启示录生命读经 · 第68篇

经历七灯、七眼和七灵

Experiencing the Seven Lamps, the Seven Eyes, and the Seven Spirits

神的建造，新耶路撒冷

God’s Building, the New Jerusalem

1在已过的永远里，独一的三一神─父、子、灵─独自存在。创世记一章二十六节启示神进来照著祂的形像造人。人虽然是照著神的形像造的，但在被造的时候里面并没有神的生命。当我们把全本圣经，从创世记一章到启示录二十二章都读过，就看见经过了许多时代、世代和世纪之后，到了将来的永远，神仍然在那里，然而祂不再独自存在了。虽然祂还是三一神，在二十二章一节描绘为神、羔羊和涌流的河（象征那灵），但那时祂要成为新耶路撒冷的中心。在已过的永远里，神独自存在；但在将来的永远里，三一神要成为新耶路撒冷的中心，并且要浸透全城。二十一、二十二章里新耶路撒冷的图画是一个表号，表征神要与祂所救赎的人调和，成为祂的扩大。最终，这班人要成为一个建造；由神性与人性构成的这个建造，要成为神人相互的居所。这是圣经透亮的启示。这启示包含三个要项：独一的神、受造的人和建造的新耶路撒冷。这三项包括了全本圣经。当神进到人里面，重生人，变化人时，祂就将自己与人调和。因著与人调和，神就扩大了。这调和的结果就是建造，新耶路撒冷。所以，那作神建造的新耶路撒冷，乃是神与受造、蒙救赎并得重生之人的调和。我们都需要看见这奇妙建造的异象。

1In eternity past, the unique Triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, existed by Himself. Genesis 1:26 reveals that God came in to create man in His image. Although man was created in the image of God, at the time of creation, man did not have the life of God in him. As we read through the entire Bible from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, we see that after many dispensations, generations, and centuries have passed, God will still be there in eternity future. However, He will no longer be by Himself. Although He will still be the Triune God, pictured in 22:1 as God, the Lamb, and the flowing river (the symbol of the Spirit), at that time He will be the center of the New Jerusalem. In eternity past, God was by Himself, but in eternity future, the Triune God will be the center of the New Jerusalem and will saturate the whole city. The portrait of the New Jerusalem in chapters twenty-one and twenty-two is a sign signifying that God will be mingled with His redeemed people as His enlargement. Eventually, this people will be a building. This building, constituted with divinity and humanity, will be a mutual habitation of both God and man. This is the transparent revelation of the Holy Bible. This revelation includes three main items: the unique God, the created man, and the builded New Jerusalem. These three items cover the whole Bible. When God comes into man, regenerates him, and transforms him, He mingles Himself with man. By mingling Himself with man, God becomes enlarged. The issue of this mingling is the building, the New Jerusalem. Thus, the New Jerusalem as God’s building is the mingling of God with the created, redeemed, and regenerated man. We all need to have a vision of this marvelous building

2被带进神不变的建造中最近一位弟兄见证，自从他得救之后，经历了许多的改变。有一阵子他很喜乐，然后有了改变。但到了一个时候，他以为自己进入了得胜的生活，事情却又改变了。然而想想看，从亚当的时候一直到新耶路撒冷，有过多少的改变，未来还要有多少的改变！你经历了这许多的改变，原因是你还未被带进神不变的建造中。在我们被带进神的建造以前，我们都要继续改变；惟有在我们进入祂的建造之后，才不再有改变。启示录三章十二节说，『得胜的，我要叫他在我神殿中作柱子，他也必不再从那里出去。』这指明我们惟有被建造在神的殿里，然后才不会再改变。其间，我们改变得越多，就越近于建造。我们永远的定命乃是在神的建造里。然而，今天在大多数的基督徒中间，并没有建造，却有飘流和转移。

2BROUGHT INTO GOD’SUN CHANGING BUILDING Recently, a brother testified that since the time he was saved, he has undergone many changes. For a while he would be happy, and then there would be a change. At one point he thought he had come into the victorious life, but then things changed once again. But consider how many changes there have been and will be from the time of Adam until the time of the New Jerusalem. The reason you have experienced so many changes is that you have not yet been brought into God’sun changing building. Until we all have been brought into God’s building, we all shall continue to change. Only after we have come into His building will there be no further change. Revelation 3:12 says, “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall by no means go out anymore.” This indicates that only after we have been built into the temple of God shall we cease to change. In the meantime, the more we change, the closer we are to the building. Our eternal destiny is to be in God’s building. However, among most Christians today there is no building. Instead, there is continual wandering and shifting.

