民数记生命读经 · 第40篇

争战（九）

Fighting (9)

1读经：民数记二十八章一至三十一节。

1Scripture Reading: Num. 28:1-31

捌律例

VIII. THE STATUTES

2民数记二十八章一节至三十章十六节说到关于供物（民二八１～二九）和许愿（民三十1～16）的律例。在本篇信息中，我们要来看关于供

2Numbers 2 8:1 — 3 0:1 6 deals with the statutes concerning the offerings (28:1—29:40) and concerning vows (3 0:1-1 6). In this message we will begin to 40 consider the statutes concerning the offerings.

3物的律例。

一关于供物

A. Concerning the Offerings

１给神作怡爽之香气的火祭－神的食物

1. The Offerings by Fire, God’s Satisfying Fragrance—God’s Food

4耶和华对摩西说，『你要吩咐以色列人，说，献给我的供物，就是献给我作怡爽香气之火祭的食物，你们要按日期献给我。（民二八2。）在这节神说到祂的食物。似乎祂在求祂的子民不要忘记祂的食物。祂要他们记得给祂东西吃。这里神似乎是对祂的子民说，『我为你作了许多，我豫备了粮和水。现在我要你们顾到我的食物。我的食物就是你们献给我的供物。这些供物是使我怡爽的香气。』神要摩西在收归他先祖那里以前，嘱咐百姓顾到神的食物，按时向祂献上食物。你听过神要吃东西么？我们吃自己的食物时，需要记得神也想要有食物，我们需要豫备一些东西给祂吃。希伯来十章五至九节指明，基督是旧约供物的实际和顶替。八节和九节说，『祭物和供物，燔祭和赎罪祭，是你所不愿要的，也是你不喜悦的。（这些都是按著律法献的。）后来又说，看哪，我来了，是要实行你的旨意。可见祂除去那先有的，为要立定那后来的。』这里神的旨意是除去那先有的，就是旧约的祭牲，为要立定那后来的，就是新约的基督为祭物。新约的供物就是基督自己。今天神的愿望和喜悦不在祭牲身上；神的愿望和喜悦完全在一个人身上，这个人就是基督。

4Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ‘‘Command the sons of Israel, and say to them, My offering, My food for My offerings by fire, My satisfying fragrance, you shall observe to offer to Me at its appointed time’’ (28:2). In this verse God speaks of His food. It seems that He is asking His people not to forget His food. He wants them to remember to give Him something to eat. Here God seems to be saying to His people, ‘‘I have done a great deal for you. I have prepared food and drink. Now I ask you to take care of My food. My food is the offerings you present to Me. These offerings are My satisfying fragrance.’’ God wanted Moses, before he was gathered to his fathers, to charge the people to take care of God’s food, to offer food to Him at the appointed time. Have you ever heard that God wants something to eat? As we are eating our food, we need to remember that God also desires food and that we need to prepare something for Him to eat. Hebrews 10:5-9 indicates that Christ is the reality of and the replacement for the Old Testament offerings. Verses 8 and 9 say, ‘‘Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You did not desire nor take pleasure in (which are offered according to the law); then He said, Behold, I come to do Your will. He takes away the first that He may establish the second.’’ The will of God here is to take away the first, the animal sacrifices of the old covenant, that the second, the sacrifice of Christ of the new testament, may be established. The new testament offerings are Christ Himself. Today God’s desire and pleasure are not in animal sacrifices; God’s desire and pleasure are altogether in one person— Christ.

