christ on the
cross, smitten by God so that the living water, the Spirit of life,
may flow out into us, the well in Numbers 21:16-18 typifies
Christ within us—John 4:11-12, 14:
A. The digging of the well (Num. 21:18) signifies the digging away
of the”dirt,” the barriers in our heart—our conscience, our
mind, our will, and our emotion—so that the Spirit as the living
water may spring up within us and flow freely.
B. We need to go to the Lord to be”dug out” for the free flow of the
living water within us; there is much”dirt” within us that needs
to be dug out:
Day 5
1. We must dig away the many things condemned by the Lord in our heart;
not many brothers and sisters have a pure heart in seeking only the Lord
Himself—Matt. 5:8:
a. On the one hand, many are seeking the Lord and His way, but on the
other hand, they are still seeking things other than the Lord Himself.
b. Our loving and seeking the Lord may be with a complicated heart; the aim
and goal of our heart are not so pure; we do not know how many goals are
within our heart, such as our family, our job, our degree, and our
concerns about our future.
2. If we would experience a free, inward flow of the Spirit, our conscience
Day 6
3. We must dig away the dirt in our mind; the Lord wants to transform us by
the renewing of our mind—Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4:23; Rom. 8:6; 2 Cor. 10:4-5:
a. Many who are regenerated are just like the people of the world in their
thinking about fashion; they dress in conformity to the modern age.
b. Many who are regenerated continue to use their money in the same way
as those in the world; not until they love the Lord more and give the Lord
more ground to work within them will they be transformed in their way of
spending money.
c. Many young people studying in the colleges have the same thoughts about
their studies and degrees as other worldly young people; if their minds
were being renewed, they would not give up their studies, but they would
have the Lord’s point of view in which to evaluate their studies.
d. Our mind has been blinded by the many imaginations that we have day by
day; the heaps of dirt are simply the many thoughts, imaginations, and
dreams, which must be dug away before the living water can freely flow.
4. We must dig away the dirt in our will; there are not many who are
absolutely and utterly obedient to the Lord:
a. Many times we do not submit ourselves to the Lord’s sovereign
arrangement in our environment—cf. Phil. 4:11-13.
b. Sometimes we think that we are quite submissive to the Lord, but when
He puts us into certain circumstances, we are exposed.
Outline
Day 1
I. Numbers 19, a very special chapter in the Old Testament, is a
record concerning the water for impurity.
II. The impurity in this chapter does not refer to sin but to
death—vv. 11, 13-16:
A. Death issues from sin, and sin is the root of death—Rom. 5:12:
1. Death is more defiling in the eyes of God than sin—Lev. 11:24-25; Num.
6:6-7, 9.
2. The most hateful thing in the eyes of God is death; death is an ugly,
abominable thing, and we should detest it—vv. 6-7.
3. The death that we need to avoid is spiritual death—Rev. 3:1-2; Rom. 5:12,
14:
a. Spiritual death is more prevailing on earth than physical death—v. 17.
b. Spiritual death is everywhere; not only sinful, worldly places but even the
most moral, ethical places are full of spiritual death.
B. From the sin of rebellion in Numbers 11 through 14 and in
chapter 16, death became prevailing among the children of
Israel—v. 49:
1. After the rebellion of the children of Israel in Numbers 16 and as a result of
God’s judgment, the entire population of Israel was under the effect of
death—v. 49.
Day 2
III. The red heifer, the principal component of the water for
impurity, signifies the redeeming Christ—v. 9:
A. The color red signifies the likeness of the flesh of sin, which is
for the bearing of man’s sin outwardly—Rom. 8:3; John 1:29.
B. The red heifer was without defect; this signifies that although
Christ was in the likeness of the flesh of sin, He did not have the
sinful nature—v. 14; Heb. 2:14; 4:15; Rom. 8:3; 2 Cor. 5:21.
C. That the heifer was without blemish indicates that Christ was
perfect—Num. 19:2; Exo. 12:5-6.
D. The heifer having never been under a yoke signifies that Christ
was never used by anyone, especially by or for God’s enemy,
Satan—Num. 19:2; cf. Exo. 12:5.
E. The red heifer was brought outside the camp and slaughtered;
Christ was crucified outside the camp, on Calvary, a small
mount outside the city of Jerusalem—Num. 19:3; Heb. 13:12-13;
Matt. 27:33.
Day 3
IV. The slain red heifer was burned, and the priest took”cedar
wood and hyssop and scarlet strands, and cast them into the
midst of the burning of the heifer”—Num. 19:6:
A. Cedar wood signifies the honorable and uplifted humanity of
the Lord, which enables Him to be our Savior—v. 6; cf. 1 Kings
Day 4
D. Scarlet, a dark red color, implies much in typology—Num. 19:6:
1. The color scarlet signifies the shedding of blood, referring to the redeeming
work of the cross—Heb. 9:12, 14, 22; 1 Pet. 1:18-19.
2. In Leviticus 14:4 scarlet signifies that the Lord lowered Himself to become
a man that He might do the will of God and shed His blood for our
redemption.
3. Scarlet signifies the blood of Christ shed for our redemption in its highest
significance—Num. 19:6.
E. The high and dignified Christ and the lowly and humbled Christ
Outline
Day 1
I. When the children of Israel sinned against God, they were
bitten by serpents (Num. 21:4-9); God told Moses to lift up a
bronze serpent on a pole on their behalf for God’s judgment
so that by looking upon that serpent all might live:
A. The bronze serpent typifies Christ (John 3:14), and the pole
typifies the cross (1 Pet. 2:24); in typology, bronze signifies
judgment; the bronze serpent had the form of a serpent but not
the poisonous nature of a serpent.
B. In the same way, Christ was lifted up on the cross (John 8:28) in
the likeness of the flesh of sin (Rom. 8:3), without participating
in any way in the poisonous sin of the flesh (2 Cor. 5:21; Heb.
