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申命记 11

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1 你要耶和华─你的,常守他的吩咐、律例、典章、诫命

2 你们今日当知道,我本不是和你们的儿女说话;因为他们不知道,也没有耶和华─你们的管教、威严、大能的,和伸出来的膀

3 并他在埃及中向埃及法老和其全所行的神迹奇事;

4 也没有看见他怎样待埃及的军兵、车,他们追赶你们的时候,耶和华怎样使红淹没他们,将他们灭绝,直到今日,

5 并他在旷野怎样待你们,以至你们到这地方

6 也没有看见他怎样待流便子孙以利押的儿子大坍、亚比兰,怎样在以色列人中间开了他们和他们的家眷,并帐棚与跟他们的一切活物。

7 惟有你们亲眼耶和华所做的一切事。

8 所以,你们要守我今日所吩咐的一切诫命,使你们胆壮,能以进去,得你们所要得的那

9 并使你们的日子在耶和华向你们列祖起誓、应许他们和他们後裔的上得以长久;那是流奶与蜜之

10 你要进去得为业的那,本不像你出埃及。你在那里撒种,用浇灌,像浇灌菜园一样。

11 你们要过去得为业的那乃是有有谷、滋润之

12 耶和华─你所眷顾的;从岁首到年终,耶和华─你的眼目时常看顾那

13 你们若留意从我今日所吩咐的诫命耶和华─你们的,尽心尽性事奉他,

14 他(原文是我)必按时降秋在你们的上,使你们可以收藏五谷、新酒和油,

15 也必使你饱足,并使田野为你的牲畜

16 你们要谨慎,免得心中受迷惑,就偏离正,去事奉敬拜别

17 耶和华的怒气向你们发作,就使闭塞不下雨也不出产,使你们在耶和华所赐你们的美上速速灭亡。

18 你们要将我这存在心内,留在意中,系在上为记号,戴在额上为经文;

19 也要教训你们的儿女,无论在家里,行在上,躺下,起来,都要谈论;

20 又要房屋框上,并城上,

21 使你们和你们子孙的日子在耶和华向你们列祖起誓、应许他们的上得以增多,如的日子那样多。

22 你们若留意谨守遵行我所吩咐这一切的诫命耶和华─你们的,行他的道,专靠他,

23 他必从你们面前赶出这一切国民,就是比你们更更强的国民,你们也要得他们的地。

24 凡你们掌所踏之地都必归你们;从旷野和利巴嫩,并伯拉大,直到西,都要作你们的境界。

25 必无一能在你们面前站立得住;耶和华─你们的必照他所的,使惧怕惊恐临到你们所踏之的居民。

26 哪,我今日将祝福与咒诅的话都陈明在你们面前。

27 你们若耶和华─你们诫命,就是我今日所吩咐你们的,就必蒙福。

28 你们若不耶和华─你们诫命,偏离我今日所吩咐你们的道,去事奉你们素来所不认识的别,就必受祸。

29 及至耶和华─你的领你进入要去得为业的那,你就要将祝福的话陈明在基利心上,将咒诅的话陈明在以巴路上。

30 这二山岂不是在约但河那边,日落之处,在亚拉巴的迦南人之吉甲相对,靠近摩利橡树麽?

31 你们要过约但河,进去得耶和华─你们所赐你们为业之,在那居住

32 你们要谨守遵行我今日在你们面前所陈明的一切律例典章。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 496

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496. These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. (11:6) This symbolically means that people who turn away from these two essential elements of the New Church cannot receive any truth from heaven.

Heaven here means the angelic heaven. Thus the rain symbolizes truth for the church from there. Consequently to close heaven so that no rain falls means, symbolically, that people cannot receive any truth for the church from heaven. Truth for the church from heaven is doctrinal truth from the Word.

We are told that the two witnesses have the power to shut heaven, but as in no. 494 above, the meaning here is not that they have that power, but that people who turn away from the two essential elements of the New Church close heaven to themselves, because they continue to be caught up in their falsities.

That rain symbolizes Divine truth from heaven is clear from the following passages:

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My word shall fall as the dew... (Deuteronomy 32:2)

(If) you... serve other gods..., (Jehovah will) shut up heaven so that there be no rain... (Deuteronomy 11:16-17, see also 11:11, 11:14)

I will lay waste (My vineyard).... I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it. (Isaiah 5:6)

The showers have been withheld, and there has been no late rain. Yet you continue to have a harlot's forehead... (Jeremiah 3:3)

For as the rain comes down... from heaven..., so shall My word (go) forth from My mouth. (Isaiah 55:10-11)

Rejoice then, you children of Zion, and be glad in Jehovah... For He has given you seasonable rain in righteousness. (Joel 2:23)

You have caused to drop, O God, a kindly rain... (Psalms 68:9)

He shall come down like rain upon the grass of the meadow... In His days the righteous shall flourish... (Psalms 72:6-7)

He will come to us as rain, as the late... rain waters the earth. (Hosea 6:3)

...my word shall rain down on them, and they will wait for me as for the rain, and they will open their mouth for the late rain. (Job 29:22-23)

Son of man, say...: "You are a land that is not cleansed, which will have no rain in the day of wrath. There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst... (Ezekiel 22:24-25)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 30:23; Jeremiah 5:24; 10:12-13; 14:3-4; 51:16.

A flooding rain stands for the destruction of truth in Ezekiel 13:11, 13-14; 38:22. For temptation or trial in Matthew 7:24-27.

  
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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.