啟示錄8:1-5

8:1 羔羊揭開第七印的時候，天上寂靜約有二刻。

8:2 我看見那站在上帝面前的七位天使，有七枝號賜給他們。

8:3 另有一位天使，拿著金香爐來，站在祭壇旁邊。有許多香賜給他，要和眾聖徒的祈禱一同獻在寶座前的金壇上。

8:4 那香的煙和眾聖徒的祈禱從天使的手中一同升到上帝面前。

8:5 天使拿著香爐，盛滿了壇上的火，倒在地上；隨有雷轟、大聲、閃電、地震。

When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.  Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.  And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,  and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.  Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

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    這是第七印被揭開的時候，是結局將到的時刻，上帝正要施行大事！所以，就產生「天上寂靜約有二刻」。

    接著七位天使將要吹號，然而在吹號前，讓我們看見眾聖徒的祈禱，這也告訴我們，上帝讓天上安靜就是要聽聖徒的禱告。這也告訴我們，上帝是多麼看重聖徒的禱告。

    而禱告最重要的是要奉主耶穌的名禱告，因為唯有奉主耶穌的名，才會蒙上帝垂聽，才會提醒我們禱告的對象是上帝。

啟示錄7:13-17

7:13 長老中有一位問我說：「這些穿白衣的是誰？是從哪裡來的？」

7:14 我對他說：「我主，你知道。」他向我說：「這些人是從大患難中出來的，曾用羔羊的血把衣裳洗白淨了。

7:15 所以，他們在上帝寶座前，晝夜在他殿中事奉他。坐寶座的要用帳幕覆庇他們。

7:16 他們不再飢，不再渴；日頭和炎熱也必不傷害他們。

7:17 因為寶座中的羔羊必牧養他們，領他們到生命水的泉源；上帝也必擦去他們一切的眼淚。」

Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?”  I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

  “Therefore they are before the throne of God,

and serve him day and night in his temple;

and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.

  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;

the sun shall not strike them,

nor any scorching heat.

  For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,

and he will guide them to springs of living water,

and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

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    上帝所拯救的人要享受上帝永遠的賜福：「這些人是從大患難中出來的，曾用羔羊的血把衣裳洗白淨了。」「他們在上帝寶座前，晝夜在他殿中事奉他。坐寶座的要用帳幕覆庇他們。他們不再飢，不再渴；日頭和炎熱也必不傷害他們。因為寶座中的羔羊必牧養他們，領他們到生命水的泉源；上帝也必擦去他們一切的眼淚。」

    許多的人看到這段記載，被上帝的愛感動，因為上帝是這樣看顧祂所愛的人，進而立志要信靠上帝，成為上帝的兒女，即使在世上遇到大逼迫、大苦難，也不害怕，因為知道這些苦難是暫時的，上帝的賜恩是永恆的，而且僅在基督裡！

    今天你是否如此信靠上帝呢？還是以為天底下沒有這麼好的事呢？要以行為換取上帝的恩典，而不靠耶穌基督的拯救！快悔改吧！上帝不要你靠自己，要你靠基督！你要信靠耶穌基督！

啟示錄7:9-12

7:9 此後，我觀看，見有許多的人，沒有人能數過來，是從各國、各族、各民、各方來的，站在寶座和羔羊面前，身穿白衣，手拿棕樹枝，

7:10 大聲喊著說：「願救恩歸與坐在寶座上我們的上帝，也歸與羔羊！」

7:11 眾天使都站在寶座和眾長老並四活物的周圍，在寶座前，面伏於地，敬拜上帝，

7:12 說：阿們！頌讚、榮耀、智慧、感謝、尊貴、權柄、大力都歸與我們的上帝，直到永永遠遠。阿們！

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,  and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”  And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,  saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

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    這是一群蒙恩人的敬拜，這恩來自耶穌基督如同被殺的羔羊，為我們的眾罪而死，償還我們一切罪債，使我們與上帝和好，成為上帝兒女，而我們只有藉著信就可以領受。

    所以，我們這一群蒙恩的人，受到這樣的賜福，我們能做的就是，將榮耀歸給上帝，這就是對上帝的敬拜！正如會眾在此歡呼：「願救恩歸與坐在寶座上我們的上帝，也歸與羔羊！」「阿們！頌讚、榮耀、智慧、感謝、尊貴、權柄、大力都歸與我們的上帝，直到永永遠遠。阿們！」

    故此，我們得上帝拯救與接納，就是要來事奉上帝——敬拜祂！

啟示錄7章

        啟示錄7:1-8    ,

         啟示錄7章9-17節 ,  啟示錄7:9-12  ,  啟示錄7:13-17     ,

啟示錄7:1-8

7:1 此後，我看見四位天使站在地的四角，執掌地上四方的風，叫風不吹在地上、海上，和樹上。

7:2 我又看見另有一位天使，從日出之地上來，拿著永生上帝的印。他就向那得著權柄能傷害地和海的四位天使大聲喊著說：

7:3 「地與海並樹木，你們不可傷害，等我們印了我們上帝眾僕人的額。」

7:4 我聽見以色列人各支派中受印的數目有十四萬四千。

7:5 猶大支派中受印的有一萬二千；流便支派中有一萬二千；迦得支派中有一萬二千；

7:6 亞設支派中有一萬二千；拿弗他利支派中有一萬二千；瑪拿西支派中有一萬二千；

7:7 西緬支派中有一萬二千；利未支派中有一萬二千；以薩迦支派中有一萬二千；

7:8 西布倫支派中有一萬二千；約瑟支派中有一萬二千；便雅憫支派中受印的有一萬二千。

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.  Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea,  saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”  And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:

  12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,

12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,

12,000 from the tribe of Gad,

  12,000 from the tribe of Asher,

12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,

12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,

  12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,

12,000 from the tribe of Levi,

12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,

  12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,

12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,

12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.

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    說到額頭的印記，讓我們想到聖靈的印記，有這記號就是屬乎基督的，是上帝所確認的，這更是上帝的恩典，因為這是上帝主動的作為。

    說到這裡，我們要知道我們傳福音，是要確認上帝所揀選的人。不是要讓人知道我們是多麼熱心，多麼愛主。所以，我們不是以自己的熱心或意念來事奉上帝，而是要遵照上帝的旨意。

    故此，我們要存感恩的心來信靠上帝，感謝他在基督裡所完成的一切。