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耶利米书 33

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1 耶利米还囚在护卫兵的院内,耶和华的第二次临到他说:

2 成就的是耶和华,造作、为要建立的也是耶和华耶和华是他的名。他如此

3 你求告我,我就应允你,并将你所不知道、又又难的事指示你。

4 论到这城中的房屋犹大的宫室,就是拆毁为挡敌人高垒和刀的,耶和华以色列的如此

5 人要与迦勒底人争战,正是拿死尸充满这房屋,就是我在怒气和忿怒中所杀的人,因他们的一切恶,我就掩面不顾这城。

6 看哪,我要使这城得以痊愈安舒,使城中的人得医治,又将丰盛的平安和诚实显明与他们。

7 我也要使犹大被掳的和以色列被掳的归回,并建立他们和起初一样。

8 我要除净他们的一切罪,就是向我所犯的罪;又要赦免他们的一切罪,就是干犯我、违背我的罪。

9 这城要在上万国人面前使我得颂赞,得荣耀,名为可喜可乐之城。万国人因见我向这城所赐的福乐、所施的恩惠平安,就惧怕战兢。

10 耶和华如此:你们论这地方是荒废无人民无牲畜之地,但在这荒凉无人民无牲畜犹大城邑和耶路撒冷的街上,

11 必再听见有欢喜和快乐的声音新郎和新妇的声音,并听见有人:要称谢万军之耶和华,因耶和华本为善;他的慈爱永远长存!又有奉感谢祭到耶和华殿中之人的声音;因为我必使这被掳的人归回,和起初一样。这是耶和华的。

12 万军之耶和华如此:在这荒废无人民无牲畜之地,并其中所有的城邑,必再有牧人的住处;他们要使羊群躺卧在那里。

13 的城邑、高原的城邑、的城邑、便雅悯耶路撒冷四围的各处,和犹大的城邑必再有羊群从数点的人经过。这是耶和华的。

14 耶和华:日子将到,我应许以色列家和犹大家的恩言必然成就。

15 当那日子,那时候,我必使大卫的苗裔长起来;他必在上施行公平和公

16 在那日子犹大必得耶路撒冷必安然居住,他的名必称为耶和华─我们的

17 因为耶和华如此大卫必永不断以色列家的宝座上;

18 祭司、利未在我面前也不断献燔祭、烧素祭,时常办理献祭的事。

19 耶和华的临到耶利米说:

20 耶和华如此:你们若能废弃我所立白日黑夜的约,使白日黑夜不按时轮转,

21 就能废弃我与我仆人大卫所立的约,使他没有儿子在他的宝座上为王,并能废弃我与事奉我的祭司、利未人所立的约。

22 上的万象不能数算,边的尘沙也不能斗量;我必照样使我仆人大卫的後裔和事奉我的利未人多起来。

23 耶和华的临到耶利米说:

24 你没有揣摩这百姓的话麽?他们耶和华所拣选的族,他已经弃绝了。他们这样藐视我的百姓,以为不再成国。

25 耶和华如此:若是我立白日黑夜的约不能存住,若是我未曾安排的定例,

26 我就弃绝雅各的後裔和我仆人大卫的後裔,不使大卫的後裔治理亚伯拉罕以撒雅各的後裔;因为我必使他们被掳的人归回,也必怜悯他们。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 364

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364. To number in the spiritual sense means, symbolically, to know the character of something, because a number in the Word does not symbolically mean the number, but the character of a thing (no. 10). Consequently the reference here to "a great multitude, which no one could number," means in the natural sense, literally, that there was such an immense multitude, but in the spiritual sense that no one but the Lord alone knows their character. For the Lord's heaven consists of countless societies - societies distinguished according to the varieties of their affections in general, and likewise of all the inhabitants in each society in particular. The Lord alone knows the character of everyone's affection and arranges all people in an order in accordance with it.

To know this character is what angels mean by numbering, and likewise what is meant in the Word in the following places, as when Belshazzar drank wine from vessels of the temple in Jerusalem, and the writing appeared on the wall, saying,

You have been numbered. You have been numbered. (Daniel 5:2, 3, 5, 25)

...I shall go to the gates of hell; I have been numbered... (Isaiah 38:10)

A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms...! Jehovah of hosts is numbering the army for war. (Isaiah 13:4)

...see who has created these things, who has brought out by number their host. (Isaiah 40:26)

(Jehovah who) numbers the host of the stars... (Psalms 147:4)

...the flocks shall again pass under the hands of him who numbers them. (Jeremiah 33:13)

...my steps are numbered. (Job 14:16)

The houses and towers of Zion and Jerusalem were numbered (Isaiah 22:9-10; 33:18-19, Psalms 48:11-13). Numbering stands for knowing the character of.

From the symbolic meaning of numbers and numbering, it can be seen why David was faced with punishment for numbering the people, the tribes of Israel, and why he said to the prophet Gad, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done" (2 Samuel 24). Moreover, why, when Moses numbered the people and all its tribes, the command was given for each man to "give a ransom for his soul to Jehovah when they were numbered, that that there might be no plague among them when they were numbered" (Exodus 30:12). The reason was that numbering symbolized knowing the character of the people in respect to their spiritual state, thus in respect to the state of the church, meant by the twelve tribes of Israel, which only the Lord knew.

  
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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.