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以赛亚书生命读经 · 第13篇

隐藏在以赛亚之豫言里神经纶的异象

The Vision Of The Economy Of God Hidden In Isaiah’s Prophecy
1读经：以赛亚22:19-25，罗马书6:6，11:17，约翰福音15:5，加拉太书2:20，歌罗西书2:16-17。
1Scripture Reading: Isa. 22:19-25; Rom. 6:6; 11:17; John 15:5; Gal. 2:20; Col. 2:16-17
2在本篇信息中，我要说到一件非常要紧的事－隐藏在以赛亚头二十三章之豫言里神经纶的异象。现在我们已经看过以赛亚二十三章圣经，我想问一个问题：这些章节主要是说到甚么事？换另一种方式问，我要说，『你有没有看见隐藏在这些章节里神经纶的异象？』我在本篇信息中的负担，就是要叫我们都看见这异象。
2In this message I would like to give a word concerning a very crucial matter—the vision of the economy of God hidden in the first twenty-three chapters of Isaiah’s prophecy. Now that we have covered twenty-three chapters of Isaiah, I would like to ask a question: What is the main thing covered in these chapters? Putting the question another way, I would ask: Have you seen the vision of God’secon o my concealed in these chapters? My burden in this message is that we would all see this vision
三件重要的事
THREE IMPORTANT MATTERS
赦罪
The Forgiveness of Sins
3以赛亚一至二十三章说到许多重要的事。例如，一章十八节论到我们得洁净脱离我们的罪：『耶和华说，来罢，让我们彼此辩论；你们的罪虽像朱红，必变白如雪，虽红如丹颜，必白如羊毛。』这话与三十八章十七节的话有关：『你将我一切的罪，扔在你背后。』神赦免了我们的罪，就将我们的罪扔在背后。虽然赦罪是美妙的，但这不是隐藏在以赛亚之豫言中神的经纶。
3A number of important matters are covered in Isaiah 1—23. For instance, 1:18 speaks concerning our being cleansed from our sins: “Come now and let us reason together,/Says Jehovah./Though your sins are like scarlet,/They will be as white as snow;/Though they are as red as crimson,/They will be like wool.” This word is related to the word in 38:17: “You have cast behind Your back/All my sins.” God has forgiven our sins and has cast them behind His back. Although the forgiveness of sins is wonderful, it is not the economy of God hidden in the prophecy of Isaiah
童女怀孕生子的异象
The Sign of the Virgin Conceiving and Bearing a Son
4另一件重要的事是七章十四节里童女怀孕生子的兆头。这节说，『因此，主自己要给你们一个兆头：看哪，必有童女怀孕生子，她要给他起名叫以马内利。』这个兆头不仅包括过去和现在，也包括永远。圣经六十六卷书总结于新耶路撒冷，（启二一～二二，）而新耶路撒冷乃是以马内利的集大成。以马内利的兆头要总结于新耶路撒冷，那是神与我们同在的集大成。
4Another matter of great importance is the sign in 7:14 of the virgin conceiving and bearing a son. This verse says, “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive and will bear a son, and she will call his name Immanuel.” This sign covers not only the past and the present but also eternity. The Bible of sixty-six books consummates in the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21—22), and the New Jerusalem is the aggregate of Immanuel. The sign of Immanuel consummates in the New Jerusalem—the totality of God being with us.