十三项

THIRTEEN ITEMS

3创世记里有八个重要人物：亚当、亚伯、以挪士、以诺、挪亚、亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各。最终，这八个人产生了神的建造。在旧约里，这建造由帐幕和殿所豫表。在新约里，有建造的实际。耶稣是帐幕，（约一14，）召会是殿，（林前三16，）而新耶路撒冷是终极的完成。总共有十三项；创世记里的八个人物，豫表上的帐幕和殿，实际里的耶稣和召会，以及新耶路撒冷。

3In the book of Genesis there are eight important men: Adam, Abel, Enosh, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Eventually, these eight men issued in God’s building. In the Old Testament this building was typified by the tabernacle and the temple. In the New Testament we have the reality of the building. Jesus is the tabernacle (John 1:14, Gk.), the church is the temple (1 Cor. 3:16), and the New Jerusalem is the ultimate consummation. Altogether there are thirteen items: the eight men in Genesis, the tabernacle and the temple in type, Jesus and the church in reality, and the New Jerusalem

灯台和七灯

THE LAMPSTAND AND THE SEVEN LAMPS

4灯台是帐幕里非常重要的器具，因为牠指引人到至圣所的约柜那里。想想帐幕和外院子里器具的摆设。首先在外院子里有祭坛和洗濯盆；然后在圣所里有陈设饼的桌子和带著七灯的灯台。灯台指引人进入至圣所；牠指出通往见证之柜里生命之律的路。我们若只有出埃及记，就无法领会灯台和七灯的意义。但在撒迦利亚三、四章，灯台同七灯再次出现，那是出埃及二十五章里灯台的发展。撒迦利亚三章九节有石头上的七眼；在四章十节我们看见这七眼乃是耶和华的眼睛，4:10『遍察全地。』我们将撒迦利亚四章十节和二节放在一起，就看见灯台的七灯也是耶和华的七眼。因此，在撒迦利亚书里，出埃及记里的七灯发展成了主耶和华的七眼。再者，这七灯也是石头的七眼。因此，在撒迦利亚书里，七灯发展成了七眼，灯台发展成了石头和主耶和华。故此，七灯就是七眼，灯台就是石头、耶和华、主。这里不仅有七灯，也有七眼；不仅有灯台，也有石头、耶和华。这含示七灯就是七眼，灯台就是耶和华。

4The lampstand was a very crucial item in the tabernacle because it directed people to the ark in the Holy of Holies. Consider the arrangement of the furnishings in the tabernacle and the outer court. Firstly, in the outer court there were the altar and the laver. Then, in the Holy Place, there were the showbread table and the lampstand with seven lamps. The lampstand directed people into the Holy of Holies; it pointed the way to the law of life in the ark of testimony. If we had only the book of Exodus, we would not be able to understand the significance of the lampstand and its seven lamps. But in Zechariah 3 and 4 the lampstand with its lamps appears again as a development of the lampstand in Exodus 25. In Zechariah 3:9 we have the seven eyes on the stone, and in 4:10 we see that these seven eyes are the eyes of the Lord “which run to and fro through the whole earth.” When we put Zechariah with Zechariah 4:2, we see that the seven lamps of the lampstand are also the seven eyes of the Lord. Thus, in Zechariah the seven lamps in Exodus are developed into the seven eyes of Jehovah, the Lord. Furthermore, these seven lamps are the seven eyes of the stone. Therefore, in Zechariah the seven lamps are developed into seven eyes, and the lampstand is developed into the stone and into Jehovah, the Lord. Hence, the seven lamps are the seven eyes, and the lampstand is the stone, Jehovah, the Lord. Here we have not only the seven lamps, but also the seven eyes; not only the lampstand, but also the stone, Jehovah. This implies that the seven lamps are the seven eyes and that the lampstand is Jehovah.

