Scripture Reading: Ezek. 14:14, 20; Gen. 6:8; Matt. 24:37-39; Dan. 2:34-35; Job 42:5-6

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«　WEEK 1　DAY 1　»

　　Ezek. 14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in the midst of it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness, declares the Lord Jehovah.

　　Psa. 36:8-9 They are saturated with the fatness of Your house, and You cause them to drink of the river of Your pleasures. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

　　The proper church is a house where the fatness of Christ is saturating people, where the Spirit flows as the river of God’s pleasures, and where the fountain of life and light can be found.

　　The only way we could interpret Psalm 36:8-9 in this way is by the governing vision—the Triune God is working Himself into His chosen and redeemed people to be their life and life supply, to saturate their entire being with the Divine Trinity, that is, with the Father as the fountain, the Son as the fatness, and the Spirit as the river.

　　The entire Bible was written according to the principle of the Triune God wrought into His redeemed people as their enjoyment, their drink, and their fountain of life and light. The application of this principle in interpreting any portion of the New Testament is endless. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” pp. 229-230)

　　The rainbow that God set in the cloud as a sign of the covenant (Gen. 9:12-17)…signifies God’s faithfulness…He cannot deny Himself (2 Tim. 2:13). Once He has spoken, He keeps His word. He Himself is faithfulness. First Corinthians 1:9 says, “God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord,” and 1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” God is faithful.

　　He is faithful to His word, and His word is the testament, the covenant. The covenant is simply God’s word…Whenever a cloud comes, you must call God’s faithfulness to come. That means that you call out the rainbow. Whenever you feel that you are weak, you must call for God’s faithfulness, saying, “O God, You are faithful. I am weak, but You must make me strong according to Your word.” We are all living under the covenant with God’s faithfulness as the sure sign that the flood will not come. This is the church life. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 436-437)

　　In the rainbow there are several different colors, but the basic colors are only three—red, yellow, and blue…By their shining and refracting, these three colors combine to make a rainbow. Blue signifies the throne…The foundation of God’s throne is righteousness [Psa. 89:14]. This indicates that the blue throne signifies the righteousness of God. Fire signifies the sanctifying, separating, and consuming fire. This means that red here refers to God’s holiness. Yellow signifies God’s glory in the glowing electrum. Therefore, here we have God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory, signified by the colors blue, red, and yellow.

　　The Lord Jesus came, died on the cross to satisfy the requirements of God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory, and was resurrected, and He is now our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Cor. 1:30). He is also now our glory. In ourselves we are short of God’s glory (Rom. 3:23), we are under God’s righteous judgment, and we are kept away by God’s holiness. But now, as believers, we are in Christ…Because we are in Christ, in the sight of God we look like righteousness, holiness, and glory.

　　We need to experience Christ in such a way that when others contact us, they can sense righteousness, holiness, and glory…Then we will have the appearance of a rainbow, and the angels, the demons, and Satan will be able to see it…Every local church should bear the testimony of such a rainbow. Even the New Jerusalem has the appearance of a rainbow…(Rev. 21:19-20). (Life-study of Ezekiel, pp. 134-135)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” ch. 13

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　　Dan. 2:34-35 You were watching until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the image at its feet of iron and clay and crushed them…And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

　　Job 42:5-6 I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You; therefore I abhor myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.

　　This great image [in Daniel 2:31-45] signifies the aggregate of human government throughout human history (vv. 31-33), from the beginning of human government in Babel (Babylon) in the land of Shinar (Gen. 10:6-12), as signified by the head, to the termination of human government in human history in the Roman Empire with the ten kings, as signified by the ten toes.

　　The destiny of the great human image is to be crushed by a stone cut out without hands, at its appearing (Dan. 2:34-35a, 44b-45; 7:13-14). This stone cut out without hands is Christ. Through His crucifixion He was cut by being put to death (Acts 2:23), and in His resurrection He was cut out to be, first, the cornerstone for the building up of the church and the crushing stone to destroy the totality of human government (v. 24; Matt. 21:42, 44b). (Life- study of Daniel, pp. 14, 16)

　　At His appearing as the stone cut out not by human hands, Christ will crush the great image from the toes to the head. This means that He will strike the ten kings with Antichrist [Rev. 19]…With Christ there will be His newly married bride, composed of the overcomers, and with Antichrist there will be the ten kings with their armies. This war will be a fighting of the earth against the heavens, of man against God. Christ will defeat and destroy Antichrist and the ten kings.