5接受并享受神作我们的救恩
5Receiving and Enjoying God as Our Salvation
6第三件重要的事是在以赛亚十二章。这章给我们看见，如何接受神自己作我们的救恩，并享受祂这救恩。我们乃是藉著赞美主，呼求祂的名，扬声欢呼，而从救恩的泉源欢然取水，享受神作我们的救恩。（赛十二3～4，6。）不过，我们可能享受了神作我们的救恩，却仍没有看见隐藏在以赛亚书头二十三章里神经纶的异象。
6A third important matter is found in chapter twelve of Isaiah. This chapter shows us how to receive God Himself as our salvation and enjoy Him as salvation. We enjoy God as our salvation, drawing water with rejoicing from the springs of salvation, by praising the Lord, calling upon His name, crying out, and giving a ringing shout (vv. 3-4, 6). However, we may enjoy God as our salvation but still not see the vision of the economy of God hidden in the first twenty- three chapters of the book of Isaiah
神『解雇』了一切人事物，
EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE
以基督来顶替
FIRED” BY GOD AND REPLACED WITH CHRIST
7以赛亚一至十二章的内容是包罗万有的基督。以赛亚书这一段开始于神子民的堕落，结束于享受神作我们的救恩。以赛亚的豫言若是结束于十二章，我们也许觉得很足彀了。当然，这卷书有更长的篇幅，接著的十一章说到神的审判。
7The content of chapters one through twelve of Isaiah is the all-inclusive Christ. This section of Isaiah begins with the degradation of God’sp eople and ends with the enjoyment of God as our salvation. If Isaiah’s prophecy ended with chapter twelve, we might feel that it was sufficient. Of course, the book is much longer, and the next eleven chapters deal with God’s judgment
8以赛亚十三至二十三章是说到耶和华对列国（包括耶路撒冷）的审判及其结果。这里神视以色列如同列国。解开以赛亚书这段话的钥匙，乃是神的『解雇』和基督的顶替。在神的审判里，祂开除、解雇了一切人事物。按照以赛亚书，神一切的管教和审判都是解雇。列国所有的君王，包括巴比伦王和亚述王，都是神兴起的。祂委派了他们，或说雇用了他们，至终祂也解雇了他们。他们是祂委派的，但他们却被证实不彀资格，且犯了许多错。因此，时候到了，神就出来干豫要解雇他们。在这雇用又解雇之后就有顶替。谁来顶替？基督，以马内利，要来顶替。
8Isaiah 13—23 covers the judgment of Jehovah upon the nations, including Jerusalem, and its issue. Here God considered Israel the same as the nations. The key to this section of Isaiah is God’s “firing” and Christ’s replacing. In His judgment God discharged, or “fired,” everyone and everything. According to Isaiah, all of God’s chastising and judging is a firing. All the kings of the nations, including the kings of Babylon and Assyria, were raised up by God. He appointed them, or hired them, and eventually He also fired them. They were appointed by Him, but they proved to be unqualified and made many mistakes. Thus, the time came when God intervened to fire them. After this hiring and firing, there is the replacing. Who is the replacement? The replacement is Christ, Immanuel
9神不仅解雇列国的王，祂也解雇舍伯那，就是王家里的家宰，（赛二二15，）而用豫表基督的以利亚敬来顶替。（赛二二20～24，启三7。）神也解雇了一切器具和器皿，一切的杯子、缾罐。（赛二二25。）
9God not only fired the kings of the nations, but He also fired Shebna, a steward in the house of the king (22:15), and replaced him with Eliakim, a type of Christ (v v. 20-24; Rev. 3:7). God also fired all the utensils and vessels, all the bowls and jars (Isa. 22:25).
10在这里有一幅图画，给我们看见在整个宇宙中，一切在神家以内并以外的，都要被解雇，而由基督来顶替。列国、家宰、以及神家里一切的杯子和缾罐，都需要被顶替。神用以马内利来顶替这一切。祂用基督顶替了一切人事物。这就是为甚么这里揭示基督是父，是家宰，是荣耀的宝座，也是钉在坚固处的钉子，一切器具、器皿－所有神子民享受神的属神之物－都挂在祂身上。我们在此看见，凡不是基督的人事物，神都解雇。
10What we have here is a picture showing us that in the entire universe everything in God’sho use and outside God’s house should be fired and replaced with Christ. The nations, the steward, and all the bowls and jars in the king’s house needed to be replaced. God replaced all of them with Immanuel. He replaced everyone and everything with Christ. This is the reason Christ is unveiled as a Father, a Steward, a throne of glory, and a peg (a nail) driven into a sure place (a wall), on which hang all the utensils and vessels — all the things that belong to God for His people to enjoy Him. Here we see that whatever or whoever is not Christ, God fires.
