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In this chapter we have an account, I. Of the measuring—reed given to the apostle, to take the dimensions of the temple, Re 11:1,2. II. Of the two witnesses of God, Re 11:3-13. III. Of the sounding of the seventh trumpet, and what followed upon it, Re 11:14-19, etc.
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The Measuring of the Temple (95 AD)
量度圣殿（公元95年）
¹ 有一根苇子赐给我，当作量度的杖，且有话说：起来，将神的殿和祭坛，并在殿中礼拜的人都量一量。
² 只是殿外的院子要留下不用量，因为这是给了外邦人的；他们要践踏圣城四十二个月。
这段关于量度圣殿的预言，明显引用了以西结在异象中所见的（结40:3等）。但要如何理解两者之一，却并非易事。前一处的量度，似乎是为了重建圣殿而设，且要建得更为宏伟；本处的量度，其目的似为：1. 在此所预告的公共危险与灾祸之时，为保护圣殿；或 2. 为检验它，看它在多大程度上与山上的标准或样式相符；或 3. 为改革它，使一切多余的、欠缺的或已经改变的，都按着真正的模型加以规正。请观察：
一、有多少当受量度。1. 「殿」；即福音教会整体，看它是否照着福音法则的指引而建造、而设立，是否过窄或过宽，门太宽或太窄。2. 「祭坛」。祭坛乃是最庄严敬拜之处，可代表整体的宗教敬拜；看教会是否有真正的祭坛，无论在实质和位置上：在实质上，看他们是否以基督为祭坛，并将一切供物都献在其上；在位置上，看祭坛是否在至圣所内；即他们是否在灵和真理里敬拜神。3. 敬拜者也要受量度，看他们是否在一切敬拜的行为中以神的荣耀为目的，以他的话为准则；看他们是否带着相称的情感来到神面前，看他们的「行事为人是否与福音相称」。
二、什么不当受量度（启11:2），以及为何要把它留下不用量。1. 不当量度的是什么：「殿外的院子不用量」。有人说，希律在增建圣殿时，造了一个外院，称之为「外邦人院」。又有人告诉我们，亚得良建造了这城和一个外院，称之为「以利亚」（Ælia），并将其赐给外邦人。2. 外院为何不量？这并非所罗门或所罗巴伯模型中圣殿的一部分，因此神不顾念它。他不愿把它划为受保护之列；它既是为外邦人而设，要把异教的礼仪和风俗带来，附属于福音教会，基督便把它弃绝给他们，任凭他们随意使用；外院和那城都要被践踏一段时间——「四十二个月」，有人认为这是敌基督掌权的全部时期。在外院敬拜的人，或是以错误方式敬拜，或是存虚伪之心敬拜；这些人被神弃绝，必被列在他的仇敌之中。3. 综观全段，请注意：（1）神必在世界中保有他的殿和他的祭坛，直到末时。（2）他严格看顾这殿，留意其中万事如何料理。（3）在外院敬拜的人必被弃绝，唯有在幔子内敬拜的才蒙悦纳。（4）圣城，即有形的教会，在世上多受践踏。但（5）教会的荒凉乃是有限的时间，且是短暂的时间，她终必从一切患难中得蒙拯救。
英文原文
The Measuring of the Temple (95 AD)
¹ And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
² But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
This prophetical passage about measuring the temple is a plain reference to what we find in Ezekiel's vision, Eze 40:3, etc. But how to understand either the one or the other is not so easy. It should seem the design of measuring the temple in the former case was in order to the rebuilding of it, and that with advantage; the design of this measurement seems to be either, 1. For the preservation of it in those times of public danger and calamity that are here foretold; or, 2. For its trial; that it may be seen how far it agrees with the standard, or pattern, in the mount; or, 3. For its reformation; that what is redundant, deficient, or changed, may be regulated according to the true model. Observe,
I. How much was to be measured. 1. The temple; the gospel church in general, whether it be so built, so constituted, as the gospel rule directs, whether it be too narrow or too large, the door too wide or too strait. 2. The altar. That which was the place of the most solemn acts of worship may be put for religious worship in general; whether the church has the true altars, both as to substance and situation: as to substance, whether they take Christ for their altar, and lay down all their offerings there; and in situation, whether the altar be in the holiest; that is, whether they worship God in the Spirit and in truth. 3. The worshippers too must be measured, whether they make God's glory their end and his word their rule, in all their acts of worship; and whether they come to God with suitable affections, and whether their conversation be as becomes the gospel.