　　When Christ comes as the smiting stone, He will not come alone. Rather, He will come with His bride…After His wedding He will come both as the smiting stone and as the One who will tread the winepress (v. 15; 14:19-20; Isa. 63:2-3). Antichrist will gather a vast number of evil, rebellious human beings around Jerusalem, thus preparing the “grapes” to be trodden in the “winepress” by Christ…Antichrist will even go so far as to say that he is God (2 Thes. 2:4; Dan. 11:36), and for his enjoyment will set up his tent between the good land and the Mediterranean Sea (v. 45). Then Christ as the God-cut stone will come with His bride to strike the toes of the image, destroying it from the toes to the head. In this way, human government will be crushed and terminated. The great human image will be replaced with a great mountain, signifying the eternal kingdom of God, which will fill the whole earth (2:35b, 44a). This means that after Christ comes to crush the aggregate of human government, He will usher in the eternal kingdom of God on earth. (Life-study of Daniel, pp. 16-18)

　　“I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear,/But now my eye has seen You;/Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent/In dust and ashes” (Job 42:5-6). This indicates that Job gained God in his personal experience (in addition to knowing God in his vain knowledge by tradition) and that he abhorred himself.

　　Seeing God equals gaining God (Matt. 5:8). To gain God is to receive God in His element, in His life, and in His nature. Eventually, this not only makes us one with God—it even makes us a part of God…We see God that we may be constituted with God, yet we do not have any share in the Godhead.

　　All of God’s redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, transformed, conformed, and glorified people will see God’s face (Rev. 22:4). Seeing God transforms us (2 Cor. 3:18), because in seeing God we receive His element into us. As we receive God, a new element comes into us, and the old element is discharged. This metabolic process is transformation. To see God is to be transformed into the glorious image of Christ, the God-man. This makes us a part of God that we may express God in His life and represent Him in His authority. (Life- study of Job, pp. 151-152)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Ezekiel, msg. 12

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　　Heb. 4:16 Let us therefore come forward with boldness to the throne of

　　grace that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help.

　　11:7 By faith Noah, having been divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen…, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

　　Genesis 6:8 says, “But Noah found favor in the sight of Jehovah.” Favor can also be translated “grace.”

　　Grace is God Himself enjoyed by us and helping us to face the situation of the flesh…If it were not for the flesh, probably God would not have to give us so much grace…According to Hebrews 4:16, we may find grace for timely help. What element causes us to need grace? It is mainly the flesh… As I passed through all the human experiences, I came to realize how much we are in the flesh…Once, I got mad at the Lord and said to Him, “Lord, why don’t You take away my flesh?” Eventually, He showed me that, in a sense, I needed the flesh, for the flesh is the very factor that compels me to come to the throne of grace. I cannot do anything with this flesh. All I can do is go to the throne of grace. Although there is nothing that we can do, yet there is somewhere that we can go—the throne of grace. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 372, 377)

　　The flesh is the very presence of the devil, and grace is the very presence of God. In order for us to face the presence of Satan, we need the presence of God…Every minute, even while you are praying, Satan is in your flesh. A good number of times my prayers have been frustrated by the flesh…This frustration of the flesh forces us to come to the throne of grace…Although

　　Satan is greater than we are, God is greater than Satan…Since Satan is here with us, we need God to be present. We have to say, “Lord, You know that Your enemy is right here. You have to come and stand with me against him.” When God comes to us and stands with us, that is grace. (Life-study of Genesis, p. 378)

　　With God’s creation there is nothing of God Himself in His creatures… In God’s creation He did a work with His hands, not with Himself, but in His building God works with Himself as the material…God’s building is a divine mingling of God Himself with man as His creature. As merely a part of God’s creation, we have nothing of God within us, but as a part of God’s building, we have something of God within us…What is God building? It is the building of Himself with humanity.

　　The first building of God in the Scriptures is Noah’s ark (Gen. 6:14-16). The ark is a type of Christ the Redeemer to be the Savior to us. With Him there is redemption, deliverance, salvation, safety, and refuge. Why then was the ark a building?

　　Christ the Redeemer and Savior is a building. Christ is not only God but a God-man; He is God built together with man…John 1:1 says that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. However, verse 14 says that the Word became flesh. The Word as God mingled Himself with humanity. This was a building. Verse 14 says that when Christ as the Word of God was incarnated in the flesh, He tabernacled among us. The incarnated Lord is a tabernacle, a building of the divine material mingled together with the human material. In Christ is divinity and humanity. His two natures are the materials, which are mingled together and built up as one. Christ as the Savior, who is God incarnated as a man, is the building, the mingling, of divinity with humanity, a building of God with man.

　　Before we were saved, we were only a creation and not a building… However, now that we are saved, God has mingled Himself with us. He has mingled the divine nature with our human nature, making us a divine building. (CWWL, 1963, vol. 3, “The Building of God,” pp. 172- 173)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1963, vol. 3, “The Building of God,” ch. 1

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　　Gen. 6:16 You shall make an opening for light for the ark…; and you shall put the entrance of the ark in its side; you shall make it with lower, second, and third stories.