新约里的石头

THE STONE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

5我们已经多次指出，石头在新约里得以发展。主耶稣在马太十六章十八节说，『我还告诉你，你是彼得，我要把我的召会建造在这磐石上。』这里主说祂自己是磐石。在马太二十一章四十二节祂说，『「匠人所弃的石头，已成了房角的头块石头；这是主所作的，在我们眼中看为希奇。」你们在经上从来没有念过么？』这里所说的石头，就是撒迦利亚三章九节那有七眼的石头。彼得在行传四章十一节也说到主是这块石头，他说，『祂是你们匠人所轻弃的石头，已成了房角的头块石头。』彼得告诉宗教徒说，他们所弃绝的不仅是他们的救赎主，还是神建造里的房角石。

5As we have pointed out a number of times, the matter of the stone is developed in the New Testament. In Matthew 16:18 the Lord Jesus said, “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church.” Here the Lord refers to Himself as the rock. In Matthew 21:42 He said, “Have you never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the cornerstone; this was from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes?” The stone referred to here is the very stone with the seven eyes in Zechariah 3:9. Peter spoke of the Lord as this stone in Acts 4:11, where he said, “This is the stone which was despised by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.” Peter was telling the religionists that they rejected not only their Redeemer, but also the cornerstone of God’s building

七灯进一步的发展

A FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

OF THE SEVEN LAMPS

6启示录四、五章有七灯进一步的发展。按照四章五节，灯台的七灯就是在神宝座前点著的七盏火灯。灯台上的七灯是为著照明，但神宝座前的七灯既是为著照明，也是为著完成神行政的管理。启示录五章六节指明，在宝座前点著的七灯也是羔羊的七眼。所以，七眼就是石头的七眼，耶和华的七眼，和羔羊的七眼。这七眼将石头、耶和华和羔羊结合起来。这指明羔羊就是石头，石头就是耶和华。不仅如此，五章六节还启示羔羊的七眼就是神的七灵。一面，有一条线包含六样东西；七灯、石头、耶和华、羔羊、神的宝座和神；另一面，还有一条线包含三样东西：七灯、七眼和七灵。灯台象征照耀，石头指神的建造。我们的救主耶稣就是耶和华，救赎主就是羔羊。神的宝座指明神的管理，神的行政。

6In Revelation 4 and 5 we have a further development of the seven lamps. According to 4:5, the seven lamps of the lampstand are seven lamps of fire burning before the throne of God. The seven lamps on the lampstand were for enlightening, but the seven lamps before the throne of God are both for enlightening and for the carrying out of God’s administrative government. Revelation 5:6 indicates that the seven lamps burning before the throne are also the seven eyes of the Lamb. Thus, the seven eyes are the seven eyes of the stone, the seven eyes of the Lord, and the seven eyes of the Lamb. These seven eyes combine the stone, the Lord, and the Lamb. This indicates that the Lamb is the stone and that the stone is the Lord. Moreover, 5:6 reveals that the seven eyes of the Lamb are the seven Spirits of God. On the one hand, there is a line containing six items: the lampstand, the stone, Jehovah, the Lamb, the throne of God, and God. On the other hand, there is another line with three items: the seven lamps, the seven eyes, and the seven Spirits. The lampstand signifies shining, and the stone refers to God’s building. Jesus, our Savior, is Jehovah, and the Redeemer is the Lamb. The throne of God indicates God’s government, God’sad ministration.

七灯为著完成神的行政

SEVEN LAMPS FOR CARRYING OUT

GOD’SAD MINISTRATION

7灯是为著照明、鉴察、暴露、审判和焚烧，这一切都是为著完成神的行政。今天神藉著照明、鉴察、暴露、审判和焚烧，来执行祂的管理。凡不符合神性情的东西都要被祂的火烧尽。尽管我们都已得救了，也已经过了相当的变化，但我们的工程若是木草禾秸，不是金银宝石，就要被烧毁。（林前三12～15。）任何肉体的工作，假借主名而事实上与主无关的工作，都要被烧毁；一切不出于神，或不照著神的东西，无论是所谓的召会、基督徒工作、甚至传福音，都要被神算为木草禾秸，都要用火烧毁。这个烧毁就是神行政的完成。圣经启示，神是烈火。（申四24，来十二29。）一切在祂之外，或不符合祂性情的东西，都要被烧毁。这七盏照明、鉴察、暴露、审判和焚烧的灯，要烧尽不符合神的一切，却要炼净那些真正照著神性情的东西。那些东西不会被烧毁，却会被炼净。渣滓要到火湖去，炼净的金子却要到新耶路撤冷去。

