啟示錄
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第十四章

救贖的新歌
1 我又觀看，見羊羔站在錫安山上，跟他在一起的還有十四萬四千人。他們的額上都寫着他的名和他父的名。
2 我聽見有聲音從天上來，好像眾水的聲音，好像大雷的聲音；我所聽見的聲音，又像琴師彈奏的琴聲。
3 他們在寶座前，在四個活物和眾長老面前唱新歌；除了從地上買來的那十四萬四千人以外，沒有人能學這歌。
4 這些人沒有跟婦女在一起而使自己玷污，他們原是童身的。羊羔無論到哪裡去，他們都跟隨他。這些人是從世人中買來的，作初熟的果子歸給　神和羊羔。
5 在他們口中找不着謊言；他們是沒有瑕疵的。

三個天使的信息
6 我又看見另一位天使在高空飛翔，有永遠的福音要傳給住在地上的人，就是各邦國、各支派、各方言、各民族的人。
7 他大聲說：“應當敬畏　神，把榮耀歸給他！因為他審判的時候到了，應當敬拜創造天、地、海和眾水泉源的那一位！”
8 又有第二位天使接着說：“傾倒了！大巴比倫傾倒了！它曾經叫列國喝它淫亂烈怒的酒。”
9 又有第三位天使接着他們大聲說：“如果有人拜獸和獸像，又在自己的額上或手上受了記號，
10 他就必定喝　神烈怒的酒：這酒是斟在　神震怒的杯中，純一不雜的。他必定在眾天使和羊羔面前，在火與硫磺之中受痛苦。
11 他們受痛苦的煙往上冒，直到永永遠遠。那些拜獸和獸像的，以及接受它名字的記號的人，日夜得不到安息。”
12 在這裡，那些遵守　神的命令和耶穌的信仰的聖徒，要有忍耐。
13 我聽見從天上有聲音說：“你要寫下來！從今以後，那在主里死去的人有福了！”聖靈說：“是的，他們脫離自己的勞苦，得享安息了，他們的作為也隨着他們。”

收割地上的莊稼
14 我又觀看，見有一片白雲，雲上坐着一位好像人子的，頭上戴着金冠，手裡拿着鋒利的鐮刀。
15 有另一位天使從聖所出來，對那坐在雲上的大聲呼喊：“伸出你的鐮刀來收割吧！因為收割的時候已經到了，地上的莊稼已經熟透了。”
16 於是那坐在雲上的向地上揮動鐮刀，地上的莊稼就被收割了。
17 又有另一位天使從天上的聖所出來，他也拿着一把鋒利的鐮刀。
18 接着，又有一位天使從祭壇那裡出來，是有權柄掌管火的；他向那拿着鋒利鐮刀的天使大聲說：“伸出你鋒利的鐮刀來，收取地上葡萄樹累累的果子吧！因為葡萄已經熟透了。”
19 於是，那天使向地上揮動鐮刀，收取了地上的葡萄，把葡萄扔在　神烈怒的大壓酒池裡。
20 那壓酒池在城外被踹踏，就有血從壓酒池流出來，漲到馬的嚼環那麼高，流到三百公里（“三百公里”原文作“一千六百司他町”）那麼遠。

1 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.
3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb.
5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation, tribe, language and people.
7 He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."
8 A second angel followed and said, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand,
10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name."
12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."
14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe."
16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe."
19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath.
20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.