be completed through the spiritual Jacob. Revelations described it, “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God” (Rev. 7:3). Here ‘we’ means the angel, who told it, and the Overcomer, who should do the work. The Overcomer’s duty is to fulfill the remains of God’s army. The Old Testament is the shadow of the real work of God.

22. Jacob, the shadow of the Overcomer

From the sermon on Saturday evening September 21, 2002, 29th Memorial Worship

We are only able to understand the providence of God within the constraints of our own knowledge before God reveals the truth. As the Bible says, “This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words” (1Cor. 2:13). We are not able to understand the spiritual world until we are taught by the Spirit. Therefore, when Paul the apostle spoke about the spiritual as the Lord taught him, he said, “The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does,