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Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Opening Word of the Prophesying
Meeting
Message One
The Ark of the Testimony
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
And they shall make an ark of acacia wood: two
and a half cubits shall be its length; and one and a
half cubits, its width; and one and a half cubits, its
height. And you shall overlay it with pure gold;
inside and outside you shall overlay it; and you
shall make a rim of gold upon it all around — Exo.
25:10~11.
And after the second veil, a tabernacle, which is
called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar and
the ark of the covenant covered about everywhere
with gold, in which were the golden pot that had
the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the
tablets of the covenant — Heb. 9:3~4.
1
Word of Appetizer
What is the first item of the furniture of the
tabernacle? What does it typify?
The first item of the furniture of the tabernacle
is the Ark of the Testimony. As a type of
Christ, the ark typifies Christ as the
embodiment of God’s testimony. The Ark also
signifies the contents of the church as the
house of God.
2
Spiritual Burden
The Ark of acacia wood overlaid with gold
signifies the pneumatic Christ as the
embodiment of God and as the mingling of
divinity with humanity, the building of God
with man, dwelling in our spirit for us to
contact God and enjoy God.
3
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Concluding Word of the Prophesying
Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
Message One
The Ark typifies Christ as the
embodiment of God; it also signifies
Christ as the presence of the Triune
God with His people for the carrying
out of His economy to establish His
kingdom on earth.
The four rings of gold and the two
poles on the sides of the Ark signify
the move on earth of Christ as God's
testimony.
4
The Experience of Life
The tablets of the covenant, which are the tablets of the
law, signify the law of the divine life:
The law, this divine capacity, of life can do
everything in us for the carrying out of God's
economy.
While the divine life grows in us, the law of life
functions to shape us, to conform us, to the image
of Christ as the firstborn Son of God.
5
Practice and Application
When there is no distance between us and the Lord,
we enjoy Christ in the most intimate and hidden
way; this is the enjoyment of the hidden manna; we
need to separate ourselves from the general practice
of today's Christianity and to remain in the presence
of God ministering directly to Him, not to anything
else.
6
1
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye
View over the Whole Outlines
Message One
The Ark of the Testimony
Key Verses (1)
And they shall make an ark of acacia
wood: two and a half cubits shall be
its length; and one and a half cubits,
its width; and one and a half cubits,
its height. And you shall overlay it
with pure gold; inside and outside
you shall overlay it; and you shall
make a rim of gold upon it all
around—Exo. 25:10~11. 1
Key Verses (2)
And you shall cast four rings of gold for
it, and put them on its four feet; and two
rings shall be on one side of it, and two
rings on the other side of it. And you shall
make poles of acacia wood and overlay
them with gold. And you shall put the
poles into the rings on the sides of the ark
to carry the ark with them—Exo.
25:12~14.
3
Key Verses (3)
And after the second veil, a
tabernacle, which is called the Holy
of Holies, having a golden altar and
the ark of the covenant covered
about everywhere with gold, in
which were the golden pot that had
the manna and Aaron's rod that
budded and the tablets of the
covenant—Heb. 9:3~4.
5
Acacia Wood, Pure Gold, the Rim of Gold
II. The Ark of acacia wood overlaid with gold
signifies the pneumatic Christ as the embodiment
of God and as the mingling of divinity with
humanity, the building of God with man:
Acacia wood signifies Christ's humanity,
strong in character and high in standard.
Pure gold signifies Christ's eternal and
unchanging divinity.
The size of the Ark signifies that it is a
testimony.
The rim of gold signifies the glory of the
divine nature as the divine keeping power
and holding strength.
2
The Four Rings of Gold, the Two Poles
III. The four rings of gold and the two poles on
the sides of the Ark signify the move on earth of
Christ as God's testimony:
The casting of the four rings of gold
signifies that the eternal life-giving Spirit
with the divine nature of Christ becomes
the linking factor and power through the
experience of the cross.
The two poles for carrying the Ark signify
the move of Christ as God's testimony. 4
IV. The Hidden Manna, the Budding Rod,
the Tablets of the Covenant
The hidden manna is the portion of Christ that
we enjoy in the presence of God when there is
no distance between us and Him.
The budding rod signifies that Christ, the
resurrected One, should be our life, our living,
and the resurrection life within us and that this
life should bud, blossom, and bear fruit to
maturity
The tablets of the covenant, which are the
tablets of the law, signify the law of the divine
life, which is the spontaneous power, automatic
function, innate ability, and divine capacity of the
divine life. 6
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
Crystallization-study of Exodus (3)
Message One
The Ark of the Testimony
D1T1 The Ark is the center of the tabernacle (Col. 2:9)
(Please narrate that as the center of the tabernacle, the Ark typifies Christ as the
embodiment of God.)
T2 The ark was called the ark of the testimony (Exo. 25:22)
(Why was the Ark called “the ark of the testimony”? Why was the tabernacle called
“the tabernacle of the testimony”?)
D2T1 Acacia wood signifies Christ's humanity, strong in character and high in standard.
