Jerome and Augustine

耶柔米

耶柔米在西方教會中獨樹一格，在拉丁教父中，極少人像他這樣熟悉希臘文與希伯來文。他是首屈一指的聖經學者，寫作許多聖經註釋，翻譯希臘教父的著作成拉丁文。他捲入不少爭議，對敵人毫不留情；在靈命品格來說，他不如安伯若修與屈梭多模。但是，他作為學者與聖經翻譯者而言，對西方教會的貢獻與影響是長遠的。

奧古斯丁在北非

《懺悔感恩錄》卷首說到：人被造的目的是為了認識神與愛神，所以我們的心“沒有安息”直到在他裡面得到“真正的安息”。人犯罪遠離神，墮落在錯誤導向的愛中。如此的彎曲悖逆，深藏在人內心裡，甚至人自己都意識不到。所以，要校正此墮落的心，是人自己無能為力的，甚至連選擇悔改的心願，也是全然喪失。所以，唯有神的主權恩典與慈愛，奇妙的運作在罪人之心（超乎人所能意識與理解的），才能改變悖逆之心，將人心奪回使之都順服基督，重新歸正愛神，唯有如此，人心才能真正得到永遠的平安。

奧古斯丁於32歲悔改信主，33歲受洗，37歲受聖職，41歲按立為主教，43至46歲間寫下《懺悔感恩錄》傳世不朽的名著。這是他人生下半場的開始。他在希坡主教職位上任重道遠，在面對“多納派之爭”與“伯拉糾派之爭”，駁斥摩尼教，寫作《三位一体論文集》等各方面，都忠於聖經持守真道。

奧古斯丁的中心信念，正如《懺悔感恩錄》所表明的：“人的罪與神的恩”，使得他一生都是“唯獨神的恩典，只為神的榮耀”。16世紀的改教家路德與加爾文，都是歸回奧古斯丁所持守的救恩真理；今日我們這些“宗教改革”的子孫焉能數典忘祖呢？

作者現在北加州灣區聖經歸正教會（ http://www.biblerc.org/ ）牧會，並在基督工人神學院兼課。

Revelation chapter 1 and VPP

Chapter 1

1:1, to reveal the second coming of the Lord. A semaino, a sign.

1:2, the Word of God is OT and NT. They are one, a whole book is the Word of God..

1:3, this book has 7 blessings, here is the first. The rest is at 14:13, 16:15, 19:9, 20:6, 22:7,14. By faith we received the prophecies. The time is near !

1:4, the writer is John. And his caller is the LORD, Jahweh, in Exodus 3:14, He had called Moses. "I am who I am" He is eternal. He is the Only One, Universe Controller. The Judge is at the door.

The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit, The triune God. The trinity is forever and ever.

1:6, those years, God had made a covenant with him at Sinai. A kingdom belongs to priesthood and holiness. (Exodus 19:6) Jesus Christ is our King. We are His nations and His servants.

1:7, Those Jews and Romans will see Him. They had crucified Him on the cross. Amen. This is truth.

1:8, Alpha and Omega, He is the beginning of the world and He is the ending of the world. Jesus Himself confirmed this in Rev 22:13.

1:9, there are "tribulations" with the "kingdom" and "patient" is needed. "The End" is coming. He will come to restored His kingdom on earth. The difficulties and tribulations are a must for his followers. The conditions are becoming worst and worsen. Because of Immanuel, the follower lived in peace. God gave the power to endure.

The church was persecuted, the more the persecutions, and the more the Word becoming real to us, and the revival comes. Even John saw visions.

1:10, The Lord's day. The first day, the Sunday. The resurrection of the Lord Jesus is on this day. They did not followed the Sabbath day, the Saturday, like the Jewish brothers any longer. They changed the habit of Sabbath day, from Saturday to Sunday.

They changed it to the first day, to remember the salvation and resurrection of the Lord. (Act 20:7, 1 Cor 16:2) The Word of Sabbath is still in the OT, and also in NT, but the meaning of keeping it already changed. The meaning is more important than mere word! John heard the sound like a trumpet, what does it means?

