当方舟停在亚拉腊山顶上，那八个人也复活并在方舟里停在山顶上。以弗所二章六节说，我们与基督一同复活。我们若注意看这幅豫表的图画，会看见教会是另一种团体，她并不是旧的社会。旧团体和旧社会已经被埋葬了。当我们受浸时，我们埋葬了旧团体和旧社会。洪水来到，埋葬了挪亚的旧社会，只有八个人复活了。现在那八个人在新境界里的生活，必是教会生活的豫表。我们是教会人，而教会人是复活的人。我们是另一种团体，另一种社会。教会生活是一种新的团体。
属肉体的人，由乌鸦所表征，回到被神审判的世界
在那八个人开始在新地上过新生活之前，挪亚作了几样试验。他放出一只乌鸦和一只鸽子（创八7-12）。乌鸦表征属肉体的人。你若仔细读利未记十一章，会看见乌鸦是不洁净的鸟。一切不洁净的鸟，都是因为吃死的东西－尸体，所以成为不洁。换句话说，它们吃死亡。它们不洁净，因为它们以死亡为食物。在神眼中，死亡是污秽的。按照旧约，人一接触死亡，就立刻变为不洁。不洁的鸟吃死亡，洁净的鸟却吃谷类的子粒。每一子粒中都有生命。洁净的鸟因为以生命为食物，所以是洁净的。在神眼中，没有比生命更洁净的，也没有比死亡更污秽的。你是吃死亡呢，还是吃生命？吃尸体的是乌鸦，吃种子的是鸽子。
挪亚很聪明，先放出一只乌鸦。乌鸦离开方舟以后，好像出了囚笼，看见浮在审判的水面上的尸体，就吃这些尸体。当它被关在方舟里，它没有机会吃尸体，因为方舟里没有死亡。然而，当它飞出方舟，看见水面上满了尸体，满了死亡。这是甚么意思？这是指在教会中没有死亡，所有的乌鸦都在挨饿。在教会中，那些习惯以死亡为食物的人都挨了饿。有一天，有机会出去时，这些乌鸦就要飞出去，开始吃尸体。多年来，我看过好多这样的“乌鸦。”他们在教会生活中过了一段时候，又出去接触神所审判的世界，又去吃尸体。无论甚么人喜爱那被定罪的世界，就像一只乌鸦吃死亡的东西。
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Living in a Resurrection Life (2) – Eph. 2:6
When the ark rested on Mount Ararat, the eight people inside also rested in the ark on the mountaintop. Ephesians 2:6 says that we have been raised together with Christ. If we pay attention to this typological picture, we will see that the church is another kind of community — no longer the old society. The old community and the old society were buried. When we were baptized, we buried the old community and the old society. The flood came and buried Noah’s old world, leaving only eight who were resurrected. The life that these eight people had in a new realm is a type of the church life. We are “church people”, and church people are resurrected ones — a new community, a new society. The church life is a new corporate entity.
Those Who Are of the Flesh, Represented by the Raven, Return to the World to be Judged by God
Before the eight began living on the new earth, Noah conducted a few tests. He released a raven and a dove (Gen. 8:7–12). The raven signifies the fleshly person. According to Leviticus 11, ravens are unclean birds because they eat dead things — carcasses. This means they feed on death. They are unclean because they take death as their food. In God’s eyes, death is filthy, but life is clean. In the Old Testament, anyone who touched death became unclean immediately. Unclean birds feed on death; clean birds eat grains, which contain life. The clean birds are clean because they take life as their food. Nothing is cleaner than life, and nothing is filthier than death. The question is: do you eat death or eat life? Those who feed on death are ravens; those who feed on grain are doves.
Noah wisely released the raven first. Once released, it felt freed from its confinement and began eating the carcasses floating on the waters of judgment. While shut in the ark, it had no access to death because there was no death in the ark. But once outside, it found the surface of the water filled with corpses and death. This means that in the church there is no death, and all the ravens starve. Those who habitually feed on death have nothing to eat in the church life. When given the opportunity, these ravens fly out, return to the judged world, and eat death again. Over the years I have seen many such “ravens” — people who lived in the church life for a time but later went out to contact the world that God has condemned, returning to feed on death. Anyone who loves the condemned world is like a raven feeding on dead things.