挪亚和他的家人在方舟里经过了洪水。们看见，经过洪水是新约里受浸的豫表。洪水之后，方舟停在亚拉腊山上（创八4）。那也是基督复活的表征、豫表、影儿。按照圣经，方舟是基督的豫表。方舟经过洪水，表征基督经过神审判下的死水。方舟停在山顶上，表征基督从死水中复活。
圣经太奇妙了。创世记八章四节说，方舟在七月十七日停在亚拉腊山上。你若仔细的读经，参照历史和最好的希伯来文辞典，你会发现以色列人在埃及过逾越节的时候，把七月改成了一月（出十二2）。犹太人有两种历书，一种是民历，一种是圣历。前者是旧历；后者是新历，开始于第一个逾越节。当神吩咐以色列人过逾越节，就要他们以那月为那年的正月。那月在希伯来文称为亚笔月（出十三4），意思是谷物的萌芽、蓓蕾、新穗。这表征在神眼中，逾越节算作生命新的开始。
主耶稣是在逾越节那天，就是那月的十四日（出十二6，约十八28），被钉十字架。按照圣历，祂是在正月被钉十字架；按照民历，祂是在七月，正是方舟停在山上的那月，被钉十字架。主在那月的十四日被钉十字架，并且三天后复活。因此，按照圣历，基督是在正月十七日复活；按照民历，是在七月十七日，正是方舟停在亚拉腊山的那日。所以在方舟停在山上这个早期的豫表里，已经告诉我们基督复活正确的日子。这真是太奇妙了。
彼前三章二十至二十一节，彼得把基督复活联于方舟。他说，“藉着水安全得救的不多，只有八个人。这水所豫表的浸，现在藉着耶稣基督复活，也拯救你们。”这水所豫表的浸，也藉复活拯救我们。方舟停在山顶，表征基督从死水中复活。那两件事发生的月分和日期完全相同。
在方舟里的人数是八人。“八”这数字表示复活。一周有七天，新一周的开始是第八天。基督是在一周的第一天，也就是第八天复活（约二十1）。所以“八”这数字表征复活。在这新的生活里，人是在复活里。凡他们所作的，都在复活里。
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Living in a Resurrection Life (1) – Gen. 8:4-5
Noah and his family passed through the flood in the ark, and we have seen that passing through the flood is a New Testament type of baptism. After the flood, the ark rested on Mount Ararat (Gen. 8:4). This is a type, shadow and figure of Christ’s resurrection. According to the Bible, the ark typifies Christ. The ark passing through the flood signifies Christ passing through death under God’s judgment, and the ark resting on the mountaintop signifies Christ resurrecting from the waters of death.
Scripture is marvelous. Genesis 8:4 says the ark rested on Mount Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. By carefully studying the Bible along with Hebrew references and historical background, we discover that when Israel kept the Passover in Egypt, they changed the seventh month into the first (Exo. 12:2). The Jews have two calendars: a civil calendar and a sacred calendar. The former is the old calendar; the latter is the new calendar, which begins with the first Passover. In God’s eyes, the Passover marked a new beginning of life. The Lord Jesus was crucified on the day of the Passover, the fourteenth day of that month (Exo. 12:6; John 18:28). According to the sacred calendar, He was crucified in the first month; according to the civil calendar, He was crucified in the seventh month — the very month the ark rested on the mountain. The Lord was crucified on the fourteenth day and resurrected three days later, on the seventeenth day. Thus, according to the sacred calendar, Christ resurrected on the first month and seventeenth day; according to the civil calendar, on the seventh month and seventeenth day — the exact same date the ark rested on Ararat. Therefore, this early type already reveals the precise day of Christ’s resurrection, which is truly marvelous.
1 Peter 3:20–21 links Christ’s resurrection with the ark: “During the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water. Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you… through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” The water that typifies baptism saves us through resurrection. The ark resting on the mountaintop signifies Christ resurrecting from the waters of death; both events occurred on the same month and day. The number of people in the ark was eight. The number eight signifies resurrection, for a week has seven days, and the start of a new week — the first day — is the eighth day. Christ resurrected on the first day of the week, the eighth day (John 20:1). Thus, eight signifies resurrection. In this new life, men live in resurrection, and everything they do is in resurrection.