1:11, Seven churches were mentioned. They were in a circle. Jesus Christ is in the middle. The center!

1:12-14, seven lamp stands are seven churches. John saw a figure looked like a man. He is the Glorious Jesus Christ. He is wearing the garment like a priest. He is living, resurrected, highly saluted and worshipped. (Daniel 7:9) He has wisdom, reverence, and eyes like a fire, in His hands are the seven stars.

1:17, when John saw this scenery, he fell down. God revealed Himself to John. He is in fear and happiness. "Do not fear, do not afraid to die." He overcomes death. No matter what happened in our surroundings, He gives us a brighter tomorrow. A bigger hope.

1:19, John said he saw, and he wrote what he had seen. The things in the future. In the vision. Those things must happened.

1:20, seven stars, what does it means?


Thoughts:

The word of God is a sign in this book. What is that sign?

The time is nearer, but Jesus only mentioned two words, Alpha, omega in Greek!

The word "sabbath" is sabbath, a perfect word is a perfect word, what does it means, is more important than mere word it self.

The sound of the trumpet, what doest it means?

Seven stars, what is this means to us?

Seven lamp stands, where they are?

Conclusion, even we had the perfect manuscripts in our hands we dare not to interprete this chapter according to our understanding,
the meaning is more important than the word!

I hope the VPP theologians are very sure about the meaning of each word.

The Brown War.

And there is a war coming forward, the brown will fights and makes war with the brown and then there is a repentance from his racism after that. I called this as "The Brown War."

God, God, God...

One day a man goes up to see his God, he asked God for his rewards, where is his rewards after he bombed, murdered, killed, cheated, lied, and bullied many human beings on earth.

He say to God, "God is great, God is surely great, I had done so many things for you, I had preached your truth, I had done so many good deeds in your name, and I had fasted in your name, I had prayed in your name, I had done what you wanted me to do, and I had followed you whole my life. Show me what is my rewards for all my works."

On that great Day, God the merciful will be in heaven, and His Son will probably tell the man, "Go away, you terrorist, I do not know you, you are not one of my disciple. I do not asked you to murder from the begining, but to love. You had done nothing for God. Go away into the eternal damnations."

Many will try to go into heaven but many are refused. There are wars on earth, but the terrorists had fight the wrong wars for wrong reasons, but it is too late for them to know it even until the end of this world.

Roja phu

There was a Indian man called Rajah, one day his Indians friend asked him to go for a reunion at the Curry House, one of his friend asked him, "Rajah, Rajah, you want us to respect you, but when did you respect us?"

Another friend start to reply for him, "Roja phu, roja phu, you want us to hug and kiss you, but when are you going to put away your thorns? Roja poojaki panikiraani poovu." (Roja meaning rose in Tamil) All his friends were looking at him and started to smile at each other.

Rajah felt very sorry after he heard his closest friends spoke like that, "Sorry, sorry, sorry, I will try to respect you from now on. Please give me a break."

His friend said, "No just try to, but make it happen! You must learn how to respect other before other will respect you? Are you still want to behave like a roja phu to us?"

Then they all happily chated, ate the fragants rice, with curry mutton on the banana leaf, and they drank milk, they continued to reunion until late night before they departed from the curry house. Rajah started to respect other from that day onward. He won his respect at last!

When did you respect other ?

Thank God for every thing !

Thank God for the poor,
Thank God for the rich,
Thank God for another new day,
Thank God for the Whites,
Thank God for the Browns,
Thank God for the Yellows,
Thank God for the Blacks,
Thank God for the Reds,
Thank God for the human,
Thank God for the inhuman,
Thank God for the policeman,
Thank God for the fireman,
Thank God for the teacher,
Thank God for every one,
Thank God for every day,
Thank God for every moment,
Thank God, for God is good to you,
Thank God, for God is good.....
Thank God.....

Yes. it is no turning back..

The time is in God's hand....

