2017年10月28日 星期六

以賽亞書26:16-21



26:16 耶和華啊,他們在急難中尋求你;你的懲罰臨到他們身上,他們就傾心吐膽禱告你。
26:17
婦人懷孕,臨產疼痛,在痛苦之中喊叫;耶和華啊,我們在你面前也是如此。
26:18
我們也曾懷孕疼痛,所產的竟像風一樣。我們在地上未曾行甚麼拯救的事;世上的居民也未曾敗落。
26:19
死人(原文是你的死人)要復活,屍首(原文是我的屍首)要興起。睡在塵埃的啊,要醒起歌唱!因你的甘露好像菜蔬上的甘露,地也要交出死人來。
26:20
我的百姓啊,你們要來進入內室,關上門,隱藏片時,等到忿怒過去。
26:21
因為耶和華從他的居所出來,要刑罰地上居民的罪孽。地也必露出其中的血,不再掩蓋被殺的人。

O Lord, in distress they sought you,
they poured out a prayer
when your chastening was on them.
17
Like a woman with child,
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near her time,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18
we were with child, we writhed,
but we gave birth only to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and no one is born to inhabit the world.
19
Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise.
O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For your dew is a radiant dew,
and the earth will give birth to those long dead.
 
20
Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until the wrath is past.
21
For the Lord comes out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no longer cover its slain.

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    苦難的人的盼望就是「復活」!正如這裡從禱告上帝轉道說到死人的復活,使我們體會到上帝的美意!因為,上帝要透過復活來進行審判,就如啟示錄所說,人在復活之後要面對審判!然而這個審判,是一種轉化,使基督裡的人顯明出來!

    不屬乎基督的人,在審判之後要面對滅亡。但是屬乎基督的人,在審判之後要進入新天新地,就是上帝的國中,在那裏一切都更新了!這就是上帝拯救得做為,不是人能做甚麼!尤其是在審判台前人只能謙卑倚靠耶穌基督為中保,若沒有耶穌基督救站立不住了!

    所以,面對上帝的審判,是在乎上帝在基督裡的憐憫,不在乎人自己做了多少。照人的行為審判,是沒有人站立得住,故此需要耶穌基督為中保,為救主,為保惠師!

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