4:15).
C. In Genesis 3 Satan, the serpent, injected his nature into man’s
flesh; as descendants of Adam, we all have been”bitten” by the
old serpent, the devil; therefore, in the sight of God, the entire
fallen human race consists of serpentine beings with the poison
of the old serpent in their fallen nature:
1. In John 8:44 the Lord Jesus revealed that the devil is the father of sinners;
thus, in our fallen nature we are children of the old serpent, the devil—1
John 3:10.
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2. In Matthew 12:34 the Lord Jesus called the Pharisees the”offspring of
vipers”; in 23:33 He called them”Serpents! Brood of vipers!”
3. The devil is the ancient serpent (Rev. 12:9; 20:2), and sinners are serpents,
the offspring of vipers; in our fallen nature we are not merely sinful—we
are serpentine.
4. Romans 7 says that Satan as personified sin is in our flesh; sin can deceive
and kill people (v. 11), and it can dwell in people and cause them to do
things against their will (vv. 17, 20); it is quite alive (v. 9) and exceedingly
active, so it must be the evil nature of Satan, the evil one, dwelling, acting,
and working in fallen mankind.
Day 2
D. The Lord as the Son of Man was lifted up in the form of the
serpent on the cross to bear the judgment for the
serpent-poisoned people; He was lifted up on the cross for the
casting out of the old serpent, Satan, the ruler of the
world—John 12:31-34.
E. Hence, the Lord, as the Son of Man lifted up, can deliver the
serpent-poisoned people from sin, the serpent’s poison; also,
by His being lifted up, He would destroy Satan and draw all men
to Himself—Heb. 2:14; John 12:32-33.
F. Now whoever believes into Christ as the One who was lifted up
to be condemned in our place has eternal life; we need
a”bronze serpent” to be our Substitute to bear God’s judgment
for us, to redeem us, and to release His saving, divine life into
our being—3:14-16; 12:24.
G. When we repent and admit that we are serpentine, we are
qualified to experience Christ as the eternal life and enjoy Him:
1. The Greek word for repentance means to have a change of mind, issuing in
regret, to have a turn in purpose; also, man’s repentance is his turning
from all things to God Himself—Acts 26:20; 14:15b; 1 Thes. 1:9b.
2. In our experience, this is not a once-for-all matter but a daily experience;
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John the Baptist preached repentance (Matt. 3:2; Mark 1:4), and in the
seven epistles to the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3, the Lord Jesus
tells us again and again to repent (2:5, 16, 21-22; 3:3, 19).
H. It is a great blessing for us to know that, as the fulfillment of the
type of the bronze serpent, Christ came in the likeness of the
flesh of sin to die on the cross as our Replacement and
Substitute in order for us to be regenerated and have eternal
life.
Day 3
II. John 3 speaks of the serpent and the bride—vv. 14, 29-30:
A. John 3:16 is the issue of verses 14 and 15; that is, the receiving
of the divine, eternal life is the issue of the uplifting of Christ on
the cross as the bronze serpent, the real sin offering:
1. The Lord Jesus was lifted up as our Substitute to bear God’s judgment for
us so that we may look at Him (believe into Him) and have eternal life.
2. Because in Adam we were bitten by the old serpent, we were dead (Eph. 2:1,
5), but now through Christ as the bronze serpent lifted up on the cross, we
may receive eternal life, the life of God; this is the real manifestation of
God’s love to the world.
B. For the serpent to”bite” us means that he imparts the poison of
his nature into us to make us his increase; through the fall the
entire human race has become the increase of Satan.
C. John 3 reveals that regeneration is not only to bring the divine
life into the believers but also to make them the corporate
bride for Christ’s increase; as Adam was increased in Eve, so
Christ is increased in His bride—vv. 29-30; Gen. 2:21-22.
D. By Christ being lifted up on the cross as the bronze serpent,
Satan’s increase has become Christ’s increase, His bride; we
who were once the increase of Satan have become the increase
of Christ.
Day 4
1. God used Adam’s rib to bring forth Eve, the increase of Adam, but in
Genesis 3:1-6 the serpent visited the bride and succeeded in capturing her;
however, God is greater, higher, and wiser than the serpent.
2. In His judgment upon the serpent, God indicated that the woman would
bring forth a seed (Christ) to bruise the serpent’s head (v. 15); furthermore,
the seed of the woman would also become righteousness to the very ones
who were poisoned by the serpent (v. 21).
3. Paul was concerned that the serpent who had come to bite Eve would come
to bite the believers at Corinth; once again, this is the story of the serpent
and the bride—2 Cor. 11:2-3; cf. Rev. 12:9; 1 Thes. 3:5; 1 Tim. 2:14; 4:1; 2
Pet. 3:17.
4. The book of Revelation provides the final word on the serpent and the
bride:
a. Chapter 19 reveals that the bride is ready for the wedding of the Lamb—v.
7.
b. Immediately after the wedding, this universal couple will fight against
Satan and his followers, the beast and the false prophet; then Satan will
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be bound and cast into the abyss, where he will be imprisoned for a
thousand years—vv. 11-16, 19-21; 20:1-3.
c. Following that, Satan will rebel once more and will ultimately be cast into
the lake of fire—vv. 7-10.
d. Then the universe will be thoroughly cleared up, and there will be a new
heaven and a new earth; for eternity there will be a universal couple:
Christ as the Husband and the church as the bride—21:1-2, 9-10.
Day 5
III. The serpentine people are becoming the universal increase
of the unlimited Christ by the immeasurable Spirit with the
eternal life:
A. In our experience we need to realize that we can be contending
serpents who are apart from Christ as the life-giving Spirit; in
the church life we can either be contending serpents or
life-giving-Spirit drinkers—John 4:14; 7:37-39.
