Thyatira—Iron Rods over the Nations 推雅推喇—管列國的權杖 5/22/2016 Rev. Joseph Chang 張玉明牧師 BOLGPC 爾灣大公園靈糧堂

7 churches represent 7 periods in church history./ 7個教會代表教會史 上的7個時期. Ephesus/以弗所: Early Churches/初期教會 Smyrna/士每拿: Persecution in Patristic eara/教父時期的教會受逼 迫時期. Pergamum/別迦摩: Constantine/康士坦丁, 基督教成為羅馬國教時 期. Thyatira/推雅推喇: Middle Ages/中世紀時期 (教會腐敗時期). Sardis/撒狄: Reformation/宗教改革時期. Philadelphia/非拉鐵非: 18th, 19th century mission movement/18, 19 世紀宣教時期. Laodicea/老底嘉: modern era, growing apostasy before the return of Christ/現代, 主耶穌再來之前, 教會的離經叛道.

When Christianity became the Religion of Roman Empire, God’s word decides the purity of the faith and the direction of the church. 在基督教成為羅馬國教的時候, 神的話語非 常的重要. 它決定信仰的純正, 決定教會的方向. After Christianity became the Religion of Roman Empire, another problem emerges: Is God’s kingdom greater than the secular kingdom or vice versa?基督教成為羅馬國教以後, 另外 一個問題產生了—到底是神國大, 還是世界上的國大?

Does the Church pay tax to the state? 教會要向政府付稅 嗎? Does the King appoint the bishop? Does the bishop ordain the king? 王任命主教? 主教為王加冕? President sworn in in US, in Taiwan. King being coroneted by Archbishop of Canterbury. 台灣的總統就職, 美國的總統就 職. 英國的國王加冕.

Jesus is King of all kings, Lord of all lords Jesus is King of all kings, Lord of all lords. This is what’s going to be, but what now? 主耶穌叫做: 萬王之王, 萬主之主, 甚麼意思? 將來如此, 現 在如何?

Worship in Heaven 天上的敬拜 11我又看見且聽見，寶座與活物並長老的周圍有許多天使的聲 音；他們的數目有千千萬萬，12大聲說：曾被殺的羔羊是配得 權柄、豐富、智慧、能力、尊貴、榮耀、頌讚的。【啟 5:11~12】 11Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. 12In a loud voice they sang: "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!" 【Rev 5:11~12】

Are you aware? 你知道嗎? 2豈不知聖徒要審判世界麼？若世界為你們所審，難道你 們不配審判這最小的事麼？3豈不知我們要審判天使麼？ 何況今生的事呢？4既是這樣，你們若有今生的事當審判， 是派教會所輕看的人審判麼？【林前 6:2~4】 2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church! 【1Cor 6:2~4】

28我在磨煉之中，常和我同在的就是你們。29我將國賜給 你們，正如我父賜給我一樣，30叫你們在我國裡，坐在我 的席上吃喝，並且坐在寶座上，審判以色列十二個支派。 【路 22:28~30】 28You are those who have stood by me in my trials. 29And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, 30so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 【Luke 22:28~30】

Revelation/啟示錄 2:18-29 18你要寫信給推雅推喇教會的使者，說：那眼目如火焰、 腳像光明銅的神之子說：19我知道你的行為、愛心、信 心、勤勞、忍耐，又知道你末後所行的善事，比起初所 行的更多。 18"To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. 19I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

Revelation/啟示錄 2:18-29 20然而，有一件事我要責備你，就是你容讓那自稱是先知的婦 人耶洗別教導我的僕人，引誘他們行姦淫，吃祭偶像之物。21 我曾給他悔改的機會，他卻不肯悔改他的淫行。22看哪，我要 叫他病臥在床。那些與他行淫的人，若不悔改所行的，我也要 叫他們同受大患難。20Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. 21I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. 22So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.

