耶利米書32章

        耶利米書32:1-15  ,

        耶利米書32:16-44  ,

         耶利米書32:17  ,  耶利米書32:27 ,

         耶利米書32:39  , 耶利米書32:39 ,

耶利米書32:1-15

32:1 猶大王西底家第十年，就是尼布甲尼撒十八年，耶和華的話臨到耶利米。

32:2 那時巴比倫王的軍隊圍困耶路撒冷，先知耶利米囚在護衛兵的院內，在猶大王的宮中；

32:3 因為猶大王西底家已將他囚禁，說：「你為甚麼預言說，耶和華如此說：『我必將這城交在巴比倫王的手中，他必攻取這城。

32:4 猶大王西底家必不能逃脫迦勒底人的手，定要交在巴比倫王的手中，要口對口彼此說話，眼對眼彼此相看。

32:5 巴比倫王必將西底家帶到巴比倫；西底家必住在那裡，直到我眷顧他的時候。你們雖與迦勒底人爭戰，卻不順利。這是耶和華說的。』」

32:6 耶利米說：「耶和華的話臨到我說：

32:7 『你叔叔沙龍的兒子哈拿篾必來見你，說：我在亞拿突的那塊地，求你買來；因你買這地是合乎贖回之理。』」

32:8 我叔叔的兒子哈拿篾果然照耶和華的話來到護衛兵的院內，對我說：「我在便雅憫境內、亞拿突的那塊地，求你買來；因你買來是合乎承受之理，是你當贖的。你為自己買來吧！」我─耶利米就知道這是耶和華的話。

32:9 我便向我叔叔的兒子哈拿篾買了亞拿突的那塊地，平了十七舍客勒銀子給他。

32:10 我在契上畫押，將契封緘，又請見證人來，並用天平將銀子平給他。

32:11 我便將照例按規所立的買契，就是封緘的那一張和敞著的那一張，

32:12 當著我叔叔的兒子哈拿篾和畫押作見證的人，並坐在護衛兵院內的一切猶大人眼前，交給瑪西雅的孫子尼利亞的兒子巴錄。

32:13 當著他們眾人眼前，我囑咐巴錄說：

32:14 「萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝如此說：要將這封緘的和敞著的兩張契放在瓦器裡，可以存留多日。

32:15 因為萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝如此說：將來在這地必有人再買房屋、田地，和葡萄園。」

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.

3 Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. 4 Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape the Babylonians[a] but will certainly be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes. 5 He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will remain until I deal with him, declares the Lord. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not succeed.’”

6 Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me: 7 Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is going to come to you and say, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth, because as nearest relative it is your right and duty to buy it.’

8 “Then, just as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself.’

“I knew that this was the word of the Lord; 9 so I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and weighed out for him seventeen shekels[b] of silver. 10 I signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and weighed out the silver on the scales. 11 I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions, as well as the unsealed copy— 12 and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and of the witnesses who had signed the deed and of all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

13 “In their presence I gave Baruch these instructions: 14 ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Take these documents, both the sealed and unsealed copies of the deed of purchase, and put them in a clay jar so they will last a long time. 15 For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.’

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    這是一件很奇怪的土地買賣，既然國家已經非常危急了，買賣土地有什麼意義呢？尤其是上帝讓耶利米成為買方，這是不是一件很好笑的事呢？買了沒多久以後，就要被敵人侵占，自己又會被擄，生死未卜，這真是吃大虧的事啊！

    但是，先知知道這又是上帝要藉由他發信息，才叫他遇見這不尋常的事情。這是先知生命中必然發生的事情，正如基督徒的生命中，也是發生許多人認為開玩笑的事情，卻偏偏發生在基督徒身上！

    然而上帝讓這是發生，是要預言猶大的百姓被擄之後，必要歸回故土，所訂的任何契約，在將來還是有效的，並且子孫對這樣的契約還是要算數的，不可以反悔或更改的，上帝仍然在眷顧！

