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出埃及记生命读经 · 第154篇

赎罪银（二）

The propitiation silver (2)
1读经： 出埃及记三十章十一至十六节；三十八章二十五至二十八节；民数记一章四十五至四十六节；二章三十二节。
1Scripture Reading: Exo. 30:11-16; 38:25-28; Num. 1:45-46; 2:32
2在前一篇信息里，我们开始查考三十章十一至十六节里的赎罪银这件事。出埃及记三十章十二节说，要按以色列人被数的，计算总数；而十六节说，要从以色列人收这赎罪银，作为会幕的使用。我们已经指出，要明了赎罪银的意义，必须探讨几个要紧的问题。第一，香坛和赎罪银之间有甚么关系？第二，既然以色列人已经蒙了救赎，为甚么到了三十章还需要赎罪银呢？第三，既然救赎是藉着逾越节的羊羔完成的，为甚么出埃及记三十章里的赎价与动物的血无关，而与银子有关呢？第四，为甚么称赎罪银为举祭？第五，为甚么赎罪银单单为着二十岁以上的男丁付出，而不是为着全体以色列人？
2In the previous message we began to consider the matter of the propitiation silver in 30:11-16. Exodus 30:12 speaks of the sum, or the census, of the sons of Israel according to those who are numbered, and verse 16 speaks of taking the propitiation silver from the sons of Israel and giving it for the service of the tent of meeting. We have pointed out that, in order to understand the significance of the propitiation silver, we need to ask several important questions. First, what is the relationship between the incense altar and the propitiation silver? Second, why did the children of Israel need the propitiation silver in chapter thirty since they had already been redeemed? Third, why is the propitiation or ransom in Exodus 30 related to silver and not to the blood of an animal, inasmuch as redemption was accomplished through the Passover lamb? Fourth, why is the propitiation silver called a heave offering? Fifth, why is the propitiation silver paid only for males twenty years of age and older and not for all the children of Israel?
祷告与军队的编组
Prayer and the formation of the army
3在第一个问题的解答里，我们已经看见，在香坛面前的祷告、代求乃是为着神的行动；神的行动需要一支能彀为着祂的权益争战的军队；而为着祂军队的编组，就需要一次人口调查。由此我们便能懂得香坛和赎罪银之间的关系。我们能彀了解，为甚么香坛描述过之后，紧接着就题起赎罪银。香坛面前的祷告带进了数点以色列人的事，为要编组一支军队，来为着神在地上的行动争战。
3In answer to the first question, we have seen that the prayer, the intercession, at the incense altar is for God’s move, that God’s move requires an army that can fight for His interests, and that for the formation of His army a census is necessary. By this we can understand the relationship between the incense altar and the propitiation silver. We can understand why the propitiation silver is mentioned immediately after the description of the incense altar. The prayer at the incense altar issues in the numbering of the children of Israel for the formation of an army to fight for God’s move on earth.
4假设以色列人中间还没有编组一支军队。若是没有军队，帐幕还可能行动么？不，没有一支军队为着神的权益争战，帐幕就无法行动。根据民数记，数点二十岁以上的男丁，乃是为着军队的编组。后来，民数记称十二支派为军队，就是军旅。这表明每一支派都编组成一支军队。只有利未支派例外，因为利未支派是帐幕的军队。众支派都编组成为军队，目的乃是为着神的行动。
4Suppose an army had not been formed among the children of Israel. Would it still have been possible for the tabernacle to move without an army? No, there would have been no way for the tabernacle to move without an army to fight for God’s interests. According to the book of Numbers, the numbering of the males aged twenty and upward was for the formation of the army. Later, the book of Numbers refers to the twelve tribes as hosts, that is, armies. This indicates that each tribe was formed into an army. The only exception was the tribe of Levi, because that tribe was the host for the tabernacle. The tribes were formed into armies for the purpose of God’s move.
5在出埃及记三十章里论到香坛的记载以后，紧接着说到人口调查和赎罪银的事。要把一只军队编组起来争战，就需要调查人口。在香坛面前的代求乃是为着神的行动。但神怎能在有许多仇敌的情况下行动呢？答案乃是：神藉着争战而行动。然而神的军旅在那里？神的军队在那里？这些军队定规是由神的选民编组成的。此外，只有满二十岁的男丁能有资格加入这支军队。这表明要把军队编组起来，许许多多神的选民必须成熟。
5In Exodus 30, immediately after the record concerning the incense altar, we have a word regarding the census and the propitiation silver. In order to have the formation of an army to fight, there was the need of a census. The intercession at the incense altar is for God’s move. But how can God move in a situation where there are so many enemies? The answer is that God moves by fighting. But where is God’s army? Where are His hosts? These hosts must be formed from God’s chosen people. Furthermore, only males who have reached the age of twenty are qualified to be part of this army. This indicates that, in order for the army to be formed, a good number of God’s chosen people need to mature.