　　Eph. 2:18 For through Him we both have access in one Spirit unto the Father.

　　Acts 26:19 Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

　　The ark was of three stories—the lower, the second, and the third (Gen. 6:16). The first, second, and third stories signify the height of the ark… The three stories of the ark signify the height that we all must attain… Undoubtedly, the three stories of the ark signify the Triune God. Concerning the Trinity of the Godhead, we always say, “the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.” Which person of the Trinity is the first story? It is easy to say who is the second, for we all know that the Son is in the middle. But is God the Father or God the Spirit the first story? In Luke 15 we find three parables: the shepherd recovering the lost sheep, the woman seeking and finding the lost coin, and the father receiving the returned prodigal…According to our experience, the Spirit first came to us, found us, brought us to the Son, and inspired us to believe in the Son. After we believed in the Son, we called, “O Father.” The Spirit brings us to the Son, and the Son brings us to the Father. When we come to the Father, we are in the third story. (Life-study of Genesis, p. 404)

　　The Gospel of John is a book of the Son, and the first Epistle of John is a book of the Father. In the book of the Son, we have grace, but in the book of the Father, we have love. Love is higher than grace. In the Gospel of John we have the truth, but in the first Epistle of John we have the light. Light is higher than truth.

　　The Gospel of John is good, for it brings us to the Son. The first Epistle of John, however, brings us to the Father. We all must go on from the Son to the Father.

　　The first story of the ark is of the Spirit…We all must go to the Spirit in order to know the Son, Christ. To know Christ is different; it is higher. Someday we will all reach the story of the Father. This is the highest, greatest, and most mysterious.

　　Suppose I have a residence of three stories. If you are not my special friend, I would only admit you into the first story…If you are my good friend, I would admit you into the second story. However, unless you are so intimately related to me, I would never bring you into the third story to show you some of my mysteries, secrets, and hidden treasures.

　　In the ark there was one opening toward the heavens (Gen. 6:16). That was a skylight. The Hebrew word for opening has the same root as the word for noon. This means that when you are under the opening, you are in the noontime. You are in the sunshine and are full of light. Whether you are in the first, second, or third story is proved by the degree of light that you have. I have seen a good number of fervent Christians. In a sense they were on fire, but they were not so much in the light. I have also met some other dear saints whose presence made everything clear. I had many good times with Brother Nee. Whenever a person sat down with him, all his darkness vanished, and everything became clear. In his presence it was noontime. What story are you in?…The more light you have, the higher you are, and the less light you have, the lower you are.

　　There was only one opening in the ark. Today people argue a great deal about different ministries. I do not care for the number of ministries. There is only one opening and only one light. The apostle Paul said that we must reject the teachings that are different from what he preached and taught (Gal. 1:6-9; Rom. 16:17; 1 Tim. 1:3). In God’s economy and in God’s church, there should be only one opening. The light should not come from the north, south, east, or west but from the sky. In the building of God, there is only one opening, one revelation, and one vision. The light comes from above. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 405-406)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Genesis, msgs. 28—30, 32

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　　Dan. 10:5-7 I lifted up my eyes and I looked, and there was a certain man, clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with the fine gold of Uphaz. His body also was like beryl, His face like the appearance of lightning, His eyes like torches of fire, His arms and His feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of His words like the sound of a multitude. And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision…

　　A person who pursues an understanding of prophecies must have an intimate relationship with God…Abraham was a person who foreknew the move of God. Because he was “the friend of God” (James 2:23), God said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?” (Gen. 18:17). Daniel saw visions and recorded prophecies, because he was a “man of preciousness” to God (Dan. 10:11, 19; 9:23). (Truth Lessons—Level Four, vol. 1, p. 11)

　　The excellent Christ, the centrality and universality of God’s move on the earth, appeared to Daniel for his appreciation, consolation, encouragement, expectation, and stabilization. Before showing Daniel the great distress, God revealed to him the excellent man described in Daniel 10:4-9. Daniel may not have known that this man was the Messiah, but I believe that Daniel understood that this One was the Lord as a man. That man was not only Jehovah but Jehovah becoming a man.

　　First, the excellent Christ appeared in His priesthood for taking care of His chosen people (v. 5a)…He appeared to Daniel not wearing armor for fighting but dressed in a linen robe, the Old Testament priestly garment. In typology, linen signifies humanity…At the time of Daniel 10, Christ Himself, God’s centrality and universality, was a Priest taking care of the children of Israel in captivity. He is a Priest in His humanity taking care of God’s captive people.

　　Second, Christ appeared to Daniel in His kingship (signified by the golden girdle) for ruling over all the peoples [v. 5b]…A girdle is for strengthening. Christ’s kingship is signified…by gold. His priesthood is human, whereas His kingship is divine.

