2016年6月23日 星期四

彌迦書3:1-4



3:1 我說:雅各的首領,以色列家的官長啊,你們要聽!你們不當知道公平嗎?
3:2 你們惡善好惡,從人身上剝皮,從人骨頭上剔肉,
3:3 吃我民的肉,剝他們的皮,打折他們的骨頭,分成塊子像要下鍋,又像釜中的肉。
3:4 到了遭災的時候,這些人必哀求耶和華,他卻不應允他們。那時他必照他們所行的惡事向他們掩面。

And I said:
 Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
 Is it not for you to know justice? —
you who hate the good and love the evil,
 who tear the skin from off my people
and their flesh from off their bones,
who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
 he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.

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    先知彌迦在此責備雅各的首領和以色列家的官長,因為他們沒有照上帝給他們的責任,好好照顧牧養上帝的子民,反倒是從別人身上搶奪不義之錢財,害死那些真正的義人,這些事情上帝都知道。

    所以先知將這些事情向外宣布,並且警告他們將受到上帝的棄絕,在災難的時期,上帝不搭救他們,向他們掩臉不理他們的苦情。這是何等可怕的事啊

    因此,我們要靠耶穌成為上帝所愛的兒女,更要行在上帝的公義之中,討上帝的喜悅。


2016年6月22日 星期三

彌迦書2:12-13



2:12 雅各家啊,我必要聚集你們,必要招聚以色列剩下的人,安置在一處,如波斯拉的羊,又如草場上的羊群;因為人數眾多就必大大喧嘩。
2:13 開路的(或譯:破城的)在他們前面上去;他們直闖過城門,從城門出去。他們的王在前面行;耶和華引導他們。

I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
 I will gather the remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
like sheep in a fold,
 like a flock in its pasture,
a noisy multitude of men.
He who opens the breach goes up before them;
they break through and pass the gate,
 going out by it.
Their king passes on before them,
 the Lord at their head.

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    這段話讓我們感受到上帝終極的作為,就是重新將祂的子民召聚在一起,一同來享受上帝的賜福,因為上帝樂意與祂的子民同在,與他們有正確的關係,不再受別的權勢來轄制,單單伏在上帝的手下!

    讓我們放下一切的虛假榮華,單單尋求上帝的恩賜,回轉歸向上帝,想受上帝的同在,這才是真正的自由與尊貴。


彌迦書2:6-11



2:6 他們(或譯:假先知)說:你們不可說預言;不可向這些人說預言,不住地羞辱我們。
2:7 雅各家啊,豈可說耶和華的心不忍耐嗎(或譯:心腸狹窄嗎)?這些事是他所行的嗎?我─耶和華的言語豈不是與行動正直的人有益嗎?
2:8 然而,近來我的民興起如仇敵,從那些安然經過不願打仗之人身上剝去外衣。
2:9 你們將我民中的婦人從安樂家中趕出,又將我的榮耀從她們的小孩子盡行奪去。
2:10 你們起來去吧!這不是你們安息之所;因為污穢使人(或譯:地)毀滅,而且大大毀滅。
2:11 若有人心存虛假,用謊言說:我要向你們預言得清酒和濃酒。那人就必作這民的先知。

"Do not preach"—thus they preach—
 "one should not preach of such things;
 disgrace will not overtake us."
Should this be said, O house of Jacob?
 Has the Lord grown impatient?
Are these his deeds?
Do not my words do good
to him who walks uprightly?
But lately my people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war.
The women of my people you drive out
from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
my splendor forever.
Arise and go,
for this is no place to rest,
because of uncleanness that destroys
with a grievous destruction.
If a man should go about and utter wind and lies,
saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,"
he would be the preacher for this people!


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    這是對假先知的警告,叫他們不要為了自己的利益,向不公義的人發平安的預言來討好人,好得著生活所需用的!

    這不僅對當時的先知說的,也是對世世代代的傳道人說的,讓我們清楚我們是上帝的代言人,不是討人喜悅的弄臣或小丑。

    因此身為傳道人的我們要有格調不要為別人的賞金度日我們是上帝的僕人不是人的工具


彌迦書2章

      
       彌迦書2:1-5  , 彌迦書2:1-2  , 彌迦書2:3-5 ,

     彌迦書2:6-11  , 彌迦書2:6-7  , 

     彌迦書2:8-10    , 彌迦書2:10   ,  彌迦書2:10

     彌迦書2:12-13  ,

彌迦書2:1-5



2:1 禍哉,那些在床上圖謀罪孽、造作奸惡的!天一發亮,因手有能力就行出來了。
2:2 他們貪圖田地就佔據,貪圖房屋便奪取;他們欺壓人,霸佔房屋和產業。
2:3 所以耶和華如此說:我籌劃災禍降與這族;這禍在你們的頸項上不能解脫;你們也不能昂首而行,因為這時勢是惡的。
2:4 到那日,必有人向你們提起悲慘的哀歌,譏刺說:我們全然敗落了!耶和華將我們的分轉歸別人,何竟使這分離開我們?他將我們的田地分給悖逆的人。
2:5 所以在耶和華的會中,你必沒有人拈鬮拉準繩。

Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
They covet fields and seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
Therefore thus says the Lord:
behold, against this family I am devising disaster,
from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you shall not walk haughtily,
 for it will be a time of disaster.
In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you
and moan bitterly,
and say, "We are utterly ruined;
 he changes the portion of my people;
 how he removes it from me!
 To an apostate he allots our fields."
Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot
in the assembly of the Lord.

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    上帝對於不公義的族群是心中憤怒,必定降災在他們當中。這也讓我們看見:富有人他的子孫不一定富有,窮苦人的小孩也不是永遠窮苦!上帝有祂的作為,使上帝的公義彰顯。

    也因為如此,窮苦人的家庭,不要自卑;富有人的家庭,也不要自傲!所行的一切,要在上帝的引導中,不要妄想別人的田產,一切要遵照上帝的公義來生活行事。

    彌迦先知所要強調的的就是要行公義、好憐憫,與上帝同行