5在我们进一步来看民数记二十八章神的食物时，让我们想想二十五至二十八章的顺序。在二十五章，以色列人有一次极大的失败，堕入淫乱里，败坏了他们的人性；也堕入拜偶像，侮辱了神的身位。由于这次失败，二万四千人以色列死于疫病。我们若在那里，可能会想，神在祂子民身上作工了这么久，又为他们作了这么多，现在由于这可怜的光景，神和他们之间的关系就要断绝了。然而，神没有和以色列人断绝关系。这由二十六章里的重新数点得著证明。神仍有祂的数目，在二十六章被数点的总数，和在一章的总数几乎一样。（民二六51，一46。）头一次数点的时候，还没有任何扰乱或因著神的惩罚而人数减少。重新数点是在许多扰乱和藉审判而人数减少以后。然而，虽然有这一切试炼、风波、试诱、失败和人数的减少，神为自己所得的数目，几乎和祂开头时所得的一样。不管仇敌作了甚么，不管百姓有多少失败，神藉著祂主宰的恩典和行动，仍然得著超过六十万的数目。在二十六章的重新数点以后，二十七章一至十一节就有判断女子承受土地的律例。西罗非哈的五个女儿去摩西那里请求，因著没有男子承受产业，她们获准得著她们父亲的产业。她们的请求（实际上与更多得著基督有关）被接纳了，因为她们有高超、纯洁的动机－重看神所给的产业（恩典）。民数记二十七章十二至二十三节说到摩西的死与他的继承人。摩西一百二十岁了，耶和华告诉他，他收归本民的时候到了。他的去引起有关领导的问题。谁要作他的继承人？当神告诉他，现在他要收归他本民那里时，摩西说，『愿耶和华万人之灵的神，立一个人治理会众，可以在他们面前出入，并且引领他们出入；免得耶和华的会众如同没有牧人的群羊。』（民二七16～17。）这指明摩西不看自己失去领导地位，他的心不放在自己的光景上，乃放在神的子民身上。摩西似乎对耶和华说，『我被收归本民那里，乃是对的、公平的。但耶和华阿，谁来照顾你的子民？百姓若没有人引领他们出入，他们就像没有牧人的群羊。』耶和华回应摩西的话，吩咐他将约书亚领来，使约书亚站在祭司和全会众面前，按手在他头上，好将自己的威荣给他几分，然后嘱咐他作领头的。（民二18～23。）这样，神就兴起了新的领头人。

5Before we consider further the matter of God’s food in Numbers 28, let us consider the sequence of chapters twenty-five through twenty-eight. In chapter twenty- five the children of Israel had a great failure, falling into fornication, a damage to their humanity, and into idolatry, an insult to God’s person. As a result of this failure, twenty - four thousand Israelites died by the plague. If we had been there, we might have thought that, due to this pitiful situation, God was finished with His people, upon whom He had been working for so long and for whom He had done so much. God, however, was not finished with the children of Israel. This is proved by the renumbering in chapter twenty - six. God still had His number, and the total of those numbered in chapter twenty-six was nearly the same as the total in chapter one (26:51; 1:46). At the time of the first numbering, there had not been any trouble or reduction in number through God’s punishment. The renumbering took place after much trouble and reduction through judgment. Nevertheless, in spite of all the trials, turmoils, temptations, failures, and reductions, God still had almost the same number for Himself as He had had in the beginning. Regardless of what the enemy had done and regardless of the people’s failures, God, by His sovereign grace and acts, still had a number greater than six hundred thousand. After the renumbering in chapter twenty - six, we have in 2 7:1-1 1 the statute of judgment for the women’sin her it ing of the land. The five daughters of Zelophehad came to Moses with the request that, since there were no male heirs, they be allowed to possess their father’s inheritance. Their request, which was actually related to gaining more of Christ, was granted, for they had a high and pure motive—regard for the inheritance (grace) given by God. Numbers 27:12-23 is concerned with the death of Moses and with Moses’ successor. Moses was one hundred twenty years old, and the Lord told him that the time had come for him to be gathered to his people. His going raised the question of leadership. Who would be his successor? When God told him that he would now be gathered to his people, Moses said, ‘‘Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly, who will go out before them and come in before them, who will lead them out and bring them in; that the assembly of Jehovah may not be as sheep which have no shepherd’’ (vv. 16-17). This indicates that Moses did not consider his loss of the leadership. His heart was not set on his situation but on God’sp eople. Moses seemed to be saying to the Lord, ‘‘It is right and fair for me to be gathered to my people. But, Lord, who will take care of Your people? If the people do not have someone to lead them out and bring them in, they will be as sheep without a shepherd.’’ The Lord responded to Moses’ word by telling him to take Joshua and cause him to stand before the priest and the whole assembly, to lay his hands on him in order to bestow upon Joshua some of his majesty, and then to charge him to be the leader (vv. 18-23). In this way God raised up a new leader.

