但以理书生命读经 · 第13篇

人类政权与神争战，而在基督带同祂的新妇回来时被砸碎

Human Government Fighting against God and Being Crushed by Christ in His Coming with His Bride

1读经：但以理书2:31-35,41-44，启示录19:7-9,11-21;17:14。我们研读主话或明白主话，不该用天然的方法，乃要照著主的启示和光照。要看见但以理每日三次祷告，不需要光照，但要看见但以理书中神的经纶，却需要异象、启示和光照。因著我们需要异象、启示和光照，所以保罗祷告父，求祂赐给我们智慧和启示的灵，使我们充分的认识祂。（弗一１７。）我们也需要有正确的解释。

1Scripture Reading: Dan. 2:31-35, 41-44; Rev. 19:7-9, 11-21; 17:14 We should not study the Word or understand the Word in a natural way but study and understand it according to the Lord'sr evelation and enlightenment. To see that Daniel prayed three times a day does not require enlightenment, but to see God'secon o my in the book of Daniel requires vision, revelation, and enlightenment. Because we need vision, revelation, and enlightenment, Paul prayed that the Father would give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him (Eph. 1:17). We also need the proper interpretation of the Word

2在本篇信息中，我要进一步说到人类政权所带给神的问题。我的负担是要指出，至终人类政权要与神争战，并要在基督带著祂的新妇回来时被砸碎。

2In this message I would like to give a further word concerning the problem presented to God by human government. My burden is to point out that eventually human government will fight against God and will be crushed by Christ in His coming with His bride

敌基督及其十王

ANTICHRIST AND HIS TEN KINGS

直接与神争战

FIGHTING AGAINST GOD DIRECTLY

3但以理书中所描述的大人像，头是金的，胸膛和膀臂是银的，肚腹和腰股是铜的，腿是铁的，脚指头是半铁半泥的。表面看来，金、银、铜、铁的部分对神不是问题；但十个脚指头却是大问题，因为当人类政权达到十个脚指头的阶段，就是敌基督及其十王的阶段时，才直接与神争战。因此，人类政权不仅背叛神、高举人并拜偶像，更直接与神争战。然而，基督作神的具体化身，要带著祂的新妇回来，将人类政权砸碎。

3In the great human image described in Daniel, the head was of gold, the breast and the arms were of silver, the abdomen and thighs were of bronze, the legs were of iron, and the feet and the toes were partly of iron and partly of clay. Apparently, the parts that were of gold, silver, bronze, and iron were not a problem to God. But with the ten toes there is a great problem, for when human government reaches the stage of the ten toes—the stage of Antichrist and his ten kings—it will fight against God directly. Thus, human government not only rebels against God, exalts man, and worships idols but also fights against God directly. However, Christ, the embodiment of God, will come with His bride to crush the human government

基督在新造里

IN THE NEW CREATION

为自己豫备新妇

CHRIST PREPARING A BRIDE FOR HIMSELF

4人类政权在被砸碎以前，将有一段漫长的历史，是世界的历史，也是新造的历史。基督是在新造里豫备一个新妇，与自己婚娶。基督若没有新妇，祂就要单独与敌基督争战，因为敌基督有一队军兵，而基督却没有。然而基督将要有一支军队，这军队就是祂的新妇。

4Before the human government is crushed, there will be along history, both of the world and of the new creation. It is in the new creation that Christ prepares a bride for Himself to marry. If Christ did not have a bride, then He would have to fight alone against Antichrist, for Antichrist would have an army but Christ would not. However, Christ will have an army, and this army will be His bride.

