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诗七二8『他要执掌权柄，从这海直到那海，从大河直到地极。』
罗十一36『因为万有都是本於他、借着他、并归於他；愿荣耀归与他，直到永远。阿们。』
〔诗篇七十二篇八节的〕河与四十六篇四节所提的河一样：『有一道河，这河的支流，使神的城快乐。』这的确很有意义。四节的河表征三一神的流出，指明主的国度和王权，借着三一神的涌流扩展到地极。他的掌权是借他自己作滋润的水，他是借滋润执掌权柄。…雨就是河，滋润就是涌流。主要恢复全地，不是借察验，不是借审判，不是借击打，乃是借滋润！毫无疑问，主耶稣要回来，在地上施行他公义的审判。但那不过是他回来的一方面，另一方面是他要回来，像雨水滋润地。
今天全地就像干旱不毛的旷野。从这种干旱和干涸之中，生发出许多邪恶、罪恶的事。人是罪恶的，因为他们失望且不满足。…〔主回来〕主要的特点是，他必降临，如甘霖浇灌干旱、乾渴的大地〔诗七二6〕。他要怜悯这地，因此，他的掌权不是借审判和击打，乃是借滋润。这样一位基督要执掌权柄，从这海直到那海，作为大河涌流直到地极〔8〕。那里有水流，那里就有主耶稣的掌权。在那日，雨要临到所有的人─黑种人和白种人，黄种人和红种人。他们要在基督的掌权下欢乐。当基督回来时，那是何等的滋润、满足、平安、稳妥！
当我是个青年的基督徒时，我听过许多关于基督再来的教训。这些教训都说基督是审判者。我受到教导说，他要在怒中击打并摧毁人。我从没有听过一篇信息说，主耶稣要满带恩典回来，如甘霖浇灌不毛之地，并使忧郁虚空的人满足。但从诗篇中，我有把握说，在某种意义上，他要回来审判，但甚至在他审判时，地也要得着滋润。那里会有河。他来据有地，不但是借着运用能力，也是借着三一神的涌流。他要借着那河，就是那从耶路撒冷流出的河，取得这地。在那日，耶路撒冷要成为地的中心，在耶路撒冷的中心有殿，有河从殿中流出。我信这河要以四个方向达到全地，如在创世记二章。他要执掌权柄，从大河直到地极─不仅是借着能力，也是借着滋润。赞美主！
耶利米二章十三节说，『我的百姓，作了两件恶事，就是离弃我这活水的泉源，为自己凿出池子，是破裂不能存水的池子。』在神的经纶里，他的心意是要作活水的泉源，源头，以满足他的选民，作他们的享受。这享受的目标，是要产生召会作神的扩增，神的扩大，好成为神的丰满来彰显他。这是神在他经纶里的心意，喜悦（弗一5、9）。这思想的完满发展是在新约里，但其种子是撒在耶利米二章十三节。
神要我们为着我们的生活，接受他作活水的泉源。这就是说，他要我们接受他作我们全人的源头、泉源。我们如何能接受他作我们的源头？接受神作活水的泉源，惟一的路就是天天饮於他。借着喝，我们将流自神这泉源的活水接受到我们里面。
参读：诗篇中所启示并豫表的基督与召会，第十一章；圣经中关于生命的重要启示，第四章。
Psa. 72:8 "And He will have dominion
from sea to sea and from the River unto the ends of the earth."
Rom. 11:36 "Because out from Him
and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever.
Amen."
The significance of this river [in Psalm 72:8] is the same as the one
mentioned in Psalm 46:4: “There is a river whose streams gladden the city of
God.” It is really meaningful. The river in verse 4 signifies the flowing out
of the Triune God, indicating that the Lord's kingdom and reign is spread to
the ends of the earth by the flowing of the Triune God. His dominion is by
Himself as the watering river, and He gains the dominion by watering....The
rain is the river, and the watering is the flowing. The Lord will recover the
entire earth, not by examining, not by judging, not by smiting, but by
watering. Undoubtedly the Lord Jesus will return to exercise His righteous
judgment upon this earth. But that is only one aspect of His return. The other
is that He will come back as the rain to water the earth. (CWWL, 1969, vol. 3,
pp. 107-108)
Today the entire earth is as a dry and barren wilderness. Many evil and
sinful things spring forth from this drought and dryness. Men are sinful
because they are disappointed and dissatisfied....The primary feature [of the
Lord's return] is that He will come down as abundant showers dripping on the
dry and thirsty land. He will have pity on this earth, and thus His dominion
will not be by judging and smiting but by watering. Such a Christ will have
dominion from sea to sea and will flow as a river to the ends of the earth.
Where the flow is, there also is the dominion of the Lord Jesus. In that day
all people─black
and white, yellow and red─will be rained upon.They will be so happy
under Christ's dominion. Oh the watering, oh the satisfaction, oh the peace, oh
the security when Christ returns!
When I was a young Christian, I was given much teaching concerning the
second coming of Christ. All these teachings set forth Christ as a judge. I was
taught that He would blast and smite the people in His anger. Never did I hear
a message saying that the Lord Jesus would come back so graciously as showers
of rain to water the barren land and satisfy the depressed and empty people.
But from the Psalms I have assurance to say that, while in one sense He will
come back to judge, yet even in His judging, the earth will be watered. The
river will be there. He will come to possess the earth not only by exercising
power but by the flowing of the Triune God. He will take the earth by means of
that river, the river which flows from Jerusalem. Jerusalem in that day will be
the center of the earth, and in the center of Jerusalem will be the house, from
which the river flows. I believe that this river will reach all the earth in
four directions, as in Genesis 2. His dominion will be from the River unto the
ends of the earth─not just by power, but by watering. Praise
the Lord! (CWWL, 1969, vol. 3, pp. 108-109)
Jeremiah 2:13 says, “My people have committed two evils: / They have
forsaken Me, / The fountain of living waters, / To hew out for themselves
cisterns, / Broken cisterns, / Which hold no water.” God's intention in His
economy is to be the fountain, the source, of living waters to satisfy His
chosen people for their enjoyment. The goal of this enjoyment is to produce the
church as God's increase, God's enlargement, to be God's fullness for His
expression. This is the heart's desire, the good pleasure (Eph. 1:5, 9), of God
in His economy. The full development of this thought is in the New Testament,
but it is sown as a seed in Jeremiah 2:13.
God wants us to take Him as the fountain of living waters for our
living. This means that He wants us to take Him as the source, the fountain, of
our being. How can we take Him as our source? The only way to take God as the
fountain of living waters is to drink of Him day by day. By drinking we take
into us the living water that issues from God as the fountain. (Life-study of
Jeremiah, pp. 17, 259)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1969, vol. 3, “Christ and the Church Revealed and
Typified in the Psalms,” ch. 11; CWWL, 1969, vol. 2, “The Crucial Revelation of
Life in the Scriptures,” ch. 4
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