第64章 基督我们的大祭司
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第64章 基督我们的大祭司
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Chap. 64—Christ Our Great High Priest
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正确理解天上圣所中的侍奉，是我们信仰的基础。（Ev 221）?{CCh 347.1}[1]
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The correct understanding of the ministration in the heavenly sanctuary is the foundation of our faith.{CCh 347.1}[1]
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地上的圣所乃是摩西照着在山上所指示他的样式建造的。“所献的礼物和祭物，”是“作现今的一个表样；”它的两层圣所是“照着天上样式作的；”我们尊荣的大祭司基督“在圣所，就是真帐幕里，作执事；这帐幕是主所支的，不是人所支的”（来9:9;23;8:2）。使徒约翰蒙恩在异象中看到天上上帝的殿，他看见那里“有七盏火灯在宝座前点着。”{CCh 347.2}[2]
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The earthly sanctuary was built by Moses according to the pattern shown him in the mount. It was “a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices;” its two holy places were “patterns of things in the heavens;” Christ, our great High Priest, is “a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.”?Hebrews 9:9, 23;?8:2. As in vision the apostle John was granted a view of the temple of God in heaven, he beheld there “seven lamps of fire burning before the throne.”?{CCh 347.2}[2]
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先知在这里蒙准得见天上圣所的第一层；他看见地上圣所中的金灯台和香坛所预表的“七盏火灯”和“金坛。”又一次，“上帝天上的殿开了，”约翰便看见幔子里面的至圣所。这里他看见“祂的约柜，”就是摩西所仿造来安放上帝律法的约柜的样本（启11:19）。{CCh 347.3}[3]
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Here the prophet was permitted to behold the first apartment of the sanctuary in heaven; and he saw there the “seven lamps of fire” and the “golden altar” represented by the golden candlestick and the altar of incense in the sanctuary on earth. Again, “the temple of God was opened,”Revelation 11:19, and he looked within the inner veil, upon the holy of holies. Here he beheld “the ark of His testament,”?Revelation 11:19, represented by the sacred chest constructed by Moses to contain the law of God.?{CCh 347.3}[3]
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约翰也说他见过天上的圣所。可见那一座有耶稣为我们服务的圣所，乃是伟大的原本，摩西所造的不过是它的副本。?{CCh 347.4}[4]
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John says that he saw the sanctuary in heaven. That sanctuary, in which Jesus ministers in our behalf, is the great original, of which the sanctuary built by Moses was a copy.?{CCh 347.4}[4]
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天上的殿就是万王之王的居所，那里“事奉祂的有千千，在祂面前侍立的有万万”（但7:10）。 那殿充满了上帝宝座的荣光，那里有光明的撒拉弗遮脸敬拜──这殿的伟大和荣耀是任何地上的建筑所不能代表的。然而地上的圣所及其种种礼节有重要的真理要教训人，就是那有关天上的圣所以及在那里为人类的救赎所进行之大工。{CCh 347.5}[5]
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The heavenly temple, the abiding place of the King of kings, where “thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him,”?Daniel 7:10, that temple filled with the glory of the eternal throne, where seraphim, its shining guardians, veil their faces in adoration—no earthly structure could represent its vastness and its glory. Yet important truths concerning the heavenly sanctuary and the great work there carried forward for man’s redemption were to be taught by the earthly sanctuary and its services.?{CCh 347.5}[5]
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救主在升天之后就开始了祂作为大祭司的工作。保罗说：“基督并不是进了人手所造的圣所，这不过是真圣所的影像，乃是进了天堂，如今为我们显在上帝面前”（来9:24）。正如基督的服务包括两大部分，各占一段时期，并在天上各有不同的所在；照样，表号性的礼节也分为两部分，就是每日的崇事和一年一度的崇事。各在圣幕的一层中举行。?{CCh 347.6}[6]
