《聖經．啟示錄》記載，當主耶穌向別迦摩教會的使者說話時，提到別迦摩是一處有撒但座位的地方。它竟與第二次世界大戰六百萬猶太人被殺扯上關係！
啟示錄 2 章12 至13 節：
「你要寫信給別迦摩教會的使者，說：『那有兩刃利劍的，說：「我知道你的居所，就是有撒但座位之處；當我忠心的見證人安提帕在你們中間、撒但所住的地方被殺之時，你還堅守我的名，沒有棄絕我的道。」』」
考古發現
於歷史上，別迦摩是使徒時代羅馬帝國的敬拜偶像中心，內裏有一座「宙斯祭壇」
── 這就是《啟示錄》稱為「撒但座位」的地方。
今天，別迦摩只剩下一片廢墟，但當使徒約翰寫信給別迦摩教會時，這地方是羅馬帝國最有影響力的城市之一。
古別迦摩是小亞細亞異教崇拜的中心，曾被稱為撒但的住處，於第一世紀，這是個繁榮的城市，但經過無數的戰火和自然災害，別迦摩廟宇只剩下一片頹垣敗瓦。
發現並回柏林博物館
到了 19世紀中，盛極一時的別迦摩城幾乎無人憶及，當地人把此處用作採石場，掠奪這裡的大理石用於新建築，直至 1864年一位德國工程師 Carl
Humann來訪。他大感震驚，因無價的手工藝品遭受破壞，他後來獲批准在這古城挖掘，並且發現了史上極其寶貴的遺跡－－宙斯大祭壇。
他將祭壇分成石塊運回柏林，經過重組放置在博物館內。而這就是帕加馬博物館，於
1930年竣工，以祭壇作為核心。
第二次世界大戰前
這座祭壇吸引一個年青人的目光：納粹黨新首席建築師 Albert Speer，希特拉委託他設計紐倫堡黨代表集會的閱兵場，
Speer以別迦摩祭壇作為靈感，最後在集會場地創造巨大的看台，稱為 Zeppelintribüne。翌年，逾 100萬德國人到紐倫堡聽希特拉講話。
設立「撒但座位」 600 萬猶太人成為祭物
1935年 9月 15日晚上，希特拉宣布《紐倫堡法》，一個剝奪猶太人公民身分的法令。而《保護德國血統和德國榮譽法》，目的是開始邊緣化猶太人。
希特拉任內大部分時間都得到民眾支持。就在這裡，希特拉首次公開「最終解決方案」一詞。此法案試圖尋求立法解決方案，如果嘗試失敗，必須把猶太人問題升級，交由納粹黨尋求最終解決方案。
《紐倫堡法》剝奪了猶太人的公民權利。他們不能在公立大學任教，不能在公立醫院行醫，不能懸掛國旗。後來還有《帝國公民法》，列明德國猶太人隸屬於帝國，沒有公民身分。
結果二次大戰結束後，估計有 600萬猶太人遭屠殺。
公元92 年，一位忠心的基督徒安提帕，因為不肯承認羅馬的邪神，在別迦摩宙斯祭壇以「全燔祭」被殺，《啟示錄》稱別迦摩為「撒但的座位」。
在十數個世紀後的紐倫堡，於重新設計的別迦摩祭壇中心，講台取替了銅牛。在此，希特拉向世界宣布了，他的「最終解決方案」，這次，獻上的燔祭是 600萬猶太人。
歷史是巧合的嗎？
不！
這「撒但的座位」已在美國出現。
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The
Secrets of Ancient Pergamum
附中英文內容：
I, John, was on the island that is called Patmos I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day and I heard
behind me a loud voice.
我約翰曾在那名叫拔摩的海島上，當主日，我被聖靈感動，聽見在我後面有大聲音。
To the angel of the church in Pergamum
throne is. And you hold fast to my name,
and did not deny my faith even in the days in which Antipas was my faithful
martyr who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. （Revelation 2:12）
你要寫信給別迦摩教會的使者，說：「我知道你的居所，就是有撒但座位之處，當我忠心的見證人安提帕在你們中間，撒但所住的地方被殺之時，你還堅守我的名，沒有棄絕我的道。」（啟示錄2:12）
Today, all that's left of Pergamum Roman Empire .