B. John 3:30 refers to the increase of Christ, which is the bride of
Christ in verse 29:
1. According to our natural birth, all of us automatically live by our serpentine
being; this is to live according to the principle of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
2. Our natural life and living are not part of the increase of Christ; only the
regenerated part of our being, our regenerated spirit, is Christ’s increase—v.
6.
3. In a real and practical way, Christ should be our life and our person; we live
Him and are one spirit with Him; we abide in Him, and He abides in us;
therefore, He and we have one life and one living (Gal. 2:20; 4:19; John
15:5)—this is the serpentine people becoming the bride of Christ.
4. When we have this kind of living, then in reality we are serpentine beings
in the process of transformation into the bride of Christ, the increase of
Christ; the ultimate consummation of this bride will be the New Jerusalem
as the tabernacle of God and the wife of the Lamb—Rev. 21:3, 9-10.
Day 6
C. In John 3 we can see at least nine aspects of the unlimited
Christ:
1. The unlimited Christ is from above, that is, from the heavens—v. 31.
2. The unlimited Christ is above all (v. 31); because Christ is all-inclusive,
unlimited, and universal, while He was on earth, He was still in the
heavens (v. 13).
3. The unlimited Christ is loved by the Father; only in Christ can we enjoy the
love of God the Father—v. 35.
4. The unlimited Christ has been given all things; the Father has given all
things, including us, into the Son’s hand—v. 35; 1 Cor. 3:21-23.
5. The unlimited Christ was sent by God—John 3:34; 6:46.
6. The unlimited Christ speaks the words of God—3:34; 6:63.
7. The unlimited Christ gives the Spirit not by measure—3:34.
8. The unlimited Christ gives eternal life to His believers—vv. 15-16, 36; 6:63.
9. The unlimited Christ has the bride as His universal increase—3:29-30.
D. The immeasurable Spirit is the all-inclusive compound Spirit
typified by the compound ointment—Exo. 30:23-25; Phil. 1:19:
1. The immeasurable Spirit is the life-giving Spirit—1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:6.
2. The immeasurable Spirit is also the pneumatic Christ; the term pneumatic
Christ refers to Christ as the Spirit—vv. 6, 17-18; Rom. 8:9-11.
E. The eternal life is mentioned three times in John 3—vv. 15-16,
36:
1. Eternal life is the divine life, the life of the eternal God; this life is eternal in
time, space, essence, function, and power.
2. Eternal life is the essence of the Triune God becoming the element of the
church, the bride; and the bride is the universal increase of Christ for the
corporate expression of the Triune God.
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WEEK 6 — DAY 1
Morning Nourishment
Num. 21:8-9 Then Jehovah said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it on
a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live. And Moses
made a bronze serpent and set it on the pole; and if a serpent had bitten
any man, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
John 3:14 says,”As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so
must the Son of Man be lifted up.” Here the Lord referred to what happened
in Numbers 21:4-9. Numbers 21:5 says,”The people spoke against God and
against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and there is no water; and our soul loathes
this light bread.” Here we see that the children of Israel complained and
were rebellious. As a result, the Lord”sent fiery serpents among the people,
and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died” (v. 6). Then the
people came to Moses and confessed that they had sinned in speaking
against Jehovah and against him. They asked Moses to pray that Jehovah
would take away the serpents from them. When Moses prayed for the
people, Jehovah said to him,”Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and
everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live” (v. 8). We are told that
Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. Then”if a serpent had
bitten any man, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived” (v. 9).
(CWWL, 1982, vol. 2,”The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in
the Writings of John,” p. 109)
This bronze serpent typifies Christ (John 3:14), and the pole typifies
the cross (1 Pet. 2:24). In typology bronze, or brass, signifies judgment. The
Hebrew word translated”looked at” in Numbers 21:9 may also be
rendered”regarded,” or”looked intently at.” (Life-study of Numbers, p. 231)
Today’s Reading
As descendants of Adam, we all have been”bitten” by the old serpent,
the devil. Therefore, we are all serpentine beings with the poison of the old
1
Lamb of God so pure and spotless,
Lamb of God for sinners slain.
Thy shed blood has wrought redemption,
Cleansing us from every stain.
Lamb redeeming, Lamb redeeming,
Bearing all our sins away,
Bearing all our sins away!
2
Brazen serpent, to Thee looking,
Son of Man, uplifted high.
Thou didst bear the flesh of sin in
Likeness on the cross to die.
Old creation’s termination;
Finished, Satan and the world,
Finished Satan and the world!
3
Grain of wheat, so small and lowly,
Without death abides alone;
Life divine enclosed within it,
Into death it must be sown.
Life releasing, Christ increasing,
Outline
Day 5
5. The obligation of Reuben and Gad toward Jehovah and toward Israel
(32:22) was due to the fact that they had their own choice regarding their
portion of the land (vv. 1-5); in serving the Lord, we need to learn to give
up our own choice in order to avoid obligating ourselves to God and to His
people.
6. Our self-choice is likewise outside the death of Christ and therefore has
nothing to do with the real enjoyment of the rich Christ; if we do not pass
through the death of Christ, we cannot enter into the realm of His
resurrection and ascension to enjoy Him as the heavenly, elevated One—cf.
Gal. 2:20; Phil. 3:10-11; Col. 3:1-4.
E. Obtaining”the land east of the Jordan” reaches God’s spiritual
goal but not His glorious goal—receiving the rich inheritance in
Christ, the glory of the riches of Christ, in the position of His
ascension.
Day 6
F. The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh
thought only about themselves, cared too much for their own
enjoyment, and did not care for God’s will, plan, goal, kingdom,
or testimony.
G. This indicates that if we care only for our own salvation, peace,
blessing, or material things and are unwilling to go forward, we
will not be able to fulfill God’s will and plan or reach His goal,
kingdom, and testimony; we should not substitute the second
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best for the best.
H. Moses permitted the promise of Reuben and Gad (Num.
32:16-19, 33), telling them that if they went to battle with their
brothers, subdued the land, and freed themselves from their
obligation, they could have the land east of the Jordan (vv.