(Exo. 25:10)
(According to the following verses in Matthew, please explain Christ's humanity,
strong in character and high in standard signified by acacia wood)
(Matt. 4:4; 8:20; 9:12-13; 11:29; 12:19-20; 17:27; 20:28; 27:12, 14)
T2 The acacia wood is overlaid with gold both inside and outside (Exo. 25:11; 2 Pet.1:4)
(Please narrate that the acacia wood overlaid with gold signifies the mingling of
divinity with humanity of Christ.)
D3T1 The application of the four rings of gold and the two poles (Exo. 25:12-14; 1 Thes.
2:9)
(How to apply the four rings of gold and the two poles in the church life?)
T2 Using the proper means to carry the Lord’s testimony (Acts 1:8, 2 Cor.4:10-12)
(How should we use the proper means to carry the Lord’s testimony?)
D4T1 The different points between the hidden manna and the open manna (Rev. 2:17; Exo.
16:31)
(Please explain the different points between the hidden manna and the open manna.)
T2 How to experience and enjoy the hidden manna (Rev. 2:17)
(Please narrate how you experience and enjoy the hidden manna.)
D5T1 Resurrection is an eternal principle in our service to God (2 Cor. 1:9)
(Please explain that resurrection is an eternal principle in our service to God.)
T2 The experience of the budding rod of Aaron (2 Cor. 4:7)
(Please narrate your experience of the budding rod of Aaron)
D6T1 The law of life can carry out God's economy in us (Heb. 8:10)
(Please narrate that the law, this divine capacity, of life can do everything in us for
the carrying out of God's economy.)
T2 The subjective experience of the law of life (Rom. 8:2)
(Please narrate your subjective experience of the law of inner life.)
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Message Two
The Expiation Cover—the Propitiation Place
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
And the cherubim shall spread out their wings above the
cover, covering the expiation cover with their wings, with
their faces toward one another; the faces of the cherubim
shall be toward the expiation cover… And there I will
meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the
expiation cover, from between the two cherubim which
are upon the Ark of the Testimony, of everything which I
will give you in commandment to the children of Israel —
Exo. 25:20~22.
Let us therefore come forward with boldness to the throne
of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace for
timely help — Heb. 4:16.
1
Word of Appetizer
The most crucial part of the ark of the
testimony was its cover; what does it mean?
The expiation cover, the propitiation place,
was the sin-covering lid on the Ark; Romans
3:25 says that Christ is our propitiation place.
Christ made propitiation for our sins, and He
has also become the place, where we enjoy
propitiation before God.
2
Spiritual Burden
The expiation cover, the place of propitiation,
is also the place where God speaks to His
redeemed people in grace; hence, the place of
propitiation equals God's throne of grace; this
throne of grace, the place where God gives us
grace, is actually the shepherding Christ
Himself who is enthroned between the
cherubim and dwells in our spirit.
3
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Concluding Word of the Prophesying
Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
Message Two
The expiation cover, the propitiation place,
was the sin-covering lid on the Ark; Romans
3:25 says that Christ is our propitiation place.
And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of
beaten work you shall make them, at the two
ends of the expiation cover. And make one
cherub at one end and one cherub at the other
end; of one piece with the expiation cover you
shall make the cherubim on its two ends.
And there I will meet with you, and I will
speak with you from above the expiation
cover, from between the two cherubim which
are upon the Ark of the Testimony, of
everything which I will give you in
commandment to the children of Israel. 4
The Experience of Life
Upon the expiatory cover and in the
midst of the shining of His glory, we
can hear God's voice and learn the
desire of His heart; thereby we are
infused with God as grace and
receiving vision, revelation, and
instruction from Him to control their
daily life.
5
Practice and Application
The more time we spend with the Lord,
having the realization of His precious
blood and shining glory, the more He
infuses Himself into us; to be a Christian
who receives God's infusion in the Holy
of Holies and walks according to it is to
be a Christian in the most wonderful sense
of all.
6
2
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View
over the Whole Outlines
Message Two
The Expiation Cover—the Propitiation
Place
Key Verses (1)
Whom God set forth as a propitiation place
through faith in His blood, for the
demonstrating of His righteousness, in that in
His forbearance God passed over the sins that
had previously occurred—Rom. 3:25.
1
Key Verses (2)
And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of
beaten work you shall make them, at the two
ends of the expiation cover. And make one
cherub at one end and one cherub at the other
end; of one piece with the expiation cover
you shall make the cherubim on its two ends.
And the cherubim shall spread out their wings
above the cover, covering the expiation cover
with their wings, with their faces toward one
another; the faces of the cherubim shall be
toward the expiation cover. And you shall put
the expiation cover on top of the Ark, and into
the Ark you shall put the testimony that I shall
give you—Exo. 25:18~21. 3
Key Verses (3)
Let us therefore come forward with boldness to
the throne of grace that we may receive
mercy and find grace for timely help—Heb.
4:16.
And there I will meet with you, and I will
speak with you from above the expiation cover,
from between the two cherubim which are
upon the Ark of the Testimony, of everything
which I will give you in commandment to the
children of Israel—Exo. 25:22.
5
The Expiation Cover, the Propitiation Place
I. The expiation cover, the propitiation place,
was the sin-covering lid on the Ark; Christ is
our propitiation place:
By the lid of the Ark, with the
propitiating blood sprinkled on it on the
Day of Expiation, the entire situation on
the sinner's side was fully covered.
