神的异象
我看见主
经文
出埃及记二十四章1至18节
1耶和华对摩西说：你和亚伦、拿答、亚比户，并以色列长老中的七十人，都要上到我这里来，远远的下拜。
2惟独你可以亲近耶和华；他们却不可亲近；百姓也不可和你一同上来。
3摩西下山，将耶和华的命令典章都述说与百姓听。众百姓齐声说：耶和华所吩咐的，我们都必遵行。
4摩西将耶和华的命令都写上。清早起来，在山下筑一座坛，按以色列十二支派立十二根柱子，
5又打发以色列人中的少年人去献燔祭，又向耶和华献牛为平安祭。
6摩西将血一半盛在盆中，一半洒在坛上；
7又将约书念给百姓听。他们说：耶和华所吩咐的，我们都必遵行。
8摩西将血洒在百姓身上，说：你看！这是立约的血，是耶和华按这一切话与你们立约的凭据。
9摩西、亚伦、拿答、亚比户，并以色列长老中的七十人，都上了山。
10他们看见以色列的神，他脚下仿佛有平铺的蓝宝石，如同天色明净。
11他的手不加害在以色列的尊者身上。他们观看神；他们又吃又喝。
12耶和华对摩西说：你上山到我这里来，住在这里，我要将石版并我所写的律法和诫命赐给你，使你可以教训百姓。
13摩西和他的帮手约书亚起来，上了神的山。
14摩西对长老说：你们在这里等着，等到我们再回来，有亚伦、户珥与你们同在。凡有争讼的，都可以就近他们去。
15摩西上山，有云彩把山遮盖。
16耶和华的荣耀停于西乃山；云彩遮盖山六天，第七天他从云中召摩西。
17耶和华的荣耀在山顶上，在以色列人眼前，形状如烈火。
18摩西进入云中上山，在山上四十昼夜。
信息分享
我要给大家一个提醒，在我们开始思想信息的这几天里，占据在我们内心的一个意识是：神容许我们脚下的支柱被除去，是为了让我们对祂全然倚靠；这不论是对国家或个人来说，都是那么的真实。
我们现在正处于很大的国际动荡之中──包括在意识形态、政治和经济等方面。每一个管理神的宇宙的计划，只要是与神自己的计划不同，都会证明是无效的。我很喜欢这样的一个小故事：一个小男孩在上主日学时，老师要他用组成复活节（Easter）的几个字母，作为一个词句的开头字母，结果他说：「所有别的救主都提早退休」（Every Alternative Saviour Takes Early Retirement）。所有欠缺耶稣基督的系统都注定会失败，因为它们没有与宇宙和谐一致。也许，最伟大的布道工具便是列国的动摇。因为世界上能够动摇的都被动摇了，以致那不能动摇的便显露出来。神正以很多人所不明白的方式来预备世界，以迎接祂的国度显现。
但你个人的生命又怎样呢？它有没有被摇动了？你最近有些甚么样的经历？你有没有好像以赛亚那样，看到你的希望和期待被放在棺材里？如果有，你便要注意──这一切都可能是神给你新异象的前奏。神往往需要将我们内心的宝座清理好，然后才能够以祂自己来把它填满。最后，你可能会说：「在我所有盼望和期望都失去的那一年，我看见主！」
「神正预备世界，以迎接祂的国度显现」
进深研究
创三十二1-31；出二十四9-11
1. 那个人向雅各说了甚么？
2. 雅各如何形容他遇见那人的地方？
祈祷
天父，我多么渴望前面的日子充满异象和机遇。求您以我以前从不知道的方式向我显出您的荣耀。奉基督我主的名祈求。阿们。
The Vision of God
"I saw the Lord"
Bible reading:
Exodus 24:1-18
1 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance.
2 but Moses alone is to approach the Lord; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him."
3 When Moses went and told the people all the Lord's words and laws, they responded with one voice, "Everything the Lord has said we will do."
4 Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord.
6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.
7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, "We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey."
8 Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words."
9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up.
10 and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.
11 But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
12 The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction."
13 Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God.
14 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone involved in a dispute can go to them."
15 When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
16 and the glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud.
17 To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.
18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Message
I remind you that the thought occupying our minds in these opening days of our meditations is this: God allows the props to be knocked out from beneath our feet in order that we might rest our weight fully upon Him. And this is as true for nations as it is for individuals.
We are in the midst of a great international shake-up at the moment - ideologically, politically, and economically. Every programme for the running of God's universe which is an alternative to His own is being shown to be ineffective. I love the story of the little boy in Sunday school who, when asked to make an acrostic from the word Easter, came up with this: "Every Alternative Saviour Takes Early Retirement." All systems that leave out Jesus Christ are doomed to failure for they are not in harmony with the universe. Probably the greatest form of evangelism that is going on at the moment is the shaking of the nations. What is shakeable is being shaken so that the unshakeable might appear. God is preparing the world for the revelation of His kingdom in a way that many cannot discern.
But what about your own personal life? Is that being shaken? What kind of experiences have you had recently? Have you seen, as Isaiah did, your hopes and expectations put in a coffin? Then take heart - all this could be the prelude to a new vision of God. God has often to empty the throne of our hearts before He fills it with Himself. You may yet say: "In the year that all my hopes and expectations came crashing down, I saw the Lord."
"God is preparing the world for the revelation of His kingdom"
Prayer
O Father, how I long that the months ahead will become for me ones of vision and venture. Show me Your glory, I pray, in a way I have never known before. I ask this in and through the Name of Christ my Lord. Amen.
Further study
Genesis 32:1-31
Exodus 24:9-11
1. What did the man say to Jacob?
2. What did Jacob say of the place where he met the man?
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