Exo Msg 124

1. Precious stones are formed into precious stones by a process of transformation.
2. 3 signifies not only the Triune God, but the Triune God in resurrection.
3. 7 (3 + 4) signifies the Triune God added to His creature, man; this is merely a matter of joining, of addition. Twelve signifies mingling and multiplication.
4. The church is on Christ's heart and is within the span of His loving care.
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Exo Msg 123

1. The ephod refers to Christ, and the breastplate refers to the church.
2. This judgment is so that God's people could know His leading.
3. First, there was a need for judgment and cleansing. Then it could be possible to obtain a decision concerning God's leading in a positive way.
4. God's leading and the church are one.
5. Squared means that there was no defect in the breastplate.
6. Doubled means twofold, hence, a testimony.
7. The church is fully within the limit of Christ's hand, Christ's hand is altogether sufficient to take care of the church.
8. If you think that holiness is impossible in such a situation, this indicates that you do not believe that the Lord's hand is greater than the situation.

Exo Msg 122

1. As long as you are regenerated, there is at least a small amount of onyx stone within you.
2. That which has its source in the fall of man will be shaken away, and that which comes from God's creation will remain with us and be transformed.
3. We are being held to Him in a very beautiful way.
4. We might have the experience of being fastened to Christ and held by Him without realizing what is contained within His fastening strength and power.
5. They were a memorial of church set in Christ, a memorial of Christ holding the church, God's redeemed people.
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Exo Msg 120

1. Preciousness of Christ and saints in the sight of God.
2. The ephod was made of two materials (gold and linen) and five colors (golden, white, blue, purple, and scarlet).
3. The weaving together of the gold and the linen in the ephod typifies the mingling of divinity and humanity in Christ.
4. Christology is the study of Christ.
5. Docetists - Christ has only divinity, not humanity.
6. Ebionites - Christ has only humanity, not divinity.
7. Arians - Christ's divinity is not complete, merely the highest among creatures.
8. Apollinarians - Christ's humanity is not complete.
9. Nestorians - Christ's divinity and humanity are separated.
10. Eutychians - no distinctness and coexistence of Christ's humanity and divinity.
11. Christ's divine nature has been processed, just as the gold used in making the ephod was processed.
12. The Lord did not want to see the people go hungry. This implies redemption.
13. Your divinity and humanity are together in Your one Person, yet the nature of divinity and humanity remain.
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Exo Msg 120

1. We the believers are signified by the onyx stones.
2. As we behold the Lord in His glory and beauty, we are spontaneously held, fastened, to Him.
3. We are held not only on Christ's shoulders but also on His breast.
4. The breastplate signifies the building together of God's redeemed people upon Christ.
5. The weaving together of gold and the linen into one piece of cloth signifies the mingling of divinity and humanity.

Exo Msg 119

1. The breastplate and the two shoulder plates were connected to ephod.
2. The word ephod means to bind, fasten, gird, or link.
3. The first purpose for waring clothing is to cover our nakedness.
4. The second purpose is for our health.
5. The third is to beautify ourselves.
6. The ephod was mainly for beauty and glory.
7. In our dressing we must first take care of God's glory.
8. The holding power is His divine glory and human beauty.
9. As the High Priest, Christ has the fastening power, the tying strength, and the binding ability.
10. We are fastened and bound to Christ.
11. When we realize the divine glory and the human beauty of Christ, we are spontaneously fastened to Him.
12. The shoulder pieces had the joining power, the binding strength.
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Exo Msg 118

1. The priestly garments sanctify the priests.
2. Glory means to express Christ's divinity. Beauty means to express Christ's humanity.
3. Whenever the divine glory and the human beauty are not expressed in us, we are immediately detached from the priesthood.
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Exo Msg 117

1. In Genesis 2, we have the tree of life and the materials for God's building.
2. Our protection is not our spirituality; our protection is the building.
3. The nourishment is for the building, the spiritual house, and the spiritual house is for the holy priesthood.
4. It is impossible to have the priesthood without the building.
5. The ephod was altogether for building; it was for the linking together fo the breastplate and the two shoulder plates.
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Exo Msg 116

