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1 第六初五日,我在家中;犹大的众长老在我面前。在那里耶和华的灵(原文是)降在我身上。

2 我观,见有形像彷佛的形状,从他腰以下的形状有,从他腰以上有光辉的形状,彷佛光耀的精金。

3 他伸出彷佛一只的样式,抓住我的一绺发,灵就将我举到中间,在的异象中,我到耶路撒冷的内院门口,在那里有触动主怒偶像的位,就是惹动忌邪的。

4 谁知,在那里有以色列的荣耀,形状与我在平原所见的一样。

5 神对我:人子啊,你举目向北观看。我就举目向北观看,见祭坛边,在门口有这惹忌邪的偶像;

6 又对我:人子啊,以色列家所行的,就是在此行这可憎的事,使我远离我的圣所,你见了麽?你还要见另有可憎的事。

7 他领我到院口。我观,见上有个窟窿。

8 他对我:人子啊,你要挖。我,见有

9 :你进去,他们在这里所行可憎的恶事。

10 我进去一,谁知,在四面上画着各样爬物和可憎的走,并以色列家一切的偶像

11 在这些像前有以色列家的七十个长老站立,沙番的儿子雅撒尼亚也站在其中。各拿香炉,烟云的香气上腾。

12 他对我子啊,以色列家的长老中在各画像里所行的,你见了麽?他们常耶和华不见我们耶和华已经离弃这

13 他又:你还要见他们另外行可憎的事。

14 他领我到耶和华殿外院朝门口。谁知,在那里有妇女坐着,为搭模斯哭泣。

15 他对我:人子啊,你见了麽?你还要见比这更可憎的事。

16 他又领我到耶和华殿的内院。谁知,在耶和华的殿口、廊子和祭坛中间,约有二十五个背向耶和华的殿,面向东方拜日头。

17 他对我:人子啊,你见了麽?犹大家在此行这可憎的事还算为小麽?他们在这遍行强暴,再三惹我发怒,他们手拿枝条举向鼻前。

18 因此,我也要以忿怒行事,我眼必不顾惜,也不可怜他们;他们虽向我耳中声呼求,我还是不

   

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True Christian Religion # 157

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157. Since a person's spirit means his mind, 'being in the spirit', a phrase which occurs a number of times in the Word, means the state in which the mind is separated from the body. That was the state the Prophets were in when they saw the kind of things which happen in the spiritual world, so it is called 'the vision of God.' They were then in the same state as that of the spirits and angels of that world. In that state a person's spirit, as the visual capacity of his mind, can be transported from place to place while his body remains in one place. This is the state in which I have been for the last twenty-six years, with the difference that I have been simultaneously in the spirit and in the body, and only at times outside the body. Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel and John the writer of Revelation were evident from the following passages.

Ezekiel says: 'A spirit lifted me up, and brought me back to Chaldaea to the captives in a vision, in the spirit of God; so the vision which I had seen went up from me' (Ezekiel 11:1, 24). A spirit lifted him up and he heard behind him an earthquake (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). A spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and carried him off to Jerusalem, and he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff). He saw four creatures, which were Cherubim, and various sights with them (Ezek. chapters 1, 10); also a new earth and a new temple, and an angel measuring them (Ezek. chapters 40-48). He was then in receipt of a vision and in the spirit (Ezekiel 40:2; 13:5).

[2] Similar things happened to Zechariah, when he was with an angel and saw a man riding a horse among myrtles (Zechariah 1:8ff); four horns [Zechariah 1:18] and a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 2:1, 5ff); Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff); four chariots coming out between two mountains, and their horses (Zechariah 6:1ff). Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up out of the sea and various other details about them (Daniel 7:1ff); the fights between a ram and a he-goat (Daniel 8:1ff). He saw these things in a vision (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8); the angel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision and spoke with him (Daniel 9:21).

[3] It was the same with John when he wrote Revelation. He says that he was in the spirit on the Lord's day (Revelation 1:10); that he was carried in the spirit into the desert (Revelation 17:3); onto a high mountain in the spirit (Revelation 21:10); that he saw [horses] in a vision (Revelation 9:17). Elsewhere he says that he saw what he described, as for instance the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; a tabernacle, a temple, an ark and an altar in heaven; a book sealed with seven seals, and horses that came out of it; four creatures around the throne; twelve thousand chosen from each tribe; then the Lamb upon Mount Zion; locusts coming up from the abyss; the dragon and his battle with Michael; a woman bearing a son, and fleeing into the desert because of the dragon; two beasts, one coming up from the sea, the other from the earth; a woman sitting on a scarlet beast; the dragon cast out into a lake of fire and brimstone; a white horse and a great banquet; the Holy City of Jerusalem coming down, with a description of its gates, wall and the foundations of the wall; a river of living water, and trees of life which bear fruit in every month; and much else besides. Peter, James and John were in a similar state when they saw Jesus transfigured; and so was Paul when he heard from heaven things past telling.

  
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