Study Questions (VT January 2024)

Message One
1. How and why did God’s people leave Egypt as an army arrayed for battle?
2. Why do we need to know that Canaan has a twofold significance in typology?
3. What was the impact on you (if any) when you realized that the various pagan tribes signify
different aspects of your natural life, which frustrates you from possessing Christ and enjoying
Him?
4. In order to possess the good land—the all-inclusive Christ—why must we engage in spiritual
warfare?
5. When and how will we, the saints in the Lord’s recovery, become a corporate warrior to defeat the
satanic forces?
Message Two
1. What are four important points for receiving the Lord’s speaking in this training?
2. How can we be like Caleb and Joshua to have God’s keeping power so that we may fully possess Christ
as the good land?
3. What is the intrinsic New Testament significance of idolatry, and what are the five principles related to
idolatry?
4. How can we become the reality of the second generation of God’s people, who enter into and fully
possess Christ as the good land?
5. What are the nine matters of the renewed training given by God to His people?
Message Three
1. How do we experience the incarnated, crucified, and buried Christ—the finite and limited One—as
wheat in our restricting circumstances?
2. How do we apply the resurrected Christ—the empowering and unlimited One—as barley in our
limiting situations?
3. How do we follow the limited Jesus (a grain of wheat) in the power of the resurrected Christ (a
barley loaf)?
Message Four
1. Show the line of the Triune God being water as recorded in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
Explain also the intrinsic significances of waterbrooks, springs, and fountains in the good land and
the significances of valleys and mountains.
2. Show from 2 Corinthians 4 how the apostle Paul manifested the resurrection life by living a
crucified life.
3. Explain the two evils mentioned in Jeremiah 2:13 and the way to be kept from committing these
evils.
4. Based on Isaiah 12:3-6, describe the ways to draw water from the springs of salvation.
5. Show how Jeremiah 17:7-8 presents a picture of God’s economy being carried out by the divine
dispensing.
Message Five
1. How can we be delivered from our natural, selfish life to becoming a person that sacrifices for God
and for others?
2. Define the drink offering, explain how a believer becomes a drink offering, and discuss why the
drink offering is needed in the church life.
3. Discuss the significance of Philippians 2:17, showing the relationship between the basic offering
and the drink offering in this verse.
Message Six
1. What is the significance of the first mentioning of the Sabbath rest in the Bible?
2. What are the three stages of Christ as our Sabbath rest?
3. In Matthew 11:28-30 what does “rest” refer to, and what is the Lord’s yoke and His burden?
4. What is the intrinsic significance and great revelation of the Sabbath in relation to the building
work of the tabernacle?
5. What is the divine revelation and intrinsic, experiential significance of the living and operative
word of God being the means of enjoying Christ as the good land (the means of enjoying Christ as
the Sabbath rest in our spirit)?
Message Seven
1. Explain the connection between the divine romance and ascension.
2. What is the significance of Christ’s ascending and His being enthroned?
3. Give a brief message on III.C.
4. In His ascension Christ was made the High Priest. What does this mean to you?
5. What do you see and experience regarding your being in the Lord’s ascension?
Message Eight
1. What is the definition of light, and why must we be in the light in order to enjoy the all-inclusive
Christ as the good land? Can you give a testimony to substantiate this point?
2. Why is it crucial that we take time to enjoy the Lord as the all-inclusive land? Share your
experience of taking time to absorb Christ, and explain why our contact with the Lord should not
be rushed.
3. Elaborate on the following statement, connecting it with the revelation in Colossians 2:6-7:
Colossians 2:8-15 presents a full description and definition of Christ as the soil, in which we do not
lack anything. Testify from your experience how, as we take time to absorb Christ as the all-
inclusive land, the facts in these verses become our experience.
4. Can you give a testimony of your experience of Christ either as man or as one of your necessities or
as your divine provision?
Message Nine
1. Explain the significance of pomegranates in the Bible. What is the implication of this
understanding in our daily experience and enjoyment of Christ?
2. Explain the significance of the linen pomegranates and the placement of golden bells between
them at the bottom part of the high priest’s robe. How is this arrangement a sign of the proper
church life?
3. Explain the significance of the two hundred pomegranates surrounding the capitals of the pillars
in the temple and their relationship with the checker work, chain work, and lily work of the
pillars. What is the meaning of ninety-six pomegranates being exposed to the open air while four
were covered? How does this revelation help us to participate in God’s building work in the
church?
4. Explain the involvement of pomegranates, in their spiritual significance, in the development of a
believer’s loving relationship with Christ as presented in Song of Songs.
5. Show from 2 Peter 1:3-11 the development of the stages of Christian virtues from faith to love
issuing in the maturity of the divine life in the believers unto the participation of the kingdom of
God as a reward.
Message Ten
1. What is the central and crucial point in the New Testament and the key of the spiritual fellowship
of the regenerated tripartite believers with the consummated Triune God?
2. What is the central revelation of God and the Lord’s recovery of Christ in His full ministry of three
stages?
3. How can we say from the Scriptures that the Christ in whom we need to walk today is not only
the individual Christ but also the Body-Christ?
4. What is the governing principle for us to enter into, possess, and walk in the all-inclusive Christ
as the reality of the good land?
5. What is the intrinsic significance of having much and thorough prayer in order to possess and walk
in the all-inclusive Christ as the reality of the good land?
 SUPPLEMENT TO MESSAGE 6