1. Spiritually the priesthood and the tabernacle are one entity.
2. The spiritual house is the holy priesthood.
3. The priesthood requires the building up of the saints.
4. When we are built up together, we become the church in the aspect of God's dwelling place and priesthood.
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Exo Msg 115

1. The lighting of the lamps at least implies the proper way to meet.
2. In order to light the lamps, we must express Christ, and we must have the experience of the embodiment of god, the divine nature, the humanity of Jesus, and the Spirit of Christ with the elements of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection.
3. Our release, enjoyment, and laughter must always be with pure olive oil.
4. Whenever we light the lamps in the church meetings, we can see some aspect of Christ.
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Exo Msg 114

1. Because there were no windows in the tabernacle, there was the need for the lighting of the lamps inside the tabernacle.
2. The lighting of lamps was a priestly service.
3. 3 items of the priestly service: first, offer sacrifices, second, lighting lamps, third, burning the incense.
4. Priesthood denotes tow things. First, a priestly body. Second, priestly service.
5. The divine light includes the embodiment of the Triune God, the divine nature, the humanity of Christ, and the Spirit of Christ.
6. The priestly garments, typified by Christ, are needed for the lighting of the lamps.
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Exo Msg 113

1. Outwardly, God's expression is righteousness, signified by linen. Inwardly, it is holiness, signified by gold.
2. Whenever a person repents, he places himself under the judgment of God.
3. As we have been under God's judgment in a full way, the righteousness of God will be expressed upon us.
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Exo Msg 112

1. Types in Exodus have two aspects - contents and appearance.
2. The appearance of the front side of the outer court is that of man bearing the Triune God as a testimony.
3. The goal of salvation is to bring us into god's building.
4. The purpose of knowing Christ is that we may be built into the church.
5. Whenever a person repents, believes, and enters into God's salvation, that person should realize that he is entering into God's building and that this building is God's testimony.
6. If we would come into God's building, we must pass through the gate of judgment and experience God's judgment on everything we are, have and do.
7. Whatever God judges, Christ redeems and whatever Christ redeems is linked by this redemption to God's righteousness.
8. The pegs signify the standing and holding power.
9. Without judgment, there is no boundary, no base, no strength for standing, and no stability.
10. The capitals overlaid with silver signify glory.
11. By the bronze, we enter into the court. Through the silver, we enter into the Holy Place. In the Holy of Holies, everything is gold.
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Exo Msg 111

1. God's dwelling in 4 stages: Christ, the children of Israel, the church, and the NJ.
2. The hangings of the court signify Christ as God's righteousness to be the expression of God's building as its boundary.
3. The new man is renewed in the image of God, which bears the expression of righteousness and holiness.
4. 40 is the number of trial and testing.
5. If you do not bear responsibility, you cannot be righteous.
6. Bronze is God's judgment; linen is God's righteousness. The righteousness of God comes out of God's judgment.
7. The judgment is implied by the bronze sockets upholding the bronze pillars.
8. As we grow in the Lord, we shall go from the stage of prohibition to the stage of judgment.

Exo Msg 110

1. Three categories of building materials: metal (gold, silver, precious stones), plants (acacia wood and linen), animal (rams' skin and goats' hair, porpoise skins). Plant for generation and animal for redemption.
2. The ministry of the old covenant was of death and condemnation. Death is vs. Spirit and condemnation is vs. justification.
3. The new covenant ministry is of the Spirit for life and righteousness for justification.
4. The first 4 commandments are related to God's holiness.
5. The last 6 are related to God's deeds, righteousness.
6. Linen = righteousness.
7. The number of 6 is the number of man, for man was created on the 6th day.

