Ezekiel chapter eight is one of the easiest prophetic chapters in the Scriptures. The chapter has a distinct starting point.
《以西結》第八章是《聖經》裡向最容易明白个預言章節之一。該章有一個分明个起頭。
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. Ezekiel 8:1.
到第六年，六月初五日，我坐勒自家屋里，犹大个长老也坐勒我面前；主耶和华个手就勒该搭临到我身浪。以西结书 8:1。
The vision has a distinct ending in chapter eleven.
异象到第十一章有一个分明个结局。
Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the Lord had showed me. Ezekiel 11:24, 25.
后来，灵将我举起， 神个灵在异象里带我到迦勒底，到被掳个人那里去。于是我所看见个异象就离开了我。我就将主所指示我个一切事，都讲给被掳个人听。以西结书 11:24, 25。
The vision of chapter eight begins on the fifth day, of the sixth month of the sixth year, just a day before the date aligns with “666,” and sure enough the vision is about the Sunday law, which is the mark of the beast, whose number is the number of the “man of sin,” and also the number of the eighth kingdom that is of the seven. Those that get the victory over the number “666,” receive the seal of God, and in chapter nine, the seal of God is being placed upon God’s faithful people of the last days.
第八章个异象开始于第六年第六月初五，恰好就勒日脚对齐“666”个前一日；而果然，该异象所讲个就是星期日法，也就是兽个印记。伊个数目，就是“罪恶之人”个数目，也就是出于七者而为第八国个数目。凡得胜过“666”个数目个人，便领受上帝个印；而勒第九章，上帝个印正在加勒上帝末后时代忠信个子民身上。
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Revelation 15:1–3.
我又看見天浪向有一個異象，又大又奇妙，就是七位天使拿着末後个七樣災殃；因為上帝个忿怒在者七樣災殃裡向滿足了。 我又看見彷彿有一片玻璃海，內中攙雜着火；那些勝過了獸、勝過了獸个像、勝過了獸个印記，也勝過了牠名號數目个人，攏立勒玻璃海上，手裡拿着上帝个琴。 伊拉唱上帝奴僕摩西个歌，合羊羔个歌，講：全能个主上帝啊，儂个作為偉大奇妙；萬聖之王啊，儂个道路公義真實。啟示錄 15:1–3。
Just before the close of probation (for the seven angels with the seven last plagues are going to pour out God’s wrath in the next chapter of Revelation), God’s last day people are identified. They have obtained the victory over four things. The word translated as victory means to conquer. The faithful have conquered the beast, the image of the beast, the mark of the beast and the number of his name. The victory includes the fact that they understand what the four symbols represent. It is only a very small percentage of people that know what those four prophetic symbols actually represent.
就在恩典時期將要結束之前（因爲《啓示錄》下一章裏，拿着七樣末後災殃个七位天使就要傾倒上帝个忿怒），上帝末日个子民被指認出來。伊拉已經得着對四樣事物个勝利。譯作「勝利」个該詞，意思就是征服。忠信个人已經征服了獸、獸个像、獸个印記，以及伊名號个數目。該個勝利也包含一層事實，就是伊拉明白這四個表號所代表个是啥。真正曉得這四個預言表號實際上代表啥个人，只佔極其細小个百分比。
The world used to know the papacy was the whore of Babylon in chapter seventeen, but as God’s Word identified, the understanding of the whore of Tyre who commits fornication with the kings of the earth is forgotten during the history of the United States. To get victory over the beast means to rightly divide the word of truth in ascertaining that the beast of Bible prophecy is the papacy. In the very next chapter, the dragon, the beast and the false prophet lead the world to Armageddon, and God’s faithful of the last days must know who those three powers are.
世界曾经晓得，教皇制就是第十七章里向个巴比伦淫妇；不过，照上帝个圣言所指明，关于推罗个淫妇——伊同地上个列王行淫——个认识，勒美利坚合众国个历史过程当中反倒失落脱了。要胜过该兽，就着实需要按正意分解真理个道，确切认定《圣经》预言里向个兽就是教皇制。紧接下来个一章里向，龙、兽并假先知引领世界走向哈米吉多顿；所以上帝末后日子个忠信子民，必须晓得该三种权势到底是啥人。
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Revelation 16:12–16.