II. What was not to be measured (Re 11:2), and why it should be left out. 1. What was not to be measured: The court which is without the temple measure it not. Some say that Herod, in the additions made to the temple, built an outer court, and called it the court of the Gentiles. Some tell us that Adrian built the city and an outer court, and called it Ælia, and gave it to the Gentiles. 2. Why was not the outer court measured? This was no part of the temple, according to the model either of Solomon or Zerubbabel, and therefore God would have no regard to it. He would not mark it out for preservation; but as it was designed for the Gentiles, to bring pagan ceremonies and customs and to annex them to the gospel churches, so Christ abandoned it to them, to be used as they pleased; and both that and the city were trodden under foot for a certain time—forty and two months, which some would have to be the whole time of the reign of antichrist. Those who worship in the outer court are either such as worship in a false manner or with hypocritical hearts; and these are rejected of God, and will be found among his enemies. 3. From the whole observe, (1.) God will have a temple and an altar in the world, till the end of time. (2.) He has a strict regard to this temple, and observes how every thing is managed in it. (3.) Those who worship in the outer court will be rejected, and only those who worship within the veil accepted. (4.) The holy city, the visible church, is very much trampled upon in the world. But, (5.) The desolations of the church are for a limited time, and for a short time, and she shall be delivered out of all her troubles.
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The Two Witnesses (95 AD)
两个见证人（公元95年）
³ 我要使我那两个见证人，穿着毛衣，传道一千二百六十天。 ⁴ 他们就是那两棵橄榄树，两个灯台，立在世界之主面前的。 ⁵ 若有人想要害他们，就有火从他们口中出来，烧灭仇敌。凡想要害他们的都必这样被杀。 ⁶ 这二人有权柄，在他们传道的日子叫天闭塞不下雨；又有权柄叫水变为血，并且能随时随意用各样的灾殃攻击世界。 ⁷ 他们作完见证的时候，那从无底坑里上来的兽必与他们交战，并且得胜，把他们杀了。 ⁸ 他们的尸首就倒在大城里的街上；这城按着灵意叫所多玛，又叫埃及，就是他们的主钉十字架之处。 ⁹ 从各民、各族、各方、各国中，有人观看他们的尸首三天半，又不许把尸首放在坟墓里。 ¹⁰ 住在地上的人就为他们欢喜快乐，互相餽送礼物，因这两位先知曾叫住在地上的人受痛苦。 ¹¹ 过了这三天半，有生气从神那里进入他们里面，他们就站起来；看见他们的人甚是害怕。 ¹² 两位先知听见有大声音从天上来，对他们说：上到这里来。他们就驾着云上了天，他们的仇敌也看见了。 ¹³ 正在那时候，地大震动，城就倒塌了十分之一，因地震而死的有七千人；其余的都恐惧，归荣耀给天上的神。
在这被践踏的时期中，神为自己保留了忠信的见证人，他们必不息地证明他话语与敬拜的真实，并他道路的卓越。在此请留意：
一、这些见证人的数目：人数虽少，却已足够。1. 数目确实小。许多人在顺境时承认、认信基督，却在逼迫之时离弃否认他；当事业受审之时，一个见证人胜过平常许多个。2. 这是足够的数目；因为在两三个见证人的口中，每件事都可定准。基督差遣他的门徒两个两个地出去传福音。有人认为这两个见证人是以诺和以利亚，他们要回到地上一段时日；也有人认为是信主的犹太人教会与外邦人教会；更恰当的看法似乎是：他们是神杰出的忠信牧者，他们不仅在最坏的年日继续承认基督教信仰，更要继续传讲它。
