开朗的宗教-第358章

  12月23日 伊甸乐园的恢复

开朗的宗教-第358章

  The Garden of Eden, December 23

开朗的宗教-第358章

  “耶和华已经安慰锡安和锡安一切的荒场，使旷野像伊甸，使沙漠像邪和华的园囿；在其中必有欢喜、快乐、感谢和歌唱的声音”（赛51:3）。[1]

开朗的宗教-第358章

  The Lord shall comfort Zion: He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord? joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.Isaiah 51:3.{RRe 359.1}[1]

开朗的宗教-第358章

  人类被赶出乐园之后，伊甸还留在地上一段很长的时期。（见创4:16）堕落的人类仍得瞻望那无罪的家乡，只是进口之处有天使把守着。上帝的荣耀仍显现在有基路伯守护的乐园门口。亚当和他的子孙常来到这里敬拜上帝。他们在这里重新立约要遵守上帝的律法。他们被赶出伊甸园原是因着违犯了这律法。及至罪恶的洪流充斥全地，世人的罪恶决定了他们被洪水毁灭的厄运时，当初栽植伊甸园的上帝就把它从地上收回去了。但到了复兴的日子，当新天新地出现的时候，伊甸必要恢复，装饰得比起初更加美丽。[2]

开朗的宗教-第358章

  The garden of Eden remained upon the earth long after man had become an outcast from its pleasant paths. The fallen race were long permitted to gaze upon the home of innocence, their entrance barred only by the watching angels. At the cherubim guarded gate of Paradise the divine glory was revealed. Hither came Adam and his sons to worship God. Here they renewed their vows of obedience to that law the transgression of which had banished them from Eden. When the tide of iniquity overspread the world, and the wickedness of men determined their destruction by a flood of waters, the hand that had planted Eden withdrew it from the earth. But in the final restitution, when there shall be “a new heaven and a new earth,” it is to be restored more gloriously adorned than at the beginning.{RRe 359.2}[2]

开朗的宗教-第358章

  那时，凡遵守上帝诫命的人必要从生命树上摘取果子。(见启2:7;21:1;22:14)而且千秋万世，那些无罪的居民必可在乐园中看到上帝完全的创造之工的样本，其中毫无罪恶和咒诅的影响。这也就说明，起初人类若履行了创造主的荣耀计划，全地所呈现的光景是何等佳美。（PP 62）[3]

开朗的宗教-第358章

  Then they that have kept God’s commandments shall breathe in immortal vigor beneath the tree of life; and through unending ages the inhabitants of sinless worlds shall behold, in that garden of delight a sample of the perfect work of God’s creation, untouched by the curse of sin,—a sample of what the whole earth would have become, had man but fulfilled the Creator’s glorious plan.—Patriarchs and Prophets, 62.{RRe 359.3}[3]

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