And when He opened the fifthe seal, I saw under the alter the souls of those having been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had upheld.
And they were crying in a voice loud, saying, Until when, O Lord, holy and TRUE, not do You judge and avenge the blood of us from those dwelling upon the earth?
And were given to them each robes white, and it was said to them that they shall rest yet a time little, until would be fulfilled also the fellow servants of them, and the brothers of them, those being about to be killed as also had been they.
Not fear what you are to suffer. Behold, is about to cast the devil some of you into prison, so that you might be tested; and you shall have tribulation days ten. Be faithful unto death, and I will give to you the crown of life.
Immediately, I urged the junior who had roomed with me in the dormitory in high school to repent of her sins, accept Jesus as her Saviour in the centre of her heart and follow him.
そして、その時, 彼女は素直にイエス様を救い主として受け入れ、熱心に祈り始めました。
And at that moment, she honestly accepted Jesus as her Saviour and began to pray fervently.
その様子を横で見ていた男性俳優もイエス様を受け入れ、彼女と共に祈り始めたのです。
The male actor who was watching beside her also accepted Jesus and began to pray with her.
However, the other person in the room, a junior student from my university days, stood there, unable to accept Jesus' salvation of her.
それから、いよいよ、ヘリコプターの操縦士が部屋の窓近くぎりぎりまで接近し、ミサイルを部屋に撃ち込もうとした瞬間で目が覚めました。 Then, finally, I woke up just as the helicopter pilot was about to fire a missile into the room, approaching as close as he could to the window of the room.
私たちの人生は、いつどこでどうなるか分かりません。
We never know when or where our lives will turn out to be.
I believe that at that time, our path will be divided according to whether we repent of our sins, believe in God, the Lord Jesus Christ (Father, Son and Spirit) and follow His righteousness.
今現在、世の中の動きを見渡す時、益々、暗闇が迫ってきているのが分かります。 At the moment, when we look around at the way the world is moving, we can see more and more darkness looming.
この夢の中で、神様は、私が今までに福音を宣べ伝えた人達の救いのために、完全な暗闇が来る前に、引き続き熱心に祈るよう、語られたのだと感じました。 In this dream, I felt that God has spoken to me to continue to pray fervently for the salvation of those to whom I have preached the gospel in my life before total darkness comes.
ゼカリヤ書11章/Zec 11 (HNV)
15)主はわたしに仰せられた。「あなたは、もう一度、愚かな牧者の道具を取れ。
The LORD said to me, "Take for
yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
Woe, to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!"
ヨハネ10章/John 10 (ESV)
11)わたしは、良い牧者です。良い牧者は羊のためにいのちを捨てます。
I am the good sjepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
He who is a hired hand and not shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep amd flees, and the wolf snotches them and scatters them.False shepherd
13)それは、彼が雇い人であって、羊のことを心にかけていないからです。
He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
There seems to be a booming prophecy café scene, especially in Japan, but I feel that prophecy in the biblical sense and taking money from people to prophesy to the general public, especially those who have not accepted Christ, are two very different things.
Prophecy that comes from God should be used to enhance the virtue of the Church (Christians), which is the temple of God, and not to fulfil the future hopes and desires of individuals (unbelievers) who have nothing to do with God's will.
例えそれが、その本人を励ます内容だったとしてもです。
This is even if the content is meant to encourage the individual.
人々からお金を受け取って預言をする時点で、なんら、この世の占い師と同じ行為をしているに過ぎません。
When you receive money from people to make prophecies, you are doing the same thing as the fortune-tellers of this world.
The same can be said for other forms of prophecy, such as using Bible apps available on mobile phones, or opening the Bible quickly, pointing to a passage that catches your eye and assuming that this is a prophecy from the Word of God given on that day, so-called Word prophecy.
特に、聖書の中に事例の見られない形で御霊の賜物が用いられている場合は、特に注意が必要です。
Especially when the gifts of the Spirit are used in a way for which no examples are found in the Bible.
第一コリント14章32節/1Co 14:32 (ESV)
預言者たちの霊は預言者たちに服従するものなのです。
And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
In the eighth month, in the second year of Daryavesh, the word of the LORD came to Zekharyah the son of Berekhyah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings,' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD.
5)あなた方の先祖たちは今、どこにいるのか。預言者たちは永遠に生きているだろうか。
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your Hosts? "They they repented and said, 'Just as the LORD of Hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"
Thus says the LORD against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Yisra'el to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land,
and will pluck up the house of Yehudah from among them.
It shall happen, after that I have pluck them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
It shall happen,if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name,As the LORD lives;even as they taught my people to swear by Ba'al;then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.
17)しかし、彼らが聞かなければ、わたしはその国を根こぎにして滅ぼしてしまう。―主の御告げ。―
But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says the LORD.
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all Yehudah who dwell in the land of Mitzrayim: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Yehudah in all the land of Mitzrayim, saying, As the Lord GOD lives.
Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Yehudah who are in the land of Mitzrayim shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
Those who escape the sword shall retun out of the land of Mitzrayim into the land of Yehudah, few in number;and all the remnant of Yehudah, who have gone into the land of Mitzrayim to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine or theirs.
This shall be the sign to you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the eretz; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Ya'akov," says the LORD.
"For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Yisra'el among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kermel will fall on the eretz.
The LORD has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has evalted the horn of your adversaries.
Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Tziyon, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease.
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
I exhort therefore you, brothers, through the compassions of God, to present the bodies of you a sacsrifice living, holy, to God well-pleasing, which is the reasonable service of you.
And not be conformed to the age this, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, for to prove by you, what is the will of God, good and well-pleasing and perfect.
If now the ministry of death, in letters having been engraved on stones, was produced in glory, so as for not to be able to look intently the sons of Israel into the face of Moses, on account of the glory of the face of him, which is fading.
8)まして、御霊の努めには、どれほどの栄光があることでしょう。
How not more, the ministry of the Spirit will be in glory?
But were hardened the minds of them. Until for the present day, the same veil at the reading of the old covenant remains, not being lifted, which in Christ is being removed.
We now all (in the course of our lives)having been unveiled in face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, the same image are being transformed into, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.