啟示錄11:15-19

11:15 第七位天使吹號，天上就有大聲音說：世上的國成了我主和主基督的國；他要作王，直到永永遠遠。

11:16 在上帝面前，坐在自己位上的二十四位長老，就面伏於地，敬拜上帝，

11:17 說：昔在、今在的主上帝─全能者啊，我們感謝你！因你執掌大權作王了。

11:18 外邦發怒，你的忿怒也臨到了；審判死人的時候也到了。你的僕人眾先知和眾聖徒，凡敬畏你名的人，連大帶小得賞賜的時候也到了。你敗壞那些敗壞世界之人的時候也就到了。

11:19 當時，上帝天上的殿開了，在他殿中現出他的約櫃。隨後有閃電、聲音、雷轟、地震、大雹。

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever." And the twenty- four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying,

"We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,

 who is and who was,

for you have taken your great power

and begun to reign.

The nations raged,

but your wrath came,

and the time for the dead to be judged,

and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,

and those who fear your name,

both small and great,

and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."

Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

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    第七號吹響之後，是上帝榮耀顯現的時刻，因為天使宣告：「世上的國成了我主和主基督的國；他要作王，直到永永遠遠。」

    是上帝國的實現時，基督要做王直到到永遠，而審判的時刻也在這裡顯明，這姑審判的結果是：「外邦發怒，你的忿怒也臨到了；審判死人的時候也到了。你的僕人眾先知和眾聖徒，凡敬畏你名的人，連大帶小得賞賜的時候也到了。你敗壞那些敗壞世界之人的時候也就到了。」

    因此「世界末日」是對不信的人說的，而我們信耶穌的人要歡呼迎接那日，因為那是「得賞賜的時候」！對不信的人是災難，對信的人是上帝完成救贖，與基督同作王到永遠！

    因此基督徒要盼望：基督再來！上帝國實現！那是我們得榮耀的日子！

啟示錄11章

       啟示錄11:1-14     ,

      啟示錄11:15-19    ,

      啟示錄11章15-19節  ,

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章

      啟示錄10:1-7   ,   啟示錄10:8-11    ,

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！