2016年10月7日 星期五

以西結書8章

         以西結書8:1-4     ,   以西結書8:5-12  ,

以西結書8:1-4



8:1 第六年六月初五日,我坐在家中;猶大的眾長老坐在我面前。在那裡主耶和華的靈(原文是手)降在我身上。
8:2 我觀看,見有形像彷彿火的形狀,從他腰以下的形狀有火,從他腰以上有光輝的形狀,彷彿光耀的精金。
8:3 他伸出彷彿一隻手的樣式,抓住我的一綹頭髮,靈就將我舉到天地中間,在上帝的異象中,帶我到耶路撒冷朝北的內院門口,在那裡有觸動主怒偶像的坐位,就是惹動忌邪的。
8:4 誰知,在那裡有以色列上帝的榮耀,形狀與我在平原所見的一樣。

1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there. 2 Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a man. Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was something like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming metal. 3 He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. 4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the valley.

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    第六年六月初五日,就是西元前592917日。距離以西結蒙召十四個月。如果先知的左右側臥是不重複的(左邊390天、右邊40天),那這個異象就發生在右邊側臥期間。

    長老們來找以西結恐並非解決被擄之地的疑難雜症,而是想要知道祖國的狀況,以及自己是否可以回到祖國。可惜上帝給的異象顯示了祖國毀滅之必然。這些被擄的人不會希望聽到祖國毀滅,他們當然希望祖國復興,這樣他們就有機會可以回國,不會真正變成亡國奴。

    然而以西結在異象中,被上帝由巴比倫帶到遙遠的耶路撒冷聖殿。令人震撼的是,上帝的榮耀的聖殿中,竟然有令上帝忌妒、憤怒的偶像,人們就這樣直接冒犯上帝。這也表示猶大滅亡是必然的,不是上帝不保護他們,是自己惹怒上帝。

    同樣今日我們要棄絕偶像才能討上帝喜悅蒙上帝賜福我們會說我們哪來的偶像呢只要我們看一些事物超過上帝那就是我們的偶像甚至自我中心也是偶像崇拜看自己超過上帝就是偶像上帝必定發怒

希伯來書12:26-29



12:26 當時他的聲音震動了地,但如今他應許說:「再一次我不單要震動地,還要震動天。」
12:27 這再一次的話,是指明被震動的,就是受造之物都要挪去,使那不被震動的常存。
12:28 所以我們既得了不能震動的國,就當感恩,照上帝所喜悅的,用虔誠、敬畏的心事奉上帝。
12:29 因為我們的上帝乃是烈火。

12:26       whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.
12:27       And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
12:28       Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:
12:29       for our God is a consuming fire.

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    這裡說到末世的情形,主說:「再一次我不單要震動地,還要震動天」。就對應到啟示錄211節中說到:「我又看見一個新天新地;因為先前的天地已經過去了,海也不再有了。」和彼得後書310-12節:「但主的日子要像賊來到一樣。那日,天必大有響聲廢去,有形質的都要被烈火銷化,地和其上的物都要燒盡了。這一切既然都要如此銷化,你們為人該當怎樣聖潔,怎樣敬虔,切切仰望上帝的日子來到。在那日,天被火燒就銷化了,有形質的都要被烈火鎔化。」

    所以上帝的旨意是這個舊天地,有一天會過去,被一個新天新地來取代,而那個新天新地就是不震動的國了!而如何能進新天新地呢?就如彼得後書313-15節:「但我們照他的應許,盼望新天新地,有義居在其中。親愛的弟兄啊,你們既盼望這些事,就當殷勤,使自己沒有玷污,無可指摘,安然見主;並且要以我主長久忍耐為得救的因由,就如我們所親愛的兄弟保羅,照著所賜給他的智慧寫了信給你們。」而啟示錄216-7節:「都成了!我是阿拉法,我是俄梅戛;我是初,我是終。我要將生命泉的水白白賜給那口渴的人喝。得勝的,必承受這些為業:我要作他的上帝,他要作我的兒子。」

    然而那些人可以達到這標準呢?沒有,一個也沒有,除非靠這耶穌基督的恩典,就如希伯來書1222-24節:「你們乃是來到錫安山,永生上帝的城邑,就是天上的耶路撒冷。那裡有千萬的天使,有名錄在天上諸長子之會所共聚的總會,有審判眾人的上帝和被成全之義人的靈魂,並新約的中保耶穌,以及所灑的血;這血所說的比亞伯的血所說的更美。」

