Exo Msg 31

1. "In itself resurrection takes us upward, but its application requires us to take a way that leads in a downward direction."
2. Elim means might ones or the strong ones.
3. The springs are related to God's creation, and the palm tress, to His plantation.
4. 12 = 4 * 3 signifies the mingling of God with man, divinity with humanity. The number is an eternal number. It signifies eternal perfection and completion.
5. 70 = 7 * 10, completion and perfection in time for God's dispensation in full. Seven signifies perfection and completion in time dispensationally, not eternally. Seven signifies the addition of God to man, not the mingling of God with man.
6. Ten signifies fullness such as 10 fingers and toes.
7. Resurrection life includes life flowing in a perfect and complete way to carry out God's administration for eternity and life growing to carry out God's administration to express life that is flourishing, rejoicing in satisfaction, and victorious over tribulation.
8. Something is flowing out of God into us, and something is growing through this flowing to express the riches and the victory of the divine life.