哈巴谷書 2:14 認識耶和華榮耀的知識要充滿遍地，好像水充滿洋海一般。
讀經文: 哈巴谷書 2:9-14
9 為本家積蓄不義之財，在高處搭窩，指望免災的有禍了！ 10 你圖謀剪除多國的民，犯了罪，使你的家蒙羞，自害己命。 11 牆裡的石頭必呼叫，房內的棟梁必應聲。12 以人血建城，以罪孽立邑的有禍了！
哈巴谷向神發出兩個問題：第一個問題： 為什麼神不懲罰惡人 （1:1-4）？神說，要派迦勒底人來懲罰猶大。哈巴谷對神的回答不滿意，又問了第二個問題，想到迦勒底人的凶殘和暴虐，他反過來要捍衛猶大子民，反對神透過迦勒底人將帶來的嚴酷審判。但是神回答哈巴谷，不管神的審判是用怎樣的方法，全世界的人只有一種保存自己性命的方法，那就是義人因信得生。
哈巴谷從異象中指出了迦勒底人也在神的審判之中，並指出其中的五禍，也可以算是五罪。第一禍是給醉酒的和掠奪的 (2:5)：迦勒底人因酒詭詐、狂傲，不住在家中，擴充心欲好像陰間。他如死不能知足，聚集萬國，堆積萬民，都歸自己。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Hosea 9:1-17. Let’s go!
Hosea 9:1-17 (NIV)
1 Do not rejoice, O Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them.
3 They will not remain in the LORD’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, nor will their sacrifices please him. Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat them will be unclean. This food will be for themselves; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.
However, as we hear about over and over in the book of Hosea, the Israelites lived in persistent rebellion against God and repeatedly broke God’s heart.
God’s broken heart is not the only result of the Israelites’ rebellion. As Pastor Jon Courson wisely notes, Hosea 9 shows us a number of problems that the Israelites would experience as a result of continually rebelling against God. These are the same problems we experience when we keep ignoring or forgetting about God.
哈巴谷書 2:4 迦勒底人自高自大，心不正直，唯義人因信得生。
讀經文: 哈巴谷書 2:1-8
1我要站在守望所，立在望樓上觀看，看耶和華對我說什麼話，我可用什麼話向他訴冤。 2 他對我說：「將這默示明明地寫在版上，使讀的人容易讀。 3 因為這默示有一定的日期，快要應驗，並不虛謊。雖然遲延，還要等候，因為必然臨到，不再遲延。
〈哈巴谷書〉雖然只有三章，但是它裡面有一些經文都是經常被引用，被人看重的，所以我們要分別來看它們的重要性，好好地理解它們。在今天這段短短的經文裡，你猜得到哪一節是中心經節嗎？我想你一定猜到了，因為它就是今天的標題：唯義人因信得生。
使徒保羅用這節經文寫信給羅馬的教會，也寫給加拉太的教會；〈希伯來書〉的作者也引用這節經文。〈羅馬書〉1:17“因為神的義正在這福音上顯明出來，這義是本於信以至於信，如經上所記：‘義人必因信得生’。” 〈加拉太書〉3:11“沒有一個人靠著律法在神面前稱義，這是明顯的，因為經上說：‘義人必因信得生’。” 〈希伯來書〉10:38“只是義人必因信得生；他若退後，我心裡就不喜歡他。”
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Hosea 8:1-14. Let’s go!
Hosea 8:1-14 (NIV)
1 “Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
2 Israel cries out to me, ‘O our God, we acknowledge you!’
3 But Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.
4 They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.
On verses 1-14: In these verses, Hosea gives his people a word of warning for breaking their covenant with God and rebelling against His law (v1). The images in verse 1 of sounding a trumpet and an eagle hovering over the house of the Lord are meant to communicate a sense of urgency and warning.
What does it mean when verse 7 says, “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind”? In this case “the wind” represents vain pursuits, anything that doesn’t have any eternal value. When I sow the wind, it means I’m chasing after vain things that don’t last. Are you sowing the wind?
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Hosea 7:1-16. Let’s go!
Hosea 7:1-2 (NIV)
1 “Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people, whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets;
2 but they do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always before me.
On verses 1-2: These verses describe how every time God would restore and heal Israel, Israel (also known as Ephraim) would take God’s mercy for granted and go back to its same old sins again. Examples of those sins include deceit, thievery, robbery (v1), lying (v3), adultery (v4), and one more sin we will describe below.
