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Esekiel 13

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1 Og Herrens ord kom til mig, og det lød så:

2 Menneskesønn! Spå mot Israels profeter, som gir sig av med å spå, og si til dem som spår efter sitt eget hjerte: Hør Herrens ord!

3 sier Herren, Israels Gud: Ve over de dårlige profeter, som følger sin egen ånd og syner som de ikke har sett!

4 Som rever blandt ruiner er dine profeter, Israel!

5 I er ikke steget op i murbruddene og har ikke bygget nogen mur om Israels hus, så de kunde holde stand i striden på Herrens dag.

6 Deres syner var tomhet, og deres spådommer løgn, de som sier: Så sier Herren, enda Herren ikke har sendt dem, og som håper på at deres ord skal bli stadfestet.

7 Er det ikke tomme syner I har skuet, og løgnaktige spådommer I har uttalt? I sier: Så sier Herren, enda jeg ikke har talt.

8 Derfor sier Herren, Israels Gud, så: Fordi I taler tomhet og skuer løgn, se, derfor vil jeg komme over eder, sier Herren, Israels Gud.

9 Og min hånd skal være imot de profeter som skuer tomhet og spår løgn; i mitt folks råd skal de ikke være, og i Israels folks bok skal de ikke skrives, og til Israels land skal de ikke komme, og I skal kjenne at jeg er Herren, Israels Gud,

10 fordi, ja fordi de har ført mitt folk vill og sagt: Fred! - enda det ikke er nogen fred. Når folket bygger en vegg, se, da stryker de den over med kalk.

11 Si til kalkstrykerne at den vil falle; det kommer et skyllregn, og I haglstener skal falle, og en stormvind skal bryte inn.

12 Når så veggen er falt, vil det da ikke bli sagt til eder: Hvor er kalken som I strøk den over med?

13 Derfor sier Herren, Israels Gud, så: Ja, jeg vil i min harme la en stormvind bryte inn, og i min vrede la det komme et skyllregn og i min harme haglstener, så alt blir ødelagt.

14 Og jeg vil rive ned veggen som I har strøket over med kalk, og la den styrte til jorden, så dens grunnvoll blir lagt bar; når staden* faller. skal I omkomme midt i den, og I skal kjenne at jeg er Herren. / {* d.e. Jerusalem.}

15 Og jeg vil uttømme min harme på veggen og på dem som strøk den over med kalk, og jeg vil si til eder: Veggen er ikke mere til, heller ikke de som strøk den over,

16 Israels profeter, som spådde om Jerusalem og skuet fredssyner for det, enda det ikke er nogen fred, sier Herren, Israels Gud.

17 Og du menneskesønn! Vend ditt ansikt mot ditt folks døtre, som spår efter sitt eget hjerte, og spå mot dem

18 og si: Så sier Herren, Israels Gud: Ve dem som syr dekker over alle ledd på mine hender og gjør hetter til hodet på folk efter enhvers høide for å fange sjeler! Mitt folks sjeler fanger I, og eders egne sjeler holder I i live.

19 Og I vanhelliger mig hos mitt folk for nogen håndfull bygg og for nogen stykker brød, for å drepe sjeler som ikke skal , og for å holde sjeler i live som ikke skulde leve, idet I lyver for mitt folk, som gjerne hører på løgn.

20 Derfor sier Herren, Israels Gud, så: Se, jeg vil ta fatt i eders dekker som I fanger sjelene med likesom fugler, og jeg vil rive dem bort fra eders armer, og de sjeler som I fanger, dem vil jeg la slippe fri som fugler.

21 Og jeg vil sønderrive eders hetter og utfri mitt folk av eders hånd, og de skal ikke mere være et bytte i eders hånd, og I skal kjenne at jeg er Herren.

22 Fordi I ved løgn gjør den rettferdiges hjerte motløst, uten at jeg har bedrøvet ham, og styrker den ugudeliges hender, så han ikke vender om fra sin onde vei, og jeg kan la ham leve,

23 derfor skal I ikke mere skue tomhet eller spå falske spådommer, og jeg vil utfri mitt folk av eders hånd, og I skal kjenne at jeg er Herren.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #323

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323. With sword, with famine, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. This symbolically means, by doctrinal falsities, by evil practices, by self-love, and by lusts.

