NI UBUHE BWOKO BUTANDUKANYE BW’ABAMARAYIKA MURI BIBILIYA?

NI UBUHE BWOKO BUTANDUKANYE BW’ABAMARAYIKA MURI BIBILIYA?

Abamarayika kuva kera bashimishije ikiremwamuntu. Turavuga kubyerekeye umumarayika murinzi. Abamarayika bagaragara muri amwe muma firime yacu na tereviziyo – kuri bamwe umugambi wose ushingiye kubamarayika. Dukoresha “angel” nkishimwe. Ndetse dufite ikipe ya baseball yitwa Abamarayika.

Dore ubundi buryo bwo gukoresha abamarayika. Iyo ushaka gutanga urugero rwukuntu abakristo bashobora kurangara — ndetse bakanashyuha — kubibazo bisa nkibidafite akamaro, urabaza ikibazo, “abamarayika bangahe bashobora kubyina kumutwe wa pin?” Nuburebure bwo gusetsa mugihe cyo hagati. Abantu barababara kwisi yose kandi abiga baganiraga kubibazo nkibi.
Iyo tuvuze abamarayika, ntibyatinze mbere yuko twaguka kurenza ibyo Bibiliya ivuga. Iyo dukora ibi, turi ahantu hateye akaga. Ndibutswa aya magambo yubwenge yavuzwe na John Calvin.

“Mubyukuri, ubusa bufatanije nubwibone burashobora kugaragara kuberako, mugushakisha Imana, abantu bababaye ntibazamuka hejuru yabo nkuko bikwiye, ahubwo bamupima na yardstick yubuswa bwabo bwite, kandi bakirengagiza iperereza ryumvikana; bityo kubera amatsiko baguruka mubitekerezo byubusa. Ntibafata rero Imana nkuko yitanze, ahubwo bamutekereza nkuko bamuhimbye mubitekerezo byabo. Iyo iki kigobe gifunguye, muburyo ubwo aribwo bwose bagenda ibirenge, ntibashobora kureka kwiroha mumutwe.”

Kugira ngo ibyo bishoboke, intego yanjye hano ni ukugaragaza icyo Ibyanditswe bitubwira ku bwoko butandukanye bw’abamarayika no kutajya mu bitekerezo. Ni ingingo y’ingenzi. Kandi ndizera ko abamarayika bagikora kwisi yacu muri iki gihe. Ariko ntabwo twikorera ubutoni turenze ibyo Imana yahisemo kuduhishurira. Ariko mbere yuko dushakisha ubwoko bwabamarayika, dukeneye kubaza ikibazo cyibanze. Umumarayika ni iki?

UMUMARAYIKA NIKI?
Abamarayika ni ibiremwa ndengakamere, byaremwe n’Imana. Ijambo umumarayika risobanura gusa intumwa. Inkoranyamagambo ya Bibiliya ya Eerdman’s itanga incamake nziza:
“Abamarayika ni igice cyo kurema Imana, cyaremwe haba mu ntangiriro cyangwa mbere gato yuko isi ishingwa (Ps. 148: 2–5; Neh. 9: 6; Col. 1:15–17). Bafite gahunda yo hejuru kurenza abantu (Heb. 2: 7) kandi bafite imbaraga nimbaraga (2 Pet. 2:11; cf. 2 Kgs. 19:35). Ariko, ntibagomba gusengwa nabantu (Col. 2:18; Ibyah 22: 8–9). Abamarayika ntibazi byose nk’Imana, kuko batazi igihe cyo kuza kwa Kristo (Mat. 24:36; cf. 1 Amatungo. 1:12). Ntanubwo bari hose, kuko bivugwa ko bajya ahandi (Dan. 9: 21–23). Abamarayika ni ibiremwa by’umwuka (Heb. 1:14). Ntibapfa, nta nubwo bashakana (Luka 20:36; Mariko 12:25). Mugihe umubare wabamarayika utigeze utangwa rwose, bivugwa ko utabarika (Dan. 7:10; Heb. 12:22; Ibyah 5:11).”
Ku bwa Sam Emadi, “Ibikorwa byabo by’ibanze nk’uko byagaragaye mu Byanditswe ni ukwishora mu gusenga Imana mu ijuru no gusohoza imigambi yayo ku isi. Imana iha abamarayika kurinda ubwoko bwayo, kubakiza akaga, kohereza ubutumwa bwimana, no gushishikariza abizera.”

