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狮子羔羊
The Lion-Lamb
 


晨兴喂养  
  申三三17 ……他的角是野牛的角,用以抵触万民,直到地极……。

  启三1  ……那有神的七灵……的,这样说……。

  在启示录五章六节约翰说,羔羊有七角。角象征争战的力量(申三三17)。基督虽是救赎的羔羊,却有争战的角。祂乃是争战的救赎主。祂的争战在神的行动中是完整(完全而完整)的,如七这数字所表明的。……启示录五章六节也说,羔羊有“七眼,就是神的七灵,奉差遣往全地去的”。眼是为着鉴察并搜寻。我们用眼睛看人,就把人搜寻出来。我们可以知道他们的态度、他们的为人以及他们的感觉。基督是救赎的羔羊,有鉴察并搜寻的七眼,为着执行神对宇宙的审判,以成就神永远的定旨,这要完成于新耶路撒冷的建造。所以,撒迦利亚三章九节预言〔基督〕是石头,就是带着七眼,为着神建造的顶石(四7)。……基督的七眼就是神的七灵,奉差遣往普天下去,遍察全地的(10)(新约总论第十四册,一四九至一五○页)。
  Deut. 33:17 …And his horns are the horns of the wild ox; with them he shall drive peoples to the ends of the earth together…

  Rev. 3:1 …These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God…

  In Revelation 5:6 John says that the Lamb has seven horns. Horns signify strength in fighting (Deut. 33:17). Christ is the redeeming Lamb, yet He has horns for fighting. He is the fighting Redeemer. His fighting is complete (perfect and complete) in God's move, as signified by the number seven. Revelation 5:6 also says that the Lamb has “seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.” Eyes are for observing and searching…Christ as the redeeming Lamb has seven observing and searching eyes for executing God's judgment upon the universe to fulfill God's eternal purpose, which will consummate in the building up of the New Jerusalem. Therefore, in Zechariah 3:9 He is prophesied as the stone, the topstone (4:7) with seven eyes for God's building…The seven eyes of Christ are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth, and they run to and fro through the whole earth (Zech. 4:10). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 4238)
信息选读  
  我们到召会的聚会中,就在一种特别的鉴察之下。……在我们去聚会之前,我们也许随意地说话,但去了以后,基督就规正我们的谈论。到了晚上,有一种内里的声音,在里面催促我们去聚会。照我们天然的选择,我们实在不想去,但不得不去。然后,当我们到了聚会中,我们摸着了活的基督。基督是赐生命的灵,祂那焚烧、搜寻、光照和鉴察的实际,是在众召会里。

  七灵乃是基督用来表达祂自己的七眼。……每逢主用眼看我们,我们就能晓得祂是高兴还是不高兴。……祂借着看我们,就把祂一切所是传输到我们里面。祂的七眼一直注视我们,将神传输到我们里面。

  羔羊的七眼作为神新约经纶的执行者,乃是七个灯台(七个召会)所托住的七灯,作耶稣的见证照耀并光照(启一9下、11~12)。这位焚烧、审判、洁净、炼净并生产的灵,乃是灯台(召会)所托住的灯。这意思是说,众召会借着灯照耀,这灯是那灵,是真实的见证。今天七灵在审判、洁净、炼净并产生众召会。……我们若不让七灵炼净我们,七灵就无法照耀,也就没有见证了。七灵的照耀就是见证。我们越让那灵洁净、炼净,祂就越借着我们照耀,这照耀就是召会的见证。这就是何以我们必须敞开自己,天天欢迎祂进入我们全人里面,来炼净、审判、清理并洁净我们。然后祂就要借着我们照耀,这照耀就是召会的见证,也就是耶稣的见证。耶稣的见证乃是七灵在众召会中,从所有信徒里面所有的照耀。

  我们应该祷告:“亲爱的神圣火焰,来审判吧!来洁净吧!来炼净,好使你能产生金灯台。”靠着祂的怜悯,我们必须向祂敞开。我们每天都需要告诉主:“主,来吧;我向你敞开!我全人的每一通道都向你敞开。光照我,搜寻我里面,并且暴露我。我愿被你光照,并且在你的光中被暴露。”我们不该把自己关闭起来,向祂有所隐藏;我们都必须祷告:“主,我们是敞开的。来照耀在我们身上,从我们里面照耀,光照我们全人的每一通道,每一角落。我们渴慕被暴露,被清理,被炼净。”(新约总论第十四册,一五五至一五九页)

  参读:新约总论,第四百一十六篇。
  When we attend a church meeting, we are under a special kind of observation…Before we attend the meeting, we may speak freely, but after the meeting Christ regulates our speaking. In the evening some kind of inner voice within us may urge us to go to a meeting. It may not be our natural preference to go, but we cannot avoid going. Then when we arrive at the meeting, we touch the living Christ. The burning, searching, enlightening, and observing reality of Christ as the life-giving Spirit is in the churches.

  The seven Spirits are the seven eyes by which Christ expresses Himself… Whenever the Lord looks at us with His eyes, we can understand if He is happy or unhappy…By looking at us, He transfuses all that He is into our being. His seven eyes are gazing at us to infuse God into us.

  The seven eyes of the Lamb as the Executor of God's New Testament economy are the seven lamps upheld by the seven lampstands, the seven churches, shining and enlightening as the testimony of Jesus (Rev. 1:9b, 11-12). This burning, judging, purifying, refining, and producing Spirit is the lamps upheld by the lampstands, the churches. This means that the churches shine through the lamps and that these lamps are the Spirit, the real testimony. The seven Spirits today are judging, purifying, refining, and bringing forth the churches…If we do not allow the seven Spirits to refine us, the seven Spirits have no way to shine, and there is no testimony. The shining of the seven Spirits is the testimony. The more we let the Spirit purify us and refine us, the more He shines through us, and this shining is the testimony of the churches. This is why we need to open ourselves and welcome Him every day to enter into our being to refine, judge, purge, and purify us. Then He will shine through us, and this shining is the testimony of the church, the testimony of Jesus. The testimony of Jesus is the shining of the seven Spirits from within all the believers in the churches.

  We should pray, “Dear divine Flame, come and judge! Come and purify! Come and refine that You may produce the golden lampstand.” By His mercy, we need to be open to Him. Every day we need to tell the Lord, “Come. I am open to You. I open every avenue of my being to You. Enlighten me, search me within, and expose me. I want to be enlightened by You and exposed in Your light.” Instead of shutting ourselves up and hiding from Him, we need to pray, “Lord, we are open. Come and shine upon us, and shine from within us and enlighten every avenue and every corner of our being. We desire to be exposed, purged, and purified.” (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 4243-4245)

  Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 416
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