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玛拉基书生命读经 · 第4篇

小申言者书中所启示的复兴

The Revival Revealed in the Minor Prophets
1读经：哈巴谷书3:2上，何西阿书6:2，约珥书2:28-29，哈该书1:14，玛拉基书3:1下，哈该书2:7上，希伯来书7:22，使徒行传26:18下，歌罗西书1:12，玛拉基书4:2上。在本篇信息中，我有负担说到小申言者书中所启示的复兴。可以说，复兴这件事是小申言者书『外壳』里面的『核仁』。
1Scripture Reading: Hab. 3:2a; Hosea 6:2; Joel 29; Hag. 1:14; Mal. 3:1b; Hag. 2:7a; Heb. 7:22; Acts 26:18b; Col. 1:12; Mal. 4:2a; Rom. 8:20-22 In this concluding message to the life - study of the Minor Prophets, I have the burden to speak a word concerning the revival revealed in the Minor Prophets. We may say that this matter of revival is the “kernel” within the “shell” of the books of the Minor Prophets.
壹 神选民的渴望
I. THE ASPIRATION OF GOD’SELECT
2哈巴谷三章二节上半说到复兴：『耶和华阿，求你在这些年间复兴你的作为。』在神的选民中间，一直有渴望要得著复兴。只要你是得救的人，每天在你里面，有意或无意，都会有一个渴望并自然而然的祷告：『主阿，求你复兴我们。』我们可能没有感觉，但这样的渴望在我们多年的基督徒生活中，一直在我们里面。
2Habakkuk 3:2a speaks of revival: “O Jehovah, revive Your work / In the midst of the years.” Among God’select there has always been an aspiration to be revived. As long as you are a saved one, every day, consciously or unconsciously, there is an aspiration with a spontaneous prayer within you: “O Lord, revive us.” Although we may not realize it, such an aspiration has been within us through all the years of our Christian life
3我们可能认为，哈巴谷求复兴的祷告对他来说很好，却与我们无关。然而，关于他的祷告，我们必须看见，在神没有时间的因素。在神眼中，祂选民中的一个人代表全体。神总是将祂的选民看作团体的身体。这就是说，哈巴谷和我们在神选民的单位里乃是一。因此，当哈巴谷祷告求复兴时，我们也祷告。我们在二千六百年前就祷告求复兴了。这样的祷告是永存的祷告。已过六年来，我多次嘱咐圣徒，要将神命定之路鲜活的实行出来；但若没有复兴，我们能有甚么东西是活的？若没有复兴，我们就是单单竭力实行神命定之路的第一步－探访人传福音，也会成为极重的负担，叫人担受不起。我们都需要看见，我们得救蒙保守在地上，为的是要作一件事，就是使万民作主的门徒，从『耶路撒冷』开始，然后扩展到『犹太』、『撒玛利亚』，直到地极。（徒一8。）我们活著若只是为著教育、事业、美好的婚姻、华美的房屋，就是虚空的虚空。我们活在这里是为著扩展主耶稣；不仅扩展到我们的近邻，更是扩展到全世界。我们若要作这事，就需要得著复兴。这就是为甚么主带领我们实行晨兴。
3We may think that Habakkuk’s prayer for revival was good for him but has nothing to do with us. However, regarding his prayer, we need to realize that with God there is no time element. In the eyes of God, one person among His elect represents the whole. God always considers His elect as a corporate Body. This means that Habakkuk and we are one in the unit of God’s elect. Thus, when Habakkuk prayed for revival, we also prayed. We prayed for revival twenty-six hundred years ago. Such a prayer is an everlasting prayer. Many times in the last six years I charged the saints to put the God - ordained way into a living practice, but without a revival, how could we have anything living? If we endeavor to practice just the first step of the God-ordained way—to visit people for the gospel— without being revived, this will be a heavy burden that no one can bear. We all need to realize that we have been saved and kept on earth to do one thing—to go to disciple the nations, beginning from “Jerusalem” and spreading to “Judea,” to “Samaria,” and to the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8). If we live for our education, a career, a good marriage, or a nice house, that is vanity of vanities. We are living here for the spreading of the Lord Jesus, not merely to our neighborhood but to the entire world. If we would do this, we need to be revived. This is why the Lord has led us to practice the morning revival.
