2016年5月13日 星期五
啟示錄11:1-14
11:1 有一根葦子賜給我，當作量度的杖；且有話說：「起來！將上帝的殿和祭壇，並在殿中禮拜的人都量一量。
11:2 只是殿外的院子要留下不用量，因為這是給了外邦人的；他們要踐踏聖城四十二個月。
11:3 我要使我那兩個見證人，穿著毛衣，傳道一千二百六十天。」
11:4 他們就是那兩棵橄欖樹，兩個燈臺，立在世界之主面前的。
11:5 若有人想要害他們，就有火從他們口中出來，燒滅仇敵。凡想要害他們的都必這樣被殺。
11:6 這二人有權柄，在他們傳道的日子叫天閉塞不下雨；又有權柄叫水變為血，並且能隨時隨意用各樣的災殃攻擊世界。
11:7 他們作完見證的時候，那從無底坑裡上來的獸必與他們交戰，並且得勝，把他們殺了。
11:8 他們的屍首就倒在大城裡的街上；這城按著靈意叫所多瑪，又叫埃及，就是他們的主釘十字架之處。
11:9 從各民、各族、各方、各國中，有人觀看他們的屍首三天半，又不許把屍首放在墳墓裡。
11:10 住在地上的人就為他們歡喜快樂，互相餽送禮物，因這兩位先知曾叫住在地上的人受痛苦。
11:11 過了這三天半，有生氣從上帝那裡進入他們裡面，他們就站起來；看見他們的人甚是害怕。
11:12 兩位先知聽見有大聲音從天上來，對他們說：「上到這裡來。」他們就駕著雲上了天，他們的仇敵也看見了。
11:13 正在那時候，地大震動，城就倒塌了十分之一，因地震而死的有七千人；其餘的都恐懼，歸榮耀給天上的上帝。
11:14 第二樣災禍過去，第三樣災禍快到了。
Then I was given a measuring rod like a
staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and
those who worship there, but do not
measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to
the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two
witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
These are the two olive trees and the two
lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours
from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is
how he is doomed to be killed. They have
the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their
prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to
strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. And when they have finished their testimony,
the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer
them and kill them, and their dead
bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called
Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from the
peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and
refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry
and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those
who dwell on the earth. But after the
three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up
on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. Then they heard a
loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to
heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. And at that hour there was a great
earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in
the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of
heaven.
The
second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.
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從這段經文中看見人性的罪惡，使得世人也不能容許上帝的僕人，視上帝的僕人為禍害，為著他們被邪惡的勢力所打敗而歡呼。然而上帝卻為他們伸冤，讓他們復活被提，然後降災於世界。
可見基督徒在世上必定會遭受非基督徒的厭棄，所以基督徒要有被討厭的勇氣，敢活的與世界不同生活與生命，情願要討上帝的喜歡，而不討人的喜歡。情願為上帝而活，不為世界而活。
當然被人厭棄是一時，蒙上帝喜悅卻是永恆！
啟示錄10:8-11
10:8 我先前從天上所聽見的那聲音又吩咐我說：「你去，把那踏海踏地之天使手中展開的小書卷取過來。」
10:9 我就走到天使那裡，對他說：「請你把小書卷給我。」他對我說：「你拿著吃盡了，便叫你肚子發苦，然而在你口中要甜如蜜。」
10:10 我從天使手中把小書卷接過來，吃盡了，在我口中果然甜如蜜，吃了以後，肚子覺得發苦了。
10:11 天使（原文是他們）對我說：「你必指著多民、多國、多方、多王再說預言。」
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven
spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand
of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." So I went to the
angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take
and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet
as honey." And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate
it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was
made bitter. And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples
and nations and languages and kings."