6在二十七章末了，我们看见一幅美妙的图画，有新的百姓，新的军队和新的领头人。新的百姓被重新数点过，新的军队重新组成并得著加强，新的领头人被指派事奉，不是单凭自己，乃是同著祭司以利亚撒，以利亚撒要藉乌陵和土明得著神圣的指引。这就是说，百姓中间有了新的神治。因此，在这章末了，我们看见新的子民，新的军队和新的神治。在二十五至二十七章所记载这一切事以后，我们在二十八章看见神的食物这要紧的事。在这章的开头，神进来了，祂似乎对百姓说，『你们所需要的一切都有了么？你们满足并快乐么？我和我的满足怎样呢？你们要顾到我的食物。我多年来照顾你们。我为你们豫备了一切，又新又完全；现在你们豫备好了，要去得我应许你们祖宗的地。我要求你们不忘记我。记得我是饥饿的，我需要食物。』神是饥饿的，祂想要吃东西。虽然祂是全能的，但祂无法给自己东西吃。祂的食物必须来自祂的子民。这是为何祂说，『献给我的供物，就是献给我作怡爽香气之火祭的食物，你们要…献给我。』（民二八2）２按日期献给神神的食物要『按日期』（民二八2下）献给祂。我们将看见，每日，每周，每月并每年，神都需要吃。祂想要每日，每周，每月并每年都有所享受。神每年的食物与每年的节期有关。

6At the end of chapter twenty-seven we see a wonderful picture—a picture of a new people, a new army, and a new leader. The new people had been renumbered, the new army had been re-formed and strengthened, and the new leader had been appointed to serve, not by himself but with Eleazar the priest, who would receive divine instructions by means of the Urim and Thummim. This means that there was among the people a new theocracy. Hence, at the end of this chapter we see a new people, a new army, and a new theocracy. After all the events recorded in chapters twenty-five through twenty-seven, in chapter twenty-eight we have the crucial matter of God’s food. At the beginning of this chapter, God came in and seemed to say to the people, ‘‘Do you have everything you need? Are you satisfied and happy? How about Me and My satisfaction? You need to take care of My food. I have been taking care of you for years. I have prepared everything for you in a new, complete way, and now you are ready to possess the land which I promised to your forefathers. I ask you not to forget Me. Remember that I am hungry and that I need My food.’’ God is hungry and wants to eat. Although He is almighty, He cannot provide Himself something to eat. His food must come from His people. This is why He said, ‘‘My offering, My food for My offerings by fire, My satisfying fragrance, you shall observe to offer to Me’’ (28:2). 2. Offered to God at Their Appointed Time God’s food was to be offered to Him ‘‘at its appointed time’’ (v. 2b). As we will see, God needs to eat daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. He wants to enjoy something daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. God’s yearly food is related to the annual feasts

ａ每日常献的燔祭

a. A Continual Burnt Offering for Every Day

7民数记二十八章三至八节说到每日常献的燔祭。这每日的供物包括两只没有残疾一岁的公绵羊羔。（民二八3。）早晨要献一只公绵羊羔，连同调油的细面伊法的十分之一作素祭，并用酒一欣的四分之一作同献的奠祭（民二八4～7。）黄昏的时候，要献上另一只公绵羊羔，按早晨的素祭和同献的奠祭献上。（民二八8。）奠祭乃是要在圣处浇给耶和华。（关于供物的细节，可参看利未记生命读经。）这是神每日的食物，包括肉、饼（素祭）和饮料。

7Numbers 28:3-8 speaks of the continual burnt offering for every day. This daily offering consisted of two lambs a year old without blemish (v. 3). One lamb was offered in the morning with a meal offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mingled with oil, and its drink offering of a fourth of a hin (vv. 4, 7). The other lamb was offered at dusk with the same meal offering and drink offering (v. 8). The drink offering was to be poured out to Jehovah in a holy place. (For the details on the offerings, you may consult the Life-study of Leviticus.) This was God’s daily food, food that included meat, bread (the meal offering), and drink.