Exo Msg 109

1. The height of the part of the altar above the grating signifies the efficacy of Christ's redemption is according to its standard.
2. The life-giving Spirit is the life pulse, the reality, the power, and the impact of all the doctrines and stories in the Bible.
3. The all-inclusive life-giving Spirit is the issue of the redeeming Christ.
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Exo Msg 108

1. The sweet savor was for God's satisfaction and the ashes were a proof that the offering had been accepted by God.
2. The grating is both Christ and His redemption.
3. Christ bore the judgement of God not only upon His shoulders; He also bore it within His heart.
4. The redeeming Christ as signified by the grating and the altar of the burnt offering.
5. The rings forming one piece with the grating indicates that the redeeming Christ issues in the Spirit.
6. The rings are not only the power for moving, but also the strength for upholding the grating.
7. The reason that many do not have a personal Christ or personal redemption is that they separate Christ from the Spirit.
8. The move of the cross is by the church; it is the Body that carries the redeeming Christ in the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit.
9. The altar with the grating, rings, and poles covers the whole New Testament.
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Exo Msg 107

1. The inner content of the altar is the grating with the four rings.
2. The grating comes up to the standard of the propitiation-cover.
3. The grating was upheld by four rings.
4. Christ (grating) offered Himself by the Spirit (rings) and through the Spirit.
5. Christ did not do anything apart from the leading Spirit.
6. His all-inclusive death was accomplished through the eternal Spirit.
7. Christ's offering Himself through the eternal Spirit makes the offering powerful and efficacious.
8. The power of Christ's redemption depends on the eternal Spirit.
9. Apart from the Spirit the redemption of Christ is a lifeless redemption, a dead redemption.
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Exo Msg 106

1. The four rings are for reaching the four corners of the earth.
2. The grating is presented in the Gospels; the connection of the four rings to the grating is seen in Acts; and in all the following Epistles we have a definition of the four rings.
3. Today's Christianity is that the grating have been separate from the rings.
4. The fact that the grating of the altar was level with the cover of the ark indicates that Christ's redemption was accomplished according to the standard of God's requirements.
5. The one and one-half cubits above the grating signify that the effectiveness of Christ's redemption is also according to the standard of these requirements.
6. The eternal Spirit, the accomplishment of redemption, and the efficacy of Christ's redemption.
7. Christ Himself is the eternal Spirit. On the cross He was the redeeming Christ, but in our experience, He is the life-giving Spirit.

Exo Msg 105

1. The efficacy and power of Christ's redemption depend on the eternal Spirit.
2. The rings typify the eternal Spirit. The move of the altar is by the eternal Spirit.
3. Both the burning and moving are dependent upon the rings.
4. Christ was upheld by the strengthening power while He was on the cross suffering the judgement of God.

Exo Msg 104

1. There is no shedding of blood at the incense altar but there was the burning of incense to offer a sweet-smelling savor to God.
2. The burning of the sacrifices at the altar in the outer cout was for redemption, but the burning of the incense at the incense altar was for God's acceptance.
3. One kind of fire burns two kinds of substances.
4. On earth is to be in the outer couter, in the heavens is to be in the tabernacle.
5. Redemption implies termination, replacement, and being brought back to God.
6. He visited the earth, He dwells in the Holy of Holies, and He wants to bring us there. He went to the altar, to the cross, with the intention that we, fallen sinners, might be brought back to Himself in the place where He dwells.
7. The acceptance by God is the result of all the other items.
8. How much we are accepted by Him depends on how close we are to Him.
9. The cross of Christ contains all the spiritual experiences. The experience of the cross is the basis of all spiritual experiences.
10. The accacia wood signifies the Man Jesus.
11. The saving element is not in the cross as a thing; it is in the Person who was crucified on the cross for us.
12. The Lord Jesus was squared means that with Him there was a great deal of testing or proving.
13. 5 cubits long and wide signify Christ bearing full responsibility on the cross to fulfill all the requirements of God's righteousness, holiness, and glory.
14. The horns signify the power of the cross of Christ to reach four corners of the earth.
15. The horns are one with the cross signifies the power and strength of Christ's redemption cannot be separated from Christ's cross.
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