“There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God. Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that
rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience” (Heb. 4:9, 11). What is this rest? We have to look at
another type in the Old Testament to discover its meaning. After the Israelites were delivered and saved from the land
of Egypt, they were brought into the wilderness with the intention that they should go on into the land of Canaan. The
land of Canaan was their land of rest, a type of the all-inclusive Christ. Christ is the good land of Canaan, and He is our
Rest. If we are going to enter into the rest, we must enter into Christ. But where is Christ today? We answer that He is in
our spirit. The Israelites, who were delivered out of Egypt, instead of going on into Canaan, wandered for many years in
the wilderness. What does this typify? It means that many Christians after being saved are simply wandering in the soul.
The reason the book to the Hebrews was written is that many Hebrew Christians were saved, but they were
wandering in their soul. They would not press on from the wilderness into the good land—that is, into Christ who dwelt
in their spirit. We must not continue to wander in our soul, but press on to enter into our spirit, where Christ is our
rest.
Let us illustrate further by the following diagram:

In ancient times all the people of Israel had access to the outer court, but only the priests could enter the holy
place. Furthermore, into the Holiest of all only one, the High Priest, could enter, and that only once a year. Moreover, of
all the Israelites who were saved and brought out of Egypt into the wilderness, very few went on into the good land of
Canaan.
Even though we may have been saved for years, we must ask ourselves whether we are presently a Chris- tian living
in the body, in the soul, or in the spirit. Are we now in Egypt, in the wilderness, or in the good land of Canaan? Ask the
Lord and search yourself in order to be clear where you are. Frankly, many Christians are wandering all day in the soul,
that is, in the wilderness. In the morning they have smiling faces, but by afternoon they are sorrowful with long faces.
Yesterday, it seems they were in the heavens, but today they are down. They are wandering in the soul, the wilderness,
without rest, circling in the same rut day after day. They may have been following the Lord for twenty years, but are still
going in circles, just as the people of Israel, who wandered for thirty-eight years with no improvement and no progress.
Why? Because they are in the soul. When we are in the soul, we are in the wilderness.
This is why the writer to the Hebrews emphasized the need to divide the soul from the spirit. The Word of God must
pierce us so that we may know how to press on from the soul into the good land and the Holiest place of our human spirit.
A soulish believer is one wandering in the wilderness of the soul, where there is no rest.
The High Priest had to pass through the veil in order to enter into the Holiest of all; so the veil, which typifies the flesh
(Heb. 10:20), must be riven and broken. Furthermore, the people of Israel had to cross the river of Jordan in order to
enter the good land. Under the waters of the Jordan they buried twelve stones, representing the twelve tribes of Israel,
and another twelve stones, representing the resurrected Israelites, were brought over into the good land. The old
generation of Israel was buried in the death-waters of the Jordan River. All of this typifies that the natural man, the
soulish life, or the old nature must be broken as the veil and buried as the old man. Then we can enter into the
Holiest of all and into the good land in order to enjoy Christ as our rest.

(The Economy of God, 4th printing, June 1988, pp. 30-33)

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