第六位天使摵伊个碗倒勒大河幼发拉底河里；河水就枯干脱哉，好叫东方列王个道路得着预备。我又看见三个污秽个灵，好像田鸡，从龙个口里出来，从兽个口里出来，也从假先知个口里出来。因为伊拉是鬼魔个灵，会行神迹，出去到普天下并全世界个众王那里，聚集伊拉来交战，敌挡全能上帝个大日。看哪，我来像贼一样。那警醒、又看守自家衣裳个人有福哉，免得赤身而行，叫人看见伊个羞耻。那三个灵就聚集伊拉勒一个地方，希伯来话叫作哈米吉多顿。启示录 16:12–16。
The victory over the beast is the victory of understanding correctly who the beast is. The passage just cited pronounces a blessing upon those that watch and keep their garments, yet by the sixth plague, probation has fully closed for all men. When Michael stands up, human probation closes and then the seven last plagues are poured out. There is no way to change garments after the close of probation, yet there is a warning associated with the sixth plague. That warning has to do with having the correct understanding of the beast before probation closes, and if you do not have that understanding, you will lose the garment of Christ’s righteousness before the close of probation.
胜过该兽，就是正确明白该兽究竟是谁个胜利。方才所引个经文，宣告福分归于那些儆醒并看守自己衣裳个人；然而到第六灾个辰光，一切人个恩门已经完全关闭。及至米迦勒站起来，人人个宽容时期便告终结，随后七大灾就倾倒下来。恩门关闭之后，再也呒没法子更换衣裳；然而，第六灾仍附带一个警告。此警告乃是关乎在恩门关闭之前，对该兽必须有正确个认识；若侬呒没此种认识，侬就在恩门关闭以前失落基督公义个衣裳。
“Those who become confused in their understanding of the word, who fail to see the meaning of antichrist, will surely place themselves on the side of antichrist. There is no time now for us to assimilate with the world. Daniel is standing in his lot and in his place. The prophecies of Daniel and of John are to be understood. They interpret each other. They give to the world truths which everyone should understand. These prophecies are to be witness in the world. By their fulfillment in these last days, they will explain themselves.” Kress Collection, 105.
“凡喺对圣言个理解上变得混乱、弗能看明敌基督之意义个人，定规会摆拉敌基督一边。阿拉如今再无辰光好同世界混杂。但以理正立拉伊个分内，亦立拉伊个位分上。但以理同约翰个预言是应当被明白个。伊拉互相阐明。伊拉将人人都应当明白个真理赐拨世界。这些预言是要喺世界上作见证个。藉着伊拉喺这末后日子里个应验，伊拉会自家说明自家。” Kress Collection, 105.
If a person does not understand that the antichrist is the papacy, they will end up on the side of the papacy, or as John wrote, they will walk naked and manifest their shame. To get the victory over the beast is to understand that the beast is the papal power, and all that is revealed of the papal power. Those who get the victory and understand that the papacy is the man of sin, will need to understand that the image of the papacy represents the principle of the combination of church and state, with the church in control of the relationship.
若是一儕人弗明白敵基督就是教皇制，伊末后总归会立勒教皇制一面；抑照约翰所写，伊会赤身而行，显出自家个羞耻。得胜过兽，就是要明白兽就是教皇个权势，并明白一切所启示出来个教皇权势。凡得胜、并明白教皇制就是罪恶之人个人，必要明白教皇制个像，乃是表明政教联合个原则，而其中是教会掌握迭层关系个主导权。
In the book of Daniel, the structure of the beast, which is the combination of church and state, is represented as the transgression of desolation. Transgression is sin, and the sin that forms the papal beast is when kings surrender their power unto the papal authority. In doing this they commit spiritual fornication, which is Daniel’s transgression of desolation, and John’s image to the beast.
勒《但以理书》里，兽个结构，也就是教会搭搭政权个结合，表明为“使地荒凉个过犯”。过犯就是罪；而构成教皇兽个罪，就是列王将伊拉个权柄交拨教皇个权势。伊拉阿样做，就是犯属灵个淫乱；阿就是但以理所讲个“使地荒凉个过犯”，也就是约翰所讲个“兽个像”。
To get victory over the papal image is to understand through God’s Word that the United States first forms this relationship, and ratifies it at the soon-coming Sunday law, and then forces the entire world to accept the same relationship.
