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Study Questions - Life Study of Exodus


  1. What is the significance of sabbath in the Bible?

  2. How is keeping the sabbath related to the building work of God?


  1. What is the spiritual significance of working in gold, silver and bronze? How about "cutting of stones for setting" and "carving of wood"?

  2. What is the spiritual significance that the co-master builder of tabernacle being from the tribe of Dan?


  1. What is the respective meaning of the names of Bezalel, Uri and Hur? How their meaning is related to our experience of being builders of God's dwelling place?

  2. What is the difference between knowledge, understanding and wisdom? How these are related to the Spirit?


  1. How can we see the death of Christ in the ingredients of the incense?

  2. What is the significance of the portion of ingredients of incense being equal?


  1. How can we see the Triune God, humanity, and death and resurrection of Christ in the ingredients of the incense?

  2. What is the significance of salt in the incense?


  1. What is the spiritual significance of the incense? How is it related to the experiences of the other items in the tabernalce?

  2. In terms of spiritual experience, what are the differences between the bronze altar and the golden incense altar?


  1. What is the defintion of antichrist in the context of 1 John 2?

  2. What are the items included in the divine "paint" mentioned in 1 John 2? What are implied in all these "ingredients"?


  1. Based on apostle John's writing, how can we say that the Father and the Son can not be seperated just as Jesus and Christ can not be divided? How can we know this by the anointing?

  2. What is the proper understanding of Colossians 1:15?


  1. How is the experience described in Galatians 5:24 related to the compound Spirit?

  2. What is the function of the compound Spirit?


  1. How can we see the divine trinity in the ingredients of the compound ointment?

  2. How can we see the humanity of Jesus indicated by the ingredients of the compound ointment?


  1. What is the significance of the title "The Spirit of Jesus"?

  2. What is the significance of the title "The Spirit of Glory"?


  1. What is the significance of the title "The Holy Spirit"?

  2. What is the significance of the title "The Spirit"?


  1. What is the relationship between the experience of the compound Spirit and that of God's dwelling place and priesthood?

  2. How can we see the number three and five being related to God's building?


  1. Why have so many Christians failed to experience the compound ointment?

  2. Why is it not sufficient to believe in the objective facts? How is this related to our experience of the Spirit?


  1. What is the respective spiritual significance of myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, and cassia?

  2. What does it mean for holy anointing ointment not being put upon the flesh of man or strangers? What is the significance that the nothing like it should be made?


  1. What is the spiritual significance of the holy anointing ointment?

  2. How can we see the diivine traffic in the type of the compound ointment and the incense?


  1. Why is it important for us to experience the laver in relation to God's tabernacle?

  2. What is the significance of laver of bronze? How is it related to our experience of the burnt offering altar?


  1. What is the spiritual significance of the propitiation silver?

  2. How is paying nothing less or more than half-shekel related to the church meeting?


  1. What are the differences between the Passover lamb and the propitiation silver?

  2. What is the significance of the propitiation silver being made into the silver sockets, hooks and fillets of the tabernacle?


  1. How is propitiation silver related to the formation of the army of God?

  2. How is incense altar related to the propitiation silver?


  1. What is the meaning of the golden incense altar being the desination of the divine tour?

  2. What is the spiritual significance of strange incense and strange fire?


  1. What do the blood and fire indicate concerning the prerequistes of praying at the incense altar?

  2. What is the relationship between being reduced to ashes and passing through show bread table, lampstand, incense altar and the ark covered by the veil?


  1. What is the spiritual significance of burning anything other than incense being prohibited at the golden incense altar?

  2. What do the two altars of the tabernacle signify? How are they connected with each other?


  1. From the picture in Exodus, how can we see that praying at the incense altar requires us to be in God and God to be in us as our food?

  2. What is the spiritual significance of burning the incense? How is it related to the execution of God's administration?


  1. According to the picture of the incense altar, why is it important for us to have a prayer life?

  2. What is the relationship between our prayer and the life-giving Spirit portrayed by the incense altar?


  1. What is the center of God's administration?

  2. How can we see the tabernacle with all the furnishings in the Gospel of John? How is the functioning of all the other furnishinings being dependent on the golden incense altar?