    而我們因著信就領受了這寶血,蒙著寶血遮蓋成為聖潔,不是我們自己的行為使自己聖潔,不是守甚麼法則或信念而聖潔,完全因耶穌基督的寶血而聖潔這是上帝所賜最美的恩典

所以,1228-29節說:「所以我們既得了不能震動的國,就當感恩,照上帝所喜悅的,用虔誠、敬畏的心事奉上帝。因為我們的上帝乃是烈火。」

2016年10月6日 星期四

約翰福音3:20-21



3:20 凡作惡的便恨光,並不來就光,恐怕他的行為受責備。
3:21 但行真理的必來就光,要顯明他所行的是靠上帝而行。

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    這裡的「作惡」和「行真理」的差異是在於有沒有信靠耶穌基督,因為信靠耶穌的人已經蒙受上帝的救恩,正如316-17節所說:「上帝愛世人,甚至將他的獨生子賜給他們,叫一切信他的,不致滅亡,反得永生。因為上帝差他的兒子降世,不是要定世人的罪,乃是要叫世人因他得救。」

    信的人已經得救了,就在光明中,蒙上帝的賜福!不信的人怕自己的惡行被定罪,就使自己一直躲在黑暗中,不喜歡光明,最後與生命之源隔絕,結果就是滅亡

    我們都希望自己能得救故此我們要勇敢來就光靠耶穌基督來得永生並且行在光明中並且明白自己無法靠自己得救只能靠耶穌基督才能得救

以西結書7:10-27



7:10 「看哪,看哪,日子快到了,所定的災已經發出。杖已經開花,驕傲已經發芽。
7:11 強暴興起,成了罰惡的杖。以色列人,或是他們的群眾,或是他們的財寶,無一存留,他們中間也沒有得尊榮的。
7:12 時候到了,日子近了,買主不可歡喜,賣主不可愁煩,因為烈怒已經臨到他們眾人身上。
7:13 賣主雖然存活,卻不能歸回再得所賣的,因為這異象關乎他們眾人。誰都不得歸回,也沒有人在他的罪孽中堅立自己。」
7:14 「他們已經吹角,預備齊全,卻無一人出戰,因為我的烈怒臨到他們眾人身上。
7:15 在外有刀劍,在內有瘟疫、饑荒;在田野的,必遭刀劍而死;在城中的,必有饑荒、瘟疫吞滅他。
7:16 其中所逃脫的就必逃脫,各人因自己的罪孽在山上發出悲聲,好像谷中的鴿子哀鳴。
7:17 手都發軟,膝弱如水。
7:18 要用麻布束腰,被戰兢所蓋;各人臉上羞愧,頭上光禿。
7:19 他們要將銀子拋在街上,金子看如污穢之物。當耶和華發怒的日子,他們的金銀不能救他們,不能使心裡知足,也不能使肚腹飽滿,因為這金銀作了他們罪孽的絆腳石。
7:20 論到耶和華妝飾華美的殿,他建立得威嚴,他們卻在其中製造可憎可厭的偶像,所以這殿我使他們看如污穢之物。
7:21 我必將這殿交付外邦人為掠物,交付地上的惡人為擄物;他們也必褻瀆這殿。
7:22 我必轉臉不顧以色列人,他們褻瀆我隱密之所,強盜也必進去褻瀆。
7:23 「要製造鎖鍊;因為這地遍滿流血的罪,城邑充滿強暴的事,
7:24 所以我必使列國中最惡的人來佔據他們的房屋;我必使強暴人的驕傲止息,他們的聖所都要被褻瀆。
7:25 毀滅臨近了,他們要求平安,卻無平安可得。
7:26 災害加上災害,風聲接連風聲;他們必向先知求異象,但祭司講的律法、長老設的謀略都必斷絕。
7:27 君要悲哀,王要披淒涼為衣,國民的手都發顫。我必照他們的行為待他們,按他們應得的審判他們,他們就知道我是耶和華。」

10 "Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. 11 Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them. 12 The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude. 13 For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.
14 "They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. 15 The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. 16 And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 17 All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 18 They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. 14 "They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. 15 The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. 16 And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 17 All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 18 They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. 19 They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. 20 His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it. 22 I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.
23 "Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. 24 I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned. 25 When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none. 26 Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders. 27 The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

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    以色列人以為可以保護他們的,都是無效的。上帝的旨意已經顯明,就像「亞倫的杖已經開花」一樣,以色列人就要承受災難了。當然這個「杖」也可能同時暗指巴比倫的攻擊力量,將要來摧毀猶大國。

    以色列人過去追求的金銀,不能讓他們的心靈與肉體滿足,只是推落他們更是犯罪。我們現在追求的東西,是否也是這樣?不過此時的猶大人已經來不及悔改了,因為審判已經臨到。

    這也警戒我們,我們是不是追求別的,過於對上帝的關係追求,我們要與上帝建立合宜與正確的關係,才有真正的平安。