LESSON ELEVEN – THE SUBJECTS OF THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

Psa. 12:6 — The words of Jehovah are pure words, Silver refined in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.

119:140 — Your word is very pure, And Your servant loves it.

Genesis: God created, Satan corrupted, man fell, and Jehovah promised to save.

Exodus: Christ is the redemption, salvation, and supply of God’s people and the means for them to worship and serve God so that in Him they may be built up with God together for them and God to meet, communicate, and dwell mutually.

Leviticus: Christ is everything in the fellowship, service, and life of God’s redeemed.

Numbers: Christ is the meaning of life, the testimony, the center of God’s people, and the Leader, the way, and the goal of their journey and fighting.

Deuteronomy: Christ is the Instructor and Leader of the people of God that they may be able to enter into the heavenly territory and participate in His riches.

Joshua: Israel’s occupying and possessing the good land for the carrying out of God’s economy.

Judges: Israel’s forsaking God, suffering defeat by their enemies, and becoming rotten.

Ruth: A complete prefigure of the Gentile sinners’ being brought, with Israel, God’s elect, into the divine inheritance through the redemption of Christ in their union with Him.

1 & 2 Samuel: The illustrations of the way to enjoy the God-given good land.

1 & 2 Kings: God’s governmental dealing, in God’s economy, with the devastation and ruin of the divine kingship on earth by the kings, and the tragic issue of the just dealing of God.

1 & 2 Chronicles: A full chronology of God’s move in man’s history from Adam through Samuel to Israel’s return from their captivity, with a presentation of some of the important details of God’s dealing with the kings of Judah.

Ezra: The return of the children of Israel from their captivity and the rebuilding of the house of God as the initiation of God’s recovery among His elect for His testimony on the earth according to His economy.

Nehemiah: The rebuilding of the wall of the city of Jerusalem as a continual recovery among God’s elect for His testimony for the accomplishment of His economy.

Esther: The very God who chose Israel as His elect becoming a hidden God to them to take care of them secretly and to save them openly while acting in secrecy during their captivity among the Gentile nations.

Job: The purpose of God’s dealing with His holy one.

Psalms: The expressions of the sentiments, feelings, impressions, and experiences of godly men seeking and contacting God through their praises, prayers, and singing with exultation.

Proverbs: Words of wisdom teaching people how to behave and how to build up their character in the human life.

Ecclesiastes: The teachings of Solomon, showing that the human life in the corrupted world is a vanity, a chasing after the wind.

Song of Songs: The history of love in an excellent marriage, revealing the progressive experience of an individual believer’s loving fellowship with Christ.

Isaiah: The salvation of Jehovah through the incarnated, crucified, resurrected, ascended, and coming Christ.

Jeremiah: Christ being made the righteousness of Jehovah to God’s elect as their center and circumference, in God’s dealings with Israel and the nations.

Lamentations: The expression of Jeremiah’s sorrow and love over the holy city and the holy people of God.

Ezekiel: God’s appearing to man in glory, His judgment upon both His people and the nations, and His recovery of His chosen people for the building up of a dwelling place as a mutual abode and complete expression for and of Himself.

Daniel: The destiny of Israel apportioned out by God—the contents of the seventy weeks.

Hosea: Jehovah as salvation to the adulterous and apostate Israel in receiving her back and restoring her.

Joel: The devastation of the human government on Israel in four stages and Christ’s destruction of the devastators and His reign among Israel in the restoration.

Amos: Jehovah’s judgments on Israel and the surrounding nations, with the issue of restoration.

Obadiah: Jehovah’s dealing with Esau, and Jacob’s victory for the kingdom of Jehovah.

Jonah: Jehovah’s salvation reaching even unto the Gentile city Nineveh.

Micah: Jehovah’s reproof on Israel and His restoration of Israel.

Nahum: Jehovah’s judgment on Nineveh as the capital of the evil Assyria.

Habakkuk: The righteous  judgment of God first on Israel by the Chaldeans and then on the Chaldeans by the nations.

Zephaniah: Jehovah’s judgment on Israel and on the nations and His salvation to the Gentiles and to Israel.

Haggai: Jehovah’s dealing with the returned captives for the building of His house.

Zechariah: Jehovah’s hearty consolation and promise to His chastised chosen people through the redemption of Christ, who in His humiliation became their suffering Companion in their captivity.

Malachi: Jehovah’s dealing with the sons of Levi (the priests among Israel) and with the sons of Jacob (the people of Israel).

Reference: Recovery Version of the Bible

LORD, THE ANCIENT TYPES AND SYMBOLS

Praise of the Lord— His All-Inclusiveness – 196

• Lord, the ancient types and symbols
  As our all Thyself portrayed;
  As was shadowed in those figures,
  Real to us Thou now art made.
  Contemplating such a picture,
  As we on its wonders gaze,
  How we marvel at Thy riches
  And our song of worship raise.

• Lord, Thou art our true Passover,
  God passed over us thru Thee;
  By Thyself and Thy redemption
  We with God have harmony.
  Thou, the Lamb of God, redeemedst us
  With Thyself and with Thy blood;
  We apply Thy blood, our ransom,
  Eating Thee, our real food.

• Lord, Thou art the Bread from heaven,
  The unleavened Bread of life;
  Eating Thee, with Thee we mingle,
  Ceasing from our sin and strife.
  Lamb and Bread are both Thy figures,
  Showing Thou art life to us;
  Feasting on Thee at Thy table,
  We enjoy Thy riches thus.

• Lord, Thou art the Heav’nly Manna,
  As our daily food supply;
  Strengthening and energizing,
  All our need to satisfy.
  Living Rock Thou also art, Lord,
  Cleft for us with life to flow;
  Drinking of this living water,
  Thirst is quenched, Thy life we know.

• Lord, Thou art the Land of Canaan-
  Elevated, rich and good,
  Flowing with both milk and honey
  In a glorious plenitude.
  By Thy surplus God we worship,
  In Thy fellowship we move;
  Thus in love we’re joined together
  And God’s building we will prove.