11:14 「所以你不要為這百姓祈禱,不要為他們呼求禱告;因為他們遭難向我哀求的時候,我必不應允。
11:15 我所親愛的,既行許多淫亂,聖肉也離了你,你在我殿中做甚麼呢?你作惡就喜樂。
11:16 從前耶和華給你起名叫青橄欖樹,又華美又結好果子;如今他用鬨嚷之聲,點火在其上,枝子也被折斷。
11:17 原來栽培你的萬軍之耶和華已經說,要降禍攻擊你,是因以色列家和猶大家行惡,向巴力燒香,惹我發怒,是自作自受。」
14 "Therefore do not pray for this
people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when
they call to me in the time of their trouble. 15 What right has my beloved in
my house, when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert
your doom? Can you then exult? 16 The Lord once called you 'a green olive tree,
beautiful with good fruit. ' But with the roar of a great tempest he will set
fire to it, and its branches will be consumed. 17 The Lord of hosts, who
planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil that the
house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by
making offerings to Baal."
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上帝在此要先知不要為自己的百姓禱告,告訴祂不聽他們的哀求,是因為祂們作惡不肯悔改,所以上帝也鐵了心腸不拯救!這不是上帝的問題,是人的問題,除非人肯在災禍尚未臨到之時快快悔改,歸向上帝,上帝才會施行拯救!
當然,在許多時候災害發生之時,敬畏上帝和不敬畏上帝的人都同遭受害,甚至喪命。但是在死後的結果可不同,因為當人的靈回到上帝面前有審判,正如希伯來書9章27節說:「按著定命,人人都有一死,死後且有審判。」
然而這死後有審判,是指有耶穌基督為救主的人,就蒙上帝的拯救享受永生;沒有耶穌基督為救主的,就落入上帝的憤怒遭受滅亡!然而這樣的分別,是趁著有生命氣息時,接受耶穌基督為救主,就決定好永恆的結局了!你要選擇什麼呢?