4晨兴这件事是照著神创造中天然的律。神创造宇宙，每二十四小时有一次日出。我们信徒应当跟著日出，每早晨有复兴。每天我们都需要『日出』，这日出就是复兴。我们若经历每日的复兴，这样，我们就会成为活的，彀资格实行神命定的路，并帮助召会实行这条路。
4This matter of morning revival is according to the natural law in God’s creation. God created the universe so that there is a sunrising every twenty-four hours. We believers should follow the sunrising to be revived every morning. Every day we need a “sunrising,” and this sunrising is a revival. If we experience a daily revival, then we will be living and qualified to practice the God- ordained way and to help the church to take this way
贰 『两天』的荒凉
II. THE DESOLATION OF THE “TWO DAYS
与『第三天』的复活
AND THE RESURRECTION ON THE “THIRD DAY
5一面，哈巴谷为复兴祷告；另一面，何西阿说到『两天』的荒凉与『第三天』的复活：『过两天祂必使我们苏醒；第三天祂必使我们兴起。』（何六2。）因为在主千年如一日，（彼后三8，）所以『两天』可能是指二千年的时间。从主后七十年提多毁灭耶路撒冷和圣殿起，几乎有二千年之久，代表我们的以色列一直是荒凉的。从那一年起，以色列失去了祭司、祭物、申言者、君王和圣殿。但至终当以色列兴起，也就是复兴时，『第三天』－千年国的一千年－就要来到。
5On the one hand, Habakkuk prayed for revival; on the other hand, Hosea spoke of the desolation of the “two days” and the resurrection on the “third day”: “He will enliven us after two days; / On the third day He will raise us up” (6:2). Since to God a thousand years are as one day (2 Pet. 3:8), these “two days” may refer to a period of two thousand years. For almost two thousand years, from the time Titus destroyed Jerusalem and the temple in A.D. 70, Israel, our representative, has been desolate. From that year Israel lost the priesthood, the sacrifices, the prophets, the king, and the temple. Eventually, there will be the “third day”—the thousand years of the millennial kingdom— when Israel will be raised up, that is, restored
6在我们基督徒的生活中，原则也是一样。有时候我们荒凉了；但过了两天的荒凉，就会有第三天，表征在复活里那是灵的基督。今天我们可以接受在复活里那是灵的基督，藉此享受祂复活的实际。我们若有复活的基督，我们就是在早晨，在日出之时；这对我们是真实的复兴。一九八四年我看见主的恢复是在冬眠的状态下，就如何西阿六章二节里『两天』的荒凉一样。然而，我们若经历真实的复兴，我们就是在第三天。
6The principle is the same in our Christian life. At a certain time we became desolate. After the two days of desolation, there is the third day, which signifies the pneumatic Christ in resurrection. Today we may receive the pneumatic Christ in resurrection and thus enjoy the reality of His resurrection. If we have the resurrected Christ, we are in the morning, the sunrising, and this is a real revival to us. In 1984 I realized that the recovery was in a dormant condition, like the desolation of the two days in Hosea 6:2. However, if we experience a real revival, we will be in the third day
参 那灵的浇灌
III. THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT
7约珥书二章二十八至二十九节说到那灵的浇灌。每一天我们都需要包罗万有、终极完成、复合、赐生命之灵，这经过过程并终极完成之三一神的浇灌。这包罗万有的灵包括基督的神性与人性，祂死的功效，并祂复活的大能。这灵乃是我们的分，我们的基业。
7Joel 2:28 and 29 speak of the outpouring of the Spirit. Every day we need the outpouring of the all- inclusive, consummated, compound, life-giving Spirit as the processed and consummated Triune God. This all-inclusive Spirit includes Christ’s divinity and humanity, the effectiveness of His death, and the power of His resurrection. This Spirit is our portion, our inheritance.