  1. What is the radical change we need to have according to the picture in Exodus 29?

  2. What is the way we should talk to the Lord? How should we spend intimate time with Him?


  1. What are the five improper attitude toward the Old Testament mentioned in this message?

  2. Why do we need a high regard toward the Old Testament?


  1. In our experince, how could we grow Christ as the wheat for the flour and the olives for the oil?

  2. How can we grow Christ to produce wine?


  1. What is the significance of Christ being the lamb?

  2. How can we raise Christ as lamb in our daily experience? How is this related to us offering Him as the sin offering?


  1. How is propitiation on the altar related to giving God food and eating with God?

  2. How do we raise and grow Christ in our experince to offer to God?


  1. What is the difference between sin and sins in the Bible?

  2. Why is there the need of sin offering before we can minister food to God?


  1. What is the significance of the high priest wearing the priestly garment for seven days?

  2. Experientially speaking, what does it mean for priests to eat the offerings in the holy place?


  1. What are the four steps of the sanctification of the priests in Exodus 29?

  2. What is the goal of the sanctification of the priests in Exodus 29? How can we illustrate this by the example of inviting someone honorable for dinner?


  1. Give a brief sketch of the sanctification of the priests portraited in Exodus 29.

  2. How is the sanctification of the priests related to Christ's saturating us and transforming us?


  1. What is the significance of Christ being the sin offering and the burnt offering in Exodus 29?

  2. What is the significance of the last step of the sanctification of the priests in Exodus 29?


  1. How can we see from Exodus 29 that those who serve God need to be slaguhtered and cut into pieces in Christ and through Christ?

  2. What are the three apects of the application of the blood of the peace offering in Exodus 29?


  1. What is the way for us to serve God as priests shown in Exodus 29?

  2. How can we see the redeeming and generating Christ experienced by us in Exodus 29?


  1. What are the two kinds of burning mentioned in Exodus 29?

  2. How is the offering of the sin offering related to our enjoyment of Christ in our experience?


  1. What is the mark that sets us apart to be God's priests?

  2. How can we see Chirst filling both our outward and inward need in the Luke 15?


  1. What is the definition of holiness in our experience according to the Bible?

  2. How can we see from Exodus that Christ is safeguarding the fourth stage of holiness for God?


  1. How can we see that Christ bears the responsibility to bring all of us into the four-fold holiness unto God?

  2. What is the significance of the priests' need of being covered of their naked flesh while serving God?


  1. What is the significance of the long train of robe in Isaiah 6:1?

  2. What is the respective significance of the golden bells and pomogranates at the bottom of the priest's robe? And how are they related to one another in our spiritual experience?


  1. What are the three requirements that the church needs in order to function as the breastplate of judgement?

  2. How can we see the practical examples of the breastplate of judgement in Paul's epistles and the epistles to the seven churches in Revelation? In particular, how can we see judgement and supply go together in 1 Corinthians?


  1. From the picture of the breastplate, how can we see that Christ is the both the inscribing and the completing alphabet?

  2. How can we see that regardless how much Christ we have experienced, we still need Christ to be added to us?


  1. What are the qualifications of a person who can use Urim and Thummim to receive revelation from God?

  2. What is the significance of Urim being related to the Spirit and the cross?


  1. In our experience, what does it mean to receive leading from the Lord through the breastplate? What is experiential significance of breastplate being ready before Urim and Thummim are added to it?

  2. How is the breastplate of judgement related to God's regulations?


  1. How can we see the church being connected to Christ by His divinity, humanity and the Spirit in the picture of the ephod?

  2. How can we see the church is being held by Christ in His love and upheld by Christ with His strength in the picture of the ephod?


