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1 人子啊,你要向歌革發預言攻擊他,耶和華如此:羅施、米設、土巴的王歌革啊,我與你為敵。

2 我必調你,領你前往,使你從北方的極處上你到以色列的上。

3 我必從你左打落你的,從你右打掉你的

4 你和你的軍隊,並同著你的列國人,都必倒在以色列的上。我必將你各類的鷙和田野的走獸作食物。

5 你必倒在田野,因為我曾說過。這是耶和華的。

6 我要降在瑪各和海安然居住的人身上,他們就知道我是耶和華

7 我要在我民以色列中顯出我的名,也不容我的名再被褻瀆,列國人就知道我是耶和華以色列中的者。

8 耶和華:這日事情臨近,也必成就,乃是我所的日子。

9 以色列城邑的人必出去撿器械,就是大小盾牌弓箭、梃杖、槍矛,都當柴燒,直燒年,

10 甚至他們不必從田野撿柴,也不必從林伐;因為他們要用器械燒,並且搶奪那搶奪他們的人,擄掠那擄掠他們的人。這是耶和華的。

11 當那日,我必將以色列地的谷,就是東人所經過的谷,賜歌革為墳地,使經過的人到此停步。在那裡人必葬埋歌革和他的群眾,就稱那地為哈們歌革谷。

12 以色列家的人必用葬埋他們,為要潔淨全

13 的居民都必葬埋他們。當我得榮耀的日子,這事必叫他們得名聲。這是耶和華的。

14 他們必分派人時常巡查遍,與過路的人一同葬埋那地面上的屍首,好潔淨全。過了,他們還要巡查。

15 巡查遍的人要經過全,見有人的骸,就在旁邊立一標記,等葬埋的人來將骸葬在哈們歌革谷。

16 他們必這樣潔淨那,並有一城名叫哈摩那。

17 人子啊,耶和華如此:你要對各類的飛和田野的走獸:你們聚集罷,要從四方聚到我為你們獻祭之地,就是在以色列上獻祭之地,好叫你們血。

18 你們必勇士的上首領的血,就如公綿羔、公山、公牛,都是巴珊的肥畜。

19 你們我為你們所獻的祭,必飽了脂油,了血。

20 你們必在我席上飽吃馬匹和坐車的,並勇士和一切的戰士。這是耶和華的。

21 我必顯我的榮耀在列國中;萬民就必見我所行的審判與我在他們身上所加的

22 這樣,從那日以後,以色列家必知道我是耶和華─他們的

23 列國人也必知道以色列家被擄掠是因他們的罪孽。他們得罪我,我就掩面不顧,將他們交在敵人中,他們便都倒在刀下。

24 我是照他們的污穢和罪過待他們,並且我掩面不顧他們。

25 耶和華如此:我要使雅各被擄的人歸回,要憐憫以色列全家,又為我的名發熱心。

26 他們在本地安然居住,無人驚嚇,是我將他們從萬民中領回,從仇敵之地召來。我在許多國的民眼前,在他們身上顯為聖的時候,他們要擔當自己的羞辱和干犯我的一切罪。

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28 因我使他們被擄到外邦人中,後又聚集他們歸回本地,他們就知道我是耶和華─他們的;我必不再留他們一人在外邦。

29 我也不再掩面不顧他們,因我已將我的靈澆灌以色列家。這是耶和華的。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 757

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757. "A prison for every foul spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird!" This symbolically means that the evils willed and so done by the people in those hells, and the falsities entertained in thought and in consequent intention, are diabolical, because the people have turned away from the Lord to themselves.

A prison symbolizes a hell, because these Roman Catholics were imprisoned there. A spirit symbolizes everything pertaining to their affection or will and of the consequent action, and a bird symbolizes everything pertaining to the thought or intellect and consequent intention. A foul spirit and an unclean bird accordingly symbolize all the evils willed and so done, and all the falsities entertained in thought and consequent intention. Moreover, since the evils and falsities entertained by these people are found in the hells, therefore the symbolical meaning is that their evils and falsities are diabolical. In addition, because these people have turned away from the Lord to themselves, every unclean bird is also called loathsome.

