旧约 - 以西结书(Ezekiel)第6章

The word of the LORD came to me:
"Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them
and say: 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.
I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.
Your people will fall slain among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
"'But I will spare some, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.
Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me--how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices.
And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.
"'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out "Alas!" because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague.
He that is far away will die of the plague, and he that is near will fall by the sword, and he that survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I spend my wrath upon them.
And they will know that I am the LORD, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak--places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah--wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'"
以西结书第六章   第 6 章 

  结 6:1> 向众山说预言,别有用意!── 

  6:1 这是两部分信息的开始。请记住,以西结只有在神给他信息的时候才说话。第六章的信息是,犹大的拜偶像一定要受神的审判。第七章中的信息描述了审判的种类:完全毁灭这个民族。然而,神出于怜悯拯救了一小部分人。以西结对以色列的山发出了预言,因为山是人们用来拜偶像的“高处”。 

  结 6:8-10> 神的审判,是为了成就什么?我是否有某些罪,需要神严厉的打击才肯改变? 

  6:8-10 神要拯救一小部分百姓,使预言的黑暗之中出现了一道亮光。但这是他们受到严酷教训之后的事情。神有时候要打垮一个人,好使他真正的悔改。百姓需要新的态度,但在神用羞耻、痛苦、遭罪和失败刺透他们的心之前,他们是不会有所改变的。我们渴望神来改变我们心中那些令神不高兴的地方吗?还是神不得不使我们伤心呢? %5 

  结 6:11> 犹大面临的审判使先知拍手顿足的震惊,这些审判是什么? 

  6:11 刀剑、瘟疫和饥荒,这是先知经常对耶路撒冷发出的三重审判的预言。它们预示着完全的毁灭。“刀剑”意味着在战场上的死亡:“饥荒”意味着敌人围城的时候要来临的饥饿死亡;“瘟疫”是伴随饥荒而来的疾病的威胁。我们不要低估神的审判程度。如果我们忽视圣经上的警告而背离了神,那么等着我们的就是神的审判。 

  结 6:14> 审判让真理得以彰显──耶和华是惟一的神,我虽不至不认神,却…… 

  6:14 “他们就知道我是耶和华”的字眼(或者有些变动)在以西结书中出现了 65 次。神实行审判的目的并不是要复仇,而是要让真理留在百姓心中,使他们知道耶和华才是惟一的真理和活神。以西结时代的人拜人造的偶像,并且称它们为神。今天,金钱、性和权力已经成了许多人的偶像。惩罚就会临到把这些东西置于神之上的人。我们很容易忘记惟主是神。──《灵修版圣经注释》