The Hebrew word for the lid of the Ark is
kapporeth, from a root meaning "to
cover"; hilasterion, which means "the
place of propitiation" (implying to
forgive and to give mercy). 2
III. IV. V. The Two Cherubim
The cherubim signify God's glory.
That the two cherubim were one piece
with the expiation cover indicates that
God's glory shines out from Christ and
upon Christ as the expiation cover to be a
testimony.
The faces of the cherubim were toward
each other and toward the cover,
signifying that God's glory watches
over and observes what Christ has done.
That the cherubim and the expiation
cover were made of pure gold signifies
that the shining of Christ as the
effulgence of God's glory is divine. 4
The Throne of Grace, Meeting with Us,
Speaking to Us
II. The place of propitiation, signifies Christ
as the cover of God's righteous law and also the
place where God speaks to His redeemed
people in grace; hence, the place of
propitiation equals God's throne of grace.
VII. And there I will meet with you:
God met with His people and spoke to
them from above the expiation cover
and between the cherubim.
6
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
Crystallization-study of Exodus (3)
Message Two
The Expiation Cover—the Propitiation Place
D1T1 The function of the expiation cover (Exo. 25:21; Rom. 3:25, footnote 2; Outline I)
(Please describe the function of the expiation cover according to Rom. 3:25.)
T2 The place of propitiation equals God's throne of grace (Heb. 4:16; Psa. 80:1; Outline II)
(Please narrate that the expiation cover, the place of propitiation equals God's throne of
grace)
D2T1 Christ is the One who propitiates (Heb. 2:16; 1 John 2:2; Heb. 9:5)
(Please explain Christ is the One who propitiates, He is the propitiatory sacrifice, and He
is the propitiatory cover.)
T2 The differences between the blood sprinkled on the altar and the blood sprinkled on the
expatiation cover (Exo. 29:11-12, Lev. 16:14-15)
(Please explain the differences between the blood sprinkled on the altar and the blood
sprinkled on the expatiation cover)
D3T1 The type of the cherubim (Heb. 9:5)
(What do the cherubim signify?)
T2 The throne of grace is in our spirit (Heb. 4:16; Phil. 4:23)
(Please explain according to our experience that the expiation cover, the place of
propitiation is the throne of grace, which is now in our spirit.)
D4T1 God met with His people and spoke to them (Exo. 25:22)
(What does that God met with His people and spoke to them from above the expiation
cover and between the cherubim signify?)
T2 Experience meeting with God and speaking to God (cf. 2 Cor. 3:18)
(Please narrate your experience of meeting with God and speaking to God in your daily
life.)
D5T1 The form, size, or weight of the cherubim (Exo. 25:22; cf. 3:24)
(The form, size, and weight of the cherubim are not given in Exo. 25. What does this
indicate?)
T2 The experience of the expatiation cover with cherubim (Exo. 25:22)
(Please narrate you experience of the expatiation cover with cherubim.)
D6T1 The types of the blood sprinkled on the expatiation cover and cherubim (Lev. 16:14-15;
Exo. 25:20)
(Please explain what the blood sprinkled on the expatiation cover and cherubim each
signify)
T2 To be a Christian who receives God's infusion is to be a Christian in the most wonderful
sense of all (Phil. 1:19-21a; 2 Cor. 3:18)
(How can we experience “to be a Christian who receives God's infusion in the Holy of
Holies and walks according to it is to be a Christian in the most wonderful sense of
all”?)
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Message Three
The Table of the Bread of the Presence
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
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 — John 6:57.
And you shall make a table of acacia wood: two
cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its width, and
one and a half cubits its height. And you shall
overlay it with pure gold and make a rim of gold
around it — Exo. 25:23~24.
And you shall set the bread of the Presence upon
the table before Me always — Exo. 25:30.
1
Word of Appetizer
What are the differences between the bread of
the Presence on the table in the Holy Place
and the manna in the wilderness?
Manna typifies Christ as the daily life supply,
but the table signifies Christ as our weekly
supply.
The daily supply of the manna enables us to
live; the weekly supply from the table enables
us not only to live, but also to serve the Lord.
2
Spiritual Burden
"The Lord's recovery is the recovery of
the eating of Jesus for the building up of
the church."
As New Testament priests, we should
learn how to display Christ as the bread of
the Presence to all of God's worshippers,
helping the believers by showing them
how to enter into the Holy Place to
experience and enjoy Christ as their life
supply.
3
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Concluding Word of the Prophesying
Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
Message Three
The table of the bread of the Presence signifies
Christ as the food, the nourishing feast, for the
believers as God's priests.
In the sequence of God's revelation, the table of the
bread of the Presence comes after the Ark, implying
that the table is connected to the Ark.
The table of the bread of the Presence was set up in
the Holy Place within the tabernacle.
The table of the bread of the Presence was made of
acacia wood overlaid with gold; the bread on the
table in the Holy Place is called the bread of the
Presence.
4
The Experience of Life
When we meet with God upon Christ as the
propitiatory cover, enjoying fellowship with
God and hearing words from His mouth, the
Ark becomes a table where we enjoy a
nourishing feast.