今天，別迦摩只剩下一片廢墟，但當使徒約翰寫信給別迦摩教會時，這地方是羅馬帝國最有影響力的城市之一。
別迦摩擁有與別不同的特殊地位，因為它是政治中心，從這裡作出的裁決，會影響整個小亞細亞。
The city's acropolis rivaled Athens
這裡的衛城媲美雅典，圖書館是古世界中第二大的，其藏書量的龐大，讓當時的羅馬將軍Marc Antony，將之送給Cleopatra 作為結婚禮物。
At the end of the first century, Pergamum
在第一世紀末，別迦摩是繁華的城市，那為何《啟示錄》會稱之為撒但所住之處呢？
The answer lies in the ruins of the city's
temples.
答案就在市內已荒廢的神殿中。
On one side, it was a very beautiful city,
But on the flip side, it was one of the darkest, eeriest cities in the whole Roman Empire .
一方面，它是個美麗的城市，但另一面，卻是羅馬帝國最黑暗、最詭秘的城市之一。
The people of Pergamum
were known as the "Temple-keepers of Asia ."
The city had three temples dedicated to the worship of the Roman emperor,
another for the goddess Athena, and the Great Altar of Zeus, the king of the
Greek gods.
別迦摩人被稱為「亞細亞神殿的看守者」，這裡有三座神殿供奉羅馬皇帝、女神雅典娜和宙斯的大祭壇，宙斯乃希臘眾神之神。
Many scholars believe this altar is the
“Throne of Satan” mentioned in the book of Revelation.
許多學者相信這大祭壇就是《啟示錄》所形容「撒但的座位」。
That word "throne" was first used
to describe a chair that was used in a personal private residence, and it was
the chair for the lord of the house, the master of the house.
「座位」一字形容一張椅子，在一個私人的房子裡，並且屬於房東，即房子的主人。
The very fact that Jesus would use that
word in this verse means Satan felt at home there. He sat on a throne there. It
was his territory. He was the master of that house.
主耶穌用這字眼在經文當中，表明了撒但以這地方為住處，牠為自己設立了座位，那裡是牠的範圍，牠就是房子的主人。
The city also had a healing center called
the Asklepion, It was built in honor of the Greek serpent-god
Asklepios.
這城市亦有Asklepion
醫療中心，以希臘蛇神Asklepios
之名建立。
In the first century, this was a cross
between a hospital and a health spa, where patients could get everything from
mud bath to major surgery. Even the emperors came all the way from Rome
在第一世紀，中心混合了醫院和水療，從泥漿浴至大手術，服務應有盡有，甚至皇帝會從羅馬來到這裡治療，但診斷過程卻是非比尋常。
If you were a terminal patient, then you
were not allowed to go into the Asklepion, and these Asklepion priests didn’t
want anyone hearing somebody had died in the Asklepion.
如果你是末期病人，你便會被嚴禁進入Asklepion，因為Asklepion 祭司不想任何人聽到有人死在中心裡。
And in fact, there was a huge sign just above
the official entrance to the Asklepion would said, Death is not permitted here.
事實上，那裡有很大的指示牌，在Asklepion 正門上寫著「嚴禁死亡」。
So the only way you were going to get in to
begin with is if they knew you were going to live.
所以，唯有確定你能活著，才容許進入。
Patients entered through this underground
tunnel, then they drank a sedative and slept here in the dormitories while
non-poisonous snakes crawled around them all night.
病人會從地下隧道進內，之後服用鎮靜藥，然後睡在那裡的寢室，同時會有無毒的蛇整晚在身邊爬行。
They were told that the serpent-god
Asklepios would speak to them in their dreams and give them a diagnosis.
據說，蛇神Asklepios
會向他們報夢，給他們診斷。
It was believed that the snakes actually
carried the healing power of Asklepios, and if a snake slithered across you
while you were sleeping at night, that was a divine sign that healing power was
coming to you.
他們相信那些蛇，會帶來蛇神Asklepios
的醫治能力，若果蛇在他們睡著時爬到身上，就表示醫治能力臨到了。
The next morning, the patients told their
dreams to the priests who prescribed their treatments. Finally, the patients
made clay sculptures of the body parts that needed healing and offered them to
Asklepios.
翌日早晨，病人把夢告訴祭司，祭司便開藥方，最後病人要製造患病器官的泥塑獻給Asklepios。
The people of Pergamum
別迦摩人敬拜無數希臘羅馬神明，當信奉獨一真神的基督教興起，異教祭司便不斷攻擊，其中最聞名的受害者是安提帕。
In the book of Revelation, Jesus called
Antipas "my faithful martyr".
