绊脚的石头，跌人的磐石
以赛亚很诚实忠信的给我们看见，基督向积极和消极的人是甚么。祂向积极的人，是包罗万有的圣所。祂向消极的人却是绊脚的石头，跌人的磐石，圈套和网罗。
法利赛人和犹太首领碰倒在基督这石头上（太二一44上），不信的人绊跌在基督这磐石上（彼前二7-8，林前一22-23）。法利赛人和犹太首领轻看基督。他们因着轻弃祂，就用脚踢祂，却不能移动祂。祂反而成了他们绊脚的石头（罗九33），他们也跌在祂身上（太二一44上）。历世纪以来，许多消极的人都因基督而绊跌。甚至在今天，许多关于基督的事仍使消极的人绊跌。
圈套和网罗
在八章十四节，基督也启示为圈套和网罗。祂对如同走兽的消极之人，乃是圈套;对如同飞禽的消极之人，乃是网罗。捉狮子不能用网罗，必须用圈套。鸟则必须用网罗。法利赛人和犹太人可以比作走兽，被主耶稣用圈套套住。他们想要用圈套套住主耶稣，祂反而成了他们的圈套。马太二十二章记载法利赛人、希律党人、和撒都该人如何合作，尽他们所能的要套住主。他们好像猎人，一起打猎，要套住主。在回答了他们的一切问题，躲开了他们的圈套之后，主耶稣就问他们一个问题。藉着那一个问题，祂套住了他们众人。基督对这些人乃是圈套。
任何自以为比耶稣更聪明、更有智慧的人，至终必定吃苦。向消极的人，不信的人，基督乃是碰倒并绊跌在其上的石头。祂向不尊重祂的人乃是绊跌的磐石。祂向消极的人也是圈套和网罗。没有人能从基督逃脱。每一个人都和基督有些关系，有些关联。我们可以向着祂作积极的人，或向着祂作消极的人。祂对积极的人乃是圣所。我们能生活在祂这圣所里，在祂里面我们能得着祂作我们丰盈的供备和包罗万有的供应。但对消极的人，不信的人，祂乃是绊脚的石头、跌人的磐石、圈套和网罗。有一日每一个人都必须站在祂面前，经过祂的审判。甚至我们基督徒也必须在被提到空中之后，在基督的审判台前显露出来（林后五10）。那时，关于我们的生活和事奉，我们都必须向祂交账。
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A Stone to Strike Against a Rock of Stumbling, a Trap and a Snare to the Negative Ones – Isa. 8:14
A Stone to Strike Against and a Rock of Stumbling
Isaiah was very honest and faithful to show us what Christ is to both the positive and negative ones. To the positive ones, he is an all-inclusive sanctuary. To the negative ones, he is a stone to strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap, and a snare.
The Pharisees and the Jewish leaders struck against Christ as a stone (Matt. 21:44a), and the unbelieving ones stumbled at Christ as a rock (1 Pet. 2:7-8; 1 Cor. 1:22-23). Christ was despised by the Pharisees and Jewish leaders. Because they despised him, they struck against him but could not move him. Instead, he became a stumbling stone to them (Rom. 9:33), and they fell upon him (Matt. 21:44a). Many negative ones throughout the centuries have been stumbled by Christ.
A Trap and a Snare
Christ is also revealed in Isaiah 8:14 as a trap and a snare. He is a trap for the negative ones as the running animals and a snare for the negative ones as the flying fowls. A lion cannot be snared; it must be trapped. A bird, on the other hand, must be snared. The Pharisees and the Jewish leaders can be likened to the running animals who were trapped by the Lord Jesus. They attempted to trap the Lord Jesus, but instead he became a trap to them. Matthew 22 records how the Pharisees, the Herodians and the Sadducees worked together to confront him with questions, doing their best to trap him. They were like hunters, hunting together to trap Jesus. After answering all of their questions and avoiding their traps, Jesus asked them one question. Through that one question, he trapped all of them. Christ was a trap to these ones.
Anyone who thinks that he is more clever or wiser than Jesus will eventually suffer. To the negative ones, the unbelievers, Christ is a stone to strike against and to fall upon. He is a rock of stumbling to those who do not regard him. He is also a trap and a snare to catch those who are negative. No one can escape from Christ. Everyone has something to do with Christ and is related to Christ. We can either be a positive one toward him or a negative one toward him. To the positive ones he is a sanctuary. We can live in him as our sanctuary, and in him we can receive him as our bountiful provision and all-inclusive supply. To the negative ones, however, the unbelieving ones, he is a stone to strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap and a snare. One day everyone will have to stand before him to pass through his judgment. Even we Christians will have to appear before the judgment seat of Christ after our rapture to the air (2 Cor. 5:10). At that time we will have to give an account to him concerning our life and service.