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After His ascension, our Saviour was to begin His work as our High Priest. Says Paul, “Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.”?Hebrews 9:24. As Christ’s ministration was to consist of two great divisions, each occupying a period of time and having a distinctive place in the heavenly sanctuary, so the typical ministration consisted of two divisions, the daily and the yearly service, and to each a department of the tabernacle was devoted.?{CCh 347.6}[6]
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正如基督升天之后显在上帝面前，用祂的血为悔改相信的人代求，照样，祭司也在每天的服务中为罪人把祭牲的血洒在圣所里。?{CCh 347.7}[7]
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As Christ at His ascension appeared in the presence of God to plead?His blood in behalf of penitent believers, so the priest in the daily ministration sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice in the holy place in the sinner’s behalf.?{CCh 347.7}[7]
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基督的血虽然使悔改的罪人脱离律法的裁判，但还没有取消他的罪，而他的罪仍然记录在圣所的册子上，直到最后赎罪的日子；照样，在表号性的仪式中，赎罪祭的血移去了悔改之人的罪，但这罪仍留在圣所中直到赎罪日。{CCh 348.1}[8]
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The blood of Christ, while it was to release the repentant sinner from the condemnation of the law, was not to cancel the sin; it would stand on record in the sanctuary until the final atonement; so in the type the blood of the sin offering removed the sin from the penitent, but it rested in the sanctuary until the day of atonement.?{CCh 348.1}[8]
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在那最后赏罚的大日，凡死了的人，都要“凭着这些案卷所记载的，照他们所行的受审判”（启20:12） 。那时，藉着基督赎罪之血的功劳，一切真实悔改之人的罪必要从天上的案卷中被涂抹。这样，圣所中罪愆的记录就洁净了。在表号中，赎罪日的礼节就是代表这救赎的大工或涂抹罪的工作，──地上圣所的洁净是藉着赎罪祭牲的血，把那曾使圣所污秽的罪挪移出去而完成的。（PP 356-358）{CCh 348.2}[9]
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In the great day of final award, the dead are to be “judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”?Revelation 20:12. Then by virtue of the atoning blood of Christ, the sins of all the truly penitent will be blotted from the books of heaven. Thus the sanctuary will be freed, or cleansed, from the record of sin. In the type, this great work of atonement, or blotting out of sins, was represented by the services of the Day of Atonement—the cleansing of the earthly sanctuary, which was accomplished by the removal, by virtue of the blood of the sin offering, of the sins by which it had been polluted.{CCh 348.2}[9]
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撒但发明无数的计谋，要占据我们的思想，使我们不去想念我们所应当最熟悉的工作。这大骗子痛恨那足以使人仰望一位赎罪羔羊和全能中保的伟大真理。他知道自己的成功全在乎能否引诱人的思想离开基督和祂的真理。{CCh 348.3}[10]
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Satan invents unnumbered schemes to occupy our minds, that they may not dwell upon the very work with which we ought to be best acquainted. The archdeceiver hates the great truths that bring to view an atoning sacrifice and an all-powerful mediator. He knows that with him everything depends on his diverting minds from Jesus and His truth.?{CCh 348.3}[10]
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但耶稣却用祂受伤的双手和带着伤痕的身体为他们代求，并向一切愿意跟从祂的人宣布说：“我的恩典够你用的”（林后12:9）。“我心里柔和谦卑，你们当负我的轭，学我的样式；这样，你们心里就必得享安息。因为我的轭是容易的，我的但子是轻省的”（太11:29-30）。 所以任何人都不要以为自己的缺点是无可救药的，因为上帝要赐给他信心和恩典，足可得胜。{CCh 348.4}[11]
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Jesus pleads in their behalf His wounded hands, His bruised body; and He declares to all who would follow Him: “My grace is sufficient for thee.”?2 Corinthians 12:9. “Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”?Matthew 11:29, 30. Let none, then, regard their defects as incurable. God will give faith and grace to overcome them.{CCh 348.4}[11]
