8但是我们都知道，过不多久仇敌又进来了。他诱惑了人，将神摆在一个地位上，不能不再一次来审判地。被恢复的地又一次被摆在深水之下，洪水来了，把全地淹盖。按预表来说，人就从地（就是基督）的享受中被隔开了。……与地隔开，按预表来说，就是与基督隔开了〔弗二12〕。但是借着方舟的救赎，挪亚和他的全家又取得权利可得着那地，并享受其上一切的丰富。方舟把他们带回到地的享受中。……但是再过不久，仇敌又有所作为来破坏人对地的享受。因此，从撒但所诱使的背叛族类中，神呼召了一个人，就是亚伯拉罕，告诉他要带他到一地去。现在你能领会，神的工作一直就是要恢复地。而仇敌的工作一直是阻挠、破坏、妨碍，使地陷于混乱。现在主再一次把祂所拣选的人带到那地。但是，……没有过太久，连这个被拣选的人也渐渐地飘流到埃及地去了。是的，主又一次把他带回到这一块地上。而后他的子孙全都离开这地，下到埃及。然后过了一段很长的时间，主再一次把祂所有的子民从埃及地带上来，回到这一块地。又过了一段时间，仇敌又采取行动，差遣迦勒底人，就是巴比伦的军队，来破坏那地，把百姓掳掠去了。又过了七十年，主再一次把他们带回到这一块地上。 8However, we know that it was not long after this before the enemy came in again. He deceived man and put God in a position where judgment upon the earth was again imperative. The recovered earth was once more put under the waters of the deep: the flood came and covered the whole earth, and typically speaking, man was separated from the enjoyment of the land, which is Christ…To be separated from the earth, figuratively speaking, is to be separated from Christ [Eph. 2:12]. But through the redemption of the ark, Noah and his family obtained the right to possess the land and enjoy all its riches. The ark brought them back to the enjoyment of the land…But again, it was not long before the enemy did something more to spoil the enjoyment of the earth. So, out of that race made rebellious by Satan, God called one man, Abraham, and told him that He would bring him to a certain land. Now you realize that God’s work is always to recover the land. The enemy’s work is always to frustrate, to spoil, to hinder, to do something to put the land in chaos. Now the Lord once more brought His chosen one to the land. But then…it was not long before even this chosen one gradually drifted away from the land into Egypt. Yes, and the Lord brought him back once more to this piece of land. And then his sons, the people of Israel, all left this land and went down into Egypt. Then after a long period, the Lord once more brought all the people up from Egypt and back to this very piece of land. Again, after a period of time, the enemy moved and sent the Chaldeans, the army from Babylon, to spoil the land and capture the people from it. And again, after seventy years, the Lord brought them back once more to this piece of land.