Hymns 187

Scripture Reading:

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

Psa. 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 but 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 the 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 the Destruction of Christ over 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).

Further Reading: The Recovery Version of the Old Testament