2017年10月29日 星期日

以賽亞書27:1-13



27:1 到那日,耶和華必用他剛硬有力的大刀刑罰鱷魚就是那快行的蛇,刑罰鱷魚就是那曲行的蛇,並殺海中的大魚。
27:2
當那日,有出酒的葡萄園,你們要指這園唱歌說:
27:3
耶和華是看守葡萄園的;我必時刻澆灌,晝夜看守,免得有人損害。
27:4
我心中不存忿怒。惟願荊棘蒺藜與我交戰,我就勇往直前,把它一同焚燒。
27:5
不然,讓它持住我的能力,使它與我和好,願它與我和好。
27:6
將來雅各要扎根,以色列要發芽開花;他們的果實必充滿世界。
27:7
主擊打他們,豈像擊打那些擊打他們的人嗎?他們被殺戮,豈像被他們所殺戮的嗎?
27:8
你打發他們去,是相機宜與他們相爭;颳東風的日子,就用暴風將他們逐去。
27:9
所以,雅各的罪孽得赦免,他的罪過得除掉的果效,全在乎此:就是他叫祭壇的石頭變為打碎的灰石,以致木偶和日像不再立起。
27:10
因為堅固城變為淒涼,成了撇下離棄的居所,像曠野一樣;牛犢必在那裡吃草,在那裡躺臥,並吃盡其中的樹枝。
27:11
枝條枯乾,必被折斷;婦女要來點火燒著。因為這百姓蒙昧無知,所以,創造他們的必不憐恤他們;造成他們的也不施恩與他們。
27:12
以色列人哪,到那日,耶和華必從大河,直到埃及小河,將你們一一地收集,如同人打樹拾果一樣。
27:13
當那日,必大發角聲,在亞述地將要滅亡的,並在埃及地被趕散的,都要來,他們就在耶路撒冷聖山上敬拜耶和華。

On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
 
2
On that day:
A pleasant vineyard, sing about it!
3
I, the Lord, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
I guard it night and day
so that no one can harm it;
4
I have no wrath.
If it gives me thorns and briers,
I will march to battle against it.
I will burn it up.
5
Or else let it cling to me for protection,
let it make peace with me,
let it make peace with me.

6
In days to come Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots,
and fill the whole world with fruit.

7
Has he struck them down as he struck down those who struck them?
Or have they been killed as their killers were killed?
8
By expulsion, by exile you struggled against them;
with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.
9
Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:
when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no sacred poles or incense altars will remain standing.
10
For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
the calves graze there,
there they lie down, and strip its branches.
11
When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without understanding;
therefore he that made them will not have compassion on them,
he that formed them will show them no favor.

12 On that day the Lord will thresh from the channel of the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel. 13And on that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

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    先知用詩歌體來預言上帝在終末的時候,要得永遠的勝利,並且使以色列復興!然而這新的以色列就是指向耶穌基督所拯救的教會!因為上帝在終末的時 候,上帝國要完全實現,張顯祂真正的王權,一切屬上帝的也要一同得勝掌王權

    說到這裡,每一位屬上帝的兒女都要歡呼!因為,我們在那日要同基督一同在上帝國中來敬拜上帝,不管是從哪一個國家來的,都要在基督裡,同歸於一,同來尊上帝為大!

    我們不要再高舉自己,也不要看自己好像成救許多事。這一切都不是我們能,是上帝能,是上帝在基督裡的作為。所以,我們要為我們所成就的大事來歸榮耀於上帝,因為要不是上帝肯做,我們原本是不能做甚麼的!正如基督所說,離呵主我們甚麼事都不能做!

2017年10月28日 星期六

以賽亞書26:16-21



26:16 耶和華啊,他們在急難中尋求你;你的懲罰臨到他們身上,他們就傾心吐膽禱告你。
26:17
婦人懷孕,臨產疼痛,在痛苦之中喊叫;耶和華啊,我們在你面前也是如此。
26:18
我們也曾懷孕疼痛,所產的竟像風一樣。我們在地上未曾行甚麼拯救的事;世上的居民也未曾敗落。
26:19
死人(原文是你的死人)要復活,屍首(原文是我的屍首)要興起。睡在塵埃的啊,要醒起歌唱!因你的甘露好像菜蔬上的甘露,地也要交出死人來。
26:20
我的百姓啊,你們要來進入內室,關上門,隱藏片時,等到忿怒過去。
26:21
因為耶和華從他的居所出來,要刑罰地上居民的罪孽。地也必露出其中的血,不再掩蓋被殺的人。

O Lord, in distress they sought you,
they poured out a prayer
when your chastening was on them.
17
Like a woman with child,
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near her time,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18
we were with child, we writhed,
but we gave birth only to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and no one is born to inhabit the world.
19
Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise.
O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For your dew is a radiant dew,
and the earth will give birth to those long dead.
 
20
Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until the wrath is past.
21
For the Lord comes out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no longer cover its slain.