Ntabwo tuzi igihe abamarayika baremwe. Byaremwe, ariko nkuko Ibyanditswe bireba, ni. Nibice bigize gahunda yaremye nkibiti nibyatsi nizuba nukwezi. Ariko nanone bigaragara ko hari ubwoko butandukanye bwabamarayika.

NI UBUHE BWOKO BUTANDUKANYE BW’ABAMARAYIKA?
Mu myaka ya za 500, umumonaki wari uzwi ku izina rya Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite yashyizeho urwego rw’abamarayika mu gitabo cye cyitwa The Celestial Hierarchy. Muri uwo murimo yerekanye ibice 3 by’abamarayika, hamwe n’amasomo (cyangwa amakorari) muri buri kimwe. Nibyo ibyiciro bye byasaga:
1. Umwanya wa mbere: Korali Umwe — Seraphim, Korali Babiri — Cherubim, Korali Intebe eshatu —

2. Umwanya wa kabiri: Korali Bane — Ubutegetsi, Korali Gatanu — Imico myiza, Korali Itandatu — Imbaraga

3. Umwanya wa gatatu: Korali Irindwi — Ibikomangoma, Korali Umunani — Abamarayika, Korali Icyenda — Abamarayika

4. Akoresha amagambo ya Bibiliya kuri buri kimwe muri ibyo, kandi muri buri kimwe afite ibisobanuro birebire. Ariko sinshidikanya rwose ko aribwo buryo Bibiliya igaragaza ibintu.

Suzuma urugero. Tekereza ko mu myaka 2000 nta nyamaswa zizerera ku isi. Hari hashize igihe kinini umuntu abonye kimwe muri ibyo biremwa. Ariko havumbuwe inyandiko yanditse kuri ibyo biremwa bidasanzwe. Kuri iyo nyandiko wasomye: igisiga, imbwa, injangwe, inyamaswa z’inyamabere, inkongoro. Uhereye kuri ibi uratekereza ko hari ibintu bitanu byiyi nyamaswa. Ikibazo, nubwo, inyoni, imbwa, n’inyamabere bishobora kuba bivuga inyamaswa imwe gusa.
Ikintu kimwe, ndizera ko gishobora kuba ukuri mubice byabamarayika. Turabizi neza ko “dominions” ivuga ibintu bitandukanye na serafimu, cyangwa abamarayika bakuru? Nahisemo rero kuvuga nkuko Ibyanditswe bibivuga. Kandi birasa nkaho hariho ibyiciro byingenzi byabamarayika.

ABAMARAYIKA BAKURU
Birashoboka ko umumarayika mukuru ari agace k’ubundi bwoko bwa malayika. Mikayeli avugwa nk’umumarayika mukuru muri Yuda 1: 9. Undi witwa marayika ni Gaburiyeli, uvuga ngo “ihagaze imbere y’Imana.” Ibi byatumye bamwe bizera ko Gaburiyeli ari undi mumarayika mukuru. Kandi muri 1 Abatesalonike 4:16 havugwa ijwi rya “rya marayika mukuru.

ABAKERUBI
Ubu ni ubwoko bw’abamarayika bavuzwe cyane. Ahari, wigeze wumva umukerubi — umumarayika mwiza wumwana. Ibyo ni kure-gutaka kubisobanuro byabo muri Bibiliya. Ezekiyeli 10 aduha ibisobanuro bifatika kuri bo. Bavuga ko ari abarinzi inzira igana ku giti cyubuzima mu Itangiriro 3:24. Bagaragara kandi muburyo bw’ishusho mu Kuva 25:18, 20 aho barinze intebe y’imbabazi. Ibyo biratubwira ko imikorere yabo ishobora kurinda ahantu ikiremwamuntu cyicyaha gishobora kwanduza umwanya wera wImana.

SERAPHIM
Ibi tubisanga muri Yesaya gusa. Muri Yesaya 6 abasobanura ko bitwikiriye mu maso no ku birenge, kandi arira kubyerekeye kwera kw’Imana. Nibo baha Yesaya amakara kuva kurutambiro kugirango ashyire kumunwa wanduye. Birashoboka ko ikiremwa cyo mu Byahishuwe 4: 8 gifite amababa atandatu ari seraf.

IBIREMWA BIZIMA
Ibi bivugwa mu Byahishuwe 4. Birashoboka ko iri ari irindi tsinda ryabakerubi (kubera Ezekiyeli 10), ariko isura yabo iratandukanye nibyo tubona hano. Basa nkaho bakora nkabayobozi basenga mwijuru — bahora bazengurutse intebe yImana hamwe nabasaza makumyabiri na bane (abantu bacunguwe?).