肆 神选民的反应
IV. THE RESPONSE OF GOD’SELECT
8『耶和华激动犹大省长撒拉铁的儿子所罗巴伯，和约撒答的儿子大祭司约书亚，并剩下之百姓的灵。』（该一14上。）在这里我们看见神选民的反应；他们照著神权柄的次序，被主的灵激动。当他们有反应，在灵里被主激动时，我们也包括在内。
8Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people” (Hag. 1:14a). Here we see the response of God’select, who were stirred up by the Lord in the order of God’s authority. When they responded by being stirred up in their spirit by the Lord, we all were included
9在小申言者书里，有神圣的灵，就是神终极完成的灵，和人的灵，就是被激动之神选民的灵。神圣的灵已经浇灌下来，我们人的灵（经历和享受基督的钥匙）因著被激动，就对这神圣的灵有反应。我们可能觉得，在我们早期的基督徒生活中，我们的灵曾被激动过，如今已不再被激动了。然而，这不是事实。每位重生信徒的灵，都不知不觉的被激动。我们若去属世享乐的地方，我们的灵就会告诉我们要离开那里。每当我们叫那灵忧愁时，（弗四30，）我们就没有平安。这就是我们的灵被激动。当我们读经时，我们觉得平静安息。即使在这样的平静里，我们的灵也是在那灵的激动之下。每天我们的灵都不能避开这样的激动。圣经启示，一旦终极完成、复合、赐生命的灵进到我们里面，祂就永远不离开。祂住在我们里面时，常常给我们『麻烦』，不是反面的激动我们，就是正面的激动我们。我们若顾到这反面或正面的激动，我们就会得复兴，得加
9In the Minor Prophets there are both the divine Spirit, the consummated Spirit of God, and the human spirit, the stirred-up spirit of God’select. The divine Spirit has been poured out, and our human spirit (the key to experiencing and enjoying Christ) responds to such a Spirit by being stirred up. We may feel that our spirit was stirred up early in our Christian life but that it is no longer stirred up. However, this is not true. Unconsciously, the spirit of every regenerated believer is stirred up. If we go to a place of worldly entertainment, our spirit will be stirred up to tell us to leave that place. Whenever we grieve the Spirit (Eph. 4:30), we have no peace. This is the stirring up of our spirit. When we read the Bible, we feel calm and peaceful. Even in this calmness, our spirit is under the stirring up by the Spirit. Every day we cannot avoid the stirring up of our spirit. The Bible reveals that once the consummated, compound, life- giving Spirit comes into us, He will never leave. As He dwells in us, He is often a “troublemaker,” stirring us up either negatively or positively. If we take care of this negative or positive stirring up, we will be revived, and we will be strengthened and encouraged to carry out the God-ordained way
10力并得鼓励，来完成神命定的路。
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伍 对神的基督的享受
V. THE ENJOYMENT OF GOD’S CHRIST
11小申言者书也启示神的基督是我们的享受。对神的基督的享受，实际上就是对神自己的享受。
11The Minor Prophets also reveal that God’s Christ is our enjoyment. The enjoyment of God’s Christ is actually the enjoyment of God Himself
一 作神选民所羡慕的
A. As the Desire of God’sElect
12我们可以享受基督作神选民所羡慕的。（玛三1下，参该二7上。）不论我们对主或冷或热，我们都羡慕基督。你能说你不羡慕基督么？每一天我们都羡慕基督。
12We may enjoy Christ as the Desire of God’select (Mal. 3:1b; cf. Hag. 2:7a). Whether we are hot or cold toward the Lord, we desire Christ. Can you say that you have no desire for Christ? Every day we desire Christ.