11在论到以赛亚书的这些信息中，我们不仅需要看见如何享受神作我们的救恩，也需要看见我们已经被神解雇，并由基督顶替了。神创造我们为人，但祂开除、解雇了我们这些人。虽然我们被解雇了，但我们仍然持守我们作人的地位，继续想要作人。我们需要看见神创造我们的时候，祂雇了我们，而当祂把我们摆在十字架上，与基督同钉的时候，祂就解雇了我们。我们都被神解雇了。加拉太二章二十节说，『我已经与基督同钉十字架；现在活著的，不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活著。』神在十字架上把每一个人都解雇了，现今正用基督来顶替每一个人。
11In these messages on Isaiah, we need to see not only the way to enjoy God as our salvation, but also see that we have been fired by God and replaced with Christ. God created us to be a man, but He has fired us, discharged us, from being a man. Although we have been fired, we may still keep our post as a man and go on trying to be a man. We need to see that when God created us, He hired us, and that when He put us on the cross, crucifying us with Christ, He fired us. We all have been fired by God. Concerning this, Galatians 2:20 says, “I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” God fired everyone on the cross, and He is replacing everyone with Christ
真正的召会生活
THE REAL CHURCH LIFE
12神解雇了一切人事物并以基督来顶替之后，首先就有国度的复兴，然后就有为著新耶路撒冷之新天新地的复兴。那就是真正的召会生活。真正的召会生活，乃是其中所有的圣徒都被解雇而由基督顶替的生活。这使基督成为召会中的一切。这就是隐藏在以赛亚一至二十三章里神经纶的异象，我盼望我们都看见这个。
12After God’s firing and replacing of everyone and everything with Christ, there will first be the restoration for the kingdom, and then there will be the restoration for the new heaven and new earth for the New Jerusalem. That will be the real church life. The real church life is a life in which all the saints are fired and replaced with Christ. This will make Christ everything in the church. This is the vision of God’secon o my hidden in Isaiah 1—23, and I hope that we will all see it
不是交换，乃是顶替
NOT EXCHANGE BUT REPLACEMENT
13基督教里非常强调基督是我们的代替，祂在十字架上为我们代死，担负了我们所该受的审判。虽然在论到神救恩的神圣启示里，的确说到基督是我们的代替，但祂不只是我们的代替而已。基督使祂自己与我们联合，并顶替我们。这比基督在十字架上的代死更深。因著基督使祂自己与我们联合，与我们联结，所以当祂死在十字架上的时候，我们就与祂同死，并且了结了。（罗六6。）
13In Christianity it is stressed very much that Christ is our substitute, who died a substitutionary death for us on the cross, bearing the judgment that we should have received. Although it is true that in the divine revelation concerning God’ss alvation Christ is our substitute, He is more than our substitute. Christ unites Himself with us and replaces us. This is something which goes further than the substitutionary death of Christ on the cross. Because Christ joined Himself to us, uniting Himself with us, when He died on the cross, we died with Him and were terminated (Rom. 6:6).
14论到这事，内里生命派的基督徒不用『顶替』这辞，而用『交换』一辞，说基督的生命与我们的生命交换。然而，一件东西与另一件交换，二者并没有联结。按照真理，论到交换生命的教训并不准确。顶替需要有联结，但交换抹煞了与基督的联结。
14Regarding this matter, the inner-life Christians use the term exchanged instead of replaced, saying that Christ’s life is exchanged for our life. However, if one thing is exchanged for another, there is no uniting of the two. The teaching concerning an exchanged life is not accurate according to the truth. Replacing demands union, whereas exchanging annuls union with Christ
接枝的生命
A Grafted Life
15在新约中，基督顶替我们，全然是一件接枝生命的事。这接枝的生命乃是约翰十五章里神救恩的最高点。基督是葡萄树，我们是枝子。（约十五5。）我们这些野橄榄枝子，已经接枝到基督里面。（罗十一17。）因此，我们与基督联结了，并且在这联结里基督顶替了我们。祂活在我们里面，与我们同活，藉著我们并经过我们而活，藉此就顶替了我们。我们活著，但不是我们，乃是基督在我们里面活著，并且我们是因信神的儿子而活。这指明与基督的联结。
