Appendix 1 English Outlines of the Four Selected Messages
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Message One
The Rule of the Heavens, the Economy of God, and the Excellent Christ as the Precious and Preeminent One in God’s Move
Scripture Reading: Dan. 2:35, 44; 4:17, 34-35; 7:13-14; 9:24-25; 10:4-9; Rev. 11:15
I. The central thought of Daniel is that the ruling of the heavens by the God of the heavens over all the human government on earth matches God’s eternal economy for Christ to terminate the old creation for the germination of the new creation and to smash and crush the aggregate of human government and establish the eternal kingdom of God—2:37, 44; 4:17, 26; Rev. 11:15.
II. The Most High is the Ruler over the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills—Dan. 4:17:
A. The book of Daniel shows that all the kings and kingdoms of the world are under God’s administration—7:9-12; 2:34-35:
1. All human government from Nimrod to Antichrist has been and will continue to be under the ruling of the heavens by the God of the heavens—7:8, 24-26.
2. God will rule over the world, produce a situation for Israel to be His elect, gain the church to be His mysterious people, and have all nations to be the peoples of the eternal kingdom of God; if we see this, we will know where we are, and we will know the meaning of our human life—2:34-35, 45; Eph. 5:27; Rev. 11:15.
B. God caused Nebuchadnezzar to know that he was nothing and that the mighty God, the Ruler over the kingdom of men, the One who gives the kingdom to whomever He wills, is everything—Dan. 4:34-37.
C. We need to see a vision of the throne of God as the center of God’s administration—Rev. 4:2; 5:1; Ezek. 1:26b:
1. God on the throne is behind the scene, ruling over everyone and everything—Isa. 6:1; 1 Kings 22:19.
2. We need to “come to know that the heavens do rule”—Dan. 4:26b.
III. We need to see God’s economy as it is revealed in the book of Daniel:
A. Christ is the centrality and universality of God’s economy; in His economy, in His plan with His arrangement, God desires to make Christ the centrality and universality of His move on earth—2:35; Col. 1:15-27; Eph. 1:10.
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B. The book of Daniel covers five main points concerning Christ:
1. The death of Christ was all-inclusive, comprising every item in the universe—9:24-26:
a. Christ’s greatest achievement in His first appearing was to terminate the whole creation by His death—Rom. 6:6.
b. In the universe Christ’s death with His resurrection is a great landmark of the ages; in His resurrection Christ became the life-giving Spirit to germinate some of those in the old creation to be the new creation—1 Cor.
15:45b; 1 Pet. 1:3; 2 Cor. 5:17.
2. There is the need of Christ’s second coming to clear up the universe physically and materially; in particular, there is the need of Christ’s second coming to terminate human government—Dan. 2:34-35, 44-45.
3. Daniel 7:13-14 reveals that now Christ as the Son of Man is before the throne of God to receive dominion and a kingdom; He is making all the preparations to come back to rule over the world with God’s dominion—Rev. 11:15.
4. Christ is the Companion of God’s suffering people—Dan. 3:23-25.
5. Daniel 10:4-9 reveals Christ in His excellency.
C. Christ becomes the centrality and universality of God’s elect through their environment; as God’s elect, we need Christ to be wrought into us as our centrality and universality—Gal. 1:16; 4:19; Eph. 3:17a; Rom. 8:28.
IV. The excellent Christ, the centrality and universality of God’s economy, is the precious and preeminent One in God’s move—Dan. 10:4-9:
A. The excellent Christ, who appeared to Daniel in His preciousness, has many wonderful characteristics:
1. Christ appeared as a Priest in His humanity, signified by the linen robe, to care for His chosen people in their captivity—v. 5a; Exo. 28:31-35.
2. Christ appeared in His kingship in His divinity, signified by the girdle of gold, for ruling over all the peoples—Dan. 10:5b.
3. For His people’s appreciation Christ appeared in His preciousness and dignity, as signified by His body being like beryl; the Hebrew word for beryl could refer to a bluish-green or yellow precious stone, signifying that Christ in His embodiment is divine (yellow), full of life (green), and heavenly (blue)—v. 6a.
