12月16日在惊人危机的边缘
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十二月十六日在惊人危机的边缘
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On the Edge of a Stupendous Crisis, December 16
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“哀哉！耶和华的日子临近了。这日来到，好像毁灭从全能者来到”（珥1:15）。{LHU364.1}
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Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Joel 1:15. {LHU 364.1}
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今日的时兆说明我们已经临到重大而严肃事件出现的关头。我们世上的每一件事都在大大地动荡着。救主所说在祂复临之前必定发生的事，已经实现在我们的眼前：“你们也要听见打仗和打仗的风声，......民要攻打民，国要攻打国，多处必有饥荒、地震”（太24:6-7）。{LHU364.2}
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Today the signs of the times declare that we are standing on the threshold of great and solemn events. Everything in our world is in agitation. Before our eyes is fulfilling the Saviour’s prophecy of the events to precede His coming: “Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars.... Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places” (Matthew 24:6, 7). {LHU 364.2}
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现时代对于一切生活在世上的人乃是一个极有意义的时代。许多国家的领袖和政治家，负有重责握有大权的人，以及各阶层的有心人士，都在凝神注意那在我们四围发生的大事。他们很注意当前的国际形势。他们看到每一个属世的势力都呈现着非常紧张的状态，所以他们都看出将有重大而决定性的大事发生──全世界已经临到一个惊人的危机。{LHU364.3}
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The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, thinking men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the events taking place about us. They are watching the relations that exist among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession of every earthly element, and they recognize that something great and decisive is about to take place—that the world is on the verge of a stupendous crisis. {LHU 364.3}
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惟有圣经的教训能帮助我们对这些事实得到正确的认识。圣经预先指出世界历史最后几幕的重大事件，这些事件已经有影儿投到前面，而且他们的来临使全地震动，以致人“都吓得魂不附体”。{LHU364.4}
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The Bible, and the Bible only, gives a correct view of these things. Here are revealed the great final scenes in the history of our world, events that already are casting their shadows before, the sound of their approach causing the earth to tremble and men’s hearts to fail them for fear. {LHU 364.4}
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“看哪，耶和华使地空虚，变为荒凉；又翻转大地，将居民分散，......因为他们犯了律法，废了律例，背了永约。”（赛24:1-5）。……{LHU364.5}
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“Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty.... The earth ... is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant” (Isaiah 24:1-5).... {LHU 364.5}
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“我心疼痛！......我不能静默不言，因为我已经听见角声和打仗的喊声。毁坏的信息连络不绝，因为全地荒废”（耶4:19-20）。……{LHU364.6}
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“I am pained at my very heart; ... I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled” (Jeremiah 4:19, 20).... {LHU 364.6}
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“耶和华是我的避难所。你已将至高者当你的居所，祸患必不临到你，灾害也不挨近你的帐棚”（诗91:9-10）。……{LHU364.7}
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“Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge,Even the most High, thy habitation;There shall no evil befall thee,Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling” (Psalm 91:9, 10).... {LHU 364.7}
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上帝决不会在教会最危险的时辰丢弃她。祂已经应许要解救她。祂说：“我必使雅各被掳去的帐棚归回，也必顾惜他的住处”（耶30:18）。{LHU364.8}
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God will not fail His church in the hour of her greatest peril. He has promised deliverance. “I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents,” He has declared, “and have mercy on his dwelling places” (Jeremiah 30:18). {LHU 364.8}
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那时上帝的旨意就必成全；祂国度的原则也必被天下万民所尊重。（PK536-538).{LHU364.9}
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Then will the purpose of God be fulfilled; the principles of His kingdom will be honored by all beneath the sun (Prophets and Kings, 536-538). {LHU 364.9}