欲得勝教皇像，卽係要藉着上帝个聖言來明白：美國先成立此種關係，並於將臨个星期日法案中予以認可，然後強迫全世界接受同樣个關係。
The church and state relationship that will be forced upon the earth by the United States consists of the one-world government (the United Nations), coming into an alliance with the papacy as the controlling power in the arrangements. Getting the victory over the image of the beast, is to understand by God’s prophetic Word that the image of the beast represents these very things.
美國將會強加勒地上个教會搭國家个關係，係由一個世界政府（聯合國）組成个；該個政府將搭教皇制結成同盟，而教皇制喺一切安排當中作爲掌控个權勢。勝過獸个像，就係憑着上帝預言个話語明白：獸个像所代表个，正正就係這些事。
Getting the victory over the beast and the image of the beast includes getting the understanding of the beast’s (the papacy’s) mark of authority.
胜过该兽同该兽个像，也包括认清该兽（即教皇制）权柄个记号。
The mark of the beast is the forced observance of Sunday as God’s Sabbath. To get victory over the mark requires understanding that Sunday worship is the worship of the sun, and that it is nothing less than pagan Baal worship. The victory includes the truth that no one receives the mark of the beast until it is forced upon men.
兽个印记，就是强逼人遵守礼拜日，当作 神个安息日。若要胜过个印记，就必须明白：礼拜日个敬拜，就是敬拜太阳，也就是彻头彻尾个异教巴力崇拜。此种得胜也包括此项真理：若非个印记强加勒人身浪，还呒没一个人会领受兽个印记。
“But Christians of past generations observed the Sunday, supposing that in so doing they were keeping the Bible Sabbath; and there are now true Christians in every church, not excepting the Roman Catholic communion, who honestly believe that Sunday is the Sabbath of divine appointment. God accepts their sincerity of purpose and their integrity before Him. But when Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath, then whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God. He is paying homage to Rome and to the power which enforces the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshiping the beast and his image. As men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of His authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to Rome—‘the mark of the beast.’ And it is not until the issue is thus plainly set before the people, and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive ‘the mark of the beast.’” The Great Controversy, 449.
“然則過去各世代个基督徒守主日，以为伊拉如此做，就是在遵守《圣经》个安息日；如今每一个教会里向也有真实个基督徒，罗马天主教亦弗例外，伊拉诚心相信主日是上帝所指定个安息日。上帝悦纳伊拉个诚意同在伊面前个正直。只是，及至守主日要由法律强制推行，且世人对于真正安息日之义务得着光照个辰光，彼时若有人违犯上帝个诫命，去顺从一个并无高过罗马权威个条例，伊就因此尊崇教皇制度过于上帝。伊是在向罗马并向那强制执行罗马所设立之制度个权势致敬。伊是在拜兽同兽个像。到辰光，人既弃绝上帝所宣告为伊权柄记号个制度，反倒尊崇罗马所拣选、作为伊至尊权柄表记个制度，伊拉就因此接受归顺罗马个记号——‘兽个印记’。并且，唯有当此争议如此明明白白摆在众人面前，叫伊拉在上帝个诫命同人个诫命之间作拣选个辰光，那些仍旧继续违犯诫命个人，才会领受‘兽个印记’。”《善恶之争》，449。
Those who obtain the victory over the beast, the image of the beast and the mark of the beast must also obtain the victory over the number of his name. In the period of history when the whore of Tyre was not forgotten, the Protestant world knew the papacy was the antichrist. They knew that Paul had identified the papacy as “that wicked,” “the man of sin,” “the mystery of iniquity” and “the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” But now the great whore of Tyre has been forgotten.
得胜该兽、兽个像搭兽个印记者，也必须得胜伊名字个数目。勒推罗个淫妇还弗曾拨忘记个历史时期里，誓反教世界晓得教皇制就是敌基督。伊拉晓得保罗已经指出教皇制就是“阿个恶者”、“罪恶个人”、“不法个奥秘”搭“沉沦之子；伊敌挡一切称为神个，或受人敬拜个，并且高抬自家超过这一切；甚至叫伊像神一样坐勒神个殿里，显明自家就是神。”但如今，推罗个大淫妇已经拨忘记了。
In ages past there were various isopsephy, or gematria, applications that demonstrated that the number “666” symbolically represented the papacy. A classic example of this is that on the pope’s miter the words Vicarius Filii Dei are written. Vicarius Filii Dei, which means the “Vicegerent of the Son of God”, and therefore addresses his claim of being seated in God’s temple, claiming to be God. The Latin letters of Vicarius Filii Dei equate to the number six hundred and sixty-six.
