啟示錄18:4-8

18:4 我又聽見從天上有聲音說：我的民哪，你們要從那城出來，免得與她一同有罪，受她所受的災殃；

18:5 因她的罪惡滔天；她的不義，上帝已經想起來了。

18:6 她怎樣待人，也要怎樣待她，按她所行的加倍地報應她；用她調酒的杯加倍地調給她喝。

18:7 她怎樣榮耀自己，怎樣奢華，也當叫她照樣痛苦悲哀，因她心裡說：我坐了皇后的位，並不是寡婦，決不至於悲哀。

18:8 所以在一天之內，她的災殃要一齊來到，就是死亡、悲哀、饑荒。她又要被火燒盡了，因為審判她的主上帝大有能力。

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,

 "Come out of her, my people,

lest you take part in her sins,

lest you share in her plagues;

for her sins are heaped high as heaven,

and God has remembered her iniquities.

Pay her back as she herself has paid back others,

and repay her double for her deeds;

mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.

As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,

so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,

since in her heart she says,

 'I sit as a queen,

I am no widow,

and mourning I shall never see. '

For this reason her plagues will come in a single day,

death and mourning and famine,

and she will be burned up with fire;

for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."

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    看到這段經文讓我們想起，「有人對作惡的人一直還很亨通，心中以為上帝忘記了」！

 

    這好像上帝回答是人的話：「因她的罪惡滔天；她的不義，上帝已經想起來了。」

    的確，心中最大的疑問就是：「善有善報，惡有惡報，為何上帝不報呢！」

    這裡告訴我們上帝必定會報的，並且嚴嚴得報！上帝自然會有其作為，祂是大有能力的上帝，祂必定成就祂的公義，好使祂的名得榮耀，正是彰顯祂拯救世人的慈愛！