麥克謙一年通讀

The New Heaven, the New Earth, and the New Jerusalem

¹And I sawe a newe heauen, and a newe earth: for the first heauen, and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea.

²And I Iohn sawe the holie citie newe Hierusalem come downe from God out of heauen, prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband.

³And I heard a great voice out of heauen, saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them: and they shalbe his people, and God himselfe shalbe their God with them.

⁴And God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes: and there shalbe no more death, neither sorow, neither crying, neither shall there be any more paine: for the first things are passed.

⁵And he that sate vpon the throne, sayd, Behold, I make all things newe: and he sayde vnto me, Write: for these wordes are faithfull and true.

⁶And he said vnto me, It is done, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ende. I wil giue to him that is a thirst, of the well of the water of life freely.

⁷He that ouercommeth, shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my sonne.

⁸But the fearful and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable and murtherers, and whoremogers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall haue their part in the lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

The Glory of the Holy City and Its Design

⁹And there came vnto mee one of the seuen Angels, which had the seuen vials full of the seuen last plagues, and talked with mee, saying, Come: I will shewe thee the bride, the Lambes wife.

¹⁰And he caried me away in the spirit to a great: and an hie mountaine, and he shewed me that great citie, that holie Hierusalem, descending out of heauen from God,

¹¹Hauing the glorie of God: and her shining was like vnto a stone most precious, as a Iasper stone cleare as crystall,

¹²And had a great wall and hie, and had twelue gates, and at the gates twelue Angels, and the names written, which are the twelue tribes of the children of Israel.

¹³On the East part there were three gates, and on the Northside three gates, on the Southside three gates, and on the Westside three gates.

¹⁴And the wall of the citie had twelue foundations, and in them the Names of the Lambes twelue Apostles.

¹⁵And hee that talked with mee, had a golden reede, to measure the citie withall, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

¹⁶And the citie laie foure square, and the length is as large as the bredth of it, and he measured the citie with the reede, twelue thousande furlongs: and the length, and the bredth, and the height of it are equall.

¹⁷And hee measured the wall thereof, an hundreth fourtie and foure cubites, by the measure of man, that is, of the Angell.

¹⁸And ye building of the wall of it was of Iasper: and the citie was pure golde, like vnto cleare glasse.

¹⁹And the foundations of the wall of ye city were garnished with all maner of precious stones: the first foundation was Iasper: the second of Saphire: the third of a Chalcedonie: the fourth of an Emeraude:

²⁰The fift of a Sardonix: the sixt of a Sardius: the seueth of a Chrysolite: the eight of a Beryl: the ninth of a Topaze: the tenth of a Chrysoprasus: the eleuenth of a Iacynth: the twelfth an Amethyst.

²¹And the twelue gates were twelue pearles, and euery gate is of one pearle, and the streete of the citie is pure golde, as shining glasse.

The City with No Temple, Filled with Light

²²And I sawe no Temple therein: for the Lord God almightie and the Lambe are the Temple of it.

²³And this citie hath no neede of the sunne, neither of the moone to shine in it: for the glorie of God did light it: and the Lambe is the light of it.

²⁴And the people which are saued, shall walke in the light of it: and the Kings of the earth shall bring their glorie and honour vnto it.

²⁵And the gates of it shall not be shut by day: for there shalbe no night there.

²⁶And the glorie, and honour of the Gentiles shall be brought vnto it.

²⁷And there shall enter into it none vncleane thing, neither whatsoeuer woorketh abomination or lies: but they which are written in ye Lambes booke of life.

The Messenger of the Covenant Is Coming

¹Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord whom ye seeke, shall speedely come to his Temple: euen the messenger of the couenant whom ye desire: beholde, he shall come, sayth the Lord of hostes.

²But who may abide the day of his comming? and who shall endure, when he appeareth? for he is like a purging fire, and like fullers sope.

³And he shall sit downe to trye and fine the siluer: he shall euen fine the sonnes of Leui and purifie them as golde and siluer, that they may bring offerings vnto the Lord in righteousnesse.

⁴Then shall the offerings of Iudah and Ierusalem be acceptable vnto the Lord, as in old time and in the yeeres afore.

⁵And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will be a swift witnesse against the southsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelings wages, and vexe the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the stranger, and feare not me, sayth the Lord of hostes.

⁶For I am the Lord: I change not, and ye sonnes of Iaakob are not consumed.

Return with Full Tithes

⁷From the dayes of your fathers, ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and haue not kept them: returne vnto me, and I will returne vnto you, saith the Lord of hostes: but ye saide, Wherein shall we returne?