Similar symbolism is used to describe Babylon in the Prophets, as in Isaiah:

Babylon... will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited..., so that Arabs will not tarry there... But ziyyim 1 will lie there, their houses will be full of 'ochim, 2 the offspring of owls will dwell there, and satyrs will caper there. 'Iyyim 3 also will reply in its palaces, and dragons in its pleasant palaces. (Isaiah 13:19-22)

I will... cut off from Babylon the name and remnant... I will make it a possession of the bittern... (Isaiah 14:22-23)

And in Jeremiah:

...in Babylon shall dwell ziyyim 1 and 'iyyim 3 and the offspring of owls... As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors..., no son of man shall dwell in it. (Jeremiah 50:39-40)

It is apparent from this that a prison for every foul spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird, means symbolically that the evils willed and so done by the people in those hells, and the falsities entertained in thought and consequent intention, are diabolical, because the people have turned away from the Lord to themselves.

[2] It is apparent from the Word that birds symbolize such things as have to do with the intellect and thought and consequent intention, and this in both senses, bad and good. They are found in a bad sense in the following passages there:

In the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice... (At length) on the bird of abominations shall be desolation. Even until the consummation... there shall rain down devastation. (Daniel 9:27)

The pelican and the bittern shall possess (the land). The screech owl and the raven shall dwell in it. (Isaiah 34:11)

Nothing else than hellish falsities are symbolized by 'ochim, 2 ziyyim, 1 the offspring of owls, and dragons in the passages cited above, as also by the birds that came down on the carcasses which Abram drove away (Genesis 15:11), by the birds which were given human corpses for food (Jeremiah 7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; Ezekiel 29:5; Psalms 79:1-2).

[3] Birds are found in a good sense in the following passages:

Creeping thing and bird... shall praise the name of Jehovah. (Psalms 148:10, 13)

In that day I will make a covenant for them... with the birds of the sky, and the creeping things of the ground. (Hosea 2:18)

...ask the beasts, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will tell you... Who among all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah does this? (Job 12:7-9)

I looked, when behold, there was no man; all the birds of the sky had flown away. (Jeremiah 4:24-26)

Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled away..., (because) I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of dragons. (Jeremiah 9:10-11)

There is no truth, no mercy, no knowledge of God... Therefore the land will mourn... as regards the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky. (Hosea 4:1, 3)

I am God... calling a bird from the east, a man of My counsel from a far country. (Isaiah 46:9, 11)

Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon... In its branches all the birds of the sky made their nests..., and in its shade all great nations dwelled. (Ezekiel 31:3, 6)

[4] Similar statements to that made of Assyria as a cedar here are found elsewhere, as in Ezekiel 17:23, Daniel 4:10-14, 20-21, Mark 4:32, Luke 13:19.

Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: ."..come... to... a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel...." (Thus) I will set My glory among the nations. (Ezekiel 39:17, 21, cf. Revelation 19:17)

And so on regarding birds elsewhere, as in Isaiah 18:1, 6; Ezekiel 38:20; Hosea 9:11; 11:10-11.

That birds symbolize such things as have to do with the intellect and its consequent thought and intention is clearly apparent from birds in the spiritual world. There, too, one sees birds of every kind and every species - in heaven very beautiful ones, birds of paradise, turtle doves, and doves - in hell dragons, screech owls, eagle owls, and others of that kind - all of which are objective representations of thoughts springing from good affections in heaven, and of thoughts springing from evil affections in hell.

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1. A Hebrew word (צִיִּים), appearing six times in the Old Testament (Psalms 72:9; 74:14). It seems to refer to desert dwellers, and in contexts suggesting animals, to desert creatures, but the actual identity is unknown. It may not be a precise term.

2. Another Hebrew word (אֹחִים), appearing only once in the Old Testament (Isaiah 13:21:4 identifies them as birds of the night.

3. Another Hebrew word (אִיִּים), appearing only three times in the Old Testament (Isaiah 13:22; 34:14

  
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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.