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Ezekijel 40

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1 Godine dvadeset i pete za našega izgnanstva, početkom godine, prvoga mjeseca, desetoga dana, a četrnaest godina otkako pade Grad, upravo onoga dana spusti se na me ruka Jahvina.

2 I odvede me u božanskom viđenju u zemlju Izraelovu te me postavi na veoma visoku goru: Na njoj, s južne strane, bijaše nešto kao sazidan grad.

3 Povede me onamo, i gle: čovjek, sjajan kao mjed, stajaše na vratima, s lanenim užetom i mjeračkom trskom u ruci.

4 I taj mi čovjek reče: "Sine čovječji, gledaj svojim očima i slušaj svojim ušima, popamti sve što ću ti pokazati, jer si doveden ovamo da ti pokažem. Objavi domu Izraelovu sve što ovdje vidiš."

5 I gle, zdanje sve uokolo opasano zidom. Čovjek držaše u ruci mjeračku trsku od šest lakata, a svaki lakat bijaše za jedan dlan duži od običnoga lakta. On izmjeri zdanje. Širina: jedna trska, visina: jedna trska.

6 Zatim pođe k vratima što bijahu okrenuta k istoku. Uspe se uza stepenice i izmjeri prag vrata. Širina: jedna trska.

7 A svaka klijet jednu trsku dugačka i jednu trsku široka. Između klijeti: pet lakata. Prag vrata sa strane njihova trijema, iznutra, jedna trska.

8 Izmjeri trijem vrata iznutra: bijaše osam lakata širok,

9 a njegovi polustupovi dva lakta. Trijem vrata bijaše s nutarnje strane.

10 Na svakoj strani istočnih vrata bijahu po tri klijeti. I sve tri bijahu iste mjere. Tako i polustupovi: s obje strane bijahu iste mjere.

11 Zatim izmjeri vrata: bijahu deset lakata široka i trinaest lakata visoka.

12 Pred klijetima bijaše s jedne i s druge strane ograda od jednog lakta. Svaka klijet: šest lakata s jedne i šest lakata s druge strane.

13 A zatim izmjeri vrata od stražnje strane jedne klijeti do stražnje strane nasuprotne klijeti, u širinu: bijaše dvadeset i pet lakata; otvor pred otvorom.

14 Izmjeri i trijem: dvadeset lakata. Predvorje bijaše sve uokolo trijema vrata.

15 Od ulaznog pročelja vrata do nasuprotne strane njihova trijema bijaše pedeset lakata.

16 Na klijetima i njihovim dovracima, s unutrašnje strane sve uokolo, a tako i u trijemu, bijahu prozori s rešetkama. Takvi su prozori bili iznutra, sve naokolo, a na polustupovima palme.

17 Zatim me povede u vanjsko predvorje Doma. I gle, sve oko predvorja prostorije i pločnik. Trideset prostorija na pločniku.

18 Pločnik bijaše sa svake strane vrata i odgovaraše razini vrata. To je donji pločnik.

19 On izmjeri širinu predvorja od donjih vrata do unutrašnjega predvorja, s vanjske strane: sto lakata na istok i na sjever.

20 Sjevernim vratima vanjskoga predvorja izmjeri širinu i dužinu.

21 I ta su imala po tri klijeti sa svake strane, a stupovi im i trijemovi istih mjera kao u prvih vrata: pedeset lakata u dužinu i dvadeset i pet lakata u širinu.

22 Prozori im, trijemovi i palme bijahu iste mjere kao na istočnim vratima, a na prilazu im sedam stepenica; trijem im bijaše s unutrašnje strane.

23 Unutrašnje predvorje imaše vrata što bijahu nasuprot sjevernim vratima; kao i istočna. On izmjeri: između jednih i drugih vrata bijaše sto lakata.

24 Zatim me povede na jug, i gle: i ondje vrata. Izmjeri ondje klijeti, polustupove i trijemove: bijahu iste mjere.

25 Ona, kao i njihovi trijemovi, imahu sve uokolo prozore što bijahu kao i oni prvi. Dužina je i tu iznosila pedeset lakata, a širina dvadeset i pet.

26 K vratima je vodilo sedam stuba; trijem im je bio s unutrašnje strane, a na stupovima imahu po jednu palmu sa svake strane.

