启十九7~8　我们要喜乐欢腾，将荣耀归与祂；因为羔羊婚娶的时候到了，新妇也自己预备好了。又赐她得穿明亮洁净的细麻衣，这细麻衣就是圣徒所行的义。

　　主耶稣重生召会，好使召会成为祂的新妇（约三3、5、29~30）。主是新郎，有神圣的生命和性情。我们若要成为祂的新妇，也必须有神圣的生命和性情。为此，重生是必需的。除了得着这个生命和性情以外，我们绝不能成为基督的配偶。在约翰三章我们看见，重生使我们够资格作基督的新妇。只有我们因着神圣的生命蒙了重生，因而得着神圣的性情以后，我们这班罪人才能被基督接纳，成为祂的佳偶。……我们借着重生，得着另一个生命，就是神圣的生命。在这生命里，并且凭这生命，我们才够资格成为基督的配偶，与祂相配（出埃及记生命读经，七四九至七五○页）。

　　Rev. 19:7-8 Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints.

　　The Lord Jesus regenerates the church so that the church may be His bride (John 3:3, 5, 29-30). The Lord is the Bridegroom with the divine life and the divine nature. If we would become His bride, we must also have the divine life and the divine nature. For this, regeneration is necessary. Apart from possessing this life and nature, we could never become Christ's counterpart. In John 3 we see that regeneration qualifies us to be Christ's bride. Only after we have been regenerated with the divine life and have thereby received the divine nature can we, sinners, be taken by Christ to be His love....Through regeneration we receive another life, the divine life. In this life and by this life we are qualified to become Christ's counterpart and to match Him. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 647-648)

　　在婚娶之日，基督要迎娶那多年与神的仇敌争战的人。这就是说，基督要迎娶那已经胜过那恶者魔鬼的得胜者（启十二11）。基督同其得胜者（团体的基督）乃是神所凿出的石头，要击打由大人像的十个脚趾所表征的十王和敌基督（十九11~21）。如此，团体的基督要把大人像从脚趾到头砸得粉碎（但二35）；也就是说，团体的基督—基督以及由得胜者所构成那刚迎娶的新妇—要作为非人手所凿的石头而来，砸碎人类的政权。如此，基督同其新妇便毁灭了人类的政权（新约总论第十四册，二七六至二七七页）。

　　在这世代的末了，基督要来迎娶祂的赎民作祂的妻子（启十九7）。现今的世代乃是神与祂的子民“约会”、追求他们并与他们订婚的世代。在这时期的末了，将有一个荣耀婚娶的日子，那时基督要迎娶祂所救赎的人。基督和祂所救赎之人之间的婚姻，是圣经中主要的启示。

　　在圣经的末了我们看见，神要和祂的子民在永世里享受婚姻生活，直到永远。在新天新地里，新耶路撒冷乃是羔羊的妻，直到永远（启二一9）。这是圣经所启示神的罗曼史的完成（出埃及记生命读经，七五○页）。

　　在以弗所六章，……召会不是基督的身体、建筑、家庭、国度、新人或新妇；在此召会乃是神的战士。召会不仅应当是彰显基督的身体、神居住的所在以及成就神经纶的新人；召会还必须是击败神仇敌的战士、军兵。

　　按照启示录十九章，召会是献给基督的新妇，也是与祂一同争战，抵挡神仇敌的战士。主耶稣再来的时候，祂首先要迎娶祂的新妇。基督接受新妇之后，祂与得胜者就要争战对付仇敌。

　　在七至八节，我们看到新妇穿着“明亮洁净的细麻衣”。然后在十四节，我们看到跟随主争战的众军乃是“穿着细麻衣，又白又洁”。这两处经节指明，新妇的结婚礼服，也是她作神军队与神仇敌争战时所穿的制服。所以，有结婚礼服，也就有制服。

　　作为新妇，我们必须是美丽的，毫无斑点和皱纹，并且穿着细麻衣。作为战士，我们必须装备好与神的仇敌争战（以弗所书生命读经，九八○至九八一页）。

　　参读：召会的意义，第九篇；真理课程四级卷三，第五十课。

　　On the day of His wedding, Christ will marry the one who has been fighting the battle against God's enemy for years. This means that Christ will marry the overcomers, who have already overcome the evil one, the devil (Rev. 12:11). As the God-cut stone, Christ with His overcomers—the corporate Christ—will strike the ten kings with Antichrist (19:11-21), signified by the ten toes of the great human image. In so doing, the corporate Christ will crush the great image from the toes to the head (Dan. 2:35); that is, the corporate Christ—Christ with His newly-married bride composed of the overcomers—will come as a stone cut without hands and smite the human government into pieces. In this way, Christ with His bride will annihilate human government. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 4346)

　　At the end of this age, Christ will come to marry His redeemed and to take her as His wife (Rev. 19:7). The present age is an age of "dating," courtship, and engagement between God and His people. At the end of this dispensation, there will be a glorious wedding day, at which time Christ will marry His redeemed ones. This revelation of the marriage between Christ and His redeemed ones is a major revelation in the Bible.

　　At the very end of the Bible we see that God will enjoy a married life with His people in eternity and for eternity. For eternity in the new heaven and new earth, the New Jerusalem will be the wife of the Lamb (Rev. 21:9). This is the fulfillment of God's romance revealed in the Scriptures. (Life-study of Exodus, p. 648)

　　[In Ephesians 6] the church is not the Body, the building, the family, the kingdom, the new man, or the bride. Here the church is God's warrior. The church should be not only the Body to express Christ, the dwelling place for God's habitation, and the new man for the fulfillment of God's economy; the church must also be a warrior, a soldier, to defeat God's enemy.

　　According to Revelation 19, the church is both the bride who is presented to Christ and the warrior who fights with Him against God's enemy. At His coming again, the Lord Jesus firstly will meet His bride. After receiving the bride, Christ and the overcomers will enter into battle against the enemy.

　　In Revelation 19:7 and 8 we see that the bride is clothed in "fine linen, bright and clean." Then in verse 14 we see that the armies which follow the Lord into battle are "dressed in fine linen, white and clean." These verses indicate that the bride's wedding garment will also be the uniform she wears as God's army to fight against His enemy. Therefore, to have the wedding garment is also to have the uniform.

　　As the bride, we must be beautiful, without spot or wrinkle, and be clothed in fine linen. As the warrior, we must be equipped to fight against God's enemy. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 814-815)

　　Further Reading: Three Aspects of the Church, Book 1: The Meaning of the Church, ch. 9; Truth Lessons—Level Four, vol. 3, lsn. 50