创世记结晶读经(三): 从伊甸园到新耶路撒冷

老约翰在约翰福音十四章6节那里说道:"耶稣说，我就是道路、实际、生命；若不借
着我，没有人能到父那里去。约十五1:"我是真葡萄树，我父是栽培的人。启二二14"那
些洗净自己袍子的有福了，可得权柄到生命树那里，也能从门进城。"

关于伊甸园的启示，作圣经里神圣启示的开始，包含四件事。首先是生命树，作神
永远经纶的中心。第二，创世记二章十至十四节说到一道河，流分四道，达到地的
四方。第三，在河流里有三种宝贵的材料：金、珍珠、红玛瑙。

在此这些材料是分散的，尚未建造在一起。第四，有一对夫妇，表徵基督与召会。
妻子从丈夫表徵基督而出，是丈夫沉睡表徵基督的死时，神从他取出来的一条肋骨，
表徵基督复活的生命，神用这部分建造成一个女人,表徵召会。

然后神把女人领到那人面前，使她与她丈夫成为一体，成为他的配偶，作他的扩增
和彰显。

关于新耶路撒冷的启示，作圣经里神圣启示的结束，也包含四件事。首先有生命树，
作神永远经纶的中心。第二，按照二十二章一节，有一道生命水的河，涌流达到地
的四方。第三，有三种宝贵的材料：金、珍珠、宝石。

这些材料由经过过程并终极完成之三一神建造成为一座城，就是新耶路撒冷城。第
四，新耶路撒冷整座城是一对夫妇。

经过过程并终极完成在基督里救赎的三一神是丈夫，救赎的三一神所拣选并救赎的
人乃是妻子，由经过过程并终极完成的三一神借着基督的死与复活，用救赎之神的
神圣生命作元素所产生，成为他的配偶，作他在永世的扩大与彰显。

堕落的结果，使撒但这知识树进到人的肉体中。我们相信基督的结果，使神这生命
树进到我们的灵里。因此，那从前在人身外园子中的两棵树，现今到了我们的里面，
一棵在我们的肉体里，另一棵在我们的灵中。

保罗说，在他的肉体中没有善，只有罪。罪实在就是撒但邪恶的性情。说罪住在我
们的肉体中，意思就是说，撒但那邪恶者在我们的肉体中。八章十六节证明神在我
们的里面。那里说，那灵自己同我们的灵见证。

因此，每一个真正的基督徒都是伊甸园的缩影。你魂的心思代表你自己，你肉体中
的罪代表撒但，而你灵中的那灵代表神。就像在伊甸园里，这三方在我们里面形成
了三角的局面。

这三角局面的种子撒在创世记二章，它的生长是在罗马八章，在那里我们看到那两
棵树的出现。六节说，『心思置於肉体，就是死；心思置於灵，乃是生命平安。』
创世记二章的两棵树是客观的，罗马八章的两棵树是主观的。

从前我期盼将我肉体中的知识树连根拔去，但是我越对付，它越留在我里面。最后
我发现了罗马八章。我看见另有一棵树住在我的灵里。因此在八章我们看到一个今
日的伊甸园。

二节说到生命之灵的律，释放我们脱离了罪与死的律。所以，在八章有两个律─生
命的律和死的律。这两个律是在我们主观经历中两棵树的两个原则。
参读：神人，第四章；创世记生命读经，第十一、十三至十四篇。

English Version

John 14:6 "Jesus said..., I am the way and the reality and the life; no 
one comes to the Father   except through Me." 15:1 "I am the true vine, 
and My Father is the husbandman." Rev. 22:14 "Blessed are those who wash 
their robes that they may have right to the tree of life  and may enter 
by the gates into the city."

    The revelation concerning the garden of Eden, as the beginning of the 
divine revelation in the Holy Scriptures, contains four matters (Gen. 2:8-14,
 18-24). First, there is the tree of life as the center of God's eternal 
economy (v. 9a). Second, [there is] a river flowing into four heads to reach 
the four directions of the earth [vv. 10-14]. Third, at the flow of the 
river are three kinds of precious materials: gold, pearl, and onyx (vv. 
11-12). Here these materials are scattered and not yet builded together. 
Fourth, there is a couple, signifying Christ and the church (vv. 18-24; 
Eph. 5:22-29, 32). The wife came out of the husband (signifying Christ) 
as a part (a rib, signifying the resurrection life of Christ) of him taken 
out of him in his sleep (signifying the death of Christ) by God, which part 
God built into a woman (signifying the church)─Gen. 2:21-22a.Then God brought 
the woman to the man and made her one flesh with him as her husband to be 
his counterpart as his increase and expression (vv. 22b-24;John 3:29a, 30; 
Eph. 1:23). (The God-men, pp. 62-63)

    The revelation concerning the New Jerusalem, as the ending of the divine 
revelation in the Holy Scriptures, also contains four matters (Rev. 21:1─
22:2).First, there is the tree of life as the center of God's eternal economy 
(22:2).Second, according to 22:1 a river of water of life flows to reach 
the four directions of the earth (cf. 21:13). Third, there are three kinds 
of precious materials: gold,pearls, and precious stones. These materials 
are built together into a city, the city of New Jerusalem, by the processed 
and consummated Triune God (21:18-21).Fourth, the entire city is a couple. 
The processed and consummated redeeming Triune God in Christ is the Husband. 
The chosen and redeemed people of the redeeming Triune God are the wife, 
produced by the processed and consummated Triune God through Christ's death 
and resurrection with the divine life of the redeeming God as the element 
to be His counterpart as His enlargement and expression in eternity (vv. 
2, 9; Eph. 1:23; 3:19). (The God-men, p. 63)

    As a result of the fall, Satan as the tree of knowledge came into man's 
flesh. As a result of our believing in Christ, God as the tree of life came 
into our spirit. Therefore, the two trees that were once in the garden outside 
of man are now within us, one in our flesh and the other in our spirit....Paul 
said in his flesh nothing good dwells, only sin [Rom. 7]. Sin is actually 
the evil nature of Satan. To say that sin dwells in our flesh means that 
Satan, the evil one, is in our flesh. Romans 8:16, a verse which proves that 
God is in us, says that the Spirit of God witnesses with our spirit. Thus, 
every genuine Christian is a miniature garden of Eden. The mind of your 
soul represents your self, sin in your flesh represents Satan, and the Spirit 
in your spirit represents God. As in the garden of Eden, the three parties form a triangular 
situation within us.

    The seed of this triangular situation was sown in Genesis 2, and the 
growth of the seed is found in Romans 8, where we see the outcrop of the 
two trees.Romans 8:6 says that the mind set on the flesh is death and that 
the mind set on the spirit is life and peace. In Genesis 2 the two trees 
were objective;in Romans 8 they are subjective....In the past I expected 
to uproot the tree of knowledge in my flesh, but the more I dealt with it, 
the more it remained within me. Eventually I discovered Romans 8. I saw 
that there is another tree abiding in my spirit. Thus, in Romans 8 we find 
a present-day garden of Eden.Romans 8:2 mentions the law of the Spirit of 
life, which sets us free from the law of sin and death. Therefore, in Romans 
8 we have two laws─the law of life and the law of death. These two laws 
are the two principles of the two trees in our subjective experience. (Life-study 
of Genesis, pp. 177-178)

    Further Reading: The God-men, ch. 4; Life-study of Genesis, msgs. 11,13-14

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