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以西結書 15

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1 耶和華的臨到我說:

2 人子啊,葡萄比別樣有甚麼強處?葡萄枝比眾枝有甚麼好處?

3 其上可以取料做甚麼工用,可以取來做釘子甚麼器皿麼?

4 看哪,已經拋在中當作柴燒,既燒了兩頭,中間也被燒了,還有益於工用麼?

5 完全的時候尚且不合乎甚麼工用,何況被燒壞,還能合乎甚麼工用麼?

6 所以,耶和華如此:眾以內的葡萄,我怎樣使他在中當柴,也必照樣待耶路撒冷居民

7 我必向他們變臉;他們雖從中出來,卻要燒滅他們。我向他們變臉的時候,你們就知道我是耶和華

8 我必使土荒涼,因為他們行事干犯我。這是耶和華的。

   

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耶利米書 1:16

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16 至於這民的一切惡,就是離棄我、向別燒香、跪拜自己所造的,我要發出我的判語,攻擊他們。

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Apocalypse Revealed # 504

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504. Where also our Lord was crucified. This symbolizes a failure to acknowledge the Lord's Divine humanity, and thus a state in which He is rejected.

It is a saying in the church that people who blaspheme the Lord, crucify Him, and that so, too, do those who, like the Jews, deny that He is the Son of God.

People who deny that the Lord's humanity is Divine are like Jews because everyone views the Lord as a person, and anyone who views His humanity as on par with the humanity of any other person is incapable then of thinking of His Divinity, no matter how often this is called the Son of God, born from eternity, coequal with the Divinity of the Father. When he is told this or hears it read, it penetrates his hearing, indeed, but not at the same time his belief, since he thinks of the Lord as being a material person like any other man, retaining the same properties of the flesh. And because he then sets the Lord's Divinity aside and pays it no attention, he is therefore in the same state as he would be if he denied it; for he denies that the Lord's humanity is the Son of God, even as the Jews did also, for which reason they crucified Him. That the Lord's humanity is nevertheless the Son of God is something plainly said in Luke 1:32, 35, Matthew 3:16-17, and elsewhere.

[2] It is apparent from this why people in the church turn directly to God the Father, and many also to the Holy Spirit, and rarely anyone directly to the Lord.

Since the Jews crucified the Lord owing to their denial that He was the Messiah, the Son of God, therefore their Jerusalem is also called Sodom (Isaiah 3:9, Jeremiah 23:14, Ezekiel 16:46, 48). And the Lord says,

On the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. (Luke 17:29-30)

What the fire and brimstone are may be seen in no. 452, 494.

  
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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.