20-22):
1. Here Moses represented God; many times God permits such promises as
this; He does not force us.
2. Today in the church many of the Lord’s lovers and pursuers remain on the
east of the Jordan; they only want to be under God’s blessing and care.
I. The choice of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh
caused their descendants to lose the right to inherit the land of
Canaan (vv. 18-19, 33):
1. This typifies that if we lust for ease and comfort today—caring only for
ourselves, stopping halfway, and giving up our rights in the matter of
pursuing the Lord—we will not be able to recover those rights, and there
will not be any compensation for them; this is an eternal loss.
2. In contrast, if we are willing to pay the price today to go forward
continually into God’s glorious goal so as to enjoy His fullness, we will have
an extremely rich and special enjoyment in the future—Phil. 3:14.
J. God has ordained Christ to be our portion for our enjoyment,
but we must cooperate with God’s ordination by driving out
everything within us that is other than God and Christ; we must
destroy all the idols within us and not leave any ground within
us for the worship of idols (Num. 33:50-53; 1 John 5:21); only
then can we have the genuine enjoyment of Christ for the
church as His building and His kingdom.
1
Not where we elect to go,
But where Jesus leads the way,
There the living waters flow,
There our darkness turns to day.
2
Not our self-appointed task
Will the Lord’s approval win,
But the work we did not ask,
Finished humbly, just for Him.
3
Not the prayer we long to plead
When we bend before the Throne,
But the touching deeper need
Of the Spirit’s wordless groan.
4
Not the gift we proudly lay
On His altar will He heed,
If our hearts have said Him, “Nay,”
When He whispered, “I have need.”
5
Thus we die, and dying live
Outline
Day 1
I. God is the supreme authority; He has all authority—Rom.
9:21-22:
A. God’s authority represents God Himself; God’s power only
represents God’s works—Acts 17:24.
B. God’s authority is actually God Himself; authority issues out
from God’s own being—Rev. 22:1.
C. All authority—spiritual, positional, and governmental—derives
from God—2 Cor. 10:8; 13:10; John 19:10-11; Gen. 9:6.
D. When we touch God’s authority, we touch God Himself—Isa.
6:1-5:
1. Meeting God’s authority is the same as meeting God—Amos 4:12.
2. Offending God’s authority is the same as offending God Himself.
E. In our relationship with God, nothing is more important than
touching authority—Acts 9:5; Matt. 11:25.
F. Knowing authority is an inward revelation rather than an
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outward teaching—Acts 22:6-16.
Day 2
G. Only God is the direct authority to man; all other authorities
are indirect authorities—delegated authorities, deputy
authorities, appointed by God—Dan. 4:32, 34-37:
1. Only when we meet God’s authority can we submit to the delegated
authority whom God appoints—Matt. 28:18; Heb. 13:17; 1 Pet. 5:5.
2. God requires that we submit not only to Him but to all delegated
authorities—Rom. 13:1-7; 2 Cor. 10:8; 13:10; Heb. 13:17.
3. Those who do not submit to God’s indirect authority cannot submit to
God’s direct authority.
4. God wants us to submit to indirect authority—delegated authorities—so
that we may receive spiritual supply.
H. We all must meet authority, be restricted by God, and be led by
His delegated authority—Isa. 37:16; Phil. 2:12; Heb. 13:17.
Day 3
II. There are two great principles in the universe—God’s
authority and Satan’s rebellion; the unique controversy
between God and Satan concerns authority and
rebellion—Acts 26:18; Col. 1:13:
A. Rebellion is the denial of God’s authority and the rejection of
God’s rule:
1. Satan was originally an archangel created by God, but due to his pride he
uplifted himself, violated God’s sovereignty, rebelled against God, became
God’s adversary, and established his own kingdom—Isa. 14:12-14; Ezek.
28:2-19; Matt. 12:26.
2. When man sinned, he rebelled against God, denied God’s authority, and
rejected God’s rule; at Babel men rebelled collectively against God to
abolish God’s authority from the earth—Gen. 3:1-6; 11:1-9.
Day 4
III. Chapters 12 and 16 of Numbers speak of rebellion against
God’s delegated authority:
A. In speaking against Moses, Miriam and Aaron were speaking
against the deputy authority of God—12:1-15:
1. God had appointed Moses to be His deputy authority, His representative
authority on earth; the authority that Moses represented was the authority
of God—Exo. 3:10-18a; 7:1.
2. According to God’s governmental administration, Miriam and Aaron
should have submitted themselves to Moses, but they rebelled—Num.
12:1-2.
3. Neither Aaron nor Miriam knew authority; instead, they fostered a
rebellious heart—vv. 1-2.
4. The words of rebellion ascended upward and were heard by God—v. 2b:
a. When Miriam and Aaron offended Moses, they offended God in Moses;
therefore, God became angry.
b. Once a person touches delegated authority, he touches God in that
delegated authority.
Day 5
IV. Numbers 16 speaks of man’s rebellion against God’s deputy
authority and how man opposed God’s deputy authority;
chapter 17 speaks of God’s vindication of His appointed
authority:
A. God vindicated to everyone that deputy authority is according
to His appointment—v. 5.
B. Since the rebellion of Korah and his company was related to the
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priesthood (16:3, 8-10), the budding of Aaron’s rod was a
vindication indicating that Aaron was the one accepted by God
as having authority in the God-given ministry of the priesthood
(17:2-10).
C. The budding rod of Aaron typifies the resurrected Christ—the
budding, blossoming, and fruit-bearing Christ—who imparts
life to others—v. 8:
1. Christ, the greatest budding rod in the universe, imparts life to others; He
always flows out life to enliven others—John 12:24; 1 Pet. 1:3.
2. Today Christ is still budding, and we are the fruit, the almonds, of His
budding.
