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第五周 • 周三

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晨兴餧养

出三一13 你要吩咐以色列人说，你们务要守我的安息日；因为这是我与你们之间世世代代的记号，使你们知道我是把你们分别为圣的耶和华。

创二2　 到第七日，神造作的工已经完毕，就在第七日歇了祂一切造作的工，安息了。


在论到建造神居所的长段记载之后，出埃及三十一章十二至十七节重申守安息日的诫命。我们需要找出，在记载关于神居所的完整启示之后，为甚么需要重申这一条特别的诫命。…主呼召摩西上山时，首先把律法交给摩西，然后把建造祂在地上居所的启示赐给他。在这段话里，我们看见帐幕及其器物的图样，以及关于祭司体系的完整启示，还有关于建造帐幕之人的记载。这一切记载之后，主重申与守安息日有关的要求。

在帐幕建造工作的嘱咐之后插入关于安息日的话，指明主吩咐这些建造者，这些巧匠，要学习如何与主一同安息。他们不该作工而忘了与主一同安息。因此，主在吩咐他们作祂居所建造的工作时，题醒他们，当他们为祂作工时，应当学习如何与祂一同安息。我们若只知道如何为主作工，而不知道如何与祂一同安息，就违背了神圣的原则（出埃及记生命读经，二○八九至二○九○页）。

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安息日的原则不是要在那一天守的问题。安息日的原则乃是：我们与主同工时必须学习如何与祂一同安息。…有些人也许以为安息日的意义不过是歇了工作。这不是圣经里安息日的真义。圣经强调神在第七日安息的事实〔创二2〕。

按照创世记，安息日对神来说是第七日，但对人来说是第一日。神六日之内创造诸天、地以及人类生存所需的一切，为着完成神的定旨。万物都造齐以后，人纔在第六日被造。这意思是，人一从神的手中被造出来，他的第一日，也就是神的第七日，即将开始。因此，神的第七日就是人的第一日。这件事的意义乃是：安息日对神而言是作工之后安息，对人而言却是先安息，后作工。神先作了六天工，然后在第七日安息了。但人是在他的第一日安息，然后才开始作工。

在出埃及三十一章十二至十七节我们看见，建造帐幕的人受了嘱咐，不可以开始作工，直到他们与主一同安息，并得着舒畅。然后他们纔能为祂作工，并与祂同工。然而，这工作不会继续不断的进行；反之，这工作乃是以六日劳苦和一日安息为一段。每一段的开始是安息日，接着工作六天；然后是另一段，以安息开始，接着是工作。…我们已经强调过，安息日对神而言是第七日，对人而言是第一日；神作工，使人享受并安息；人享受神工作上所成就的，为要与神同工。人在第一日享受神在前六日所成就的。以下六天，人就与神同工。工作六天以后，人又一次先享受神所成就的，接着再工作六天。这就像一个循环一直进行，这循环就是我们与神是一的记号（出埃及记生命读经，二○九○至二○九一、二○九八页）。

参读：出埃及记生命读经，第一百七十二篇。

WEEK 5 — DAY 3

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Morning Nourishment

Exo. 31:13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, You shall surely keep My Sabbaths; for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you.

Gen. 2:2 And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

In Exodus 31:12-17, after a long record concerning the building up of God’s dwelling place, there is a repetition of the commandment to keep the Sabbath… We need to find why…[it] is repeated after the record concerning the full revelation of God’s dwelling place…When Jehovah called Moses to go up to the mountain, Jehovah first gave Moses the law. Then He gave Moses the revelation concerning the building up of His dwelling place on earth. In this section we see the design of the tabernacle and its furniture and a full revelation regarding the priesthood. There is also a record concerning the builders of the tabernacle. After all of this, Jehovah repeated the requirement related to keeping the Sabbath.

The fact that this insertion concerning the Sabbath follows the charge for the building work of the tabernacle indicates that Jehovah was telling these builders, these workers, to learn how to rest with Him. They should not work and forget about resting with the Lord. Therefore, in charging them to do the work of building His dwelling place, Jehovah reminded them that as they worked for Him, they should learn how to rest with Him. If we only know how to work for the Lord but do not know how to rest with Him, we are acting contrary to the divine principle. (Life-study of Exodus, 2nd ed., pp. 1759-1760)

Today’s Reading

The principle of the Sabbath is not a matter of the day on which it is observed. The principle of the Sabbath is that working with the Lord requires that we learn how to rest with Him. Some may think that the significance of the Sabbath is merely to cease from work. This is not the real meaning of the Sabbath in the Bible. The Bible emphasizes the fact that God rested on the seventh day [Gen. 2:2].

According to the book of Genesis, to God the Sabbath is the seventh day, but to man it is the first day. In six days God created the heavens, the earth, and everything necessary for man to exist for the fulfillment of God’s purpose. After all things were made, man was created on the sixth day. This means that as soon as man came forth from the creating hand of God, his first day, which was God’s seventh day, was about to begin. Thus, what was the seventh day to God was the first day to man. The significance of this is that to God the Sabbath was rest after work, but to man it was rest first and then work. God first worked for six days and then He rested on the seventh day. But man rested on his first day and then began to work.

In Exodus 31:12-17 we see that the builders of the tabernacle were charged not to begin working until they had rested with Jehovah and had been refreshed. Then they could work for Him and with Him. However, this work would not go on continuously. Rather, it would be a work in intervals of six days of labor and one day of rest. With every interval, the beginning is a day of rest, followed by six days of work. Then there would be another interval beginning with rest and continuing with work. We have emphasized that to God the Sabbath is the seventh day and to man, the first day; that God worked for man’s enjoyment and rest; and that man enjoys what God has accomplished in His work in order to work with God. Man in his first day enjoyed what God accomplished in the previous six days. Then in the following six days man worked with God. After six days’ work, man again first enjoyed what God had accomplished, and then he worked again the following six days. This proceeds as a cycle. This cycle is a sign that we are one with God. (Life-study of Exodus, 2nd ed., pp. 1760, 1766)

Further Reading: Life-study of Exodus, msg. 172