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The Experience of Isaac Signifying the Experience of God the Son in
His Redeeming Man and His Blessing Man with the Inheritance of All
His Riches, with a Life of the Enjoyment of His Abundance,
and with a Life in Peace
The experience of Isaac signifies the experience of God the Son in His
redeeming man and His blessing man with the inheritance of all His riches
with the life of the experience of His abundance, and with a life in peace. We
need to be an Isaac, just receiving grace upon grace, blessing upon blessing.

The Experience of Jacob (With Joseph) Signifying the Experience of
God the Father in His Loving Man and Choosing Man (Mal. 1:2; Rom.
9:10-13) and of God the Spirit in His Working All Things for the Good
of Those Who Love Him, in His Transforming Man, and in His Making
Man Mature in the Divine Life That Man May Be Able to Bless All the
People, Rule over All the Earth, and Satisfy All the People with God the
Son as the Life Supply
The experience of Jacob (with Joseph) signifies the experience of God
the Father in His loving man and choosing man and of God the Spirit in His
working all things for the good of those who love Him, in His transforming
man, and in His making man mature in the divine life that man may be able to
bless all the people, rule over all the earth, and satisfy all the people with God
the Son as the life supply. Here I would emphasize, under the discipline of the
Holy Spirit, we are not only transformed, but we reach maturity in life. This
should be our personal prayer, “Lord, for the sake of the church, the Body, the
new man, the Bride, for the sake of the Israel of God, bring me to maturity.
Lord, give me normal growth in life for the rest of my days.”

TODAY’S ISRAEL OF GOD BEING A MINIATURE OF THE
COMING NEW JERUSALEM, WHICH WILL BE THE ULTIMATE
CONSUMMATION OF THE ISRAEL OF GOD
The last point, today’s Israel of God is a miniature of the coming New
Jerusalem, which will be the ultimate consummation of the Israel of God.
I end this message in a very simple way. It is just the hope that is within
me: I think, I believe, that when I come to be with you again, I am going
to see a miniature of the New Jerusalem because we will become the Israel
of God. Thank the Lord for His faithfulness, His mercy, His kindness, His