6在一些国家里，要征召一定年龄的青年来当兵。然而，这种军事征召与救赎无关。青年人被征召服役，并不需要蒙救赎。但神的军队要编组起来，情形就完全不同了。神的军队要编组起来，是需要救赎的。你相信天然的人有资格在神的军队里么？天然的人的确没有资格被征召加入这支军队。因这缘故，除了逾越节羊羔的血以外，还进一步需要赎罪银。
6In certain countries young men of a particular age are drafted into the army. However, this kind of military draft has nothing to do with redemption. A young man does not need to be redeemed in order to be drafted into military service. But the situation is altogether different with the formation of God’s army. The formation of God’s army requires redemption. Do you believe that a natural man is qualified to be in God’s army? The natural man surely is not qualified to be drafted into this army. For this reason, there is the need of the ransom silver, the propitiation silver, a further requirement in addition to the blood of the Passover lamb.
逾越节的羊羔和赎罪银
The Passover lamb and the redemption silver
7逾越节的羊羔和赎罪银之间有一个重要的不同。逾越节的羊羔完完全全是为着救赎的，对全体百姓都管用。但赎罪银应用到那些有资格编组成为神军队的人身上，才与救赎有关。如果有些神的选民不满二十岁，想要纳半舍客勒的赎罪银，因为他们年龄不足，还不彀成熟，就没有资格纳赎罪银。然而，在逾越节的羊羔所完成的救赎上，年龄并不是一个因素。所有的以色列人；不论年龄大小，都有资格被羊羔所救赎，连才生的婴孩也有资格蒙救赎。有些圣经教师一直忽略羊羔的救赎和赎罪银在资格上不同。
7There is an important difference between the Passover lamb and the propitiation silver. The Passover lamb was purely and absolutely for redemption, and it was available for all the people. But the ransom silver was related to redemption as it applied to those who were qualified to be formed into God’s army. Suppose some of God’s chosen people who were under the age of twenty wanted to put in the half-shekel of the ransom silver. Because they were under age, not yet mature enough, they would be disqualified from paying the ransom silver. However, age was not a factor in the redemption accomplished through the Passover lamb. All the children of Israel, regardless of age, were qualified to be redeemed by the lamb. Even a newborn infant was qualified to be redeemed. The matter of the difference in qualification for the redemption of the lamb and the ransom silver has been overlooked by some teachers of the Bible.
迫切需要成熟
The urgent need of maturity
8我们这些神的选民，不论年龄大小，从属灵上说，都已经蒙了救赎。然而我们必须问问自己，照着我们的成熟来看，我们属灵的年龄有多大？也许你属灵的年龄只有几周或几岁。在出埃及记三十章的时侯，以色列人的总数至少有二百万。但还不到三分之一，严格说来，只有六十万零三千五百五十人，有资格在神的军队里。三分之二以上的神的子民，包括所有的女子以及二十岁以下的男丁，在这次的军事人口调查中都不能被数点。
8As God’s chosen people, we all have been redeemed, no matter what our age may be, spiritually speaking. However, we need to ask ourselves what our spiritual age is according to our maturity. Perhaps your spiritual age is only a few weeks or a few years. The total number of the children of Israel at the time of Exodus 30 was at least two million. But less than a third, 603,550 to be exact, were qualified to be in God’s army. More than two-thirds of God’s people, all the females and the males under the age of twenty, could not be numbered in this military census.
9这件事属灵的意义乃是说，如果我们要在军队里为着神的行动争战，我们就必须成熟，我们必须长大，直到我们属灵的年龄满了二十岁。在香坛面前所献的代求就是为着这个长大成熟，使军队能彀编组起来。香坛那里的代求愈多，神的子民就愈迫切需要长大。我们会愈过愈明了，我们迫切需要成熟。我们更多的人迫切需要长大，达到成熟，因而有资格组成一支军队。这样一支军队编组起来，神才能彀为着祂的旨意在地上行动。离开了由成熟之人所组成的军队，神就无法行动。哦，神的选民必须长大！在香坛那里献给神代求的祷告正是为此！
9The spiritual significance of this is that if we would be in the army to fight for God’s move, we need to mature. We need to grow until we come to the spiritual age of twenty. The intercession offered at the incense altar is for this growth and maturity so that the army can be formed. The more intercession there is at the incense altar, the greater will be the urgency for God’s people to grow. More and more we shall realize that the need for maturity is desperate. There is the urgent need for more of us to grow, reach maturity, and thereby become qualified to be formed into an army. Only when such an army has been formed will God be able to move on earth for His purpose. Apart from an army formed of mature ones, there is no way for God to move. Oh, God’s chosen people need to grow! The intercessory prayer offered to God at the incense altar is for this.
