CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY OF 1 AND 2 CHRONICLES, EZRA,

NEHEMIAH, AND ESTHER

Message One—Study Questions

1. What are the two histories recorded in the Bible, and what are the five steps and five issues of
God’s move in man?
2. What are the crucial point and major content of God’s move in man’s history seen in the book of
Zechariah?
3. What do the four horns, the four sections of the great human image, the four stages of locusts, and
the four beasts refer to, and what is the intrinsic significance of Christ being the last Craftsman (see
Zech. 1:18-21; Dan. 2:31-33; 7:3-8; Joel 1:4)?
4. How can we become the bride of Christ in the divine history, which is God’s move in man’s
history?
5. What is the way for us to fulfill God’s move in man’s history for the carrying out of His eternal
economy?

Message Two—Study Questions

1. What does it mean to be faithful to God?
2. What is the significance of saying that Jehovah is the only One who is?
3. Why is it important for us to know and remember the covenant that God made with Abraham in
Genesis 15?
4. Describe a prayer that expresses God’s will.
5. What have you learned and/or has been your experience of engaging in spiritual warfare by
praising the Lord?

Message Three—Study Questions

1. Show how and why the altar must be the first thing to be recovered in the church life.
2. Explain how the cross as signified by the altar is the base and ground of all spiritual experiences.
3. Show the various aspects of the significance of the burnt offering.
4. Show from Romans 12:1 how the apostle Paul applied the burnt offering in the Old Testament to
the consecration of New Testament believers for their Christian life and church life.
5. Show how the burnt offering is the means to render worship to God with Christ for His satisfaction
and enjoyment.

Message Four—Study Questions

1. Summarize how the central thought of Haggai’s prophecy on the building of God’s house is
related to the welfare of God’s people today and to the coming of the millennial kingdom with its
Messiah.
2. Explain how the completion of God’s building in this age depends on our degree of experience of
the sevenfold intensified Spirit as typified by the seven eyes of the building stone in Zechariah 3 and
the seven lamps and seven eyes of Jehovah in Zechariah 4.
3. Interpret the vision of the lampstand of gold and the two olive trees in Zechariah 4 and describe
how in principle such a vision should be applied to our present-day experience for the testimony of
Jesus.

Message Five—Study Questions

1. Ezra was a priest and a scribe, a priestly scribe, not a letter scribe. What is a priestly scribe?
2. Why did the returned captives of Israel need to be reconstituted, how was this reconstituting work
carried out, and what was the result (in type) of Israel’s being reconstituted?
3. Describe the need in the Lord’s recovery today of priestly teachers, and what does the proper
teaching do?
4. What does it mean to be reconstituted with the truth?
5. How can all the saints in the Lord’s recovery be trained in the divine revelation?

Message Six—Study Questions

1. What is the principle of Babylon? Does the principle of Babylon still linger in any aspects of your
life?
2. What are the four aspects of mixture found in Acts 21 and in the book of James? And why is the
disregard of the distinction between the dispensation of law and the dispensation of grace such a
great damage to God’s economical plan for the building up of the church?
3. What do we mean when we say that dealing with the spirit is actually our dealing with the
passages of the spirit?
4. Why, as believers, should we treasure purity over power?
5. What is a practical way to experience the Lord’s purifying (Heb. 4:12; Eph. 5:26)?

Message Seven—Study Questions

1. How will God accomplish His desire to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom?
2. What is the principle of the man-child?
3. How is Nehemiah a pattern of someone who has dispensational value to God?

Message Eight—Study Questions

1. Describe how the church as the city for the kingdom is built up with the headship of Christ.
2. Describe the importance of protecting the church from the different teachings, which are contrary
to the teaching of the apostles.
3. Describe the four kinds of destroyers of the divine building.
4. Describe how we can build up the Body of Christ in the resurrection life of Christ.

Message Nine—Study Questions

1. Explain how the content of Nehemiah 4 shows us, in the way of typology, that building can be
carried out only by fighting.
2. Why is it crucial for us to know that spiritual warfare is based on the victory of Christ?
3. Why is it necessary for us to realize that spiritual warfare is not against human beings but against
the evil powers in the heavenlies?
4. Why must we be in the reality of the Body in order to fight the battle against the enemy?
5. What have you seen, learned, and experienced concerning fighting prayers—the prayers of
spiritual warfare?

Message Ten—Study Questions

1. Describe how the Lord’s concept of leadership is the opposite of the natural concept.
2. Why do we say that the leadership in the New Testament ministry is in the New Testament
teaching more than in the leading ones of the New Testament ministry themselves and that the
leadership in the New Testament ministry is the leadership of the controlling vision of God’s eternal
economy, not the leadership of a controlling person?
3. What are the three major items that the Lord is recovering in the present advance of His recovery
of the contents of God’s eternal economy?
4. Can you relate an experience of your having been governed, controlled, and directed by the vision
of God’s eternal economy?