哈巴谷書 1:3a 祢為何使我看見罪孽？祢為何看著奸惡而不理呢？
讀經文: 哈巴谷書 1:1-17
1先知哈巴谷所得的默示。
2 他說：耶和華啊，我呼求你，你不應允，要到幾時呢？我因強暴哀求你，你還不拯救。 3 你為何使我看見罪孽？你為何看著奸惡而不理呢？毀滅和強暴在我面前，又起了爭端和相鬥的事。 4 因此律法放鬆，公理也不顯明。惡人圍困義人，所以公理顯然顛倒。
〈哈巴谷書〉列在〈那鴻書〉之後，這兩卷小先知書的性質很相似，都說到神對祂子民的仇敵之審判。〈那鴻書〉預言亞述的結局，〈哈巴谷書〉預言迦勒底（巴比倫）的結局。本書中對作者的交代甚少，但是從本書的最後一節說：“這歌交於伶長，用絲弦的樂器”，可以猜測他可能是個祭司或利未人，在聖殿裡以音樂服侍，並且住在猶大，因為聖殿在耶路撒冷。從本章第一節可以知道，他本身也有先知的職份。
哈巴谷此名含有“擁抱”的意義，“擁抱”同時也包含“抓住”，像雅各一樣，緊緊地抓住神的使者，不給祝福就不讓離開；哈巴谷則是緊緊地抓住神，要神解答他的疑問。人很有限，很多問題得不到解答，有的答案還引人入歧途，迷失方向。所以能抓住神問問題的人最有福，因為神的答案才能滿足人心的饑渴，使人尋到人生的方向。
那鴻書 3:18 亞述王啊，你的牧人睡覺，你的貴胄安歇，你的人民散在山間無人招聚。
讀經文: 那鴻書 3:1-19
1禍哉，這流人血的城！充滿謊詐和強暴，搶奪的事總不止息。 2 鞭聲響亮，車輪轟轟，馬匹踢跳，車輛奔騰， 3 馬兵爭先，刀劍發光，槍矛閃爍，被殺的甚多，屍首成了大堆，屍骸無數，人碰著而跌倒； 4 都因那美貌的妓女多有淫行，慣行邪術，藉淫行誘惑列國，用邪術誘惑多族。
在先知那鴻預言後大約八年，亞述的命定就來到了無法挽回的地步。主前681年，希西家年間，西拿基立王從耶路撒冷幾乎是空身敗退，含羞回國後被他叛逆的兒子刺殺；他兒子以撒哈頓繼位（Esarhaddon）（以賽亞書37:36-38），從叛徒手中奪回了尼尼微城，遷都至迦拉城，並另建宮殿。
以撒哈頓王雖居住在迦拉城，他的兒子亞述尼帕（Assurbanipal），卻在尼尼微城，他在那裏接受教育，包括體能及軍事訓練。此人對亞述的古文化發生興趣，成為一位出色的古物研究家，熟悉亞甲和蘇默文。亞述尼帕繼位作王，在宮中建立當時最大圖書館，收藏有關亞述的書籍和文獻。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Hosea 6:1-11. Let’s go!
Hosea 6:1-2 (NIV)
1 “Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.
2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
On verses 1-2: In chapter 5 Hosea had prophesied that God would punish the nation of Israel for their sins, and now in chapter 6, Hosea urges the nation of Israel to return to the LORD. He says “He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.” Why would you go to the very person who has torn you to pieces for healing; why would you go to the very person who injured you to be restored? You would only do so if you believed that somehow that person (1) had a good purpose in bringing the injury; and (2) is able to heal you. So here we see Hosea’s faith in both the goodness of God’s heart and the ability of God’s healing, restoring power. Hosea urges the people to come back to God, believing that God had a good purpose in allowing their punishment and was just, fair and wise in executing that punishment. He urges the people to come back to God, believing that God is fully able to restore and revive them.
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Hosea 5:1-15. Let’s go!
Hosea 5:1-7 (NIV)
1 “Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, O royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.
2 The rebels are deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them.
3 I know all about Ephraim; Israel is not hidden from me. Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution; Israel is corrupt.
4 “Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the LORD.
On verses 1-7: Hosea brings a message from the LORD to the priests and all of Israel (v1). Calling Israel by the nickname Ephraim, the message is that Israel’s sins and corruption are not hidden from God (v3). Because of their deeds and their failure to acknowledge God, Israel cannot return to God (v4). The Israelites have in them “a spirit of prostitution” (v4), the LORD says.
那鴻書 2:10 尼尼微現在空虛荒涼，人心消化，雙膝相碰，腰都疼痛，臉都變色。
讀經文: 那鴻書 2:1-13
1尼尼微啊，那打碎邦國的上來攻擊你，你要看守保障，謹防道路，使腰強壯，大大勉力。 2 耶和華復興雅各的榮華，好像以色列的榮華一樣，因為使地空虛的已經使雅各和以色列空虛，將他們的葡萄枝毀壞了。 3 他勇士的盾牌是紅的，精兵都穿朱紅衣服。在他預備爭戰的日子，戰車上的鋼鐵閃爍如火，柏木把的槍也掄起來了。
在耶穌復活之後，有個出名的，有關以馬忤斯的故事。這件事發生在耶穌復活那天的傍晚，有兩個耶穌的門徒，從耶路撒冷朝著以馬忤斯而去，這地方離耶路撒冷約有25里路，他們在談論耶穌受害和復活一事時，耶穌靠近他們，參與了他們的談話，並引經據典地向他們解釋。在一起要吃晚餐時，他們才認出那是耶穌。耶穌隨即不見了。他們則心裡火熱地回去告訴其餘的門徒，他們見到了復活的主。
當這幾位門徒行走時，他們渾然不知主正與他們同行。就好像我們當中也有許多人，在生活裡也渾然不覺主的同在。何況是尼尼微人？他們當年只聽到約拿的一句話就悔改，雖然知道有神在鑑察，可是日子一久，這樣的警告之威力就逐漸消失了。我們對神的話語是否也有這樣的感覺？
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