4. Christ appeared in His brightness for shining over the people, as signified by His face being like the appearance of lightning, and in His enlightening sight for searching and judging, as signified by His eyes being like torches of fire—v.
6b-c.
5. Christ appeared in the gleam of His work and move, as signified by His arms and His feet being like the gleam of polished bronze—v. 6d.
6. Christ appeared in His strong speaking for judging people, as signified by the sound of His words being like the sound of a multitude—v. 6e.
7. As a man, such a Christ is precious, valuable, complete, and perfect—cf. Rev.
1:13-16.
B. God’s intention in His administration is to give Christ the preeminence in all things, to cause Christ to have the first place in everything—Col. 1:15, 18:
1. The entire world situation is under the rule of the heavens by the God of the heavens to match His economy for Christ—Dan. 7:9-10; 4:34-35:
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a. In His economy, in His plan with His arrangement, God desires to make Christ the centrality and universality of His move on earth—2:34-35.
b. In 2:35 the stone refers to Christ as the centrality, and the mountain refers to Christ as the universality.
2. For Christ to have the preeminence in all things, God needs a people; apart from God’s having a people, there is no way for Christ to be made preeminent—Col.
1:18; 3:10-11; Eph. 3:21; 1 Tim. 3:15:
a. Christ must have the first place, the preeminence, in our personal universe—Col. 3:17; 1 Cor. 10:31.
b. Today Christ, the preeminent One, must be the centrality and universality in our church life, family life, and daily life—Col. 3:17; 1 Cor. 10:31.
c. Under His heavenly rule God is using the environment to make Christ the centrality (the first) and the universality (everything) to us—Rom. 8:28;
Col. 1:18, 27; 3:4, 10-11.
3. As those who have been chosen by God to be His people for Christ’s preeminence, we are under God’s heavenly rule—Dan. 4:26b; Matt. 4:17; 5:3:
a. The purpose of the heavenly ruling is to complete God’s elect so that Christ may be preeminent, that He may be the first—the centrality—and everything—the universality—Dan. 2:35; Col. 1:18; 3:4, 10-11.
b. We all need to learn that this universe is under God’s administration and that God’s intention in His administration is to make Christ preeminent, to cause Him to have the first place in everything—1:18.
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Message Two
A Pattern of a Person Used by God to Turn the Age
Scripture Reading: Dan. 1:8-9; 2:17-19; 6:10; 9:23; 10:11, 19
I. The Lord used Daniel and his companions—Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah—to turn the age of the captivity of God’s people to the age of their return to the land of Immanuel for the building of God’s house and God’s city for God’s expression and authority—Dan. 1:1-21; 2:17; Isa. 8:8:
A. Every time God wants to make a dispensational move, an age-turning move, He must obtain His dispensational instrument; we must be those who have dispensational value to God—Rev. 12:5-11; 1:20; Dan. 12:3; Matt. 13:43.
B. Christ as the unique Overcomer includes all the overcomers; the unique Overcomer dwells in our spirit to make us His overcomers—John 14:30; Dan. 2:34-35; Rev.
19:7-21; 1 John 5:4, 18-19; Rev. 3:21.
C. We need to consider what we are doing to bring in the next age; this is a special time, so there is the need of special Christians to do a special work—Matt. 16:18; Rev. 19:7;
1 Cor. 1:9; Rev. 2:4-7; Col. 1:18b; John 17:21; 1 Cor. 14:4b; Eph. 4:16; Col. 2:19.
D. An overcomer works according to the principle of the Body; the principle of the Body annuls sectarianism and individualism—1 Cor. 12:12; Phil. 1:19.
E. In God’s sight an overcomer is a “man of preciousness,” even “preciousness itself ”—Dan. 10:11, 19; 9:23.
F. The Lord needs to raise up men who will turn the age for the recovery of God’s expression and authority; among fallen mankind God’s expression is torn down, and His authority is denied; Daniel and his companions truly allowed God to be expressed through them and were truly under God’s authority—Gen. 1:26; Rev. 4:3a; 21:11, 18a, 24; 22:5.