5以弗所书启示召会不仅是基督的新妇，也是战士。（六１０～２０。）在婚娶之日，基督要与那多年来一直争战抵挡神仇敌的人结婚。这就是说，在启示录十九章基督要与那已经胜过邪恶者的得胜者结婚。那时，魔鬼这被打败的恶者，将设法使敌基督与自己联合，敌基督也欢迎他。魔鬼与敌基督就成为一。敌基督受魔鬼指使，要聚集许多邪恶的人作他的军兵。在神眼中，这些邪恶的人，敌基督的军兵，乃是葡萄，要在『全能神烈怒的酒醡』中被踹。（启十九１５。）

5The book of Ephesians reveals that the church is not only Christ's bride but is also a warrior (6:10-20). On the day of His wedding, Christ will marry the one who has been fighting the battle against God'se ne my for years. This means that in Revelation 19 Christ will marry the overcomers, who have already overcome the evil one. This defeated evil one, the devil, will then seek to join himself to Antichrist, and Antichrist will welcome him. The devil and Antichrist will become one. Inspired by the devil, Antichrist will gather together a multitude of evil persons to be his army. In the sight of God, these evil ones, the army of Antichrist, will be the grapes that will be trodden in "the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty" (Rev. 19:15

6当基督来与敌基督和他的军兵争战时，祂乃是作为人子而来。祂这位人子需要一个配偶，好与祂相配，使祂得以完全。这个配偶就是祂的新妇。基督来砸碎人类政权的时候，祂要作丈夫，带著得胜者作祂的新妇。这就是说，祂在降到地上来对付十个脚指头并整个像以前，先有一个婚礼。（启十九７～９。）婚礼之后，祂就要与祂新娶的新妇把敌基督毁灭；这敌基督同他的军兵将要直接与神争战。

6When Christ comes to fight against Antichrist and his army, He will come as the Son of Man. As the Son of Man, He will need a counterpart to match Him and complete Him. This counterpart will be His bride. In His coming to crush human government, Christ will be the Husband with the overcomers as His bride. This means that before He descends to earth to deal with the ten toes and then with the entire image, He will have a wedding (Rev. 19:7-9). After His wedding, He will come with His newly-married bride to destroy Antichrist, who with his army will fight against God directly

基督对付旧造

THE WAY CHRIST DEALS WITH

和人类政权的方式

THE OLD CREATION AND THE HUMAN GOVERNMENT

7在前面的信息中，我们曾指出，旧造和人类政权对神都是问题。基督藉著祂的钉死，就是祂在十字架上包罗万有的死，对付了旧造的问题。这问题是祂自己单独解决的。基督还要对付人类政权的问题，就是带著祂的新妇来，将大像从脚指头到头砸碎。这问题不是祂单独解决的，乃是同著祂的新妇作祂的军队来解决的。基督同著祂的新妇，要把人类政权消灭。

7In a previous message we pointed out that both the old creation and human government are problems to God. Christ dealt with the problem of the old creation through His crucifixion, His all-inclusive death on the cross. This problem He solved alone. Christ will deal with the problem of human government by coming with His bride to crush the great image from the toes to the head. This problem He will solve not alone but with His bride as His army. Christ with His bride will annihilate the human government

CHRIST PRODUCING HIS BRIDE

基督在新造里，藉著长大并变化以产生新妇

IN THE NEW CREATION BY GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION

8现在我们要继续来看，基督如何产生祂的新妇。祂是藉著新造以产生新妇。今天在主的恢复中，我们乃是对抗传统组织的宗教，并为新造而争战。传统组织的宗教并不帮助信徒长大、更新并变化。我们许多人能见证，惟有来到召会生活以后，才开始在属灵上有长大。

8Now we need to go on to see by what way Christ produces His bride. He produces the bride by the way of the new creation. In the Lord's recovery today, we are fighting against traditional, organized religion and are fighting for the new creation. Traditional, organized religion does not help the believers to grow, to be renewed, and to be transformed. Many of us can testify that we did not begin to grow spiritually until we came into the church life.

9接著长大就是变化。无论是肉身上或属灵的生命上，我们都是藉著长大而变化。我们越长大，就越有变化。因著传统组织的宗教不帮助神的子民长大，所以就需要主的恢复。我们需要这个恢复，神也需要这个恢复。主的恢复完全是为著新造的。因这缘故，我一九六二年来到这个国家以来，就一直在释放关于变化的信息。主的恢复是为著新造，而新造需要从旧的变化成为新的。除了变化以外，我们也需要建造在一起，使我们成为基督的身体，也成为基督的新妇，基督的配偶。基督需要身体，也需要新妇。在祂第二次显现以前，祂要继续奥秘的在召会中作工，使我们成为新造。当这新造得著变化并在生命上成熟，这新造就要联于基督，而与祂成为一，作祂的新妇。

