以賽亞書6:8-13

6:8 我又聽見主的聲音說：「我可以差遣誰呢？誰肯為我們去呢？」我說：「我在這裡，請差遣我！」
6:9 他說：「你去告訴這百姓說：你們聽是要聽見，卻不明白；看是要看見，卻不曉得。
6:10 要使這百姓心蒙脂油，耳朵發沉，眼睛昏迷；恐怕眼睛看見，耳朵聽見，心裡明白，回轉過來，便得醫治。」
6:11 我就說：「主啊，這到幾時為止呢？」他說：直到城邑荒涼，無人居住，房屋空閒無人，地土極其荒涼。
6:12 並且耶和華將人遷到遠方，在這境內撇下的地土很多。
6:13 境內剩下的人若還有十分之一，也必被吞滅，像栗樹、橡樹雖被砍伐，樹墩子卻仍存留。這聖潔的種類在國中也是如此。

⁸Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me!” ⁹And he said, “Go and say to this people:

‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend;

keep looking, but do not understand.’

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Make the mind of this people dull,

and stop their ears,

and shut their eyes,

so that they may not look with their eyes,

and listen with their ears,

and comprehend with their minds,

and turn and be healed.”

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Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said:

“Until cities lie waste

without inhabitant,

and houses without people,

and the land is utterly desolate;

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until the Lord sends everyone far away,

and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.

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Even if a tenth part remain in it,

it will be burned again,

like a terebinth or an oak

whose stump remains standing

when it is felled.”

The holy seed is its stump.

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    整本聖經充滿復活的字眼，正如這段經文中說道：「境內剩下的人若還有十分之一，也必被吞滅，像栗樹、橡樹雖被砍伐，樹墩子卻仍存留。這聖潔的種類在國中也是如此。」

    說到「樹墩子」就想到湖口教會的龍眼樹被砍掉之後，大約兩三年，「樹墩子」長出綠色的枝子，讓然感受到復活的力量！其實舊約中說到的「復興」、「被擄歸回」、「聖殿重建」、…，都是復活的象徵！

    所以，復活是上帝所要展現的大能大力，也要在每一位屬祂的兒女身上發生，來彰顯祂的榮耀！正如祂藉猶大人被擄歸回、聖殿重建，看見祂的拯救大能一般！