二、他们说预言、为基督作见证的时期。「一千二百六十天」；许多人认为这就是直到敌基督掌权结束的时期；若这时期的起首能确定，这一数目的预言日子——以一日顶一年计算——便可让我们预见其终结之时。
三、他们的装束与姿态：他们穿着毛衣说预言，好像那些深切感受到教会在世上并基督的事业处于低微困苦之境的人。
四、他们在履行这重大艰难之工时如何得着支持与供应：他们站在全地之主面前，他赐他们能力说预言。他使他们如撒迦利亚异象中的所罗巴伯和约书亚——那两棵橄榄树和灯台一般（亚4:2等）。神赐给他们圣洁热心、勇气、力量与安慰的油；他使他们成为橄榄树，他们认信的灯因从神领受的内在恩典原则之油而长燃不熄。他们不但灯里有油，器皿里也有油——就是属灵生命、亮光与热心的品格。
五、他们说预言期间的保障与护卫：「若有人想要害他们，就有火从他们口中出来，烧灭他们」（启11:5）。有人认为这是暗指以利亚求火从天降下，烧灭那些来捉拿他的五十夫长和他们的兵卒（王下1:12）。神曾应许先知耶利米（耶5:14）：「看哪，我必使我的话在你口中为火，使这百姓为柴，火必将他们烧灭。」他们借着祷告、讲道，并受苦中的勇敢，要刺伤、击伤许多逼迫者的心与良心，使他们自责而去，甚至成为自己的惊吓；正如巴施户珥在先知耶利米的话语之前一样（耶20:4）。他们要有那样自由地亲近神的途径，并在他里面那样的地位，以致他们的祷告能像神当年待法老那样，将灾祸与审判降在仇敌身上，「使江河变血」，又拦住天上的甘露，关闭诸天，使多日不降下雨，正如他因以利亚的祷告所行（王上17:1）。神已为逼迫者预备了箭矢，常常在他们逼迫他百姓时就刑罚他们；他们发现「用脚踢刺」是难事。
六、见证人被杀。为使他们的见证更有力，他们必须用血来印证它。在此请留意：1. 他们被杀的时间：「他们作完见证的时候」。在他们的工未完之先，他们是不死的、刀枪不入的。有人认为当译作「他们正要作完见证的时候」。当他们穿毛衣说预言了一千二百六十年的大半时日之后，便要感受敌基督之恶毒最后的果效。2. 那胜过他们、杀害他们的仇敌——「那从无底坑里上来的兽」。敌基督，魔鬼的大工具，要与他们交战，不仅用狡猾诡辩的学问之兵器，更主要用公开的武力与暴力；神要容许他的仇敌在一段时间内胜过他的见证人。3. 这些被杀见证人遭受的野蛮对待；仇敌的恶毒并不因他们的鲜血与死亡而满足，竟追逼他们的尸身。（1）他们不容他们有一个安息的坟墓；他们的尸身被抛在大街上，就是巴比伦的大街，或通往那城的大道旁。这城按灵意称为所多玛，因其中怪诞的恶行；又称埃及，因其中的偶像崇拜与暴政；而基督在他奥秘的身体里，在此所受的苦，比世上任何地方更多。（2）他们的尸首被地上居民侮辱，他们的死成为敌基督世界的欢笑与喜乐（启11:10）。他们因摆脱了这些见证人而欢喜，因为这些见证人曾借他们的教义与榜样，搅扰、惊吓、折磨了他们仇敌的良心；这些属灵的兵器刺透了恶人的心，使他们充满对忠信之人的极大愤怒与恶毒。
七、这些见证人的复活及其后果。请留意：1. 他们复活的时间；在他们死了「三天半」之后（启11:11），与他们曾预言的漫长年日相比，这不过是一段短时。这里也许是指基督的复活，他就是「复活与生命」。「你的死人要复活，我的尸首要一同兴起」。或者也许是指拉撒路在第四日的复活，那时众人以为已不可能。神的见证人也许被杀，却必复活：不是在他们本人身上——直到普遍复活之时——而是在他们的后继者身上。当神的工作在世上似乎已死时，他必使它复兴。2. 他们复活所借的权能：「有生气从神那里进入他们里面，他们就站起来」。神不但赐他们生命，更赐他们勇气。神能使枯骨复活；那使人苏醒的，是从神而来的生命之灵，他使死去的灵魂活过来，也必使他百姓必死的身体，并他在世上奄奄一息的事业活过来。3. 他们复活对仇敌的影响：「看见他们的人甚是害怕」。神工作与见证人的复兴，要将恐怖击入他仇敌的灵魂。哪里有罪咎，哪里就有惧怕；逼迫的灵虽残忍，却不是勇敢的灵，而是怯懦的灵。希律惧怕施洗约翰。
八、见证人升天及其后果（启11:12,13）。请留意：1. 他们的升天。这里的天，我们或可理解为教会中某个更显著的位分——就是今世恩典的国度——或指天上荣耀国度中的高位。前一种似乎是其意：「他们驾着云上了天」（按比喻，非按字面），「他们的仇敌也看见了」。看见神忠心的仆人大得尊荣、被高举，将是逼迫者在今世和大日所受惩罚中不小的一部分。他们并不试图自行升到这尊荣，直到神呼召他们说：「上到这里来。」主的见证人必须等候神呼召他们，无论是在教会中还是在天上，才得高升；他们不可厌倦受苦与服事，也不可急急地攫取赏赐；而当等候，直到主呼召他们，那时便可欣然升到他那里。2. 他们升天的后果——敌基督帝国中极大的震撼与动荡，以及「城的十分之一」倾覆。有人将此归于脱离教皇制的宗教改革之开端，那时许多君王与城邦脱离了对罗马的臣服。这大工遭遇大阻力；整个西方世界都感受到大震荡，敌基督的事业遭受重大打击，损失了大片地土与利益，（1）因那时拔出的战争之剑；许多在敌基督麾下争战的人被它所杀。（2）因圣灵的剑：「对神的惧怕临到许多人」。他们确信了自己的错误、迷信与偶像崇拜；借着真正的悔改并接受真理，「他们归荣耀给天上的神」。这样，当神的工作与见证人复兴之时，魔鬼的工作与见证人就在他面前倾倒。
英文原文
The Two Witnesses (95 AD)
³ And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
⁴ These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
⁵ And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
⁶ These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
⁷ And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
