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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（01月30日）
一月卅日 「我必向以色列如甘露。」何西阿書十四章5節 露是代表新鮮，朝氣，活潑。神降露原是為著更新大地，滋潤花草。聖經中也常說起露，用來表明屬靈的更新。神常藉聖靈更新祂的子民，猶如用露更新大地一般。在提多三章5節所說的「聖靈的更新」，就是講聖靈有露珠一般的執事。 許多神的僕人不懂得屬靈的露珠在他們生命中的重要。結果，他們沒有活潑，缺乏朝氣。他們的靈性下沈（甚至枯萎），就是因為沒有靈露的更新。 親愛的同工，你想一個工人能不喫東西，而整天作工麼？你想一個神的工人能不喫屬靈的嗎哪，而專一事奉麼？不，絕對不能。偶然喫一次也是不彀的。你必須每天接受聖靈的更新當作你靈性的滋養。怎樣去接受神的靈露呢？安靜，吸收。到了深夜寂靜時，花草葉子的氣孔都張開了，這時候正是他們受露珠的時候；屬靈的露珠也是這樣，當我們在神前安靜等待的時候，我們就會得到更新和滋潤。急躁不會叫你得到甚麼。安靜等待，直到你沈浸在主的同在裡；然後帶著基督的新鮮和活潑到工場裡去。 ─巴亭登 有風或是有熱的時候，露珠凝結不起來。風必須平靜，熱度必須下降，大氣必須到又靜又冷的一點，露珠纔能凝結在葉子或花瓣上。照樣，神更新的恩典，也是如此；必須等到你的火氣退去、你靈安靜，然後神纔降甘露滋潤你。 ─選 滴下您安靜的露珠， 讓我們也一切寧靜， 卸卻靈魂的緊張與重負， 在生活中反映出您的美麗和平意境。 為人慾而奔騰的脈搏， 需要一劑鎮定與清涼， 不必再狂跳和慌張， 風火地震的大變動中， 依舊寧靜安詳。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月30日）
January 30 "I will be as the dew unto Israel." (Hosea 14:5.) ＴHE dew is a source of freshness. It is nature's provision for renewing the face of the earth. It falls at night, and without it the vegetation would die. It is this great value of the dew which is so often recognized in the Scriptures. It is used as the symbol of spiritual refreshing. Just as nature is bathed in dew, so the Lord renews His people. In Titus 3:5 the same thought of spiritual refreshing is connected with the ministry of the Holy Ghost─"renewing of the Holy Ghost." Many Christian workers do not recognize the importance of the heavenly dew in their lives, and as a result they lack freshness and vigor. Their spirits are drooping for lack of dew. Beloved fellow-worker, you recognize the folly of a laboring man attempting to do his day's work without eating. Do you recognize the folly of a servant of God attempting to minister without eating of the heavenly manna? Nor will it suffice to have spiritual nourishment occasionally. Every day you must receive the renewing of the Holy Ghost. You know when your whole being is pulsating with the vigor and freshness of Divine life and when you feel jaded and worn. Quietness and absorption bring the dew. At night when the leaf and blade are still, the vegetable pores are open to receive the refreshing and invigorating bath; so spiritual dew comes from quiet lingering in the Master's presence. Get still before Him. Haste will prevent your receiving the dew. Wait before God until you feel saturated with His presence; then go forth to your next duty with the conscious freshness and vigor of Christ. ─Dr. Pardington. Dew will never gather while there is either heat or wind. The temperature must fall, and the wind cease, and the air come to a point of coolness and rest─absolute rest, so to speak─before it can yield up its invisible particles of moisture to bedew either herb or flower. So the grace of God does not come forth to rest the soul of man until the still point is fairly and fully reached. "Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease: Take from our souls the strain and stress; And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace. "Breathe through the pulses of desire Thy coolness and Thy balm; let sense be dumb, its beats expire: Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm!"