Revelation/啟示錄 2:18-29 23我又要殺死他的黨類（黨類原文作兒女），叫眾教會知道， 我是那察看人肺腑心腸的，並要照你們的行為報應你們各 人。24至於你們推雅推喇其餘的人，就是一切不從那教訓、不 曉得他們素常所說撒但深奧之理的人，我告訴你們，我不將 別的擔子放在你們身上。23I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. 24Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you):

Revelation/啟示錄 2:18-29 25但你們已經有的，總要持守，直等到我來。26那得勝又遵守 我命令到底的，我要賜給他權柄制伏列國；27他必用鐵杖轄管 他們（轄管：原文作牧），將他們如同窯戶的瓦器打得粉碎， 像我從我父領受的權柄一樣。28我又要把晨星賜給他。29聖靈 向眾教會所說的話，凡有耳的，就應當聽！25Only hold on to what you have until I come. 26To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations-- 27'He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery' -- just as I have received authority from my Father. 28I will also give him the morning star. 29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

I. The Faith—Church will have power over the world. 信心—教會最終會戰勝世界的權柄. A. Imagery of Daniel 但以理書的圖像 “the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.” “那眼目如同火焰, 腳像光明 銅之子的”

Daniel/但以理書 10:1-6 1波斯王古列第三年，有事顯給稱為伯提沙撒的但以理。這事是 真的，是指著大爭戰；但以理通達這事，明白這異象。2當那 時，我─但以理悲傷了三個七日 . . .我在底格里斯大河邊，5舉目 觀看，見有一人身穿細麻衣，腰束烏法精金帶。6他身體如水蒼 玉，面貌如閃電，眼目如火把，手和腳如光明的銅，說話的聲 音如大眾的聲音。1In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a revelation was given to Daniel (who was called Belteshazzar). Its message was true and it concerned a great war. . . I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. . . . . as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris, 5I looked up and there before me was a man . . . his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze,

I. The Faith—Church will have power over the world. 信心—教會最終會戰勝世界的權柄. B. Imagery of Psalm 2 詩篇2篇的圖像 Messianic Psalm-the future rule of the Son彌賽亞詩篇-將來 人子的治理.

Psalm 詩篇 2:7-9 7受膏者說：我要傳聖旨。耶和華曾對我說：你是我的兒 子，我今日生你。8你求我，我就將列國賜你為基業，將 地極賜你為田產。9你必用鐵杖打破他們；你必將他們如 同窯匠的瓦器摔碎。 7I will proclaim the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my Son ; today I have become your Father. 8Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. 9You will rule them with an iron scepter ; you will dash them to pieces like pottery."

Revelation 啟示錄 2:25-27 25但你們已經有的，總要持守，直等到我來。26那得勝又 遵守我命令到底的，我要賜給他權柄制伏列國；27他必用 鐵杖轄管他們（轄管：原文作牧），將他們如同窯戶的 瓦器打得粉碎，像我從我父領受的權柄一樣。 25Only hold on to what you have until I come. 26To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations-- 27'He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery' -- just as I have received authority from my Father.

II. Attitude—Shun away from Jezebel 態度—躲開耶洗別 Jezebel-The evil way of struggling for Power. 耶洗別-爭奪國 度權柄的邪惡力量. A. A. Jezebel has outward religious garment and drinks the blood of the saints. 耶洗別有敬虔的外衣, 但是生飲聖徒的 血.

7王后耶洗別對亞哈說：你現在是治理以色列國不是？只管起 來，心裡暢暢快快地吃飯，我必將耶斯列人拿伯的葡萄園給 你。8於是託亞哈的名寫信，用王的印印上，送給那些與拿伯同 城居住的長老貴冑。9信上寫著說：你們當宣告禁食，叫拿伯坐 在民間的高位上，10又叫兩個匪徒坐在拿伯對面，作見證告他 說：你謗瀆　 神和王了；隨後就把他拉出去用石頭打死。【王 上 21:7~10】 7Jezebel his wife said, "Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I'll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." 8So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth's city with him. 9In those letters she wrote: "Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people. 10But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death." 【1King 21:7~10】

II. Attitude—Shun away from Jezebel 態度—躲開耶洗別 Jezebel-The evil way of struggling for Power. 耶洗別-爭奪國 度權柄的邪惡力量. B. Jezebel gave the descendants godly names but corrupt innards. 耶洗別給孩子敬虔的名字, 但是腐敗的內心.