⁸ And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
⁹ And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
¹⁰ And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
¹¹ And after three days and a half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
¹² And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
¹³ And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
In this time of treading down, God has reserved to himself his faithful witnesses, who will not fail to attest the truth of his word and worship, and the excellency of his ways. Here observe,
I. The number of these witnesses: it is but a small number and yet it is sufficient. 1. It is but small. Many will own and acknowledge Christ in times of prosperity who will desert and deny him in times of persecution; one witness, when the cause is upon trial, is worth many at other times. 2. It is a sufficient number; for in the mouth of two witnesses every cause shall be established. Christ sent out his disciples two by two, to preach the gospel. Some think these two witnesses are Enoch and Elias, who are to return to the earth for a time: others, the church of the believing Jews and that of the Gentiles: it should rather seem that they are God's eminent faithful ministers, who shall not only continue to profess the Christian religion, but to preach it, in the worst of times.
II. The time of their prophesying, or bearing their testimony for Christ. A thousand two hundred and threescore days; that is (as many think), to the period of the reign of antichrist; and, if the beginning of that interval could be ascertained, this number of prophetic days, taking a day for a year, would give us a prospect when the end shall be.
III. Their habit, and posture: they prophesy in sackcloth, as those that are deeply affected with the low and distressed state of the churches and interest of Christ in the world.
IV. How they were supported and supplied during the discharge of their great and hard work: they stood before the God of the whole earth, and he gave them power to prophesy. He made them to be like Zerubbabel and Joshua, the two olive-trees and candlestick in the vision of Zechariah, Zec 4:2, etc. God gave them the oil of holy zeal, and courage, and strength, and comfort; he made them olive-trees, and their lamps of profession were kept burning by the oil of inward gracious principles, which they received from God. They had oil not only in their lamps, but in their vessels—habits of spiritual life, light, and zeal.
