November 14, 2021 – The Church in New York City

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Corporate Reading of “The History of God in His Union with Man” Chapter 12 – Sections:
Quenching Them with the Living Water; Defeating the Amalekites; Establishing Them as a Kingdom with Authorities
Bringing Them To Himself At Mount Sinai; Making Them His Own Personal Treasure; Exposing Them by Giving Them the Law as His Testimony; Revealing to Them the Way to Partake of the Triune God; To Get Them Washed from the Dirt of the Earth in the Laver
To Get Them Redeemed from Their Sins through the Offerings; To Enter into the Tabernacle as the Dwelling of the Triune God on Earth; To Feed on the Table of the Bread of the Presence; To Be Enlightened by the Lampstand; To Be Accepted by God in Prayer
To Meet God through the Propitiatory Blood on the Propitiation Cover of the Ark

Opening Word – Boaz and Ruth Typifying Christ and The Church

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The History of God in His Union With Man, Ch. 12, Sec. 8 of 8

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To Meet God through the Propitiatory Blood
on the Propitiation Cover of the Ark

Finally, they were able to meet God through the propitiatory blood on the propitiation cover of the Ark (typifying Christ as the center of God’s dwelling—Rom. 3:25) in the Holy of Holies (Exo. 25:10-22; 37:1-9; 40:3, 20-21). The blood shed outside the tabernacle at the bronze altar was brought into the tabernacle and sprinkled on the cover of the Ark. On Christ as the propitiatory cover, we can contact God, commune with God, and have fellowship with God. It is here that God becomes everything to us for our enjoyment.

By means of the tabernacle, the children of Israel were able to be in the presence of God. Through the laver and the bronze altar in the outer court, they could enter into the very God embodied as the tabernacle. In the tabernacle were the bread of the Presence, the lampstand, the incense altar, and the Ark. The tabernacle is the embodiment of God, and related to this embodied God are six items: the laver to wash us, the bronze altar to redeem us, the table to feed us, the lampstand to enlighten us, the incense altar to accept us, and the Ark for us to stay with God to enjoy Him.

Now we should be able to see why we need the Old Testament. Regardless of how good, how rich, and how excellent the New Testament teaching is, we cannot find there the details of God’s history that are revealed in the typology of the Old Testament. In God’s history we can see that He is the providing God for us to enter into Him and to stay with Him for our perpetual enjoyment of Him in the way of washing, redeeming, feeding, enlightening, accepting, and communion. Today we are in the embodied Triune God to enjoy His washing at the laver, His redeeming at the bronze altar, His feeding at the table, His enlightening at the lampstand, His accepting at the incense altar, and His communion at the Ark. Once we were in Egypt, but we passed through the Red Sea and were borne through the wilderness to be brought to God. Now we are in God enjoying Him in His washing, redeeming, feeding, enlightening, accepting, and communion.

The History of God in His Union With Man, Ch. 12, Sec. 7 of 8

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To Get Them Redeemed from Their Sins
through the Offerings

God redeemed them from their sins through the offerings (typifying Christ—John 1:29). These offerings were presented with Christ to God at the altar, typifying the cross of Christ (Exo. 27:1-8; 38:1-7; 40:6).

To Enter into the Tabernacle
as the Dwelling of the Triune God on Earth

They entered into the tabernacle as the dwelling of the Triune God on earth (ch. 26; 36:8-38; 40:2, 17-28, 33-34), typifying Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God among men (John 1:14). The tabernacle was God’s embodiment, and that tabernacle was enterable. The children of Israel could enter into God, embodied by the tabernacle. This indicates that the very God in His history is enterable so that we can enter into Him to enjoy Him.

To Feed on the Table of the Bread of the Presence

After you enter into God, God is eatable. After entering into the tabernacle, they fed on the table of the bread of the Presence (Exo. 25:23-30; 37:10-16; 40:4a, 22-23), typifying Christ as the believers’ life supply (John 6:48, 51). Our food is God’s presence. God in His presence is our available food.

To Be Enlightened by the Lampstand

After eating the bread of the Presence, they were enlightened by the lampstand (Exo. 25:31-39; 37:17-24; 40:4b, 24-25), typifying Christ as the light of life to the believers (John 1:4; 8:12). When we receive the life supply by eating the bread, we will be enlightened. When we receive the provision of life, the supply of life, we will have the light of life. The life is the light of men.

To Be Accepted by God in Prayer

They were then accepted by God in prayer with Christ as the fragrance (cf. Rev. 8:3-4) at the golden altar (Exo. 30:1-10; 37:25-29; 40:5, 26-27). This altar is different from the bronze altar. The bronze altar is in the outer court, outside the tabernacle, and the golden altar is inside the tabernacle, close to the Holy of Holies. At the golden altar, the incense altar, the priests could offer their prayer to God to be accepted.

The content of our prayer is the resurrected and ascended Christ. Christ offered Himself on the cross, typified by the bronze altar on the earth, for our redemption. Now He is in the third heaven before God. As the resurrected and ascended One, He is the sweet and fragrant incense, in which God extends to us His well pleasing acceptance.

The History of God in His Union With Man, Ch. 12, Sec. 6 of 8

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BRINGING THEM TO HIMSELF AT MOUNT SINAI

By bearing the nation of Israel through the wilderness, God brought them to Himself at Mount Sinai (vv. 1-4). Exodus 19 shows that God was at Mount Sinai waiting for the children of Israel to come. Mount Sinai in the Bible is called the Mount of God. They were brought to God at Mount Sinai because God was there. They were borne by God on His wings to God Himself.

Two mountains on the earth are very significant in God’s history on this earth. One is Mount Sinai, and the other is Mount Zion. We have seen that Psalm 68 reveals God’s move on the earth from Mount Sinai to Mount Zion (see Life-study of the Psalms, Messages 27 and 28). Now we need to see what God did at Sinai.

Making Them His Own Personal Treasure

At Mount Sinai, God made the children of Israel His own personal treasure among all the peoples, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exo. 19:5-6). As God’s personal treasure, they were a beautiful people particularly belonging to God as God’s heart’s desire. Jeremiah 2 tells us that God had a very affectionate feeling toward the children of Israel. At that time Israel’s love toward God was a bridal love (v. 2). This relationship was very sweet. After being brought out of Egypt to the wilderness and borne through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, to God Himself, God made Israel a personal treasure to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

Exposing Them by Giving Them
the Law as His Testimony

God exposed the children of Israel by giving them the law as His testimony (Psa. 19:7) so that they might know that they were sinful in nature and evil in deeds and that they had no ability to keep His law (Exo. 20—23; cf. 19:8). In Exodus 19:8 they said, “All that Jehovah has spoken we will do.” They did not know themselves, so that forced God to decree the law. The law is a picture, a photo, a testimony, of what God is. God is a holy, righteous, bright, and loving God. He hates killing, fornication, stealing, lying, and coveting. The law as God’s testimony showed that Israel was not like God. Israel was sinful in nature and evil in deeds.

Revealing to Them the Way to Partake of the Triune God

God also revealed to them the way to partake of the Triune God as their portion for their enjoyment (chs. 25—27; 30; 36—38; 40). This was the purpose for which God bore the children of Israel to Himself at Mount Sinai.

To Get Them Washed from the Dirt
of the Earth in the Laver

They were washed from the dirt of the earth in the laver, typifying the cleansing Spirit (30:17-21; 40:11-12, 30-32). The bronze laver was where all the serving ones of God washed away all the dirt from their earthly contact. This is a type of the cleansing of the Spirit, who sanctifies us before the sprinkling of the blood of Christ as unveiled in 1 Peter 1:2.