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1:1 耶穌基督的啟示，就是 神賜給他，叫他將必要快成的事指示他的眾僕人。他就差遺使者曉諭他的僕人約翰。 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1:2 約翰便將 神的道和耶穌基督的見證，凡自己所看見的都證明出來。 who testifies to everything he saw--that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 1:3 念這書上預言的和那些聽見又遵守其中所記載的，都是有福的，因為日期近了。 Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. 1:4 約翰寫信給亞西亞的七個教會。但願從那昔在、今在、以後永在的 神，和他寶座前的七靈， John,To the seven churches in the province of Asia:Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits(\f1 1:4 Or|i the sevenfold Spirit|d) before his throne, 1:5 並那誠實作見證的、從死裏首先復活、為世上君王元首的耶穌基督，有恩惠、平安歸與你們！他愛我們，用自己的血使我們脫離〔有古卷：洗去〕罪惡， and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 1:6 又使我們成為國民，作他父 神的祭司。但願榮耀、權能歸給他，直到永永遠遠。阿們！ and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father--to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. 1:7 看哪，他駕雲降臨！眾目要看見他，連刺他的人也要看見他；地上的萬族都要因他哀哭。這話是真實的。阿們！ Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. r So shall it be! Amen. 1:8 主 神說：「我是阿拉法，我是俄梅戛，〔阿拉法，俄梅戛：是希臘字母首末二字〕，是昔在、今在、以後永在的全能者。」 <<I am the Alpha and the Omega,>> says the Lord God, <<who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.>> 1:9 我─約翰就是你們的弟兄，和你們在耶穌的患難、國度、忍耐裏一同有分，為 神的道，並為給耶穌作的見證，曾在那名叫拔摩的海島上。 I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 1:10 當主日，我被聖靈感動，聽見在我後面有大聲音如吹號，說： 0 On the Lord's Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, 1:11 「你所看見的當寫在書上，達與以弗所、示每拿、別迦摩、推雅推喇、撒狄、非拉鐵非、老底嘉、那七個教會。」 which said: <<Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.>> 1:12 我轉過身來，要看是誰發聲與我說話；既轉過來，就看見七個金燈臺。 I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 1:13 燈臺中間有一位好像人子，身穿長衣，直垂到腳，胸間束著金帶。 and among the lampstands was someone <<like a son of man,>> (\f2 1:13 Daniel 7:13) dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. 1:14 他的頭與髮皆白，如白羊毛，如雪；眼目如同火焰； His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. 1:15 腳好像在爐中鍛鍊光明的銅；聲音如同眾水的聲音。 His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 1:16 他右手拿著七星，從他口中出來一把兩刃的利劍；面貌如同烈日放光。 In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance. 1:17 我一看見，就仆倒在他腳前，像死了一樣。他用右手按著我，說：「不要懼怕！我是首先的，我是末後的， When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: <<Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. 1:18 又是那存活的；我曾死過，現在又活了，直活到永永遠遠；並且拿著死亡和陰間的鑰匙。 I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. 1:19 所以你要把所看見的，和現在的事，並將來必成的事，都寫出來。 <<Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later. 1:20 論到你所看見、在我右手中的七星和七個金燈臺的奧祕，那七星就是七個教會的使者，七燈臺就是七個教會。」 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels (\f3 1:20 Or|i messengers|d) of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉（02月20日）
二月廿日 「你們沒有一件不能作的事了。」馬太福音十七章20節 有了信心，我們就沒有一件不能的事。只要我們真相信神有保守和得勝的能力，我們就能看見祂所說的話語和應許，都是實在的。 我們能。天天把我們一切的罣慮和重擔卸給神，享受平安和喜樂。 我們能。管轄頭腦中的思想，晝夜繫念神的話語。 我們能。在每一件事情上清楚神的旨意；不是用嘆息，乃是用讚美去接受。 我們能靠神的恩典剛強；我們以前的軟弱，以前叫我們不能忍耐、聖潔、謙卑的罪，今天都能靠著愛我們的主勝過了，使罪完全失去它在我們身上的權勢。 這些都是神恩典中可能的事，如果我們有了這些經歷，就會更願意俯伏在神腳前，也就會更渴慕最高的靈命。 我們如果不能每天、每小時、每分鐘在基督裏，藉著聖靈的能力與神同行，我們就不會得到滿足。 ─慕爾 在基督裏，我們能有神一切的豐富。主已經把神寶庫的鑰匙放在我們手中了，祂吩咐我們去無限制地領取一切我們所要的。若是一個銀行的行長，准許一個窮人到銀行庫中去任意取他所要的；假定那個窮人出來的時候，只帶了一文錢，這是誰的過失呢？基督人能得到神完全的豐富，而仍過著極窮的生活，這是誰的過失呢？ ─麥克拉倫
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月20日）
February 20 "Nothing shall be impossible unto you."(Matt. 17:20.) ＩT is possible, for those who really are willing to reckon on the power of the Lord for keeping and victory, to lead a life in which His promises are taken as they stand and are found to be true. It is possible to cast all our care upon Him daily and to enjoy deep peace in doing it. It is possible to have the thoughts and imasinations of our hearts purified, in the deepest meaning of the word. It is possible to see the will of God in everything, and to receive it, not with sighing, but with singing. It is possible by taking complete refuge in Divine power to become strong through and through; and, where previously our greatest weakness lay, to find that things which formerly upset all our resolves to be patient, or pure, or humble, furnish today an opportunity─through Him who loved us, and works in us an agreement with His will and a blessed sense of His presence and His power─to make sin powerless over us. These things are DIVINE POSSIBLILITIES, and because they are His work, the true experience of them will always cause us to bow lower at His feet and to learn to thirst and long for more. We cannot possibly be satisfied with anything less─each day, each hour, each moment, in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit─than to WALK WITH GOD. ─H. C. G. Moule. We may have as much of God as we will. Christ puts the key of the treasure-chamber into our hand, and bids us take all that we want. If a man is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank, and told to help himself, and comes out with one cent, whose fault is it that he is poor? Whose fault is it that Christian people generally have such scanty portions of the free riches of God? ─McLaren.