二 作立约的使者
B. As the Angel of the Covenant
13我们也可以享受基督作立约的使者。（玛三1下。）祂作立约的使者，意思是说祂是服事者。基督回来时，要作立约的使者。祂设立祂的桌子，用祂的血立了新约。（太二六26～29，路二二20。）在新约中，有神分赐到我们里面，作我们的生命和生命的供应，并使我们的罪得赦。（耶三一31～34。）
13We may enjoy Christ also as the Angel of the covenant (Mal. 3:1b). For Him to be the Angel means that He is a serving one. In His coming back, Christ will be the Angel of the covenant. He enacted the new covenant with His blood at His table (Matt. 26:26-29; Luke 22:20). In the new covenant, God is imparted into us as life and as our life supply, and we have the forgiveness of sins (Jer. 31:31-34
１ 执行藉著祂死所立的新约，作新约的保证
1. To Execute as Its Surety the New Covenant Enacted through His Death
14基督不仅藉著祂的死立了新约，更在复活中执行新约，作新约的保证，（来七22，）使这约对我们成为实际。祂特别向我们保证，我们的罪得了赦免，我们也得著祂作我们的生命和生命的供应，就是主桌子上的饼所表征的。一天过一天，我们都能享受祂作新约的保证。
14Christ not only enacted the new covenant through His death, but in resurrection He executes the new covenant as its surety (Heb. 7:22), making it real to us. In particular, He assures us that our sins have been forgiven and that we have Him as our life and life supply signified by the bread at the Lord’stable. Day by day we may enjoy Him as the surety of the new covenant
２ 将立约之三一神的丰富分赐到神选民里面
2. To Dispense the Riches of the Covenanted Triune God into His Elect
15基督作为立约的使者，将立约之三一神的丰富分赐到神选民里面。照著行传二十六章十八节下半，我们不仅得蒙赦罪，更在『一切圣别的人中得著基业。』这基业就是三一神自己，连同祂为著蒙救赎的人所有的、所作的、以及将要作的一切。三一神具体化身在包罗万有的基督里，祂乃是『所分给众圣徒的分』，作了他们的基业。（西一12。）
15As the Angel of the covenant, Christ dispenses the riches of the covenanted Triune God into His elect. According to Acts 26:18b, we have received not only the forgiveness of sins but also “an inheritance among those who have been sanctified.” This inheritance is the Triune God Himself with all He has, all He has done, and all He will do for His redeemed people. The Triune God is embodied in the all-inclusive Christ, who is “the allotted portion of the saints” as their inheritance (Col. 1:12
三 作公义的日头
C. As the Sun of Righteousness
16最后，玛拉基四章二节说，我们可以享受基督作公义的日头，其翅膀带著医治。
16Finally, Malachi 4:2 tells us that we may enjoy Christ as the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings
１ 驱逐黑暗，为著在生命里的长大
1. For Growing in Life, in the Dispelling of the Darkness
17基督作为公义的日头，驱逐黑暗，为著在生命里的长大，藉此成了我们的享受。日光的照耀如何使植物生长，同样，基督这公义日头的照耀也是为著我们生命的长大。
17As the Sun of righteousness, Christ is our enjoyment for growing in life, in the dispelling of the darkness. Just as the shining of the sunlight enables plants to grow, Christ’s shining as the Sun of righteousness is for our growth in life.
２ 消除不义，为著在生命里的医治
2. For Healing in Life, in the Effacing of Unrighteousness
18基督作为公义的日头，也消除不义，为著在生命里的医治，藉此成了我们的享受。我们享受这生命的医治之前，不义是猖狂的；但藉著这医治，不义就被消除，为义所取代。
18As the Sun of righteousness, Christ is our enjoyment also for healing in life, in the effacing of unrighteousness. Before we enjoy this healing in life, unrighteousness prevails, but through this healing unrighteousness is effaced and is replaced by righteousness
附加的话
AN ADDITIONAL WORD
19在这里，我要再说一点关于复兴这件事。
19At this juncture, I would like to give an additional word on the matter of revival
宇宙对复兴的渴望
The Universal Aspiration for Revival
20小申言者书中所启示的复兴，可以应用到家庭、召会、国家、全人类、甚至整个宇宙。原则上，地上的每件事和每个人，都在何西阿六章二节所说两天的荒凉里。自从人类堕落后，在所有受造之物里8:20-面，都有复兴的渴望。罗马八章二十至二十二节论到这事说，『因为受造之物服在虚空之下，不是自己愿意的，乃是因那叫牠服的，指望著受造之物自己，也要从败坏的奴役得著释放，得享神儿女之荣耀的自由。我们知道一切受造之物一同叹息，一同受生产之苦，直到如今。』因著亚当的堕落，败坏、奴役、和死亡就进到一切的受造之物中。今天每件事都在朽坏，在败坏的奴役中。在这奴役之下的万物，都渴望得著复兴。
20The revival revealed in the Minor Prophets can be applied to the family, to the church, to the nations, to the entire human race, and even to the whole universe. In principle, everything and everyone on earth are in the desolation of the two days spoken of in Hosea 6:2. Since the fall of man, there has been in all of creation an aspiration for revival. Concerning this, Romans 22 says, “The creation was made subject to vanity, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will also be freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.” As a result of Adam’s fall, corruption, slavery, and death have come into the whole creation. Today everything is decaying and is under the slavery of corruption. All the things that are under this slavery aspire to be revived.
