晨興聖言-挪亞、但以理和約伯...(W3-6)
第三週 • 週六
晨興餧養
但六10~11 但以理知道這文書已經簽署了，就到自己家裏（他樓上的窗戶，開向耶路撒冷），一日三次，雙膝跪下，在他神面前禱告感謝，因他素常就是這樣行。那些人就紛紛聚集，見但以理在他神面前祈禱懇求。
但以理六章非常重要，因為它給我們看見神在祂的選民身上如何執行祂的經綸，為着基督的來臨。神要執行祂的經綸，但需要人在地上為着祂的經綸禱告。神是藉着人作祂忠信禱告的管道，在地上執行祂的經綸。撒但的計謀是要阻撓那為着神行動的禱告。因此，本章的中心乃是人的禱告以執行神的經綸。
神的行動就像一列火車，必須有軌道讓它行動。人的禱告好像軌道，為神的行動鋪路。除了禱告之外，沒有別的路可以把神的經綸帶到完滿和完成。這是本章的內在祕訣（但以理書生命讀經，五三頁）。
信息選讀
在但以理六章四至九節我們看見撒但對但以理敬拜神的狡猾攻擊。
總長和總督因着妒忌但以理，就『在國事上尋找但以理的把柄，為要告他，只是找不着他的把柄和過失；因他忠信可靠』（4）。所以，總長和總督，以及國中的大臣彼此商議，要王堅立一條律例，嚴定一道禁令，三十日內不拘何人，若在王以外向任何神明或任何人求甚麼，就必扔在獅子坑中（5~7）。…總長和總督意圖毀滅但以理，而他們背後之撒但的意圖，是要終止或切斷神用以執行祂經綸的禱告管道。
十節啟示但以理在敬拜神的事上忠信。…他讀過耶利米論到以色列人要服事巴比倫王七十年的豫言（九2下，耶二五11）。但以理必定根據這話，多次為着這豫言的應驗以及被擄之人的歸回禱告。他禱告，並且不讓任何事停止或阻撓他的禱告。他知道他的禱告乃是在執行神對祂選民的經綸。因此，他的禱告是一件嚴肅的事。…今天，禱告乃是主恢復的命脈。撒但越要阻撓我們的禱告，我們越該禱告。
但以理六章二十五至二十八節啟示，在地上，甚至在外邦之國，神藉着祂失敗被擄之選民中的得勝者，在人對神敬拜的事上勝過了撒但。…但以理勝過那禁止得勝者忠信敬拜神的詭計，乃是對撒但的詭計最後一步的得勝。神若沒有這些得勝者，就完全被撒但打敗，在地上沒有得着甚麼是為着祂自己的。
當撒但差遣尼布甲尼撒來毀壞聖城同聖殿，除去對神的敬拜和事奉時，似乎神失敗了，祂在地上的權益、敬拜和事奉被毀壞了。但在神的主宰下，尼布甲尼撒所揀選，侍立在王宮的少年人中，有四人成了得勝者，保守了對神的敬拜和事奉。神有四個年輕的得勝者，他們天天活在王宮裏，絕對與神是一。這對撒但是羞辱，對神卻是誇耀。…今天在地上，不管數目多寡，只要有一些得勝者，神就有誇口的理由。當神看見今天的得勝者站在召會的立場上，祂就快樂喜悅（但以理書生命讀經，五四至五五、五七至五九頁）。
參讀：但以理書生命讀經，第八篇。
WEEK 3 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Dan.
6:10-11 …When Daniel came to know that the writing had been signed, he
went to his house (in his upper room he had windows open toward
Jerusalem) and three times daily he knelt on his knees and prayed and
gave thanks before his God, because he had always done so
previously…These men assembled and found Daniel making petition
and supplication before his God.
Daniel
6 is very crucial because it shows us how God carries out His economy
with His elect for Christ’s coming. God desires to carry out His
economy, but man is needed to pray for His economy on earth. God carries
out His economy on the earth through His faithful channels of prayer.
Satan’s strategy is to frustrate the prayer that is for God’s move.
Thus, the center of this chapter is man’s prayer for the carrying out of
God’s economy.
God’s
move is like a train, which must have rails for its move. Man’s prayers
are like the rails that pave the way for God’s move to go on. There is
no other way to bring God’s economy into fullness and into fulfillment
except by prayer. This is the inner secret of this chapter. (Life-study
of Daniel, p. 47)
Today’s Reading
In Daniel 6:4 through 9 we see the subtle attack of Satan on Daniel concerning the worship of God.
Being
jealous of Daniel, the chief ministers and satraps “sought to find a
ground for accusation against Daniel from the perspective of the
kingdom, but they could find no ground for accusation or fault, inasmuch
as he was faithful, and no negligence or fault was found related to
him” (v. 4). Therefore, the chief ministers and satraps, with the high
officers of the kingdom, took counsel together that the king should
establish a statute and make firm an edict that anyone who made a
petition within the next thirty days to any god or man besides the king
should be cast into the lions’ den (vv. 5-7)…The intention of the chief
ministers and satraps was to destroy Daniel, but Satan, who was behind
them, wanted to stop or cut off the channel of prayer God was using for
the carrying out of His economy.
Verse
10 reveals Daniel’s faithfulness in the worship of God…He had read
Jeremiah’s prophecy that the children of Israel would serve the king of
Babylon for seventy years (9:2b; Jer. 25:11). Standing on this word,
Daniel must have prayed many times for the fulfillment of this prophecy
and for the return of the captives. He would not let anything stop or
frustrate his prayer. He knew that his prayer was for the carrying out
of God’s economy concerning His elect. Therefore, his prayer was a
serious matter. Today prayer is the lifeline in the Lord’s recovery. The
more Satan tries to frustrate our prayer, the more we should pray.
Daniel
6:25 through 28 reveals God’s victory over Satan in the worship of God
on earth, even in a Gentile kingdom, through the overcomers in the
captivity of His defeated elect. Daniel’s victory over the subtlety that
prohibited the faithfulness of the overcomers in the worship of God was
the last step of the victory over Satan’s devices. Without these
overcomers, God would have been fully defeated by Satan, having nothing
on earth for Himself.
When
Satan sent Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the holy city with the temple in
order to take away God’s worship and service, it seemed that God was
defeated and that His interest, worship, and service on earth were
destroyed. Yet under God’s sovereignty, four of the young men selected
by Nebuchadnezzar to stand in the king’s palace became overcomers to
keep God’s worship and service. God had four young overcomers living in
the palace day by day, yet they were absolutely one with God. This was a
shame to Satan and a boast to God…Today, as long as there are some
overcomers on this earth, regardless of the number, God will have reason
to boast. When God sees today’s overcomers standing on the ground of
the church, He will be happy and pleased. (Life-study of Daniel, pp.
48-52)
Further Reading: Life-study of Daniel, msg. 8
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