27 Unutrašnje predvorje imaše jedna vrata i s južne strane. On izmjeri: od tih vrata do južnih vrata - sto lakata.

28 Zatim me na južna vrata uvede u unutrašnje predvorje. I izmjeri južna vrata: bijahu istih mjera.

29 Klijeti, stupovi i trijemovi bijahu istih mjera. Vrata i njihov trijem imahu svud unaokolo prozore. Pedeset lakata bijaše tu u dužinu, dvadeset i pet lakata u širinu.

30 A sve uokolo trijemovi: dvadeset i pet lakata dugi, a pet lakata široki.

31 Trijemovi su se pružili prema vanjskom predvorju. Na polustupovima njihovim palme, a stubište im je imalo osam stuba.

32 Zatim me povede k istočnim vratima unutrašnjega predvorja. I izmjeri vrata: bijahu istih mjera.

33 Klijeti im, polustupovi i trijemovi bijahu također istih mjera. Vrata i njihov trijem imahu svud naokolo prozore. U dužinu bješe pedeset lakata, u širinu dvadeset i pet.

34 Trijem im se pružao prema vanjskom predvorju. Na njihovim polustupovima s ove i s one strane bijahu palme. Stubište im imaše osam stuba.

35 Zatim me povede k sjevernim vratima. I izmjeri ih: bijahu istih mjera.

36 Klijeti im, polustupovi i trijemovi bijahu također istih mjera. Vrata i njihov trijem imahu svud uokolo prozore. Pedeset je lakata tu bilo u dužinu, a dvadeset i pet u širinu.

37 Trijem je sezao do vanjskoga predvorja. Na polustupovima s ove i one strane bijahu palme. Stubište imaše osam stuba.

38 Uz trijemove vrata bijaše prostor s posebnim ulazom. Ondje su se ispirale žrtve paljenice.

39 U trijemu vrata s jedne i s druge strane bijahu po dva stola za klanje paljenicÄa, okajnicÄa i naknadnicÄa.

40 I s vanjske strane onomu tko ulazi na ulaz sjevernih vrata bijahu dva stola; i s druge strane, prema trijemu vrata, dva stola.

41 Četiri stola, dakle, s jedne, a Četiri stola s druge strane vrata: u svemu osam stolova, na kojima se klahu žrtve.

42 Osim toga, četiri stola za paljenice, od klesanoga kamena. Bili su po lakat i pol široki i lakat visoki. Na njima je stajao pribor za klanje žrtava paljenica i klanica.

43 Stolovi bijahu sve uokolo obrubljeni žljebićima od jednoga dlana, zavrnutima unutra. Na stolove se stavljalo žrtveno meso.

44 Zatim me povede u unutrašnje predvorje. U unutrašnjem predvorju bijahu dvije prostorije: jedna bijaše sa strane sjevernih vrata, okrenuta prema jugu, a druga sa strane južnih vrata, okrenuta prema sjeveru.

45 I on mi reče: "Ta prostorija što je okrenuta na jug određena je za svećenike koji obavljaju službu u Domu.

46 A prostorija što je okrenuta na sjever jest za svećenike koji obavljaju službu na žrtveniku. To su sinovi Sadokovi, oni između sinova Levijevih koji smiju prići k Jahvi da mu služe!"

47 On izmjeri predvorje. Dužina: sto lakata, širina: sto lakata; bijaše četverouglasto. Pred Domom stajaše žrtvenik.

48 A zatim me povede k trijemu. Izmjeri polustupove trijema: bijaše pet lakata na jednoj i pet lakata na drugoj strani. Vrata bijahu široka tri lakta s jedne i tri lakta s druge strane.

49 Trijem bijaše dugačak dvadeset lakata, a širok dvanaest lakata. Deset je stepenica vodilo onamo. Na dovratnicima s jedne i s druge strane stajaše po jedan stup.

   

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Divine Providence # 134

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134a. 2. No one is reformed by visions or by conversations with the dead, because they compel. There are two kinds of visions, divine and demonic. Divine visions are given by means of portrayals in heaven, while demonic visions are effected though magical events in hell. There are imaginary visions as well, visions that are the illusions of a mind that has lost its bearings.