ｂ每安息日的燔祭

b. A Burnt Offering for Every Sabbath

8除了每日常献的燔祭，还有每安息日的燔祭。（民二八9～10。）这祭乃是两只没有残疾一岁的公绵羊羔，并用细面伊法的十分之二为素祭，同著奠祭献上。

8In addition to the continual burnt offering for every day, there was a burnt offering for every Sabbath (vv. 9-10). This offering was two lambs a year old without blemish, with a meal offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour and its drink offering

ｃ每月朔的燔祭

c. A Burnt Offering for the Beginning of Every Month

9每月朔也有燔祭。（民二八11～。）在神的创造里，祂命定了一年有十二个月。在每个月的开头，神想要吃一些特别的东西，祂的子民需要为祂豫备这食物。首先，这燔祭包括两只公牛犊，每只要用细面伊法的十分之三作素祭，并用酒半欣作同献的奠祭。其次，百姓也要献一只公绵羊，要用细面伊法的十分之二作素祭，并用酒一欣的三分之一，作同献的奠祭。除此以外，这每月的燔祭包括七只一岁没有残疾的公绵羊羔，每只要用细面伊法的十分之一作素祭，并用酒一欣的四分之一作同献的奠祭。不仅如此，与每日和每周献的燔祭相反的，每月的燔祭必须包括一只公山羊作赎罪祭。神当然与罪无关。然而，事奉的人乃是有罪的，需要救赎才有资格事奉神。我们若藉著将神的食物献给祂来事奉祂，就需要献上赎罪祭。

9There was also a burnt offering for the beginning of every month (vv. 11-15). In His creation, God has 15 ordained that there should be twelve months in a year. At the beginning of every month, God wanted to eat something particular, and His people were required to prepare this food for Him. First, this burnt offering included two young bulls with a meal offering of three- tenths of an ephah of fine flour and its drink offering of half a hin of wine for each bull. Second, the people were also to offer a ram with a meal offering of two- tenths of an ephah of fine flour and its drink offering of a third of a hin. In addition, this monthly burnt offering included seven lambs a year old without blemish, with a meal offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour and its drink offering of a fourth of a hin for every lamb. Furthermore, in contrast to the daily and weekly burnt offerings, the monthly burnt offering had to include a male goat for a sin offering. God, of course, has nothing to do with sin. However, the serving ones were sinful and needed redemption in order to be qualified to serve God. If we would serve God by offering to Him His food, we need to offer a sin offering.

ｄ逾越节之后的燔祭

d. A Burnt Offering Following the Passover

10民数记二十八、二十九章的供物有两条线－平常为人生活的线，和每年节期的线。平常生活的供物乃是每日，每周并每月的，但为著节期的供物乃是每年的。

10The offerings in Numbers 28 and 29 follow two lines—the line of ordinary human life and the line of the yearly feasts. The offerings for ordinary life are daily, weekly, and monthly, but the offerings for the feasts are yearly.

11关于每年的节期，我们需要看见这些节期与我们属灵的经历相符。我们属灵的生命开始于逾越节，终结于五旬节（七七节）。在五旬节我们有终极完成的灵作我们的享受，也作神的食物。这些节的顺序非常奇妙，满有意义。二十八章十六至二十五节说到逾越节以后的燔祭。逾越节只有一天，就是正月十四日。这个月的十五日是为期七天之无酵节的开始。在这节的第一日和第七日都有圣会，在这两日，甚么劳碌的工都不可作；没有工作，只有安息和享受。一连七日，每日的供物都和月朔所献的一样。

11Concerning the annual feasts, we need to see that they correspond to our spiritual experience. Our spiritual life begins with the Passover and consummates at Pentecost (the feast of weeks). At Pentecost we have the fullness of the consummated Spirit to be our enjoyment and also to be God’s food. The sequence of these feasts is marvelous and full of significance. In 28:16-25 we have the burnt offering following the Passover. The Passover was only one day, the fourteenth day of the first month. The fifteenth day of this month was the beginning of the feast of unleavened bread, a feast which lasted seven days. On the first and seventh days of this feast, there was to be a holy convocation, and on those days no laborious work was to be done. Instead of work, there was to be rest and enjoyment. The offering for every day of the seven days was the same as that offered at the beginning of each month