No turning back

There is no turning back for the event coming, it must happened to the country? This is what the price? And we must pay for this unity? for the future, for our generations to come, so that the event will be cut deep into their history and their swords will be cut into their own hearts and their swords will be broken into pieces? And they will be revoked to fight, and then repent from pride, they will be humbled for the blood they had shed those generations. Blood cannot be avoided! Unless they apology and repent from the wickedness they had done to the people openly.

The Chinese had shed their blood, may God intervene the event, please protect them this time, may your will be done.God, You know who is the head of the terrorist, God help us, fight for us until he is defeated!

Heavenly Father, stop the sunshine for us a time, and may You cast out the evil spirits from the land, return them to the original place in the sea, the spirit of the pirates and spirit of the darkness...return to your original place! They are the fishermen in the beginning, but they had turned into pirates, may God stand for us, in Jesus Name I pray.

Where the money gone to, in this Shunamy 2009, the money are being cut down from the rich, some are being sent to the poor, some are gone into the wind. But this is not enough, more money in this country must be given to the poor. Before the shunamy end! There is no turning back, because, the answer is us, we caused this to happen. No turning back, it is too late. Brown is brown, your coloured face cannot be whitened to become yellow and white! You cannot fool God any longer.

Our Bible say this:

One day, the sun will give no light.....

There is No turning back. Read the Bible before it is too late for you... when there is no perfect Bible for you to read, you just read CUV, KJV, NKJV, ESV, NIV...the sun will give no light that time, do not be so choosy fellow, just read what version you have.

Stop quarrelling about the VPP for a time, please be considerate a bit for the poor this moment! This is not the time for you to quarrel about the 15th century Bible Text. Even you saluted the lawyers, not all lawyers are telling the truth, some are not considerate even what Bible versions are all about, please withdraw the lawsuit for the sake of the young generations, and new believers, settle the problem in the synod, the lawyers cannot form a synod to help you! Or you are becoming one of them?

The Manchurian Emperors

The Manchurians Emperors were not Chinese, but the Chinese said they were Chinese Emperors! This is Imperialism.

On the order hands they continue to oppress the Chinese in Taiwan and Tibet, this is communism.

Time is near, that the Communism must be punished for what they had done to us the Chinese! If they are reading the blog now, the People Republic of Chine, will be punished for the wrong they had done to us the Christian. like me a small Chinese business man, nearly killed by their secret agent, they know what I meant.

Manchurians are Manchurians, they are not Chinese! The Communists are Communists, are they Chinese? If yes, they are Chinese, why they oppress the Chinese? What is the meaning of civilizations for the Chinese?

I noticed that many Chinese are Communist! They are shouting the slogan of democracy. Clever?

Some one had touched you in Si Chuan, that is the pain I felt when I was under your secret agent. I had no regret about Si Chuan event, my people were suffered under you iron fist, and they too are painful.

God, why we are troubled by being a Chinese?

At last

This is the name calling in the Christian Dom..

The charismatics call the fundamentalist as ......."funny mental," the charismatics say they are a sort of funny funny people !

The fundamentalists cannot keep quite about this, so they also, think, what should they call the charismatics!

The fundamentalists call the Charismatics as ......."careless matics," careless, careless, they said the charismatics must be careful about the tongue speaking!

Soon, there are some modern theologians to be called as ...."funny careless mathematicians"

Why ? They said the 0.01 % is missing! Missing, missing, missing, missing, we find it, at last, at last, we find it, we find it, at last 100 % is found, 100 is find ! 100 % ! 100 % and even perfect. At last, at last, the 100 % is found !At last, at last, we have found the first century book, at last! The first become the last! The last become the first! At last, at last, we are the first! We are the first to say about the VPP, not Dr Martin Luther, not John Calvin, not even Wang Ming Tao and John Sung, but at last we had find the perfect TR, at last.
And we can said proudly like Jesus said on the cross, "It is finished." At last.

A las, what is this all about? Mathematics? History? A perfect text book, about who? A las, a las, a las, why quarrel about a few missing words, a las, a las, why quarrel for a few missing words.

A las, a las, a las...
Aren't we will missed each other at last?
Aren't we will meet each other at last?
Aren't we will see each other at last?
No? Why?
Because of that 0.01 % missing words?