  1. How can we see the transformation and building of the believers in the picture of breastplate?

  2. How can we see the mingling of the believers with the processed Triune God in the breastplate?


  1. How can we see the relationship between God's leading and the church in the picture of breastplate?

  2. Why should we never make excuses for our failing to be Christ's perfect testimony?


  1. What is the significance of the gold setting in which the onxy stones are placed?

  2. What constitutes Christ’s strength to fasten us to Himself, to bear us, and to uphold us?


  1. What is the proper understanding of the two natures of Christ?

  2. How can we see color blue, purple, scarlet and white in the God-man living of Christ in the four gospels?


  1. How is the experience of ephod related to our transformation?

  2. How can we see transformed believers and Christ become the mutual beauty to one another?


  1. How is the fastening function of ephod related to glory and beauty in our experience?

  2. What is the significance of the materials of the ephod? And what is the significance of the golden settings for the onxy stones?


  1. What is the significance of the priestly garment being for glory and for beauty?

  2. In our experience, how is the expression of Christ related to our being built with the saints?


  1. How can we see life and building in Genesis 2, 1 Peter 2, and Revelation 22?

  2. What is the true spirituality that will become our protection?


  1. In term of spiritual significance, what is the relationship between tabernacle and the priesthood?

  2. How can we be protected and be strong and stable in our Christian life?


  1. How can we see that lighting the lamps requires our experience of Christ?

  2. What are the two issues of lighting the lamps in our experience?


  1. What kind of person and elements are need for the lighting of the lamps in the holy place? How can we apply this to our church meetings?

  2. What is the relationship between lighting the lamps and the priestly garment in our experience?


  1. What is the relationship between bronze, silver, and linen in our experience?

  2. Why should we preach the uplifted gospel instead of the lowered gospel? How can we preach such a gospel?


  1. How can we see from the gate of the tabernacle that God's building is man bearing God as a testimony?

  2. In the picture of the tabernacle, how can we see the judgement of God issuing in Christ's redemption which brings us into the divine nature of God as our destiny?


  1. How can we see the rightesousness and holiness being the expression of God's building portraited in the tabernacle?

  2. How is the righteousness being the expression of God's building related to the judged Christ?


  1. What is the relationship between the Spirit, righteousness, and life in the New Testament ministry?

  2. What is the significance of the fine linen hanging on the bronze pillars being the sphere of the tabernacle?


  1. What is the significance of the grating inside the altar being the same height of the ark?

  2. What is the goal of the Lord's recovery? How is this related to the life-giving Spirit?


  1. How can we see the redeeming Christ issuing in the Spirit in the picture of the burnt offering altar?

  2. What is the relationship between the cross, the Spirit and the church seen in the picture of the burnt offering altar?


  1. What does it mean for Christ to offer Himself through the Spirit on the cross mentioned in Hebrews 9:14?

  2. Why is it necessary in our preaching of the gospel to have both the redemption of Christ and the Spirit?


  1. How can we see the Gospels, Acts and the Epistles in the grating with the four rings?

  2. What is the significance of the height of grating being the same as the ark?


  1. What is the significance of the burning of the offering being within the altar?

  2. What is the significance of the burning of the fire and moving of the altar being related to the four rings? How is this related to our preaching of the gospel?


  1. What is the significance of the burnt offering altar?

  2. What is the significance of the dimensions of the burnt offering altar?


  1. How can we see the two veils of the tabernacle in 2 Corinthians chapter five?

  2. What are the metaphors that Paul used to describe the situation of entering into the second veil?


  1. What are the two aspect of Christ's humanity typfied by the screen and the veil of tabernacle?

  2. Why is there the need of the pillars for people to enter into the enjoy of God?


  1. In terms of spiritual significance and experience, what is the difference between the veil within the tabernacel and the screen at the entrance of the tabernalce?

  2. What are the two kinds of pillars in the tabernacle? How do they differ in our spiritual experienice?


  1. What is the difference between the first and second tabernacle in our experience?

  2. How is the flesh related to our experiencing the second tabernacle?


  1. What is the significance of the veil within the tabernacle?

  2. What is the significance of the pillars bearing the veil within the tabernacle?


  1. What is the significance of the two tenons and silver sockets for each board to stand?

  2. What is the significance of the rings and bars to join and connect the standing boards to be one?


  1. What is the significance of the covering of the tabernalce being mentioend before the boards?

  2. What is the significance of the boarding of the tabernalce being half in unit?


  1. What is the significance of the second lay of the covering of tabernalce being made of goat's hair? What is the significance of its dimensions?