ｅ七七节的燔祭

e. A Burnt Offering for the Feast of Weeks

12民数记二十八章二十六至三十一节说到七七节的燔祭。这燔祭是在庄稼初熟的日子，就是在七七节的第五十日（民二八26，），将新素祭献给耶和华的时候献的。（利二三10～11，15～16。）当日要有圣会，甚么劳碌的工都不可作。为著七七节的供物和月朔所献的一样。

12Numbers 28:26-31 is concerned with the burnt offering for the feast of weeks. This burnt offering was offered in the day of the first fruits, that is, the fiftieth day of the feast of weeks (v. 26), when a new meal offering was offered to Jehovah (Lev. 23:10-11, 15-16). A holy convocation was held on the same day with no laborious work. The offering for the feast of weeks was the same as that offered at the beginning of the month

13神需要每日、每周、每月并每年的食物。除了享受平常的食物，神还要在每年的节期时享受食物。我们已经指出，这些节期与我们属灵的经历相符。逾越节豫表基督，祂是我们的逾越节；（林前五7；）五旬节豫表经过过程的三一神成了那完成、赐生命、分赐的灵。这样一位灵乃是三一神的丰满，也是我们对基督之享受的终极完成。民数记二十八章里的一切供物，一切神的食物，都指向基督。这指明基督不仅是我们的食物，也是神的食物。神和我们都享受同样的食物－基督。民数记二十八章的中心乃是基督。基督是这一章的内在实质。基督也是使我们能与神有交通的平安。最好的交通包括了吃。我们若要享受与神最好的交通，就需要用基督作祂的食物来事奉祂。然后我们与神有交通时，我们与神就藉著吃喝基督而彼此享受基督。

13God needs daily food, weekly food, monthly food, and yearly food. In addition to enjoying ordinary food, God wants to enjoy food at the yearly feasts. We have pointed out that these feasts correspond to our spiritual experience. The Passover typifies Christ, who is our Passover (1 Cor. 5:7), and Pentecost typifies the processed Triune God, who has become the consummated, life-giving, dispensing Spirit. Such a Spirit is the fullness of the Triune God and also the consummation of our enjoyment of Christ. All the offerings in Numbers 28, which are God’s food, point to Christ. This indicates that Christ is not only our food but also God’s food. God and we enjoy the same food— Christ. The center of Numbers 28 is Christ. Christ is the intrinsic substance of this chapter. Christ is also the peace that enables us to have fellowship with God. The best fellowship involves eating. If we would enjoy the best fellowship with God, we need to serve Him with Christ as His food. Then as we are having fellowship with God, we and God will have the mutual enjoyment of Christ by eating and drinking Him

14虽然基督是神的食物，但祂不是直接的作神的食物。反之，基督是由我们事奉给神作神食物的。然而，神的食物至终也成了我们的食物。我们若仔细读利未记，就看见燔祭乃是完全并绝对为著满足神而焚烧的。燔祭没有一分是献祭的人可以吃的。然而，燔祭是与素祭同献的，素祭有一大部分是给献祭者。这指明当我们事奉神，将基督献给祂作祂的食物时，祂是顾到我们的。神好像说，『你们用我的食物事奉我，现在我愿意与你们分享这食物的一分。』就这样，我们与神一同享受基督。我们在坐席，神也在坐席。祂与我们一同坐席。神与我们，彼此互相的，一同享受包罗万有的基督。

14Although Christ is God’s food, He is not God’s food in a direct way. Rather, Christ is God’s food served to God by us. Eventually, however, God’s food also becomes our food. If we carefully read the book of Leviticus, we will see that the burnt offering is to be wholly and absolutely burned for God’s satisfaction. No portion of the burnt offering is to be eaten by the ones who offer it. However, the burnt offering is accompanied by a meal offering, a large portion of which is for the offerers. This indicates that when we serve God, offering Christ to Him as His food, God takes care of us. God seems to say, You serve Me with My food, and now I would like to share a portion of this food with you.’’ In this way we enjoy Christ with God. As we are feasting, God also is feasting. He is feasting with us, and we are feasting with Him. In mutuality, God and we feast together on the all-inclusive Christ

