歷代志下7:11-22

 

7:11 所羅門造成了耶和華殿和王宮；在耶和華殿和王宮凡他心中所要做的，都順順利利地做成了。
7:12 夜間耶和華向所羅門顯現，對他說：「我已聽了你的禱告，也選擇這地方作為祭祀我的殿宇。
7:13 我若使天閉塞不下雨，或使蝗蟲吃這地的出產，或使瘟疫流行在我民中，
7:14 這稱為我名下的子民，若是自卑、禱告，尋求我的面，轉離他們的惡行，我必從天上垂聽，赦免他們的罪，醫治他們的地。
7:15 我必睜眼看、側耳聽在此處所獻的禱告。
7:16 現在我已選擇這殿，分別為聖，使我的名永在其中，我的眼、我的心也必常在那裡。
7:17 你若在我面前效法你父大衛所行的，遵行我一切所吩咐你的，謹守我的律例典章，
7:18 我就必堅固你的國位，正如我與你父大衛所立的約，說：『你的子孫必不斷人作以色列的王。』
7:19 「倘若你們轉去丟棄我指示你們的律例誡命，去事奉敬拜別神，
7:20 我就必將以色列人從我賜給他們的地上拔出根來，並且我為己名所分別為聖的殿也必捨棄不顧，使他在萬民中作笑談，被譏誚。
7:21 這殿雖然甚高，將來經過的人必驚訝說：『耶和華為何向這地和這殿如此行呢？』
7:22 人必回答說：『是因此地的人離棄耶和華─他們列祖的上帝，就是領他們出埃及地的上帝，去親近別神，敬拜事奉他，所以耶和華使這一切災禍臨到他們。』」

 

¹¹ When Solomon had finished the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the Lord and in his own palace, ¹² the Lord appeared to him at night and said:

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, ¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ¹⁵ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. ¹⁶ I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

¹⁷ “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, ¹⁸ I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’

¹⁹ “But if you^[a] turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you^[b] and go off to serve other gods and worship them, ²⁰ then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. ²¹ This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^[c] who pass by will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ ²² People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”

 

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    上帝親自向所羅門顯現，且向所羅門應許：「我已聽了你的禱告，也選擇這地方作為祭祀我的殿宇。我若使天閉塞不下雨，或使蝗蟲吃這地的出產，或使瘟疫流行在我民中，這稱為我名下的子民，若是自卑、禱告，尋求我的面，轉離他們的惡行，我必從天上垂聽，赦免他們的罪，醫治他們的地。我必睜眼看、側耳聽在此處所獻的禱告。」

 

    這也讓在台灣的基督徒眼睛一亮，也盼望這樣的應許彰顯在台灣！尤其是最近乾旱不雨和疫情擴散之不安，盼望能喚醒台灣的人離棄偶像，轉向榮耀的上帝」因為上帝盼人人能明白真到而得救！

 

    求聖靈大大動工，使台灣人能信靠主耶穌，並對上帝存敬畏的心，使上至執政掌權者、下至平民百姓，都悔改歸向上帝！

 

 

 

歷代志下7:1-10

 

7:1 所羅門祈禱已畢，就有火從天上降下來，燒盡燔祭和別的祭。耶和華的榮光充滿了殿；
7:2 因耶和華的榮光充滿了耶和華殿，所以祭司不能進殿。
7:3 那火降下、耶和華的榮光在殿上的時候，以色列眾人看見，就在鋪石地俯伏叩拜，稱謝耶和華說：耶和華本為善，他的慈愛永遠長存！
7:4 王和眾民在耶和華面前獻祭。
7:5 所羅門王用牛二萬二千，羊十二萬獻祭。這樣，王和眾民為上帝的殿行奉獻之禮。
7:6 祭司侍立，各供其職；利未人也拿著耶和華的樂器，就是大衛王造出來、藉利未人頌讚耶和華的。（他的慈愛永遠長存！）祭司在眾人面前吹號，以色列人都站立。
7:7 所羅門因他所造的銅壇容不下燔祭、素祭，和脂油，便將耶和華殿前院子當中分別為聖，在那裡獻燔祭和平安祭牲的脂油。
7:8 那時所羅門和以色列眾人，就是從哈馬口直到埃及小河，所有的以色列人都聚集成為大會，守節七日。
7:9 第八日設立嚴肅會，行奉獻壇的禮七日，守節七日。
7:10 七月二十三日，王遣散眾民；他們因見耶和華向大衛和所羅門與他民以色列所施的恩惠，就都心中喜樂，各歸各家去了。

 

When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. ² The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled it. ³ When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying,

“He is good;
    his love endures forever.”

⁴ Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. ⁵ And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God. ⁶ The priests took their positions, as did the Levites with the Lord’s musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the Lord and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His love endures forever.” Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.

⁷ Solomon consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the Lord, and there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar he had made could not hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat portions.

⁸ So Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. ⁹ On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more. ¹⁰ On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad in heart for the good things the Lord had done for David and Solomon and for his people Israel.

 

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    天下沒有不散的筵席，獻完殿後，大家都各自回去了！

 

    當然在住一次的敬拜中，上帝的榮光充滿在聖殿中！這也是我們敬拜上帝所期待的：上帝的同在所展現的，就是上帝的榮光充滿！當然上帝的榮光不光是眼見的現象，更是內心感受到上帝安慰和平安！

 

    不過在地上的敬拜，就是將來上帝寶座前敬拜的預演！地上的榮光再怎樣充滿，總比不上將來上帝榮光的顯現！也因此，我們在敬拜中，更是盼望將來和眾聖徒在榮耀天堂的敬拜！

 

 

 

 

 

路加福音22:66-71

 

22:66 天一亮，民間的眾長老連祭司長帶文士都聚會，把耶穌帶到他們的公會裡，
22:67 說：「你若是基督，就告訴我們。」耶穌說：「我若告訴你們，你們也不信；
22:68 我若問你們，你們也不回答。
22:69 從今以後，人子要坐在上帝權能的右邊。」
22:70 他們都說：「這樣，你是上帝的兒子嗎？」耶穌說：「你們所說的是。」
22:71 他們說：「何必再用見證呢？他親口所說的，我們都親自聽見了。」

 

⁶⁶ At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the teachers of the law, met together, and Jesus was led before them. ⁶⁷ “If you are the Messiah,” they said, “tell us.”

Jesus answered, “If I tell you, you will not believe me, ⁶⁸ and if I asked you, you would not answer. ⁶⁹ But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God.”

⁷⁰ They all asked, “Are you then the Son of God?”

He replied, “You say that I am.”

⁷¹ Then they said, “Why do we need any more testimony? We have heard it from his own lips.”

 

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    主耶穌不畏懼死亡，勇敢承認自己真實的身分！

 

路加福音22:63-65

 

22:63 看守耶穌的人戲弄他，打他，
22:64 又蒙著他的眼，問他說：「你是先知，告訴我們打你的是誰？」
22:65 他們還用許多別的話辱罵他。

 

⁶³ The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him. ⁶⁴ They blindfolded him and demanded, “Prophesy! Who hit you?” ⁶⁵ And they said many other insulting things to him.

 

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    主耶穌被兵丁羞辱！