在《啟示錄》中，耶穌稱安提帕為「我忠心的見證人」。
He was the bishop of Pergamum ,
ordained by the Apostle John, and his faith got the attention of the priests of
Asklepios who complained to the Roman governor in Pergamum
他是別迦摩主教，由使徒約翰按立，他的信仰引起Asklepios 祭司注意，祭司向別迦摩羅馬總督投訴。
The priests testified that demons appeared
to them in their dreams, and told them that the prayers of Antipas were driving
them out of the city.
祭司說邪靈向他們報夢，說安提帕的祈禱把牠們趕出城外。
He had cast out so many devils that the
demons, the spirits had been complaining to pagans, “You’'ve got to do
something about this Antipas.
他趕了很多鬼，驅使邪靈向信眾投訴，必須對付安提帕。
Antipas was ordered to offer a sacrifice of
wine and incense to a statue of the Roman emperor and declare that the emperor
was "lord and god".
於是他們命令安提帕獻酒和上香給羅馬皇帝雕像，並要稱他為主為神。
He refused.
安提帕拒絕了。
If you reject the divinity of the emperor,
it is the equivalent of rejecting the city of Rome
否定皇帝是神，等於否定羅馬城，信徒因此被殺。
Antipas was sentenced to death on the Altar
of Zeus.
安提帕被判死刑，在宙斯祭壇行刑。
Most of that altar survives today, and
surrounding it are some of the world's most famous marble friezes. They
portrait the battle between the Greek gods and the giants.
祭壇大部分存留至今，旁邊的石雕世界聞名，述說希臘眾神與巨人爭戰。
At the top of the altar was a hollow bronze
bull, designed for human sacrifice.
祭壇頂部有空銅牛，專用來獻活人祭。
They would take the victim, place him
inside the bull, they would tie him in such a way that his head would go into
the head of the bull, then would light a huge fire under the bull, and as the
fire heated the bronze, the person inside of the bull would slowly begin to
roast to death.
他們把受害者綑到牛裡去，然後把他的把頭放進牛頭，在銅牛下點燃烈火，火燒著銅，裡面的人慢慢被烤熟至死。
And as the victim would begin to moan and
would begin to cry out in pain, his cries would go through all of the pipes
which were in the head of the bull so it seemed to make the bull come alive.
受害者在痛楚中呻吟呼叫，呼聲通過牛頭管道，使牛好像活起來一般。
Even in the midst of the flames, Antipas
died praying for his church.
即使在火焰之中，安提帕仍為教會祈禱。
A few years later, the Apostle John wrote
the Book of Revelation, mentioning the death of Antipas on this very spot.
數年後，使徒約翰撰寫《啟示錄》，提到安提帕在該處殉道。
Here in Pergamum
別迦摩只剩下根基石。
Today, the Altar of Zeus is more than a
thousand miles away.
今天，宙斯大祭壇處於千里之外。
In the 19th century, German engineers
dismantled the altar and took it to Berlin Pergamon Museum
19 世紀，德國工程師把壇拆除，將之搬到柏林，所謂「撒但的座位」，於1930 年陳列於柏林帕加馬博物館，剛好啟發了史上其中之一個最殘酷的獨裁者。
Ancient Pergamum ,
the center of pagan worship in Asia Minor ,
once known as the place where Satan
dwells. In the first century, it was a
thriving city. But after countless wars and natural disasters, the temples of Pergamum
古別迦摩是小亞細亞異教崇拜的中心，曾被稱為撒但的住處，於第一世紀，這是個繁榮的城市，但經過無數的戰火和自然災害，別迦摩廟宇只剩下一片頹垣敗瓦。
By the mid-19th century, the once great
city of Pergamum
site as a quarry, looting the marble for
new buildings. Until 1864 when a German engineer paid a visit.
到了19 世紀中，盛極一時的別迦摩城幾乎無人憶及，當地人把此處用作採石場，掠奪這裡的大理石用於新建築，直至1864 年一位德國工程師來訪。
Carl Humann was shocked by the destruction
of the priceless artifacts, so he got permission to excavate the ancient city
himself.