■ 永活之泉（01月30日）
一月卅日 基督在我裡面 「豈不知……就有耶穌基督在你們心裡麼？」哥林多後書十三章5節 使徒的意思，是要每一個基督徒都能活在這樣完全確實的信心中，就是「基督在我裡面」。若是每天早晨，我們都有一段時間，被「基督在我裡面」這個思想所充滿，我們的生活就要有何等的不同呢！我在基督裡是如何確定，照樣，基督在我裡面也是同樣的確定。 在最後一個晚上，基督很清楚地告訴門徒，聖靈要來教導他們一件事，就是「到那日，你們就知道我在父裡面，你們在我裡面，我也在你們裡面。」首先，是你們在我裡面。藉著神的能力，我們所有相信的人，都已經與基督一同釘死，又與祂一同復活，結果就是基督在我們裡面。但是這件事是不容易認識的。基督徒需要用信心接受神的話語，這樣，聖靈就要引導我們進入一切的真理。請今天就花時間在禱告裡認識這個福分，也支取這個福分。 保羅在以弗所書三章十六節的禱告中是何等清楚的表示這個思想：「求他按著他榮耀的豐富賞給你們……（英譯）」請注意，保羅所求的並不是普通恩典的賜給，乃是在祂的愛和能力之豐富裡的一個特別啟示。就是祂應許你，藉著祂的靈，用能力叫你到裡面的人裡剛強起來，好使基督因著信，住在你們心裡。你已經抓住了這個應許麼？基督徒的確能經歷被神一切的豐滿所充滿。 親愛的弟兄們！保羅曾說：「我在父面前屈膝。」這就是得著這個福分唯一的路。請在內室裡花時間來認識：「基督住在我裡面。」我在已往對這個經歷得太少了，但是我要呼求神，仰望祂在我裡面作成祂的工作。即使在日常的工作中，我也要把我的心當作神兒子的居所，並且說：「我已經與基督同釘十字架，現在活著的不再是我，乃是基督在我裡面活著。」（加二20）惟有這樣，基督所說「住在我裡面」「我也住在你們裡面」的話，纔能成為我們每日的經歷。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月30日）
一月卅日 順服的進退兩難 「撒母耳……不敢將默示告訴以利。」撒母耳記上三章15節 神少用驚愕的方式向我們說話，卻用容易引起誤會的方式，叫我們捉摸不定──「那是神的聲音麼？」以賽亞說，耶和華「嚴厲地」向他說，那就是用環境的壓迫來向他說。凡與我們所接觸的事，沒有一樣不是神所說的話，我們是在這環境中察覺祂的作為呢？還是察覺那些事變呢？ 能養成說「主啊，請說」的習慣，人生將要成為一種活潑自由。每當環境壓迫，說：「主啊，請說」；便當安排一段時間來靜聽神的聲音。譴責不僅是一種訓練，而且是使我達到說「主啊，請說」這句話的地步。你回憶神對你說話的時候，記不起祂對你所說的麼？是不是路加福音十一章13節或帖撒羅尼迦前書五章23節的話呢？我們越聽，我們的耳朵越敏銳，將如耶穌一樣能隨時聽見神的聲音。 我將神啟示我的，告訴我的以利麼？那便臨到服從的進退兩難。我不把神啟示我的，告訴我的以利嗎？他是我所敬重的人；告訴我的以利嗎？便是先去探詢人的意見，而違反了神。神沒有吩咐撒母耳去告訴以利；這是神要他自己所決定的。神向你的呼召也許有傷於你的以利；但是如果你想維護別人生命的痛苦，你的靈和神的靈會發生阻隔。你不砍去右手或剜出眼睛，這是你自己的危險。 神要你自己所決定的事，不要請求別人的指示。如果你請求別人的指示，差不多是走近了撒但。「我就不與屬血氣商量了」。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月30日）
一月三十日 「打倒了，卻不至死亡。」哥林多後書四章9節 神如何使紅海分開的奇蹟發生？乃是藉著使祂的子民走頭無路，只有依靠神的拯救。埃及人在他們後面，紅海在他們前面，高山在他們兩邊，他們除了從上而來的奇蹟，真是別無逃脫之法。 有人曾說撒但能用牆四面包圍我們，但牠無法把房頂蓋死，因為我們總是能從天上得到幫助。我們的難題其實是神給的挑戰，很多時候祂使困難變得很難，難得讓我們不是得勝，就是慘敗。 神如此行，乃為幫助我們培養最高的信心，使我們在急難中成為神最美好的兒女。 親愛的朋友，這是神的時刻。如果你勇敢面對一切，你必會得著祂，永遠不再陷入困境中，卻能四處逢源。正如雅各在毘努伊勒與神面對面一樣，你也不再叫雅各，而要被稱為以色列。讓我們把需要帶到祂座前，藉著祂的供給證實祂的信實。
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