10姊妹们听见以色列人中间惟有男丁才能编入神的军队，不该感到失望。在属灵的经历中，男丁表征刚强的人。从属灵上说，今天有些姊妹也许是男丁，而有些弟兄在属灵上也许是女子。我们在属灵上是男的，还是女的，不在于我们是弟兄还是姊妹，而是在于我们在灵里是刚强，还是软弱。倘若你灵里刚强，你就是男丁。但如果你灵里软弱，你就是女子。我们中间有太多的人是女子，所以我们必须成熟。
10The sisters should not be disappointed to hear that only the males among the Israelites could be formed into God’s army. In spiritual experience a male signifies someone who is strong. Today, spiritually speaking, some sisters may be males, whereas some brothers may be females spiritually. Whether we are spiritually a male or a female does not depend on whether we are brothers or sisters; it depends on whether we are strong in spirit or weak in spirit. If you are strong in spirit, you are a male. But if you are weak in spirit, you are a female. Too many among us are females. Therefore, there is the need of maturity.
凭着在升天里宝贵的基督来争战
Fighting by the precious Christ in ascension
11让我们假定你是成熟的，能彀在神的军队里。因为你属灵的年龄至少二十岁了，你就有资格列在那些能彀出去打仗的人中。但这意思是说，你该直接去争战么？当然不是。如果你想要直接去争战，你就会遭殃。出埃及记三十章十二节说：“你要按以色列人被数的，计算总数，你数的时候，他们各人要为自己的生命，把赎价奉给耶和华，免得数的时候，在他们中间有灾殃。”我们要避免灾殃，就绝不该凭自己去争战。我们应当说：“在神的军队里我绝不凭着自己去争战，惟有在基督里并凭着基督，我才去。我有基督作我的半舍客勒，作我的赎罪银。祂是宝贵而有价值的。”如果我们要在神的军队里争战，我们就必须单单凭着这位宝贵的基督来争战。
11Let us suppose that you are mature enough to be in God’s army. Because your spiritual age is at least twenty years, you are qualified to be numbered among those who are able to go to war. But does this mean that you should enter directly into the fight? It certainly does not mean this. If you try to fight directly, you will suffer a plague. Exodus 30:12 says, “When you take the sum of the sons of Israel according to those that are numbered of them, then every man shall give a ransom for his soul to Jehovah when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.” In order to avoid any plague, we should never go to war in ourselves. We should say, “In myself I shall never go to fight in God’s army. Only in Christ and by Christ shall I go. I have Christ as my half-shekel, as my ransom silver. He is precious and valuable.” If we would fight in God’s army, we must fight only by this precious Christ.
12赎罪银所豫表的基督不是钉十字架的基督，不是作为赎罪祭和赎愆祭死在十字架上的基督。反之，赎罪银乃是举祭，表征复活并升天的基督，在天上的基督。照赎罪银的豫表来看，我们所凭以争战的基督不是钉十字架的一位，而是升天的一位。也许你以前从来没有想过这件事，但这就是豫表所呈现的图画。
12The Christ typified by the ransom silver is not the crucified Christ, the Christ who died on the cross as the sin offering and the trespass offering. On the contrary, the propitiation silver is a heave offering, and the heave offering signifies the resurrected and ascended Christ, the Christ in the heavens. According to the type of the propitiation silver, the Christ by whom we fight is not the crucified One — He is the ascended One. Perhaps you have never considered this matter before, but this is the picture presented by the type.
13此外，我们由经历中晓得，每当我们凭着自己，而不凭着基督作赎罪银去争战时，我们就会遭遇灾殃。这意思是说，在属灵的争战中有了灾难。然而，我们中间至少有些人有过这种经历，就是不凭着自己而凭着基督作赎罪银来打属灵的仗。他们凭着基督作举祭、作复活并升天的一位来争战。
13Furthermore, from experience we know that whenever we go to war by ourselves and not by Christ as the ransom silver, we suffer a plague. This means that in spiritual fighting we have a disaster. However, at least some among us have had the experience of fighting the spiritual warfare not by themselves but by Christ as the ransom silver. They fight by Christ as the heave offering, as the resurrected and ascended One.