V. Their security and defence during the time of their prophesying: If any attempted to hurt them, fire proceeded out of their mouths, and devoured them, Re 11:5. Some think this alludes to Elias's calling for the fire from heaven, to consume the captains and their companies that came to seize him, 2Ki 1:12. God promised the prophet Jeremiah (Jer 5:14), Behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people shall be wood, and it shall devour them. By their praying and preaching, and courage in suffering, they shall gall and wound the very hearts and consciences of many of their persecutors, who shall go away self-condemned, and be even terrors to themselves; like Pashur, at the words of the prophet Jeremiah, Jer 20:4. They shall have that free access to God, and that interest in him, that, at their prayers, God will inflict plagues and judgments upon their enemies, as he did on Pharaoh, turning their rivers into blood, and restraining the dews of heaven, shutting heaven up, that no rain shall fall for many days, as he did at the prayers of Elias, 1Ki 17:1. God has ordained his arrows for the persecutors, and is often plaguing them while they are persecuting his people; they find it hard work to kick against the pricks.
VI. The slaying of the witnesses. To make their testimony more strong, they must seal it with their blood. Here observe, 1. The time when they should be killed: When they have finished their testimony. They are immortal, they are invulnerable, till their work be done. Some think it ought to be rendered, when they were about to finish their testimony. When they had prophesied in sackcloth the greatest part of the 1260 years, then they should feel the last effect of antichristian malice. 2. The enemy that should overcome and slay them—the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit. Antichrist, the great instrument of the devil, should make war against them, not only with the arms of subtle and sophistical learning, but chiefly with open force and violence; and God would permit his enemies to prevail against his witnesses for a time. 3. The barbarous usage of these slain witnesses; the malice of their enemies was not satiated with their blood and death, but pursued even their dead bodies. (1.) They would not allow them a quiet grave; their bodies were cast out in the open street, the high street of Babylon, or in the high road leading to the city. This city is spiritually called Sodom for monstrous wickedness, and Egypt for idolatry and tyranny; and here Christ in his mystical body has suffered more than in any place in the world. (2.) Their dead bodies were insulted by the inhabitants of the earth, and their death was a matter of mirth and joy to the antichristian world, Re 11:10. They were glad to be rid of these witnesses, who by their doctrine and example had teased, terrified, and tormented the consciences of their enemies; these spiritual weapons cut wicked men to the heart, and fill them with the greatest rage and malice against the faithful.
VII. The resurrection of these witnesses, and the consequences thereof. Observe, 1. The time of their rising again; after they had lain dead three days and a half (Re 11:11), a short time in comparison of that in which they had prophesied. Here may be a reference to the resurrection of Christ, who is the resurrection and the life. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Or there may be a reference to the resurrection of Lazarus on the fourth day, when they thought it impossible. God's witnesses may be slain, but they shall rise again: not in their persons, till the general resurrection, but in their successors. God will revive his work, when it seems to be dead in the world. 2. The power by which they were raised: The spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet. God put not only life, but courage into them. God can make the dry bones to life; it is the Spirit of life from God that quickens dead souls, and shall quicken the dead bodies of his people, and his dying interest in the world. 3. The effect of their resurrection upon their enemies: Great fear fell upon them. The reviving of God's work and witnesses will strike terror into the souls of his enemies. Where there is guilt, there is fear; and a persecuting spirit, though cruel, is not a courageous, but a cowardly spirit. Herod feared John the Baptist.
