创世记结晶读经(29):神造人对付他的仇敌地并夺回地

 

诗八 1~2『耶和华我们的主阿，你的名在全地何其尊大；你将你的荣美彰显於天！你因敌人的缘故，从婴孩和契奶的口中，建立了能力，使仇敌和报仇的，闭口无言。』

 

神要用人对付他的仇敌。神为著要对付他的仇敌，所以造人。神要受造者来对付受造者。神所要用的是受造的人（倪柝声文集第二辑第十四册，一一页）。

 

人如果没有从撒但的手下把地收回来，那就还没有达到神创造人的目的。救人常是为著人的好处，而对付撒但是为著神的好处。救人是为著解决人的需要，而对付撒但是为著满足神的需要（倪柝声文集第二辑第十四册，一三页）。

 

神给人管治权的第二面用意是恢复地（创一26~28）。人要管治地，治理地，制伏地。制伏地的意思是地上已经有了仇敌，战争正激烈的进行著。因此，我们必须争战并得胜。

 

神盼望再取得地。地已变成一个有决定性的地方，撒但想要持有地，神也想要得回地。争战遍及全地。谁取得地，谁就是胜利者。撒但若能将地保持在他的手下，他就得到胜利。神若能再取得地，他就要得到胜利。主耶稣尚未再来，因为地仍旧这样被撒但霸占。这就是为甚么神需要召会。召会必须争战，再取得地，即使不是全地，至少有一些踏脚石，一些前哨，给主耶稣踏在其上。地是有决定性的。

  

诗篇八篇完全证实了这点。八篇开始是说，『耶和华我们的主阿，你的名在全地何其尊大。』末了结束也是这样说。毫无疑问，主的名在诸天上是何其尊大，然而在某种意义上，在地上并不尊大。他的名在这许多堕落的人中间并不尊大。我们需要祷告：『愿你的名被尊为圣。』（太六 9）哦，主的名必须在地上被尊为圣。问题不在诸天之上，问题是在地上这里。

 

神渴望他的国能临到这地上，并且他的旨意能行在地上（10）。现在我们能明白主耶稣所设立的祷告。他说，『愿你的名被尊为圣，愿你的国来临。』这意思必是指从诸天之上临到地上来。接著主祷告说，『愿你的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。』神的旨意现今正行在天上，但在地上却有许多阻挠，拦阻神的旨意通行。我们必须祷告：『愿你的名被尊为圣，愿你的国来临，愿你的旨意行在地上，如同行在天上。』我们必须争战以恢复地。

 

当千年国的时候，地要成为神的国，这是启示在启示录十一章十五节。当主耶稣来临开创千年国时，全地要成为神的国。那时地要再被神取得。

 

在永世里，神的居所要从天降到新地上（二一1~2）。许多基督徒作梦上天，那是一个很好的梦，并且毫无疑问，我们都要去那里。然而，神渴望下到地上来。我们喜欢诸天，神却喜欢地。我们要上去，他却要下来。阿利路亚！让我告诉你们事实：当我们到天上时，主会说，『孩子们，让我们下去。让我们去接管地。』在永世里，天不是神的居所，神的居所是新耶路撒冷，而新耶路撒冷要从诸天降到新地上。这证明神的心愿是要再取得地。

 

    参读：倪柝声文集第二辑第十四册，一至二八页。

 

Psa. 8:1-2 "O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, You who have set  Your glory over the heavens! Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have established strength because of Your adversaries, to stop the enemy and the

 avenger."

 

    God wants to use man to deal with His enemy, and He created man for this purpose. God wants the creature to deal with the creature. He wants His creature man to deal with His fallen creature Satan in order to bring the earth back to God. The man whom He created is being used by Him for this purpose. (CWWN, vol. 34, “The Glorious Church,” p. 10)

 

    If man has not restored the earth from the hand of Satan, he has not yet achieved God's purpose in creating him. Saving souls is often only for the welfare of man, but dealing with Satan is for the benefit of God. Saving souls solves man's need, but dealing with Satan satisfies God's need. (CWWN, vol. 34, p. 11)

 

    The second aspect of God's intention in giving man dominion is to recover the earth (Gen. 1:26-28). Man is to have dominion over the earth, to subdue it, and to conquer it. To conquer the earth means that the enemy is there already, that a war is raging. Therefore, we must fight and conquer.

 

    God wants to regain the earth. The earth has become a crucial place, a place that Satan wants to hold and a place that God wants to regain. The battle is over the earth. Whoever gains the earth is the winner. If Satan can keep the earth under his hand, he has the victory. If God can regain the earth, He will have the victory. The Lord Jesus has not returned because the earth is still so much under Satan's usurping. This is why God needs the church. The church must fight the battle to regain the earth, if not the whole earth, at least some stepping stones, some outpost for the Lord Jesus to put His feet upon. The earth is crucial.

 

    This point has been fully proved by Psalm 8. Psalm 8 begins by saying, “O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth!” It also ends the same way. There is no doubt that the Lord's name is excellent in the heavens, but, in a sense, the name of the Lord is not excellent on this earth. His name is not excellent among so many of the fallen people. We need to pray, “Your name be sanctified” (Matt. 6:9). Oh, the Lord's name must be sanctified on this earth. The problem is not in the heavens; the problem is here on earth.

 

    God desires that His kingdom come to this earth and that His will be done on earth (Matt. 6:10).     Now we can understand the prayer which the Lord Jesus established. He said, “Your name be sanctified; Your kingdom come.” Certainly this means to come from the heavens to the earth. The prayer continues, “Your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth.” God's will is now being done in heaven. But on the earth there are many frustrations, hindering God's will from being done. We must pray, “Let Your name be sanctified; let Your kingdom come; let Your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.” We must fight to recover the earth.

 

    At the time of the millennium, the earth will become the kingdom of God. This is revealed in

Revelation 11:15. When the Lord Jesus comes to inaugurate the millennium, the whole earth will become the kingdom of God. Then the earth will be regained by God.

 

    In eternity, God's habitation will come down from heaven to the new earth (Rev. 21:1-2). Many Christians dream of going to heaven. That is a good dream and, undoubtedly, all of us will be there. However, God desires to come down to earth. We like the heavens, but God likes the earth. We are going up, and He is coming down. Hallelujah! Let me tell you the truth: when we get to heaven, the Lord will say, “Children, let us go down. Let us go down to take over the earth.” In eternity, the heavens will not be God's habitation.

 

    God's habitation will be the New Jerusalem, and the New Jerusalem will come down from the heavens to the new earth. This proves that God's desire is to possess the earth. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 81-82)

 

    Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 34, "The Glorious Church," ch. 1

 

- 未完待续

 

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