我们要领会以色列人进迦南和在迦南争战的意义,就需要认识,按预表迦南有两面的意义:在积极一面,迦南是丰富之地,预表包罗万有的基督同祂追测不尽的丰富;在消极一面,迦南表征撒但黑暗国度空中、天上的部分,就是满了撒但势力的诸天界。
In order to understand the significance of the Israelites entering Canaan and the warfare in Canaan, we need to know that Canaan has a twofold significance in typology: on the positive side, Canaan, a land of riches, typifies the all-inclusive Christ with His unsearchable riches; on the negative side, Canaan signifies the aerial part, the heavenly part, of the dark kingdom of Satan, the heavenlies that are full of Satan's forces.
我们要完全据有基督作美地,就必须谨慎,免得有不信的恶心;我们必须操练我们信心的灵,并保持我们的心一直转向主,全心相信祂的应许,相信祂与祂的子民同在,并相信我们足能得胜。
In order to fully possess Christ as the good land, we must beware of having an evil heart of unbelief; we must exercise our spirit of faith and keep our heart turned to the Lord to believe wholeheartedly in His promises, to believe that He is with His people, and to believe that we are well able to overcome.
以色列人将他们在美地上经营的一分出产积存起来,目的是为着敬拜神;我们若忠信地经营包罗万有的基督,就会得着基督的丰富作为出产,可以在召会中展览基督,并得着基督的富余带到召会聚会中,而在灵和真实里团体地敬拜神。
The people of Israel put aside a certain portion of their produce from the labor on the good land for the purpose of worshipping God; if we faithfully labor on the all-inclusive Christ, we will have the riches of Christ as the produce to exhibit in the church and have a surplus of Christ to bring to the church meetings for the corporate worship of God in spirit and in truthfulness.
神活的话必须刺入我们里面,拯救我们脱离犹疑的心思和飘荡的魂,使我们进入我们灵里基督这安息日的安息;我们不该留在魂里游荡徘徊,乃需要否认魂,并竭力进入灵里,有分于并享受属天的基督,使我们能在千年国里,在祂作王时有分于国度的安息。
The living word of God must pierce into our being and deliver us from our wondering mind and wandering soul into Christ as the Sabbath rest in our spirit; we should not be those who stagger in the wandering of our soul, but we need to deny the soul and press on into our spirit to partake of and enjoy the heavenly Christ so that we might participate in the kingdom rest of His reign in the millennium.