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.

In the Lord's recovery today, there is an urgent need for the growth and maturity in life required for the formation of God's army to protect God's testimony and fight for His move on earth.

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 been regenerated to become the increase of Christ.

There are two great principles in the universe-God's authority and Satan's rebellion—and the unique conflict between God and Satan concerns authority and rebellion; we must contend with Satan by asserting that authority is with God, setting ourselves to submit to God's authority, and upholding God's authority.

The living stars give heed to the prophetic word of the Scriptures "as to a lamp shining in a dark place" so that Christ as the morning star rises in their hearts day by day; if we give heed to the word in the Bible, which shines es as a lamp in a dark place, we will have His rising in our hearts to shine in the darkness of apostasy where we are today, before His actual appearing as the morning star.

In the Lords recovery we are on a battlefield engaging in spiritual warfare; we need to see that the formation of the children of Israel into an army to fight for God typifies the New Testament belivers' being built up into the organic Body of Christ to fight for God and with God for the carrying out of His economy.