VIII. The ascension of the witnesses into heaven and the consequences thereof, Re 11:12,13. Observe, 1. Their ascension. By heaven we may understand either some more eminent station in the church, the kingdom of grace in this world, or a high place in the kingdom of glory above. The former seems to be the meaning: They ascended to heaven in a cloud (in a figurative, not in a literal sense) and their enemies saw them. It will be no small part of the punishment of persecutors, both in this world and at the great day, that they shall see the faithful servants of God greatly honoured and advanced. To this honour they did not attempt to ascend, till God called them, and said, Come up hither. The Lord's witnesses must wait for their advancement, both in the church and in heaven, till God calls them; they must not be weary of suffering and service, nor too hastily grasp at the reward; but stay till their Master calls them, and then they may gladly ascend to him. 2. The consequences of their ascension—a mighty shock and convulsion in the antichristian empire and the fall of a tenth part of the city. Some refer this to the beginning of the reformation from popery, when many princes and states fell off from their subjection to Rome. This great work met with great opposition; all the western world felt a great concussion, and the antichristian interest received a great blow, and lost a great deal of ground and interest, (1.) By the sword of war, which was then drawn; and many of those who fought under the banner of antichrist were slain by it. (2.) By the sword of the Spirit: The fear of God fell upon many. They were convinced of their errors, superstition, and idolatry; and by true repentance, and embracing the truth, they gave glory to the God of heaven. Thus, when God's work and witnesses revive, the devil's work and witnesses fall before him.
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The Seventh Trumpet (95 AD)
第七号（公元95年）
¹⁴ 第二样灾祸过去，第三样灾祸快到了。 ¹⁵ 第七位天使吹号，天上就有大声音说：世上的国成了我主和主基督的国；他要作王，直到永永远远。 ¹⁶ 在神面前，坐在自己位上的二十四位长老，就面伏于地，敬拜神， ¹⁷ 说：昔在、今在的主神——全能者啊，我们感谢你！因你执掌大权作王了。 ¹⁸ 外邦发怒，你的忿怒也临到了；审判死人的时候也到了。你的仆人众先知和众圣徒，凡敬畏你名的人，连大带小得赏赐的时候也到了。你败坏那些败坏世界之人的时候也就到了。 ¹⁹ 当时，神天上的殿开了，在他殿中现出他的约柜。随后有闪电、声音、雷轰、地震、大雹。
这里我们读到第七枝、也就是末了一枝号的吹响，它以惯常的警告与留意之召作为前导：「第二样灾祸过去，第三样灾祸快到了。第七位天使吹号。」这号曾被搁置了一段时间，直到使徒得知了一些其间发生的极重要、也值得他留意观察的事件。但他先前所盼望的，如今他听见了——第七位天使吹号。在此请留意这号如此吹响之后的效应与结果。
一、这里天上的圣徒与天使发出响亮而喜乐的欢呼。请留意：1. 他们敬拜的方式：他们从座位上起来，「面伏于地，敬拜神」；他们以敬畏与谦卑而行。2. 他们敬拜的内容。（1）他们感恩地承认我们的神与救主有权统管治理全地：「世上的国成了我主和主基督的国」（启11:15）。这事按名分一向如此——无论因创造还是因买赎。（2）他们感恩地看见他实际地占有并治理它们；他们向他献上感谢，因为他已经执掌大权，宣告了自己的权利，运用了自己的权能，将名分转为实际。（3）他们因他的掌权永无穷尽而欢喜：「他要作王，直到永永远远」，直到一切仇敌都服在他脚下；没有人能从他手中夺去权杖。
二、世上对神这些公义的作为与彰显怀着愤怒的反应（启11:18）：「外邦发怒」；他们不但曾经如此，如今仍然如此：他们的心向神发作；他们以自己的忿怒迎接神的忿怒。那时正是神对他百姓的仇敌施行公义报应、以患难报应那扰乱他们之人的时候。那时他正开始赏赐他百姓忠心的服事与受苦；他们的仇敌不能忍受，便向神怀怒，因而加增自己的罪咎，加速自己的毁灭。
三、另一个结果，就是神在天上的殿开了。这可能意味着如今天地之间有了更畅通的交通，祷告与赞美更自由、更频繁地上升，恩典与福气丰沛地降下。但更可能是指地上神的教会，那属天的殿。这是对第一座圣殿时期各种境遇的引用。在拜偶像、行恶的君王治下，殿被关闭、被忽略；但在敬虔、改革的君王治下，殿又被打开、被人常去。照样，在敌基督掌权期间，神的殿似乎被关闭了，在很大程度上也确是如此；但如今它又被打开了。在这打开之时，请留意：1. 在其中看见了什么：「神的约柜」。这是在至圣所里；在这约柜内存放着法版。正如约西亚以前神的律法曾遗失，后来又被寻见，照样在敌基督治下，神的律法被搁置，被他们的遗传与谕令所废弃；圣经对百姓封锁，他们不可查考这些神谕；如今这些被打开了，被带到众人的眼前。这是无法言喻、无价的特权；而这正如约柜一样，是神已归回与他百姓同在、并在耶稣基督这挽回祭里向他们施恩的标记。2. 在其中听见、感受了什么：「闪电、声音、雷轰、地震、大雹」。宗教改革的极大福分伴随着极为可畏的护理之工；神要以公义中可畏的事，来答应如今既已开启的他的圣殿中所献上的祷告。世上一切的大变革都是在天上筹划的，也都是对圣徒祷告的回应。
英文原文
The Seventh Trumpet (95 AD)
¹⁴ The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
¹⁵ And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
¹⁶ And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
¹⁷ Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
¹⁸ And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
¹⁹ And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