基督－第三天的实际
Christ—the Reality of the Third Day
21人的堕落带进败坏，随著败坏就有奴役。因著这个败坏和奴役，到处都需要复兴，需要恢复。这需要只能藉著基督并在基督里才能应付。基督在第三天复活；而祂这位在复活中是灵的基督，乃是第三天复活的实际。因此，基督就是一切受造之物所渴望的复活元素。败坏和荒凉只能被基督的复活所吞灭。
21Man’s fall brought incorruption, and with corruption there is slavery. Because of this corruption and slavery, there is the need everywhere for revival, for restoration. This need can be met only by Christ and in Christ. Christ was resurrected on the third day, and as the pneumatic Christ in resurrection, He is the reality of the third day. Christ, therefore, is the element of the revival for which all of creation aspires. The corruption and desolation can be swallowed up only by Christ’s resurrection
22不信者和信徒同样都渴望复兴，渴望有一个新的开始。每个人都想要新的东西；只有基督是更新的因素，只有这位在在第三天复起的基督是更新的能力。对于整个宇宙和整个人类，基督是第三天的实际。
22Unbelievers as well as believers aspire to be revived, to have a new beginning. Everyone wants something new. Only Christ is the renewing factor. Only Christ, who rose up on the third day, is the renewing power. For the whole universe and for all of mankind, Christ is the reality of the third day
23当我们接受基督时，就接受祂作那本身就是复活的一位。（约十一２５。）我们接受祂以后，在我们的为人生活中马上就有一个新的开始，那个新的开始就是复兴。但后来我们又进到荒凉的状态，因此需要另一个复兴。这荒凉－复兴，复兴－荒凉的循环一直在重复著。得著我们所需复兴的路，乃是接触基督，悔改，承认我们的罪、失败和黑暗。藉此我们就从两天的荒凉被带到第三天的复活。每当我们在荒凉时，就需要这样的复兴。我们需要来到第三天；第三天不是别的，乃是复活之基督的人位，带著复兴的实际。此外，我们有三一神作为终极完成、包罗万有、赐生命之灵的浇灌，我们的灵就被激动而有所回应。享受基督作人类所羡慕的当我们的灵被激动起来，回应那灵的浇灌时，我们就享受基督，不只作复活者，也作全人类所羡慕的一位。祂是人类惟一的需要。每个人，无论是信徒或不信者，都羡慕基督。我们所羡慕的基督已经立了新约，并且祂作为新约的保证，现今正在执行这约。藉著这约，神已经将自己作为我们在基督里该得的分，分给了我们；这基督是公义的日头，其翅膀带著医治。没有祂，我们就有黑暗和不义；有了祂，凡事就都有光明和公义。
23When we received Christ, we received Him as the One who is Himself the resurrection (John 11:25). Immediately after receiving Him, we had a new beginning in our human life. That new beginning was a revival. However, eventually we again entered into a state of desolation and thus needed another revival. This cycle of desolation and revival, revival and desolation, has been repeated again and again. The way to have the revival we need is to contact Christ, repenting and confessing our sins, failures, and darkness. By doing this we are brought from the desolation of the two days to the resurrection of the third day. Whenever we are in desolation, we need such a revival. We need to come to the third day, and the third day is nothing other than the person of the resurrected Christ with the reality of revival. In addition, we have the outpouring of the Triune God as the consummated, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit, and our spirit responds by being stirred up. Enjoying Christ as the One Desired by Mankind When our spirit is stirred up in response to the outpouring of the Spirit, we enjoy Christ not only as the resurrected One but also as the One desired by all of mankind. He is mankind’s unique need. Everyone, the believers and the unbelievers alike, desires Christ. The Christ we desire has enacted the new covenant and He, as its surety, is now executing it. Through this covenant God has been allotted to us as our legal portion in Christ, who is the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings. Apart from Him, we have darkness and unrighteousness, but with Him everything is light and righteousness
终极的复兴
The Ultimate Restoration
24当我们有这样一位基督时，我们不仅有复兴，更有万物的复兴。千年国将是万物复兴的时期。这万物的复兴要终极完成于新天新地，以新耶路撒冷为中心。那将是藉著复活的基督所完成之终极的复兴。
24When we have such a Christ, we not only have revival—we have restoration. The millennial kingdom will be a time of restoration. This restoration will consummate in the new heaven and new earth with the New Jerusalem as the center. That will be the ultimate, the consummate, restoration accomplished by the resurrected Christ