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以西结书生命读经 · 第3篇

风云火金

The Wind, the Cloud, the Fire, and the Electrum
1读经：以西结书1:4，诗篇75:6-7上，以西结书37:9，约翰福音3:8，使徒行传2:2,4上，出埃及记24:16上，40:34，申命记4:24，希伯来书12:29，以西结书1:27上，28，8:2下，四节，启示录4:3上，22:1。在本篇信息中，我们要来看以西结一章四节。这节说到四件主要的事：风、云、火、金。第一，有暴风从北方刮来。第二，随著有一朵大云。第三，有火包括在这朵大云里面。第四，从火内发出光耀的精金。
1Scripture Reading: Ezek. 1:4; Psa. 75:6-7a; Ezek. 37:9; John 3:8; Acts 2:2, 4a; Exo. 24:16a; 40:34; Deut. 4:24; Heb. 12:29; Ezek. 1:27a, 28; 8:2b, 4; Rev. 4:3a; 22:1 In this message we will consider Ezekiel 1:4. This verse covers four main things: the wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum. First, a stormy wind came from the north. Second, a great cloud came along with the wind. Third, there was a fire enfolding itself. Fourth, out of the fire there appeared the glowing electrum
我们属灵的经历
OUR SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
是照著对神的认识
BEING ACCORDING TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
2创世记一章开始于神，以西结一章开始于神荣耀的异象。认识神的人能见证，我们属灵的经历是照著我们对神的认识。同样，我们的事奉和召会的事务，也在于我们对神的认识。我们认识神的程度，要断定我们属灵经历的程度和召会的光景。按属灵说，我们所有的一切都在于神的所是、异象和彰显，在于我们对神的认识。以西结书里的异象不是开始于人，乃是开始于神。从北方－神的所在－开始的异象，给我们看见神的旨意、计画、心意、工作、行动、并与人的关系。这些异象启示神所期望人与祂的关系。除了以上所题的四项以外，一章的异象包括四活物，高而可畏的轮，明如水晶的天，神荣耀的宝座，和宝座上的人。我们看本章里神荣耀的异象时，需要谨慎留意这一切的事。
2Genesis 1 begins with a word concerning God, and Ezekiel 1 opens with a glorious vision of God. Those who know God can testify that our spiritual experiences are according to our knowledge of God. Likewise, our service and the church affairs also depend on our knowledge of God. The degree of our knowing God will determine both the degree of our spiritual experience and the situation of the church. Spiritually speaking, everything we have depends on God’s being, vision, and manifestation and on our knowing God. The visions in the book of Ezekiel begin not with man but with God. The visions, which begin from the north, where God is, show us God in His will, plan, intention, work, action, and relationship with man. These visions reveal what God expects man to be in relation to Him. In addition to the four items mentioned above, the visions in chapter one include the four living creatures, the high and dreadful wheels, a sky as clear as crystal, God’s glorious throne, and the man upon the throne. As we consider God’s glorious visions in this chapter, we need to pay careful attention to all these matters
圣经是一本描写
THE BIBLE BEING A BOOK OF PICTURES
属灵事物图画的书
THAT DESCRIBE SPIRITUAL THINGS
3圣经是一本图画的书，向我们启示神和属灵的事。神是灵，既是这样，祂乃是抽象、奥秘、看不见、摸不著、也测不透的。不但神是抽象的，一切属灵的事也是抽象的。没有圣经里的图画，我们就很难领会神和属灵的事。神在祂的智慧里用有形、物质的事物，来描写无形、属灵的事物。不但如此，祂也用表号、象征，来表达抽象、奥秘的事。为这缘故，圣经用许多豫表、表号和图画，来描写并描绘属灵的事。
3The Bible is a book of pictures revealing to us God and the spiritual things. God is Spirit, and as such He is abstract, mysterious, invisible, intangible, and unfathomable. Not only is God abstract, but all spiritual things are also abstract. Without the pictures in the Bible, it would be rather difficult for us to understand God and the spiritual things. In His wisdom God uses visible, material things to describe invisible, spiritual things. Furthermore, He uses signs and symbols to express abstract, mysterious matters. For this reason the Bible uses many types, figures, and pictures to describe and portray spiritual things.
