於2017-12-31發佈


回顧 2017年 
雷克喬納(Rick Joyner)

謝謝您一同加入研讀啟示錄的旅程,明年我們將繼續此研讀,我們正要探討到最令人興奮的一些部分,許多內容對於我們時代將展開之事,給予極大的清晰度。然而,我想要用今年最後一篇的每週一話,當作來年的特別信息。 

不會再有另一個2017年,許多人為此感恩,並預備開始新的一年,但2017年是奇妙可畏的一年。每一個年頭都是給那些愛神與按祂旨意蒙召的人,主應許將萬事變為美善。  

正如哥林多前書十章11節告訴我們,他們遭遇這些事,都要作為鑑戒;並且寫在經上,正是警戒我們這末世的人。』以色列在曠野所經歷的每個試煉,都是每位信徒要進入應許之地─實現他們應許必須經歷的先知性地圖。他們所面對的第一個主要試煉是在『瑪拉的水』或苦水。以色列要進入他們應許之地必須學習的第一件事,就是如何將苦水變甜,或將每一個他們所忍受的壞事變為好事。我們也必須做相同的事。 

要以對的方式開始2018年,我們需要為2017年與在其中所發生的每件事感謝主─包括好事與對我們有益之事。倘若我們繼續朝著應許之地前進,也就是神給予我們要實現的應許,我們必須將每一個苦事變甜。 

每一年,我會寄一封信給我們的國際出版商。下面的內容是摘錄這封信的一部份,我覺得也很合適給我們每一個人:  

當我們回顧每一年時,我們似乎都會說今年比去年更有趣,更富挑戰性。正如我許多年前開始說的,這樣的事將持續下去─也就是說每一年都將是傳福音的更大機會! 

福音就是『好消息』,是世界曾聽過或將聽到的最好消息。我們被給予一個更大的盼望,超越任何其他宗教或哲學。現在我們是世界盼望的主要提供者,很快將成為唯一提供者。正如我們在以賽亞書60章與其他預言所看見的,當黑暗遮蓋大地,主的榮耀將顯現在祂子民身上。正如我們在以賽亞書60章3節所讀到的,萬國要來就光,光將得勝!我們絕不要忘記,當黑暗增加時,我們應該更受到鼓舞─因為我們越來越靠近主將顯現的榮耀。 

我的目的,與晨星事工的一個主要目的,是明白時候,明白神在做什麼,為著此時來預備祂的子民。我們尋求協助此預備的一個主要方式,是為著大收割來預備我們自己,目前已經展開。為此預備的主要方式是讓教會成為她所蒙召聖潔、沒有皺紋的新婦,是我們的王所配得的。教會成為她所蒙召的樣式是大收割的主要關鍵,這也是我們此生所能擁有崇高呼召的關鍵─協助預備萬王之王的新婦。 

在過去兩個月,我有兩個到目前為止最浩大的先知性啟示。每個都大到我覺得一生都不夠來消化。主向我顯示這兩大異象與『永恆的福音』有關。我過去一直以為簡單的福音為著永恆不斷被講述,但現在我看見耶穌基督的福音浩大到一個地步,我們將在永恆裡學習與其有關的事,並不斷為此著迷。在所有的創作中,沒有其他主題比我們被呼召來出版的東西更有趣與浩大,我們怎能不熱愛這樣的工作呢? 

我為您今年的禱告是『在祂的呼召中』成長─那盼望與異象將成為您今年的特餐,無論您去到哪裡,並透過一切您所出版與分派的事物,來傳遞給別人。 

這也是我為閱讀每週一話所有讀者的禱告,我禱告您的盼望與異象將倍增,您將受其感染,無論您去到哪裡,都傳遞著要來之王的盼望與異象。  

 (摘自喬納 word for the week, Week52, 2017)

 

2017 In Review

Week 52, 2017
Rick Joyner

        Thank you for joining us on this journey of studying the Book of Revelation. We will continue this study next year as we are just getting into some of the most exciting parts of it, many of which give great clarity on what is unfolding in our times. However, I like to use the last WFTW of the year as a special message for the coming year. 

         There will never be another 2017. Many are thankful for that and are ready to start another year, but 2017 was an awesome year. Every year is for those who love God and are called according to His purpose. He has promised to turn all things into good. 

As we are told in I Corinthians 10:11, which speaks of the things that happened to Israel in the wilderness, “Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.” Every trial that Israel went through in the wilderness was a prophetic map of what every believer must go through to get to their promised land—the fulfillment of their promises. The first major trial they faced was at “the waters of Mira,” or the waters of bitterness. The first thing Israel had to learn if they were going to make it to their promised land was how to turn the bitter waters into sweet, or how to turn every bad thing they endured into a good thing. We must do the same. 

         To begin 2018 the right way, we need to thank the Lord for 2017 and everything that happened to us in it—both the good and the other that will work for our good. Every bitter thing must be turned into sweetness if we are to continue toward our promised land, the fulfillment of the promises we’ve been given. 

         Each year, I send a letter to our international publishers. The following are excerpts from this letter that I feel is for all of us: 

         Every year it seems that we look back and say that the current year was more interesting and challenging than the previous one. As I began to say many years ago, this will continue—meaning that every year is a greater opportunity for the Gospel. 

The Gospel is “good news.” It is the best news the world has ever heard or ever will hear. We have been given a hope greater than any other religion or philosophy. We are now the main purveyors of hope for the world, and soon we will be the only ones. As we see in Isaiah 60 and other prophecies, when darkness covers the earth, the Lord’s glory will appear on His people. As we read in verse 3 of that text, the nations will then come to the light. The light will win! We must never forget that, and we should become even more encouraged as darkness grows--we are closer to the glory of the Lord being revealed. 

  My purpose, and a main purpose of MorningStar, is to know the times and what God is doing to prepare His people for the times. A main way we seek to help this preparation is to prepare ourselves for the great harvest, which is already unfolding. The main way to prepare for this is for the church to become the pure, spotless bride that she is called to be--and that our King deserves. The church becoming all it is called to be is a main key to the harvest. It is also a key to the highest calling we have in this life—helping to prepare the King’s bride. 

In the last two months, I have had two of the most expansive prophetic revelations I have had yet. Each was so expansive that I felt that a lifetime would not be long enough to process them. I was then shown that they are linked to the “eternal Gospel.” I always thought this was the simple Gospel being recounted for eternity, but now I see that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is so expansive that we will be learning about it, and be perpetually fascinated by it, for eternity. No other subject in all of creation is as interesting and expansive as that which we are called to publish. How can we not love this job? 

My prayer for you this year is that you grow “in the hope of His calling”--that hope and vision would be a special diet for you this year, and that you convey it to others wherever you go and through all that you publish and distribute. 

This is also my prayer for all of you doing this study. I pray that hope and vision will be multiplied to you and that you will be contagious with it, spreading hope and vision in the coming King wherever you go. 

Rick Joyner