2016年6月20日 星期一

那鴻書2:1-4



2:1 尼尼微啊,那打碎邦國的上來攻擊你。你要看守保障,謹防道路,使腰強壯,大大勉力。
2:2 (耶和華復興雅各的榮華,好像以色列的榮華一樣;因為使地空虛的,已經使雅各和以色列空虛,將他們的葡萄枝毀壞了。)
2:3 他勇士的盾牌是紅的,精兵都穿朱紅衣服。在他預備爭戰的日子,戰車上的鋼鐵閃爍如火,柏木把的槍也掄起來了。
2:4 車輛在街上(或譯:城外)急行,在寬闊處奔來奔去,形狀如火把,飛跑如閃電。

The scatterer has come up against you.
Man the ramparts;
watch the road;
dress for battle;
collect all your strength.
  For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob
as the majesty of Israel,
for plunderers have plundered them
and ruined their branches.
  The shield of his mighty men is red;
his soldiers are clothed in scarlet.
The chariots come with flashing metal
on the day he musters them;
the cypress spears are brandished.
  The chariots race madly through the streets;
they rush to and fro through the squares;
they gleam like torches;
they dart like lightning.

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    尼尼微城因為亞述的強大而感到榮耀可使在自滿之中上帝已經又興起另一個強權也因為如此強大的帝國並不能永遠存在因為一切的興亡在上帝手中不是在政權手中雖然人都想藉由各樣的制度來維持強大的政權

    也因此人必須謙卑敬畏上帝,並且依靠上帝,正如猶大國雖然不是強權,甚至後來滅國,卻一直在上帝的保護之下,甚至到耶穌基督的時代,都還是具有國家的樣式,雖然在異族的統治下生存。


      所以,上帝的保護勝過一切!



2016年6月19日 星期日

那鴻書1:12-15



1:12 耶和華如此說:尼尼微雖然勢力充足,人數繁多,也被剪除,歸於無有。猶大啊,我雖然使你受苦,卻不再使你受苦。
1:13 現在我必從你頸項上折斷他的軛,扭開他的繩索。
1:14 耶和華已經出令,指著尼尼微說:你名下的人必不留後;我必從你神的廟中除滅雕刻的偶像和鑄造的偶像;我必因你鄙陋,使你歸於墳墓。
1:15 看哪,有報好信傳平安之人的腳登山,說:猶大啊,可以守你的節期,還你所許的願吧!因為那惡人不再從你中間經過,他已滅絕淨盡了。

Thus says the Lord,
Though they are at full strength and many,
they will be cut down and pass away.
Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no more.
  And now I will break his yoke from off you
and will burst your bonds apart.”
  The Lord has given commandment about you:
No more shall your name be perpetuated;
from the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the metal image.
I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
   Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him
who brings good news,
who publishes peace!
Keep your feasts, O Judah;
fulfill your vows,
for never again shall the worthless pass through you;
he is utterly cut off.

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    這是對尼尼微城將敗弱之預言在當時可能沒有人會相信但是以整個歷史來看這樣是真的發生猶大國也沒有被亞述帝國打敗反倒是亞述帝國被巴比倫帝國打敗

    這裡讓我們感受到上帝才是歷史真正的主宰歷史是掌握在上帝手中尤其是帝國的興亡交替都是在上帝的手中掌握住也因此人在上帝面前要謙卑因為上帝要高升誰就高升誰要降低誰就降低誰祂有絕對之主權

    也因此我們不要害怕時代巨輪如何這一切都在上帝掌握之中


那鴻書1:6-11



1:6 他發忿恨,誰能立得住呢?他發烈怒,誰能當得起呢?他的忿怒如火傾倒;磐石因他崩裂。
1:7 耶和華本為善,在患難的日子為人的保障,並且認得那些投靠他的人。
1:8 但他必以漲溢的洪水淹沒尼尼微,又驅逐仇敵進入黑暗。
1:9 尼尼微人哪,設何謀攻擊耶和華呢?他必將你們滅絕淨盡;災難不再興起。
1:10 你們像叢雜的荊棘,像喝醉了的人,又如枯乾的碎秸全然燒滅。
1:11 有一人從你那裡出來,圖謀邪惡,設惡計攻擊耶和華。

Who can stand before his indignation?
Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.
  The Lord is good,
a stronghold in the day of trouble;
he knows those who take refuge in him.
  But with an overflowing flood
he will make a complete end of the adversaries,
and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
  What do you plot against the Lord?
He will make a complete end;
trouble will not rise up a second time.
  For they are like entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
  From you came one
who plotted evil against the Lord,
a worthless counselor.

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    這是對尼尼微人發出的警告因為尼尼微是亞述帝國的首都。亞述帝國不僅滅了以色列國,更是猶大國第一大的敵國,對猶大的存亡有很大的威脅。所以先知那鴻發預言攻擊尼尼微人。

    當然先知那鴻也安慰上帝的子民,告訴他們:「耶和華本為善,在患難的日子為人的保障,並且認得那些投靠他的人!」

    上帝必保守猶大國的人民,必大大攻擊尼尼微人,因為上帝是大能的上帝,「他發忿恨,誰能立得住呢?他發烈怒,誰能當得起呢?他的忿怒如火傾倒;磐石因他崩裂」。

    所以我們要勇敢來倚靠上帝的大能大力祂樂意施恩保護他的子民


那鴻書1章

          那鴻書1章1-6節 ,

          那鴻書1:1-5   , 那鴻書1:2 , 那鴻書 1:3 ,

         那鴻書1:6-11   ,  那鴻書1:7  , 那鴻書1:7 ,

         那鴻書1:12-15   ,

那鴻書1:1-5



1:1 論尼尼微的默示,就是伊勒歌斯人那鴻所得的默示。
1:2 耶和華是忌邪施報的上帝。耶和華施報大有忿怒;向他的敵人施報,向他的仇敵懷怒。
1:3 耶和華不輕易發怒,大有能力,萬不以有罪的為無罪。他乘旋風和暴風而來,雲彩為他腳下的塵土。
1:4 他斥責海,使海乾了,使一切江河乾涸。巴珊和迦密的樹林衰殘;黎巴嫩的花草也衰殘了。
1:5 大山因他震動;小山也都消化。大地在他面前突起;世界和住在其間的也都如此。

An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and keeps wrath for his enemies.
  The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
he dries up all the rivers;
Bashan and Carmel wither;
the bloom of Lebanon withers.
  The mountains quake before him;
the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
the world and all who dwell in it.

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    先知慣用的手法就是用上帝的大能可以震撼大地來讓人注意上帝要對人宣告的話語也讓人清楚上帝的威嚴和榮耀但是上帝不僅是威嚴與榮耀更重要是上帝的公義:「萬不以有罪的為無罪。」

    也因此人要脫離罪惡才不會遭惹上帝的憤怒然而人唯有靠耶穌基督的拯救才可以脫離罪惡成為上帝聖潔的兒女