㧹過去諸世代裡，曾有種種 isopsephy，抑或 gematria 个應用，證明數目字「666」喺象徵上代表教皇職。此中一個經典个例子，就係教皇个主教冠上寫有「Vicarius Filii Dei」一語。「Vicarius Filii Dei」意卽「神子个代理者」，因此正涉及伊自稱坐喺神个殿裡、妄稱自家係神个主張。拉丁字母「Vicarius Filii Dei」所對應个數目，正好等於六百六十六。
The beast, which is the papal power, is identified by his number and his number is “666,” but the man of sin received a deadly wound in 1798, and has been forgotten. In the last days the deadly wound is to be healed, and the healing of the deadly wound identifies that the United States first forms an image to the beast in its own nation, and then forces the world to do the same.
个兽，就是教皇权势，借伊个数目得着识别，伊个数目就是“666”；不过，罪恶个人曾经勒1798年受着致命个伤，后来也就被人忘记了。到末后个日子里，个致命个伤必要得着医好；而个致命个伤个医好，也就表明美国先勒自家国度里造成兽个像，随后再强迫全世界也照样去做。
The world image of the beast is both twofold and threefold. It is prophetically twofold for it is made up of a combination of church and state, but it is threefold in that it is made up of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet. When the threefold union of the very powers that will lead the world to Armageddon is established, they will be the beast that is the eighth kingdom that is of the seven, and it will also be the threefold union of the sixth kingdom. The number of the beast’s name in the last days is again “666,” for it represents three kingdoms that are each part of the sixth kingdom.
獸个世界形像，一面是兩重个，一面又是三重个。照預言來講，伊是兩重个，因為伊是由教會搭國家相結合所組成；毋過伊又是三重个，因為伊是由龍、獸搭假先知所組成。當嗰三重聯合——就是要引領世界走向哈米吉多頓个權勢——一旦建立，伊拉就是嗰獸，也就是出於七國而為第八國个；同時，伊也就是第六國个三重聯合。末後日子裡，獸名个數目又是「666」，因為伊代表三個國度，而每一個國度攏是第六國个一部分。
To get victory over the beast, his image, his mark and the number of his name is to understand the riddle that “the eighth is of the seven”, which is the secret of Daniel two, which Daniel prayed to understand. It is an element of the Revelation of Jesus Christ that is unsealed just before probation closes, for as John said, the “time is at hand.” For this reason, those who get that victory are represented as being with the angels who pour out the plagues, for they get the victory, or the necessary prophetic understanding, just before probation closes.
要胜过该个兽、伊个像、伊个印记并伊名字个数目，就要明白“第八是出于第七个”个谜；此乃《但以理书》第二章个奥秘，也就是但以理祈求要明白个秘密。此乃耶稣基督启示之一部分，系喺恩门关闭之前将近个辰光才得开封个；因为约翰讲过：“时候近了。” 为着此个缘故，得着该得胜个人，就给表明为同倾倒灾殃个天使一道，因为伊拉正是喺恩门关闭之前，得着该得胜，也就是所必须个先知性明白。
Those who understand that the Revelation of Jesus Christ is unsealed just before the close of probation, and that the number “666,” is an element of that vision will not miss that the vision of Ezekiel chapter eight begins on the fifth day (which is the day before the sixth day), in the sixth month of the sixth year. By the end of chapter eight twenty-five men are bowing down to the sun, and chapter nine identifies those who receive the seal of God.
凡明白耶穌基督个啟示、係喺恩典時期將欲收煞个前夕才得開封，並且曉得數字「666」乃係該異象个一個要素个人，就勿會忽略《以西結書》第八章个異象，係起首於第五日（就是第六日前一日）、第六個月、第六年。到第八章个末尾，有二十五個人向日頭下拜；第九章則指出何等人領受上帝个印記。
The context of the vision is the mark of the beast and the seal of God, and the vision is opened up just before probation closes at the Sunday law, as typified by the number “666.” But the close of probation that is identified as occurring at the Sunday law in the United States, is not the close of human probation, it is the close of probation only for Seventh-day Adventists.
