第三天：陆地和水分开，并生出植物生命
第二天之后是第三天，是复活的日子。神说，『天下的水要聚在一处，使旱地露出来，事就这样成了。神称旱地为地，称水的聚处为海。』在第三天这复活的日子，在空气以下，旱地露出来，为要生出生命。整本圣经中，海代表死亡，地代表基督自己。在撒但背叛并神审判原始的创造之后，地上除了水之外，几乎什么都没有了。然后神用那覆翼的灵、活的话，以及分开的光来恢复地。
第二天，空气把众水分开；第三天，神把空气以下的水聚拢，使旱地露出来，为着产生生命。这意思是神作工在众水上，要拘禁、限制众水。神使旱地与死水分开，就产生了植物的生命。『于是地发生了青草，和结种子的菜蔬，各从其类，并结果子的树木，各从其类，果子都包着核。』草是最低等的植物生命，结种子的菜蔬较高等，结果子的树木更高一等。神将菜蔬与果树供人作食物，又将草供野兽和牲畜作食物。
陆地与水分开，陆地表征生命，水表征死亡。使陆地与水分开，意思是使生命与死亡分开。虽然我们已经得救，但我们里面的黑暗还没有被清除，水还没有被分开、受拘限，死亡的事还没有被限制。但是当我们与主一同往前，我们里面的死水要逐渐被拘限、限制并清除。旱地－复活的基督－要在我们里面升起。彼前一章三节说，我们借着基督的复活，已经重生了。当我们在主里长大，我们就学会如何分辨光与黑暗；分辨属天的事与属地的事；并分开生命与死亡。我们的家庭生活中，也许一点不黑暗，也不属世，但是却没有生命。借着我们天天享受主的话，我们可以向家人分享每天所读主的话，与家人一同享受诗歌和经节，一同祷读主话并祷告。这时，我们能经历，在我们的家中不仅不黑暗，也不属世，更是满了生命。基督这旱地要显在我们家中，祂要在我们家中被显明，产生生命。
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God’s Restoration and Further Creation: The Third Day – Gen. 1:9-13
After the second day comes the third day, which is the day of resurrection. God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas.” On the third day, this day of resurrection, under the expanse, dry land appeared in order to produce life. Throughout the entire Bible, the sea represents death, and the earth represents Christ Himself. After Satan’s rebellion and God’s judgment of the original creation, there was almost nothing left on earth except water. Then God used the brooding Spirit, the living word, and the separating light to restore the earth.
On the second day, the expanse separated the waters; on the third day, God gathered the waters under the expanse together and made the dry land appear for the purpose of producing life. This means God worked upon the waters to restrain and limit the waters. When God separated the dry land from the waters of death, plant life was produced. “Then the earth brought forth vegetation, the plants yieding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind.” Vegetation is the lowest form of plant life, seed-bearing plants are higher, and fruit-bearing trees are even higher. God provided plants and fruit trees as food for man, and vegetation as food for beasts and livestock.
The separation of dry land from water — dry land signifies life, and water signifies death. To separate dry land from water means to separate life from death. Although we have been saved, the darkness within us has not yet been cleared away, the waters have not yet been separated and restrained, and the things of death have not yet been limited. But as we go forward with the Lord, the waters of death within us will gradually be restrained, limited and cleared away. The dry land — the resurrected Christ — will rise up within us. 1 Peter 1:3 says that we have been regenerated through Christ’s resurrection. As we grow in the Lord, we learn how to distinguish light from darkness; distinguish heavenly things from earthly things; and separate life from death. In our family life, perhaps there is no darkness at all, nor is it worldly, but there is no life. Through our daily enjoyment of the Lord’s word, we can share with our family members the Lord’s word we read each day, enjoy hymns and verses together with family members, and pray-read the Lord’s word and pray together. At this time, we can experience that in our home, there is not only no darkness and no worldliness, but it is also full of life. Christ, this dry land, will appear and will be manifested in our home, producing life.