II. Daniel had companions with whom he was absolutely consecrated to God and separated unto God from an age that follows Satan—Dan. 1:4-8; 5:12, 22; 6:10:
A. All those who are used by God to turn the age must be Nazarites—voluntarily consecrated ones who are sanctified absolutely and ultimately to God—Num. 6:1-8, 22-27; Psa. 110:3; Luke 9:62; Phil. 3:13-14.
B. Although Daniel and his companions were still very young, they stood up as an anti-testimony, similar to the way that Antipas did in the church in Pergamos—Rev.
2:13.
C. We need to flee youthful lusts and pursue Christ in the Body and for the Body with God-given companions, “with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart”—2 Tim.
2:22; 3:1-5; Eccl. 4:9-12:
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1. According to the divine principle, the proper representation of the Body is always by those who are matched with others; this matching is determined entirely by God’s arrangement, not by man’s maneuvering—Neh. 1:1; 8:2; 1 Cor. 1:1; Exo. 4:14b-16; Phil. 2:19-22; Luke 10:1; Acts 13:1-3; 1 Thes. 1:1.
2. An overcomer lives in the Body and works according to the principle of the Body in the blending life of the entire Body of Christ; whoever cannot be blended with others will be disqualified by the age—Rom. 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 12:12, 15, 20, 25.
D. One of the subjective signs of a called one (seen with Moses) is the sign of the water becoming blood (Exo. 4:9); this means that in the eyes of God all the earthly supply and worldly enjoyment (the water of the Nile) are nothing but death (blood).
E. If we are going to live a holy life for the church life, we must care for our diet, which is a matter of life or death—Gen. 2:9, 17; Dan. 1:8-9; John 6:57; Matt. 4:4; Rev. 2:17.
III. Daniel joined himself to God’s desire through God’s Word—Dan. 9:1-4; Deut.
17:18-20; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; Eph. 6:17-18; Psa. 119:11, 24:
A. Daniel was not only a person who read God’s Word regularly but also a person who was joined to God’s Word:
1. When he read from the book of Jeremiah that God had ordained seventy years of captivity for the Israelites and that after seventy years God would turn back to bless them, he immediately fasted and prayed; as soon as he touched God’s desire through the Word, he immediately joined himself to that desire—Dan.
9:2-3.
2. After he read the book of Leviticus, he could no longer eat the unclean food (Dan. 1:8-21); after he read the book of Jeremiah, he could not help but fast and pray for the restoration of God’s people (29:10-14).
3. Whenever we find out God’s desire from His Word, we must immediately join ourselves to that desire—cf. Psa. 119:11, 15-16, 133, 140.
4. The Bible should affect our living, and we should be joined to the Bible—cf. 2 Cor. 6:14-18.
5. To be an anti-testimony, one must read God’s Word and touch God’s desire from His Word; God’s living word works in us to separate us from the world and move us out of our divisive self into the oneness of the Triune God—John 17:17, 21; Eph. 5:26.
B. Daily we need to practice coming to the Word to have the Triune God as truth infused into us according to the following life principles:
1. We must open our entire being to the Lord for the inner shining of the divine light and the supplying of the divine life; the one who experiences the greatest amount of transformation is the one who is absolutely open to the Lord—Psa.
119:105; Prov. 20:27; Psa. 139:23-24.
2. We must seek the Lord with all our heart—119:2; Mark 12:30.
3. We must deal with anything that separates us from the Lord—Acts 24:16; 2 Tim.
1:3a; 1 John 1:9; cf. Ezek. 1:22, 26.
4. We must humble ourselves before the Lord, putting aside our self-confidence and self-assurance and looking to Him for His mercy and grace—Isa. 66:1-2; 1 Pet. 5:5.