We have here the sounding of the seventh and last trumpet, which is ushered in by the usual warning and demand of attention: The second woe is past, and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. Then the seventh angel sounded. This had been suspended for some time, till the apostle had been made acquainted with some intervening occurrences of very great moment, and worthy of his notice and observation. But what he before expected he now heard—the seventh angel sounding. Here observe the effects and consequences of this trumpet, thus sounded.
I. Here were loud and joyful acclamations of the saints and angels in heaven. Observe, 1. The manner of their adorations: they rose from their seats, and fell upon their faces, and worshipped God; they did it with reverence and humility. 2. The matter of their adorations. (1.) They thankfully recognize the right of our God and Saviour to rule and reign over all the world: The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, Re 11:15. They were always so in title, both by creation and purchase. (2.) They thankfully observe his actual possession of them, and reign over them; they give him thanks because he had taken to him his great power, asserted his rights, exerted his power, and so turned title into possession. (3.) They rejoice that this his reign shall never end: He shall reign for ever and ever, till all enemies be put under his feet; none shall ever wrest the sceptre out of his hand.
II. Here were angry resentments in the world at these just appearances and actings of the power of God (Re 11:18): The nations were angry; not only had been so, but were so still: their hearts rose up against God; they met his wrath with their own anger. It was a time when God was taking a just revenge upon the enemies of his people, recompensing tribulation to those who had troubled them. It was a time in which he was beginning to reward his people's faithful services and sufferings; and their enemies could not bear it, they fretted against God, and so increased their guilt and hastened their destruction.
III. Another consequence was the opening of the temple of God in heaven. By this may be meant that here is now a more free communication between heaven and earth, prayer and praises more freely and frequently ascending and graces and blessings plentifully descending. But it rather seems to intend the church of God on earth, a heavenly temple. It is an allusion to the various circumstances of things in the time of the first temple. Under idolatrous and wicked princes, it was shut up and neglected; but, under religious and reforming princes, it was opened and frequented. So, during the power of antichrist, the temple of God seemed to be shut up, and was so in a great degree; but now it was opened again. At this opening of it observe, 1. What was seen there: the ark of God's testament. This was in the holy of holies; in this ark the tables of the law were kept. As before Josiah's time the law of God had been lost, but was then found, so in the reign of antichrist God's law was laid aside, and made void by their traditions and decrees; the scriptures were locked up from the people, and they must not look into these divine oracles; now they are opened, now they are brought to the view of all. This was an unspeakable and invaluable privilege; and this, like the ark of the testament, was a token of the presence of God returned to his people, and his favour towards them in Jesus Christ the propitiation. 2. What was heard and felt there: Lightnings, voices, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail. The great blessing of the reformation was attended with very awful providences; and by terrible things in righteousness God would answer those prayers that were presented in his holy temple, now opened. All the great revolutions of the world are concerted in heaven, and are the answers of the prayers of the saints.
本章我们看见以下记述：一、交给使徒用来量度圣殿尺寸的量度的苇子，启 11:1,2。二、神的两个见证人，启 11:3-13。三、第七位天使吹号，以及随之而来的事，启 11:14-19，等等。