以世代來思想─啟示錄

我們繼續來研讀主對別迦摩教會的話語，主高舉此教會住在『撒但座位之處』。在別迦摩真的有一座巴力的祭壇，就叫做『撒但的寶座』。在三零年代，德國的考古學家挖掘到此祭壇，將它移至柏林，如今仍放在別迦摩博物館。有趣的是，納粹就在此祭壇被移至柏林的同一年在德國當權，許多基督徒不認為那是出於巧合。瞭解此祭壇可以幫助我們瞭解撒但所使用的主要能力。 

此巴力的祭壇特別被使用來獻活人為祭，多半是孩童。下面的圖片是我在別迦摩博物館所拍到其中一張巴力祭壇的照片，被稱為『撒但的寶座』。當天稍晚，我經過那博物館，驚訝地看到階梯上充滿孩子卻完全沒有大人陪同。我知道這是一個先知性圖畫，說明孩子仍如何被獻祭給假神巴力。

 

儘管今日在撒但教的儀式中仍有一些獻活人為祭的事情，感謝主並不是像圖中所看到如此大規模、需要獻上更多活祭的祭壇。然而，我們的孩童與青少年實際上正大量被獻祭，透過允許一些殺害他們屬靈心靈的文化入侵，在許多情況中也殺害了他們的身體。我們需要瞭解巴力的崇拜，以及其如何在我們的時代彰顯。

想一想：美國政府擁有由國會和總統所建立各種不同種類或主題的委員會；然而，卻沒有針對孩童的美國政府委員會。因著墮胎，現在對一個孩子最危險的地方就是子宮，那些得以存活的孩子將面對不同的殺戮，包括毒品、性奴、學校不斷上升的暴力，還有學校所教導殺害他們屬靈心靈的事物。許多在學校存活的人，接著就要面對住家附近接連不斷的危險。

我們很感謝拯救瀕臨絕種生物的需要，但我們自己的孩子也在如此上升的危險中，他們是何等被忽視到連討論孩童議題的委員會都沒有？這大大顯明身為人類，我們的心思意念究竟在哪裡。當主說祂是亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的神，祂便在陳述祂是每個世代的神。倘若我們要擁有祂的心思意念，我們也需要以每個世代來思想，尤其是要來的世代。

以世代來思想其中一個最大的阻礙，就是1844年復臨運動以來所發展出來的一些末世論，其讓每一個世代都認為他們是主再回來的最後一個世代。這種想法促使教會沒有策略與異象計畫未來，也沒照我們所應當的來為我們的兒女預備。當我們得著可以也應當影響我們末世論的歷史觀點時，─我們看見神將揭開的計畫─我們看見我們在哪裡，接下來是什麼，好讓我們可以有效為未來預備，甚至連最後一代都會從中受益。

 (摘自喬納 word for the week,Week27, 2016)

 
Thinking Generationally—The Book of Revelation
Weeky 27, 2016
Rick Joyner

         Continuing our study of the Lord’s word to the church at Pergamos, the Lord acknowledged that this church dwelt at the place of “Satan’s throne.” Pergamos had a literal altar to the god Baal called “Satan’s throne.” In the 1930s, German archeologists excavated this altar and moved it to Berlin where it still resides in the Pergamon Museum. Interestingly, the Nazis came to power in Germany the same year this altar was moved to Berlin, and many Christians there do not consider this a coincidence. Understanding this altar can help us understand a major power that Satan uses.

         This altar to Baal was used especially for human sacrifice. Most of these sacrifices were children. The following picture is one I took of the altar called “Satan’s throne” in the Pergamon Museum. Later that day, I walked past it and was astonished to see the steps filled with children without adults at all. I knew this was a prophetic picture of how children are still being sacrificed to the false god of Baal.

 

         Even though some human sacrifice goes on today in cultic satanic rituals, thankfully there is not a massive altar like this one set up where such sacrifices are being done on a large scale. However, our children and youth are actually being sacrificed on a much larger scale by what we have allowed into the culture that kills them spiritually, and in many cases, naturally. We need to understand Baal worship and how it manifests in our time.  

         Consider this: The U.S. government has councils established by Congress and the President on just about every obscure species or subject. However, there is no U.S. government council on children. This is at a time when the most dangerous place for a child is the womb because of abortion. Those who survive to be born must run an unprecedented onslaught targeting them with drugs, sex slavery, increasing violence in schools as well as what is taught in the schools that kills them spiritually. Many who survive the day at school then face constant danger in their neighborhoods.

         We can appreciate the need for saving endangered species, but when our own children are in such increasing danger, how has it been overlooked to at least have a council to discuss this? This is very revealing about where our hearts and minds really are as a people. When the Lord said that He was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, He was stating that He is the God of every generation. If we are to have His mind and heart then we too must think of every generation, especially those yet to come.

         One of the great hindrances to thinking generationally has been the development of some eschatology since the 1844 Advent Movement. These have had every generation thinking that they were the last before the return of the Lord. This has kept the church from planning with strategy and vision for the future, and for preparing our children for it, as we should. As we gain a historical perspective that can and should influence our eschatology—and we see the unfolding plan of God—we see where we are and what is next so that we can effectively prepare for the future. Even the last generation will benefit from this.