15燔祭豫表基督是人，是完全为著神并满足神的一位。素祭豫表基督在祂完全、柔细、平衡的人性里。奠祭豫表基督为神倾倒祂自己。当基督在十字架上受死时，祂将自己倾倒，成了给神的奠祭。赎罪祭豫表基督作我们的赎罪祭，将我们救赎回来归给神，并解决我们罪性、罪行和失败的难处。我们有基督作这一切供物，现在就能与神一同享受基督。首先，我们享受基督作神所赐给我们的一位。我们经历了基督，就将祂献给神作神的食物，然后神就与我们分享一分我们所献给祂的基督。这里，我要进一步说到每年七个节期的头四个，从逾越节到七七节，就是五旬节。逾越节表征我们基督徒生命的开始。基督成了神的羔羊，除去我们的罪性与罪行，使神能在祂的公义里，越过我们。结果，我们就得救、被称义、得重生。这是我们基督徒生命的开始。我们在得救以后，立刻就要守无酵节。无酵就是没有罪。无酵节指明我们得救、重生以后，该过一种无罪的生活。在林前五章七节下半和八节，保罗说到逾越节和无酵节。『我们的逾越节基督，已经被杀献祭了。所以我们守这节，不可用旧酵，也不可用恶毒邪恶的酵，只用纯诚真实的无酵饼。』在这逾越节里，基督不仅是羔羊，更是整个逾越节。祂作我们的逾越节，在十字架上牺牲自己，救赎我们并使我们与神和好。无酵饼持续七天，乃是完整的一段时期，表征我们基督徒一生的整段时期，从得救那日到被提那日。这是一个长的节期，我们守这节，不可用旧酵，就是我们老旧天性里的罪，乃要用无酵饼，就是我们新性情里的基督，作我们的滋养和享受。惟有祂是纯诚真实的生命供应，完全单纯，没有搀杂，满了实际。基督徒的生活结果产生召会生活。这结果包括一些事，特别包括了基督的复活。逾越节和无酵节以后，就是初熟节。初熟节的那日就是基督复活，成为献给神之初熟果子的那日。按照新约，藉著基督的复活，我们这些在基督里的信徒，就产生成为活的肢体，以构成基督的身体。召会的肢体已经藉著，同著并在基督的复活里产生了。虽然召会的产生开始于基督的复活，但召会的形成乃是直到主复活五十天后的五旬节才发生。在五旬节那天，圣灵作为经过过程并分赐之三一神那包罗万有的灵，为著召会的形成浇灌下来。那灵乃是复活之基督的实化，就是另一形状里的基督；因为在复活里，基督成了赐生命的灵。（林前十五45。）在五旬节那天，那灵，实际上就是基督自己，浇灌在基督的肢体上；这些肢体乃是藉祂的复活所产生的。这样，召会就形成了。