4宇宙中有许多事物是属灵事物的象征。例如，太阳象征基督是我们的光，（玛四2，路一78，）食物象征基督是我们的粮食。（约六35。）事实上，宇宙中一切正面的事物都可用来描绘基督之于我们的所是。神在祂创造里的心意，是要用所造的事物来说明基督的所是。这就是说，整个宇宙存在的目的是为著描写基督。例如，葡萄树若没有被造，主耶稣就不能用葡萄树描写祂自己。（十五1。）若没有狐狸或飞鸟，基督就不能把祂尽职的光景与狐狸有洞，飞鸟有窝的光景比较。（太八20。）甚至草场被造，也使主耶稣能用草场来说明祂自己。（约十9。）宇宙连同其中亿万的人事物被造的目的，既是为著描写基督，所以当祂启示自己时，就能在一切环境中找到事物作为祂自己的例证。全宇宙都是基督的图画。我们若看见这个，就会领悟基督是何等丰富、深奥、无限、且追测不尽。正如全本圣经是一本图画的书，照样，以西结书作为圣经的缩影，也是一卷图画的书，一卷满了图画的书。这些图画是以异象的形式呈现。以西结所看见的异象完全与神和属灵的事有关，所以不该按字面、物质来领会。我们若想要按字面解释以西结的异象，就不能领会牠们。我年轻的时候，不能领会以西结书。我越读这卷书，就越糊涂。我特别不能领会四活物的事。四活物各有四个脸面：前面是人的脸，右面是狮子的脸，左面是牛的脸，后面是鹰的脸。（结一5～6，10。）不但如此，『脚掌好像牛犊之蹄，』并且『在四面的翅膀以下有人的手』。（7中，8上。）我认为活物的图画非常古怪，我一点也不领会。感谢主，慢慢的当我在属灵的经历上往前的时候，我将以西结书里的记载与圣经其他各处对照参考，就开始懂得以西结书里的异象。至终，就像人将七巧板拼凑在一起，为要得著完整的图画，我也将圣经各部分拼凑在一起，就开始看见以西结书里所描绘属灵之事的图画，领悟以西结是用看得见、物质的事物来表征属灵的事物。现今我们查考以西结书，需要看见这卷书中之图画的内在属灵意义；我们要在全本圣经的光中来看这些图画，并将其与我们属灵的经历对照。
4A great many items in the universe are symbols of spiritual things. For example, the sun symbolizes Christ as our light (Mal. 4:2; Luke 1:78), and food symbolizes Christ as our sustenance (John 6:3 5). Actually, all the positive things in the universe may be used to portray what Christ is to us. God’sin tent i on in His creation is to use the things of creation to illustrate what Christ is. This means that the entire universe came into existence for the purpose of describing Christ. For example, if vines had not been created, the Lord Jesus could not have used a vine to describe Himself (John 15:1). If there were no foxes or birds, Christ could not have compared His situation in His ministry to that of foxes with their holes and birds with their roosts (Matt. 8:20). Even the pasture was created so that the Lord Jesus could use it as an illustration of Himself (John 10:9). Because the universe with the billions of things and persons in it was created for the purpose of describing Christ, He, in revealing Himself, can find in any environment something to serve as an illustration of Himself. The whole universe is a picture of Christ. If we see this, we will realize how rich, profound, unlimited, and unsearchable Christ is. Just as the Bible as a whole is a picture book, so Ezekiel as a miniature of the Bible is also a picture book, a book full of pictures. These pictures are presented in the form of visions. The visions Ezekiel saw were absolutely related to God and to spiritual things and therefore should not be understood in a literal, physical way. If we try to interpret the visions in Ezekiel literally, we will not be able to understand them. When I was young, I could not understand the book of Ezekiel. The more I read this book, the more confused I be came. In particular, I could not understand the matter of the four living creatures. Each of the living creatures had four faces: at the front, the face of a man; on the right, the face of a lion; on the left, the face of an ox; and at the back, the face of an eagle (Ezek. 1:5-6, 10). Furthermore, “the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot,” and “they had the hands of a man under their wings” (vv. 7a, 8a). I thought that the picture of the living creatures was very strange, and I could not understand it at all. I thank the Lord that as I gradually advanced in my spiritual experience, I began to understand the visions in Ezekiel, comparing the record in Ezekiel with other portions of the Word. Eventually, like someone putting together the pieces of a puzzle in order to have a complete picture, I put various parts of the Word together and began to see the pictures of the spiritual matters portrayed in the book of Ezekiel, realizing that Ezekiel uses visible, physical things to signify spiritual things. Now in our study of Ezekiel we need to see the intrinsic spiritual significance of the pictures in this book, considering them in light of the entire Bible and comparing them with our spiritual experience.
5现在我们开始一点一点来看以西结一章四节里的四件事。
5Let us now begin to consider the four matters in Ezekiel 1:4 point by point
暴风从北方
THE STORMY WIND From the North
6一章四节上半说，『我观看，见狂风从北方刮来。』达秘的新译本和美国标准本，都将希伯来原文的『狂风』译作『暴风』，我觉得这个繙译更好。因此，本节说暴风从北方刮来。为甚么暴风从北方刮来，不从南方、东方、或西方刮来？这问题的解答见于诗篇七十五篇六至七节上半：『高举非从东，非从西，也非从南而来。惟有神断定。』这里北方由神顶替。这指明神在北方。在地理名辞里，北方一般视为上面，因此往北方去就是往上。在北方的神总是在上面。按属灵说，这意思是我们往北方去，就是到神面前去。暴风从北方刮来，这事实的意思是牠从神而来。神的居所，住处，是一切属灵事物的源头。暴风从北方，从神的住处刮来。所以，神是暴风的源头。
6The first part of Ezekiel 1:4 says, “I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north.” John Nelson Darby’s New Translation and the American Standard Version both translate the Hebrew word rendered whirlwind as “stormy wind,” and I feel that this translation is preferable. Thus, this verse is saying that a stormy wind came from the north. Why did the stormy wind come from the north and not from the south, the east, or the west? The answer to this question is found in Psalm 75:6-7a: “For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge.” Here north is replaced with God. This indicates that God is at the north. In geographical terms the north is commonly regarded as up, and thus to go north is to go up. God, who is at the north, is always up. Spiritually speaking, this means that when we are going north, we are going to God. The fact that the stormy wind came from the north means that it came from God. The dwelling place, the habitation, of God is the source of all spiritual things. The stormy wind came from the north, from the habitation of God. God, therefore, was the source of the stormy wind
表征神的灵
Signifying the Spirit of God
7希伯来原文的风是路阿克（ruach）。路阿克可以译作『风』、『气』或『灵』。钦定英文译本在以西结三十七章里，以这三种方式繙译这个希伯来字：在九节译作风，在五、六、八、九、十节译作气，在一、十四节译作灵。译者很难断定在某节，路阿克的意思是风、气、或灵；必须照上下文而定。
7The Hebrew word for wind is ruach. Ruach may be translated “wind” or “breath” or “spirit.” In the King James Version of Ezekiel 37, this Hebrew word is translated in all three of these ways: “wind” in verse 9, “breath” in verses 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10, and “Spirit” in verses 1 and 14. It is difficult for translators to decide whether in a certain verse ruach means wind, breath, or spirit. The decision must be made according to the context.
