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阿摩司书 4

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1 你们住撒玛利亚如巴珊母的啊,当我的─你们欺负贫寒的,压碎穷乏的,对家:拿酒来,我们罢!

2 耶和华指着自己的圣洁起誓说:日子快到,人必用钩子将你们钩去,用鱼钩将你们馀剩的钩去。

3 你们各人必从破口直往前行,投入哈门。这是耶和华的。

4 以色列人哪,任你们往伯特利去犯罪,到吉甲加增罪过;每日早晨献上你们的祭物,每日奉上你们的十分之一

5 任你们献有的感谢祭,把甘心祭宣传报告给众人,因为是你们所喜的。这是耶和华的。

6 我使你们在一切城中牙齿乾净,在你们各处粮食缺乏,你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华的。

7 在收割的前,我使停止,不降在你们那里;我降在这城,不降在那城;这块地有,那块地无;无的就枯乾了。

8 这样,两城的人凑到城去找,却不足;你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华的。

9 我以旱风、霉烂攻击你们,你们园中许多菜蔬、葡萄树、无花果树橄榄树都被剪虫所;你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华的。

10 我降瘟疫在你们中间,像在埃及一样;用刀杀戮你们的少年人,使你们的马匹被掳掠,中尸首的臭气扑鼻;你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华的。

11 倾覆你们中间的城邑,如同我从前倾覆所多玛、蛾摩拉一样,使你们好像从火中抽出来的一根柴;你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华的。

12 以色列啊,我必向你如此行;以色列啊,我既这样行,你当预备迎见你的

13 那创、造、将心意指示人、使晨光变为幽暗、脚踏在处的,他的名是耶和华─万军之

   

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Exploring the Meaning of Amos 4

작가: Helen Kennedy

In chapter 4 of the Book of Amos, verses 1-3 are talking about people who pervert the truths of the church. They will fall into falsities in outermost things.

In the Bible, fish represent "lower" things than mammals, so we can interpret the fishhooks in verse 2 as meaning being caught and held fast in natural or lower things.

Verses 4-6 are about acts of worship such as tithes and sacrifices. These look similar to genuine worship, but are only external sorts of things. We can tell because ‘teeth’ (in verse 6) represent ultimates or outermost things (see Secrets of Heaven 6380). It follows that “cleanness of teeth” would mean outermost things that look good but only imitate genuine worship. The Lord exhorts, “Yet you have not returned to me.”

Verses 7-8. Some things true will remain, when where there are too many false ideas, the truths don't get through. This can be seen where the Lord says, “I made it rain on one city; I withheld rain from another city... where it did not rain the part withered.” Again the Lord exhorts, “Yet you have not returned to me.”

Verse 9. Afterward all things of the church are falsified, shown by blight attacking the gardens, vineyards, fig tree and olive trees. The last three represent spiritual, natural and celestial things, or all the things of spiritual life. “Yet you have not returned to me,” says the Lord.

Verses 10-11. The Lord explains the devastating things he allowed to happen: plague in Egypt, death of young men by swords, stench in the camps, Sodom and Gomorrah. This is because they are profaned by sensual knowledges. Profanation means the mixing of good and evil together. (See Secrets of Heaven 1001[2]).

This extends to all things of the church, with the church being the Lord’s kingdom on earth (Secrets of Heaven 768[3]).

With profanation “as soon as any idea of what is holy arises, the idea of what is profane joins immediately to it,” (Secrets of Heaven 301).

Now there is hardly anything left. “Yet you have not returned to Me,” says the Lord again.

Verses 12-13: Because people adamantly remain in their profane ways, they are warned, “Prepare to meet your God!”. This is the God powerful and mighty, “who forms mountains, and creates the wind,” and even more close to home, “Who declares to man what his thought is.” As intimately a knowing as that is, the Lord’s love for all humanity is contained in His exhortations for them to turn themselves to Him.

See, for example, Luke 6:44-45, and True Christian Religion 373.

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以西结书 21

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1 耶和华的临到我说:

2 人子啊,你要面向耶路撒冷和圣所滴下预言,攻击以色列地。

3 以色列耶和华如此:我与你为敌,并要拔刀出鞘,从你中间将人和恶人一并剪除。

4 我既要从你中间剪除人和恶人,所以我的刀要出鞘,自攻击一切有血气的;

5 一切有血气的就知道我─耶和华已经拔刀出鞘,必不再入鞘。

6 人子啊,你要叹息,在他们眼前弯着腰,苦苦地叹息。

7 他们问你:为何叹息呢?你就:因为有风声、灾祸要。人都必消化,都发软,精神衰败,膝弱如。看哪,这灾祸临近,必然成就。这是耶和华的。

8 耶和华的临到我说:

9 人子啊,你要预言。耶和华吩咐我如此:有刀、有刀,是磨快擦亮的;

10 磨快为要行杀戮,擦亮为要像闪电。我们岂可快乐麽?罚我子的杖藐视各

11 这刀已经交人擦亮,为要应使用。这刀已经磨快擦亮,好交在行杀戮的人中。

12 人子啊,你要呼喊哀号,因为这刀临到我的百姓和以色列一切的首领。他们和我的百姓都交在刀下,所以你要拍叹息。

13 有试验的事;若那藐视的杖归於无有,怎麽样呢?这是耶和华的。

14 人子啊,你要拍掌预言。我─耶和华要使这刀,就是致伤的刀,一连三次加倍刺人,进入他们的内屋,使人受伤的就是这刀。

15 我设立这恐吓人的刀,攻击他们的一切城,使他们的消化,加增他们跌倒的事。哎!这刀造得像闪电,磨得尖利,要行杀戮。

16 刀啊,你归在右边,摆在左边;你面向哪方,就向那方杀戮。

17 我也要拍掌,并要使我的忿怒止息。这是我─耶和华的。

18 耶和华的又临到我说:

19 人子啊,你要定出两条,好使巴比伦王的刀。这两条必从分出,又要在通城的口上画出

20 你要定出一条,使刀到亚扪人的拉巴;又要定出一条,使刀犹大的坚固城耶路撒冷

21 因为巴比伦王站在岔那里,在两条口上要占卜。他摇签(原文是)求问神像,察牺牲的

22 在右手中拿着为耶路撒冷占卜的签,使他安设撞城锤,张叫杀,扬声吶喊,筑垒造台,以撞城锤,攻打城

23 据那些曾起誓的犹大人看来,这是虚假的占卜;但巴比伦王要使他们想起罪孽,以致将他们捉住。

24 耶和华如此:因你们的过犯显露,使你们的孽被记念,以致你们的罪恶在行为上都彰显出来;又因你们被记念,就被捉住。

25 你这受伤行恶的以色列王啊,罪孽的尽头到了,受报的日子已到。

26 耶和华如此:当除掉冠,摘下冕,景况必不再像先前;要使卑者升为,使者降为卑。

27 我要将这国倾覆,倾覆,而又倾覆;这国也必不再有,直等到那应得的人到,我就赐他。

28 人子啊,要发预言耶和华论到亚扪人和他们的凌辱,吩咐我如此:有刀,有拔出来的刀,已经擦亮,为行杀戮,使他像闪电以行吞灭。

29 人为你见虚假的异象,行谎诈的占卜,使你倒在受伤之恶人的颈项上。他们罪孽到了尽头,受报的日子已到。

30 你将刀收入鞘罢!在你受造之处、生长之,我必刑罚你。

31 我必将我的恼恨倒在你身上,将我烈怒的喷在你身上;又将你交在善於杀灭的畜类人中。

32 你必当柴被焚烧,你的血必流在国中,你必不再被记念,因为这是我─耶和华的。