15The burnt offering typifies Christ as the One who, as a man, is absolutely for God and who satisfies Him. The meal offering typifies Christ in His perfect, fine, balanced humanity. The drink offering typifies Christ’sp our ing Himself out for God. When Christ was dying on the cross, He was pouring Himself out as a drink offering to God. The sin offering typifies Christ as our sin offering redeeming us back to God and solving the problem of our sin, sins, and failures. With Christ as all these offerings, we may now enjoy Christ with God. First, we enjoy Christ as the One given to us by God. Having experienced Christ, we present Him to God as His food, and then God shares with us a portion of the Christ we have offered to Him. At this point, I would like to say a further word concerning the first four of the seven yearly feasts, from the Passover to the feast of weeks, which is the feast of Pentecost. The Passover signifies the beginning of our Christian life. Christ became the Lamb of God who took away our sin and our sins so that God, in His righteousness, might pass over us. As a result, we have been saved, justified, and regenerated. This is the beginning of our Christian life. Immediately after we were saved, we have to keep the feast of unleavened bread. To be unleavened is to be without sin. The feast of unleavened bread indicates that after we have been saved and regenerated, we should live a life without sin. In 1 Corinthians 5:7band 8 Paul refers both to the Passover and to the feast of unleavened bread. ‘‘Indeed our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and evil, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.’’ In this Passover Christ is not only the Lamb but the entire Passover. To be our Passover, He was sacrificed on the cross for our redemption and reconciliation to God. The feast of unleavened bread lasted for seven days, a period of completion, signifying the entire period of our Christian life, from the day of our conversion to the day of our rapture. This is a long feast, which we must keep, not with the sin of our old nature, the old leaven, but with the unleavened bread, which is the Christ of our new nature as our nourishment and enjoyment. Only He is the life supply of sincerity and truth, absolutely pure, without mixture, and full of reality. The Christian life results in the church life. This result involves a number of matters. In particular, it involves Christ’s resurrection. After the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread, there was the feast of the first fruits. The day of the first fruits was the day on which Christ was resurrected, becoming the first fruit to be offered to God. According to the New Testament, through Christ’s resurrection we, the believers in Christ, have been produced to be the living members for the constitution of the Body of Christ. The members of the church have been produced by, with, and in Christ’s resurrection. Although the producing of the church began with Christ’s resurrection, the formation of the church did not take place until Pentecost, fifty days after the Lord’s resurrection. On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit as the all-inclusive Spirit of the processed and dispensing Triune God was poured out for the formation of the church. The Spirit is the realization of the resurrected Christ, Christ in another form; for in resurrection Christ has become the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit, who is actually Christ Himself, was poured out upon the members of Christ, who were produced through His resurrection. In this way the church was formed.

16召会的形成分为两部分－犹太的部分和外邦的部分。五旬节那天献给神，由两个加酵烤成的饼所组成的新素祭，（利二三16～，）豫表了召会这两部分，就是由耶路撒冷的圣徒（徒二）和哥23:16-尼流家里的圣徒（徒十）所代表的。这两个加酵烤成的饼，指明形成召会两部分的人仍然有罪。（例如行传五章里亚拿尼亚和撒非喇的事例，以及行传六章里关于食物的怨言。）虽然如此，这两个饼形成了新素祭，这祭表征召会是基督的扩大。

16The formation of the church was of two parts or two sections—the Jewish part and the Gentile part. These two parts of the church, which are represented by the saints in Jerusalem (Acts 2) and by those in the house of Cornelius (Acts 10), are typified by the new 17 meal offering of two loaves of bread baked with leaven offered to God at the feast of Pentecost (Lev. 17). The fact that these two loaves were baked with leaven indicates that those who form the two sections of the church still have sin (e.g., the case of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 and the murmuring concerning food in Acts 6). Nevertheless, these two loaves formed the new meal offering, which signifies the church as the enlargement of Christ.

17现在我们简要的来看这四个节期的意义。逾越节是应验在基督受死那一天。（太二六2，17～19，～28。）在逾越节那天，我们得救了，得称义并重生了。接著的无酵节就是要我们过无罪的生活。这就是说，无酵节是应验于召会时代。初熟节是应验于基督复活那天。（林前十五20。）五旬节是应验于基督复活五十天之后，圣灵浇灌下来的那天。（1～4，参徒一3。）初熟节那天在基督的复活里，为著召会的形成，基督的肢体产生了。然后在五旬节那天，复活并升天的基督，在终极完成、包罗万有、赐生命之灵的形状里，将自己浇灌在祂的肢体身上。这是逾越节到五旬节的意义。在这些节期中，每一个节期都有食物给神。我们得救时，就在基督里成了神的食物。当我们在生命里长大时，我们就生产更多的食物使神满足。在基督一生的每一步里，都有给神满足的东西，因为我们乃是祂满足的因素。至终在五旬节那天就有两个饼，表征召会的两个部分，使神满足。