To be shown that a sword symbolizes truths fighting against evils and falsities and destroying them, and in an opposite sense, falsity fighting against goods and truths and destroying them, see nos. 52, 108, 117 above. Accordingly, because the subject is the destruction of all good in the church, a sword here symbolizes doctrinal falsities.

That a famine symbolizes evil practices - this we will confirm below.

Death symbolizes a person's self-love because death symbolizes the extinction of spiritual life, and thus natural life divorced from any spiritual life, as shown in no. 321 above, and this life is the life of a person's self-love; for this life causes a person to love nothing but himself and the world, and so to love also evils of every kind, evils which, because of that life's love, are delightful to him.

That beasts of the earth symbolize lusts arising from the love will be seen in no. 567 below.

Here we will say something about the symbolic meaning of famine. A famine symbolizes the privation and rejection of concepts of truth and goodness, springing from evil practices. It symbolizes as well an ignorance of concepts of truth and goodness, owing to an absence of these in the church. And it symbolizes also a desire to know and understand them.

[2] I. That a famine symbolizes the privation and rejection of concepts of truth and goodness, springing from evil practices, and thus symbolizes evil practices, can be seen from the following passages:

They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, so that their corpses become food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth. (Jeremiah 16:4)

These two things shall befall you...: devastation and ruin, and famine and sword... (Isaiah 51:19)

Behold, I am visiting punishment upon them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine. (Jeremiah 11:22)

...deliver up her children to famine, and cause them to flow down upon the hands of the sword..., that their men may be put to death... (Jeremiah 18:21)

...I will send on them the sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them like rough figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad. And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence. (Jeremiah 29:17-18)

I will send upon them the sword, famine, and pestilence, till they are consumed from the land... (Jeremiah 24:10)

...I proclaim liberty to you..., to the sword, to pestilence, and famine! And I will deliver you for turmoil to all nations. (Jeremiah 34:17)

...because you have defiled My sanctuary..., a third of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine...; and a third shall fall by the sword... When I send against them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for destruction... (Ezekiel 5:11-12, 16-17)

The sword is outside, and the pestilence and famine within. (Ezekiel 7:15)

...for all the evil abominations... they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. (Ezekiel 6:11-12)

...I will send My four evil judgments on Jerusalem - the sword, famine and wild beast, and pestilence - to cut off man and beast from it. (Ezekiel 14:13, 15, 21)

And so, too, elsewhere, as in Jeremiah 14:12-13, 15-16; 42:13-14, 16-18, 22; 44:12-13, 27, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:11. Sword, famine, pestilence and beasts in these places have similar symbolic meanings to those of the sword, famine, death, and beasts of the earth in the present verse. For the Word has a spiritual meaning in it in every single constituent, in which a sword means the destruction of spiritual life by falsities, in which famine means the destruction of spiritual life by evils, in which a beast of the earth means the destruction of spiritual life by the lusts accompanying falsity and evil, and in which pestilence and death means a complete destruction and thus damnation.

[3] II. That famine, or hunger, symbolizes an ignorance of concepts of truth and goodness, owing to an absence of these in the church, is clear as well from various passages in the Word, as in Isaiah 5:13; 8:19-22, Lamentations 2:19; 5:8-10, Amos 8:11-14, Job 5:17, 20, and elsewhere.

III. That famine or hunger symbolizes a desire to know and understand the church's truths and goods is apparent from the following: Isaiah 8:21; 32:6; 49:10; 58:6-7; Matthew 5:6; 25:35, 37, 44; Luke 1:53; John 6:35; and elsewhere.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation 6

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1 I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!"

2 And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.

3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!"

4 Another came forth, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.

5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come and see!" And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.

6 I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"

7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!"

8 And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

11 A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

14 The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"