2017年10月23日 星期一

以賽亞書19:5-10



19:5 海中的水必絕盡,河也消沒乾涸。
19:6
江河要變臭;埃及的河水都必減少枯乾。葦子和蘆荻都必衰殘;
19:7
靠尼羅河旁的草田,並沿尼羅河所種的田,都必枯乾。莊稼被風吹去,歸於無有。
19:8
打魚的必哀哭。在尼羅河一切釣魚的必悲傷;在水上撒網的必都衰弱。
19:9
用梳好的麻造物的和織白布的都必羞愧;
19:10
國柱必被打碎,所有傭工的,心必愁煩。

and the river will be parched and dry;
6
its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.
7
There will be bare places by the Nile,
on the brink of the Nile;
and all that is sown by the Nile will dry up,
be driven away, and be no more.
8
Those who fish will mourn;
all who cast hooks in the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the water will languish.
9
The workers in flax will be in despair,
and the carders and those at the loom will grow pale.
10
Its weavers will be dismayed,
and all who work for wages will be grieved.

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    埃及的文明是因為尼羅河而來的,上帝卻要讓尼羅河枯乾,以此來懲罰埃及,使埃及的經濟大受影響。

    說到經濟方面,我們常常以為富有是人努力經營事業而有的,其實這是上帝賜福的結果,也因此人要懂得感謝上帝,才會得著上帝更多的恩惠。  

    因此,我們要將一切的榮耀歸給上帝,不要歸到自己的身上。人若是得罪上帝,也就要失去一切的恩惠。因此,人要常常來榮耀上帝!
 

2017年10月22日 星期日

以賽亞書19章

      以賽亞書19:1-4  ,  以賽亞書19:5-10以賽亞書19:11-17  , 以賽亞書19:18-25   ,

以賽亞書19:1-4



19:1 論埃及的默示:看哪,耶和華乘駕快雲,臨到埃及。埃及的偶像在他面前戰兢;埃及人的心在裡面消化。
19:2
我必激動埃及人攻擊埃及人弟兄攻擊弟兄,鄰舍攻擊鄰舍;這城攻擊那城,這國攻擊那國。
19:3
埃及人的心神必在裡面耗盡;我必敗壞他們的謀略。他們必求問偶像和念咒的、交鬼的、行巫術的。
19:4
我必將埃及人交在殘忍主的手中;強暴王必轄制他們。這是主萬軍之耶和華說的。

An oracle concerning Egypt.
 
See, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud
and comes to Egypt;
the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence,
and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
2
I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians,
and they will fight, one against the other,
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom;
3
the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound their plans;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead
and the ghosts and the familiar spirits;
4
I will deliver the Egyptians
into the hand of a hard master;
a fierce king will rule over them,
says the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts.

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    從先知以賽亞論到埃及的事,我們也要小心面對教會當中基督徒的衝突。我必激動埃及人攻擊埃及人弟兄攻擊弟兄,鄰舍攻擊鄰舍;這城攻擊那城,這國攻擊那國。埃及人的心神必在裡面耗盡;我必敗壞他們的謀略。』『我必將埃及人交在殘忍主的手中;強暴王必轄制他們。

    在教會中常發生弟兄姐妹之間互相攻擊和爭吵的事,若不能靠主彼此重新和好,撒但就會趁虛而入,使我們受到牠的掌控和轄制,最後造成教會的分裂,然後各個被擊破,這是讓主非常痛心的事情!

    為了避免惡者來破壞教會,我們要在主的恩典之下,彼此認罪才能得著醫治,正如雅各書516節所說:「所以你們要彼此認罪,互相代求,使你們可以得醫治。義人祈禱所發的力量是大有功效的。

以賽亞書18章

     以賽亞書18:1-7  ,

以賽亞書18:1-7



以賽亞書18:1-7

18:1 唉!古實河外翅膀刷刷響聲之地,
18:2
差遣使者在水面上,坐蒲草船過海。先知說:你們快行的使者,要到高大光滑的民那裡去。自從開國以來,那民極其可畏,是分地界踐踏人的;他們的地有江河分開。
18:3
世上一切的居民和地上所住的人哪,山上豎立大旗的時候你們要看;吹角的時候你們要聽。
18:4
耶和華對我這樣說:我要安靜,在我的居所觀看,如同日光中的清熱,又如露水的雲霧在收割的熱天。
18:5
收割之先,花開已謝,花也成了將熟的葡萄;他必用鐮刀削去嫩枝,又砍掉蔓延的枝條,
18:6
都要撇給山間的鷙鳥和地上的野獸。夏天,鷙鳥要宿在其上;冬天,野獸都臥在其中。
18:7
到那時,這高大光滑的民,就是從開國以來極其可畏、分地界踐踏人的,他們的地有江河分開;他們必將禮物奉給萬軍之耶和華,就是奉到錫安山耶和華安置他名的地方。

Ah, land of whirring wings
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2
sending ambassadors by the Nile
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.

3
All you inhabitants of the world,
you who live on the earth,
when a signal is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet is blown, listen!
4
For thus the Lord said to me:
I will quietly look from my dwelling
like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and the spreading branches he will hew away.
6
They shall all be left
to the birds of prey of the mountains
and to the animals of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.

7 At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.

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    這裡的古實就是衣索匹亞」,是屬於非洲的國家,派使者秘密訪問耶
路撒冷,要建立反叛亞述帝國的聯盟。然而從先知所得到的神諭看來,上帝要他
們等待,不可以輕舉妄動,因為上帝有祂的時間!
 
    在聖經中強調凡事都有定時,人要耐心等候上帝的時間。的確,我們得上帝
是做事的上帝,在時間還沒到的時候,我們不能做甚麼;但是時間一到,我就要
趕快有行動!不然,機會一去是不再來的!
 
    同樣,在我們的人生當中,我們一定要隨時準備好自己,來配合上帝的時機。
正如使徒行傳說到腓力因為配合到上帝的時間,所以可以將福音傳給衣索匹亞的
太監,使得該國成為基督化的國家,使上帝在此的應許成就了。
 
    求主保守我們,不輕舉妄動之外,還能把握時機,與主同工成就大事!