2:12 耶和華說:雖然如此,你們應當禁食、哭泣、悲哀,一心歸向我。
2:13 你們要撕裂心腸,不撕裂衣服。歸向耶和華─你們的上帝;因為他有恩典,有憐憫,不輕易發怒,有豐盛的慈愛,並且後悔不降所說的災。
2:14 或者他轉意後悔,留下餘福,就是留下獻給耶和華─你們上帝的素祭和奠祭,也未可知。
2:15 你們要在錫安吹角,分定禁食的日子,宣告嚴肅會。
2:16 聚集眾民,使會眾自潔:招聚老者,聚集孩童和吃奶的;使新郎出離洞房,新婦出離內室。
12 "Yet even now," declares the
Lord,
Lord,
"return to me with all your heart,
with
fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and rend your hearts and not your
garments."
garments."
Return to the Lord your God,
for
he is gracious and merciful,
he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast
love;
love;
and
he relents over disaster.
he relents over disaster.
14 Who knows whether he will not turn and
relent,
relent,
and leave a blessing behind him,
a
grain offering and a drink offering
grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion;
consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
16 gather the people.
Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders;
gather the children,
even nursing infants.
Let
the bridegroom leave his room,
the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.
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先知約珥在這裡教導百姓面對審判時要:「你們應當禁食、哭泣、悲哀,一心歸向我(上帝)。你們要撕裂心腸,不撕裂衣服。歸向耶和華─你們的上帝;因為他有恩典,有憐憫,不輕易發怒,有豐盛的慈愛,並且後悔不降所說的災。」
先知這樣的呼籲是要人知道,要從內心悔改認罪,回到上帝面前求上帝的憐憫,因為若不是上帝的憐憫的心腸,我們就注定要受到審判後永久的懲罰,誰也不可避免!但是上帝在基督裡將那日變成光明,因為祂透過基督來展現祂的愛!
所以先知勸告以色列人要:「在錫安吹角,分定禁食的日子,宣告嚴肅會。聚集眾民,使會眾自潔:招聚老者,聚集孩童和吃奶的;使新郎出離洞房,新婦出離內室。」
而我們屬乎基督的人,在禮拜的開始也是要先有「認罪」,才能清楚基督為甚麼要上十字架,才清楚祂的復活是上帝保證,才知道上帝的恩典與憐憫是何等的大!才會真正感恩與讚美祂,將自己獻給上帝當活祭,為主而活!
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