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如申命记 32

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1 哪,側耳,我要說話;願中的言語。

2 我的教訓要淋漓如;我的言語要滴落如,如細降在嫩上,如甘霖降在菜蔬中。

3 我要宣告耶和華的名;你們要將大德歸與我們的

4 他是磐石,他的作為完全;他所行的無不公平,是誠實無偽的神,又公,又正直。

5 這乖僻彎曲的世代向他行事邪僻;有這弊病就不是他的兒女。

6 愚昧無知的民哪,你們這樣報答耶和華麼?他豈不是你的父、將你買來的麼?他是製造你、建立你的。

7 你當追想上古之日,思念歷之年;問你的父親,他必指示你;問你的長者,他必告訴你。

8 者將地業賜給列邦,將世人分開,就照以色列人的數目立定萬民的疆界。

9 耶和華的分本是他的百姓;他的產業本是雅各

10 耶和華遇見他在曠野─荒涼野獸吼叫之,就環繞他,看顧他,保護他,如同保護眼中的瞳人。

11 又如攪動窩,在雛以上兩搧展,接取雛,背在兩翼之上。

12 這樣,耶和華獨自引導他,並無外邦神與他同在。

13 耶和華使他乘駕處,得田間的土產;又使他從磐石中咂蜜,從堅石中

14 也吃牛的奶油的奶,羔的脂,巴珊所出的公綿和山,與上好的麥子,也葡萄汁釀的酒。

15 但耶書崙漸漸肥胖,粗壯,光潤,跳,奔跑,便離棄造他的,輕看他的磐石;

16 敬拜別神,觸動神的憤恨,行可憎惡的事,惹了他的怒氣。

17 所祭祀的鬼魔並非真,乃是素不認識的,是近新興的,是你列祖所不畏懼的。

18 你輕忽生你的磐石,忘記產你的神。

19 耶和華見他的兒女惹動他,就厭惡他們,說:

20 我要向他們掩面,他們的結局如何。他們本是極乖僻的族類,心中無誠實的兒女。

21 他們以那不算為神的觸動我的憤恨,以虛無的神惹了我的怒氣。我也要以那不成子民的觸動他們的憤恨,以愚昧的國民惹了他們的怒氣。

22 因為在我怒中有燒起,直燒到極深的陰間,把的出產盡都焚燒,根基也燒著了。

23 我要將禍患堆在他們身上,把我的向他們射盡。

24 他們必因飢餓消瘦,被炎熱苦吞滅。我要打發野獸牙齒咬他們,並土中腹行的,用氣害他們。

25 外頭有刀,內室有驚恐,使喪亡,使少、童女、吃奶的、白髮的,盡都滅絕。

26 ,我必將他們分散遠方,使他們的名號從人間除滅。

27 惟恐仇敵惹動我,只怕敵人錯看,:是我們的能力,並非耶和華所行的。

28 因為以色列民毫無計謀,心中沒有聰明。

29 惟願他們有智慧,能明白這事,肯思念他們的結局。

30 若不是他們的磐石了他們,若不是耶和華交出他們,人焉能追趕他們人?人焉能使萬人逃跑呢?

31 據我們的仇敵自己斷定,他們的磐石不如我們的磐石。

32 他們的葡萄樹是所多瑪的葡萄樹,蛾摩拉田園所生的;他們的葡萄是毒葡萄,全挂都是苦的。

33 他們的酒是大蛇的氣,是虺蛇殘害的惡

34 這不都是積蓄在我這裡,封鎖在我府中麼?