As we eat, digest, and assimilate Christ, we
are constituted with Him, being made the
same as He is in life, nature, and expression
for the building up of the church as the Body
of Christ. 5
Practice and Application
We all need to learn to feed on Christ,
to take Him in, and to enjoy Him as
our spiritual food.
We must be those believers who are
built up together as God's present
dwelling place in an actual and
practical way; then within this
building there will be the table of the
bread of the Presence for our
nourishment and enjoyment.
6
3
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye
View over the Whole Outlines
Message Three
The Table of the Bread of the
Presence
Key Verses (1)
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—John 6:57.
1
Key Verses (2)
And you shall make a table of
acacia wood: two cubits shall be
its length, and a cubit its width, and
one and a half cubits its height.
And you shall overlay it with pure
gold and make a rim of gold
around it—Exo. 25:23~24.
3
Key Verses (3)
And you shall set the bread of the
Presence upon the table before Me
always—Exo. 25:30.
Jehovah make His face shine upon
you and be gracious to you —Num.
6:25.
5
The Eating of Jesus, the Table—A Feast for
Priests
I. We all need to learn to feed on Christ, to take
Him in, and to enjoy Him as our spiritual food.
God's economy is that we eat Christ and be
constituted with Him in order to become His
corporate expression.
The Lord's recovery is the recovery of the
eating of Jesus for the building up of the
church.
II. The table of the bread of the Presence signifies
Christ as the food, the feast. 2
The Table Was Set Up in the Holy Place within the
Tabernacle, Acacia Wood Overlaid with Gold
III. In the sequence of God's revelation, the table of
the bread of the Presence comes after the Ark,
implying that the table is connected to the Ark.
The height of both the Ark and the table is
the same—one and a half cubits; this reveals
that our enjoyment of Christ must match the
standard of God's testimony.
IV. The table of the bread of the Presence was set
up in the Holy Place within the tabernacle.
V. The table of the bread of the Presence was made
of acacia wood overlaid with gold:
Acacia wood here signifies that Christ's
humanity is the basic element for Him to be
our feast.
The table was overlaid with gold signifies
the expression of God. 4
The Bread of the Presence, the Bread of
Arrangement
VI. The bread on the table in the Holy Place
is called the bread of the Presence.
The table was set before God—that is,
in God's presence—not far from the Ark.
The Hebrew word translated
"presence" actually means "face".
The bread of the Presence was also called
the bread of arrangement.
6
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
Crystallization-study of Exodus (3)
Message Three
The Table of the Bread of the Presence
D1T1 The Lord's recovery is the recovery of the eating (John 6:51; Matt. 16:18)
(Please present that the Lord's recovery is the recovery of the eating of Jesus for the
building up of the church.)
T2 The experience of eating Christ as spiritual food (Jer. 15:16)
(Please narrate your experience of eating Christ and enjoying Him as spiritual food.)
D2T1 The type of the table of the bread of the Presence (Exo. 25:23-30; Psa. 23:5; Outline II)
(Please explain the type of the table of the bread of the Presence.)
T2 Experiencing the Ark and the table of the bread of the Presence (John 1:18; 6:57)
(In the view of our experience, what is the relationship between the Ark and the table of
the bread of the Presence?)
D3T1 Our enjoyment of Christ must match the standard of God's testimony (Exo.25:10, 23)
(The height of both the Ark and the table is the same—one and a half cubits; this reveals
that our enjoyment of Christ must match the standard of God's testimony. How can we
apply and experience this in the church life? )
T2 The Ark becomes the table of the bread of the Presence (John 1:14)
(Please try to narrate that the Ark becomes the table of the bread of the Presence in our
experience of Christ.)
D4T1 The table of the bread of the Presence was set up in the Holy Place within the tabernacle
(Exo.40:22)
(Please explain the spiritual significance of the table of the bread of the Presence set up
in the Holy Place within the tabernacle.)
T2 Enjoying Christ as the table to nourish us (John 6:35)
(In the church life, how can you experience and enjoy Christ as the table to nourish
you?)
D5T1 The significance of the table of the bread of the Presence overlaid with gold (Exo. 25:34)
(What is the significance of the table of the bread of the Presence overlaid with gold?)
T2 Experiencing the significance of being from the altar to the table of the bread of the
Presence (Col. 1:20; Titus 3:5; John 6:35)
(With regard to our experience, please explain the spiritual significance of being from
the altar to the table of the bread of the Presence through the laver)
D6T1 The bread of the Presence is also called the face-bread (Exo. 25:30; Num. 6:25)
(The bread of the Presence is also called the face-bread, what is its significance?)
T2 Then experience of displaying Christ as the bread of the Presence (Exo. 25:30)
(How can we display Christ as the bread of the Presence to all of God's worshippers?)
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Opening Word of the Prophesying
Meeting
Message Four
The Intrinsic Significance, Subjective Experience,
and Organic Maintenance of the Golden
Lampstand for a New Revival
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The
lampstand with its base and its shaft shall be made of
beaten work; its cups, its calyxes, and its blossom
buds shall be of one piece with it — Exo. 25:31.