Abamarayika Baguye
Birashoboka ko atari byiza kutita iri tsinda ryihariye, ahubwo tukavuga ko hariho abamarayika beza n’abamarayika baguye muri buri cyiciro. Ariko Bibiliya ivuga kugwa kwa Satani (Luka 10:18) n’umuriro utazima wagenewe “satani n’abamarayika be” (Mat. 25:41). Bamwe bahujije ibice byo muri Yesaya 14, Ibyahishuwe 9, n’Ibyahishuwe 12 kugira ngo bigishe ko igihe Satani yigometse, 1/3 cy’abamarayika bajyanye. Ariko Ibyanditswe ntibisobanutse neza kuriyi ngingo. Icyo twavuga neza nuko bamwe mubamarayika, baremye ibyiza, ubu bagize igice cyabadayimoni.

ABAMARAYIKA BARACYAKORA MWISI YACU UYUMUNSI?
Niba utekereza kumyaka yose yamateka yanditswe muri Bibiliya, ikigaragara nuko kugaragara kwabamarayika bitamenyerewe nkuko bigaragara. Ninkaho indege iguye nimpanuka zimodoka. Iyanyuma ibaho kenshi kandi igahitana ubuzima bwabantu kumwaka. Ariko ntibatanga amakuru. Impanuka y’indege ikora. Abamarayika barasa; iyo bagaragaye, abantu barumva.

Imana rwose irakora cyane kwisi muri iki gihe. Kuki umugaragu we intumwa, abamarayika, batagikora nabo? Kandi Abaheburayo 13: 2 havuga ko ari ngombwa gushimisha abo mutazi, “kubwibyo bamwe bashimishije abamarayika batabizi.” Abamarayika ni abakozi ba “bakora ubushake bwe ” (Zaburi 103: 20-21). Ntabwo buri gihe tubona akazi kabo, ariko Bibiliya itubwira ko bakorera.

Nkunda uburyo John Piper avuga muri make ibikorwa byabo kwisi muri iki gihe. Ibi arabivuga,
“Rero, mwijuru no kwisi, abamarayika mubwiza bwabo bakora kugirango bahamagare kwita kubwiza bw’Imana kandi, igitangaje, bakorera guhamagarira abantu ubwiza buto ariko butangaje bwumwizera woroheje. Imana irashaka uruhare rw’abamarayika kudushimisha n’ubuntu n’imbaraga n’ubwenge muburyo yaremye, uburyo ayobora, n’uburyo akiza ubwoko bwe.”
Ibi, ndizera ko biduha kwibutsa byingenzi. Abamarayika ni bo berekana. Berekana icyubahiro cyImana kandi bakorera ikiremwamuntu. Ndetse berekana agaciro kacu nagaciro.

UMWANZURO
Abamarayika barashimishije. Ariko ikigaragara ni uko tuzi bike kuri bo mu Byanditswe Byera. Ibi birashobora kudukingurira ibitekerezo bimwe byo mwishyamba mugihe tugerageza kuzuza imyumvire yacu mubice byabamarayika. Ariko nkuko tubitekereza kubamarayika, I ‘yakunze gutungurwa nibyo 1 Petero 1:12 atubwira ibyabo — bifuza cyane kureba mubutumwa bwiza.
Ibyo bivuze iki? Bisobanura ko mugihe dushimishijwe nabamarayika, bashimishwa nubutumwa bwiza. Grace yitiranya abamarayika. Ahari, dukwiye kumara umwanya noneho ntitutangaze kubintu byagaragaye igice gusa, ahubwo dushimishwa nubutumwa bwiza bwagaciro twahawe.

BIFITANYE ISANO
INKOMOKO
John Calvin, Ibigo by’idini rya gikristo & 2, ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford Lewis Intambara, umuzingo. 1, Isomero rya Gikristo rya kera (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011), 47–48.
Edward P. Myers, “Angel,” ed. David Noel Freedman, Allen C. Myers, na Astrid B. Beck, Inkoranyamagambo ya Eerdmans ya Bibiliya (Grand Rapids, MI: WB. Eerdmans, 2000), 63.
Sam Emadi, “Abamarayika,” muri Lexham Ubushakashatsi bwa Tewolojiya, ed. Mark Ward n’abandi. (Bellingham, WA: Itangazamakuru rya Lexham, 2018).
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