耶利米書31:35-40

31:35 那使太陽白日發光，使星月有定例，黑夜發亮，又攪動大海，使海中波浪匉訇的，萬軍之耶和華是他的名。他如此說：

31:36 這些定例若能在我面前廢掉，以色列的後裔也就在我面前斷絕，永遠不再成國。這是耶和華說的。

31:37 耶和華如此說：若能量度上天，尋察下地的根基，我就因以色列後裔一切所行的棄絕他們。這是耶和華說的。

31:38 耶和華說：「日子將到，這城必為耶和華建造，從哈楠業樓直到角門。

31:39 準繩要往外量出，直到迦立山，又轉到歌亞。

31:40 拋屍的全谷和倒灰之處，並一切田地，直到汲淪溪，又直到東方馬門的拐角，都要歸耶和華為聖，不再拔出，不再傾覆，直到永遠。」

35 This is what the Lord says,

he who appoints the sun

    to shine by day,

who decrees the moon and stars

    to shine by night,

who stirs up the sea

    so that its waves roar—

    the Lord Almighty is his name:

36

“Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,”

    declares the Lord,

“will Israel ever cease

    being a nation before me.”

37 This is what the Lord says:

“Only if the heavens above can be measured

    and the foundations of the earth below be searched out

will I reject all the descendants of Israel

    because of all they have done,”

declares the Lord.

38 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. 40 The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the Lord. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

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    上帝在這裡用肯定的話語說到以色列的復興，而且在復興中我們看見上帝永恆的作為。也因此，以色列的復興和上帝國的實現，是連繫在一起的，是同一件事！所以，《前千禧年派》常常強調，上帝國的實現之前，必須有以色列的復興，甚至是以色列人悔改信基督教，承認主耶穌就是彌賽亞。

    然而我是支持《無千禧年派》，我不認為有明顯的以色列人悔改信基督教，才可以有上帝國的實現。我所相信的是上帝國自耶穌基督來了以後，就已經開始了，在耶穌基督再來之後，才是真正完全實現。

    其實，唯有上帝的國是永存的，以色列國的復興，本來就是上帝國的實現！以色列人盼望的彌賽亞、大衛的子孫，根本就是主耶穌，除祂以外沒有別的名，可以靠著得救的！

耶利米書31:31-34

31:31 耶和華說：「日子將到，我要與以色列家和猶大家另立新約，

31:32 不像我拉著他們祖宗的手，領他們出埃及地的時候，與他們所立的約。我雖作他們的丈夫，他們卻背了我的約。這是耶和華說的。」

31:33 耶和華說：「那些日子以後，我與以色列家所立的約乃是這樣：我要將我的律法放在他們裡面，寫在他們心上。我要作他們的上帝，他們要作我的子民。

31:34 他們各人不再教導自己的鄰舍和自己的弟兄說：『你該認識耶和華』，因為他們從最小的到至大的都必認識我。我要赦免他們的罪孽，不再記念他們的罪惡。這是耶和華說的。」

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,

    “when I will make a new covenant

with the people of Israel

    and with the people of Judah.

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It will not be like the covenant

    I made with their ancestors

when I took them by the hand

    to lead them out of Egypt,

because they broke my covenant,

    though I was a husband to[d] them,[e]”

declares the Lord.

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“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel

    after that time,” declares the Lord.

“I will put my law in their minds

    and write it on their hearts.

I will be their God,

    and they will be my people.

34

No longer will they teach their neighbor,

    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’

because they will all know me,

    from the least of them to the greatest,”

declares the Lord.

“For I will forgive their wickedness

    and will remember their sins no more.”

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     這是舊約的先知書，卻讓我們感受到新約的影子，更讓我們確信：新約和舊約都是上帝的恩典，都是上帝要使我們生命與祂同行的作為！而這樣的作為，使人感受到自己的價值是來自受上帝的肯定！肯定到一個程度，祂以律法刻在我們的心版為印記，好表明我們是屬祂的！

    在新約時代雖然不強調律法，但是我們強調聖靈的印記。然而聖靈為印記的作用，就是肯定我們永遠屬主耶穌，是上帝的兒女！耶因為這印記，使律法的義成全在我們身上，就如同上帝在這裡所宣告：『我要將我的律法放在他們裡面，寫在他們心上。我要作他們的上帝，他們要作我的子民。』

    我們今天要為這印記來感謝！來讚美上帝！因為這是上帝愛我們、寶貝我們的奇妙作為！是何等的恩典！讓耶穌基督在十字架上的拯救大功臨到我們，使我們不管遇到任何的處境，都相信主與我們同行，祂必保守與拯救！