And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me; and
when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands, And
in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of
Man, clothed with a garment reaching to the feet, and
girded about at the breasts with a golden girdle —
Rev.1:12~13. 1
Word of Appetizer
What are the intrinsic significance and
subjective experience of the golden lampstand?
We need a spirit of wisdom and revelation to
understand the intrinsic significance of the
golden lampstand (the highest peak of the
divine revelation); we need to subjectively
experience the detailed aspects of the golden
lampstand (the God-man living) so that we can
become the reproduction of the lampstand, the
expression of the Triune God. 2
Spiritual Burden
In order to enter into a new revival, we need to
see the supereminent Christ according to the
highest peak of the divine revelation, know the
all-inclusive Christ for a God-man living, and
minister the unsearchably rich Christ to others
in shepherding them for the building up of the
Body of Christ to consummate the city of God,
the wife of the Lamb.
3
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
Message Four
We need a spirit of wisdom and revelation to
understand the intrinsic significance of the golden
lampstand (the highest peak of the divine
revelation), which was designed by God Himself
and portrays the goal of His eternal economy.
We need to subjectively experience the detailed
aspects of the golden lampstand (the God-man
living) so that we can become the reproduction of
the lampstand, the expression of the Triune God.
The organic maintenance of the golden lampstand
is Christ's heavenly ministry to cherish the
churches in His humanity and nourish the
churches in His divinity to produce the
overcomers through His organic shepherding.
4
The Experience of Life
Christ as the resurrection life is growing,
branching, budding, and blossoming in us,
by us, and with us to shine the light.
Christ takes care of the churches in His
humanity as the Son of Man to cherish
them; He dresses the lamps of the
lampstands to make them proper,
cherishing us that we may be happy,
pleasant, and comfortable.
5
Practice and Application
We need to pay the price to gain more gold, more of God
in His divine nature.
In order for us to be transformed, we must fully open to
the Lord in prayer to allow the lamp of the Lord with the
seven lamps of fire to search all the chambers of our
soul, shining on and enlightening our inward parts to
supply them with life.
To participate in His move and enjoy His care, we must
be in the churches. 6
4
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over
the Whole Outlines
Message Four
The Intrinsic Significance, Subjective Experience,
and Organic Maintenance of the Golden
Lampstand for a New Revival
Key Verses (1)
And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The
lampstand with its base and its shaft shall be made
of beaten work; its cups, its calyxes, and its
blossom buds shall be of one piece with it—Exo.
25:31.
1
Key Verses (2)
Their calyxes and their branches shall
be of one piece with it; all of it one
beaten work of pure gold—Exo.
25:36.
And its tongs and its firepans shall be
of pure gold. It shall be made of a
talent of pure gold, with all these
utensils—Exo. 25:38~39.
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Key Verses (3)
And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me; and
when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands, and
in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of
Man, clothed with a garment reaching to the feet,
and girded about at the breasts with a golden
girdle—Rev. 1:12~13.
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II. The Intrinsic Significance of the Golden
Lampstand (The Highest Peak of the Divine
Revelation)
The golden lampstand signifies the Triune God.
The golden lampstands signify the local churches as the
reproduction of Christ and the reprint of the Spirit.
The lampstand in Exodus 25 signifies Christ as
the embodiment of God.
The lampstand in Zechariah 4 signifies the
sevenfold intensified life-giving Spirit as the
reality of Christ.
The lampstands in Revelation 1 are the reprint,
the reproduction, of this Spirit-Christ.
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III. Subjectively Experiencing the Detailed
Aspects of the Golden Lampstand (The God-man
Living)
The lampstand is of pure gold, signifying the
eternal, incorruptible, divine nature of God.
The lampstand is of beaten work, signifying
sufferings.
The lampstand being without measurement signifies
that the divinity of Christ and the light He shines are
immeasurable.
The lampstand's having cups shaped like almond
blossoms with calyxes and blossom buds signifies
that the Triune God is a living, golden tree,
growing, budding, and blossoming in resurrection.
The seven lamps of the lampstand are the seven
Spirits of God as the seven eyes of Jehovah, the
seven eyes of the redeeming Lamb, and the seven
eyes of the building stone for the full expression of
the Triune God. 4
IV. The Organic Maintenance of the Golden
Lampstand Is Christ's Heavenly Ministry
Christ's heavenly ministry is to cherish the churches in His
humanity and nourish the churches in His divinity to
produce the overcomers through His organic
shepherding.
Christ as the Son of Man is in His humanity, the
golden girdle signifies His divinity, and the breasts
are a sign of love. 6
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
Crystallization-study of Exodus (3)
Message Four
The Intrinsic Significance, Subjective Experience, and Organic Maintenance of
the Golden Lampstand for a New Revival
D1T1 The intrinsic significance of the golden lampstand (Exo. 25:31; Col. 1:15; Rev. 4:5;
Outlines I, II)
(Please explain the intrinsic significance that the golden lampstand signifies.)
T2 Experiencing the detailed aspects of the golden lampstand (2 Pet. 1:4; Gal. 4:19; 2
Cor. 3:18; Prov. 20:27)
(How can we experience the detailed aspects of the golden lampstand?)
D2T1 The church is the reproduction of Christ (Exo.25:31)
(Please explain that the lampstand in Exodus 25:31 signifies the church as the
reproduction of Christ.)
