12:10 我已曉諭眾先知,並且加增默示,藉先知設立比喻。
12:11 基列人沒有罪孽嗎?他們全然是虛假的。人在吉甲獻牛犢為祭,他們的祭壇好像田間犁溝中的亂堆。
12:12 從前雅各逃到亞蘭地,以色列為得妻服事人,為得妻與人放羊。
12:13 耶和華藉先知領以色列從埃及上來;以色列也藉先知而得保存。
12:14 以法蓮大大惹動主怒,所以他流血的罪必歸在他身上。主必將那因以法蓮所受的羞辱歸還他。
10 I spoke to the prophets;
it was I who multiplied visions,
and through the prophets gave parables.
11 If there is iniquity in Gilead,
they shall surely come to nothing:
in
Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
their altars also are like stone heaps
on
the furrows of the field.
12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
there Israel served for a wife,
and for a wife he guarded sheep.
13 By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up
from Egypt,
and by a prophet he was guarded.
14 Ephraim has given bitter provocation;
so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on
him
and
will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.
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上帝已經差派許多先知,也增加許多異象,又藉先知設立許多比喻,多方告知以色列人要悔改。上帝已經盡力保全以色列,派遣先知拯救以色列人,但以色列人終究還是不悔改,他們的行為甚至已經讓造物者受了羞辱,所以上帝必以羞辱來回報以色列人。
同樣教會需要傳講上帝話語的傳道人,正如保羅所說:「你當竭力在上帝面前得蒙喜悅,作無愧的工人,按著正意分解真理的道。但要遠避世俗的虛談,因為這等人必進到更不敬虔的地步。」(提摩太後書2:15-16)
牧者在教會就是要「按著正意分解真理的道」,也唯有如此,牧者在教會才有權柄!因此,牧者要在上帝的話語上下功夫,才能引導教會走在上帝的旨意中,才不至於偏離真道!這是上帝給牧者的先知性職分與事工,是無法被別人取代的!
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