■ 永活之泉（02月20日）
二月廿日 測不透的神 「神為大，我們不能全知；論到全能者，我們不能測度；祂大有能力。」約伯記卅六章26節，卅七章23節 神是個靈，祂的位格和榮耀，是遠超我們所能領會的；我們實在太渺小了，對於祂的審度，是微乎其微的。在屬靈的生命裡，最要緊的是該有一個深深的感覺，就是神的意念和道路是遠遠地高過我們的意念，像天離地那樣高。我們該用何等謙卑和聖潔的虔誠來仰望神，並帶著像孩子一樣簡單的心，降服於聖靈的教訓呢？「深哉，神豐富的智慧和知識！祂的判斷，何其難測！祂的蹤跡，何其難尋！」（羅十一33） 讓我們的心答應說：「哦，主啊！哦，諸神之神，您的意念何等奇妙；您的謀略何其深奧。」認識神的學習應當充滿在我們裡面，使我們用聖潔的敬畏，並聖潔的盼望，正確地認識並尊敬祂。讓我們思想——祂的偉大、祂的能力、祂的全能、祂的智慧、祂的聖潔、祂的憐憫、祂的慈愛，這些都是我們所無法測度的。 當我們敬拜的時候，讓我們喊說：「我們的神，我們的父，在您的偉大裡，有何等無法測度的榮耀！」願你帶著羞愧的心承認，你沒有好好地追求認識祂，也沒有等候祂來啟示祂自己。然後開始在信心裡超越所有理解的方法，來信靠這位測不透全然榮耀的神，要作工在你的心裡和生命裡，使你越過越正確的認識祂。 「主耶和華啊，我的眼目仰望您；我投靠您。」（詩一四一8）「當休息（或作安靜），要知道我是神。」（詩四十六10）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月20日）
二月廿日 避免夢想 「起來，我們走吧！」約翰福音十四章31節 為的要一件事做得合法，而多想其事，那是對的；但是到了我應該動手的時候，我們還在那裡夢想，那是不對的。我們的主向門徒說了那些奇特的事件以後，我們也許以為祂要對他們說走開去，把它們從頭到尾默想默想；但是我們的主從不許「呆著癡著。」當我們與神接觸時，要察出祂所要的是甚麼，多用想像是對的；但是我們一味的花費我們的時光去夢想神要我們所做的事，那是不對的，而且這也不是神可能祝福的舉動。神總是帶著刺的性質，喚醒這種迷夢；所謂刺便是吩咐我們「走動吧！不要坐著也不要站著。」 如果我們靜候於神之前，祂必說：「你們單獨的來吧，」這個時候便是在神面前默想之時，為的要得知我們所追奔的路線。但是不要在神表示祂的意志以後，還在那裡一味的夢想，應當出去實現其所說的。如果你戀愛一個人，你不會常坐著，夢想你所愛的人，你一定是想去，替他效力；那就是耶穌基督盼望我們作的。在神吩咐以後還是夢想，那是我們不信靠祂的一種表示。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月20日）
二月廿日 「你不要害怕，因為我與你同在……」以賽亞書四十一章10節 撒但不斷地藉著恐懼，使我們的信心變得軟弱。牠是一個了不起的玄學家，並且知道恐懼能使人癱瘓、是信心最大的仇敵。假如牠能使我們害怕，就能叫我們不再靠主，阻止我們得到需要的祝福。約伯曾感到恐懼的危險，他給一個悲哀的見證：「因我所恐懼的臨到我身……。」(伯三25) 懼怕乃從撒但而來。我們若是能花一點時間想想看，就不難發現所有撒但說的都是建築在虛偽的事上。牠是謊言之父，即使是從牠來的懼怕都是假的，我們應該把牠所恐嚇的變成一種鼓勵。 所以，當撒但對你說有些壞事會發生時，你應該靜靜地轉著牠的臉告訴牠，牠是個大騙子。因為神所應許的是，我們一生一世都有恩惠慈愛隨著我們。然後我們可以轉臉對主說：「我懼怕的時候要依靠您。」(詩五六3)懼怕乃因不靠主，仰賴神是懼怕的良藥。
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