第二十八天： 2011年10月25日(Tishrei 27, 5772)
請讀創世記第二十八章
「榮耀的門戶」
目前為止我們已打開了27個門！未來幾天，我希望我們能專注在開啟新的榮耀門戶，今天當我們打開第28扇門戶時，我們宣告說，祂的榮耀將會以新的方式充滿我們！
恰克．皮爾斯
你們許多人被一切的爭競、衝突及試驗而耗盡，而那與你一直在追求的應許有關。停止與休息吧！那正是雅各所作的，他「夢見一個梯子立在地上，梯子的頭頂著天，有神的使者在梯子上，上去下來。」(創世記28:12)這是從神而來的真實造訪。
在這次的造訪中，神向雅各顯明祂是過去、現在和未來的主，這個造訪帶領雅各進入與神的另一種關係，使他得到信心，能確實緊抓住那曾對他說的應許與祝福，而這也帶給他信心，能與聖潔的上帝建立關係，正如他的父親與祖父(以撒和亞伯拉罕)一樣。
從這次的經歷中，雅各便以下列的方式開始他個人對神的敬拜：
1. 他知道神已經與他同在，即使在那之前他無法看見祂。
2. 他記念這個地方，把他用來作為枕頭的那塊石頭立為紀念碑，在石頭上澆了油，獻給上帝。
3. 他為那個地方重新命名為伯特利，意思是神的殿。
4. 他認識神是供應者。
5. 他渴望要將神所賜給他的一部分歸給神。
6. 對上帝的敬畏，開始成為他生命的一部分。
7. 他宣告一扇「天上的門戶」在那個地方永遠敞開，這將會連接到他在地上的人生志向進入永恆。
Ernest Gentile在「敬拜上帝！」(Worship God!)一書中寫道：
天梯突然的出現，讓雅各覺得一定是上帝在邀請他來進入祂的同在。至高超然的上帝創造一個直接的方式來與卑微的人相遇。神藉由天梯創始了敬拜，祂為人類開啟了來到神面前的一條路。接著，雅各看見天使們立下敬拜者的回應行動之榜樣，經文中提到天使是先上去、再下來，天使象徵性地顯明，若人們要成為真實、成功的主僕，而那就是他們在生活中所必須做的事。首先，他們會「看見」天堂的邀請，透過敬拜他們爬上發光的樓梯，而在經歷與神的同在之後，便走下樓梯回到地上來從事服事的行動。他們先上去與神相交，然後他們帶著服事下到世界來事奉。另一個一般性的解釋是，這事件讓天使成為將神的祝福帶給人類、並將人類的回應帶給神的「傳遞者」(輸送帶)(conveyer)，天使確實是在執行這樣的任務，但是這樣的解釋使這段經文過分強調，天使是介於神與人之間的媒介，然而我們只有一位「中保」(mediator)〔基督耶穌〕。
Day 28 of 100 Days: “Portals of Glory” Read: Gen. 28
Chuck Pierce 寫於 2011年10月25日 3:55
We have opened 27 doors so far! The next few days, I want us to focus on opening new portals of glory. As we open the 28th door today, we say that his glory will fill us in a new way!
Chuck D. Pierce
Many of you are exhausted from all the strife, contention and trials that have been linked to the promise that you have been pursuing. Stop and rest! That’s what Jacob did. “Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it” (Gen. 28:12). This was really a visitation from God.
In this visitation, God revealed to Jacob that He is the Lord of the past, the present and the future. This brought Jacob into a relationship with the Lord. This caused him to have faith that he could actually grab hold of the promise and blessing that had been spoken over him. This also gave him confidence that he could have a relationship with holy God just as his father and grandfather (Isaac and Abraham) had.
From this experience, Jacob began to worship God personally in the following ways:
1. He acknowledged the Lord had been in the place with him, even though before that point he could not see Him.
2. He memorialized the place, set up a stone and poured oil on it.
3. He renamed the place Bethel, the House of God.
4. He recognized God as provider.
5. He had a desire to give a portion of what he had back to the Lord.
6. The fear of God began to be a part of his life.
7. He declared that a “gate of heaven” had opened forever in that place. This would link his purpose on earth into eternity.
In Worship God! Ernest Gentile writes:
The sudden appearance of the heavenly ladders must have seemed to Jacob to be God’s invitation to come up into His presence. The transcendent God created a direct way to meet with lowly man. With the ladder, God initiated worship. He made a way for men to come before God. Then, Jacob saw angels model the responsive action of a worshiper. The text speaks of the angels ascending first and then descending. Symbolically, the angels showed what must take place in people’s lives if they are to be true, successful servants of the Lord. First, having “seen” the heavenly invitation, they ascend the shining staircase through their worship. Then, after being in the presence of God, they descend the ladder back to Earth to perform acts of service. First they go up to meet with God; then they can go down to the world with ministry of service. Another popular interpretation of this event makes the angels conveyers of God’s blessing to man and of man’s response to God. Angels do perform such work, but it stresses the text to overemphasize angels as intermediaries between God and men where this is only one mediator.
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