9Growth is followed by transformation. Both in our physical life and in our spiritual life, we are transformed by growing. The more we grow, the more we are transformed. Because traditional, organized religion does not help God'sp eople to grow, there is the need for the Lord's recovery. We need the recovery, and God also has a need for the recovery. The Lord's recovery is absolutely for the new creation. For this reason, from the time I came to this country in 1962, I have been giving messages on the matter of transformation. The Lord's recovery is for the new creation, and the new creation requires transformation from the old into the new. In addition to being transformed, we also need to be built up together so that we may be the Body of Christ and also the bride of Christ, the counterpart of Christ. Christ needs the Body and the bride. Before His second appearing, He will continue to work in the church in a mysterious way to make us a new creation. When this new creation has been transformed and has become mature in life, it will be attached to Christ and become one with Him to be His bride

10我要强调一个事实：新妇需要成熟。基督不会迎娶一个不成熟的新妇。只有等我们达到成熟，祂才会接我们作祂的新妇。我们必须承认，我们在主的恢复中尚未达到成熟；我们还是太幼嫩，不能呈献给基督作祂的新妇。因此我们急切需要成熟。当新郎基督看见新妇达到成熟，祂就要迎娶新妇，然后带著她作祂的军队回来砸碎人类政权。

10I want to stress the fact that the bride requires maturity. Christ will not marry a bride who is immature. Only when we have reached maturity will He take us to be His bride. We must admit that in the Lord's recovery we have not yet reached maturity; we are still too young to be presented to Christ as His bride. Thus, there is the urgent need for maturity. When Christ, the Bridegroom, sees that we have reached maturity, He will marry the bride and then come with her as His army to crush the human government

基督是神经纶的中心与普及

CHRIST AS THE CENTRALITY AND UNIVERSALITY IN GOD'SECON O MY

11基督迎娶祂的新妇以后，就要成为那非人手所凿的石头回来，把大人像从脚指头到头砸碎，将那直接与神争战的人类政权毁灭。藉著这个砸碎，全地就得著清理。旧造里人类政权的问题就得著解决。然后基督就从一块石头扩增成为一座大山充满全地。（但二３５。）这样，基督就成为神经纶的中心与普及。

11After Christ has married His bride, He will come as the stone cut out without hands and will crush the great human image from the toes to the head, destroying the human government which fights against God directly. Through this crushing the whole earth will be cleared up. The problem of the human government in the old creation will be solved. Then Christ will increase from a stone to a great mountain that fills the whole earth (Dan. 2:35). In this way Christ will be the centrality and the universality in God'secon o my.

12石头，说到基督是中心；大山，说到基督是普及。就著祂是石头来说，祂是圆心，是中心；就著祂是大山来说，祂是圆周，是普及。今天，基督必须是我们召会生活、家庭生活和日常生活的中心与普及。基督若是这样作我们的中心与普及，祂也就要成为神经纶和神行动里的中心与普及。

12The stone refers to Christ as the centrality, and the mountain refers to Him as the universality. As the stone He is the center, the centrality; as the mountain He is the circumference, the universality. Today Christ must be the centrality and universality in our church life, family life, and daily life. If Christ is our centrality and universality in this way, He will also be the centrality and universality in God'secon o my and in God's move

一切的王和国

ALL KINGS AND KINGDOMS

都在神的管理之下

BEING UNDER GOD'SAD MINISTRATION

13但以理书给我们看见，世上一切的王和国都在神的管理之下。想想看尼布甲尼撒统治巴比伦帝国的情形。首先，他与父亲一同摄政、掌权。主前六○六年，他以摄政王的身分毁灭耶路撒冷城。然后约在主前六○四年，他成为王，掌权直到主前五六一年。至终他儿子接续他的王位，然后是他的孙子伯沙撒；伯沙撒在但以理五章的荒淫放荡对神乃是亵渎，就在主前五三八年被杀。那时巴比伦帝国就结束了，六十二岁的玛代人大利乌得了国。大利乌是附属于古列的王。（见但八。）主前五三六年，古列颁布诏令释放以色列的俘虏归回犹大，这样就结束了神命定以色列人留在巴比伦的七十年。所以，神用巴比伦帝国，为要把祂那腐坏、失败的选民带到被掳中。七十年的被掳之后，神使玛代与波斯联合为一，为要结束巴比伦帝国，并从巴比伦的被掳中释放祂的子民。这说明了一切的王和国如何在神的管理之下。