T2 The church is the reprint of the Spirit (Zech.4:2)
(Please explain the lampstand in Zechariah 4:2 signifies the church as the reprint of
the Spirit.)
D3T1 Four aspects of the lampstand (Exo. 25:39; Zech.4:2; Rev. 1:11-12)
(Please explain the four aspects of the lampstand according to Exo. 25, Zech. 3, 4,
and Revelation.)
T2 Experiencing the four aspects of the lampstand (Exo. 25:39; Rev. 21:23; Col. 1:24)
(How can we experience the four aspects of the lampstand—the element, the form,
the expression, and the reproduction?)
D4T1 The lampstand is a growing tree (Exo. 25:31-36)
(Please describe the lampstand as a growing tree.)
T2 We are a part of this wonderful tree (2 Pet. 1:4; 1 John 5:13)
(As those who believe in Christ, how can we assure that we are a part of this
wonderful tree?)
D5T1 The purpose of tongs and firepans (Exo. 25:38-39)
(Please explain the purpose of the pure gold tongs and firepans on the lampstand
and their types)
T2 Experiencing the observing, shining, trimming, and cleansing of the two spirits.
(John 4:24; Prov. 20:27)
(How can you experience God’s Spirit and our human spirit observing, shining,
trimming, and cleansing within you?)
D6T1 Christ takes care of the churches in His humanity (Rev. 1:13a; Outline IV. B)
(Please describe how Christ takes care of the churches in His humanity.)
T2 Christ takes care of the churches in His divinity (Rev. 1:13b, Outline IV. C)
(Please narrate your subjective experience of the law of life.)
(Please describe how Christ takes care of the churches in His divinity.)
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Message Five
The Golden Incense Altar
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
And you shall put it before the veil that is over the
Ark of the Testimony, before the expiation cover
that is over the testimony, where I will meet with
you. And Aaron shall burn on it fragrant incense;
every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall
burn it — Exo. 30:6~7.
And another Angel came and stood at the altar,
having a golden censer, and much incense was
given to Him to offer with the prayers of all the
saints upon the golden altar which was before the
throne. And the smoke of the incense went up with
the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the
Angel before God — Exo. 8:3~4.
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Word of Appetizer
The book of Revelation is a book of God's
administration, this book reveals the throne of God
and the administration of God throughout the
universe. Why is the executing center the incense
altar in Revelation 8 instead of the throne?
Christ's interceding life, His prayer life, is the
center of the divine administration and of the
execution of His government on earth; the
executing of God's administration is motivated by
the prayers offered to Him from the incense altar.
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Spiritual Burden
Christ's interceding life, His prayer life, is the
center of the divine administration and of the
execution of His government on earth; the
executing of God's administration is motivated
by the prayers offered to Him from the incense
altar.
3
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Concluding Word of the Prophesying
Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
Message Five
We need to see a vision of the golden incense
altar:
The incense altar signifies Christ as the
Intercessor to maintain the relationship
between God and His people.
The incense altar is the place from which
the activities at all the other places in the
tabernacle and the outer court are
motivated.
We need to experience the golden incense
altar: participating in Christ's interceding life,
having no strange fire in our prayer, being
burned to ashes.
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The Experience of Life
When we are about to pray, we should first be
satisfied by eating holy food; that is, we
should pray with God within us as our
energizing supply.
If we would pray in the tabernacle at the
incense altar, we need to be burned to ashes,
reduced to nothing.
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Practice and Application
We need to participate in Christ's interceding life;
we cooperate with Christ in His ministry of
intercession, carrying out His intercession in our
prayers of intercession.
At the incense altar we pray for God's economy, for
God's dispensing, for God's move, and for God's
recovery. 6
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Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over
the Whole Outlines
Message Five
The Golden Incense Altar
Key Verses (1)
And another Angel came and stood at the altar,
having a golden censer, and much incense was given
to Him to offer with the prayers of all the saints upon
the golden altar which was before the throne. And
the smoke of the incense went up with the prayers
of the saints out of the hand of the Angel before
God—Rev. 8:3~4.
1
Key Verses (2)
Moreover, in like manner the Spirit also
joins in to help us in our weakness, for we
do not know for what we should pray as is
fitting, but the Spirit Himself intercedes
for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered. But He who searches the hearts
knows what the mind of the Spirit is,
because He intercedes for the saints
according to God—Rom. 8:26~27.
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Key Verses (3)
And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight,
he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before
Jehovah throughout your generations. You shall
not offer any strange incense on it…—Exo.
30:8~9.
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each
took his censer, and put fire in them and laid
incense on it, and they presented strange fire
before Jehovah, which He had not commanded
them—Lev. 10:1.
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I. Seeing a Vision of the Golden Incense
Altar—the Center of the Divine Administration
The incense altar signifies Christ as the
Intercessor to maintain the relationship between God
and His people.
The incense altar is the place from which the
activities at all the other places in the tabernacle
and the outer court are motivated.
The executing center of God's administration in
the universe is the incense altar in Revelation 8.
Christ's interceding life, His prayer life, is the
center of the divine administration and of the
execution of His government on earth.
