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| All things were reconciled into the Son Christ and became all the fullness, and they live in the Son and constitute the true Tabernacle. |
A. All things were reconciled into the Son Christ and became all the fullness.
| Col. 1:18-22 18 And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things; 19 For in Him all the fullness was pleased to dwell 20 And through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross -- through Him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens. |
From verse19 and 20, we understand that all things that were reconciled
into the Son are all the fullness. And v19 says He pleased it to dwell
in Him. V.19 should be corrected as below. Not all the fullness was pleased,
but He pleased all the fullness to dwell in Him.
| 19 For in Him He pleased all the fullness to dwell |
And,
| 20 And through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross -- through Him,
whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens. 20 kai' di ] au]tou# a]pokatalla;xai ta' pa;nta ei]v au]to;n ei]rhnopoih;sav dia' tou# ai=matov tou# staurou# au]tou# di ] au]tou# ei/te ta' e]pi' th#v gh#v ei/te ta' e]n toi#v ou]ranoi#v |
all things to Himself, should be all things into Himself, for, the preposition is ei]v.
All things were reconciled into Himself means that all things in the old
creation within His fleshly body that were defiled and fallen things and
men were reconciled to Himself through the blood of His cross and taken
into the eternal union with Him.
Exactly, He has the first place in all things. And, what a unique Number
One! For all things are involved into Himself. And, this may be one scenery
of all the fullness.
| Isa11:6-10 KJV 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. |
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The age of the law of the jungle ends, and living things are alive in God's
love and peace. And continues …
B.And you
| 1:21 And you, though once alienated and enemies in your mind because of
your evil works, 22 He now has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and without reproach before Him; |
From here Paul turns to "You". ”You” in v.22 must be the “Objective
we”, for “you” were reconciled in the body of His flesh. These "you"
are “Objective we” who were a part of all things in the previous verse,
and became a part of all the fullness.
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The ark typifies Christ Himself, the boards the redeemed and completed
saints. This shows the consummation of the tabernacle, doesn’t it? Holy
of Hollies of the tabernacle, the boards are shining gold This must be
“the true tabernacle” (Heb.8:2) and “a greater and more perfect tabernacle”
(9:11). And in the tabernacle are cherubim which typify all the living
things. So, not only the “Objective we“ but also all the living things
function as the constituent element of the tabernacle. We understand that
all the fullness were necessary to live in Christ the Son to constitute
the true tabernacle.
C. Golden Cherubim in the Holy of Hollies typify all the fullnes in Col.1:19(added in 2018.Mar.8)
In the Holy of Holies there are also cherubims. They are made of beaten
gold. It means that the cherubim on the veil passing through the cross
with Christ came into resurrection and glory with Him. So, all the fullness
in Col.1:19 is typified by the golden cherubim in the Holy of Hollies.
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2017/1/28
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