13The book of Daniel shows us that all the kings and kingdoms of the world are under God'sad ministration. Consider the situation of the Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar. First, he became a co-regent with his father and reigned with him. As such a co- regent he destroyed the city of Jerusalem in 606 B.C. Then about 604 B.C. he became king and reigned until 561 B.C. Eventually he was replaced by his son and then by his grandson, Belshazzar, whose debauchery in Daniel 5 was an insult to God and who was slain in 538 B.C. At that time the Babylonian Empire came to an end, and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two. Darius was a subordinate king to Cyrus (see Daniel 8). In 536 B.C. Cyrus issued the decree that released the captives of Israel to return to Judah, thus ending the seventy years which God had apportioned for the Israelites to remain in Babylon. Therefore, God used the Babylonian Empire for the purpose of carrying His corrupted and defeated elect into captivity. After the seventy years of their captivity, God caused the Medes and the Persians to become one for the purpose of ending the Babylonian Empire and of releasing His people from their captivity in Babylon. This is an illustration of how all kings and kingdoms are under God'sad ministration

14在以赛亚书中，尼布甲尼撒和巴比伦都被定罪，古列却被尊崇。以赛亚十四章启示撒但与巴比伦是一。在申言者以赛亚眼中，尼布甲尼撒与撒但是一。相反的，以赛亚论到古列，却说神喜悦他，甚至使他成为牧人，照顾祂的子民。古列在位第一年，就宣布神的子民可以归回犹大。（拉一１～４。）他也安排将神殿中的器皿，就是尼布甲尼撒带到巴比伦的，使其归回耶路撒冷。因此，圣经说到古列是很积极的。不过，他仍是大像的一部分，就是人类政权的一部分，这政权要总结于敌基督，他要直接与神争战。这暴露出人类政权是何等邪恶。

14In the book of Isaiah, Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon are condemned, but Cyrus is highly regarded. Isaiah 14 reveals the oneness of Satan and Babylon. In the eyes of the prophet Isaiah, Nebuchadnezzar was one with Satan. Concerning Cyrus, on the contrary, Isaiah says that God delighted in him and even made him a shepherd to care for His people. In the first year of his reign, Cyrus proclaimed the return of God'sp eople to Judah (Ezra 1:1-4). He also arranged for the vessels of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar had brought to Babylon to be returned to Jerusalem. Thus, Cyrus is presented in a very positive way. Nevertheless, he was still part of the great image, that is, a part of the human government which will consummate in Antichrist, who will fight against God directly. This exposes how evil the human government is.

基督正为著祂回来

CHRIST PREPARING EVERYTHING

施行祂在地上的治权，

FOR HIS COMING BACK

豫备一切

TO EXERCISE HIS DOMINION ON EARTH

15为著对付这邪恶的人类政权，基督这位人子必须得著国度。（但七１３～１４。）一面，基督是在诸天之上，已经得了国度；另一面，基督是在-我们里面，成了赐生命的灵。（林前十五４５下。）作为我们的救赎主，祂藉著钉十字架把旧造了结。作为在复活里的那位，祂使新造有了新生的起头，今天祂正在我们里面作工，好成为祂的新造。祂也是我们在烈火窑中的同伴。（但三。）祂这奇妙的一位，正为著祂回来在全地施行祂的治权，豫备一切。

15In order to deal with this evil human government, Christ as the Son of Man must receive the kingdom (Dan. 7:13-14). On the one hand, Christ is in the heavens as the One who has received the kingdom. On the other hand, Christ is in us as the life- giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b). As our Redeemer, He terminated the old creation by His crucifixion. As the One in resurrection, He has germinated the new creation, and today He is working within us as His new creation. He is also our Companion in the burning furnace (Dan. 3). As such a wonderful One, He is preparing everything for His coming back to exercise His dominion over the whole earth