14凡是从事属灵争战的人都晓得，这场争战不是在地上打的。属灵的争战是在空中进行的。我们要从事这样的争战，就必须与升天的基督一同在诸天界里。我们必须与作举祭的基督一同在天上。我们在别处曾经指出，摇祭是表征复活的基督，而举祭是表征升天的基督。所以，举祭比摇祭更进一步；也就是说，升天的基督越过了复活的基督。在升天里，基督打败了祂的仇敌。
14All those who have engaged in spiritual warfare know that this warfare is not fought on earth. The battles of spiritual warfare are waged in the air. In order to fight this kind of battle, we need to be in the heavenlies with the ascended Christ. We need to be in the heavens with Christ as our heave offering. Elsewhere we have pointed out that the wave offering signifies the resurrected Christ and that the heave offering signifies the ascended Christ. Therefore, the heave offering is an advancement beyond the wave offering; that is, the ascended Christ is an advancement over the resurrected Christ. In ascension Christ defeats His enemy.
15根据出埃及记和民数记的记载，惟有藉着军事人口调查，神的军队才能编组起来。 神有了这样的军队，就能彀为着祂的权益在地上行动。然而，我们在这军队里为着神 的行动争战的时候，必须凭着复活并升天的基督争战，我们绝不该凭着自己争战。
15According to the record in Exodus and Numbers, only through a military census can God’s army be formed. When God has such an army, He is able to move on earth for His interests. However, as we fight in this army for God’s move, we must fight by the resurrected and ascended Christ. We should never fight by ourselves.
在香坛那里代求
Interceding at the incense altar
16如果主的恢复要往前，许许多多的圣徒必须经历外院子和帐幕的各个方面。他们必须到祭坛那里，然后在圣所里的桌子面前享受基督作生命的供应。接着他们必须接受基督作光，并经历天然人的破碎，好得着约柜，就是基督作神的见证。最终，他们会到达香坛，并为着神的行动代求。
16If the Lord’s recovery is to move on, a number of saints need to experience all the aspects of the outer court and the tabernacle. They must go to the altar and then enjoy Christ as their life supply at the table in the Holy Place. Then they need to receive Christ as their light and experience the breaking of their natural being in order to have the ark, Christ as the testimony of God. Eventually, they will reach the incense altar and intercede for God’s move.
17在主的恢复里，有些圣徒有过这种经历。他们能彀在经历上领会我所讲论的。这些圣徒渴望留在香坛那里祷告。即使他们外面没有多少时间祷告，他们里面的灵却渴望留在香坛那里祷告：“主，我们为着你的恢复呼求你。主阿，向前罢！然而看看今天的光景─到处都有仇敌。主，你的见证在那里？我们祷告，愿你的见证往前。”这就是在香坛那里所献代求的祷告。
17Some of the saints in the recovery have had this experience. They can understand experientially what I am talking about. These saints long to stay at the incense altar to pray. Even if outwardly they do not have much time to pray, inwardly their spirit craves to remain at the incense altar and pray, “Lord, we call on You for Your recovery. O Lord, move on. But look at today’s situation — there are enemies everywhere. Lord, where is Your testimony? We pray that Your testimony will go on.” This is the intercessory prayer offered at the incense altar.
18我们到达香坛并留在那里一段时间以后，就无心为着房子、车子这些物质的东西来祷告。我们惟一的渴望就是为着主的行动祷告。我们会对祂在全地的见证有负担。我们会祷告说：“主，愿你的恢复往前。主阿，你在地上的见证如何？主，在欧洲、在南美往前。”也许我们很有负担为着主的行动祷告，以致无心为着私事祷告。我们会把这些事，包括身体的健康，都交在主的手中。即使我们外面为着私事、为着健康有 些祷告，这些事却不是我们里面所真正关心的。我们里面深处所关心的乃是主的恢复、主的行动和主的见证。
18After we arrive at the incense altar and stay there for a period of time, we shall not have the appetite to pray for material things, such as a house or a car. Our only desire will be to pray for the Lord’s move. We shall be burdened for His testimony throughout the earth. We shall pray, “Lord, may Your recovery move on. O Lord, what about Your testimony on earth? Lord, move on in Europe and in South America.” We may be so burdened to pray for the Lord’s move that we shall not have the heart to pray for personal matters. We shall leave all these matters, including concern for our health, in the hand of the Lord. But even if we outwardly have some prayer for personal matters or for our health, inwardly those things are not our real concern. Our concern deep within is for the Lord’s recovery, move, and testimony.