D. In typology a rod signifies authority—cf. 1 Cor. 4:21:
1. In Numbers 17 the rods represented the leaders of the twelve tribes (v. 2),
and Aaron’s rod represented the tribe of Levi (v. 3).
2. It was God’s intention that the budding of a dead rod would cause the
murmurings of the people to cease.
3. Through the budding of the rod, God spoke to the Israelites and also to
Aaron—v. 8.
E. The budding rod signifies our experience of Christ in His
resurrection as our authority in the God-given ministry—Heb.
9:4; Num. 17:1-10:
1. The budding, blossoming, fruit-yielding rod signifies the resurrection life of
Christ with its authority—v. 8; John 11:25.
2. Resurrection is the basis of authority—2 Cor. 1:8-9; 10:8; 13:4, 10:
a. The budding rod indicates that authority is based on resurrection—Num.
17:8.
b. The basis of God’s appointment of authority is resurrection—2 Cor. 1:8-9;
10:8; 13:10.
c. The basis of God’s vindication of His appointed authority is
resurrection—Num. 17:5, 8.
Outline
Day 1
I. Our God is a speaking God—Heb. 1:1-2a:
A. God is a mystery, but this mystery has been revealed by God’s
speaking—vv. 1-2a:
1. Without the divine speaking, God would remain forever unknowable—Luke
1:70; Acts 3:21.
2. Our God is the revealed God because He has revealed Himself in His
speaking—Heb. 1:1-2a.
B. Every created thing came out of the word of God—Gen. 1:3;
John 1:3:
1. The old creation—the whole universe—came into being by God’s
speaking—Gen. 1:3, 6-7; Psa. 33:9; Rom. 4:17; Heb. 11:3.
2. The new creation was brought into being by the entire God speaking as the
Word—John 1:1, 3; 5:24.
3. The speaking God continues to do all things through His speaking—Rom.
4:17.
C. The living God imparts and infuses Himself into us by
speaking—2 Tim. 3:16-17:
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II. In Numbers 11:29 Moses exclaimed,”Oh that all Jehovah’s
people were prophets, that Jehovah would put His Spirit
upon them!”:
A. A prophet is not mainly one who predicts the future but one
who speaks for another, as Aaron spoke for Moses—Exo. 7:1-2;
4:16.
B. Prophets are God’s spokesmen; they speak for God and speak
forth God—Isa. 1:1-2a; 6:8-9; Jer. 1:1-4; Ezek. 1:3; 2:1-7:
1. God is hidden, but through the speaking of the prophets, God Himself and
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His intention are explained—Isa. 45:15; Eph. 1:9; 3:3-5.
2. Prophets receive God’s revelation directly and are borne by the Spirit of
God to speak for God and to speak forth God—2 Pet. 1:21.
C. Moses desired that all the people of Israel would be prophets,
those who spoke for God—Num. 11:29:
1. The word in Numbers 11:29 was a great prophecy uttered by Moses.
2. Concerning the matter that all of God’s people should be prophets, Paul in
the New Testament and Moses in the Old Testament are in agreement—v.
29; 1 Cor. 14:31:
a. The word that Moses spoke was promoted by Paul in 1 Corinthians 14,
and it is fulfilled in God’s New Testament economy by the prophesying of
the believers in the church meetings—vv. 24, 31.
b. It is likely that Paul’s concept came from Moses, because Paul, as one who
understood the Old Testament, must have been familiar with what Moses
had said in Numbers 11:29.
c. In both the Old and New Testaments God wants His people to speak for
Him.
D. A prophet typifies Christ as the One who brings us into God’s
light and revelation—John 1:1, 14; 6:63; 8:12; Matt. 11:27;
Mark 4:11.
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III. “A Prophet will Jehovah your God raise up for you from your
midst, from among your brothers, like me; you shall listen to
Him”—Deut. 18:15:
A. In verses 15 through 19 Moses spoke concerning Jehovah God’s
raising up of a Prophet (the coming Christ) like Moses for the
children of Israel.
B. Acts 3:22 applies Deuteronomy 18:15-19 to Christ, who is God
incarnated to be a man, indicating that Christ is the Prophet
promised by God to His people, the children of Israel.
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C. That the Prophet was to be from among their brothers (v. 15a)
indicates that Christ as the coming Prophet would be human as
well as divine—John 1:1, 14:
1. As God, Christ could not be from among the Jews as a brother, but as the
incarnated One, the One who has put on human nature and was a Jew,
Christ was from among His brothers—Rom. 1:3-4; 8:3; Phil. 2:5-8.
2. The coming Christ would be God incarnated to be a Godman—Luke
1:31-33.
D. Deuteronomy 18:18 indicates that God would raise up this
Prophet through the incarnation of Christ to speak the word of
God—John 1:14; 3:34; 7:16-17; 8:18; Heb. 1:2a:
1. To speak God’s word—to prophesy—is to dispense God, to speak God forth
into others—1 Cor. 14:1, 3, 5, 24-25, 31.
2. This is what the Lord Jesus did as the Prophet raised up by God—Acts
3:21-22.
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IV. The prophets in the Old Testament typify the Holy Spirit as
the anointing ointment in the New Testament—2 Cor. 1:21; 1
John 2:20, 27:
A. In the New Testament the Holy Spirit has replaced the work of
the prophets—Luke 1:41-42, 46-55, 67-79.
B. The anointing of the Holy Spirit has replaced the prophets of
the Old Testament—Acts 3:21-22; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17;
Acts 1:2; 2:4.
C. The Holy Spirit, the anointing element, has entered into us to
be our Prophet—Rom. 8:11, 16; 1 Cor. 6:17; Gal. 4:4, 6:
1. In the Old Testament the representatives through whom the Holy Spirit
gave revelations were the prophets—2 Pet. 1:21.
2. Today the Spirit of revelation, typified by the prophets, is in us, and the
Spirit gives us revelation—Eph. 1:17-18; 1 Cor. 14:29-30.