8在一章四节，路阿克指风，暴风，这一点不差表征能力的灵。在五旬节那天有暴风，大风刮过，充满了一百二十个门徒所坐的屋子。他们就都被圣灵充满。（徒二2，上。）毫无疑问，那暴风，大风就是能力的灵。约翰三章八节主耶稣说，『风随著意思吹，你听见风的响声，却不晓得从那里来，往那里去；凡从那灵生的，就是这样。』有些译本在注解里指出，本节的风字就是希腊文的灵字，纽玛（pneuma）的繙译。希伯来文的『路阿克』和希腊文的『纽玛』正好有同样的意思。纽玛和路阿克一样，能译作『风』、『气』或『灵』。因此，本节的『风…吹』，原文也可译作『灵…吹』。以西结一章四节里强大的暴风乃是神大能之灵的表号、图画。圣经里的风有反面和正面的意思。反面的意思，风是神在人身上审判的象征或表号。这是但以理七章二节和启示录七章一节里风的意思。正面的意思，风是圣灵吹在人身上或降在人身上以眷顾人的象征或表号。当然，行传二章里的暴风，就是这个意思。以西结书里的风也有这双重的意思：反面的意思－神兴起环境，藉此审判背叛祂的人；正面的意思－那灵临到人，叫人得著神的生命。以西结一章里的暴风有这正面的意思。
8In 1:4 ruach denotes a wind, a stormy wind which signifies nothing less than the powerful Spirit. On the day of Pentecost there was a rushing, mighty wind which filled the house where the one hundred twenty were sitting. Then all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:2, 4a). No doubt, that rushing, mighty 4 wind was the powerful Spirit. In John 3:8 the Lord Jesus said, “The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Some versions point out in a footnote that the word wind in this verse is a translation of the Greek word for spirit, pneuma. The Hebrew word ruach and the Greek word pneuma have exactly the same meaning. Like ruach, the word pneuma can be translated “wind,” “breath,” or “spirit.” Thus, in this verse the Greek words translated the wind blows may also be rendered “the Spirit blows.” In Ezekiel 1:4 the strong, stormy wind is a figure, a picture, of the mighty Spirit of God. In the Bible the wind has both a negative and positive significance. In its negative significance the wind is a symbol, or sign, of God’s judgment upon man. This is the significance of the wind in Daniel 7:2 and in Revelation 7:1. In its positive significance the wind is a symbol, or sign, of the blowing of the Holy Spirit upon man or the descending of the Holy Spirit upon man to take care of man. This, of course, is the significance of the rushing, mighty wind in Acts 2. In the book of Ezekiel the wind also has this twofold significance: the negative significance — God’s judgment by raising up circumstances through which He judges those who rebel against Him; the positive significance—in the Spirit’s coming to man to cause man to have God’s life. The stormy wind in Ezekiel 1 has this positive significance.
我们属灵的经历总是开始于属灵的暴风
Our Spiritual Experiences Always Beginning with a Spiritual Storm
9我们属灵的经历总是开始于属灵的暴风。照著召会的历史看，历代神的灵像大风一样吹动，感动人为罪悔改，相信主耶稣，叫人得著重生，舍弃世界来跟随主，并且心里迫切，灵里焚烧来事奉主。你没有过这样的经历么？你没有觉得神的风吹在你身上么？你没有被神的灵摸过么？你没有觉得（在你的一生中至少有一次）某种能力－从神来的暴风－在你身上推动你，使你恨恶罪，对世界有不同的态度，或者改变对人生的看法么？你若从来没有这样的经历，你就需要仰望主，祷告叫祂的风从北方吹在你身上。
9Our spiritual experiences always begin with a spiritual storm. According to church history, throughout all the generations the Spirit of God has blown like a mighty wind to move people to repent of their sins, to believe in the Lord Jesus for their regeneration, to give up the world in order to follow the Lord, and to be desperate in heart and burning in spirit to serve the Lord. Have you not had this kind of experience? Have you not sensed the wind of God blowing upon you? Have you not been touched by the Spirit of God? Have you not sensed, at least once in your life, that a certain power—the stormy wind from God—was moving upon you, causing you to hate sin, to have a different attitude toward the world, or to change your view concerning your life? If you have never had such experiences, you need to look to the Lord and pray for His wind from the north to blow upon you.
