THE TRIUNE GOD’S REVELATION AND HIS MOVE

MESSAGE SIX

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

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Scripture Reading: Gen. 2

OUTLINE

1. The facts:
   1. God ordained the seventh day to be the Sabbath as a repose-vv. 1-3.
   2. God created man in three parts-v. 7:
      1. A body made with the dust.
      2. A spirit made with God’s breath of life for man to receive God.
      3. A soul as the issue of the spirit meeting with the body.
   3. God put man into a garden in front of the tree of life, and by the side of the tree of life there was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which was prohibited to be eaten by man-vv. 8-9, 15-17.
   4. From the place where the tree of life was, a river flowed out into four heads, and at the flow there were gold, bdellium, and onyx stone-vv. 10-14.
   5. None of the living creatures created by God was qualified to be a mate to match man as his wife-vv. 18-20.
   6. Jehovah caused man to sleep and took one of his ribs with which He built a wife to match man to be one body with him-vv. 21-25.
2. The revelation:
   1. The Sabbath, as a repose, divides God’s creation into two sections:
      1. The first section was without the life of God.
      2. The second section is centered on the life of God.
   2. God particularly made a spirit for man that man may receive Him as life and everything.
   3. The tree of life signifies God as life to man that man could be completely like God in His appearance, life, and nature but not in His Godhead.
   4. After God created man with a spirit, God put this man into the garden in front of the tree of life. This picture indicates that God wanted man to receive the tree of life.
   5. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil signifies Satan as God’s enemy in God’s creation, implying that Satan is composed of knowledge and evil as well as good.
   6. The river that flowed out from the place where the tree of life was, signifies that the Spirit of God flows out of God as the river of the water of life with four heads to reach the four directions of the earth.
   7. The gold, bdellium, and onyx stone at the flow of the river are precious materials for God’s building-the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem (1 Cor. 3:9; Rev. 21:18-21).
   8. None of the living creatures created by God in the first section of His creation was qualified to be the wife of man, signifying that no living creature and also no man are qualified to match Christ as His counterpart.
   9. God caused man to sleep and took a rib out of him with which He built a wife for man, signifying that Christ died according to God’s will and that from His side flowed His blood for redemption and His Spirit of life for life dispensing, through which His Body is built up and becomes one with Him in His life, nature, and expression, but not in His Godhead, as fully unveiled by the New Jerusalem.