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D. The anointing Spirit within us is the Prophet—2 Cor. 1:21; 1
John 2:20, 27:
1. The anointing Spirit has entered into us to be our living Prophet—vv. 20,
27.
2. In the Old Testament the Spirit of God came upon certain people and
moved only them; now the Spirit has entered into all of us to be our
Prophet—Num. 11:25-26, 29.
3. The Spirit who inspired people to be prophets has entered into us as the
anointing to be our Prophet—1 John 2:20, 27.
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V. The New Testament shows that God wants us, the saved and
regenerated ones, to prophesy as prophets—1 Cor. 14:1, 3, 5,
24, 31:
A. Prophesying is the excelling gift produced in the growth in life
through the enjoyment of Christ for the building up of the
church—v. 12; Matt. 16:18; 1 Cor. 14:4b.
B. The New Testament believers are saved by God to be kings,
priests, and prophets who prophesy for God—Rev. 1:5-6; 20:4b;
1 Cor. 14:31:
1. Regenerated and saved persons are able to prophesy for God—John 3:3,
5-6; 1 Cor. 14:31-32.
2. God desires that each of the believers prophesy, that is, speak for Him and
speak Him forth—vv. 1, 3, 5, 24, 31.
3. God wants to speak within us and through us according to the principle of
incarnation—6:17; 7:25, 40.
C. Speaking for God and speaking forth God are speaking by the
Spirit of God; the Spirit is always ready to speak with us and
through us—12:3; 14:32.
D. To prophesy in the sense of telling for and telling
forth—speaking for God and speaking forth God—requires
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much growth in life—Eph. 4:15:
1. For this, we need to know God and experience Christ—Heb. 8:10-11; Phil.
3:7-15.
2. If we do not have the adequate knowledge of God and experience of Christ,
we do not have anything to say for Him, and we cannot speak Him forth.
E. The main work of the New Testament prophets is for building
up, encouraging, and consoling others—1 Cor. 14:3.
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F. The goal of prophesying in the church meetings is the building
up of the church as the Body of Christ—v. 12.
G. Prophesying requires the three constituting elements of
prophesying:
1. A knowledge of the Word of God—the human element of learning—2 Tim.
3:16-17; Ezek. 3:1-4.
2. The instant inspiration of the Holy Spirit—the divine element of
inspiration—1 Cor. 14:32, 37a; 1 John 1:6-7; Rom. 8:4.
3. A vision concerning God’s interest and economy, concerning the church as
the Body of Christ, concerning the local churches, concerning the world,
concerning the individual saints, and even concerning ourselves—the view
through the enlightening of the divine light—Eph. 1:17; 1 Cor. 2:11-12.
H. If we are going to prophesy, we need to live a prophesying life:
1. We need to be revived every morning—Prov. 4:18; Lam. 3:22-24; Psa.
119:147-148:
a. The path of the righteous is like the dawn that becomes brighter and
brighter until noontime; this is according to the natural law in God’s
creation, and we have to go along with it.
b. In Lamentations 3:22-24 Jeremiah says that the Lord’s compassions are
fresh and new every morning.
2. We also need to live an overcoming life every day by fellowshipping with
the Lord moment by moment, by walking according to the spirit, and by
Outline
Day 1
I. Numbers 24:17 says,”There shall come forth a Star out of
Jacob”; this Star refers to Christ:
A. The fulfillment of this type of Christ is found in the word of the
magi, learned men from the east, recorded in Matthew
2:2:”Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we
saw His star at its rising and have come to worship Him”:
1. The magi did not say,”We saw a star,” or”We saw the star,” but”We saw His
star.”
2. This is certainly the fulfillment of Numbers 24:17; the star spoken of in this
verse was shown to these learned men; it did not appear to any of the
people of Israel.
3. Whereas the Jews had the Scriptures concerning Christ and knew where
He would be born (Matt. 2:4-6), the magi saw the star of Christ.
4. The Jews had the knowledge in letters concerning where Christ was to be
born (Micah 5:2), but these learned men from the east received a living
vision of Him; eventually, the star led them to the place where Christ was
(Matt. 2:9-10).
5. Christ is the real Sun (Mal. 4:2), but strictly speaking, He does not appear
as the Sun during the age of night; rather, He shines as a star; a star shines
Day 2
5. After receiving the living vision, the magi were misled by their human
concept and went to Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish nation, where its
king was presumed to be; their being misled caused many young boys to be
killed (Matt. 2:16).
6. When they arrived in Jerusalem and inquired concerning where the King of
the Jews was to be born, we read that”when Herod the king heard this, he
was troubled and all Jerusalem with him”—v. 3:
a. When they heard this news, they should have rejoiced; instead, they were
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troubled.
b. A Christian who expects the Lord to come or who expects to be raptured
should take this as a warning—2 Tim. 4:8; cf. Acts 26:16.
7. After the magi were corrected by the Scriptures (Matt. 2:4-6), they went to
Bethlehem (vv. 8-9), and the star appeared to them again and led them to
the place where Christ was,”and when they saw the star, they rejoiced
exceedingly with great joy” (v. 10).
8. When the magi were corrected by the Scriptures and restored to the right
track, the star appeared to them again; living vision always accompanies
the Scriptures.
9. The priests were those who taught people the law (Mal. 2:7), and the
scribes were those who knew the Scriptures (Ezra 7:6); both the priests and
the scribes had knowledge concerning the birth of Christ (Matt. 2:5-6), but,
unlike the magi from the east, they did not see the vision, nor did they have
the heart to seek after Christ.
10. Regardless of how”scriptural” we are, if we lose the presence of the Lord,
we are absolutely wrong; the New Testament way to find and follow the
Lord is to continually stay in His hidden presence—John 5:39-40; Isa.
45:15; Exo. 33:11, 14; cf. 2 Cor. 5:16.