異象个背景，係獸个印記同上帝个印封；而箇個異象，正當恩典時期因星期日法令而將近結束之先被開明出來，正如數目「666」所預表个一樣。毋過，箇個被指明係發生勒美國星期日法令之時个恩典時期結束，並弗係全人類恩典時期个結束，乃單單係復臨安息日會信徒恩典時期个結束。
The vision is represented as taking place within Jerusalem, which is a symbol of the Seventh-day Adventist church. At the Sunday law in the United States, Seventh-day Adventists are the only class that is, there and then, held accountable to the light of the Sabbath.
異象係表明爲發生勒耶路撒冷裏向；耶路撒冷乃係第七日安息日會个象徵。到美國主日法臨到个辰光，第七日安息日會信徒乃係唯一一班人，喺該時該地，要爲安息日个亮光擔負責任。
“If the light of truth has been presented to you, revealing the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and showing that there is no foundation in the Word of God for Sunday observance, and yet you still cling to the false sabbath, refusing to keep holy the Sabbath which God calls ‘my holy day,’ you receive the mark of the beast. When does this take place?—When you obey the decree that commands you to cease from labor on Sunday and worship God, while you know that there is not a word in the Bible showing Sunday to be other than a common working-day, you consent to receive the mark of the beast, and refuse the seal of God. If we receive this mark in our foreheads or in our hands, the judgments pronounced against the disobedient must fall upon us. But the seal of the living God is placed upon those who conscientiously keep the Sabbath of the Lord.” Review and Herald, April 27, 1911.
“倘使真理个光已经向侬显明，启示第四条诫命个安息日，并且显明礼拜日个遵守在上帝个圣言里并无根基，而侬仍旧执着于虚假个安息日，拒绝守为圣上帝所称为‘我个圣日’个安息日，侬就领受了兽个印记。这是几时发生个？——就是当侬顺从那命令侬在礼拜日停止劳作并敬拜上帝个法令之时；虽然侬明晓《圣经》里并无一句话表明礼拜日不是一个平常个工作日，侬却同意领受兽个印记，并拒绝上帝个印。倘若阿拉在额上或者在手上领受了这印记，那末向悖逆之人所宣告个审判就必定临到阿拉身上。但永生上帝个印，是加在那些凭着良心谨守主之安息日个人身上个。”《Review and Herald》，1911年4月27日。
The vision of Ezekiel chapter eight through chapter eleven, identifies the history leading up to the close of probation for Jerusalem. It is portrayed as taking place just a day before the number “666” arrives, and chapter eight identifies an escalating rebellion within Jerusalem that culminates with the leading men bowing to the sun, thus receiving the mark of the beast.
以西結書第八章到第十一章个異象，指出耶路撒冷恩典時期結束以前所經過个歷史。異象裡向其描寫成功發生勒數字「666」來到个前一日；第八章並指出，耶路撒冷內部个悖逆一級一級加深，末了以那些領頭个人向日頭下拜作結局，因而領受獸个印記。
Chapter nine, represents an angel going through Jerusalem (thus identifying a progression), and placing a seal upon one class in advance of the destroying angels who thereafter slay all who do not have the seal. Both chapters represent a progressive history that leads to the Sunday law, where one class bows to the sun, and the other receives the seal of God. The wicked are then removed from Jerusalem, for the Sunday law separates the wicked and the wise.
第九章表明一位天使經過耶路撒冷（因此顯明有一個推進个次序），趕在後來施行毀滅个諸天使以前，替其中一班人打上印記；此後，凡無此印記者，伊拉便一概殺戮。兩章攏表明一段逐步推進个歷史，直到主日法來到；到其時，一班人向日頭下拜，另一班人領受上帝个印記。其後，惡人就對耶路撒冷中被除去，因為主日法將惡人同智慧人分別開來。
The sealing that is represented in Ezekiel chapter nine is the same sealing that is represented in Revelation chapter seven.
《以西結書》第九章所表明个印記，便是《啟示錄》第七章所表明个同一印記。
“If such scenes as this are to come, such tremendous judgments on a guilty world, where will be the refuge for God’s people? How will they be sheltered until the indignation be overpast? John sees the elements of nature—earthquake, tempest, and political strife—represented as being held by four angels. These winds are under control until God gives the word to let them go. There is the safety of God’s church. The angels of God do His bidding, holding back the winds of the earth, that the winds should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree, until the servants of God should be sealed in their foreheads. The mighty angel is seen ascending from the east (or sunrising). This mightiest of angels has in his hand the seal of the living God, or of Him who alone can give life, who can inscribe upon the foreheads the mark or inscription, to whom shall be granted immortality, eternal life. It is the voice of this highest angel that had authority to command the four angels to keep in check the four winds until this work was performed, and until he should give the summons to let them loose.
