林前十11　这些发生在他们身上的事，都是鉴戒〔直译，预表〕，并且写在经上，正是为警戒我们这生在诸世代终局的人。

　　民十四29~30　你们的尸首必倒在这旷野，并且你们中间凡被数点的，……向我发过怨言的，必不得进我起誓要赐给你们居住的那地；唯有耶孚尼的儿子迦勒和嫩的儿子约书亚，才能进去。

　　保罗〔在林前十章六节和十一节〕用鉴戒〔直译，预表〕这辞非常有意义。……哥林多前书以旧约以色列人的历史，作新约信徒的预表。在五章七至八节，他们经历了基督作他们的逾越节，并开始守除酵节。在十章这里，他们受浸归了他们的摩西（基督），经过他们的红海（基督的死）。现今他们吃灵食，喝灵水，得以走上向着美地（包罗万有之基督）的旅程（基督徒的赛程）。他们也在这里受警戒（11），不要重演以色列人的历史，行恶事得罪神，如六至十一节所描绘的（哥林多前书生命读经，四九八至四九九页）。

　　1 Cor. 10:11 Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come.

　　Num. 14:29-30 Your corpses shall fall in this wilderness, and none of you who were numbered,...who have murmured against Me, shall come into the land, in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

　　Paul's use of the word examples [in 1 Corinthians 10:6] is very significant....First Corinthians takes the history of the children of Israel in the Old Testament as a type of the New Testament believers. In chapters 5, 7, and 8 they have experienced Christ as their Passover and have begun to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Here in chapter 10 they have been baptized unto their Moses (Christ), passing through their Red Sea (the death of Christ). They are now eating the spiritual food and drinking the spiritual drink that they may take their journey (the Christian race) toward their good land (the all-inclusive Christ). They are also warned here (v. 11) not to repeat the history of the children of Israel in doing evil against God, as illustrated in verses 6 through 11. (Life-study of 1 Corinthians, p. 421)

　　神呼召以色列人的目标，乃是要他们进入应许之地，享受那地的丰富，使他们能建立神的国，并在地上成为神的彰显。然而，他们虽然都借着逾越节蒙了救赎，脱离了埃及的暴虐，并被带到神的山，接受神居所—帐幕—的启示，但因着他们的恶行和不信，几乎全数倒毙在旷野，无法达到这目标（来三7~19）。唯有迦勒和约书亚达到目标，进入美地（民十四27~30）。这表征我们虽然借着基督蒙了救赎，脱离了撒但的辖制，也被带进神经纶的启示中，我们仍可能无法达到神呼召我们的目标，就是进入我们美地—基督（腓三12~14）—的产业，为着神的国享受祂的丰富，使我们能在今世成为祂的彰显，并在国度时代有分于对基督最完满的享受（太二五21、23）。这对所有新约的信徒，该是严肃的警告（哥林多前书生命读经，四九九页）。

　　我们需要读以色列人的历史，就像读我们的历史一样。没有神的怜悯和恩典，我们会和以色列人一样。因此，我们必须非常儆醒。我们不该以为摸召会、召会生活、召会的路或召会的立场，是一件小事。……没有召会，神就没有路往前。在旧约，以色列人是神的路。神若不能在他们身上成就祂的定旨，祂在这地上就没有路。今天，召会就是神的路。因此，凡摸召会，说到召会的好坏，都是严肃的事（民数记生命读经，一七○页）。

　　神给以色列人所预备的完全救恩，包括借逾越节的羊羔得救赎，出埃及，靠属天的吗哪得喂养，借流自裂开磐石的活水得解渴，并有分于迦南美地。所有的以色列人，都享受了逾越节的羊羔，属天的吗哪和活水，但一同从埃及出来的人中，只有约书亚和迦勒进入并有分于美地，其余的都倒毙在旷野（民十四30，林前十1~11）。虽然以色列人都是被赎的，但只有两个得胜者，约书亚和迦勒，得着美地为奖赏。

　　照以色列人经历的图画，并非所有借基督蒙救赎的信徒，都在召会时代以及要来的国度里，有分于基督作奖赏，作他们的安息和满足（希伯来书生命读经，三四一页）。

　　参读：哥林多前书生命读经，第四十七至四十八篇。

　　The goal of God's calling the children of Israel was to enter into the promised land to enjoy its riches that they might establish God's kingdom and be God's expression on earth. However, although all had been redeemed through the passover, delivered out of the Egyptian tyranny, and brought to the mountain of God to receive the revelation of God's dwelling place, the tabernacle, nearly all fell and died in the wilderness, failing to reach this goal (Heb. 3:7-19) because of their evil doings and unbelief. Only Caleb and Joshua made it into the good land (Num. 14:27-30). This signifies that although we have been redeemed through Christ, delivered out of Satan's bondage, and brought into the revelation of God's economy, we may yet fail to reach the goal of God's calling, that is, to enter into the possession of our good land, Christ (Phil. 3:12-14), and enjoy His riches for the kingdom of God that we may be His expression in the present age and participate in the fullest enjoyment of Christ in the kingdom age (Matt. 25:21, 23). This should be a solemn warning to all New Testament believers. (Life-study of 1 Corinthians, pp. 421-422)

　　We need to read the history of Israel as our history. Without God's mercy and grace, we would be the same as they. Thus, we must be very much on the alert. We should not think that it is a small thing to touch the church, the church life, the way of the church, or the ground of the church....Without the church, God has no way to go on. In the Old Testament, the children of Israel were God's way. If God had not been able to accomplish His purpose with them, He would not have had a way on earth. Today the church is God's way. It is therefore a serious matter to touch the church, to say something evil or good about the church. (Life-study of Numbers, p. 155)

　　God's full salvation, which He intended for the children of Israel, included redemption through the passover lamb, exodus from Egypt, feeding by the heavenly manna, thirst-quenching by the living water from the cleft rock, and partaking of the riches of the good land of Canaan. All the Israelites shared in the passover lamb, the heavenly manna, and the living water, but of those who shared the exodus from Egypt only Joshua and Caleb entered into the good land and partook of it; all the rest fell in the wilderness (Num. 14:30; 1 Cor. 10:1-11). Though all were redeemed, only the two overcomers, Joshua and Caleb, received the prize of the good land.

　　According to what has been depicted of the children of Israel, not all believers who have been redeemed through Christ will partake of Christ as a prize to them as their rest, their satisfaction, both in the church age and in the coming kingdom. (Life-study of Hebrews, pp. 283-284)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 1 Corinthians, msgs. 47-48