11. It is easy to accumulate scriptural knowledge, but if we would have living
guidance, we must live in an intimate relationship with the Lord; we must
be one with Him—2:10-14.
12. The magi saw Christ, and they worshipped Him; then they were warned by
God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, so they departed into
their own country”by another way” (Matt. 2:12); once we have seen Christ,
we never take the same way, the way of religion apart from Christ, but we
will always take another way.
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F. The living stars have”great resolutions in heart” and”great
searchings of heart”; they are lovers of God who are like
the”stars...from their courses” to fight together with God
against His enemy so that they may be”like the sun / When it
rises in its might”—Judg. 5:15-16, 20, 31; Dan. 11:32; Matt.
13:43.
G. The living stars are those who fear Jehovah and hear the voice
of His Servant, trusting in Jehovah so that they may have light
while walking in darkness—Isa. 50:10-11; Psa. 139:7-12,
23-24:
1. Those who make light for themselves and walk in their self-made light
instead of in God’s light will suffer torment—Isa. 50:11.
2. This should be a warning to us so that we may walk in the light given by
God, not in the light we make for ourselves—1 John 1:5.
3. “Come and let us walk in the light of Jehovah”—Isa. 2:5.
H. The living stars are typified by the stars that were established
on the fourth day of God’s restoration with His further creation,
in which they rule by their shining; where there is shining,
there is ruling for the growth of life—Gen. 1:14-19:
1. The shining forth of the Lord Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration was
the coming of the kingdom in power; this shining forth is actually the
ruling presence of the Triune God—Matt. 17:1-8; Mark 9:1-8.
2. The kingdom of God as the ruling of God, the reigning of God, with all its
blessings and enjoyment is the shining of the Lord Jesus, and the kingdom
is the spreading of the Lord Jesus by shining over us.
3. The kingdom is the shining of the reality of the Lord Jesus; whenever He is
shining over us and we are under that shining, we are in the kingdom
under God’s ruling and reigning within us for our growth of life.
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I. On the negative side, there are some who are”wandering
Outline
Day 1
I. We should never underestimate the value of having a proper
view of a certain matter; the view changes us; it affects our
entire being—Rev. 21:9-10; Acts 26:19.
II. In the Bible vision denotes an extraordinary scene; it refers
to a special kind of seeing—a glorious, inward seeing—and to
the spiritual scenery we see from God—Ezek. 1:1, 4-28; Dan.
7:1, 9-10, 13-14:
A. In order to have a vision, we need revelation, light, and
sight—Eph. 1:17-18a.
B. The heavenly vision governs us, restricts us, controls us, directs
us, preserves us, revolutionizes us, keeps us in the genuine
oneness, and gives us the boldness to go on—Prov. 29:18a.
C. Under the heavenly vision we are directed toward God’s
destination, and our life is controlled according to God’s
economy—Phil. 3:13-14; 1 Tim. 1:4.
III. Like Balaam, a Gentile prophet who was brought into a vision,
we need to see the vision of the All-sufficient One and have a
divine view of God’s people—Num. 23:7-12, 19-26; 24:3-9:
Day 2
E. “How fair are your tents, O Jacob, / Your tabernacles, O
Israel!”—Num. 24:5:
1. Balaam’s first parable reveals that Israel is holy (23:9); the second, that
Israel is perfect (v. 21); and the third, that Israel is beautiful, as indicated
Day 3
H. “Blessed is everyone who blesses you, / And cursed is everyone
who curses you”—v. 9b:
1. Instead of cursing God’s people, Balaam, speaking on behalf of God,
altogether blessed them.
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B. In Numbers 33, the record of the forty-two stations of the
journey of the Israelites from the land of slavery to the land of
rest, there is no mention of the failures of the people:
1. If we had only the record in Numbers 33, we would think that in their
journey the children of Israel were altogether aggressive, positive, and
successful, going from station to station until they reached their goal—the
land of rest:
a. After reading Numbers 1 through 32, we may have the opinion that there
was nothing good with the children of Israel.
b. Numbers 33 shows that in the eyes of God the record regarding them is
positive.
c. This indicates that, in His view, God always considers His people in a
positive way.
2. We need to view the church in a heavenly way and realize that all the local
churches are parts of the coming New Jerusalem—Rev. 1:10-12, 20; 21:2,
9-11.
3. If we have God’s view of His people, we will see them as God sees
them—chosen, redeemed, saved from the bondage of the fall, enjoying
Christ, being built up with the Triune God, formed into an army to fight for
God, and prepared by God to possess the all-inclusive Christ as the good
land—Eph. 1:4-7, 11-12; 2:6, 8, 13-16, 21-22; 3:8, 15-21; 4:12-13, 16, 23-24;
5:27; 6:10-18.
Outline
Day 1
I. We need to realize the necessity of spiritual warfare—Num.
21:1-3, 21-35:
A. Spiritual warfare has its source in the conflict between the
satanic will and the divine will; this is a warfare between the
kingdom of Satan and the kingdom of God—Matt. 6:10; 7:21;
12:26, 28; Isa. 14:12-14.
B. In the Lord’s recovery we are on a battlefield; in order to
possess Christ as the good land for the fulfillment of God’s
purpose, we must fight against and defeat the satanic
forces—Josh. 5:2—6:16.
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C. The army of God defeated the king of Arad, Sihon the king of the
Amorites, and Og the king of Bashan—Num. 21:1-3, 21-35:
1. The kings of Arad (v. 1), of the Amorites (v. 21), and of Bashan (v. 33) were
the”gate guards” on the east of the Jordan, guarding the land of Canaan,
the kingdom of darkness, for Satan:
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a. The kings defeated by God’s army signify the rulers, the authorities, and
the world-rulers of darkness, against whom we must struggle—Eph. 6:12.
b. In order for the children of Israel to enter into the good land, they had to
pass through the territory controlled by these kings and had to fight
against them, destroy them, and take over their territory.