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我们现今正处在赎罪的大日中。在古时的预表崇祀中，当大祭司为以色列民进行赎罪的工作时，全体会众必须刻苦己心，认罪悔改，并在上帝面前自卑，以免自己从民中被剪除。照样，凡想要在生命册上保留自己名字的人，也应当趁现今这最后短短的救恩时期，在上帝面前刻苦己心，痛悔己罪，真实悔改。我们必须深刻而诚实地检查自己的心。现今许多自命为基督徒的人所表现轻佻虚浮的精神，必须立刻放弃。罪恶的癖性正在争取上风。凡要胜过这些癖性的人必须经过一番苦斗。预备得救的工作乃是一种个人的工作。我们的得救，不是成群成批的。某一个人的纯洁与热忱，并不能抵消另一个人品格上在这方面的缺欠。天下万国的人固然都要经过上帝审判，但祂还是要查察每一个人的案情，其严密精细的程度，犹如世上只有这一个人存在一样。每一个人必须经过考验，必须显出自己毫无瑕疵皱纹等类的病。那有关赎罪工作结束时的情景，实在是非常严肃的。其所有利害的关系，也是非常重大的。现今天上圣所中正在进行审判的工作。这工作已经进行多年了。再过不久，──究竟多久，无人知道──就要审问到现今还活着的人了。在可敬畏的上帝面前，我们的生活要经过检查。现今每一个人最重要的事，就是听从救主的劝告：“你们要谨慎，儆醒祈祷，因为你们不晓得那日期几时来到”（可13:33）。{CCh 348.5}[12]
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We are now living in the great day of atonement. In the typical service, while the high priest was making the atonement for Israel, all were required to afflict their souls by repentance of sin and humiliation before the Lord, lest they be cut off from among the people. In like manner, all who would have their names retained in the book of life should now, in the few remaining days of their probation, afflict their souls before God by sorrow for sin and true repentance. There must be deep, faithful searching of heart. The light, frivolous spirit indulged by so many professed Christians must be put away. There is earnest warfare before all who would subdue the evil tendencies that strive for the mastery. The work of preparation is an individual work. We are not saved in groups. The purity and devotion of one will not offset the want of these qualities in another. Though all nations are to pass in judgment before God, yet He will examine the case of each individual with as close and searching scrutiny as if there were not another being upon the earth. Everyone must be tested and found without spot or wrinkle or any such thing.?Solemn are the scenes connected with the closing work of the atonement. Momentous are the interests involved therein. The judgment is now passing in the sanctuary above. For many years this work has been in progress. Soon—none know how soon—it will pass to the cases of the living. In the awful presence of God our lives are to come up in review. At this time above all others it behooves every soul to heed the Saviour’s admonition: “Watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.”?Mark 13:33.{CCh 348.5}[12]
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在查案审判结束之时，一切人或生或死的命运都要决定了。宽让时期将要在主驾云降临之前不久结束。在《启示录》中，基督展望到那个时辰说：“不义的，叫他仍旧不义；污秽的，叫他仍旧污秽；为义的，叫他仍旧为义；圣洁的，叫他仍旧圣洁。看哪，我必快来，赏罚在我，要照各人所行的报应他”（启22:11-12）。?{CCh 349.1}[13]
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When the work of the investigative judgment closes, the destiny of all will have been decided for life or death. Probation is ended a short time before the appearing of the Lord in the clouds of heaven. Christ in the Revelation, looking forward to that time, declares: “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”?Revelation 22:11, 12.?{CCh 349.1}[13]
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在上帝最后宣布这一句话时，义人和恶人的生活都要保持现状，──人们仍要栽种、建造、吃喝，完全不理会在天上圣所中已经宣布了那最后而不能改变的判决。?{CCh 349.2}[14]
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The righteous and the wicked will still be living upon the earth in their mortal state—men will be planting and building, eating and drinking, all unconscious that the final, irrevocable decision has been pronounced in the sanctuary above.?{CCh 349.2}[14]
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现今那决定各人命运的最后关头，以及那向罪人所发恩惠之邀请的最后撤回，将要静悄悄而出人不意地来到，如同半夜里的贼一样。（GC 488-491）{CCh 349.3}[15]
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Silently, unnoticed as the midnight thief, will come the decisive hour which marks the fixing of every man’s destiny, the final withdrawal of mercy’s offer to guilty men.{CCh 349.3}[15]