  2. What is the significance of the materials of the third and four layer of the covering of the tabernacle?


  1. What is the significance of the curtains being fine twined linens along with its dimensions?

  2. What is the significance of the curtains being blue, purple and scarlet and emboridered with cherubim? What about them being joined together through blue loops and gold clasps?


  1. How can the church meetings be full of light shown in the typology of the lampstand in the holy place?

  2. What is the relationship between the lampstand and the table of the bread of the Presence in our experience?


  1. What is the first significance of the Lampstand? How can we apply this in our experience?

  2. What is the significance of the snuffing of the charred wicks? And what is the significance of the snuffers being of gold?


  1. What is the significance of the border and the rings of table of the bread of the Presence? How are they related to one another?

  2. What is the significance of the bread of the Presence? How can we partake of this bread in our experience?


  1. What is the significance of the Lampstand in the Bible?

  2. What is the meaning of "light of life"? How is this related to Christ as our supply of life?

  3. What is the significance of the calyx and blossom bud? How are they related in our experience?


  1. What is the relationship between the table of the bread of the Presence and the ark?

  2. What is the significance of the table of the bread of the Presence being in the tabernacle?


  1. How can we see the throne of grace is Christ Himself? And how can we come forward to this throne of grace in our experience?

  2. By what should our daily living be controlled?


  1. How was the tree of life opened again?

  2. Where can we see the reality of the ark in the mending ministry of John?

  3. What is the issue of our fellowship with God upon Christ as the ark?


  1. How is our tripartite being typified by the tabernacle with the ark?

  2. Describe the all-inclusive Christ in our spirit using the type of the ark with the propitiatory cover.


  1. How can we see from the Bible that Christ is the One who propitiates, the propitiatory sacrifice, and the propitiatory place for God and man to meet together?

  2. What is the significance of the cherubim on the propitiatory cover?

  3. How can we say that the usefulness of the ark depends on the propitatory cover? How is this related to our experience?


  1. How can we see the experience of the cross in the making of the four rings of the ark?

  2. What is the significance of the poles to carry the ark? And in our experience how can we apply the fact that the ark is borne directly on the shoulders of men?


  1. How can we see from the type in Exodus that Christ is the center and content of the church?

  2. How can we see from the ark Christ being the mingling of God and man and the embodiment of God with the divine glory?


  1. What is the significance respectively of silver and bronze? What is it like to experience them in our daily life?

  2. What is the significance respectively of the line being blue, purple, scarlet and fine? How is this related to our daily living?

  3. What is the significance respectively of goat's hair, ram's skin and porpoise skin?


  1. How can we see the goal and consummation of the book of Exodus is God's buildng? How can we apply this in our experience?

  2. How can we see the offering of the heave offerings implies our subject experience of Christ? How can we apply this to the church meetings?


  1. What is the significance of the tabernacle and Temple in the Bible? How does the enlargement of the ark point to the experience of Christ?

  2. What is the significance of the material of the tabernalce being the heave offering?

  3. What are the three categories of the material used for God's building? How are they related to one another in our spiritual experience?


  1. What are the different degrees of fellowship with God implies in Exodus 24? How is this related to the different sections of the tabernalce?

  2. How can we see the degree of our fellowship with God being related to our seeing the vision of God's building?


  1. What are the different aspects of the new covenant that the blood of Jesus has ushered us into?

  2. What are the wonderful things that the blood of Christ has done for us?


  1. What is the two-fold intention of God's giving of the law?

  2. What is the function of the blood according to God's economy? How is this related to our being made pillars of God?


  1. How can we see God's economy in the enactment of the law? And what can we learn from the children of Israel's ignorance of God's intention?

  2. What is the crucial point of the new covenant?


  1. What does the altar imply in the enactment of the law by Moses?

  2. By the twelve pillars, how can we see God's intention in the decree of the law?


  1. How can we see in Exodus that in order to take possession of Christ we need to take the intiative to drive out our natural life as we grow in life?

