路加福音18:1-8

 

18:1 耶穌設一個比喻，是要人常常禱告，不可灰心。
18:2 說：「某城裡有一個官，不懼怕上帝，也不尊重世人。
18:3 那城裡有個寡婦，常到他那裡，說：『我有一個對頭，求你給我伸冤。』
18:4 他多日不准，後來心裡說：『我雖不懼怕上帝，也不尊重世人，
18:5 只因這寡婦煩擾我，我就給她伸冤吧，免得她常來纏磨我！』」
18:6 主說：「你們聽這不義之官所說的話。
18:7 上帝的選民晝夜呼籲他，他縱然為他們忍了多時，豈不終久給他們伸冤嗎？
18:8 我告訴你們，要快快地給他們伸冤了。然而，人子來的時候，遇得見世上有信德嗎？」

 

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. ² He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. ³ And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

⁴ “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, ⁵ yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”

⁶ And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. ⁷ And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? ⁸ I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

 

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    人常常以為主耶穌這一段話是在挑戰人要向上帝呼求，要人知道不義的官都會寡婦的呼求而改變心意，為寡婦來申冤！所以，要人禱告不要灰心，上帝必定垂聽！

 

    然而我不喜歡這樣的註解，因為上帝並不是被動為人申冤，上帝是主動為人申冤。只是上帝申冤的時間和方式不是人的想像的方式，上帝有上帝申冤的方式，也有申冤的時間。

 

     正如《啟示錄》的記載：

6:9 揭開第五印的時候，我看見在祭壇底下，有為上帝的道、並為作見證被殺之人的靈魂，
6:10 大聲喊著說：「聖潔真實的主啊，你不審判住在地上的人，給我們伸流血的冤，要等到幾時呢？」
6:11 於是有白衣賜給他們各人；又有話對他們說，還要安息片時，等著一同作僕人的和他們的弟兄也像他們被殺，滿足了數目。

 

    由此可知上帝的申冤不是個別性的，是整體性的申冤！不是上帝不申冤，是上帝要為全部受害者申冤，要等候數目滿足！

 

    也因此，我們不要急著申冤，上帝要用上帝國的完全的實現的方式來為我們申冤！祂要徹底及永遠的申冤，一次的做為，成就祂永遠的旨意！

 

    既然是如此，我們要相信上帝一定會申冤，並切要用堅定的信心來等候，這就要靠上帝的保守了！正如聖徒恆忍的教義告訴我們，我們的忍耐是來自上帝的恆保守！這就是主耶穌所要的信德，不是自以為有信心的信德！你有這樣的信德嗎？

 

歷代志下3章

    歷代志下3:1-17 ,

    歷代志下3:1  ,

    歷代志下3:6  ,

    歷代志下3:15-17  ,

歷代志下3:1-17

 

3:1 所羅門就在耶路撒冷、耶和華向他父大衛顯現的摩利亞山上，就是耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾場上、大衛所指定的地方預備好了，開工建造耶和華的殿。
3:2 所羅門作王第四年二月初二日開工建造。
3:3 所羅門建築上帝殿的根基，乃是這樣：長六十肘，寬二十肘，都按著古時的尺寸。
3:4 殿前的廊子長二十肘，與殿的寬窄一樣，高一百二十肘；裡面貼上精金。
3:5 大殿的牆都用松木板遮蔽，又貼了精金，上面雕刻棕樹和鍊子；
3:6 又用寶石裝飾殿牆，使殿華美；所用的金子都是巴瓦音的金子。
3:7 又用金子貼殿和殿的棟樑、門檻、牆壁、門扇；牆上雕刻基路伯。
3:8 又建造至聖所，長二十肘，與殿的寬窄一樣，寬也是二十肘；貼上精金，共用金子六百他連得。
3:9 金釘重五十舍客勒。樓房都貼上金子。
3:10 在至聖所按造像的法子造兩個基路伯，用金子包裹。
3:11 兩個基路伯的翅膀共長二十肘。這基路伯的一個翅膀長五肘，挨著殿這邊的牆；那一個翅膀也長五肘，與那基路伯翅膀相接。
3:12 那基路伯的一個翅膀長五肘，挨著殿那邊的牆；那一個翅膀也長五肘，與這基路伯的翅膀相接。
3:13 兩個基路伯張開翅膀，共長二十肘，面向外殿而立。
3:14 又用藍色、紫色、朱紅色線和細麻織幔子，在其上繡出基路伯來。
3:15 在殿前造了兩根柱子，高三十五肘；每柱頂高五肘。
3:16 又照聖所內鍊子的樣式做鍊子，安在柱頂上；又做一百石榴，安在鍊子上。
3:17 將兩根柱子立在殿前，一根在右邊，一根在左邊；右邊的起名叫雅斤，左邊的起名叫波阿斯。