7The lamps are for enlightening, searching, exposing, judging, and burning. All this is for the carrying out of God’sad ministration. Today, God is administering His government by means of enlightening, searching, exposing, judging, and burning. Anything that does not correspond to God’s nature will be burned by His fire. Although we have been saved and have undergone some amount of transformation, our work will be burned if it is wood, hay, and stubble and not gold, silver, and precious stone (1 Cor. 3:12-15). Any fleshly work, work done in the name of the Lord but actually having nothing to do with Him, will be burned. Everything that is not of God or according to God, whether it be a so-called church, a Christian work, or even gospel preaching, will be counted by God as wood, hay, and stubble, and it will be burned by fire. This burning is the carrying out of God’sad ministration. The Bible reveals that God is the burning One (Deut. 4:24; Heb. 12:29). All things outside of Him or that do not correspond to His nature will be burned. Although the seven enlightening, searching, exposing, judging, and burning lamps will burn all that does not correspond to God, they will refine those things that are truly according to His nature. Instead of being burned away, those things will be refined. The dross will go to the lake of fire, but the refined gold will go to the New Jerusalem

8我们可以彼此隐瞒事情，但七灯照耀我们时，我们就完全赤裸而被暴露，再也不可能隐藏或遮盖自己。凡我们所是、所作、所说和所想的都被暴露、审判并焚烧。你的言谈若是符合神的性情，就会成为被炼净的金子；否则就会成为渣滓。这是对七灯的经历。

8We may be able to hide things from one another, but when the seven lamps shine on us, we are utterly naked and exposed. Then it is no longer possible to hide or cover ourselves. All that we are, do, say, and think is exposed, judged, and burned. If your talk corresponds to God’s nature, it will be refined gold. If not, it will be dross. This is the experience of the seven lamps

七眼为著注入和传输

SEVEN EYES FOR INFUSING AND TRANSFUSING

9七灯同时是羔羊和石头的七眼。灯是为著照明和焚烧；眼睛是为著注视和察看，也是为著注入和传输。这七眼将『羔羊石头』的一切所是传输到我们里面，使我们能和祂一样。彼前二章四、五节说，『你们来到祂这为人所弃绝，却为神所拣选所宝贵的活石跟前，也就像活石，被建造成属灵的殿。』我们成为活石的路就是来到祂面前，受祂的察看。当主照明、审判我们时，祂注视我们，祂的七眼将祂自己传输到我们里面。如此我们就被变化。

9The seven lamps are simultaneously the seven eyes of the Lamb and the stone. The lamps are for enlightening and burning; the eyes are both for watching and observing and also for infusing and transfusing. The seven eyes transfuse all that the Lamb - stone is into our being so that we might be made the same as He. First Peter 2:4 and 5 say, “To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house” (Gk.). The way for us to become living stones is to come to Him and to be seen by Him. As the Lord enlightens and judges us, He looks at us, and His seven eyes transfuse Himself into us. In this way we are transformed.

10我们若没有得救，这样受主七灯的光照是很可怕的经历；但我们是得救的人，这样蒙光照真是好。然而，我们的工作和生活若是属肉体，不在灵里，却照著己，受七灯光照就是可怕的，因为我们的生活和工作都要被火暴露并烧毁。但我们若在灵里并照著神的性情而活，七灯越光照我们，主越注视我们，祂的一切所是就越传输并注入我们里面。我们的经历证实这点。

10If we were not saved, it would be a dreadful experience to be enlightened in this way by the Lord’ss even lamps. But, as saved ones, it is wonderful to be enlightened in this way. However, if our work and our living are fleshly, not in the spirit, but according to the self, it would be terrifying to be enlightened by the seven lamps, for our living and our work would be exposed and burned by fire. But if we live in the spirit and according to God’s nature, the more the seven lamps enlighten us and the more the Lord looks at us, the more we shall be transfused and infused with all He is. This is confirmed by our experience