10一位曾是某政党有力人士的有为青年，在悔改的时候经历这种从北方吹来的风。有一天，他到偶像的庙里，在供桌上看见一本圣经。他走上前去，念了几节。忽然，圣灵吹在他身上，他就知罪自责。那灵的风继续吹在他身上，他就开始为他的罪悔改，并且彻底认罪，跪下痛哭，甚至在地板上打滚。他藉著从北方来的大风吹动而得救了。神的眷顾总是开始于神的风吹在我们这人身上。你得救的时候没有经历暴风，就是神的灵的吹动么？可能你是个年轻的学生，不顾别的，只顾上学、读书。然后有一天，暴风临到你。暴风吹在你身上，把你翻转过来。这使你思想人生的意义，开始问自己是从那里来，要往那里去。这是暴风吹动的结果。我信每个得救的人在悔改的时候，都经历过这样的暴风。我不能忘记我在得救那天所经历的暴风。那时我是个不到二十岁的青年，满了雄心；我努力读书，追求世界的知识，要得著美好的前途。但有一天，我听说有一个布道会，就决定去参加。在那个聚会中，当我听到很强的福音信息时，暴风就吹到我身上，将我翻转过来。
10A certain promising young man, who was a strong member of a political party, experienced this wind from the north at the time of his conversion. One day he went into an idol temple and saw a Bible on the table which was used for the offering. He walked up to the Bible and read a few verses. Suddenly, the Holy Spirit blew upon him, and he was convicted of his sins. As the wind of the Spirit continued to blow upon him, he began to repent of his sins and to make a thorough confession, crying bitterly as he prostrated himself and even rolled on the floor. He was saved through the blowing of a mighty wind from the north. God’s visitation always begins with the blowing of the wind of God upon our being. Did you not experience a storm, the blowing of the Spirit of God, when you were saved? Perhaps you were a young student caring for nothing but simply going to school, studying, and playing. Then one day a storm came to you. A stormy wind blew upon you and turned you upside down. This caused you to consider the meaning of human life, and you began to ask yourself about where you came from and where you were going. This was the result of the blowing of a stormy wind. I believe that every saved person experienced such a storm at the time of conversion. I cannot forget the storm I experienced on the day I was saved. As a young man under the age of twenty, I was full of ambition, and I was studying hard, pursuing the knowledge of the world in order to have a good future. But one day I heard about an evangelistic meeting, and I decided to attend. In that meeting as I listened to a strong gospel message, a stormy wind blew upon me and turned me upside down
11暴风不但在我们悔改的时候从北方临到我们，在我们得救以后亦然。无论我们年轻或年长，我们都经历到暴风。例如，在召会生活里，我们中间有些人从前是传教士或基督教工人。有一天，暴风从北方临到他们，将他们的一切翻转过来。这使他们迫切寻求主，至终进入召会生活。
11A storm comes to us from the Lord not only at the time of our conversion but also after we have been saved. Whether we are young or old, we all experience the stormy wind. For example, certain ones among us in the church life formerly were missionaries or Christian workers. One day a storm came to them from the north and turned everything upside down. This caused them to seek the Lord desperately and eventually to come into the church life
12事实上，在我们属灵生命每次转弯时，暴风都吹在我们身上。这暴风就是神自己吹在我们身上，将暴风带进我们的生活、我们的工作、和我们的召会里。有暴风从神临到我们，的确是恩典。我们跟随主时，会经历一次又一次的暴风。我不能说有多少暴风临到我，但我能见证每次的暴风都值得回忆。每次的暴风都成了喜乐的回忆。我信我们在永世里，要回忆我们所经历的暴风。每当神眷顾我们，复兴我们的时候，祂的灵就像大风一样吹在我们身上。我们需要这样经历那灵－越多越好，越厉害越好。我有很深的渴望，在这些日子里，神的灵要像大风一样强烈的吹在我们身上。
12Actually, a stormy wind blows upon us at every turn in our spiritual life. This stormy wind is God Himself blowing upon us to bring a storm into our life, into our work, and into our church. It is truly a grace to have storms coming to us from God. As we are following the Lord, we will experience storm after storm. I cannot say how many storms have come to me, but I can testify that every storm is worth recalling. Every storm has become a pleasant remembrance. I believe that when we are in eternity, we will recall the storms that we experienced. Whenever God visits us and revives us, His Spirit blows upon us like a mighty wind. We need to experience the Spirit in this way—the more, the better and the stronger, the better. I have the deep longing that in these days the Spirit of God would blow strongly upon us like a mighty wind
云
THE CLOUD
13云总是随著暴风。我们若有风，必然会有云，因为云是风吹的结果。云像暴风一样，表征圣灵。圣灵摸著我们的时候，就像风一样。圣灵眷顾我们、覆庇我们的时候，就像云一样。首先，圣灵像风一样吹在我们身上，感动我们，然后祂像云一样与我们同住，遮盖我们。
13The cloud always follows the stormy wind. If we have the wind, we will surely have the cloud, for the cloud is the issue of the blowing of the wind. Like the stormy wind, the cloud signifies the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit touches us, He is like the wind. When the Holy Spirit visits us and overshadows us, He is like the cloud. First, the Holy Spirit blows upon us like the wind to move us, and then He abides with us like a cloud to cover us
覆罩的神作为风来临，作为云停留
The Brooding God Coming as the Wind and Staying as the Cloud
14以西结一章四节里的云是神遮盖祂子民的表号。我们可以用覆罩这辞，说云是神覆罩祂的子民。所以，云不是别的，乃是覆罩的神。神作为风来临，但祂作为云停留。因著祂作为云停留，祂就遮盖我们，覆庇我们，并覆罩我们，使我们享受祂的同在，因此在我们的日常生活中产生属祂的东西。何等奇妙！这就是遮盖的云所豫表遮盖的神。我们思想以色列人的历史，就能更完全领会云的意思。好些时候神向他们显现，并且像覆庇他们的大云一样眷顾他们。譬如，以色列人出埃及以后，经过红海。保罗论到这事说，『我们的祖宗从前都在云下，都从海中经过；都在云里，也在海里，受浸归了摩西。』（林前十1～2。）遮盖以色列人的云豫表神的灵。至终，以色列人到了西乃山，并安营在那里。在出埃及十九章九节，耶和华对摩西说，『我要在密云中临到你那里，』并且『在山上有…密云』。（16。）二十四章告诉我们：『有云彩把山遮盖，』耶和华『从云中召摩西』，并且『摩西进入云中』。（15，16，18。）后来会幕为神立起来以后，神的荣光充满帐幕，云彩遮盖帐幕，并停在其上。（四十34～35。）百姓都看见云彩遮盖会幕。那云彩表征神的眷顾，神的同住。
14The cloud in Ezekiel 1:4 is a figure of God covering His people. We may use the word brooding and say that the cloud was God brooding over His people. The cloud, therefore, was nothing other than the brooding God. God comes as the wind, but He stays as the cloud. By staying as the cloud, He covers us, overshadows us, and broods over us to give us the enjoyment of His presence, thereby producing something of Himself in our daily life. How wonderful! This is the covering God typified by the covering cloud. By considering the history of the people of Israel, we can understand more fully the significance of the cloud. A number of times God appeared to them and visited them like a great cloud that overshadowed them. For instance, after the Israelites came out of Egypt, they passed through the Red Sea. Concerning this Paul says, “All our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea” (1 Cor. 10:1-2). The cloud that covered the children of Israel typifies the Spirit of God. Eventually, the children of Israel arrived at Mount Sinai and camped there. In Exodus 19:9 the Lord said to Moses, “Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud,” and there was “a thick cloud upon the mount” (v. 16). In chapter twenty-four we are told that “a cloud covered the mount,” that the Lord “called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud,” and that “Moses went into the midst of the cloud” (vv. 15, 16, 18). Later, after the tent of meeting was set up for God, God’s glory filled the tent and a cloud covered it and abode upon it (40:34-35). All the people could see that the cloud was covering the tent of meeting. That cloud signified God’s visitation and His abiding with them.