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在這裡使徒約翰如同先知以西結和耶利米將上帝的話吃入肚子裡，然後出去宣揚上帝的話語。這樣的經歷如同傳道者，將上帝的話吸收之後，就出去宣講上帝的話，詮釋給今世的人，讓他們明白上帝的話語而去遵行！
每一個傳道的人有了這經歷以後，才能真正成為上帝話語的出口。也因為如此，傳道者不可不仔細來思量上帝的話，讓世人得著警戒，也讓世人可以知道悔改歸向上帝。
當然施洗約翰吃了書卷以後，要為上帝發更大的預言。
啟示錄10:1-7
10:1 我又看見另有一位大力的天使從天降下，披著雲彩，頭上有虹，臉面像日頭，兩腳像火柱。
10:2 他手裡拿著小書卷，是展開的。他右腳踏海，左腳踏地，
10:3 大聲呼喊，好像獅子吼叫。呼喊完了，就有七雷發聲。
10:4 七雷發聲之後，我正要寫出來，就聽見從天上有聲音說：「七雷所說的，你要封上，不可寫出來。」
10:5 我所看見的那踏海踏地的天使向天舉起右手來，
10:6 指著那創造天和天上之物，地和地上之物，海和海中之物，直活到永永遠遠的，起誓說：「不再有時日了（或譯：不再耽延了）。」
10:7 但在第七位天使吹號發聲的時候，上帝的奧祕就成全了，正如上帝所傳給他僕人眾先知的佳音。
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down
from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was
like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. He had a little scroll open in
his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,
and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the
seven thunders sounded. And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to
write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven
thunders have said, and do not write it down." And the angel whom I saw
standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven and swore
by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the
earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no
more delay, but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the
seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to
his servants the prophets.
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使徒約翰經歷了舊約先知的啟示的過程，讓人看見上帝不是所有事情都讓人知道。而上帝所隱藏的，人絕對不要有好奇心想知道。更不要以為知道了這些隱藏的事，就比別人更屬靈、更高明！非也！上帝不是以人的知識高低來審判人，所以不要去探求我們不應該知道的事。
然而在這裡大能的天使宣告：「不再有時日了」，就是「不再耽延了」！意思就是說，耶穌基督再來的日子近了！要快快準備，不要去探究奧秘的事，到那日一切都明白了！
是的，與其探究不明白之事，倒不如預備迎接主的再臨！
啟示錄9:13-21
9:13 第六位天使吹號，我就聽見有聲音從上帝面前金壇的四角出來，
9:14 吩咐那吹號的第六位天使，說：「把那捆綁在幼發拉底大河的四個使者釋放了。」
9:15 那四個使者就被釋放；他們原是預備好了，到某年某月某日某時，要殺人的三分之一。
9:16 馬軍有二萬萬；他們的數目我聽見了。
9:17 我在異象中看見那些馬和騎馬的，騎馬的胸前有甲如火，與紫瑪瑙並硫磺。馬的頭好像獅子頭，有火、有煙、有硫磺從馬的口中出來。
9:18 口中所出來的火與煙並硫磺，這三樣災殺了人的三分之一。
9:19 這馬的能力是在口裡和尾巴上；因這尾巴像蛇，並且有頭用以害人。
9:20 其餘未曾被這些災所殺的人仍舊不悔改自己手所做的，還是去拜鬼魔和那些不能看、不能聽、不能走，金、銀、銅、木、石的偶像，
9:21 又不悔改他們那些凶殺、邪術、姦淫、偷竊的事。
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and
I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, saying to
the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are
bound at the great river Euphrates." So the four angels, who had been
prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill
a third of mankind. The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times
ten thousand; I heard their number. And this is how I saw the horses in my
vision and those who rode them:they wore breastplates the color of fire and of
sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions 'heads, and
fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. By these three plagues a
third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of
their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their
tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they
wound.
The rest of mankind, who were not killed by
these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up
worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood,
which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their
sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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在這裡看見不是災難可怕，而是人不悔改歸向上帝是可怕的！因為人不願意悔改使人一直陷在上帝的憤怒中，以至於人就一直處在災難狀態，這是比什麼都可怕！
這就讓人想到不管是在電影或現實狀況中，許多被認為惡的人，就他們不願意悔改，繼續在反對良善或正義。對上帝而言，人最可惡的罪，就是不願意相信上帝有赦罪的大能，不願意悔改。
有許多自稱基督徒的人，常常覺得口頭上說：我信耶穌，就算是得救的人了。其實不是，除口頭說，心裡還要相信！心裡相信就會明白，為甚麼要悔改，要離罪歸向上帝！若是沒有悔改，口說無憑，仍然在罪中，仍然未得救！
求聖靈引導讓我們確實經歷「悔改之後的平安」，讓我們真真實實歸向上帝，藉由耶穌基督的拯救！
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