“若是迭能景象必要来到，对一个有罪个世界施行介样重大个审判，上帝个子民要到啥地方去避难？彼拉要怎样得着遮蔽，直到忿怒过去？约翰看见自然界个因素——地震、风暴搭政治纷争——用四位天使执持个形象表现出来。介四阵风都受着管束，直到上帝发命叫伊拉放出来。此地就有上帝教会个安全。上帝个天使遵行伊个命令，拦阻地上个风，叫风弗吹在地上，也弗吹在海上，也弗吹在任何树上，直到上帝个仆人额角上受了印。又看见一位大能个天使从东方（日出之处）上来。介位最有能力个天使手里拿着永生上帝个印，或者讲，拿着独一能赐生命者个印；惟有伊能在额角上题写记号或铭文，凡受此记者，就要蒙赐不朽搭永远个生命。正是介位至高天使个声音，有权柄吩咐那四位天使制住四阵风，直到介件工作完成，并且等到伊发出命令，叫伊拉放开。”
“Those that overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, will be the favored ones who shall receive the seal of the living God. Those whose hands are not clean, whose hearts are not pure, will not have the seal of the living God. Those who are planning sin and acting it will be passed by. Only those who, in their attitude before God, are filling the position of those who are repenting and confessing their sins in the great anti-typical Day of Atonement, will be recognized and marked as worthy of God’s protection. The names of those who are steadfastly looking and waiting and watching for the appearing of their Saviour—more earnestly and wishfully than they who wait for the morning—will be numbered with those who are sealed. Those who, while having all the light of truth flashing upon their souls, should have works corresponding to their avowed faith, but are allured by sin, setting up idols in their hearts, corrupting their souls before God, and polluting those who unite with them in sin, will have their names blotted out of the book of life, and be left in midnight darkness, having no oil in their vessels with their lamps. ‘Unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings.’
“凡得勝世界、肉體搭魔鬼个人，必要成为蒙恩眷顾者，要领受永生上帝个印记。凡手勿洁净、心勿纯洁个人，就勿会有永生上帝个印记。凡图谋罪恶并实行个人，必要被越过。只有勒上帝面前，个态度正好处勒大而预表所指个赎罪日之中、站勒悔改并承认己罪之人地位个，纔会被认定并受印，算为配受上帝保护。凡坚定仰望、等候并儆醒候望彼等救主显现个人——比等候天亮个人更加恳切、更加切望——其名必要列入受印者之中。凡有真理一切之光照耀其灵魂，本当有与所承认之信仰相称个行为，却反被罪恶引诱，勒心里设立偶像，勒上帝面前败坏己灵，并玷污凡与伊等一同犯罪个人，其名必要从生命册上涂抹脱，并被撇下勒半夜黑暗之中，灯里器皿内无油。‘惟有敬畏我名个，公义个日头必要升起，其翅膀有医治之能。’”
“This sealing of the servants of God is the same that was shown to Ezekiel in vision. John also had been a witness of this most startling revelation. He saw the sea and the waves roaring, and men’s hearts failing them for fear. He beheld the earth moved, and the mountains carried into the midst of the sea (which is literally taking place), the water thereof roaring and troubled, and the mountains shaking with the swelling thereof. He was shown plagues, pestilence, famine, and death performing their terrible mission.” Testimonies to Ministers, 445.
“遮个对上帝仆人个印记，拨以西结勒异象里所看见个印记是同一样个。约翰阿曾经亲眼见证过遮个极其惊心动魄个启示。伊看见海同波浪吼叫，众人个心因惊骇就消化忒了。伊看见地摇动，山搬到海中央去（遮个事实实在在正发生），其中个水翻腾扰乱，山也因其涨溢而震动。伊还看见灾殃、瘟疫、饥荒同死亡正在执行伊拉可怕个使命。”《给传道人个证言》，445。
The sealing of the one hundred and forty four thousand in Revelation chapter seven is also represented in chapter nine of Ezekiel, and the sealing angel is the mightiest angel, who ascends from the east. Those who are lost, who have their names blotted out of the book of life, are represented as having “no oil in their vessels with their lamps.” The two classes in the vision of Ezekiel chapter eight through eleven, are the wise and foolish virgins of Matthew twenty-five, and they are therefore Adventists.