15云也表征神对祂子民的照顾，并祂向著他们的恩典。祂向他们显现像云一样，遮盖并覆庇他们，以照顾他们。箴言十六章十五节说，『王的恩典，好像春云时雨。』在祂恩典的眷顾里，神临到我们像云一样，顾到我们，向我们施恩。
15The cloud also signifies God’s care for His people and His favor toward them. He appeared to them like a cloud, covering and overshadowing them, in order to care for them. Proverbs 16:15 says that the king’s favor is like “a cloud of the latter rain.” In His gracious visitation God comes to us like a cloud to care for us and to show favor to us
经历并享受神作恩典的云
Experiencing and Enjoying God as the Gracious Cloud
16以西结一章四节题到云与风有关。风同著云，指明在神与人之间有重大的事故即将发生。在我们基督徒的生活中，在神与我们之间，至少偶而需要有重大的属灵变动。我信每一个真得救的人都经历过这样的变动。我们也在复兴的时候经历属灵的变动。首先，圣灵摸著我们，感动我们，使我们转向主，看见自己的败坏，并且悔改认罪。然后我们觉得神像云一样眷顾我们、覆庇我们、遮盖我们。我们也可能觉得神的恩典在我们身上，遮盖我们像天篷一样。神是吹动的风，祂也是遮盖并覆庇的云。每当我们经历神作吹动的风时，我们也觉得，祂吹在我们身上以后，就与我们同在，覆庇、遮盖我们，并且覆罩我们。这就是神作恩典的云。风的吹动将神的同在，以属天、覆罩、覆庇的云的形态临到我们。
16In Ezekiel 1:4 the cloud is mentioned in relation to the wind. Together, the wind and the cloud are an indication that an important transaction is about to take place between God and man. At least from time to time, in our Christian life there needs to be a significant spiritual transaction between God and us. I believe that everyone who has been genuinely saved has experienced such a transaction. We also experience a spiritual transaction during times of revival. First, the Holy Spirit touches us and moves us, causing us to turn to the Lord, to see our corruption, and to repent and confess our sins. Then we have the sense that God is like a cloud visiting us, overshadowing us, and covering us. We may sense also that the grace of God is upon us, covering us like a canopy. God is the blowing wind, and He is also the covering and overshadowing cloud. Whenever we experience God as the blowing wind, we also have the sense that, after He blows upon us, He remains with us, overshadowing and covering us and brooding over us. This is God as the gracious cloud. The blowing of the wind brings the presence of God to us in the form of a heavenly, brooding, overshadowing cloud.
17我得救时不但经历大风从北方吹在我全人身上，也经历主的同在像云一样覆庇我。在这覆庇之下我开始问自己：『人生是怎样一回事？我该继续这样往前去么？』因著吹动的风和覆罩的云，在我与神之间就有重大的事情发生。真实的经历和真正的复兴，都与属灵的风和属灵的云有关。我不能忘记一九三五年我对神作覆庇的云特别的经历。有一个主日下午，我尽职说到那灵。到一个时候，我觉得有云彩降临遮盖我。我外面的眼睛虽然没有看见甚么，但我觉得有个东西覆庇我。我被遮盖我的云彩包围，我很深的感觉主非常明确、实际的同在。那时主的同在的确像云一样。那个经历不但是信心的事，也是能感觉得到的事。我觉得我被主的同在遮盖、覆庇；那是奇妙、喜乐、安慰、加强并加力的。会众察觉有事情发生，气氛改变了，我立刻开始很有能力的说话。我们许多人经历过主作覆庇的云。当你祷告、悔改并认罪的时候，有时会觉得你在天篷或云的遮盖之下。这也许是你的经历，在你晨兴或祷读主话的时候，从神而来的暴风刮来，吹在你身上。风吹动以后，云来了，可能整天与你同在。在一天中你觉得有个东西随著你，覆庇你，遮盖你，覆罩你，以致你终日享受主的同在。
17When I was saved, I experienced not only the blowing of a mighty wind from the north upon my whole being but also the Lord’s presence overshadowing me like a cloud. Under this overshadowing I began to ask myself, “What is life all about? Should I keep going on the way I have been going?” Because of the blowing wind and the overshadowing cloud, an important transaction took place between me and God. A genuine experience and a true revival involve both the spiritual wind and the spiritual cloud. I cannot forget the particular experience I had of God as an overshadowing cloud in 1935. On one Lord’s Day afternoon I was ministering about the Spirit. At a certain point I had the sense that a cloud had come down and was covering me. Although I did not see anything with my physical eyes, I sensed that something was overshadowing me. I was enveloped by the cloud which covered me, and I had a deep sense of the Lord’s presence in a very definite and practical way. At that time the presence of the Lord truly was like a cloud. That experience was a matter not only of faith but also of something that could be sensed. I sensed that I was covered and overshadowed by the presence of the Lord. It was wonderful, pleasant, comforting, strengthening, and energizing. The congregation realized that something had happened and that the atmosphere had changed, and immediately I began to speak in a powerful way. Many of us have experienced the Lord as an overshadowing cloud. When you pray, repenting and confessing your sins, you may sense that you are under the covering of a canopy or of a cloud. It might have been your experience that during your morning revival or during a time of pray- reading the Word, a stormy wind from God came and blew upon you. Then after the blowing of the wind, a cloud came and stayed with you, perhaps for the whole day. Throughout the day you had the sense that something was following you, overshadowing you, covering you, and brooding over you, and you enjoyed the Lord’s presence all day long.