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II. Experiencing the Golden Incense
Altar—Participating in Christ's Interceding Life
If we would intercede with Christ at the incense altar,
we need to see three Key matters:
When we pray, we should be in the
tabernacle—be in God.
When we are about to pray, we should first be
satisfied by eating holy food—pray with God
within us as our energizing supply.
When we pray, we should offer incense to
God—pray with Christ as the incense.
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II. Experiencing the Golden Incense
Altar—Having No Strange Fire, and Being
Burned to Ashes
When we pray at the incense altar, there
will be neither strange fire nor strange
incense in our prayer.
If we would pray in the tabernacle at the
incense altar, we need to be burned to
ashes, reduced to nothing.
Self is not involved, at the incense altar
we pray for God's economy, for God's
dispensing, for God's move, and for
God's recovery.
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Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per week
Crystallization-study of Exodus (3)
Message Five
The Golden Incense Altar
D1T1 The significance of the golden incense altar (Heb. 7:25; Rom. 8:34)
(What does the golden incense altar signify?)
T2 The experience of how the prayer life motivates you (Rom. 8:26)
(Please narrate how the prayer life motivates you to experience the altar of burnt
offering, the laver, the table, the lampstand, and the Ark.)
D2T1 The golden incense altar is the center of God's administration in the universe (Rev. 8:3)
(According to Revelation 8, please describe how the golden incense altar is the center of
God's administration in the universe.)
T2 Experiencing the proper prayer life (Rom. 8:26-27; 1 Tim. 2:1)
(The proper prayer life is a life of praying for others, of interceding for them. How can
you experience it?)
D3T1 Cooperating with Christ in His ministry of intercession. (Rom. 8:26-27; 1 Tim. 2:1)
(How can we cooperate with Christ in His ministry of intercession?)
T2 The kind of prayer we have depends on the kind of person we are (Luke 9:54-55; Eph.
6:18)
(The kind of prayer we have depends on the kind of person we are. How does this
narration encourage you to advance in your experience of the golden incense altar? )
D4T1 Interceding with Christ at the incense altar (John 1:14; 53- 56; Rev. 3-4)
(If we would intercede with Christ at the incense altar, what are the three crucial matters
that we need to see?)
T2 The experience of praying in the tabernacle (Exo. 30:6-7)
(Please narrate your experience that you pray in God and God pray in you
simultaneously.)
D5T1 The significance of “strange fire” and “strange incense” (Lev. 10:1; Exo. 30: 9a)
(What is the “strange fire”? what is the “strange incense?)
T2 To pray without offering the strange incense by the strange fire (Lev. 10:1, Exo. 30:
8-9a)
(How can we pray without offering the strange incense by the strange fire?)
D6T1 The spiritual significance of being burnt to ashes (Lev. 6:13; 1 Cor. 1:28b; Outline II. E)
(Please explain the spiritual significance—if we would pray in the tabernacle at the
incense altar, we need to be burned to ashes, reduced to nothing.)
T2 The differences between the prayer at the altar of burnt offering and the prayer at the
golden incense altar
(What are the differences between the prayer at the altar of burnt offering in the outer
court and the prayer at the golden incense altar in the tablenacle?)
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Message Six
The Altar of Burnt Offering
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
And you shall make the altar of acacia wood,
a length of five cubits and a width of five
cubits; the altar shall be square; and three
cubits, its height. And you shall make its horns
upon its four corners; its horns shall be of one
piece with it, and you shall overlay it with
bronze — Exo. 27:1~2.
And you shall make a grating, a network of
bronze for it; and on the net you shall make
four bronze rings at its four ends — Exo. 27:4
We have an altar from which they who are
serving the tabernacle have no right to eat —
Heb. 13:10. 1
Word of Appetizer
With the altar of burnt offering, what can we
have a picture of the entire New Testament?
The picture of the altar portrays the
redeeming Christ, the all-inclusive Spirit,
and the church.
According to the New Testament, in this
Spirit, the church, the Body, bears Christ
and His cross.
2
Spiritual Burden
With the altar of burnt offering, we have a
picture of the entire New Testament—the
redeeming Christ, the Spirit, and the church;
the Body of Christ bears the testimony of
Jesus throughout the earth by the
all-inclusive Spirit; this is the revelation of
the New Testament.
3
Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Concluding Word of the Prophesying
Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
Message Six
The two altars—the altar of burnt offering and the
golden incense altar—are for the carrying out of
God's economy.
The altar of burnt offering was made of acacia
wood overlaid with bronze.
The grating is the most important part of the altar,
for it depicts the mystery of Christ's redemption.
The four rings of bronze at the four ends of the
grating typify the eternal Spirit.
The poles upon the two sides of the altar signify the
move of the cross by the coordination of the
believers as a testimony.
With the altar of burnt offering, we have a picture
of the entire New Testament—the redeeming
Christ, the Spirit, and the church. 4
The Experience of Life
In His economy God gives us one
person—Christ—and one way—the cross; the
acacia wood overlaid with bronze signifies
that Christ became a man to die on the cross to
bear the judgment of God for us; God's
judgment upon Christ as our Substitute was
not merely outward but reached the inward
parts of Christ.
