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Ezechiel 37

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1 Byla nade mnou ruka Hospodinova, a vyvedl mne Hospodin v duchu, a postavil mne u prostřed údolí, kteréž bylo plné kostí.

2 I provedl mne skrze ně vůkol a vůkol, a aj, bylo jich velmi mnoho v tom údolí, a aj, byly velmi suché.

3 I řekl mi: Synu člověčí, mohly-li by ožiti kosti tyto? I řekl jsem: Panovníče Hospodine, ty víš.

4 V tom řekl mi: Prorokuj o těch kostech a rci jim: Kosti suché, slyšte slovo Hospodinovo.

5 Toto praví Panovník Hospodin kostem těmto: Aj, já uvedu do vás ducha, abyste ožily.

6 A dám na vás žily, a učiním, že zroste na vás maso, a otáhnu vás koží; dám, pravím, do vás ducha, abyste ožily, i zvíte, že já jsem Hospodin.

7 Tedy prorokoval jsem tak, jakž mi rozkázáno bylo. I stal se zvuk, když jsem já prorokoval, a aj, hřmot, když se přibližovaly kosti jedna k druhé.

8 I viděl jsem, a aj, žily a maso na nich se ukázalo, i koží potaženy byly po vrchu, ale ducha žádného nebylo v nich.

9 I řekl mi: Prorokuj k duchu, prorokuj, synu člověčí, a rci duchu: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Ode čtyř větrů přiď, duchu, a věj na tyto zmordované, ať oživou.

10 Tedy prorokoval jsem, jakž mi rozkázal. I všel do nich duch, a ožili, a postavili se na nohách svých, zástup velmi veliký.

11 I řekl mi: Synu člověčí, kosti tyto jsou všecken dům Izraelský. Aj, říkají: Uschly kosti naše, a zhynula čáka naše, jižť jest po nás.

12 Protož prorokuj a rci jim: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Aj, já otevru hroby vaše, a vyvedu vás z hrobů vašich, lide můj, a uvedu vás do země Izraelské.

13 I zvíte, že já jsem Hospodin, když otevru hroby vaše, a vyvedu vás z hrobů vašich, lide můj.

14 A dám Ducha svého do vás, abyste ožili, a osadím vás v zemi vaší, i zvíte, že já Hospodin mluvím i činím, dí Hospodin.

15 Opět stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

16 Ty pak synu člověčí, vezmi sobě dřevo jedno, a napiš na něm: Judovi, a synům Izraelským, tovaryšům jeho. Zatím vezma dřevo druhé, napiš na něm: Jozefovi dřevo Efraimovo, a všechněm synům Izraelským, tovaryšům jeho.

17 I spojž je sobě jedno k druhému v jedno dřevo, aby byla jako jedno v ruce tvé.

18 A když mluviti budou k tobě synové lidu tvého, řkouce: Což nám neoznámíš, co ty věci znamenají:

19 Mluv k nim: Takto praví panovník Hospodin: Aj, já vezmu dřevo Jozefovo, kteréž jest v ruce Efraimově, a pokolení Izraelských, tovaryšů jeho, a přiložím je s ním k dřevu Judovu, a učiním je dřevem jedním, i budou jedno v ruce mé.

20 A když budou ta dřeva, na kterýchž jsi psal, v ruce tvé před očima jejich,

21 Tedy mluv k nim: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Aj, já vezmu syny Izraelské z prostřed národů těch, kamž odešli, a shromáždě je odevšad, uvedu je do země jejich.

22 A učiním je, aby byli národem jedním v té zemi na horách Izraelských, a král jeden bude nad nimi nade všemi králem. A nebudou více dva národové, aniž se již více děliti budou na dvoje království.

23 Aniž se budou poškvrňovati více ukydanými bohy svými, a ohavnostmi svými, ani jakými přestoupeními svými, i vysvobodím je ze všech obydlí jejich, v nichž hřešili, a očistím je. I budou mým lidem, a já budu jejich Bohem.

