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THE TRIUNE GOD’S REVELATION AND HIS MOVE

MESSAGE FIVE

ILLUSTRATIONS OF RECEIVING REVELATION FROM THE HOLY WORD AND SEEING VISION THROUGH REVELATION

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Scripture Reading: Gen. 1

OUTLINE

  1. The facts:
    1. God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth became waste and void-vv. 1-2a.
    2. God restored and remade the universe by His Spirit, His word, and His light-vv. 2b-31:
      1. On the first day light came to divide the light (day) from the darkness (night)-vv. 3-5.
      2. On the second day God made the firmament to divide the waters from the waters-vv. 6-8.
      3. On the third day God gathered the waters under the heavens together unto one place, the dry land emerged, and the grass, herbs, and fruit trees were brought forth-vv. 9-13.
      4. On the fourth day God made the stronger lights-sun, moon, and stars-vv. 14-19.
      5. On the fifth day God created the aquatics in the seas and the birds in the air-vv. 20-23.
      6. On the sixth day God made the beasts, the cattle, the insects, and the creeping things, and lastly, He created man in His image and after His likeness to rule over all His created things-vv. 24-31.
  2. Revelation:
    1. God’s creation was made according to His will for the accomplishment of His economy (Rev. 4:11; Eph. 1:10).
    2. God’s creation is His testimony for man to know Him and seek after Him (Psa. 19:1-2; Rom. 1:20; Acts 14:15, 17; 17:24-27).
    3. God’s creation was through Christ (John 1:3; Col. 1:16), the embodiment of the Triune God, as the Spirit who is His reality, as the Word of God which is the definition of God (John 1:1), and as the light.
    4. The dry land typifies Christ resurrected, emerged, from the waters of death to produce all kinds of life:
      1. The plant life typifies the rich expression of the unsearchable riches of the life of Christ:
        1. In its beauty for man’s sight (Gen. 2:9), in its fragrance (S.S. 1:12-13), and in its nourishing man and animals (Gen. 1:29-30).
        2. In Christ being the trees (Gen. 2:9; Exo. 15:23-25; S.S. 2:3; Ezek. 34:29; Isa. 11:1; John 15:1, 5; Rev. 22:2), the flowers (S.S. 1:14), the food for man (John 6:9, 13; Matt. 14:19-20; 15:36-37, 26-27; Rev. 2:7, 17), and the offerings to God (Lev. 2:1-3, 14).
      2. The animal life in the sea typifies the riches of the life of Christ:
        1. In the power that overcomes death (salt water) in His living.
        2. In feeding man with His riches (John 6:9a; 21:9).
      3. The animal life in the air typifies the riches of the life of Christ:
        1. In Christ as the eagle for carrying God’s redeemed to His destination (Exo. 19:4; Deut. 32:11-12; Isa. 40:31; Rev. 12:14).
        2. In Christ as the turtledoves or pigeons for offering to God for the sins of God’s people (Lev. 1:14; 5:7).
      4. The beasts and the cattle on the land typify the riches of the life of Christ:
        1. In Christ as the lion (Gen. 49:8-9; Rev. 5:5) to fight for God’s economy.
        2. In Christ as the sheep and oxen for offering to God for the fulfillment of God’s full redemption (Lev. 1:2-3, 10; 3:1, 6, 12; 4:3; 5:6; John 1:29; 1 Pet. 1:19; Rev. 5:6-8, 12-13; 12:11; 21:9, 23; 22:1, 3).
    5. Man typifies Christ (Gen. 1:26-28; Rom. 5:14; 1 Cor. 15:45; Psa. 8:4-8; Heb. 2:6-9):
      1. As the head of all creation (1 Cor. 11:3).
      2. As God’s expression in God’s image and likeness (Heb. 1:3; 2 Cor. 4:4; Col. 1:15).
      3. Representing God to rule over all things created by God (Gen. 1:28).
    6. God’s creation is centered on life to reach the goal of expressing and representing God.
  3. Visions:
    1. A vision to see that God created the heavens and the earth in order according to His purpose so that the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy (Job 38:7). But God’s enemy Satan rebelled against God (Isa. 14:13-14; Ezek. 28:15-18), God judged the universe defiled by Satan’s rebellion (Job 9:5-7), and the earth became waste and void (Gen. 1:2). Then God restored the condemned universe mainly to restore the land, typifying Christ as the center of God’s economy, for the producing of all kinds of life for the accomplishment of His economy-Gen. 1:1-5.
    2. A vision to see that Christ, typified by the land, as the centrality and universality of God’s economy, resurrected, emerged, from the waters of death to produce, according to the riches of His life, lives in different aspects, typified by the plant life, the animal life in the sea and in the air, the beasts and cattle on the land, and the life of man to be one with God, expressing and representing God-Gen. 1:6-28.
    3. A vision to see that the Triune God, in Christ as His embodiment, made man God’s man, one with Him to be multiplied and duplicated for producing the Body of Christ as His enlargement and counterpart, as illustrated in the next chapter, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem-Gen. 1:26-28.

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