　　Furthermore, for His people’s appreciation Christ appeared also in His preciousness and dignity as signified by His body being like beryl (v. 6a)… This signifies that Christ in His embodiment is divine (yellow), full of life (green), and heavenly (blue).

　　Furthermore, Christ appeared in His brightness for shining over the people. His brightness is signified by His face being like the appearance of lightning (v. 6b). Christ’s enlightening sight for searching and judging is signified by His eyes being like torches of fire (v. 6c). Christ also appeared in the gleam of His work and move,…signified by His arms and feet being like…bronze (v. 6d)…Bronze signifies God’s judgment, which makes people bright…Christ was judged, tried, by God, and God’s trial and judgment made Him bright like polished bronze. Such a Christ is the One who has been tested by others and who also tests others.

　　Finally, Christ appeared to Daniel in His strong speaking for judging people. His strong speaking is signified by the sound of His words being like the sound of a multitude (v. 6e). Christ…is precious, valuable, complete, and perfect. As a man, He is the very centrality and universality of God’s move to carry out His economy. He is so precious, bright, shining, enlightening, and testing. As the Priest, He is taking care of us, and as the King, He is ruling over us. How wonderful He is!

　　Because the vision of Christ was spiritual, not physical, it was seen only by Daniel and not by those who relied on their physical sight. Concerning seeing the vision of Christ, the physical view avails nothing. For this reason, in the eyes of the worldly people, Jesus is merely a human being. But under God’s mercy and with a spiritual view, we may see how dear and precious Christ is. We all need to see the Christ Daniel saw. May we all see the vision of the excellent Christ in chapter 10 of Daniel. (Life-study of Daniel, pp. 95-98)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Daniel, msgs. 3, 12—13, 15

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　　2 Cor. 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.

　　Gal. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

　　Job’s experience was a step of the divine economy. In this situation God took a step to accomplish something with Job. Before Satan’s first attack, Job was a person of contentment…Eventually, Job’s possessions, health, and integrity were stripped away and consumed.

　　God’s intention was to usher Job into a deeper seeking after Him that he might gain Him instead of His blessings and his attainments in his perfection and integrity. Job was contented in the realm of success in his gaining of material things and in his ethical attainments, but he had nothing of God. Therefore, God ushered him into another realm that he might gain God. (Life- study of Job, p. 21)

　　Today’s Triune God is altogether consummated in the Spirit…As the all- inclusive Spirit, He is the consummation, the aggregate, of the Triune God. When we receive Him, we receive the Son and the Father…All three—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—are the all-inclusive Spirit. Our God is the consummated Spirit. Our Father, our Lord, our Master, our Redeemer, and our Savior is the life-giving Spirit. This life-giving Spirit is all-inclusive, compounded, and consummated. Even now He is within us.

　　In the New Testament we are charged to be regenerated by this Spirit and to receive the divine life through this Spirit. Then we need to live, to walk, by this Spirit, and we need to experience Christ, to enjoy God the

　　Father, and even to enjoy the fullness of the Triune God by doing everything according to the Spirit. As long as we do everything according to the Spirit, we can experience Christ’s incarnation, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension with the outpouring of the Spirit. This will cause us to be the church of God, the Body of Christ, the new man, and the organism of the Triune God, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem.

　　In our daily living we should not be in the realm of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but should be in the realm of the life-giving Spirit…We should do everything according to the Spirit by being one spirit with the Lord…Before I speak for the Lord, I pray one simple prayer: “Lord, be one spirit with me that I may be one spirit with You. Lord, speak in my speaking and make my speaking Your speaking.” This is to live in the dispensing of the eternal economy of God. When we live and speak in this way, we enjoy the divine dispensing, and Christ increases within us. Christ grows in us, and we grow in Christ.

　　Today in our Christian life we Christians should just deal with this Spirit… We should do everything and be everything by the Spirit, with the Spirit, in the Spirit, and through the Spirit. We should pray by the Spirit, read the Bible by the Spirit, love others by the Spirit, and preach the gospel by the Spirit.

　　We must treasure the two spirits in Galatians—the divine Spirit as the aggregate of the divine blessing to us and the human spirit as the receiver, the container, the keeper, of the divine Spirit. Thus, we need to take care of our spirit, doing everything by exercising our spirit. Then we will experience the divine Spirit living in us, making His home in us, and transforming us. The divine Spirit lives in us to pray, to read the Bible, to speak God’s word, to love our spouse, and to visit sinners for the preaching of the gospel. Such a living is the mingling of the processed Triune God with the regenerated tripartite man. This is the divine revelation in the New Testament as the answer to the sufferings of Job and to the great question concerning God’s purpose in His creation of man and in His dealing with His chosen people. (Life-study of Job, pp. 69-70, 90)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Job, msgs. 3—4, 8—10, 12, 16, 30—31