18我能见证我多次经历过这事。我清晨与主接触时，那灵像大风一样从北方刮来，我立刻进到主的同在里，就像被云遮盖。祂的同在成了我的享受，我终日经历祂的遮盖，享受祂的同在。我们都需要经历主的同在像覆罩、覆庇的云一样。我们不该满足于仅仅道理和教训。我们不需要来到圣经跟前寻求更多的知识，却需要寻求主自己。我们来到圣经跟前时该祷告：『主，我需要风和云。主，像暴风一样从北方吹在我身上，并且用覆庇的云遮盖我。求你像风一样临到我，并且像云一样与我同在。』
18I can testify that I have experienced this many times. As I was in contact with the Lord early in the morning, the Spirit came to me like a strong wind from the north, and immediately I entered into the Lord’s presence, which was like a cloud covering me. His presence became my enjoyment, and all day long I experienced His covering and enjoyed His presence. We all need to experience the Lord’s presence like a brooding, overshadowing cloud. We should not be content with mere doctrines and teachings. Instead of coming to the Bible seeking more knowledge, we need to seek the Lord Himself. When we come to the Word, we should pray, “Lord, I need the wind and the cloud. Lord, blow upon me as a stormy wind from the north and cover me with the overshadowing cloud. Come to me as the wind and stay with me as the cloud.”
火
THE FIRE
19以西结看见覆庇他的云一直被闪烁的火遮盖，这也是符合我们属灵经历的事。暴风从主刮来，主覆庇的同在停留，我们就觉得我们里面有个东西在照耀、搜寻并焚烧。在这样的照耀、光照、搜寻并焚烧之下，我们也许领悟自己在某些事上错了。例如，我们也许领悟自己对某位弟兄的态度错了。在主同在的照耀和搜寻之下，我们被暴露，就定罪自己，承认自己的缺点。然后搜寻的火就会烧去我们里面消极的事物。以西结所看见的火表征神焚烧、圣别的能力。凡与神圣别的性情、性质不合的，都必须烧去。只有合于祂的圣别的，才经得起祂圣别的火。这能由我们属灵的经历证实。圣灵来了，为罪，为义，为审判，使世人知罪自责。（约十六8。）每当圣灵来摸我们，并使我们认罪祷告的时候，我们会觉得需要被圣别，将一切的败坏除去。我们会领悟，任何与神的圣别不合的事物，都必须烧去。人若宣称蒙神眷顾，却对自己的罪和不圣没有感觉，他就没有真正被神的灵摸著。神眷顾人的时候，祂圣别的火就来烧毁人里面消极的事物。这焚烧的火也使我们蒙光照。圣灵的火越在我们里面焚烧，我们就越被炼净、蒙光照。我们若这样经历主，就不需要别人告诉我们，说我们在某些事上错了，或者我们对某位弟兄的态度错了。人若想要改正我们，我们可能被得罪。但即使我们愿意接受改正，并且想要改良自己，就内里生命而论，这也算不得甚么。我们需要在主同在的照耀和搜寻之下。我们越在这个照耀之下，就越愿意说，『主耶稣，焚烧我！我甚么都不适合，只适合被焚烧。主阿，烧去我的性质。烧去我的存心、我自己的目的、我的动机、和我的目标。』这是对内里生命的真实经历，不是仅仅教训而已。
19Ezekiel saw that the cloud which overshadowed him was covered with fire flashing continually. This also is a matter which corresponds to our spiritual experience. When the stormy wind comes from the Lord and the overshadowing presence of the Lord remains, we have the sense that something within us is shining, searching, and burning. Under such a shining, enlightening, searching, and burning, we may realize that we are wrong in certain things. For example, we may realize that our attitude toward a particular brother is wrong. Under the shining and searching of the Lord’s presence, we are exposed, and we condemn ourselves and confess our shortcomings. Then the searching fire will burn away the negative things within us. The fire seen by Ezekiel signifies God’s burning and sanctifying power. Everything that does not match God’s holy nature and disposition must be burned away. Only what matches His holiness can pass through His holy fire. This can be confirmed by our spiritual experience. The Holy Spirit comes to convict people regarding sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). Whenever the Holy Spirit touches us and causes us to confess our sins and pray, we will sense the need to be sanctified and to have all the corruption purged out of our being. We will realize that anything that does not match the holiness of God must be burned away. If someone claims to have been visited by God but has no feeling concerning his sins and unholiness, that person has not truly been touched by the Spirit of God. When God visits a person, His holy fire will come to consume the negative things in him. This burning fire also causes us to be enlightened. The more the fire of the Holy Spirit burns in us, the more we will be purified and enlightened. If we experience the Lord in this way, there will be no need for others to tell us that we are wrong in certain matters or that our attitude toward a particular brother is wrong. If someone tries to correct us, we might be offended. But even if we would receive a word of correction and then try to improve ourselves, this would not mean anything as far as the inner life is concerned. We need to be under the shining and the searching of the Lord’s presence. The more we are under this shining, the more we will be willing to say, “Lord Jesus, burn me! I am not good for anything except to be burned. O Lord, burn away my disposition. Burn away my intentions, my self-aim, my motives, and my goals.” This is a genuine experience of the inner life, not a mere teaching.
