14:1 我又觀看,見羔羊站在錫安山,同他又有十四萬四千人,都有他的名和他父的名寫在額上。
14:2 我聽見從天上有聲音,像眾水的聲音和大雷的聲音,並且我所聽見的好像彈琴的所彈的琴聲。
14:3 他們在寶座前,並在四活物和眾長老前唱歌,彷彿是新歌;除了從地上買來的那十四萬四千人以外,沒有人能學這歌。
14:4 這些人未曾沾染婦女,他們原是童身。羔羊無論往哪裡去,他們都跟隨他。他們是從人間買來的,作初熟的果子歸與上帝和羔羊。
14:5 在他們口中察不出謊言來;他們是沒有瑕疵的。
Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion
stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name
written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of
many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the
sound of harpists playing on their harps, and they were singing a new song
before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders.
No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the
earth. It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are
virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been
redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth
no lie was found, for they are blameless.
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十四萬四千人讓人想到數字上與12有關係,但是同樣部討論數字,正點是這一群人是上帝的揀選,正如經文說:「他們在寶座前,並在四活物和眾長老前唱歌,彷彿是新歌;除了從地上買來的那十四萬四千人以外,沒有人能學這歌。這些人未曾沾染婦女,他們原是童身。羔羊無論往哪裡去,他們都跟隨他。他們是從人間買來的,作初熟的果子歸與上帝和羔羊。在他們口中察不出謊言來;他們是沒有瑕疵的。」
這當中最重要的一句話是:「他們是從人間買來的,作初熟的果子歸與上帝和羔羊。在他們口中察不出謊言來;他們是沒有瑕疵的。」
可見上帝的救贖是有功效、有能力的,這不是人的作為,這是上帝的作為,是上帝親自透過耶穌督來救贖的一群人,是上帝花上極大的代價——獨生愛子耶穌督!
這群人不是自己努力成為上帝的子民,是上帝親自作為買淑一群人成為上帝的子民!所以這一群人是多麼有福啊!這一群人就是上帝透過耶穌基督拯救,任耶穌基督為主的一群人!所以他們會唱特別的新歌讚美主!
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