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As today's Calebs fighting for God's interest, it is crucial for us to see a vision of the all-inclusive Christ typified by the good land and to conquer the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy (Deut. 8:7-10; Eph. 1:10; Rom. 16:20):
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The good land, the land of Canaan, is a type of the all-inclusive Christ, the Christ who is all and in all and who is everything to us (Deut. 8:7-10):
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The good land provided whatever the children of Israel needed: water, wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive trees, animals, milk, honey, stones, iron, copper.
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The good land surely is a type of the all-inclusive Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God given to us as our inheritance (Acts 26:18; Col. 1:12).
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In order to possess the good land, we need to engage in spiritual warfare to conquer the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy (Eph. 1:10; 6:10-12; Rom. 16:20):
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The history of the universe is a history of God's economy and Satan's chaos (Gen. 1:1-2, 26; Rev. 20:10—21:4):
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Satan is the source of chaos, and God Himself is the divine economy.
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Both in the Bible and in our experience, the satanic chaos always goes along with the divine economy (2 Cor. 4:6; 1 Tim. 1:4).
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Instead of delivering us from chaos, God wants us to be one with Him to conquer the destructive satanic chaos and to carry out the constructive divine economy (Eph. 3:8-10; 2 Cor. 5:17).
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As we are suffering the chaos, we need to stand for and live out the divine economy (1 Tim. 1:4, 18; 2 Tim. 4:7).
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The overcomers conquer the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy (1 Tim. 1:3-4, 19-20; 4:1-2; Titus 3:10; 2 Tim. 4:7-8):
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The overcomers suffer the chaos, but instead of being disappointed or discouraged, they are strengthened and enabled to stand for and live out the divine economy according to the truth (Eph. 3:16; 6:10-12).
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We conquer the chaos by the processed and consummated Triune God as the all-sufficient grace (1 Cor. 15:10; 2 Cor. 12:9; 2 Tim. 4:22).
Morning Nourishment
Rom. 16:20 Now the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.2 Tim. 4:7 I have fought the good fight; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith.
The book of Deuteronomy...shows us Christ as the goal, the aim, prepared for us by God (8:7-10). As this goal, Christ is the all- inclusive good land. The good land, the land of Canaan, is a type of the all-inclusive Christ, the Christ who is everything to us.
The good land provided whatever the children of Israel needed: water, wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive trees, animals, milk, honey, stones, iron, copper. All these items, most of which are mentioned in 8:7-10, are types of Christ. (Life-study of Deuteronomy, p. 39)
Today's Reading
In the Old Testament the tribes of Israel each received an allotment, a portion, of the good land for an inheritance. The good land is a type of the all-inclusive Christ given to us as our inheritance. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 1088)As a mixture of economy and chaos, the Christian life is a miniature of the entire universe. The history of the universe is a history of God's economy and Satan's chaos. Furthermore, the entire Bible, from the first chapter of Genesis to the last chapter of Revelation, is a record of the divine economy and the satanic chaos. In our married life we also have the economy of God and the chaos of Satan. The reason for this situation is that in the universe there are two sources—God and Satan.
We need to realize that, both in the Bible and in our experience, the satanic chaos always goes along with the divine economy....Where there is the divine economy, there is the satanic chaos. Where God is, Satan is also.
We were called by the Lord to be one with Him to conquer His enemy, to overcome him. Some of us may feel that there is too much chaos today....We might want to ask the Lord to deliver us out of this. Instead of delivering us, however, the Lord might allow chaos to come to our place so that we would learn how to be one with Him to conquer it, to overcome it. We are in the Lord's recovery, which is for the carrying out of God's economy on the earth....The overcomers are not delivered out of this present chaos. Instead, the overcomers conquer all the destructive chaos and triumph in the unique constructive economy.
The overcomers are those who suffer the chaos, but they are not disappointed or discouraged. Instead, they are strengthened and enabled to stand for and live out the divine economy. The satanic chaos is still going on around us in Christendom. Even within the Lord's recovery, we have experienced this chaos....All of us have to conquer this destructive chaos. If we are enabled by the Lord to conquer all the destructive chaos, we will triumphantly enter into the kingdom.
What the Lord needs is the race of overcomers to conquer all the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy.
We have to conquer the satanic chaos by the processed and consummated Triune God as the all-sufficient grace (1 Cor. 15:10; 2 Cor. 12:9; 2 Tim. 4:22). In 1 Corinthians 15:10 Paul says that the grace of the Lord was with him; in Galatians 6:18 he says that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with our spirit; and in 2 Timothy 4:22 he says that the Lord is with our spirit. The Lord as the all-sufficient grace is with our spirit, and we can conquer all the satanic chaos and carry out the unique divine economy by Him as our all-sufficient grace.
We can conquer all the satanic chaos and carry out the divine economy according to the truth, of which the church, the manifestation of God in the flesh, is the pillar and base (1 Tim. 3:15-16). (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 3, "The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation," pp. 200, 202, 273-274, 256, 246, 257)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 3, "The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation," chs. 1, 3-4; Life-study of Hebrews, msg. 16