创世记结晶读经(28): 神创造亚当(一个团体人)的目的
创一 26『神说，我们要按著我们的形像，照著我们的样式造人，使他们管理海里的鱼、空中的鸟、地上 的牲畜、和全地、并地上所爬的一切爬物。』
28『神就赐福给他们；又对他们说，要繁衍增多，遍满地面，并制伏这地，也要管理…。』
神创造了一个团体人，不仅有他的形像以彰显他，也运用他的管治权管理万有以代表他。神给人管治权，目的是：1. 征服神的仇敌，那背叛神的撒但；2. 恢复被撒但所篡窃的地；以及 3. 运用神管理地的权柄，使神的国得以临到地上，神的旨意得以行在地上，神的荣耀得以显在地上。
创世记一章二十六和二十七节的『人』字，在原文中是单数的。这表明一位神在他三个身位里，按著他自己的形像创造了一个单个的人，并且把全地的管治权托付给这一个人。这句话包含整本圣经的神圣启示，因为圣经启示三一神造了一个人，是按著他的形像并有他的管治权，以彰显他并代表他。
藉著享受三一神，我们就天天在神圣形像和管治权的实际中长大。我们越在基督里长大，就越有神的形像，越有神的权柄。当人来到召会聚会中，他们能在那灵的流中摸著基督的实际，看见神的彰显，感觉到行使神圣权柄所带来制伏与征服的能力（李常受文集一九七○年第一册，一一九、一三六至一三七页）。
神给人管治权的用意是甚么？…神第一面的用意就是对付他的仇敌，对付爬物所象徵的撒但（创一 26）。在圣经中，爬物是属鬼的，属撒但的。…四活物─鹰、牛、狮子和人，代表一切受造之物，呈现在神的宝座前。在神面前没有蛇或蝎子等爬物的代表（创世记生命读经，九九页）。
在创世记一章二十六节，爬物豫表那蛇撒但（三 1、14，启十二 9），和他的使者（太二五 41，启十二 4 上、7 下），以及跟随撒但的鬼（参路十 19）。
创世记一章二十八节的『制伏』含示，神在地上与他的仇敌撒但之间进行著一场激烈的争战。谁赢得地，谁就得胜。神造人是要人为神制伏、征服并恢复地。
神把管治权赐给受造的人，使人能代表神，对地上神所造的万物行使神的权柄。神是创造者，但他不想自己直接管理地。他把管治权赐给人，使人能管理地上的万物。…我们若仔细读圣经，就会看见神有一个难处，就是天使长撒但，他背叛神，并成为神在宇宙中，特别是在地上的仇敌（赛十四 12~14，结二八 12~18）。
根据创世记三章一节，神的仇敌撒但藏身在地上的一种爬物─蛇─里面。神为了征服他的仇敌，从而解决他的难处，便赐人权柄管理他所造的万有。人特别要管理地甚至制伏地，因为地已经被背叛神的仇敌所篡夺。所以，神需要人行使他对所有爬物的权柄，也需要人制伏并征服背叛的地，好使神能恢复地来为著他的国。
仇敌撒但有能力，但我们有权柄要他停下。 参读：李常受文集一九七○年第一册，一一七至一三七页；神建造的异象，第一章。
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创世记结晶读经(29): :神造人对付他的仇敌地并夺回地
English Version
Gen. 1:26 "And God said, Let Us
make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." 28 "And God blessed
them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and
subdue it, and have dominion..."
God created a corporate man not only
to express Himself with His image but also to represent Him by exercising His
dominion over all things. God's intention in giving man dominion is (1) to subdue
God's enemy, Satan, who rebelled against God; (2) to recover the earth, which
was usurped by Satan; and (3) to exercise God's authority over the earth in
order that the kingdom of God may come to the earth, the will of God may be
done on the earth, and the glory of God may be manifested on the earth (Matt.
6:10, 13b). (Gen. 1:26, footnote 5)
In Genesis 1:26 and 27 the word man in
Hebrew is singular. This indicates that the one God in His three persons
created a singular man in His own image, and He committed to this man His
dominion over all the earth. This one sentence encompasses the divine
revelation in the entire Bible, for the revelation of the Bible is that the
Triune God created a man in His image and with His dominion to express Him and
represent Him.
Through the enjoyment of the Triune
God, day by day we are growing in the reality of the divine image and the
reality of the divine dominion. The more we grow in Christ, the more we have
God's image, and the more we have God's authority. When people come into the
church meetings, they can touch the reality of Christ in the flow of the
Spirit, and they can see the expression of God and sense the subduing and
conquering by the exercise of the divine authority. (CWWL, 1970, vol. 1, pp.
94, 106)
What was God's intention in giving man
dominion?...The first aspect of God's intention is to deal with His enemy, to
deal with Satan typified by the creeping things (Gen. 1:26). In the Bible, the
creeping things are demonic, devilish, and satanic....Four living creatures,
representing all creation, are present before the throne of God─the eagle, the ox,
the lion, and the man. No creeping things such as serpents or scorpions are
represented before God. (Life-study of Genesis, p. 79)
[In Genesis 1:26 creeping thing
typifies] Satan, the serpent (3:1, 14; Rev. 12:9), and his angels (Matt. 25:41;
Rev. 12:4a, 7b), as well as the demons who follow Satan (cf. Luke 10:19). (Gen.
1:26, footnote 6)
Subdue [in Genesis 1:28] implies that
a war is raging on earth between God and His enemy, Satan. Whoever gains the
earth will have the victory. (Gen. 1:28, footnote)
God gave created man dominion so that
man could represent God by exercising His authority over all the things on the
earth that were created by God. God is the Creator, but He does not want to
rule over the earth by Himself directly. He gave dominion to man so that man
could rule over all things on the earth....If we read the Bible carefully, we
will see that God has a problem, and this problem is Satan, the archangel who
rebelled against God and became His enemy in the universe and especially on the
earth (Isa. 14:12-14; Ezek. 28:12-18). According to Genesis 3:1, Satan as God's
enemy hid himself in the serpent, one of the creeping things on the earth. In
order to subdue His enemy and thus solve His problem, God gave man the
authority to rule over all the things created by God. Man especially must rule
over the earth and even subdue the earth because the earth has been usurped by
God's rebellious enemy. Thus, God needs man to exercise His authority over all
the creeping things, and God needs man to subdue and conquer the rebellious
earth so that God may recover the earth for His kingdom.
The enemy Satan is powerful, but we
have the authority to stop him. (CWWL, 1970, vol. 1, pp. 97-99) Further Reading: CWWL, 1970, vol. 1, pp.
94-107; The Vision of God's Building, ch. 1
- To be continued
创世记结晶读经(29):神造人对付他的仇敌地并夺回地
创世记结晶读经(二十七):神造人的定旨是去征服神的仇敌恢复
神的管理权
