4229. 第32章
最后的审判 (续)
我们从第三卷 (系指拉丁文的第3卷) 开始解释主在马太福音 24章关于最后审判的预言. 这些解释被放在了那一卷最后几章的开头部分, 目前已解释到31节 (参看3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3897-3901, 4056-4060节).
概括地说, 主的这些预言的内义从所给出的解释很清楚看出来, 即祂预言了教会的逐渐毁灭和最终一个新教会的建立, 其次序如下:
⑴教会成员不再知道何为良善与真理, 反而开始彼此争论它们.
⑵他们蔑视它们.
⑶他们从心里不承认它们.
⑷他们亵渎它们.
⑸由于信之真理和爱之良善仍存留在某些被称为 “选民” 的人当中, 故经上描述了那时信之真理所具有的状态.
⑹然后描述了仁的状态.
⑺最后论述了一个新教会的开始, 由最后所解释的那些话来表示, 即:
祂要差遣祂的使者, 用号筒的大声, 将祂的选民从四风, 从天这边到天那边, 都招聚了来. (马太福音 24:31)
这些话表示一个新教会的开始 (参看4060末尾节).
1
耶稣出了圣殿，正走的时候，门徒进前来，把殿宇指给他看。
2
耶稣对他们说：你们不是看见这殿宇麽？我实在告诉你们，将来在这里没有一块石头留在石头上，不被拆毁了。
3
耶稣在橄榄山上坐着，门徒暗暗的来说：请告诉我们，甚麽时候有这些事？你降临和世界的末了有甚麽豫兆呢？
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因为将来有好些人冒我的名来，说：我是基督，并且要迷惑许多人。
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你们也要听见打仗和打仗的风声，总不要惊慌；因为这些事是必须有的，只是末期还没有到。
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民要攻打民，国要攻打国；多处必有饥荒、地震。
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这都是灾难（灾难：原文是生产之难）的起头。
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那时，人要把你们陷在患难里，也要杀害你们；你们又要为我的名被万民恨恶。
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那时，必有许多人跌倒，也要彼此陷害，彼此恨恶；
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只因不法的事增多，许多人的爱心才渐渐冷淡了。
14
这天国的福音要传遍天下，对万民作见证，然後末期才来到。
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你们看见先知但以理所说的那行毁坏可憎的站在圣地（读这经的人须要会意）。
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在房上的，不要下来拿家里的东西；
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在田里的，也不要回去取衣裳。
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你们应当祈求，叫你们逃走的时候，不遇见冬天或是安息日。
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因为那时必有大灾难，从世界的起头直到如今，没有这样的灾难，後来也必没有。
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若不减少那日子，凡有血气的总没有一个得救的；只是为选民，那日子必减少了。
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那时，若有人对你们说：基督在这里，或说：基督在那里，你们不要信！
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因为假基督、假先知将要起来，显大神迹、大奇事，倘若能行，连选民也就迷惑了。
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若有人对你们说：看哪，基督在旷野里，你们不要出去！或说：看哪，基督在内屋中，你们不要信！
27
闪电从东边发出，直照到西边。人子降临，也要这样。
28
尸首在那里，鹰也必聚在那里。
29
那些日子的灾难一过去，日头就变黑了，月亮也不放光，众星要从天上坠落，天势都要震动。
30
那时，人子的兆头要显在天上，地上的万族都要哀哭。他们要看见人子，有能力，有大荣耀.，驾着天上的云降临。
31
他要差遣使者，用号筒的大声，将他的选民，从四方（方：原文是风），从天这边到天那边，都招聚了来。
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你们可以从无花果树学个比方：当树枝发嫩长叶的时候，你们就知道夏天近了。
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这样，你们看见这一切的事，也该知道人子近了，正在门口了。
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那日子，那时辰，没有人知道，连天上的使者也不知道，子也不知道，惟独父知道。
37
挪亚的日子怎样，人子降临也要怎样。
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当洪水以前的日子，人照常吃喝嫁娶，直到挪亚进方舟的那日；
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那时，两个人在田里，取去一个，撇下一个。
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两个女人推磨，取去一个，撇下一个。
43
家主若知道几更天有贼来，就必儆醒，不容人挖透房屋；这是你们所知道的。
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所以，你们也要预备，因为你们想不到的时候，人子就来了。
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谁是忠心有见识的仆人，为主人所派，管理家里的人，按时分粮给他们呢？
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就动手打他的同伴，又和酒醉的人一同吃喝。
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在想不到的日子，不知道的时辰，那仆人的主人要来，
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重重的处治他（或作：把他腰斩了），定他和假冒为善的人同罪；在那里必要哀哭切齿了。
81. "'And have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary.'" This symbolizes their effort and work in acquiring for themselves and also teaching the constituents of religion and its accompanying doctrine.
The name of Jehovah or the Lord in the Word does not mean His name, but everything by which He is worshiped. And because He is worshiped in accordance with doctrine in the church, His name means everything pertaining to doctrine, and in the broadest sense, everything pertaining to religion.
These are the meanings of the name of Jehovah, and the reason is that in heaven the only names found are ones that reflect a person's character, and God's character includes everything by which He is worshiped.
One who is not aware of this symbolic meaning of a name in the Word can understand it only as a name; and in this alone there is nothing pertaining to worship and religion.
[2] Someone who keeps in mind, therefore, this symbolic meaning of "the name of Jehovah" when it is mentioned in the Word, will of himself understand its symbolic meaning in the following passages:
In that day you will say: "Confess to Jehovah, call upon His name." (Isaiah 12:4)
...O Jehovah, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name... ...by You we make mention of Your name. (Isaiah 26:8, 13)
From the rising of the sun My name shall be called on. (Isaiah 41:25)
...from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered to My name...; for My name shall be great among the nations... ...you profane (My name) when you say, "The table of Jehovah is defiled...." But you sneer at (My name)..., when you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick. (Malachi 1:11-13)
...all peoples walk in the name of their god, but we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God... (Micah 4:5)
Everyone who is called by My name, for My glory I have created him, I have formed him... (Isaiah 43:7)
You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain; ...Jehovah will not hold him innocent who takes His name in vain. (Deuteronomy 5:11)
They were to worship Jehovah in one place, where He should put His name (Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 13-14, 18; 16:2, 6, 11, 15-16). And so on in many other places. Who does not see that the name in them does not mean simply a name?
[3] It is the same with the name of the Lord in the New Testament, as in the following places:
(Jesus said,) "You will be hated by all because of My name. (Matthew 10:22; cf. 24:9-10)
...where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:20)
Everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters... for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and... eternal life. (Matthew 19:29)
As many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become children of God, to those who believe in His name. (John 1:12)
...many believed in His name... (John 2:23)
He who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:17-18)
...believing (they will) have life in His name. (John 20:31)
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! (Matthew 21:9; 23:39; Luke 13:35, cf. 19:38)
[4] In respect to His humanity the Lord is the name of the Father, as witness the following:
Father, glorify Your name. (John 12:28)
Hallowed be Your name (and) Your kingdom come. (Matthew 6:9-10)
See also Exodus 23:20-21. 3
"Name" in the case of other people refers to a quality of worship, as in the following:
(A shepherd) calls his own sheep by (their) name... (John 10:3)
You have a few names in Sardis... (Revelation 3:4)
I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem..., and My new name. (Revelation 3:12)
And the like elsewhere.
It can be seen from this now that the statement, "You have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary," symbolizes their effort and work in acquiring for themselves and also teaching the constituents of religion and its accompanying doctrine.
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