耶三十17 耶和华说，我必使你痊愈，医好你的创伤；因为他们称你为被赶散的，说，这是锡安，是无人探问的。

　　三三16 在那些日子，犹大必得救，耶路撒冷必安然居住；这城的名必称为：耶和华我们的义。

　　“恢复”一辞的意义，是再次得回失去的东西，或使事物回到正常的情形；意即在遭受破坏或失去了以后，再使事物复原或回到正常的情形。我们说到召会的恢复，意即召会原初有一种情形，后来却失去或被破坏了，现在需要把召会带回到她原初的光景。因为经过了许多世纪的历史，召会已经堕落了，她需要照着神原初的心意而得复原。我们对于召会的异象，应当受到管治，不是照着现今的情形或传统的作法，乃是照着圣经里所启示，神原初的心意和标准。

　　召会的恢复是由以色列人从被掳归回所预表的（拉一3~11）。……以色列国全部的历史，乃是召会一个完整、包罗万有的预表。以色列国开始于出埃及。……最后，以色列人过约但河，进入迦南美地。他们征服那地的人并得着那地后，就建造圣殿。……然而，……主要的是由于所罗门的失败，圣殿就被毁坏了，以色列人也被带到巴比伦作俘虏（新约总论第七册，四五九至四六一页）。

　　Jer. 30:17 For I will bring you recovery and will heal you of your wounds, declares Jehovah; because they have called you an outcast, saying, She is Zion, whom no one searches after.

　　33:16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely; and this is the name by which she will be called: Jehovah our righteousness.

　　The word recover means to obtain again something that has been lost, or to return something to a normal condition. Recovery means the restoration or return to a normal condition after a damage or a loss has been incurred. When we speak of the recovery of the church, we mean that something was there originally, that it became lost or damaged, and that now there is the need to bring that thing back to its original state. Because the church has become degraded through the many centuries of its history, it needs to be restored according to God’s original intention. Concerning the church, our vision should be governed not by the present situation nor by traditional practice but by God’s original intention and standard as revealed in the Scriptures.

　　The recovery of the church is typified by the return of the children of Israel from their captivity (Ezra 1:3-11)….The entire history of the nation of Israel is a full type, an all-inclusive type, of the church. The nation of Israel began with the exodus….Eventually, the people of Israel crossed the Jordan and entered into Canaan, the good land. After conquering the people and gaining the land, they built the temple….However,…mainly due to the failure of Solomon, the temple was destroyed, and the children of Israel were taken to Babylon as captives. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2447-2449)

　　由于召会的堕落，就属灵一面说，她是已经被掳了。神的子民已经分裂、分散，从一的正确立场被掳到错误的立场。……就着非常真实的意义来说，今天的信徒比以色列人更加分散。因此，我们需要恢复。我们需要的不仅是复兴，更是恢复。

　　以色列人的恢复，不仅是从巴比伦出来，乃是要归回到耶路撒冷，就是神所命定独一的立场。耶路撒冷是主所拣选的地方（申十二5）。因此，耶路撒冷就是神子民敬拜神的中心，这独一的中心保守了神子民的一。若没有这样的一个中心，以色列人进入美地后，早就分裂了。神预知这个难处，就一再地重复关于祂所拣选之地方的诫命（申十二5、11、13~14）。……神的拣选成了祂子民聚集的中心，这就是一的独一立场。为此，在旧约里神的子民必须被带回到耶路撒冷，神所命定独一的立场。

　　今天的巴比伦不仅将神的子民掳去，也抢夺了神殿中一切的丰富。那些表征基督丰富的器皿，已经被掳掠了。这就是为什么在罗马天主教和更正教的公会里，很少有人说到基督那追测不尽的丰富（弗三8），也没有鼓励信徒吃基督，喝基督，与基督同坐席，完满地享受基督。信徒们对基督的丰富享受不多，或没有享受，原因乃是所有殿里的器皿，都已被大巴比伦掳去。现今主需要恢复对基督丰富的经历。祂不仅要呼召祂忠信的子民，从巴比伦出来回到正确的召会生活，也要将已经失去之基督的各方面恢复并带回（新约总论第七册，四六一至四六二、四六四至四六五页）。

　　参读：新约总论，第二百三十篇；以斯拉记生命读经，第二至三篇；神殿与神城的恢复，第一至二章。

　　Spiritually speaking, the church, due to its degradation, has been in captivity. God’s people have been divided, scattered, and carried away from the proper ground of unity to a wrong ground….In a very real sense, the believers today are more scattered than the children of Israel were. Therefore, we need to be recovered. We need not only revival but also recovery.

　　The recovery of the children of Israel was not only from Babylon but back to Jerusalem, the God-ordained unique ground. Jerusalem was the place the Lord had chosen (Deut. 12:5). Jerusalem, therefore, was the center for God’s people to worship Him, and this unique center preserved the unity of the people of God. Without such a center, after the children of Israel had entered the good land, they would have been divided. Foreseeing this problem, God repeated the commandment again and again concerning the place of His choosing (Deut. 12:5, 11, 13-14)….God’s choice became the center of the gathering of His people, and this is the unique ground of unity. For this reason, it was necessary for God’s people in the Old Testament to be brought back to Jerusalem, the unique ground ordained by God.

　　Today’s Babylon has not only captured God’s people but also robbed all the riches from God’s temple. The vessels, signifying the riches of Christ, have been carried away. This is the reason that in Roman Catholicism and in the Protestant denominations very little is said, if anything, concerning the unsearchable riches of Christ (Eph. 3:8). The believers are not encouraged to eat Christ, to drink Christ, to feast with Christ, to enjoy Christ in full. The reason there is little or no enjoyment of the riches of Christ is that all the vessels in the temple have been carried away by Babylon the Great. Now the Lord wants to recover the experience of the riches of Christ. He wants not only to call His faithful people out of Babylon and back to the proper church life, but also to recover and bring back all the different aspects of Christ which have been lost. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2449, 2451-2453)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 230; Life-study of Ezra, msgs. 2-3; CWWL, 1969, vol. 2, “The Recovery of God’s House and God’s City,” chs. 1-2