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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