七灵为著分赐生命

SEVEN SPIRITS FOR IMPARTING LIFE

11当七眼注视我们，将主的一切所是传输并注入我们里面时，七眼立刻成了七灵，分赐生命到我们里面。当七眼注入我们里面，七灵就分赐生命到我们的全人里面。故此，灯是为著光照和审判，眼睛是为著传输和注入，灵是为著分赐生命，使我们得以变化成为祂的形像。我们越经历这个，就越被建造在一起。为这缘故，说到神终极建造的启示录包括这两章，揭示神的建造是藉著七灯、七眼和七灵完成的。我们都需要在七灯的光照下，受七眼的鉴察，并且接受七灵生命的分赐。在这些日子中，我们许多人在七灯、七眼和七灵之下，为著这个赞美主！我能见证，一天过一天我被暴露。这不也是你的经历么？但我们也得著传输。我能见证，每天都有一些主的东西传输到我里面，其结果就是更多在生命里长大。不要以为只有青年人在生命里长大。我虽然是年长的人，但我仍然在长，因为我每天都藉著七灵分赐生命的工作接受更多的生命。

11When the seven eyes look at us, transfusing and infusing us with all the Lord is, the seven eyes immediately become the seven Spirits imparting life into us. As the eyes infuse us, the seven Spirits impart life into our whole being. Therefore, the lamps are for enlightening and judging, the eyes are for transfusing and infusing, and the Spirits are for imparting life so that we may be transformed into His image. The more we experience this, the more we are built up together. For this reason, the book of Revelation, which covers God’s building in an ultimate way, includes these two chapters unveiling that God’s building is accomplished through the seven lamps, the seven eyes, and the seven Spirits. We all need to be under the enlightening of the seven lamps, under the beholding of the seven eyes, and under the imparting of life of the seven Spirits. In these days many of us are under the seven lamps, the seven eyes, and the seven Spirits. Praise the Lord for this! I can testify that day by day I am being exposed. Is this not your experience also? But we are also being transfused. I can testify that every day something of the Lord is transfused into me. The issue of this is more growth in life. Do not think that only the young people are growing in life. Although I am an older one, I am still growing because I am daily receiving more life through the life-imparting work of the seven Spirits

12七灯成为生命的河至终，宝座前的七灯成了生命的河，从宝座流出来。四章有七灯在神的宝座前点著，二十二章有生命水的河从神的宝座流出来。所以，七灯成了一道河。按我们的经历，神的七灵先是七盏点著的灯，我们接受七灯的焚烧之后，七灵就成了一道流。在四章还没有新耶路撒冷，因为只有七灯，没有建造。然而，当我们看见河从宝座流出顶替七灯时，我们就知道建造也来到了。也许你昨天在七灯的光照和焚烧之下，但今天早上你就在生命水的流中了。若是只有灯，就没有建造；但有了水流，就有新耶路撒冷。我们在流中，就是神建造的一部分。按照启示录，神的七灵先是在神行政宝座前点著的灯；最终在神的建造里，这神的七灵就成了从宝座流出来生命水的河。现在这宝座不仅是行政的宝座，也是供应的宝座。这样就有建造。我们越蒙光照，并接受焚烧，就越在生命的流中；我们越在生命的流中，就越被建造起来。这就是经历建造的路。赞美主！

12THE SEVEN LAMPS BECOMING THE RIVER OF LIFE Eventually, the seven lamps before the throne become the river of life proceeding out of the throne. In chapter four we have the seven lamps burning before the throne of God, and in chapter twenty-two we have the river of water of life proceeding out of the throne of God. Thus, the seven lamps become one river. According to our experience, the seven Spirits of God are firstly the seven burning lamps. After we receive the burning of the seven lamps, the seven Spirits become one flow. In chapter four we do not yet have the New Jerusalem, for with only the seven lamps there is no building. However, when we see the river proceeding out of the throne to replace the seven lamps, we know that the building has also come. Perhaps yesterday you were under the enlightening and the burning of the seven lamps. But this morning you are in the flow of the water of life. With only the lamps, there was no building; but with the flow, there is the New Jerusalem. When we are in the flow, we are a part of God’s building. According to the book of Revelation, the seven Spirits of God are firstly the lamps burning before God’s administrative throne. Eventually, in God’s building, these seven Spirits of God become the river of water of life proceeding from the throne. Now this throne is not only the administrative throne, but also the supplying throne. In this way we have the building. The more we are enlightened and receive the burning, the more we are in the flow of life, and the more we are in the flow of life, the more we are built up. This is the way to experience the building. Praise the Lord