⁸Will a man spoyle his gods? yet haue ye spoyled me: but ye say, Wherein haue we spoyled thee? In tithes, and offerings.

⁹Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye haue spoyled me, euen this whole nation.

¹⁰Bring ye all the tythes into the storehouse that there may be meate in mine House, and proue me nowe herewith, sayeth the Lord of hostes, if I will not open the windowes of heauen vnto you, and powre you out a blessing without measure.

¹¹And I will rebuke the deuourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruite of your grounde, neither shall your vine be baren in the fielde, sayeth the Lord of hostes.

¹²And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a pleasant lande, sayeth the Lord of hostes.

The Book of Remembrance for Those Who Fear the Lord

¹³Your wordes haue bene stout against me, sayeth the Lord: yet ye say, What haue we spoken against thee?

¹⁴Ye haue saide, It is in vaine to serue God: and what profite is it that we haue kept his commandement, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hostes?

¹⁵Therefore wee count the proude blessed: euen they that worke wickednesse, are set vp, and they that tempt God, yea, they are deliuered.

¹⁶Then spake they that feared the Lord, euery one to his neighbour, and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a booke of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought vpon his Name.

¹⁷And they shall be to me, sayeth the Lord of hostes, in that day that I shall do this, for a flocke, and I will spare them, as a man spareth his owne sonne that serueth him.

¹⁸Then shall you returne, and discerne betweene the righteous and wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not.

The Empty Tomb

¹Nowe the first day of the weeke came Marie Magdalene, early when it was yet darke, vnto the sepulchre, and sawe the stone taken away from the tombe.

²Then she ranne, and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Iesus loued, and saide vnto them, They haue taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we knowe not where they haue laid him.

³Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they came vnto the sepulchre.

⁴So they ranne both together, but the other disciple did outrunne Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

⁵And he stouped downe, and sawe the linnen clothes lying: yet went he not in.

⁶Then came Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and sawe the linnen clothes lye,

⁷And the kerchiefe that was vpon his head, not lying with the linnen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by it selfe.

⁸Then went in also the other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he sawe it, and beleeued.

⁹For as yet they knewe not the Scripture, That he must rise againe from the dead.

¹⁰And the disciples went away againe vnto their owne home.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

¹¹But Marie stoode without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she bowed her selfe into the sepulchre,

¹²And sawe two Angels in white, sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feete, where the body of Iesus had laien.

¹³And they said vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She said vnto them, They haue taken away my Lord, and I know not where they haue laide him.

¹⁴When she had thus said, she turned her selfe backe, and sawe Iesus standing, and knewe not that it was Iesus.

¹⁵Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She supposing that he had bene the gardener, said vnto him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.

¹⁶Iesus saith vnto her, Marie. She turned her selfe, and said vnto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master.

¹⁷Iesus saith vnto her, Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but goe to my brethren, and say vnto them, I ascend vnto my Father, and to your Father, and to my God, and your God.

¹⁸Marie Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seene the Lord, and that he had spoken these things vnto her.

Jesus Appears to the Disciples

¹⁹The same day then at night, which was the first day of the weeke, and when the doores were shut where the disciples were assembled for feare of the Iewes, came Iesus and stoode in the middes, and saide to them, Peace be vnto you.

²⁰And when he had so saide, he shewed vnto them his handes, and his side. Then were the disciples glad when they had seene the Lord.

²¹Then saide Iesus to them againe, Peace be vnto you: as my Father sent me, so sende I you.

²²And when he had saide that, he breathed on them, and saide vnto them, Receiue the holy Ghost.

²³Whosoeuers sinnes ye remit, they are remitted vnto them: and whosoeuers sinnes ye reteine, they are reteined.

The Doubt and Faith of Thomas

²⁴But Thomas one of the twelue, called Didymus, was not with them when Iesus came.

²⁵The other disciples therefore saide vnto him, We haue seene the Lord: but he said vnto them, Except I see in his handes the print of the nailes, and put my finger into the print of the nailes, and put mine hand into his side, I will not beleeue it.

²⁶And eight dayes after, againe his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Iesus, when the doores were shut, and stood in the middes, and said, Peace be vnto you.

²⁷After saide he to Thomas, Put thy finger here, and see mine hands, and put forth thine hand, and put it into my side, and be not faithlesse, but faithfull.

²⁸Then Thomas answered, and said vnto him, Thou art my Lord, and my God.

²⁹Iesus said vnto him, Thomas, because thou hast seene me, thou beleeuest: blessed are they that haue not seene, and haue beleeued.

³⁰And many other signes also did Iesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this booke.

³¹But these things are written, that ye might beleeue, that Iesus is that Christ that Sonne of God, and that in beleeuing ye might haue life through his Name.