2018年10月3日 星期三

希伯來書9:1-10


9:1 原來前約有禮拜的條例和屬世界的聖幕。
9:2
因為有預備的帳幕,頭一層叫作聖所,裡面有燈臺、桌子,和陳設餅。
9:3
第二幔子後又有一層帳幕,叫作至聖所,
9:4
有金香爐(爐:或譯壇),有包金的約櫃,櫃裡有盛嗎哪的金罐和亞倫發過芽的杖,並兩塊約版;
9:5
櫃上面有榮耀基路伯的影罩著施恩(施恩:原文是蔽罪)座。這幾件我現在不能一一細說。
9:6
這些物件既如此預備齊了,眾祭司就常進頭一層帳幕,行拜上帝的禮。
9:7
至於第二層帳幕,惟有大祭司一年一次獨自進去,沒有不帶著血為自己和百姓的過錯獻上。
9:8
聖靈用此指明,頭一層帳幕仍存的時候,進入至聖所的路還未顯明。
9:9
那頭一層帳幕作現今的一個表樣,所獻的禮物和祭物,就著良心說,都不能叫禮拜的人得以完全。
9:10
這些事,連那飲食和諸般洗濯的規矩,都不過是屬肉體的條例,命定到振興的時候為止。

Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. 10 They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

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    舊約的會幕是照著天上的樣式呈現在地上,意思就是說可見不能見的影子,是為了顧及人的軟弱所設立的,因為人無法直接靠著那「不能見」的,人總需要那能見的,尤其是基督耶穌尚未來的時候,大家不知那能見的意義為何,就需要那可見的。

    但是今天基督已經來了,真正的獻祭也發生、也顯明了,也因為基督已經完成了,所以會幕與獻祭的事也不需要了,也因此聖殿也沒有存在的意義。所以,耶路撒冷的聖殿被毀是正常的;因為真正的已經來到,上帝國正在進行中,有一天會完全實現!

    同樣今日的教會也是暫時性的組織,在主耶穌再來的時候,上帝國完全的實現,那時候教會就轉化成上帝國,不再是現在的教會樣式,而是化零為整,成為上帝榮耀的國了!

    因此,教會是在上帝國尚未實現時的一個組織,或大或小不是問題,遵行上帝旨意預備主耶穌再來,迎接上帝國的實現,才是教會存在的目地,不要將帳篷當成宮殿,一切都會過去,只有耶穌基督的國才是永遠長存!

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