 

Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah^[a] the Jebusite, the place provided by David. ² He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

³ The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide^[b] (using the cubit of the old standard). ⁴ The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits^[c] long across the width of the building and twenty^[d] cubits high.

He overlaid the inside with pure gold. ⁵ He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs. ⁶ He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim. ⁷ He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

⁸ He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents^[e] of fine gold. ⁹ The gold nails weighed fifty shekels.^[f] He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

¹⁰ For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold. ¹¹ The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits^[g] long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub. ¹² Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub. ¹³ The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.^[h]

¹⁴ He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.

¹⁵ For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits^[i] long, each with a capital five cubits high. ¹⁶ He made interwoven chains^[j] and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains. ¹⁷ He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin^[k] and the one to the north Boaz.

 

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    所羅門勇敢擔起建造聖殿的使命，雖然是艱辛，是操練倚靠上帝的最佳時機！

 

 

 

路加福音17:20-37

 

17:20 法利賽人問：「上帝的國幾時來到？」耶穌回答說：「上帝的國來到不是眼所能見的。
17:21 人也不得說：『看哪，在這裡！看哪，在那裡！』因為上帝的國就在你們心裡（心裡：或譯中間）。」
17:22 他又對門徒說：「日子將到，你們巴不得看見人子的一個日子，卻不得看見。
17:23 人將要對你們說：『看哪，在那裡！看哪，在這裡！』你們不要出去，也不要跟隨他們！
17:24 因為人子在他降臨的日子，好像閃電從天這邊一閃直照到天那邊。
17:25 只是他必須先受許多苦，又被這世代棄絕。
17:26 挪亞的日子怎樣，人子的日子也要怎樣。
17:27 那時候的人又吃又喝，又娶又嫁，到挪亞進方舟的那日，洪水就來，把他們全都滅了。
17:28 又好像羅得的日子；人又吃又喝，又買又賣，又耕種又蓋造。
17:29 到羅得出所多瑪的那日，就有火與硫磺從天上降下來，把他們全都滅了。
17:30 人子顯現的日子也要這樣。
17:31 當那日，人在房上，器具在屋裡，不要下來拿；人在田裡，也不要回家。
17:32 你們要回想羅得的妻子。
17:33 凡想要保全生命的，必喪掉生命；凡喪掉生命的，必救活生命。
17:34 我對你們說，當那一夜，兩個人在一個床上，要取去一個，撇下一個。
17:35 兩個女人一同推磨，要取去一個，撇下一個。（有古卷加：
17:36 兩個人在田裡，要取去一個，撇下一個。）」
17:37 門徒說：「主啊，在哪裡有這事呢？」耶穌說：「屍首在哪裡，鷹也必聚在那裡。」

 

²⁰ Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, ²¹ nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”^[c]

²² Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. ²³ People will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them. ²⁴ For the Son of Man in his day^[d] will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. ²⁵ But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

²⁶ “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷ People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸ “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. ²⁹ But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

³⁰ “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹ On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. ³² Remember Lot’s wife! ³³ Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. ³⁴ I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.” ^[36] [e]

³⁷ “Where, Lord?” they asked.

He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”

 

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    主耶穌在來的日子是必定來到的，是準備好與否問題，不是哪一天的問題！

 

    所以，我們要警醒隨時做萬全的準備，等候主耶穌的再臨！