2. In order to gain the unsearchable riches of Christ, we must crush the
spiritual enemies signified by the king of Arad, Sihon the king of the
Amorites, and Og the king of Bashan and take over their territory—3:8;
6:10-12.
D. The fighting of the children of Israel against the Canaanites that
they might possess and enjoy the good land portrays the
invisible spiritual warfare that is taking place behind the
visible scene on earth, and it typifies the spiritual warfare of
the church against”the spiritual forces of evil in the
heavenlies”—Dan. 10:10-21; Eph. 6:10-12:
1. In the typology of the Old Testament, Canaan has two aspects:
a. On the positive side, Canaan, a land of riches (Deut. 8:7-10), typifies the
all-inclusive Christ with His unsearchable riches (Col. 1:12; Eph. 3:8).
b. On the negative side, Canaan signifies the aerial part, the heavenly part,
of the dark kingdom of Satan:
1) As the ruler of this world (John 12:31) and as the ruler of the authority of the
air (Eph. 2:2), Satan has his authority (Acts 26:18) and his angels (Matt.
25:41), who are his subordinates as principalities, powers, and rulers of the
darkness of this world (Eph. 6:12); hence, Satan has his kingdom (Matt.
12:26), the authority of darkness (Col. 1:13).
2) The Canaanites typify the fallen angels, the rebellious angels who follow
Satan (Rev. 12:4, 7), who have become the powers, rulers, and authorities in
Satan’s kingdom (cf. Dan. 10:13, 20).
3) The fighting of the children of Israel against the Canaanites that they might
possess and enjoy the good land typifies the spiritual warfare of the church
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies so that the saints may
enjoy Christ as the all-inclusive land—Eph. 6:12.
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E. The Lord Jesus has already won the battle, and the work of the
church on earth is to maintain Christ’s victory—Heb. 2:14; Col.
2:15; 1 John 3:8:
1. The Son of God was manifested to destroy the works of the devil—v. 8.
2. As a man, Christ defeated Satan during the temptation in the
wilderness—Matt. 4:1-11.
3. Through death the Lord Jesus destroyed the devil, who has the might of
death, abolishing Satan and bringing him to nought—Heb. 2:14; 1 Cor.
1:28.
4. God openly shamed the evil angels, triumphing over them in the cross of
Christ—Col. 2:15.
5. The effect of Christ’s crucifixion was that the base of Satan’s rebellion was
shaken, that the strongholds of Satan’s earthly kingdom were broken, and
that the power of death and Hades was conquered and subdued—Matt.
27:51-52.
6. In the Spirit of His divinity, Christ proclaimed to the evil spirits in the
abyss His victory over Satan on the cross—1 Pet. 3:18-20.
7. The overcomers, the mighty ones, realize that spiritual warfare is based on
the victory of Christ—Joel 3:11b; John 12:31; Rev. 5:5:
a. The starting point of spiritual warfare is standing upon the victory of
Christ—Eph. 6:11, 13.
b. We need to see that Christ has already overcome—Rev. 3:21.
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II. At the end of Numbers 27, God’s people, the Israelites, had
been formed into an army ready for battle:
A. The children of Israel had become a new people formed into a
new army with a new theocracy—vv. 12-23:
1. The new people had been renumbered, the new army had been re-formed
and strengthened, and a new leader, Joshua, had been appointed to serve.
2. Joshua would serve not by himself but with Eleazar the priest, who would
receive divine instructions by means of the Urim and the Thummim; this
means that there was among the people a new theocracy—vv. 19-21.
B. After being formed, constituted, disciplined, trained, and
qualified, God’s people had come to the plains of Moab, where
they were waiting to enter into the good land, to take it, and to
possess it—36:13.
C. The formation of the children of Israel into an army to fight for
God typifies the New Testament believers’ being built up into
the organic Body of Christ to fight for God and with God for the
carrying out of His economy—Eph. 4:16; 6:12.
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D. With the exception of Joshua and Caleb, those who were
qualified and ready to take possession of the good land were
the younger ones—Deut. 1:35-36; Num. 14:31:
1. The second generation did not pass through as much as the first generation
did, but they received the benefit of what the first generation
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experienced—26:63-65.
2. Probably the older generation spoke to the younger generation about all
that they experienced, enjoyed, and suffered, and this speaking was part of
the raising up of the second generation.
3. What the older ones experienced was effective in building up the younger
ones; therefore, God could prepare from the second generation more than
six hundred thousand men with a rich inheritance and strong background
who were qualified to be formed into an army to fight for God’s kingdom.
4. The principle is the same with us in the Lord’s recovery today; what the
older ones have experienced is being passed on to the younger ones and
will be very effective in building them up and preparing them to fight with
God and for God.
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E. In Numbers 31:13-54 we see a beautiful picture of the one
accord among God’s people who had been formed into an army
ready for battle—v. 31:
1. The entire situation among the different categories of people was peaceful,
pleasant, and harmonious because they were all in one accord—Acts 1:14.
2. The genuine one accord in the church is the practice of the oneness of the
Body, which is the oneness of the Spirit—Eph. 4:3-6:
a. One accord refers to the harmony in our inner being, in our mind and
will—Acts 1:14; Matt. 18:19.
b. To be in one accord is to be one in our whole being, and this results in our
being one in our outward speaking—Rom. 15:5-6.
c. In order to be in one accord, we need to have one heart and one way; this
one heart and one way are the one accord—Jer. 32:39.
d. For the Lord’s move, all the churches need to be in one accord; we should
all voice the same thing, trumpet the same thing, teach the same thing,
and be the same in practice—Josh. 1:16-18; 6:1-16; Acts 2:42; 4:24, 32; 1
Cor. 4:17; 7:17; 11:16; 14:34; 1 Tim. 1:3-4; 6:3.
F. God’s army was prepared and ready to take the good land