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    苦難的人的盼望就是「復活」!正如這裡從禱告上帝轉道說到死人的復活,使我們體會到上帝的美意!因為,上帝要透過復活來進行審判,就如啟示錄所說,人在復活之後要面對審判!然而這個審判,是一種轉化,使基督裡的人顯明出來!

    不屬乎基督的人,在審判之後要面對滅亡。但是屬乎基督的人,在審判之後要進入新天新地,就是上帝的國中,在那裏一切都更新了!這就是上帝拯救得做為,不是人能做甚麼!尤其是在審判台前人只能謙卑倚靠耶穌基督為中保,若沒有耶穌基督救站立不住了!

    所以,面對上帝的審判,是在乎上帝在基督裡的憐憫,不在乎人自己做了多少。照人的行為審判,是沒有人站立得住,故此需要耶穌基督為中保,為救主,為保惠師!

以賽亞書26:13-15



26:13 耶和華我們的上帝啊,在你以外曾有別的主管轄我們,但我們專要倚靠你,提你的名。
26:14
他們死了,必不能再活;他們去世,必不能再起;因為你刑罰他們,毀滅他們,他們的名號就全然消滅。
26:15
耶和華啊,你增添國民,你增添國民;你得了榮耀,又擴張地的四境。

O Lord our God,
other lords besides you have ruled over us,
but we acknowledge your name alone.
14
The dead do not live;
shades do not rise—
because you have punished and destroyed them,
and wiped out all memory of them.
15
But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
you have enlarged all the borders of the land. 

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    先知在這裡說到那些自立權柄的人,就想取代上帝做別人的主的那些人,不管是君王,或是其他有權有勢的人,他們死了,必不能再活;他們去世,必不能再起;因為你刑罰他們,毀滅他們,他們的名號就全然消滅。

    先知這樣說,就是要讓那些君王,或是自以為有權有勢的人,認清一個事實,就是人是受造之物,終有一天要面臨到死亡,用心建造和經營的個人王權或主權,也隨之消失無有!

    然上帝卻不是如此,上帝的國不斷的擴展!「耶和華啊,你增添國民,你增添國民;你得了榮耀,又擴張地的四境。

    讓我一起等候與盼望上帝國的完全實現,上帝真正掌王權!

以賽亞書26:8-12



26:8 耶和華啊,我們在你行審判的路上等候你;我們心裡所羨慕的是你的名,就是你那可記念的名。
26:9
夜間,我心中羨慕你;我裡面的靈切切尋求你。因為你在世上行審判的時候,地上的居民就學習公義。
26:10
以恩惠待惡人,他仍不學習公義;在正直的地上,他必行事不義,也不注意耶和華的威嚴。
26:11
耶和華啊,你的手高舉,他們仍然不看;卻要看你為百姓發的熱心,因而抱愧,並且有火燒滅你的敵人。
26:12
耶和華啊,你必派定我們得平安,因為我們所做的事都是你給我們成就的。

In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and your renown
are the soul’s desire.
9
My soul yearns for you in the night,
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10
If favor is shown to the wicked,
they do not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness they deal perversely
and do not see the majesty of the Lord.
11
O Lord, your hand is lifted up,
but they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.
12
O Lord, you will ordain peace for us,
for indeed, all that we have done, you have done for us.

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    先知在這裡宣告一個很重要的真理:「耶和華啊,你必派定我們得平安,因為我們所做的事都是你給我們成就的。

    人常常以為自己有辦法,認為一切的成果都是自己努力來的其實不是,是上帝給我們成就!所以,成就者還是上帝,不是我們,也因此人必須認清這點,才會真正成為謙卑的人!

    當然,事情沒有成就也不要太自責,上帝不讓其成就必有其美意,雖然我們不明白,我們也要存感恩的心接受,如此我們的心才不至於失去喜樂,才可以感受到主同在的平安!

以賽亞書26:5-6



26:5 他使住高處的與高城一併敗落,將城拆毀,拆平,直到塵埃,
26:6
要被腳踐踏,就是被困苦人的腳和窮乏人的腳踐踏。

For he has brought low
the inhabitants of the height;
the lofty city he lays low.
He lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
6
The foot tramples it,
the feet of the poor,
the steps of the needy.

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    上帝必定會為受欺壓者申冤的!正如在這裡所述說的,「他使住高處的與高城一併敗落,將城拆毀,拆平,直到塵埃,要被腳踐踏,就是被困苦人的腳和窮乏人的腳踐踏。

    這是超乎人的想像,因為人常常是利用權勢來欺壓人,使別人來懼怕與屈服他們,好使他們的地位鞏固,可以長居高位,繼續來建立自己的高城!然而,當人覺得穩固的時候,上帝就要發出祂的作為,讓這些人敗亡!

    而這些人敗亡之後,就會遭受道他所欺壓的困苦人來噬,就是被他們踐踏,這是上帝允許的,也是做惡者要承受的懲罰。因為在人間的正義是不可以虧欠別人,也不可以讓別人占便宜!


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