天上的權柄─啟示錄

上週我們開始提到『雅各的天梯』就是耶穌，正如我們在約翰福音一章47-50節所讀到的。我們被呼召成為使者，藉由耶穌上到天上領域。此梯子的台階代表耶穌是誰的漸進啟示。我們往上看見祂是我們的救主，當我們知道祂是我們的主，我們上到更高處。我們上去看見祂是好牧人，更上一層知道祂是『使徒與大祭司』，再上一層看見耶穌是創造主與一切受造的原因，正如使徒約翰和保羅所寫的。

希伯來書六章1節告訴我們：『我們應當離開基督道理的開端』，竭力進到完全的地步。這不表示我們離開基督的道理，而是離開小學的開端，以致我們可以繼續基督道理的進深，全都關乎耶穌。我們永不停止更多尋求認識祂、更全然在祂裡面。正如我們是祂身體的成員，我們與祂一同升上天，同坐在祂的寶座上。

正如雅各也看見使者下到梯子，祂的使者下到地上帶來天國真實的證據，而天上的權柄超過地上的任何景況。耶穌行走在地上時曾這麼做，祂與天父緊緊連結，將祂看見父在天上所做的事行在地上。

當耶穌醫治一位瘸腿的，祂可以看見天父在天上所做的事─在那裡沒有瘸腿。倘若天堂觸摸一個地上瘸腿的人，於是天上的權柄就在所有得醫治的瘸腿者之上。同樣地，魔鬼和牠的小鬼已被趕出天堂，所以當天上的權柄觸摸一個地上被鬼附的，裡頭所有的鬼將被趕出。

當耶穌看見人們沒有食物，天上什麼也不缺，所以祂用天上的權柄觸摸了一個小男孩的午餐。藉此觸摸，不但沒有缺乏，反而食物還滿溢出來。一旦您打開天上的門，就會滿溢出來，只因為天堂就是這麼豐富，正如瑪垃基書三章10節告訴我們：

萬軍之耶和華說：你們要將當納的十分之一全然送入倉庫，使我家有糧，以此試試我，是否為你們敞開天上的窗戶，傾福與你們，甚至無處可容。

我們在自己的先知性訓練中會更深教導此，但這是一個非常真實與實際的方式，我們都被呼召成為祂國度的使者。我們每天的目標就是從主寶座的角度來看每個事件，然後尋求看見我們在其中呈現出祂的寶座或權柄。

當我們進入天上的門─我們被邀請『上到這裡來』─我們一定會更清楚看見祂在寶座上。真實的信仰不是一套公式，它不過是單單對耶穌的認識─祂是誰與祂坐在哪裡，遠超過一切掌權、權柄與統治。

真實屬靈的成熟總結於我們有多親近主，以及我們有多連結於祂。我們若連結於祂，我們將在天上與祂同坐在祂的寶座上。那是權柄最高的位子，從與祂連結之處，我們可以『靠著基督，凡事都能做』（參考腓立比書4:13）。

 (摘自喬納 word for the week,Week6, 2017)

 
The Authority of Heaven—The Book of Revelation
Week 6, 2017
Rick Joyner

         Last week we began to address how “Jacob’s Ladder” is Jesus Himself, as we see in John 1:47-50. We are called to be the messengers who ascend on Him into the heavenly realm. The rungs on this Ladder are the progressive revelations of who Jesus is. We go up as we see Him as our Savior. We go higher as we come to know Him as our Lord. We go up when we see Him as the Good Shepherd, and we go higher when we know Him as the “Apostle and High Priest.” We go higher when we see Jesus as the Creator and the reason for the creation, as the Apostles John and Paul wrote.

         Hebrews 6:1 tells us that we are to “leave the elementary teachings about Christ” to go on to maturity. This does not mean we leave the teachings about Christ, but rather the elementary ones so that we can go on to more advanced teachings about Him. It is all about Jesus. We will never stop seeking to know Him better and abide in Him more fully. As we are members of His body, we ascend with Him and sit with Him on His throne in the heavenly places.

         As Jacob also saw the messengers descending upon the Ladder, His messengers descend to the earthly realm to bring evidence of the kingdom of heaven’s reality—and heaven’s authority over any condition on earth. Jesus did this as He walked the earth. He was abiding with the Father and doing on the earth what He saw the Father do in heaven.

         When Jesus healed a cripple, He could see what the Father was doing in heaven—there were no cripples there. If heaven touched a cripple on earth, then heaven’s authority over all healed the cripple here. Likewise, the devil and his demons had been cast out of heaven. So when the authority of heaven touched one who was demon possessed on the earth, the demons would be cast out.

         When He saw the people lacking food, there was no lack of anything in heaven. So He touched the little boy’s lunch with the authority of heaven. By this touch, there was not lack but rather an overflow. Once you open the windows of heaven, there will always be overflow, simply because heaven is bursting with so much. As Malachi 3:10 tells us:

         “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this," says The Lord of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing so that there will not be room enough to receive it” (NKJV).

         We teach about this in more depth in our prophetic training, but this is a very real and practical way we are all called to live as messengers of His kingdom. Our goal every day is to see each event from the perspective of the Lord’s throne. We then seek to see our place in presenting His throne, or authority, in them.

         As we go through the door that is in heaven— we have been invited to “come up here”—we must see Him more clearly on His throne. True faith is not a formula. It is the simple recognition of Jesus—who He is and where He sits above all rule, authority, and dominion.

         True spiritual maturity could be summed up by how close we are to the Lord and how well we abide in Him. If we abide in Him, we will sit with Him on His throne in the heavenly places. That is the highest seat of authority. From the place of abiding in Him, we can “do all things through Christ” (see Philippians 4:13).