《启示录》第七章里一十四万四千人受印之事，亦表现于《以西结书》第九章；而施印个天使，乃是从东方上来个最有大能个天使。凡失丧个人，伊拉个名字从生命册浪涂抹脱个，就表明为“灯里有灯，器皿里却无油”。《以西结书》第八章到第十一章异象里个两等人，就是《马太福音》第二十五章里个聪明童女同愚拙童女；故此，伊拉乃是复临信徒。
“The parable of the ten virgins of Matthew 25 also illustrates the experience of the Adventist people.” The Great Controversy, 393.
「《馬太福音》二十五章个十個童女个比喻，也說明咾復臨信徒个經歷。」《善惡之爭》，393。
Sister White specifically identifies Jerusalem of Ezekiel’s vision as Adventism:
怀爱伦姊妹明确指出，以西结异象里向耶路撒冷，就是复临信仰：
“The true people of God, who have the spirit of the work of the Lord and the salvation of souls at heart, will ever view sin in its real, sinful character. They will always be on the side of faithful and plain dealing with sins which easily beset the people of God. Especially in the closing work for the church, in the sealing time of the one hundred and forty-four thousand who are to stand without fault before the throne of God, will they feel most deeply the wrongs of God’s professed people. This is forcibly set forth by the prophet’s illustration of the last work under the figure of the men each having a slaughter weapon in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. ‘And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.’” Testimonies, volume 3, 266.
“上帝真实个子民，心里怀着主个圣工并灵魂得救个灵，常常会用罪本来、实在、罪恶个性情来看罪。伊拉总归会站勒忠信、直截了当对付罪恶个一边，尤其是对那些容易缠累上帝子民个罪。特别勒教会末后个工作中，就是那十四万四千人受印个辰光——伊拉将要无瑕无疵立勒上帝宝座前——伊拉会最深切地感觉到上帝自称个子民所行个错谬。这层意思，先知用末后工作个比方，借着各人手里拿着杀戮兵器个男人个形像，有力地表明出来。其中有一个人穿着细麻衣，身边带着书记个墨盒。‘耶和华对伊讲：你要走遍城中，走遍耶路撒冷城中，凡为城中所行一切可憎之事叹息哀哭个男人，要勒伊拉额角上画记号。’”《证言》卷三，266。
The vision of Ezekiel chapters eight through eleven, is directly addressing the history of Adventism leading up to and at the Sunday law. It identifies the two classes of worshippers who are within Jerusalem (Adventism), and is prophetically associated with the Revelation of Jesus Christ that is unsealed just before the close of probation, for its first references is setting forth the number “666” in prophetic symbolism. In doing so it identifies one of four things the wise must get victory over in the last days, and those four things are part of the light of the eighth being “of the seven”. Revelation fifteen also identifies that those that get the victory over the four symbolic aspects of the papacy, sing the song of Moses and the Lamb.
以西結書第八章到第十一章个異象，係直接對着復臨運動喺主日法令之前並當其時个歷史發言。伊指明喺耶路撒冷（復臨運動）裏向个兩等敬拜者，並且喺預言上同《耶穌基督个啟示錄》有關；該啟示錄係喺恩典時期結束前勿久開啟个，因為其最初个提及，就是以預言表號陳明數目「666」。如此，伊就指出末後日子裏智慧人必須得勝个四樣事體之一；而該四樣事體，正係第八位「出於那七位」之亮光个一部分。《啟示錄》第十五章也指明，那些勝過教皇制度四個表號方面个人，乃唱摩西同羔羊个歌。
In that day Isaiah, in chapter twenty-seven says that the righteous of the last days will sing the song of the vineyard, which is a song that the Lamb sang when he walked among men that identifies a chosen people who are being passed by as a new chosen people are being selected. That song is sung by “the wise” of the last days during the sealing of Ezekiel nine and Revelation seven. Ezekiel’s vision of chapters eight through eleven is part of that very song.
到該日，以賽亞喺第二十七章講，末後个義人要唱葡萄園之歌；此歌就是羔羊曾經喺世人中間行走个辰光所唱个歌，指出一班蒙揀選个百姓正當被越過，同時另有一班新个蒙揀選个百姓正在被揀出。此歌係末後「有智慧者」喺以西結書第九章同啟示錄第七章个蓋印期間所唱。以西結第八章到第十一章个異象，正正係此歌个一部分。
We will continue this study in the next article.
