【读圣经学英语】你们将要看见天开了

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『又对他说，我实实在在的告诉你们，你们将要看见天开了，神的使者上去下来在人子身上。』（约一51。）古代的犹太人知道，这是指雅各的梦。（创二八10～22。）当雅各从他哥哥那里逃出来的时候，有一晚露天而睡，用一块石头当作枕头。他梦见天开了，有一个梯子立在地上，梯子的头顶着天，有神的使者在梯子上，上去下来。当雅各睡醒了，他说，『这地方何等可畏，这不是别的，乃是神的殿，也是天的门。』（创二八17。）于是他浇油在所枕的石头上面，又给这地起名叫伯特利。主对拿但业所说的话，就是雅各之梦的应验。基督这位人子，带着祂的人性，乃是为着神的家立在地上通天的梯子，使天向地开启，且把地联于天。雅各浇油（油象征圣灵，就是三一神为着临到人的终极表现）在石头上，（石头象征变化过的人，）使其成为神的家。在约翰一章，为着神的家，有那灵（约一32）和石头，（约一42，）带着人性里的基督。那里有这个，那里就有开启的天。因此为人的基督，乃是开启天，使地联于天，又将天带到地上的梯子。无论那里有基督在祂的人性里，那里就有天的门，就有伯特利，就是用所有的石头，即所有变化过的人，建造的神的家。

我们必须放弃所有宗教的观念，并接受神圣的观念，那就是基督是带着鸽子的羔羊，带着那灵的救赎主。基督是救赎主，带着那灵作重生、变化并联结的能力。基督的灵要重生、变化我们，使我们与神联结，并互相联结。我们必须忘掉想要行善讨神喜悦，以及想要为神作事的宗教观念。我们必须看见，神的心意是要重生我们，将我们变化成为石头－就是将我们由西门变成矶法。所有被吸引到神那带着鸽子的羔羊那里的人，将要变化成为石头，为着神的家。我们必须有这异象，看见我们一切所需要的乃是被变化，并建造在一起，成为神所要的家。这是神所寻求的，也是神藉着祂的儿子所要完成的；祂的儿子曾成为人子，作天梯把地联于天。终极的结果将是神与人调和，使神与人互为居所。人要成为祂的居所，祂也要成为人的居所。这是神照着祂永远计划的永远居所。

Enlightenment

“And He said to him, Truly, truly I say to you, you shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man” (v. 51). The ancient Jews knew that this was a reference to Jacob’s dream (Gen. 28:10-22). When Jacob was fleeing from his brother, he slept one night in the open air, using a stone for a pillow. He dreamed that he saw heaven opened and a ladder set up on the earth which reached to heaven and on which angels were ascending and descending. When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, “How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven” (Gen. 28:17). He then poured oil upon the stone which he had used for a pillow and called the name of it Bethel. The Lord’s word to Nathanael was the fulfillment of Jacob’s dream. Christ, as the Son of Man with His humanity, is the ladder which is set up on the earth and leads to heaven, keeping heaven open to earth and joining earth to heaven for the house of God. Jacob poured oil (the symbol of the Holy Spirit, the last Person of the Triune God to reach man) upon the stone (symbol of the transformed man) that it might be the house of God. Here in John 1 are the Spirit (v. 32) and the stone (v. 42) for the house of God with Christ and His humanity. Where these are, there is an open heaven. Thus Christ, as a man, is the ladder that opens the heavens and joins earth to heaven and brings heaven to earth. Wherever Christ is in His humanity, there is the gate of heaven, there is Bethel, the building of God’s house with all the stones, that is, with all the transformed persons.

We must abandon all religious concepts and take the divine concept which is Christ as the Lamb with the dove, the Redeemer with the Spirit. Christ is the Redeemer with the Spirit as the regenerating, transforming, and uniting power. The Spirit of Christ will regenerate, transform, and unite us to God and to one another. We must forget the religious concepts of trying to do good to please God and of attempting to do things for God. We must see that God’s intention is to regenerate us and to transform us into stones—i.e., to change us from Simon to Cephas. All who have been attracted to the Lamb of God with the dove will be transformed into stones for the house of God. We must have the vision that all we need is to be transformed and built together as the very house that God desires. God is seeking this and will accomplish it by His Son, who became the Son of Man as the heavenly ladder joining earth to heaven. The ultimate issue will be that God is mingled with man so that God and man become a mutual habitation. Man will become His dwelling, and He will become man’s dwelling—this is the eternal dwelling of God according to His eternal plan.