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1 灵将我举起耶和华殿向东的东。谁知,在门口二十五个,我见其中有民间的首领押朔的儿子雅撒尼亚和比拿雅的儿子毗拉提。

2 耶和华对我:人子啊,这就是图谋罪孽的人,在这城中给人设恶谋。

3 他们:盖房屋的时候尚未临近;这城是我们

4 人子啊,因此你当说预言,说预言攻击他们。

5 耶和华的灵降在我身上,对我:你当耶和华如此以色列家啊,你们口中所的,心里所想的,我都知道

6 你们在这城中杀人增多,使被杀的人充满街道

7 所以耶和华如此:你们杀在城中的人就是,这城就是;你们却要从其中被带出去。

8 你们,我必使刀临到你们。这是耶和华的。

9 我必从这城中带出你们去,交在外邦人的中,且要在你们中间施行审判。

10 你们必倒在刀下;我必在以色列的境界审判你们,你们就知道我是耶和华

11 这城必不作你们的,你们也不作其中的。我必在以色列的境界审判你们,

12 你们就知道我是耶和华;因为你们没有遵行我的律例,也没有顺从我的典章,却随从你们四围列国的恶规。

13 我正预言的时候,比拿雅的儿子毗拉提死了。於是我俯伏在地,声呼叫:哎!耶和华啊,你要将以色列剩下的人灭绝净尽麽?

14 耶和华的临到我说:

15 人子啊,耶路撒冷居民对你的弟兄、你的本族、你的亲属、以色列,就是对大众:你们远离耶和华罢!这是赐我们为业的。

16 所以你当耶和华如此:我虽将以色列全家远远迁移到列国中,将他们分散在列邦内,我还要在他们所到的列邦,暂作他们的圣所。

17 你当耶和华如此:我必从万民中招聚你们,从分散的列国内聚集你们,又要将以色列你们。

18 他们必到那里,也必从其中除掉一切可憎可厌的物。

19 我要使他们有合,也要将新灵放在他们里面,又从他们体中除掉,赐他们

20 使他们顺从我的律例,谨守遵行我的典章。他们要作我的子民,我要作他们的

21 至於那些中随从可憎可厌之物的,我必照他们所行的报应在他们上。这是耶和华的。

22 於是,基路伯展开翅膀子都在他们旁边;在他们以上有以色列的荣耀。

23 耶和华的荣耀从城中上升,停在城东的那座上。

24 灵将我举起,在异象中藉着的灵将我迦勒底地,到被掳的人那里;我所见的异象就离我上升去了。

25 我便将耶和华所指示我的一切事都给被掳的人听。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 945

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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.). When he saw Joshua, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.). When he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.). When he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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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.