2007感恩节
总题：紧紧跟随主恢复当前的异象
第五篇　妇人、龙和男孩子的异象
Message Five The Vision of the Woman, the Dragon, and the Man-child
读经：启十二1~17，十一15
Scripture Reading: Rev. 12:1-17; 11:15
壹　在启示录这卷书第二段许多关键事物中，头一项就是宇宙的光明妇人同她的男孩子与大红龙交战的异象─启十二1~17：
I.　Among the many crucial matters in the second section of the book of Revelation, the first is the vision of the universal bright woman with her man-child warring against the great red dragon—Rev. 12:1-17:
一　启示录十二章的异象所包括的历世代，是从创世记三章十五节直到这世代的末了─启十一15，十二10。
A.　The vision in Revelation 12 covers all the generations from Genesis 3:15 until the end of this age—Rev. 11:15; 12:10.
二　启示录十二章给我们看见宇宙中发生的事;在此我们看见神的仇敌正在与神争战─17节。
B.　Revelation 12 gives us a view of what is taking place in the universe; here we see that God's enemy is fighting against Him—v. 17.
三　揭示宇宙中真实光景的这个异象，必须成为管制我们的异象─箴二九18上，徒二六19：
C.　This vision of the true situation in the universe must become a governing vision to us—Prov. 29:18a; Acts 26:19:
1　我们若看见这个异象，我们对基督徒生活的观念，就要有彻底的改变─林后五9~10。
1.　If we see this vision, our concept regarding the Christian life will be radically changed—2 Cor. 5:9-10.
2　看见这个控制的异象会帮助我们有真正的一，并生出男孩子，打败神的仇敌，并带进神的国─约十七11、21~24，启十二5、10，十一15。
2.　Seeing this controlling vision will help us to be in the genuine oneness and to bring forth the man-child to defeat God's enemy and bring in God's kingdom—John 17:11, 21-24; Rev. 12:5, 10; 11:15.
贰　“天上现出大异象来，有一个妇人身披日头，脚踏月亮，头戴十二星的冠冕。她怀了孕”─十二1~2上：
II.　"A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon underneath her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; and she was with child"—12:1-2a:
一　这光明的妇人是一个集体、宇宙的妇人，象征神全体子民的组合─1节。
A.　This bright woman is a collective, universal woman signifying the totality of God's people—v. 1.
二　神的心意是要借着宇宙的妇人产生男孩子，就是神子民中较刚强的部分，神要用这男孩子打败祂的仇敌，带进祂的国─10~11节。
B.　God's intention is, through the universal woman, to bring forth the man-child— the stronger part of God's people—whom He will use to defeat His enemy and bring in His kingdom—vv. 10-11.
三　历代神的子民一直忍受生产之苦，以产生男孩子，好为神的国争战─赛二六17~18，耶六24，十三21，三十6，弥四9~10，五3，加四19。
C.　Throughout all generations God's people have been suffering the travail of delivery to bring forth the man-child to fight for God's kingdom—Isa. 26:17-18; Jer. 6:24; 13:21; 30:6; Micah 4:9-10; 5:3; Gal. 4:19.
四　要产生男孩子，在神的子民中至少要有一部分人，回到妇人的正确地位上，在实际并实行上成为妇人的一部分─林后十一2，弗五24。
D.　For the bringing forth of the man-child, there is the need for at least a portion of God's people to come back to the proper standing of the woman and become part of the woman in an actual and practical way—2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:24.
五　启示录十二章里的妇人服从她的丈夫，并从她的丈夫受了孕，要为她的丈夫有所生产─2、5节：
E.　The woman in Revelation 12 is submissive to her Husband and has been impregnated by her Husband in order to bring forth something for her Husband— vv. 2, 5:
1　召会的责任主要的还不是为基督作什么，乃是接受基督的一些东西，好从基督怀孕，而为基督生出男孩子─加一15~16，二20，四19，腓一21。
1.　The church's duty is not mainly to do something for Christ but to receive something of Christ so that she may be made pregnant of Christ and may bring forth the man-child for Christ—Gal. 1:15-16; 2:20; 4:19; Phil. 1:21.
2　我们需要时刻向主，就是我们的丈夫敞开，让基督的元素，基督神圣的成分，不断在我们里面作工，充满并浸透我们全人─太五，加四19，弗三16~17上。
2.　We need to be constantly open to the Lord as our Husband to permit the element of Christ, the divine constituent of Christ, to work in us continually to saturate and permeate our whole being—Matt. 5:3; Gal. 4:19; Eph. 3:16-17a.
叁　“天上现出另一个异象来，看哪，有一条大红龙，……龙站在那将要生产的妇人面前，等她生产之后，要吞吃她的孩子”─启十二3上、4下：
III.　"Another sign was seen in heaven; and behold, there was a great red dragon…The dragon stood before the woman who was about to bring forth, so that when she brings forth he might devour her child"—Rev. 12:3a, 4b:
一　龙象征神的仇敌，称为魔鬼和撒但;蛇是狡猾的，而龙是残忍的─9节，创三1，林后十一3。
A.　The dragon signifies God's enemy, called the Devil and Satan; the serpent is the subtle one, and the dragon is the cruel one—v. 9; Gen. 3:1; 2 Cor. 11:3.
