第三十七週．週二
晨興餧養
啟四５ 『…有七盞火燈在寶座前點著，這七燈就是神的七靈。』
五６ 『我又看見寶座與四活物中間，並眾長老中間，有羔羊站立，像是剛被殺過的，有七角和七眼，就是神的七靈，奉差遣往全地去的。』
燈臺含示了三一神的意義。金是作成燈臺的本質，臺是金的具體表現，燈又是臺的彰顯。金表徵父是本質，臺表徵子是父的具體化身，而燈表徵那靈是父在子裏的彰顯。（啟示錄生命讀經，一○六頁。）
信息選讀
燈臺在本質上是一，但在彰顯上是七，因為一座燈臺上有七盞燈。…本質上燈臺是一塊金，但它上面有七盞燈。這就奧妙的指明，三一神在本質上是一。這位神在本質上是一，但在彰顯上，祂乃是七靈。父是本質，化身於子這形體；子又彰顯為七靈。
七燈頭一次是在出埃及記題到。…我們若從出埃及記往下到撒迦利亞書，就看見七燈是基督的七眼，和神的七眼。（亞三9，四10。）我們…〔在〕啟示錄，就看見羔羊的七眼就是那是神加強之靈的七眼。因此，我們有確實的根據說，七燈就是七倍加強的靈，作基督的彰顯。
燈臺含示三一神的意義；它象徵那具體化並得著彰顯的三一神。父神是神聖的金，具體化身在子基督裏面，然後藉著那靈完全彰顯出來。…具體化身必定是獨一的，因為我們的神是獨一的。所以，具體化身必定是一座臺。然而彰顯必須是完整的，在神行動上是完整的。…七是神行動上完整的數字。多少世紀以來，神是在祂的行動中得著彰顯。因此，七燈表徵那在神完整的行動上，作基督彰顯的加強之靈。這是對神聖三一的實際領會。神聖的三一乃是為著要把神分賜到人裏面。神這神聖的一位，首先具體化身在基督裏，然後藉著七倍加強的靈彰顯出來。…金子成形為臺，是為著成就神的定旨；…豫表基督的臺是藉著豫表神七靈的七燈彰顯出來。神的七靈不是與神分開的，七靈乃是神的七眼，也是救贖者羔羊的七眼。…七靈也是那塊建造的石頭上的七眼。因此，七靈乃是七眼帶同基督的救贖，為著神的建造。無論甚麼時候，七眼看著人，人就蒙救贖，並且被建造在神的家裏。這就是神聖的三一。
僅有父沒有子，就是只有本質，沒有形體。只有金子錘成了燈臺的時候，纔有實體的形狀。燈臺是金子本質的形體，但若沒有燈，這形體還不能彰顯出去。因此，本質是父，具體形狀是子，而彰顯是靈，使父神在子裏得著彰顯。
召會是基督的具體表現，是那靈的複製。那靈是基督的實際，（約十四17～20，十六13～15，）而召會是那靈的複製。（啟二二17上。）召會同著那靈，就是基督的具體表現，是耶穌的見證。（一2，9，十九10。）因此，更多的靈，更多的召會，更多耶穌的見證。（啟示錄生命讀經，一○六至一○七、一一五至一一七頁。）
參讀：生命信息（下冊），第六十八至七十章；召會是那靈的翻版，第三章
WEEK 37 — DAY 2
Morning Nourishment
Rev. 4:5 …There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
5:6 And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing as having just been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
The lampstand implies the significance of the Triune God. Gold is the substance with which the lampstand is made, the stand is the embodiment of the gold, and the lamps are the expression of the stand. The gold signifies the Father as the substance, the stand signifies the Son as the embodiment of the Father, and the lamps signify the Spirit as the expression of the Father in the Son. (Life-study of Revelation, p. 84)
Today’s Reading
Substantially, the lampstand is one, but expressively, it is seven because it is one lampstand with seven lamps…In substance the lampstand is one piece of gold, but it holds seven lamps. This mysteriously indicates that substantially the Triune God is one. In substance He is one, but in expression He is the seven Spirits. The Father as the substance is embodied in the Son as the form, and the Son is expressed as the seven Spirits.
The seven lamps are first mentioned in Exodus…As we proceed from Exodus to Zechariah, we see that the seven lamps are the seven eyes of Christ and the seven eyes of God (Zech. 3:9; 4:10)…[In] Revelation, we see that the seven eyes of the Lamb are the seven eyes that are the intensified Spirit of God. Hence, we have a strong basis for saying that the seven lamps are the sevenfold intensified Spirit as the expression of Christ.
The lampstand implies the significance of the Triune God; it symbolizes the Triune God embodied and expressed. God the Father as the divine gold is embodied in Christ the Son and then is fully expressed through the Spirit…The embodiment must be uniquely one because our God is uniquely one. Thus, the embodiment must be one stand. The expression, however, must be complete, and complete in God’s move…Seven is the number for completion in God’s move. Throughout the centuries God has been expressed in His move. This is the reason that the seven lamps signify the intensified Spirit as the expression of Christ in God’s complete move. This is the practical understanding of the Trinity. The Trinity is for the dispensing of God into humanity. God, the Divine Being, is first embodied in Christ and then expressed through the sevenfold intensified Spirit…The gold has been formed into a stand for the fulfillment of God’s purpose…This stand, which is a type of Christ, is expressed through the seven lamps signifying the seven Spirits of God. The seven Spirits of God are not separate from God; They are the seven eyes of God and of the Lamb, the Redeemer…They are also the
seven eyes of the building stone. Hence, They are the seven eyes with the redemption of Christ for God’s building. Whenever these eyes look at people, they are redeemed and built into God’s house. This is the Trinity.
To have only the Father without the Son is to have the substance without the embodiment. Only when the gold is beaten into the form of a stand do we have the embodiment. While the stand is the embodiment of the substance, without the seven lamps, this embodiment cannot have its expression. Hence, the substance is the Father, the embodiment is the Son, and the expression is the Spirit expressing God the Father in the Son.
The church is the embodiment of Christ and the reproduction of the Spirit. The Spirit is the reality of Christ (John 14:17-20; 16:13-15), and the church is the reproduction of the Spirit (Rev. 22:17a). The church with the Spirit is the embodiment of Christ, the testimony of Jesus (1:2, 9; 19:10). Therefore, the more Spirit, the more church and the more testimony of Jesus. (Life-study of Revelation, pp. 84-85, 91-93)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1979, vol. 1, “Life Messages, volume 2,” chs. 68— 70; CWWL, 1975-1976, vol. 2, “The Church—the Reprint of the Spirit,” ch. 3