阿拉将在下一篇文章里继续此项研究。
“The true people of God, who have the spirit of the work of the Lord and the salvation of souls at heart, will ever view sin in its real, sinful character. They will always be on the side of faithful and plain dealing with sins which easily beset the people of God. Especially in the closing work for the church, in the sealing time of the one hundred and forty-four thousand who are to stand without fault before the throne of God, will they feel most deeply the wrongs of God’s professed people. This is forcibly set forth by the prophet’s illustration of the last work under the figure of the men each having a slaughter weapon in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. ‘And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.’
上帝真实个子民，就是心里常常惦记牢主个圣工搭救灵魂个人，永远会照罪个本来、罪恶个实质来看罪。伊拉总归会站勒对上帝子民容易缠累个诸般罪恶，忠心直率加以对付个一边。尤其勒教会末后个工作当中，就是十四万四千人受印、将要勒上帝宝座前站立无有瑕疵个辰光，伊拉对于上帝名下子民所犯个罪恶，会感觉得格外深切。先知用末后工作个比方，拿各人手里拿仔杀戮兵器个那些人来表明这层意思，讲得极其有力。其间有一人穿细麻衣，腰旁带仔书记个墨盒。“主对伊讲：‘尔要从城中经过，从耶路撒冷中间经过，凡为城中所行一切可憎之事叹息哀哭个人，要勒伊拉额角浪画记号。’”
“Who are standing in the counsel of God at this time? Is it those who virtually excuse wrongs among the professed people of God and who murmur in their hearts, if not openly, against those who would reprove sin? Is it those who take their stand against them and sympathize with those who commit wrong? No, indeed! Unless they repent, and leave the work of Satan in oppressing those who have the burden of the work and in holding up the hands of sinners in Zion, they will never receive the mark of God’s sealing approval. They will fall in the general destruction of the wicked, represented by the work of the five men bearing slaughter weapons. Mark this point with care: Those who receive the pure mark of truth, wrought in them by the power of the Holy Ghost, represented by a mark by the man in linen, are those ‘that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done’ in the church. Their love for purity and the honor and glory of God is such, and they have so clear a view of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, that they are represented as being in agony, even sighing and crying. Read the ninth chapter of Ezekiel.
“今朝立勒上帝议会里向额人，到底是啥人？可是迭批名义上属上帝个子民当中，实际上替罪恶开脱，并且心里——若弗是公然——向责备罪恶个人发怨言个人？可是迭批站勒彼等对头，倒去同情作恶个人？断断弗是！伊拉若弗悔改，弗丢脱撒但个工作——压迫担负圣工重担个人，并且扶持锡安里罪人个手——就永远弗会领受上帝封印认可个记号。伊拉要倒勒恶人普遍毁灭当中；迭层毁灭，是借着拿屠杀兵器个五个人所表明个。迭一点务必要仔细留意：凡领受真理纯洁记号个人——迭记号是靠圣灵个权能作勒伊拉里面个，也就是由穿细麻衣个人所表明个记号——就是教会里“为一切所行个可憎之事叹息哀哭”个人。伊拉爱慕纯洁，并且看重上帝个尊荣同荣耀，到迭等地步；伊拉又对罪之极其深重个邪恶，看得介清楚，所以就被描写成功像处勒痛苦煎熬当中，甚至叹息哀哭。请读以西结书第九章。”
“But the general slaughter of all those who do not thus see the wide contrast between sin and righteousness, and do not feel as those do who stand in the counsel of God and receive the mark, is described in the order to the five men with slaughter weapons: ‘Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” Testimonies, volume 3, 266, 267.
“但是，凡弗能如许看见罪恶搭义之间广大之对比，也弗能有如那些站勒上帝议会中、领受印记者之感受个一切人，普遍之屠戮，已勒赐与五个拿杀戮兵器者个命令中描写道：‘尔等当跟随伊穿过城中去击杀；尔眼弗可顾惜，也弗可怜悯：要尽行杀戮老个、少个，并闺女、小囡，以及妇人；只是凡身上有印记个人，尔等总弗可挨近；并且要从我个圣所起首。’《Testimonies》，第3卷，266、267页。”