二　我们需要看见异象，就是在宇宙中，在作为妇人的神子民与作为龙的蛇之间，正进行着猛烈的争战─创三15，启十二17：
B.　We need to see the vision that in the universe a war is raging between God's people as the woman and the serpent as the dragon—Gen. 3:15; Rev. 12:17:
1　创世记三章十五节所说，蛇和女人的后裔彼此为仇，在启示录十二章显明了;这个为仇在这一章里完全应验了。─引用经文
1.　The enmity between the serpent and the woman's seed mentioned in Genesis 3:15 is manifested in Revelation 12, where this enmity is fulfilled to the uttermost.
2　龙憎恨宇宙光明的妇人，攻击这妇人，企图吞吃她的孩子─4、13~17节。
2.　The dragon hates the universal bright woman, and he fights against her with the intention of devouring her child—vv. 4, 13-17.
肆　“妇人生了一个男孩子，是将来要用铁杖辖管万国的”─5节上：
IV.　"She brought forth a son, a man-child, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod"—v. 5a:
一　神需要男孩子打败祂的仇敌，并带进祂的国，使祂永远的定旨得以完成─10节，弗三11，提后一9。
A.　God needs the man-child to defeat His enemy and to bring in His kingdom so that His eternal purpose might be accomplished—v. 10; Eph. 3:11; 2 Tim. 1:9.
二　召会没有达到神的目的，神就拣选一班得胜者，他们能达到神的目的，他们能成功神的要求;这就是男孩子的原则─启十二11，二7、11、17、26~28，三5、12、20~21。
B.　Because the church has not attained to God's purpose, God will choose a group of overcomers who will attain to His purpose and fulfill His demands; this is the principle of the man-child—Rev. 12:11; 2:7, 11, 17, 26-28; 3:5, 12, 20-21.
三　神子民中较刚强的人，是一个集体单位，为神争战，将神的国带到地上─弗六10~11，启十二10。
C.　The stronger ones among God's people are a collective unit fighting the battle for God and bringing God's kingdom down to earth—Eph. 6:10-11; Rev. 12:10.
四　启示录十二章里女人的后裔，不只是单个的基督，乃是团体的实体，就是团体的基督，包括基督作头，以及祂所有得胜的信徒作身体─西一18：
D.　The woman's seed in Revelation 12 is not only the individual Christ but is a corporate entity, the corporate Christ, including Christ as the Head and all His overcoming believers as the Body—Col. 1:18:
1　男孩子不是单个的，乃是团体的;男孩子既不是指个人的主耶稣，也不是指与祂分开的得胜者，乃是指主耶稣同着得胜者─诗二9，启二27，十二5。
1.　The man-child is not individual but corporate; the man-child is neither the Lord Jesus individually nor the overcomers separate from Him but the Lord Jesus with the overcomers—Psa. 2:9; Rev. 2:27; 12:5.
2　主耶稣乃是男孩子的头、中心、实际、生命和本质，而得胜者乃是男孩子的身体。
2.　The Lord Jesus is the Head, the center, the reality, the life, and the nature of the man-child, and the overcomers are the Body of the man-child.
五　男孩子完全被基督的元素所充满并浸透;成为男孩子的路，乃是得加强到我们里面的人里，使基督将祂自己建造到我们心里，并以基督那追测不尽的丰富为滋养，且穿上基督为神全副的军装─弗三16~18、8，六10~11，加四19。
E.　The entire being of the man-child is saturated and permeated with the element of Christ; the way to become the man-child is to be strengthened into our inner man so that Christ may build Himself into our hearts, to be nourished with the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to put on Christ as the whole armor of God—Eph. 3:16-18, 8; 6:10-11; Gal. 4:19.
伍　“世上的国，成了我主和祂基督的国，祂要作王，直到永永远远”─启十一15：
V.　"The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever"—Rev. 11:15:
一　男孩子与神最重要的时代行动有关，这行动就是祂要结束这世代，并带进国度的时代─十二10，太六9~10。
A.　The man-child is related to God's most important dispensational move—His move to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom—12:10; Matt. 6:9-10.
二　神要结束这世代，并带进国度时代;为此神必须得着男孩子作祂时代的器皿─十三43上。
B.　God wants to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom, and for this He must have the man-child as His dispensational instrument—13:43a.
三　男孩子被提到天上，撒但被摔到地上，以及天上的宣告，表明男孩子要把国度带到地上;这是神最大的时代行动─启十二5、9~10，十一15。
C.　The rapture of the man-child to heaven, the casting of Satan to earth, and the declaration in heaven signify that the man-child will bring the kingdom to earth; this is God's greatest dispensational move—Rev. 12:5, 9-10; 11:15.