旧约 - 以西结书(Ezekiel)第5章

"Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair.
When the days of your siege come to an end, burn a third of the hair with fire inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind. For I will pursue them with drawn sword.
But take a few strands of hair and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.
Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to the whole house of Israel.
"This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.
"Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even conformed to the standards of the nations around you.
"Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations.
Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.
Therefore in your midst fathers will eat their children, and children will eat their fathers. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will withdraw my favor; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.
"Then my anger will cease and my wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged. And when I have spent my wrath upon them, they will know that I the LORD have spoken in my zeal.
"I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the LORD have spoken.
When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.
I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the LORD have spoken."
以西结书第五章   第 5 章 

  结 5:1-10> 先知以头发和胡须预示犹大人的命运,他预言的方式对我有何启发? 

  5:1-10 一个人剃头和胡子代表着悲痛、受辱或悔改。神让以西结把头发和胡子剃去,并且分成三份,象征着有事情要发生在耶路撒冷的百姓身上( 5:12 )。随着口发的预言,神让以西结用戏剧性的行为引起百姓的注意,在他们的心上烙下不可磨灭的印像。就像神给以西结创造性的方式来传达神的信息一样,我们也能创造性地将关于神的好消息,告诉这一代失落的人。 

  结 5:3-4> 在审判之中,有谁可以避过大祸? 

  5:3-4 以西结将几根头发放进了衣襟里,象征着神要保守一小部分忠实的百姓。但就是在这些百姓的中间,还会有些人因信心不真诚而遭到审判和毁灭。在要来临的审判中我们能站立得住吗?马太福音 7 章 22 至 23 节警告说,很多自以为安全的人其实并无保障。至关重要的是,我们要确定自己对神的委身是发自内心的。 

  结 5:7> 神的选民竟然比不上周围的列国,我的生活行为比起不信主的人又如何? 

  5:7 人们异常软弱,甚至连周围异教国家的律法都遵守不了,更谈不上遵守神的律法了。 

  结 5:11> 没有圣殿的今天,我更要谨慎,因为原来今天神的殿就在…… 

  5:11 在殿中拜偶像并行恶来玷污神的圣所和圣殿,是项严重的罪行。在新约中,我们知道神要住在属于自己的人里面。我们的身体就是神的殿(参林前 6:19 )。我们今天有说闲话、抱怨、爱金钱、扯谎或者其他错误的行为和态度,并成了日常生活中的一部分,这就是在玷污神的殿。我们要祈求圣灵的帮助,使我们不让神的殿──我们的身体受到玷污。 

  结 5:13> 神的祝福从不会落空,但祂的审判也不是虚言,我是否已忘记了? 

  5:13 我们都听过有人教训孩子时这样说:“如果你下一次再这样,就……”如果父母不认真遵守诺言,孩子就学会了不听话。空吓的结果必事得其反。神准备惩罚以色列人嚣张的罪,要叫他们知道神是说到做到的。太多人不把神的警告当回事了,他们只把它们当作空洞的威胁。但神所警告的,就一定要履行,不要错误地认为神说了的并不一定真的算数。──《灵修版圣经注释》