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Practice and Application
If we are living persons preaching the
cross by bearing a testimony in
coordination, we will be qualified to carry
the altar in its journey on earth; the Body
of Christ bears the testimony of Jesus
throughout the earth by the all-inclusive
Spirit.
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Crystallization-Study of Exodus (3)
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View
over the Whole Outlines
Message Six
The Altar of Burnt Offering
Key Verses (1)
We have an altar from which they who are
serving the tabernacle have no right to
eat—Heb. 13:10.
And you shall make the altar of acacia wood,
a length of five cubits and a width of five
cubits; the altar shall be square; and three
cubits, its height. And you shall make its horns
upon its four corners; its horns shall be of one
piece with it, and you shall overlay it with
bronze—Exo. 27:1~2. 1
Key Verses (2)
And you shall make a grating, a
network of bronze for it; and on
the net you shall make four bronze
rings at its four ends—Exo. 27:4.
3
Key Verses (3)
And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of
acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
And its poles shall be put into the rings, and
the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar
when it is carried—Exo. 27:6~7.
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The Two Altars, the Altar of Burnt Offering,
Acacia Wood Overlaid with Bronze
I. The two altars—the altar of burnt offering and the
golden incense altar—are for the carrying out of God's
economy—the altar of burnt offering is related to
God's judicial redemption; the golden altar of incense
is related to God's organic salvation.
II. The altar of burnt offering typifies the cross of
Christ; the cross is the center of God's operation in His
economy.
III. The altar of burnt offering was made of acacia
wood overlaid with bronze; the acacia wood overlaid
with bronze signifies that Christ became a man to die
on the cross to bear the judgment of God for us.
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The Bronze Grating, the Rings of Bronze
IV. The grating is the most important part of the altar,
for it depicts the mystery of Christ's redemption:
The grating signifies Christ the Redeemer in
His redemptive work.
That the grating was within the altar signifies
that God's judgment (bronze) upon Christ as our
Substitute was not merely outward but reached
the inward parts of Christ.
V. The four rings of bronze at the four ends of the
grating typify the eternal Spirit:
The all-inclusive Christ died an all-inclusive
death through the eternal Spirit.
The rings forming one piece with the grating
indicates that the redeeming Christ issues in
the Spirit. 4
The Poles upon the Two Sides of the Altar, a Picture
of the Altar of Burnt Offering
VI. The poles upon the two sides of the altar signify
the move of the cross by the coordination of the
believers as a testimony.
VII. With the altar of burnt offering, we have a picture
of the entire New Testament—the redeeming Christ,
the Spirit, and the church. The Body of Christ carries
the redeeming Christ throughout the earth by the
all-inclusive Spirit. 6
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
Crystallization-study of Exodus (3)
Message Six
The Altar of Burnt Offering
D1T1 The two altars are for the carrying out of God's economy (Exo. 27:1-8; 30: 1-10; Outline I)
(Please try to narrate that the two altars—the altar of burnt offering and the golden incense
altar—are for the carrying out of God's economy.)
T2 The two altars are related to God's complete salvation (Rom. 5:10; Outline I, B)
(Please use the book of Romans to explain that the two altars are related to God's complete
salvation.)
D2T1 The cross is the center of God's operation in His economy (Exo. 40:29; Heb. 13:10, Outline
II)
(How does the altar of burnt offering signify the cross of Christ as the center of God's
operation in His economy?)
T2 All spiritual experience begins from the cross (1 Cor. 2:2)
(Please narrate that all your spiritual experiences begin from the cross.)
D3T1 The spiritual significance of the altar of burnt offering overlaid with bronze (Exo. 27:1-2)
(Please explain the spiritual significances of the Ark overlaid with gold and the altar of burnt
offering overlaid with bronze.)
T2 (What should be our knowledge and attitude concerning that in His economy God gives us
one person—Christ—and one way—the cross?)
D4T1 The significance that the bronze grating signifies (Exo.27:4 and footnote 1; Psa. 22:14)
(Please narrate how the bronze grating depicts the mystery of Christ's redemption.)
T2 The saving element is not in the cross as a thing but in a person, in the One who was crucified
for us (Gal. 2:20)
(Please narrate your knowledge and experience of this word: “The saving element is not in
the cross as a thing but in a person, in the One who was crucified for us”)
D5T1 The efficacy of Christ's redemption depends upon the eternal Spirit (Heb. 9:12, 14)
(As what the four rings of bronze at the four ends of the grating typify, please explain that the
efficacy of Christ's redemption depends upon the eternal Spirit)
T2 Using the Spirit to make Christ's redemption efficacious (Heb. 9:14)
(How should we exercise to make Christ's redemption effective as we preach the gospel?)
D6T1 The contents of the altar of burnt offering reveal the entire New Testament (John 1:29; Acts
1:8; 1 Cor. 12:12-13; 2 Cor. 4:5, 7; Outline VII)
(How do the contents of the altar of burnt offering—the grating, rings, poles reveal the entire
New Testament—redeeming Christ, the Spirit, and the church?)
T2 Applying the principle of “its poles shall be put into the rings” (Exo. 27:6-7)
(How can we apply the principle of “its poles shall be put into the rings” that we may have a
proper experience as we preach the redeeming Christ?)