旧约 - 以赛亚书(Isaiah)第2章

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
以赛亚书第二章   赛 2:2> 耶和华殿的山是哪座? 

  2:2 圣殿建在“主的山”,也就是摩利亚山上。全耶路撒冷的人都看得见它。关于圣殿的重要性,详见历代志下 5 章 1 节。在最后的日子里,圣殿要吸引全国,这不是因为它杰出的建筑,而是神的驾临和影响。 

  赛 2:2-4> 先知看见的未来美景,我不曾看见,但听说过…… 

  2:2-4 神使以赛亚拥有看见未来的恩赐。神在这里向以赛亚展现了耶路撒冷最终发生的事情。启示录 21 章刻画了该预言在新耶路撒冷中实现的光景。 

  赛 2:4-5> 我如何能行在耶和华的光明中?我有把握吗? 

  2:4-5 这里描绘了一幅未来和平的美好图画,那时候,将化干戈为玉帛。我们要学习神的律法并加以遵守,我们虽知道神最终要除去所有罪恶、战争、冲突和其它问题的根源,但我们不能自己不顺从神,只等着神来解决问题。就像先知在 2 章 5 节中告诫犹大的那样,我们现在就要走在神的光中。诚然有永恒的奖赏在等待着我们,但我们一旦把神的话运用到生活中,就已经在享受顺从的益处了。 

  赛 2:6> 非利士人拜的假神有哪些? 

  2:6 人们在追随亚述帝国的做法。“作观兆的,像非利士人”意思是靠魔鬼的权势或翻译预兆,宣称知道并能控制未来。这些做法是神所禁止的(参利 19:26 ;申 18:10 , 14 )。非利士人敬拜的有大衮,亚斯她录和巴力西卜。在以色列历史中最邪恶时期,以色列人把这些异教偶像同神一起来敬拜,还给它们起了希伯来文的名字。 

  赛 2:8-9> 拜偶像到底有哪些危害?你是怎样认为的? 

  2:8-9 在邪恶的国王统治下,拜偶像在以色列和犹大泛滥成灾。在犹大只有少数好国王在执政期间制止了拜偶像。虽然今天几乎没有人去拜那雕刻的或模制的形像,但拜有权势或物质的东西仍在继续。我们崇拜汽车、房子、名星、名人、金钱等等。拜偶像的邪恶在于:( 1 )当我们敬拜神所创造的东西而不敬拜神的时候,就是羞辱了神。( 2 )当我们相信其他东西而不是神的时候,这便阻止我们亲近和服事神。( 3 )它使我们依靠自己的努力而不去依靠神(参申 27:15 )。 

  赛 2:12> “耶和华降罚的一个日子”,仅指当时对以色列的惩罚吗? 

  2:12 万军之耶和华的“日子”就是审判之日,好人坏人都要受到审判。这日子将会来临。这日子来到的时候,我们希望与神有正常的关系。单单高举神,乃是与神和好的第一步( 2:11 , 17 )。 

  2:15-17 高台属于城巿或国家防御设施的一部分。这里说的是以军事堡垒为基础的国家安全。“他施的船只”为我们画了一幅经济繁荣的图画;“一切可爱的美物”指的是游船。我们心里一定要装着神,没什么可与神比美。倘若我们把希望寄托在别的地方,带来的便是虚伪的骄傲。所以我们的希望要单单寄托于神。 

  赛 2:19> 神的惩罚临到,人无处可躲、可藏…… 

  2:19 请参考启示录 6 章 15 至 17 节中描述的在神愤怒的日子里,祂的敌人的可怕遭遇。 

  赛 2:22> 人算什么,我们岂不知自身的局限吗?