见证

弟兄：为著民数记二十五至

18二十八章里的神圣顺序，感谢主！在二十五章，以色列人有极大的失败：他们堕入淫乱和拜偶像里。但以色列并未完结。那里有一次炼净，然后在二十六章有重新数点。接著在二十七章，西罗非哈的女儿强烈的渴望要得著产业，得著基督；神同意她们的请求。到二十七章，我们看见摩西快要收归他本民那里，那时他并不失望，反而非常关心以色列人。然后在二十八章，神叫摩西嘱咐百姓按日期献食物给祂。所有作神食物的供物都豫表基督。今天，我们该每天，每周，每月并每年，向神献上基督。我们向神所献上的基督，乃是那活在我们里面，包罗万有的灵。在新路上，我们都有机会向神献上基督。这与已往常常只有一个人能在聚会中献上基督的情形，有何等不同！我们都是新约祭司体系里的祭司，我们该每天向神献上基督。我们该每天都有复兴。早上我们可以个人向神献上基督。在聚会中我们可以团体的将基督呈献给神。在新路上，我们都该向神献上基督。我们若这样作，神就得著𫗪养并满足。

18Let us now summarize the significance of these four feasts. The feast of the Passover was fulfilled on the day of Christ’s death (Matt. 26:2, 17-19, 26-28). In the Passover we were saved, justified, and regenerated. 26 Following this, the feast of unleavened bread is for us to live a life without sin. This means that the feast of unleavened bread is being fulfilled in the church age. The feast of the first fruits was fulfilled on the day of Christ’s resurrection (1 Cor. 15:20). The feast of Pentecost was fulfilled fifty days after Christ’s resurrection, on the day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-4; cf. 1:3). In Christ’s resurrection on the day of the firstfruits, the members of Christ were produced for the formation of the church. Then on the day of Pentecost the resurrected and ascended Christ poured out Himself upon His members in the form of the consummated, all - inclusive, life - giving Spirit to form the church. This is the significance of the festivals from the Passover to Pentecost. In each of these festivals there is food for God. When we were saved, we became God’s food in Christ. As we grow in life, we produce more food for God’s satisfaction. In every step of the Christian life, there is something for God’s satisfaction, for we are the factors of His satisfaction. Eventually, on the day of Pentecost, there are two loaves, signifying the two parts of the church, for God’s satisfaction.

19弟兄：不只我们是饥饿的，我们的神也是饥饿的。我们需要食物，神也需要食物。神将基督赐给我们，就为我们豫备了食物。现在我们需要享受基督，并且藉著享受，将祂回献给神作祂的食物。今天，新路的实行乃是给我们作这件事。在每日的复兴里，我们可以享受基督作我们的食物。然后在聚会中，就是按著日期，我们要向神献上基督作祂的食物。我们既是新约的祭司，就需要被这异象所支配。

姊妹：每年的头四个节期，乃是逾越节，无酵节，初熟节，以及

20七七节或五旬节。赞美主，这四个节期有一个结果，这结果就是召会！召会是基督的扩大和扩展。初熟节那天向神献上的禾捆，不仅表征基督，也表征众圣徒。我们都包括在基督的复活里，因为我们是与基督一同复活。藉著祂的复活，神圣的生命分赐到我们里面；藉这神圣生命的分赐，召会就产生了。但那里还有所缺的。召会已经产生了，但尚未形成。召会的形成发生在五旬节，就是当经过过程、终极完成、包罗万有、赐生命的灵浇灌在我们身上的时候。藉著这样一位灵浇灌下来，召会就形成了。今天，我们是召会，就是基督的扩大和扩展，这乃是头四个节期的结果。

21弟兄：在头四个节期里，我们看见基督是献给神，使神满足的食物。在逾越节我们得著基督。在无酵节我们经历基督作我们无酵的生命。这是关于我们的食物。但神也有祂的食物。在无酵节时，每一天都要向神献上燔祭作祂的食物。然而，不可能只有两个节期，因为神若没有得著召会，就不会满足。在初熟节有召会的产生，在五旬节有召会的形成。要使神得著满足，我们需要藉著经过过程之三一神自己作终极完成、包罗万有、赐生命的灵浇灌下来，而形成召会。藉著那灵浇灌下来而形成召会，这对神的确是个节期。在这些节期里，神得著了食物，也得著了满足。