  2. What are the four items of God's complete care to His people in the matter of taking possession of the goodland? How can we apply them to us spiritually?


  1. What does it mean to obey the Angel of Jehovah and not provoke Him in our spiritual experience today?

  2. What is the way that God drive out the "pagan tribes" within us?


  1. What is the spiritual significance of the Angel of Jehovah in Exodus 23? How is this related to our experieince of Christ as the goodland?

  2. What is the significance of the frustraters in the goodland? In the light of this, what is the way for us to possess Christ as the goodland?


  1. What is the significance of the fat of God's feast not remaining until the morning?

  2. What is the significance of not seething a kid in his mother's milk?

  3. Give a brief summary of Exodus 21-23 with the view of God's economy.


  1. What is the significance of offering the fullness and tears to God in our experience?

  2. How can we see the enjoyment of the Triune God in the type of the three feasts?


  1. How can we see man's fall with satan, demons, indwelling sin and outward sins implied in Exodus 21-23?

  2. How can we see redemption, termination and replacement by Christ through the altar and sacrifices?

  3. What is the significance of the city of refugee being a type of Christ?


  1. How can we see the sweetness of the spirit of the ordinances mentioned in Exodus 21-23?

  2. What is the ultimate significance of the ordinances in Exodus 21-23?


  1. What is the spirit of the first ordinance mentioned in Exodus 21? Why is this mentioned first among all the ordinances in relation to others?

  2. What is the motive and prerequisite of being a slave? How can we see this in the pattern of the Lord Jesus and Paul?


  1. In the matter of worship to God, how can we see God's way in contrast to man's way in Exodus 20 and 1 Corinthians 1:23-24?

  2. What is the signifiance of the cross in terms of the worship of God? How can we remain under the covering of Christ?


  1. What is the significance of having no idols of gold and silver mentioned in Exodus 20?

  2. What is the significance of the altar of God being erected only with earth or unhewn stone?


  1. What is the significance of the veil Moses put on his face? How is this related to the glorious ministry of Moses becoming the ministry of condemnation and death?

  2. What does it mean to be in the New Testament experientially? How should this affect our experience of receiving God's speaking?



  1. What are the three main functions of the law?




  2. What does it mean for the law to be unto life? How can we receive life from the God's law?




  1. What is the intention of God's giving the commandements to His people in both the Old and New Testament? What should be our prayer toward the Lord when we see these commandments in the Bible?




  2. What is the central concept in the Bible concerning the giving of commandments?




  1. What is God's eternal intention? How can we see this in Moses's experience on the mountaintop?




  2. What is God's intention to give us the Bible? In the light of this, how should we approach this Book?




  1. What is factor that determines our contact with God and His word to be in the "day" or at "night"? How can we see this in the experience of Moses versus majority of the children of Israel?




  2. What is the two-fold significance of Mount Horeb? How are these two aspects related to our experience in the church life?




  1. What is the highest blessing we receive through enjoying the word of God? How is this blessing related to all the foregoing ten blessings?




  2. What does it mean for God to be our portion?




  1. How can we receive light from the Bible?




  2. How can we have fine hairs to receive the life supply that is in the word?




  1. What is the proper attitude and spirit we should have when coming the word of God?




  2. What are some practical ways that we can contact the Lord in our spirit through the word?




  1. What does musing upon the word mean in our experience?




  2. What does it mean to treasure God's word as spoil?




  1. What is the significance of considering God's law as His word? How should we approach the Bible in the light of this?




  2. What is the difference between the "day" aspect of the law and the "night" aspect? How can we be in the "day" side?




  1. How can we see God's romance with man in His creation, in His choosing Israel, in His coming in the New Testament and in His regenerating us?




  2. How can we see the Bible being the divine romans full of God's "dating" and courting of man?




  3. How is keeping of the law related to our loving Him as our Husband?




  1. How can we see that the entire Bible is a book of engagement?




  2. What is the way for us to receive His life and to be one with Him?




  1. How is the law an engagement convenant, an engagement paper with His people?




  2. How can keeping the Sabbath be a sign of engagement?




  3. What is the highest function of the law?


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