8:1 羔羊揭開第七印的時候，天上寂靜約有二刻。
8:2 我看見那站在上帝面前的七位天使，有七枝號賜給他們。
8:3 另有一位天使，拿著金香爐來，站在祭壇旁邊。有許多香賜給他，要和眾聖徒的祈禱一同獻在寶座前的金壇上。
8:4 那香的煙和眾聖徒的祈禱從天使的手中一同升到上帝面前。
8:5 天使拿著香爐，盛滿了壇上的火，倒在地上；隨有雷轟、大聲、閃電、地震。
When the Lamb opened the seventh seal,
there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. Then I saw the seven angels who stand before
God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and
he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the
golden altar before the throne, and the
smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the
hand of the angel. Then the angel took
the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth,
and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an
earthquake.
*********
這是第七印被揭開的時候，是結局將到的時刻，上帝正要施行大事！所以，就產生「天上寂靜約有二刻」。
接著七位天使將要吹號，然而在吹號前，讓我們看見眾聖徒的祈禱，這也告訴我們，上帝讓天上安靜就是要聽聖徒的禱告。這也告訴我們，上帝是多麼看重聖徒的禱告。
而禱告最重要的是要奉主耶穌的名禱告，因為唯有奉主耶穌的名，才會蒙上帝垂聽，才會提醒我們禱告的對象是上帝。
沒有留言:
張貼留言