35 他們失的時候,伸冤報應在我;因他們遭災的日子近了;那要臨在他們身上的必速速來到。

36 耶和華見他百姓毫無能力,無論困住的、自由的都沒有剩下,就必為他們伸冤,為他的僕人後悔。

37 他必:他們的,他們所投靠的磐石,

38 就是向來他們祭牲的脂油,他們奠祭之酒的,在那裡呢?他可以興起幫助你們,護衛你們。

39 你們如今要知道:我,惟有我是;在我以外並無別。我使人死,我使人活;我損傷,我也醫治,並無人能從我中救出來。

40 我向:我憑我的永生起誓:

41 我若磨我閃亮的刀,掌審判之權,就必報復我的敵人,報應恨我的人。

42 我要使我的飲血飲醉,就是被殺被擄之人的血。我的刀要,乃是仇敵中首領之

43 你們外邦人當與主的百姓一同歡呼;因他要伸他僕人流血的冤,報應他的敵人,潔淨他的地,救贖他的百姓。

44 摩西和嫩的兒子約書亞去將這歌的一切給百姓聽。

45 摩西以色列眾人說完了這一切的

46 :我今日所警教你們的,你們都要放在心上;要吩咐你們的子孫謹守遵行這律法上的

47 因為這不是虛空、與你們無關的事,乃是你們的生命;在你們過約但河要得為業的地上必因這事日子得以長久。

48 當日,耶和華吩咐摩西

49 你上這亞巴琳中的尼波去,在摩押耶利哥相對,觀我所要賜以色列人為業的迦南

50 你必在你所登的上,歸你列祖(原文作本民)去,像你哥哥亞倫在何珥上,歸他的列祖一樣。

51 因為你們在尋的曠野,加低斯的米利巴水,在以色列人中沒有尊我為,得罪了我。

52 我所賜以色列人,你可以遠遠,卻不得進去。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 806

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806. "And He has avenged the blood of His servants shed by her hand." This symbolizes a retribution for the injuries and violence done to the souls of worshipers of the Lord.

His avenging the blood of His servants shed by her hand symbolizes a retribution for the injuries and violence done to the souls of worshipers of the Lord, because His avenging symbolizes retribution. To shed blood means, symbolically, to do violence to the Lord's Divinity and to the Word (nos. 327, 684), in this case to worshipers of the Lord, who are meant by His servants. Roman Catholics inflicted injuries and violence on their souls by transferring Divine worship of the Lord to themselves and preventing their reading of the Word.

The Lord is said to have avenged or exacted retribution for the blood of His servants as though He did this to take revenge or punish; but still He does not act to take revenge or punish, just as He does not act out of anger or wrath, even though anger and wrath are occasionally attributed to Him in the Word (see nos. 525, 635, 658, 673 above).

Anger and revenge are attributed to the Lord when evil people are separated from the good and cast into hell, as happens at the time of a last judgment. That time is therefore called wrath and a day of wrath, and a day of vengeance. Not that the Lord is angry or vengeful, but that those people are angry at the Lord and filled with vengeance against Him. The case is like that of a criminal after sentence has been passed, who is angry at the law and filled with vengeance against the judge. For the law is not angry, nor is the judge taking revenge.

[2] Vengeance is meant in this sense in the following passages:

...the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. (Isaiah 63:4)

The reference there is to the Lord and the Last Judgment.

...the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of retribution for the case of Zion. (Isaiah 34:8)

Behold, your God will come for vengeance; for the retribution of God He will come, and He will save you. (Isaiah 35:4)

...these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. (Luke 21:22)

The reference there is to the culmination of the age, when the Last Judgment takes place.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovih is upon Me... to proclaim the day Jehovah's good pleasure, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn. (Isaiah 61:1-2)

Shall My soul not take vengeance... for this? (Jeremiah 5:9, 29)

I will take vengeance (on Babylon), and will not allow anyone to intercede. (Isaiah 47:3)

...His thought is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of Jehovah, vengeance for His temple. (Jeremiah 51:11, cf. 51:36)

Sing, O nations, His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and visit vengeance on His adversaries; He will purge His land, His people. (Deuteronomy 32:43)

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation 19

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1 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:

2 for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."

3 A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever."

4 The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!"

5 A voice came forth from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!"

6 I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

7 Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready."

8 It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

9 He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He said to me, "These are true words of God."

10 I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."

11 I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.

13 He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "The Word of God."

14 The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.

15 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

16 He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."

17 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,

18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great."

19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.

20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

21 The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.