神榮耀同在 shekinah

三年讀經

2010年4月16日 星期五
以西結42:15-43:27

草戊尚土靈修俱樂部

THE RETURN OF THE GLORY OF GOD’S PRESENCE (SHEKINAH) TO TEMPLE THROUGH EASTERN GATEWAY
VS
MESSIAH’S GLORIOUS APPEARING

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43:1 那人帶我到朝東的門。
43:2 我看見以色列上帝的榮耀從東方來。他的聲音
         像海浪澎湃；大地因他的榮耀而發出耀眼的光
         輝。
43:3 這個異象跟從前我所看見上帝摧毀耶路撒冷的
         異象和我在迦巴魯河邊所看見的異象一樣。於
         是我俯伏在地上。
43:4 上帝的榮耀通過東門進入聖殿。
43:5 上主的靈把我提起來，領我到內院。在那裏，
         我看見聖殿充滿了主的榮耀。
43:6 那人站在我旁邊；我聽見上主從聖殿裏對我說
         話。
43:7 他說：「必朽的人哪，這地方是我的寶座；我
         要住在以色列人中間，永遠統治他們。以色列
         人和他們的君王都不會再拜偶像或為已死的君
         王立碑而侮辱我的聖名。


神榮耀同在的離開與重返

以西結11:23 描述神的榮耀(THE GLORY OF SHEKINAH)從耶路撒冷城上升,離開聖殿與聖城，停在城東的那座山(橄欖山)，之後第一聖殿遭毀。以西結預言第三聖殿重建造(嚴格講，如希律之第二聖殿不算聖殿，就只有聖殿被毀/聖殿重建)，且神同在之榮光要從橄欖山經東門，回到聖殿。基督教認為這在預言耶穌之再臨。耶穌從橄欖山昇天，祂要再次降臨(Lord’s Glorious Appearing)橄欖山，經東門入將來重建之以西結聖殿，所以東門又稱彌賽亞門(The Messiah's Gate)。東門毀於一世紀羅馬征服耶路撒冷城，第六世紀有人重建，AD1541 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman 把它封閉迄今。

舊約時代神榮耀同在,到新約時代,即為聖靈的同在
Shekinah=Holy Spirit

目前教會重建，建好之後，我們是否期待神的榮光進入聖殿？

The Shekhinah enters the temple!


BACKGROUND

Shekhinah (alternative transliterations Shekinah, Shechinah, Shekina, Shechina, Schechinah, שכינה) is the English spelling of a grammatically feminine Hebrew language word that means the dwelling or settling, and is used to denote the dwelling or settling presence of God (cf. divine presence), especially in the Temple in Jerusalem.

                                 封死的東門


The History of the Eastern Gate

The Eastern Gate is one of eight gates built into the walls which surround the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Eastern Gate provides the only entrance from the East, and it faces the Mount of Olives.

The Eastern Gate was destroyed during the Roman conquest of Jerusalem, and the subsequent destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70, thus fulfilling Christ’s prophecy that there will “not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down” Matthew 24:2 (KJV). Prior to this, the Eastern Gate had never been sealed.

Sometime in the sixth or seventh century, the Byzantines rebuilt the Eastern Gate. The exact year they did so remains a matter of debate. However, for our purposes, what happened after it was rebuilt is of much greater importance. In the year 1541, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I sealed the Eastern Gate. Historians disagree as to why he did this, but legend abound that, learning of the prophecies which predicted the Messiah’s entrance through the Eastern Gate, Suleiman tried his best to make sure it wouldn’t happen during his reign. And just in case a sealed entrance didn’t thwart the Messiah’s coming, Muslims built a cemetery directly in front of the gate – conventional wisdom being that a Jewish Holy man would never defile himself by walking through a Muslim cemetery.

It’s been over 465 years since Suleiman sealed the Eastern Gate, and despite numerous well-documented attempts to open it, the gate has remained sealed just as the Lord proclaimed to Ezekiel over 2,600 years ago.


禱告
 
 
1. 求神藉著聖靈時時與我同在
2. 渴慕神的同在
3. 教會充滿神的同在