林前五7　 ……因为我们的逾越节基督，已经被杀献祭了。

　　十6　 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。

　　弗一10　 为着时期满足时的经纶，要将万有，无论是在诸天之上的，或是在地上的，都在基督里归一于一个元首之下。

　　神的目的乃是要得着一个团体的身体，这个团体身体的预表就是以色列国，所以神就从创世记往前到了出埃及记，把祂自己作到团体的以色列人里面，使他们成为神的家，就是神在地上的居所，也是在以色列人中的帐幕所表征的。这团体的以色列人就是预表召会作基督的身体，成为神在地上、在人中间的居所（李文集一九八八年第四册，三三五页）。

　　1 Cor. 5:7 ...For our Passover, Christ, also has been sacrificed.

　　10:6 Now these things occurred as examples to us, that we should not be ones who lust after evil things, even as they also lusted.

　　Eph. 1:10 Unto the economy of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in Him.

　　God’s intention is to have a corporate Body. The nation of Israel was a type of this Body. For this, God went on from Genesis to Exodus, working Himself into the corporate Israel so that they would become the house of God, which is God’s habitation on earth as typified by the tabernacle in the midst of the Israelites. This corporate Israel is a type of the church as the Body of Christ to be God’s dwelling place on earth among men. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 4, “The Economy of God and the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” p. 273)

　　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。……旧约有以色列人，新约有召会。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。……在神的经纶里，以色列人只是一个预表、一个表号、一个影儿。……以色列人乃是预表召会。

　　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。……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。

　　 救赎是把神堕落的子民赎回归神；救恩是神把祂的子民从撒但手中并从世界里拯救出来，至终甚至从他们自己里拯救出来，好使神能进来，将他们作成与神一样。所以在出埃及记我们首先看见一只羊羔被杀，所流的血涂在以色列人所住屋子的门上；这称为逾越节。那意思是说，这位公正的神，公义的神，作了一件合乎法理的事，满足祂公义的要求，而救赎祂的子民。那就是神的救赎。

　　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。这就是神的救恩。

　　保罗在林前五章说，我们的逾越节就是基督〔7〕。……根据这个，神就能越过我们，借着基督在十字架上审判并对付了我们的罪。……在逾越节之后，以色列人又守无酵节（8）。在神的救赎之后，神在祂的救恩里定规，祂的子民不应该有罪，不应该有酵；这就是守无酵节。这乃是以色列人历史的开始，这个开始在召会对基督的经历上得着了应验。借此你能看见，就着以色列人来说是预表，就着召会来说是应验。

　　到新约的末了，主耶稣称堕落的召会为耶洗别（启二20）。……堕落的召会成了耶洗别，称为奥秘的大巴比伦（十七5）。……以色列人的结局是被掳到巴比伦去。至终，他们成了巴比伦。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。因此，整个以色列人的历史就是召会的预表（李文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册，二一四至二一七页）。

　　参读：神圣启示的中心路线，第三至五篇。

　　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 ...The Old Testament has Israel, and the New Testament has the church... These two peoples are a description of one thing that God has done, and this one thing is the accomplishment of God’s economy... In God’s economy the people of Israel are just a type, a figure, a shadow... Israel typifies the church.

　　After the descendants of Abraham became a people, they eventually fell into the hand of Egypt and its king, Pharaoh ... 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.

　　Redemption is to redeem God’s fallen people back to God, and salvation is God’s saving His people out of the hand of Satan, out of the world, and eventually, even out of themselves for God to come in to make them the same as He is. So in Exodus we see that first a lamb was slain and the shed blood was sprinkled on the houses of Israel. That was called the pass-over. This means that God, the just God, the righteous God, formed something judicial to redeem His people by fulfilling His righteous requirements. That was God’s redemption.

　　Following that redemption, 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... so that they might become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead. This is God’s salvation.

　　Paul says in 1 Corinthians 5 that our Passover is Christ... God could pass over us, having our sin judged and dealt with by Christ on the cross ...Following the Passover, Israel had the Feast of Unleavened Bread (v. 8). After God’s redemption and in God’s salvation, God ordained that His people should have no sin, no leaven, a feast without leaven. This was the beginning of the history of Israel, and this beginning is fulfilled by the church’s experience of Christ. By this you can see that with Israel it is a type, and with the church it is a fulfillment.

　　At the end of the New Testament, the Lord Jesus called the degraded church, Jezebel (Rev. 2:20)...The fallen church became Jezebel and is called the great Babylon, the mystery (Rev. 17:5)... Israel’s outcome was to be captured to Babylon. Eventually, they became 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. So the entire history of Israel is a type of the church. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “Living a Life according to the High Peak of God’s Revelation,” pp. 179-181)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” chs. 3-5