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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Why do we expect God to prohibit war? Or why should God prevent war? Apart from the theoretical reason that God should prevent war because it is sinful...there can be no doubt that the real reason why people expect God to prevent war is that they desire a state of peace and feel that they have the right to live in a state of peace. But that immediately raises another question, which, in a sense, is the fundamental question with respect to this whole matter. What right have we to peace? Why do we desire peace? How often, I wonder, have we faced this question? Has not the tendency been to take it for granted that we have a right to a state and condition of peace? Do we stop to ask what is the real value and purpose and function of peace?... It is not enough that we should desire peace merely that we may avoid the horror and suffering of war... Man’s chief business in life is to serve and to glorify God. That is why the gift of life has been given to him. That is why we are here on earth. All other things are subservient to this—all the gifts and the pleasures which God gives us so freely... But is that our reason for desiring peace? Is that the real motive in our prayers for peace?... Do we deserve peace? Were we justified in asking God to preserve peace and to grant peace? What if war has come because we were not fit for peace, because we did not deserve peace, because we by our disobedience and godlessness and sinfulness had so utterly abused the blessings of peace? Have we a right to expect God to preserve a state of peace merely to allow men and women to continue a life that is an insult to His holy Name?
Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 以西结书 2

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 神选召以西结作先知
他对我说:「人子啊,你站起来,我要和你说话。」
他对我说话的时候,灵就进入我里面,使我站起来,我便听见那位对我说话的声音
他对我说:「人子啊,我差你往悖逆的国民以色列人那里去。他们是悖逆我的,他们和他们的列祖违背我,直到今日。
这众子面无羞耻,心里刚硬。我差你往他们那里去,你要对他们说:主耶和华如此说。
他们或听,或不听,(他们是悖逆之家),必知道在他们中间有了先知。
人子啊,虽有荆棘和蒺藜在你那里,你又住在蝎子中间,总不要怕他们,也不要怕他们的话;他们虽是悖逆之家,还不要怕他们的话,也不要因他们的脸色惊惶。
他们或听,或不听,你只管将我的话告诉他们;他们是极其悖逆的。
「人子啊,要听我对你所说的话,不要悖逆像那悖逆之家,你要开口吃我所赐给你的。」
我观看,见有一只手向我伸出来,手中有一书卷。
10 他将书卷在我面前展开,内外都写着字,其上所写的有哀号、叹息、悲痛的话。