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Well, as your can see, the upgrade went quite well. I spent half a day and most of the major functionalities are up and running now.

As mentioned before, fine-tuning will continue. And if you spot any unexpected behaviors from the site, let me know.

The classic “Who’s on First?” in Typography form:

Other than the awesome typography, the classic is also one of the best illustrations of communication disaster, where 2 perfectly logical individuals expressed their thoughts accurately, yet completely missed the point.

This is to tell you that sometimes, just being “right” and “accurate” are not enough….

WordPress 2.5 has just been released today (Mar 29). As the site has been running on 2.0.4 for quite some time now, I think it is time to upgrade to a new release soon. So starting Monday, the site will be intermittent for a few days.

While fine tuning will no doubt continue in the next few weeks, I hope everything will go smoothly and the major functionalities will be up mid-week next week!

I was reading Techcrunch the other day, and the following paragraph caught my eyes:

Microsoft is a company with a lot of good people doing amazing things, but those people are like a horse that has been handicapped out of the race with the baggage of Microsoft old. They are putting up a good fight to be seen and listened to, but it’s a hard ask. Microsoft is clearly a company that is changing, the only remaining question is will the whole organization transform into the new Microsoft quickly enough to survive the rapidly changing way companies and individuals interact with technology.

Now change the word Microsoft to church; company to institute; and technology, God.

And you will know why the paragraph catches my eyes.

[Techcrunch]

在多倫多一個超市看到這幾支汽水，讓我突然想到那在遠方的弟兄姊妹：

早前聽到一些令人擔心的消息，你們怎樣？主明白的，不要放棄！

馬太福音 24.37-42

37 挪亞的日子怎樣，人子降臨也要怎樣。
38 當洪水以前的日子，人照常吃喝嫁娶，直到挪亞進方舟的那日；
39 不知不覺洪水來了，把他們全都沖去。人子降臨也要這樣。
40 那時，兩個人在田裡，取去一個，撇下一個。
41 兩個女人推磨，取去一個，撇下一個。
42 所以，你們要儆醒，因為不知道你們的主是那一天來到。

這是支持「被提」（rapture）的招牌經文之一。我們假設了，在「人子降臨」（或說「再臨」）的時候，「取去」的是信徒，「撇下」是不信之人。再用一點想象，「取去」到那裡？那定必是天堂云云…

但這樣的讀法無視了「取去」（παραλαμβάνεται / taken away）未必是divine passive（即「神取去」）的可能。這詞也可以指著負面，因審判而被帶走（如 太27.27）。

但決定因素，卻不是此字的正負用法之可能，而是上文39節的「沖去」（ἦρεν / swept away）。若挪亞的日子，洪水把不醒覺的人全都「沖去」，那人子降臨的日子，被「取去」的，你說是好還是壞？

現在你還恨不恨被「取去」？

第五幕：昭告君王的喜訊：教會的任務
第二場：直到地極（我們在這故事中的位置）

Mar 23 2008

神與聖經 課堂錄音:

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筆記:

1. 投影筆記(pdf)
2. 覆習問題(pdf)

下週經文（請自選一組）：

1. 經文1：啟21-22 章
2. 經文2：啟1-5 章；啟21-22 章
3. 經文3：啟示錄全卷

趁著這天補假，留在家中做了兩樣「有貢獻」的事：

1. 清理書枱和背後混亂不堪的電線。
2. 拆掉那$4.95的「白色波波燈」，裝上了揀了多年，終於揀o岩心水的飯枱燈。

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