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5. We must exercise our spirit to pray over and with God’s Word and exercise our whole being to muse on His Word as the condensation of God’s light in order to receive the life supply and the divine watering—Eph. 6:17-18; 5:26; Psa.
119:15-16, 25, 50, 105, 130.
6. When we experience the enlightenment, the life supply, and the watering, we shall have other blessings through the Word: restoration (19:7a), deliverance (119:41, 170), strength (v. 28), comfort (v. 76), nourishment (v. 103), upholding (v. 117), and safeguard (v. 114).
IV. Daniel was a man of prayer with an excellent spirit, a man fearing God, honoring God, exalting God, and living under God’s rule in the reality of the kingdom of the heavens, the ruling of the heavens—Dan. 6:10; 9:1-4, 17; 5:12, 14; 6:3; 5:22-23; 4:25-26, 32:
A. Fearing God means wanting God, desiring single-heartedly to keep His will, being fully submissive to Him, wanting nothing of ourselves, walking not according to our will, seeing not ourselves, and seeing God’s greatness alone—5:22-23; Psa. 86:11; Isa.
11:2.
B. To honor God is to live and walk by the Spirit for Christ’s exaltation in order to honor others by ministering the Spirit to them—Judg. 9:9; Phil. 1:19-21a; 2 Cor. 3:6.
C. To live under God’s rule is to be filled with His ruling presence of righteousness, holiness, and glory for the carrying out of His eternal covenant in dispensing Himself into us to make us the wise exhibition of all that He is—Gen. 9:8-17; Ezek. 1:26-28;
Rev. 4:3; 21:18-20; 1 Cor. 1:30; Eph. 3:10-11.
D. Prayer in the Spirit through the exercise of our spirit fills us with and brings us under God’s ruling presence for the carrying out of His economy—Rev. 4:1-3; Eph.
6:17-18:
1. The highest expression of a man who cooperates with God is in prayer; God carries out His economy on earth through His faithful channels of prayer—Matt.
26:41; Acts 6:4; Eph. 6:18; Col. 4:2.
2. Prayer is the lifeline in the Lord’s recovery; the more Satan tries to frustrate our prayer, the more we should pray—Dan. 6:10, cf. vv. 4-9.
3. Daniel was a person living before God; he depended on prayer to do what man could not do, and he depended on prayer to understand what man could not understand—2:17-19; 9:1-4; 10:1-3, 11-13.
4. Daniel’s prayer was totally for God and not for himself; through prayer he afforded God the highest cooperation—9:2b; Jer. 25:11; Dan. 9:17; 1 Kings 8:48.
5. Because Daniel was a man of prayer, he was acknowledged by God, qualified to be used by God, and capable of speaking forth the mystery of God—cf. Acts 6:4.
6. Daniel’s prayer reached the highest peak; he asked God to do something for Himself; he prayed, “Now hear, O our God, the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary that has been desolated, for the Lord’s sake”—Dan. 9:17.
7. Only a person like Daniel, who prayed to God single-heartedly, can be used by Him to turn the age.
V. Daniel was a self-sacrificing person with the spirit of martyrdom—6:10-11:
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A. Daniel prayed at the risk of his life; the intention of the chief ministers and satraps was to destroy Daniel, but the intention of Satan, who was behind them, was to cut off the channel of prayer that God was using for the carrying out of His economy—vv.
4-24.
B. Daniel’s companions did not care for their own lives; when they were commanded by the king to bow down to a golden image, they said, “O Nebuchadnezzar,…our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the blazing furnace of fire, and He will deliver us out of your hand…But if He does not,…we will not serve your gods nor worship the golden image that you have set up”—3:16-18.
C. Everyone whom God uses to turn the age is afraid of only one thing, that is, of offending God and losing His presence—2 Cor. 5:9-10; cf. Psa. 51:11; Josh. 7:4.
