1D In typology the overcomers, the perfected and matured God-men, are today’s Zion within today’s Jerusalem (the church life) — Heb. 12:22; Rev. 14:1-5:
21 在召会生活里必定有一班得胜者,这些得胜者乃是今日的锡安。
21 Within the church life there must be a group of overcomers, and these overcomers are today’s Zion.
32 Without Zion (the overcomers), Jerusalem (the church life) cannot be kept and maintained; if there are no overcomers in a local church, that church is like Jerusalem without Zion; it will become like a flat tire.
4E The Lord’s recovery is to build up Zion — the overcomers as the reality of the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem; in the church life we must endeavor to reach today’s Zion — Eph. 1:22-23; 4:16; 1 Cor. 1:2; 12:27; Rev. 14:1; 21:2; Psa. 84:5.
5F The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, the overcomers, who are genuine men not living by their life but by the life of the processed God, whose attributes have been expressed through their virtues — Phil. 4:5-9:
61 The Lord urgently needs the overcomers with their God-man living as the reality of the Body of Christ to be expressed in the local churches; unless there is a substantial expression of the Body, the Lord Jesus will not return — Eph. 1:22-23; 4:16; 5:27, 30; Rev. 19:7.
72 The Lord needs the overcomers to carry out the economy of God in order to have the Body of Christ and to destroy His enemy; without the overcomers, the Body of Christ cannot be built up, and unless the Body of Christ is built up, Christ cannot come back for His bride — Eph. 1:10; 3:10; Rev. 12:11; 19:7-9.
16Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” ch. 4; CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Training and the Practice of the Vital Groups,” ch. 1