林前十1 因为弟兄们，我不愿意你们不知道，我们的祖宗从前都在云下，都从海中经过。

　　　　　6 这些事都是我们的鉴戒，叫我们不作贪恋恶事的人，像他们那样贪恋。

　　在神旧的行政的预表安排里，神拣选了亚伯拉罕的后裔，以色列人，并使他们成为祂的子民，作召会的预表（罗九11~13，徒七38）。在旧约里，没有明言提起召会。然而，有描绘召会的预表。作神选民的以色列人，是召会最大、集体的预表，在其中我们能看见召会蒙神拣选并救赎，享受基督与那灵作生命的供应，建造神的居所，承受基督作她的分，堕落且被掳，却得恢复，并等候基督的来临（新约总论第一册，一八二页）。

　　1 Cor. 10:1 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

　　6 Now these things occurred as examples to us, that we should not be ones who lust after evil things, even as they also lusted.

　　In His old administrative arrangement God chose the children of Israel, the descendants of Abraham, and made them His people as a type of the church (Rom. 9:11-13; Acts 7:38). In the Old Testament the church is not mentioned in plain words. However, there are types that portray the church. The children of Israel, as the chosen people of God, are the greatest, collective type of the church, in which we can see that the church is chosen and redeemed by God, enjoys Christ and the Spirit as the life supply, builds God’s habitation, inherits Christ as its portion, degrades and is captured, is recovered, and awaits Christ’s coming. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 156)

　　在希伯来书和哥林多前书，〔保罗〕清楚指出，发生在以色列人身上的事，乃是我们的鉴戒（林前十6）。以色列人的整个历史，都是召会的故事。这样，圣经包含两种历史—以色列的历史和召会的历史。以色列人的历史是预表，召会的历史是预表的应验。因此，全本圣经给我们一个启示，就是神关于召会之经纶的启示。在旧约里，有神关于召会之经纶的预表、图画，而在新约里，神关于召会的经纶得着了应验（新约总论第一册，一八二页）。

　　在新约时代之前，就是在主成为肉体之前，神在地上拣选了一班称为以色列的人。……他们的先祖是亚伯拉罕。到了摩西的时候，当他们出埃及时，他们已经成了一个族类，至少有两百万人。从那时候起，他们就成为新约神所拣选之召会的预表。因此，旧约有一班人，新约也有一班人。……这两班人……乃是描述神所作的一件事；这件事就是神经纶的完成。神在完成这经纶之前，首先摆出一个预表、一个表号、一个影儿。在神的经纶里，以色列人只是一个预表、一个表号、一个影儿。

　　新约〔中有〕一些经节……证明，以色列人是召会的预表。保罗在林前五章说，“我们的逾越节基督，已经被杀献祭了。”（7下）亚伯拉罕的后裔成为一班子民以后，最终都堕落到埃及和埃及王法老的手中。法老预表撒但，埃及预表世界。这意思是说，神的选民堕落到撒但的手中和撒但的世界里，所以需要神的救恩拯救他们。

　　在那救赎之后，神立刻就施行救恩，拯救以色列人脱离法老的手，脱离埃及，把他们带到旷野。在旷野里，神来成为一个帐幕，指明祂将怎样来与祂的子民同住，好更进一步地拯救他们，使他们在生命、性情上（但不是在神格上）成为神。

　　到新约的末了，主耶稣称堕落的召会为……奥秘的大巴比伦（启十七5）。最终，召会的结局与以色列人的结局相同。以色列人的结局是被掳到巴比伦去。……在启示录十七章主称堕落的召会为大妓女，大巴比伦，众妓女之母（1、5）。这给我们看见，召会就是以色列预表的应验（过照着神启示之高峰的生活，八至一○页）。

　　参读：哥林多前书生命读经，第四十七至四十八篇；真理课程三级卷二，第二十九课；为着召会聚会经历基督作祭物，第三章。

　　In Hebrews and 1 Corinthians Paul points out clearly that what happened to the children of Israel is a type of us (1 Cor. 10:6). The entire history of Israel is a story of the church. The Bible, then, contains two histories—the history of Israel and the history of the church. The history of the children of Israel is a type, and the history of the church is the fulfillment of the type. Thus, the entire Bible gives us one revelation, the revelation of God’s economy concerning the church. In the Old Testament we have a type, a picture, of God’s economy concerning the church, whereas in the New Testament God’s economy concerning the church is fulfilled. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 156)

　　Before the New Testament age, that is, before the Lord’s incarnation, God had chosen a people on this earth called Israel….Their forefather was Abraham. Then by Moses’ time, at their exodus from Egypt, they became a race that had at least two million people. Since then, they have become a type of the church as God’s elect in the New Testament. Thus, the Old Testament has a people, and the New Testament has a people….These two peoples are a description of one thing that God has done, and this one thing is the accomplishment of God’s economy. Before God came to accomplish this economy, He first put out a type, a figure, a shadow. In God’s economy the people of Israel are just a type, a figure, a shadow.

　　Some verses from the New Testament…show that the people of Israel are a type of the church. In 1 Corinthians 5 Paul says, “Our Passover, Christ, also has been sacrificed” (v. 7b). After the descendants of Abraham became a people, they eventually fell into the hand of Egypt and its king, Pharaoh. Pharaoh typifies Satan, and Egypt typifies the world. This means that God’s chosen people fell into the hand of Satan and Satan’s world, so there was the need of God’s salvation to save them.

　　God exercised His salvation to save Israel out of Pharaoh’s hand, out of Egypt, and bring them into the wilderness. In the wilderness God came to be a “tabernacle,” indicating how He would come to dwell with His people to save them further and further so that they might become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead.

　　At the end of the New Testament, the Lord Jesus called the degraded church…the great Babylon, the mystery (Rev. 17:5). Eventually, the outcome of the church is the same as that of Israel. Israel’s outcome was to be captured to Babylon.…In Revelation 17 the Lord called the degraded church the great harlot, the great Babylon, and the mother of harlots (vv. 1, 5). This shows that the church is a fulfillment of the type of Israel. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “Living a Life according to the High Peak of God’s Revelation,” pp. 179-181)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 1 Corinthians, msgs. 47-48; Truth Lessons—Level Three, vol. 2, lsn. 29; CWWL, 1982, vol. 1, “Experiencing Christ as the Offerings for the Church Meetings,” ch. 3