D. If we contact the Christ typified by the vine and experience His sacrificing life, He will energize us to live a life of sacrifice, producing happiness for God and for others—Judg. 9:13; Matt. 9:17; Rom. 12:1; Eph. 5:2; 2 Cor. 1:24:
1. In ourselves we are not able to live a life of sacrifice, for our life is a natural life, a selfish life—Job 2:4; Matt. 16:25.
2. Christ’s love of affection constrains us to live and to die to Him—2 Cor. 5:14-15;
Rom. 14:7-9.
3. Christ’s love makes the believers martyrs for Him—Rev. 2:10; 12:11; Rom.
8:35-37.
4. If we experience Christ as the wine-producing vine, we will be filled with joy in the Lord—John 15:11; Acts 5:41; 13:52; Phil. 3:1a; 4:4; Psa. 43:4.
5. By experiencing Christ as the wine-producing vine and by being filled with Him as the new wine, we may become a drink offering in Him and with Him to be poured out for God’s satisfaction and for God’s building—Gen. 35:14; Exo.
29:40-41; Phil. 2:17; 2 Tim. 4:6.
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Message Three
The Vision of the Great Image—the Controlling Vision in the Book of Daniel
Scripture Reading: Dan. 2
I. The vision of the great image and its destiny in Daniel 2 is a vision of “what will happen in the last days”—v. 28.
II. The vision of the great image in Daniel 2 is the controlling vision in the book of Daniel:
A. This great image signifies the aggregate of human government throughout human history, from the beginning of human government at Babel (Babylon) in the land of Shinar (Gen. 10:8-10; 11:1-9), as signified by the head of the image, to the termination of human government in human history in the Roman Empire with the ten kings, as signified by the ten toes (Dan. 2:40-44a; 7:24; Rev. 13:1; 17:12):
1. The head of gold (Dan. 2:36-38), corresponding to the first beast in 7:3-4, signifies Nebuchadnezzar, the founder and the king of Babylon.
2. The breast and the arms of silver (2:39a), corresponding to the second beast in 7:5, signify Medo-Persia.
3. The abdomen and thighs of bronze (2:39b), corresponding to the third beast in 7:6, signify Greece, including Macedonia.
4. The legs of iron and the feet partly of iron and partly of clay (2:33), corresponding to the fourth beast in 7:7-8, signify the Roman Empire with its last ten kings (2:40-44a; 7:7-11, 19-26; Rev. 17:7-13).
B. From its beginning to its termination, human government has always done three things: rebel against God, exalt man, and worship idols—Gen. 11:4, footnote 2, Recovery Version.
III. According to the human image in Daniel 2, in the sight of God all human government is composed of four empires: the Babylonian Empire, the Medo-Persian Empire, the Macedonian-Grecian Empire, and the Roman Empire:
A. The beginning of human government was at Babel (Babylon), which was built by Nimrod (Gen. 10:8-10), and the ending of human government will be the revived Roman Empire under Antichrist.
B. Although the form and appearance of the Roman Empire have vanished, the culture, spirit, and essence of the Roman Empire continue to exist today—Dan. 7:12.
C. At the beginning of the great tribulation (Matt. 24:21) the form and appearance of the Roman Empire will be restored under Antichrist.
D. According to the books of Daniel and Revelation, the last Caesar of the Roman Empire will be Antichrist, who will be supported by ten kings—Rev. 17:10-12.
E. Thus, the aggregate of human empires that began with Nimrod at Babel will consummate with Antichrist and the ten kings.
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F. If the head of the great human image is Babylon, the entire image must also be Babylon; in the eyes of God, the entire human government from Nimrod to Antichrist is Babylon:
1. Under Antichrist, the last Caesar, the Roman Empire will be both political and religious Babylon—chs. 17—18.
2. The empire of Antichrist will be the political and physical Babylon, that is,
“Babylon the Great” (18:2), whereas the Roman Catholic Church, called
“MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT” (17:5), will be the religious Babylon—footnote on Jer. 50:1, Recovery Version.
G. The two legs of iron signify the eastern Roman Empire and the western Roman
G. The two legs of iron signify the eastern Roman Empire and the western Roman