Jezebel’s 3 children 耶洗別的三個孩子 Ahaziah/亞哈謝 Joram/約蘭 (contracted from Jehoram) Athaliah/亞他利雅

Jezebel’s 3 children 耶洗別的三個孩子 Ahaziah/亞哈謝: Yahweh has grasped (sustained) 耶和華抓 住/支持 Joram/約蘭 (contracted from Jehoram): Yahweh is exalted 耶 和華應被高舉 Athaliah/亞他利雅: Yahweh is exalted 耶和華應被高舉

II. Attitude—Shun away from Jezebel 態度—躲開耶洗別 Jezebel-The evil way of struggling for Power. 耶洗別-爭奪國 度權柄的邪惡力量. C. Same is the Adulterous Woman of Babylon這是巴比倫的 大淫婦的寫照

Revelation 啟示錄 17:1-6 1拿著七碗的七位天使中，有一位前來對我說：你到這裡來，我 將坐在眾水上的大淫婦所要受的刑罰指給你看。2地上的君王與 他行淫，住在地上的人喝醉了他淫亂的酒。3我被聖靈感動，天 使帶我到曠野去，我就看見一個女人騎在朱紅色的獸上；那獸有 七頭十角，遍體有褻瀆的名號。1One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. 2With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries." 3Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 啟示錄 17:1-6 4那女人穿著紫色和朱紅色的衣服，用金子、寶石、珍珠為妝飾； 手拿金杯，杯中盛滿了可憎之物，就是他淫亂的污穢。5在他額 上有名寫著說：奧祕哉！大巴比倫，作世上的淫婦和一切可憎之 物的母。6我又看見那女人喝醉了聖徒的血和為耶穌作見證之人 的血。我看見他，就大大的希奇。4The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5This title was written on her forehead: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

The Beast = Anti-Christ 獸 = 敵基督 The adulterous woman = the religious institution that collaborates with the political system of anti-Christ. 淫婦 = 和敵基督的政治力量合作的宗教體系. Waters = people that controlled by Jezebel type of religion. 眾水 = 被耶洗別宗教力量控制的百姓.

Revelaton 啟示錄 17:15 15天使又對我說，你所看見那淫婦坐的眾水，就是多民、 多人、多國、多方。15Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.

Church ≠ 教會 ≠

Church ≠ Jezebel 教會 ≠ 耶洗別

Church ≠ Jezebel ≠ Adulterous Woman 教會 ≠ 耶洗別 ≠ 大淫婦

II. Attitude—Shun away from Jezebel 態度—躲開耶洗別 Jezebel-The evil way of struggling for Power. 耶洗別-爭奪國 度權柄的邪惡力量. D. Jesus will punish this kind of adultery with sickness, suffering and death. 耶穌用生病, 患難, 死亡來處罰這樣子的罪.

Conclusion 結論 Morning Star 晨星 =

Conclusion 結論 Morning Star 晨星 = Beauty, Owning Power 美麗, 擁有權柄.

Jesus 耶穌 16我─耶穌差遣我的使者為眾教會將這些事向你們證明。 我是大衛的根，又是他的後裔。我是明亮的晨星。【啟 22:16】 16"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star." 【Rev 22:16】 Satan撒但 12明亮之星，早晨之子啊，你何竟從天墜落？你這攻敗列 國的何竟被砍倒在地上？【賽 14:12】 12How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 【Isa 14:12】

28我又要把晨星賜給他。29聖靈向眾教會所說的話，凡有 耳的，就應當聽！【啟 2:28~29】 28I will also give him the morning star. 29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 【Rev 2:28~29】