15In the New Testament, Christ’s replacing of us is altogether a matter of a grafted life. This grafted life is the highlight of God’ss alvation in John 15. Christ is the vine, and we are the branches (v. 5). As wild olive branches, we have been grafted into Christ (Rom. 11:17). Thus, we are united with Christ, and in this union Christ replaces us. He replaces us by living in us, with us, by us, and through us. We live, yet not we, but Christ lives in us, and we live by the faith of the Son of God. This indicates a union with Christ
对于顶替的奋争
The Struggle concerning Replacement
16在整本圣经中，从创世记到启示录，神与人之间有一种奋争。人喜欢顶替神。人对神的反应，就是想要顶替神，把神放在一边，把神赶走。但神对人的反应，并不是把人放在一边或把人赶走；祂乃是把人摆在了结的地位，叫人能凭另一个人位－基督－活著。
16In the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, there is a struggle between God and man. Man likes to replace God. In his reaction to God, man tries to replace God, to put God aside, to expel God. But in His reaction to man, God does not put man aside or expel man; rather, He puts man in a terminated position so that man can live by another person, Christ
17虽然神想要顶替人，但人不同意，因为在人背后有撒但。按照以赛亚十四章十二至十四节，撒但是头一个要高举自己的宝座，使自己与至上者同等，藉此顶替神，把神赶走，占有神的地方。现今撒但在人背后，就是想要除去神，赶走神；甚至当人想要为神作事时，也是把神摆在一边。这是紧要的事，我们都需要看见。
17Although God desires to replace man, man does not agree with this, because Satan is behind man. According to Isaiah 14:12-14, Satan was the first one to attempt to replace God, to expel God and take God’sp lace, by uplifting his throne and making himself like the Most High. Now Satan is behind man, trying to do away with God and expel God. Even when man wants to do something for God, he does it by putting God aside. This is a crucial matter that we all need to realize.
基督作一切
Christ Becoming Everything
18因著人的反应，那雇了人的神，至终就把每一个人解雇，使祂可以用基督来顶替他们。当一切人事物都由基督所顶替，基督就作了一切。例如，祂对我们作耶和华的苗，也作地的果子。
18Because of man’s reaction, God, who had hired everyone, eventually fired everyone that He might replace everyone with Christ. When everyone and everything is replaced with Christ, Christ becomes everything. For example, He becomes to us both the Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the earth.
19在以赛亚书里，一切都被神解雇了，革除了；然后那革除人的神进来，用基督顶替一切。这就是保罗在歌罗西二章十六、十七节的观念：『所以不拘在饮食上、或在节期、月朔、或安息日方面，都不可让人论断你们，这些原是要来之事的影儿，那实体却属于基督。』这里保罗告诉我们，我们的饮食、节期、月朔和安息日，全都是基督的影儿。所以，基督乃是神旧约经纶里一切事物的顶替。
19In Isaiah, everything is fired, discharged by God, and then the discharging God comes in to replace everything with Christ. This is Paul’s concept in Colossians 2:16 and 17: “Let no one therefore judge you in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.” Here Paul is telling us that our food and drink, feasts, new moons, and Sabbaths are all shadows of Christ. Christ, therefore, is the replacement of all the things in God’sOld Testament economy
20神使万有各在其位，然后把牠们都解雇了。祂使君王各在其位，然后把他们都解雇了，并立基督为独一的君王。然而，基督的君王职分乃是团体的君王职分；包括基督，以及那些与祂是一的人。同样，祭司职分也是团体的：基督是大祭司，我们与祂是一。这样，神就用基督顶替了一切，同时我们却与祂联合为一。一面，我们被解雇了；另一面，我们没有被赶走；因为基督来了，在我们里面、同著我们、凭著我们并藉著我们活著。这就是以马内利来顶替一切，而作了神经纶里的一切。
20God put all things in place, and then He fired them all. He put all the kings in place, and then He fired them all and made Christ the unique King. However, the kingship of Christ is a corporate kingship; it includes Christ and those who are one with Him. In the same way, the priesthood is a corporate matter: Christ is the High Priest, and we are one with Him. In this way God replaces everything with Christ, and we are joined to Christ. On the one hand, we are fired, and on the other hand, we are not expelled; for Christ comes to live in us, with us, by us, and through us. This is Immanuel replacing everything and being everything in God’secon o my