Carl Humann 大感震驚，因無價的手工藝品遭受破壞，他後來獲批准在這古城挖掘。
And what he found was one of the greatest
monuments in history: the Altar of Zeus. Stone by stone, the altar was
excavated and brought here to Berlin
發現了史上極其寶貴的遺跡：宙斯大祭壇。一塊又一塊，祭壇每塊石頭給運往柏林，經過重組放置在博物館內。
The Pergamon Museum
帕加馬博物館於1930 年竣工，以祭壇作為核心。
Eventually, it caught the eye of a young
man named Albert Speer, the new chief architect for the Nazi Party. Adolf
Hitler had commissioned him to design the parade grounds for the party rallies
in Nuremberg
最終，祭壇吸引一個年青人的目光：納粹黨新首席建築師Albert Speer，希特拉委託他設計紐倫堡黨代表集會的閱兵場，Speer 以別迦摩祭壇作為靈感。
Speer gives all the credit to Hitler
Speer 把所有功勞歸給希特拉。
I think that he's like a good interior
decorator that someone hires and that client already has the ideas of what he
wants to do, and the decorator agrees with him, and just fulfill them.
他像某人僱用的一個良好室內裝潢師，客戶已經有自己的想法，裝潢師只是認同及執行而已。
So that's what Speer did.
Speer 做到了。
Using the altar as his model, Speer created
a colossal grandstand at the rally grounds. It became known as the
Zeppelintribüne. The next year, more than a million Germans came to Nuremberg
以祭壇作為模型，Speer 在集會場地創造巨大的看台，稱為Zeppelintribüne，翌年，逾100 萬德國人到紐倫堡聽希特拉講話。
On the evening of September 15, 1935,
Hitler announced the Nuremberg Laws, laws that took away German citizenship
from Jews.
The Law for the Protection of German Blood
and German Honor is intended to begin the marginalization process of the Jewish
people.
《保護德國血統和德國榮譽法》，目的是開始邊緣化猶太人。
Hitler had a lot of popular support for
much of his time in office.
希特拉任內大部分時間得到民眾支持。
One doesn't get popular support by saying
to the public we're going to put Jewish people in gas chambers and then
incinerate them.
他取悅民眾的方式，不是說：我們打算把猶太人放進毒氣室，然後焚燒他們。
You don't do that.
你不會這樣做。
What he did was gradually marginalize them.
他的手法是逐漸邊緣化猶太人。
It was also here that Hitler used the
phrase “Final Solution” for the first time in public.
就在這裡，希特拉首次公開「最終解決方案」一詞。
Bitter complaints have come in from
countless places citing the provocative behavior of Jews.
猶太人挑釁行為的投訴比比皆是。
This law is an attempt to find a
legislative solution. If this attempt fails, it will be necessary to transfer
the Jewish problem to the National Socialist party for a final solution.
此法案試圖尋求立法解決方案，如果嘗試失敗，必須把猶太人問題升級，交由納粹黨尋求最終解決方案。
The Nuremberg Laws stripped the Jews of
their rights as citizens.
《紐倫堡法》剝奪了猶太人的公民權利。
They couldn't teach in public universities,
they couldn't practice medicine in public hospitals. They couldn't fly the
national flag.
他們不能在公立大學任教，不能在公立醫院行醫，不能懸掛國旗。
Then that was coupled with the Reich
Citizenship Law, which said that Jewish people in Germany
後來還有《帝國公民法》，列明德國猶太人隸屬於帝國，沒有公民身分。
Hitler's "Final Solution" is now
known as the Holocaust, from the Greek word that means "a wholly burnt animal
sacrifice."
希特拉的「最終解決方案」現稱為「大屠殺」，來自希臘字「燒為灰燼的動物燔祭」。
In AD 92, the faithful martyr Antipas died,
a "wholly burnt sacrifice" on the Altar of Zeus in Pergamum
公元92 年，安提帕殉道，在別迦摩宙斯祭壇以「全燔祭」被殺，《啟示錄》稱別迦摩為「撒但的座位」。
Centuries later in Nuremberg
十幾個世紀後的紐倫堡，於重新設計的別迦摩祭壇中心，講台取替了銅牛。
From there, Adolf Hitler announced his
"Final Solution" to the world and this time, the burnt sacrifice was six
million Jews.
在此，希特拉向世界宣布了，他的「最終解決方案」，這次，獻上的燔祭是600 萬猶太人。