20我多年供应话语给主的子民，现在学知仅仅教训一无所成。我们都需要风的吹动，主同在的覆庇，以及这火的搜寻和焚烧。我们的神乃是烈火。（申四24，来十二29。）风、云和火都是主自己。祂来临的时候，乃是作为暴风来临；祂与我们同在的时候，是作为云停留；祂搜寻、焚烧我们的时候，是作为烈火搜寻、焚烧。没有人能经历主作吹动的风，作遮盖的云，并作焚烧的烈火，而没有经历真正的改变和变化。我们都需要藉著火变化。我们都需要被焚烧而变化。我们的神，主耶稣，不但是活水，也是烈火。许多基督徒宝贵以西结四十七章，因为那章说到涌流的河。我们需要领悟，涌流的河不是以西结书的第一样东西。反之，河是在火以后来临。火在一章，河在四十七章。火总是先来。火的源头是吹动的风同遮盖的云。由此我们看见，火不是直接临到我们。神作吹动的风临到我们，并作遮盖的云与我们同在。在祂的遮盖之下，我们被祂的照耀暴露。我们在祂的照耀之下时，该承认我们需要祂的焚烧，然后祷告，求祂烧去我们的己，我们老旧的性情，我们的个性，我们的世俗，以及我们的态度、目标、目的、动机和存心。我们都需要这样被主焚烧。一次这样的焚烧，胜过千篇的教训。
20After ministering the Word to the Lord’sp eople for many years, I have learned that mere teaching does not accomplish anything. We all need the blowing of the wind, the overshadowing of the Lord’s presence, and the searching and burning of this fire. Our God is a consuming fire (Deut. 4:24; Heb. 12:29). The wind, the cloud, and the fire are all the Lord Himself. When He comes, He comes as the stormy wind. When He remains with us, He stays as the cloud. When He searches and burns us, He searches and burns as the consuming fire. No one can experience the Lord as the blowing wind, as the covering cloud, and as the burning, consuming fire without undergoing a real change and transformation. We all need transformation by fire. We all need to be transformed by being burned. Our God, the Lord Jesus, is not only the living water but also the consuming fire. Many Christians appreciate Ezekiel 47 because this chapter speaks of the flowing river. We need to realize that the flowing river is not the first thing in Ezekiel. Rather, the river comes after the fire. The fire is in chapter one, and the river is in chapter forty-seven. The fire always comes first. The source of the fire is the blowing wind with the covering cloud. From this we see that the fire does not come to us directly. God comes to us as the blowing wind and stays with us as the covering cloud. Under His covering we are exposed by His shining. As we are under His shining, we should confess our need for His burning and then pray for Him to burn away our self, our old nature, our disposition, our worldliness, and our attitudes, goals, aims, motives, and intentions. We all need to be burned by the Lord in this way. One such burning is better than a thousand teachings
光耀的精金
the glowing electrum
21神的心意不仅是要焚烧我们，使我们变成灰。神是良善的神，祂有良善的目的。祂作为风吹在我们身上，作为云遮盖我们，并作为火烧毁我们的目的是甚么？这问题的答案乃是，从火内发出光耀的精金。神圣之火的焚烧是为著精金的显耀。
21God’sin tent i on is not simply to burn us and turn us into ashes. God is a good God with a good purpose. What is His purpose in blowing upon us as the wind, in covering us as the cloud, and in consuming us as the fire? The answer to this question is that out of the fire appears the glowing electrum. The burning of the divine fire is for the manifestation of the electrum.
22希伯来文的『精金』一辞很难繙译。达秘新译本在以西结一章四节的注解里说，这个希伯来字指一种『不知名的物质；有人认为是一种金与银的混合物』。有一种犹太译本用精金这辞。精金是金与银的合金。金象征神的性情，银象征救赎。钦定英文译本将原文译作『琥珀』，因为这种发光金属的颜色是琥珀的颜色，这多少有点像金的颜色。精金不仅仅是金，也不仅仅是银，乃是金与银的混合。在启示录里我们能看见同样的原则。二十二章一节说到神和羔羊的宝座。在宝座上的一位不只是神，也不只是羔羊，乃是羔羊神，救赎的神。在创世记一章神仅仅是神，但在启示录二十二章祂是我们救赎的神，我们的羔羊神。照著启示录四章三节，神，在宝座上的一位，『显出来的样子好像碧玉和红宝石。』深绿色的碧玉，表征神是那在祂丰富生命中之荣耀的神；红色的红宝石，表征神是救赎的神。在宝座上的神显出来的样子好像碧玉和红宝石，这事实指明神不再仅仅是神，祂也是我们的救赎主。启示录二十二章和四章的这些例证，帮助我们领会以西结书里精金的意思。我们的神不仅仅是金所表征的圣者；祂也是银所表征的救赎的神。祂不再只是金－祂乃是精金，金与银调和。我们经历吹动的风，就享受遮盖的云，然后我们经过焚烧的烈火；结果是光耀的精金，一种照耀、可爱、宝贵、可悦的东西。作为精金，主耶稣是那位救赎我们，并作我们一切的。祂是我们的神，我们的羔羊，我们的救赎主，我们的碧玉，和我们的红宝石。我们若思想我们属灵的经历，就会领悟，今天那住在我们里面的一位是羔羊神，是由精金所表征的一位。
22The Hebrew word for electrum is very difficult to translate. In his note on Ezekiel 1:4 in his New Translation, J. N. Darby says that the Hebrew word denotes “an unknown substance; some think a mixture of gold and silver.” One Jewish version uses the word electrum. Electrum is an alloy of gold and silver. Gold signifies the nature of God, and silver signifies redemption. The King James Version renders the Hebrew word as “amber” because the color of this shining metal is the color of amber, which is somewhat like the color of gold. Electrum is not merely gold nor merely silver but gold mixed with silver. In the book of Revelation we can see the same principle. Revelation 22:1 speaks of the throne of God and of the Lamb. The One on the throne is not just God and not just the Lamb but the Lamb-God, the redeeming God. In Genesis 1 God was solely God, but in Revelation 22 He is our redeeming God, our Lamb- God. According to Revelation 4:3 God, the One on the throne, “was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance.” Jasper, which is dark green, signifies God as the God of glory in His rich life, and sardius, which is red, signifies God as the God of redemption. The fact that the appearance of