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Danieli 12

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1 Toho času postaví se Michal, kníže veliké, kterýž zastává synů lidu tvého, a bude čas ssoužení, jakéhož nebylo, jakž jest národ, až do toho času; toho, pravím, času vysvobozen bude lid tvůj, kdožkoli nalezen bude zapsaný v knize.

2 Tuť mnozí z těch, kteříž spí v prachu země, procítí, jedni k životu věčnému, druzí pak ku pohanění a ku potupě věčné.

3 Ale ti, kteříž jiné vyučují, stkvíti se budou jako blesk oblohy, a kteříž k spravedlnosti přivozují mnohé, jako hvězdy na věčné věky.

4 Ty pak Danieli, zavři slova tato, a zapečeť knihu tuto až do času jistého. Mnozíť budou pilně zpytovati, a rozmnoženo bude umění.

5 Zatím viděl jsem já Daniel, a aj, jiní dva stáli, jeden z této strany břehu řeky, a druhý z druhé strany břehu též řeky.

6 A řekl muži tomu oblečenému v roucho lněné, kterýž stál nad vodou té řeky: Když bude konec těm divným věcem?

7 I slyšel jsem muže toho oblečeného v roucho lněné, kterýž stál nad vodou té řeky, an zdvihl pravici svou i levici svou k nebi, a přisáhl skrze Živého na věky, že po uloženém času, a uložených časích, i půl času, a když do cela rozptýlí násilí lidu svatého, dokonají se všecky tyto věci.

8 A když jsem já slyše, nerozuměl, řekl jsem: Pane můj, jaký konec bude těch věcí?

9 Tedy řekl: Odejdi, Danieli, nebo zavřína jsou a zapečetěna slova ta až do času jistého.

10 Přečišťováni a bíleni a prubováni budou mnozí; bezbožní zajisté bezbožnost páchati budou, aniž co porozumějí kteří z nich, ale moudří porozumějí.

11 Od toho pak času, v němž odjata bude obět ustavičná, a postavena ohavnost hubící, bude dnů tisíc, dvě stě a devadesát.

12 Blahoslavený, kdož dočeká a přijde ke dnům tisíci, třem stům, třidcíti a pěti.

13 Ty pak odejdi k místu svému, a odpočívati budeš, a zůstaneš v losu svém na skonání dnů.

   

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Heaven and Hell # 518

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518. There were some spirits who while they were in the world had thought their way into the conviction that they would get into heaven and would be accepted before anyone else because they were well educated and knew a lot about the Word and the doctrine of the churches. They believed that they were wise, that they were the people meant by the prophecy in Daniel 12:3 that "they will shine like the glory of the firmament and like the stars." However, they were examined to see whether their learning was lodged in their memories or in their life. The ones who had a real affection for truth - that is, for the sake of constructive acts apart from merely physical and worldly motives, acts that were essentially spiritual - once they had been instructed, were accepted into heaven. They were then granted knowledge of what does shine in heaven. It is the divine truth (which is heaven's light there) in constructive living, this being the facet that receives that light and turns it into various kinds of radiance.

For others, though, the learning was lodged only in their memories. They had thereby acquired an ability to reason about truths and to prove the ones they accepted as fundamental, notions that looked true once they were proved, even though they were false. These people were not in heaven's light at all, but were wrapped up in a faith based on the pride that characterizes so many people of like intelligence, a pride in being especially erudite and therefore destined for heaven where they will be waited on by angels. Because of all this, to extract them from their conceited faith, they were taken up to the first or outmost heaven to be admitted into one particular angelic community. Even as they were entering it, though, their sight began to darken at the inflow of heaven's light. Then their intellects began to be confused, and eventually they began to labor for breath as though they were dying. Not only that, when they began to feel heaven's warmth, which is heavenly love, they began to feel profound agonies. So they were expelled, and then were taught that knowledge does not make an angel, only the actual life that people have gained through their knowledge. This is because in and of itself, knowledge is outside of heaven; but a life gained through knowledge is inside heaven.

  
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