A scar

Have you ever seen a scar before, any of those caused by the Samurai sword in the Second World War?

Even after 67 year, the scar is still can be seen until today. The scar of the Japanese's Samurai sword is real, once the sword nearly cut off the head of a chinese victim, but the victim used his hand to stop the samurai sword. The samurai sword cut the victim's finger, the victim escaped death, he lived with the scar until he died. His son will not forget that Samurai sword too, because he is born with a scar on his finger, a scar looks alike his father's scar. Strange! The son remembered the owner of the samurai sword! Japanese!

The Word of God is like a doubled edges sword, as a theologian, you are not advisable to use that sword, like the Japanese used their Samurai sword! To murder and kill, you are advice to use the Word, Spiritually, for edification. Do not use the sword of the Spirit, to attack the church like the VPP theologians.

Put down the samurai sword, be a Christian immediately!
Put down the sword, be a Christian immediately!
Put down the samurai sword, be a Christian immediately!
Put down the killer's sword, be a Christian today.

The temple

This is another story to tell to our sons and daughters before the dawn...There is a man called Beni Jacob, one day, a man came to tell him how to build his temple,
The man said to Beni Jacob like this.

"Son of Jacob, Son of Jacob, your enemies wanted to wipe you out from this world, you go and tell him, if you want to wipe me out of this world, I will do this to you. Tell him frankly...I know where is your house...I know what colour is your house...I know what shape is your house...If you attack me, we will be in war, we are not for peace, first thing I will do is, I will destroy your house, that square and black house, where your people like to gather ...And your people will run away and many will be killed, think about this before you attack me."

Beni Jacob hear this from the man, weather he is telling the truth or not, Beni Jacob say, "Wait and see." Beni Jacob has find some words to tell his enemies. The man say this again, "After that, call your best friend Nehemiah, together arise to build a house, the house for Adonai, arise, arise. Make haste! Make haste."

Beni Jacob tell the man, "My enemy came at night, and he put dust and dirts into my house under the door and through the window." The man say to him, "You better close your doors and windows tightly after night fall."

Beni Jacob tell the man again, "My enemy came to disturb my plantations, and they put poison even onto my flower pot." The man say to him, "You better remove your plant and flower pot away from the fence and border, and place them nearer to your door, where you can see them clearly."

Beni Jacob tell the man again, "My enemy is using psychology, biological, radioactive in warfare onto me and my family." The man say to him, "You better pray to Adonai, Jahweh the Almighty, and He will protect you until to another time."

After that the man left him for a time, and Beni Jacob pray to God, until the temple is being build....

the story continue...


How about the theologians who say the KJV is inspired, compared to NIV and NKJV or CUV...But Dr Martin Luther said even the New Testament writer omitted many words from the Hebrew Old Testament when they were quoting from it. (The meaning is still there.)

We accept the NT as inspired Word of God, even though it has omitted many Hebrew Words from the Hebrew Bible. How about NKJV and ESV, CUV, compared with KJV, they are not verbatim with KJV, but the meaning is there. NIV is more closer to the original text, the older text, the words are lesser, compared with the new manuscripts. Any how the meaning is there. Dr Martin said, the NT Evangelists did not care much for the words, but they care much for the meaning!

No matter what the version is, the meaning is more important than a few missing words!

A few missing words are missing! Big deal?

The theologians did not see this,let me point out this,

The 99.9 % of the Bible Words can build up a house, but sad to say, they did not see that 99.9 can build up the church! But the theologians are looking for the missing words, insisting that 00.01 % missing words of the whole Bible can destroy the church! What kind of faith is this? Faith from which Bible?

The church had been build on the everlasting Rock.
The House of God must be build on this everlasting Rock.

Who is this Rock refer to to...where you find the answer!

Tell the church frankly....you do not go to find the answer in those missing words, you know the answer from the 99 % of the Bible! In the CUV you can find and you know the answer, in the NKJV, you know the answer, in the NIV you can find the answer!

The answer is not in the 00.01 %........ the missing words!

Suppose One day, Beni Jacob comes to look for that answer from you, tell him frankly what you know about the everlasting Rock.....