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但以理书 9

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1 玛代族亚哈随鲁的儿子大利乌立为迦勒底国的王元年,

2 就是他在位第一年,我但以理从上得知耶和华的临到先知耶利米,论耶路撒冷荒凉的年数,七十年为满。

3 我便禁食,披麻蒙灰,定意向主祈祷恳求。

4 我向耶和华─我的祈祷、认罪,啊,而可畏的,向、守诫命的人守约施慈爱

5 我们犯罪作孽,行恶叛逆,偏离你的诫命典章,

6 没有听从你仆人先知奉你名向我们君、首领、列祖,和国中一切百姓所的话。

7 主啊,你是公的,我们是脸上蒙羞的;因我们犹大耶路撒冷居民,并以色列,或在近处,或在远处,被你赶到各国的,都得罪了你,正如今日一样。

8 主啊,我们我们的君、首领、列祖因得罪了你,就都脸上蒙羞。

9 主─我们的是怜悯饶恕人的,我们却违背了他,

10 也没有听从耶和华我们的话,没有遵行他藉仆人先知我们所陈明的律

11 以色列众人都犯了你的律法,偏行,不从你的话;因此,在你仆人摩西律法上所的咒诅和誓言都倾在我们身上,因我们得罪了

12 他使灾祸临到我们,成就了警戒我们和审判我们官长的;原来在普未曾行过像在耶路撒冷所行的。

13 这一切灾祸临到我们身上是照摩西律法上所的,我们却没有求耶和华我们的恩典,使我们回头离开罪孽,明白你的真理。

14 所以耶和华留意使这灾祸临到我们身上,因为耶和华我们在他所行的事上都是公我们并没有听从他的话。

15 主─我们的啊,你曾用大能的领你的子民出埃及,使自己得了名,正如今日一样。我们犯了罪,作了恶。

16 主啊,求你按你的大仁大,使你的怒气和忿怒离你的城耶路撒冷,就是你的耶路撒冷和你的子民,因我们罪恶我们列祖的罪孽被四围的人羞辱。

17 我们的啊,现在求你垂仆人的祈祷恳求,为自己使脸光你荒凉的圣所。

18 我的啊,求你侧耳而,睁眼而,眷顾我们荒凉之地和称为你名下的城。我们在你面前恳求,原不是因自己的,乃因你的大怜悯。

19 求主垂,求主赦免,求主应允而行,为你自己不要迟延。我的啊,因这城和这民都是称为你名下的。

20 我说话,祷告,承认我的和本国之民以色列的,为我,在耶和华─我面前恳求。

21 我正祷告的时候,先前在异象中所见的那位加百列,奉命迅速飞来,约在献晚祭的时候,按手在我身上。

22 他指教我:但以理啊,现在我出来要使你有智慧,有聪明。

23 你初恳求的时候,就发出命令,我告诉你,因你大蒙眷爱;所以你要思想明白这以下的事和异象。

24 为你本国之民和你城,已经定了十个。要止住罪过,除净罪恶,赎尽孽,引进(或译:彰显)永,封住异象预言,并者(者:或译所)。

25 你当知道,当明白,从出令重新建造耶路撒冷,直到有受膏君的时候,必有六十。正在艰难的时候,耶路撒冷城连街带濠必重新建造

26 过了六十个七,那(或译:有)受膏者必被剪除,一无所有;必有一王的民毁灭这城和所,至终必如洪水冲没。必有争战,一直到底,荒凉的事已经定了。

27 七之内,他必与许多人坚定盟约;七之半,他必使祭祀与供献止息。那行毁坏可憎的(或译:使地荒凉的)如飞而来,并且有忿怒倾在那行毁坏的身上(或译:倾在那荒凉之地),直到所定的结局。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 548

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548. And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and its angels fought. (12:7) This symbolizes the falsities of the previous church fighting against the truths of the New Church.

A war symbolizes a spiritual war, which is one of falsity against truth and of truth against falsity (no. 500); for that is the only war that can take place in heaven, where this war is said to have broken out. Nor can a spiritual war take place in any heaven once it is formed by angels, but it took place in the previous heaven which passed away, as said in Revelation 21:1. Regarding that heaven, see our exposition of that verse. For that heaven passed away in consequence of the Last Judgment on the dragon and his angels, which is also the symbolic meaning of the dragon's being cast out and no place for it being found in heaven any longer, as said in the next verse.

To learn what falsities are meant by the dragon which will fight against the truths of the New Church, see no. 537 above.

Michael does not mean some archangel, and neither does Gabriel or Raphael, but ministries in heaven are meant. The ministry that is Michael there is performed by people who confirm from the Word that the Lord is God of heaven and earth, that God the Father and the Lord are one as soul and body are one, that one must live according to the Ten Commandments, and that a person then possesses charity and faith. Michael is mentioned also in Daniel 10:13, 21; 12:1, and the same ministry is meant by him, as is apparent from chapters 9-11 there, and from the last verses in chapter 12.

Gabriel, on the other hand, means the ministry performed by people who teach from the Word that Jehovah came into the world and that the humanity that he took on there is the Son of God and Divine. The angel who announced this to Mary is accordingly called Gabriel (Luke 1:19, 26-35).

People who are engaged in these ministries are also called Michaels and Gabriels in heaven.

It may be seen in numbers 5, 65, 258, 342, 344, 415, 465 above that an angel in the highest sense means the Lord, and in a relative sense heaven, which is formed of angels, and also an angelic society. But here it means a ministry, because it is named; and in Daniel Michael is called a prince, 1 and a prince in the Word symbolizes a principal truth, and a king, truth itself (no. 20).

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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.