19在香坛那里代求的祷告，使神迫切要在祂的子民中间有一次人口调查，这样军队就能彀编组起来，为着祂的行动争战。这意思是说，香坛那里的祷告导致军队的编组。不要以为这种领会是我想像出来的产品。这绝不是想像出来的，乃是对于属灵界之事的真实描述。在香坛那里祷告的结果，导致主对众教会的众圣徒作一次军事人口调查。祂到处数点祂的百姓。凡被数的人都是有资格出去打仗的人。然而，他们必须晓得，他们不能凭自己去争战；他们需要基督这升天的一位，需要在三层天宝座上面的基督。
19The intercessory prayer at the incense altar makes it urgent for God to have a census among His people so that an army can be formed to fight for His move. This means that it is the prayer at the incense altar that leads to the formation of the army. Do not think that this understanding is a product of my imagination. Far from being imaginary, this is a true description of events in the spiritual world. As a result of the prayer at the incense altar, the Lord conducts a military census of the saints in the churches. Here and there, He numbers His people. Those who are numbered are the ones qualified to go to war. However, they must realize that they cannot fight on their own; they need Christ as the ascended One. They need the Christ who is on the throne in the third heaven.
教会仰赖经历基督作赎罪银
The church resting on Christ experienced as the ransom silver
20照三十八章二十五节来看，由被数点要编组成军队的男丁所收集的银子，“按圣所的平，有一百他连得并一千七百七十五舍客勒。”二十七节告诉我们，要用那一百他连得银子，铸造圣所和幔子带卯的座：“用那一百个连得银子，铸造圣所带卯的座，和幔子柱子带卯的座，一百他连得，共一百带卯的座，每带卯的座，用一他连得。”每一个带卯的座重一他连得，一他连得约等于一百磅。整个帐幕全仰赖这一百个带卯的银座。此外，帐幕里所有的柱子都有银柱顶，这些柱顶表征荣耀。出埃及记三十八章二十八节说：“用那一千七百七十五舍客勒银子，作柱子上的钩子，包裹柱顶，并柱子上的杆子。”钩子和杆子乃是为着把帐幕编织并连结起来。
20According to 38:25, the silver that was collected from the males numbered to form the army was “a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.” Verse 27 tells us that the hundred talents of silver were used to make the sockets for the sanctuary and the veil: “And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; a hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.” Each socket weighed a talent, and a talent is equal to approximately one hundred pounds. The entire tabernacle rested upon these one hundred silver sockets. Furthermore, all the pillars in the tabernacle had caps of silver. These caps signify glory. Exodus 38:28 says, “And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapters, and filleted them.” The hooks and the fillets were for the formation of the tabernacle and the connecting of it.
21这银子表征天上的基督是那些能彀出去打仗的人所付出的代价。每一个地方教会都仰赖这位基督，就是那些能彀出去打仗的圣徒所经历的。这些弟兄姊妹经历复活并升天的基督到这个地步，而他们所经历的基督成了带卯的银座、银柱顶、银钩和银杆。
21This silver signifies the Christ in the heavens as the price paid by those who are able to go to war. Every local church rests upon this Christ, experienced by the saints who are able to go to war. These brothers and sisters have experienced the resurrected and ascended Christ to this extent, and the Christ whom they have experienced becomes the silver sockets, the silver crowns of the pillars, the silver hooks, and the silver fillets.
22我能向你保证，这不仅仅是个道理。如果你研究每一个地方教会的历史，你就会看见情形的确是这样。无论那里有一个地方教会，那里定规有许许多多的圣徒，从属灵上说，他们已经满二十岁，也接受基督作他们的赎罪银。这位基督不是钉十字架的一位，而是复活并升天的一位。这些圣徒与这位基督合而为一，并经历祂到一个地步，以致祂成了当地教会带卯的座。祂又成了柱顶，也就是说，祂成了教会的荣耀。不但如此，这位升天的基督还成了钩子和杆子，就是教会的力量和联结的能力。
22I can assure you that this is not merely a doctrine. If you study the history of every local church, you will see that this is actually the situation. Wherever there is a local church, there is sure to be a number of saints who, spiritually speaking, have reached the age of twenty and who take Christ as their ransom silver. This Christ is not the crucified One; He is the resurrected and ascended One. These saints are one with this Christ and experience Him to such an extent that He becomes the sockets of the church in their locality. He also becomes the caps on the pillars; that is, He becomes the glory of that church. Furthermore, this ascended Christ becomes the hooks and the fillets, the strength and the linking power of that church.
23经历升天的基督作赎罪银乃是为着神的行动。这是在香坛那里献上代求祷告的结果、结局。所以，赎罪银乃是直接与香坛有关的。
23This experience of the ascended Christ as the ransom silver is for God’s move. It is the issue, the result, of the intercessory prayers offered at the incense altar. Therefore, the ransom silver is directly related to the incense altar.