Divine visions (which as just noted are given by means of portrayals in heaven) are the kind that happened to the prophets. When they were having these visions they were not in the body but in the spirit, because visions cannot happen to us while we are physically awake. So when the prophets saw visions, it says that they were in the spirit, as the following passages show.

Ezekiel said, "The spirit lifted me up and took me back to Chaldea to the captivity in a vision of God, in the spirit of God; so the vision that I saw came over me" (Ezekiel 11:1, 24). Then too, spirits held him up between earth and heaven and brought him to Jerusalem in visions of God (Ezekiel 8:3 and following). The same thing happened in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw the four animals that were cherubim (Ezekiel chapters 1 and 10) and when he saw the new temple, the new earth, and the angel measuring them (Ezekiel chapters 40-48). It says in chapter Ezekiel 40:2, 26 that he was in visions of God at the time, and in chapter Ezekiel 43:5 that he was in the spirit.

[2] Zechariah was in the same kind of state when he saw the man on horseback among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following), when he saw the four horns and the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18, 20, 21; Zechariah 2:1 and following), when he saw the lampstand and the two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following), when he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6), and when he saw the four chariots coming out from the four mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw the four beasts rising from the sea (Daniel 6:1 [7:1] and following), and when he saw the battles of the ram and the goat (Daniel 8:1 and following). It says in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, and 13; in Daniel 8:2; and in Daniel 10:1, 7, and 8 that he saw these things in the vision of his spirit, and it says in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision.

[3] John was in the vision of the spirit when he saw the things he describes in the Book of Revelation--for example, when he saw the seven lampstands with the Human-born One in their midst (Revelation 1:12-16), when he saw the throne in heaven with someone sitting on it, surrounded by the four animals that were cherubim (Revelation 4), when he saw the book of life taken by the Lamb (Revelation 5), when he saw the horses come out of the book (Revelation 6), when he saw the seven angels with their trumpets (Revelation 8), when he saw the pit of the abyss opened with the locusts coming out of it (Revelation 9), when he saw the dragon and its battle with Michael (Revelation 12), when he saw the two beasts rise up, one from the sea and one from the land (Revelation 13), when he saw the woman sitting on the scarlet beast (Revelation 17) and the destruction of Babylon (Revelation 18), when he saw the white horse with someone riding it (Revelation 18 [19]), when he saw the new heaven and the new earth and the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven (Revelation 21), and when he saw the river of water of life (Revelation 22). It says that he saw these things in the vision of his spirit in Revelation 1:11 [1:10]; Revelation 4:2; Revelation 5:1; Revelation 6:1; and Revelation 21:12 [21:10].

These were the kinds of visions that were visible from heaven to the sight of their spirits and not to their physical sight.

Things like this do not happen nowadays, because if they did they would not be understood, since they happen by means of images whose details are pointing to inner features of the church and secrets of heaven. It was foretold in Daniel 9:24 that they would stop when the Lord came into the world.

However, demonic visions have sometimes occurred. They are brought about by spirits who inspire deceptive passions and visions and who call themselves the Holy Spirit because of a mental confusion that engulfs them. Now, however, these spirits have been gathered in by the Lord and consigned to a hell separate from the other hells.

We can see from all this that no one can be reformed by any visions except the ones that are in the Word. There are imaginary visions as well, but these are nothing but the illusions of a mind that has lost its bearings.

134b. The story that the Lord told about the rich man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham's lap shows that no one is reformed by conversations with the dead. The rich man said, "Father Abraham, I beg you to send Lazarus to my father's house where I have five brothers, to bear witness to them so that they do not come to this place of torment." Abraham said to him, "They have Moses and the prophets: let them heed them." But he said, "No, father Abraham, but if someone came to them from the dead, they would repent." He answered him, "If they do not heed Moses and the prophets, they would not be convinced if someone rose from the dead" (Luke 16:27-31).

Conversations with the dead may lead to the same results as miracles that I have just described. That is, we may be convinced and be constrained to worship for a short while. However, since this deprives us of rational functioning at the same time that it hems in our evils, as already noted [130-131, 133], this spell or inner restraint is released and the pent-up evils erupt in blasphemy and profanation. Still, this happens only when spirits have imposed some religious dogma. No good spirit--let alone any angel of heaven--would ever do this.

  
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