God on the throne is like a jasper stone and a sardius indicates that God is no longer just God but also our Redeemer. These illustrations from Revelation 22 and 4 help us to understand the significance of the electrum in Ezekiel. Our God is not merely the divine Being signified by the gold; He is also the redeeming God, signified by the silver. No longer is He just gold—He is electrum, gold mingled with silver. When we experience the blowing wind, we enjoy the covering cloud and then we pass through the burning, consuming fire. The result is the glowing electrum, something shining, lovely, precious, and pleasant. As the electrum, the Lord Jesus is the One who has redeemed us and who is everything to us. He is our God, our Lamb, our Redeemer, our jasper, and our sardius. If we consider our spiritual experience, we will realize that the One who dwells within us today is the Lamb-God, the One signified by the electrum
23在神看来，我们在得救以前是卑贱邪恶的，没有尊贵或荣耀的东西。但是赞美主，祂拯救了我们，又重生了我们！祂的风、祂的云、和祂焚烧的火，使我们有可能得著祂这位救赎的神，在我们里面作光耀的精金。现今我们得著祂作瓦器里的宝贝，（林后四7，）因此我们成了尊贵荣耀的人。我们需要思想那在我们里面的基督是何等宝贵、尊贵。作为在我们里面的精金，祂是价值无比的宝贝。这宝贝就是风、云和火的结果。我们越经过风、云和火，精金就越构成在我们这人里面，使我们成为满了三一神并彰显祂荣耀的人。
23In the sight of God, before we were saved, we were base and wicked, having nothing that was honorable or glorious. Praise the Lord that He saved us and regenerated us! His wind, His cloud, and His burning fire have made it possible for us to have Him, the redeeming God, within us as the glowing electrum. Now we have Him as the treasure in the earthen vessel (2 Cor. 4:7), and we have thereby become a people of honor and glory. We need to consider how precious and honorable is the Christ who is within us. As the electrum within us, He is the treasure of incomparable worth. This treasure is the issue of the wind, the cloud, and the fire. The more we pass through the wind, the cloud, and the fire, the more the electrum is constituted into our being, making us a people who are filled with the Triune God and who manifest His glory.
24我们都需要更多经历属灵的风，覆庇的云，焚烧的火，和光耀的精金。因著经过这样的经历，我们就成为神荣耀的异象。在我们的经历中，我们有风、云、火和精金。然后当我们聚在一起的时候，我们就是精金之荣耀的异象，有照耀、光耀的贵重宝贝。
24We all need to experience more of the spiritual wind, the overshadowing cloud, the burning fire, and the glowing electrum. By passing through this kind of experience, we become the vision of the glory of God. In our experience we have the wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum. Then whenever we meet together, we are the vision of the glory of the electrum, having a precious treasure that is shining and glowing
基本的经历
THE BASIC EXPERIENCE
25我们在本篇信息中所看的，是申言者以西结所看见的第一个异象。这异象描绘在神圣生命一切属灵经历中最基本的经历。有各类属灵的经历，但这个经历是第一、基本的一类－风、云、火、和精金的经历。我们不是一次而永远的经历到风、云、火和精金。不是，这经历该是一再重复的循环。今天我们也许经历风、云、火和精金，然后一段时间以后，风又来了，跟著是云、火和精金。这个循环在整个基督徒的生活中该一再重复。由此我们看见，就一面说，我们基督徒在属灵的经历中是没有休息的。我作基督徒超过四十五年了，我从来没有从这个循环休息，反而对吹动的风，遮盖的云，焚烧的火，和光耀的精金有不断的经历。每次这个循环重复，就产生更多的精金。
25What we have been considering in this message is the first vision seen by the prophet Ezekiel. This vision portrays the most basic experience among all the spiritual experiences of the divine life. There are various categories of spiritual experience, but this experience is the first, and basic, category—the category of the wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum. We do not experience the wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum once for all. On the contrary, this experience is a cycle which should be repeated again and again. Today we may experience the wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum, and then after a period of time the wind comes again, followed by the cloud, the fire, and the electrum. This cycle should be repeated again and again throughout our Christian life. From this we see that, in a sense, we Christians have no rest in our spiritual experience. I have been a Christian for over forty-five years, and I have never had any rest from this cycle. Instead, there has been a continual experience of the blowing wind, the covering cloud, the burning fire, and the glowing electrum. Every time this cycle is repeated, more of the electrum is brought forth
26这个循环若停止了是很可怕的。在我们的经历中，风、云、火和精金的循环该永不停止。我们经历这个循环越多越好。我们若天天经历风、云、火和精金，就会很美妙。这是对内里生命的真正经历，这要带进生命真实的长大。
26It would be awful for this cycle to stop. In our experience the cycle of the wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum should never stop. The more we experience this cycle, the better. It would be wonderful if we daily experienced the wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum. This is the real experience of the inner life, and this will bring in the growth in life.