24 A služebník můj David bude králem nad nimi, a pastýře jednoho všickni míti budou, aby v soudech mých chodili, a ustanovení mých ostříhali, i činili je.

25 I budou bydliti v té zemi, kterouž jsem byl dal služebníku svému Jákobovi, v níž bydlili otcové vaši. Budou, pravím, v ní bydliti oni i synové jejich, i synové synů jejich až na věky, a David služebník můj knížetem jejich bude na věky.

26 Nadto učiním s nimi smlouvu pokoje; smlouva věčná bude s nimi. A rozsadím je, i rozmnožím je, a postavím svatyni svou u prostřed nich na věky.

27 Bude i příbytek můj mezi nimi, a budu jejich Bohem, a oni budou lidem mým.

28 I zvědí národové, že jsem já Hospodin, jenž posvěcuji Izraele, když bude svatyně má u prostřed nich na věky.

   

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9481. 'In accordance with all that I show you, the pattern of the dwelling-place' means a representative of heaven where the Lord is. This is clear from the meaning of 'the pattern of the dwelling-place' as a representative of heaven; for 'the pattern' means a representative, and 'the dwelling-place' means heaven. The reason why 'the pattern' means a representative is that Divine realities in heaven are also manifested in visible shapes, which are representatives. For the meaning of 'the dwelling-place' as heaven where the Lord is, see 8269, 8309. What the representatives that appear in heaven are like is clear in the prophets, for example in John's Book of Revelation, in which he describes lampstands, Chapter 1:12ff; a throne with twenty-four thrones around it, and four living creatures before the throne, Chapter 4:2ff; a book sealed with seven seals, Chapter 5; horses going out when the seals were opened, Chapter 6; angels who are clothed in various ways and have bowls, Chapters 9, 10, 15, 16; a white horse, Chapter 19; and at length a new Jerusalem, its walls, gates, foundations, height, breadth, and length, Chapters 21, 22. Similar sights are also described by other prophets.

[2] All those sights are representatives such as appear unceasingly in heaven before angels' eyes, manifesting in visible shapes the Divine celestial realities that belong to the good of love and the Divine spiritual realities that belong to the good of faith. Such realities taken all together were represented by the tabernacle and its contents, that is, the ark itself, the table on which loaves were laid, the altar of incense, the lampstand, and everything else. Therefore when these objects, being outward forms of Divine celestial and spiritual realities, were beheld by the people while they were engaged in holy acts of worship, such realities as were represented by those objects were brought to notice in heaven. These, as stated above, were the Divine celestial realities that belong to the good of love to the Lord and the Divine spiritual realities that belong to the good of faith in the Lord. All the representatives of that Church had that kind of effect in heaven. It should be realized that a person always has spirits and angels present with him and that a person cannot live without them. It should likewise be realized that through them the person is linked to the Lord, and that in this way the human race, and heaven too, is kept in being. From this one can see what purpose was served by the representatives and also the ritual observances of the Church established among the Israelite nation. One can also see what purpose is served by the Word, in which all things mentioned in the sense of the letter correspond to Divine realities that exist in heaven, thus in which all the objects mentioned are representative and all the words used carry a spiritual meaning. This is what brings about the linking of a person to heaven, and through heaven to the Lord. Without that link the person would have no life whatever, for without being linked to the actual Essential Being (Esse) of life, from which the Coming-into-Being (Existere) of life emanates, no one has life.

[3] But these considerations are unintelligible to those who think that life exists essentially in a person himself and that a person lives without spirits or angels, thus without influx from the Divine by way of heaven. But in actual fact anything that is not linked to the Divine perishes and ceases to exist. Indeed nothing can ever come into being without that which is prior to itself, thus without the Divine, who is the First and is self-existent Being (Esse) or Jehovah; nor consequently can it remain in being, for remaining in being is constant coming-into-being. Because 'the dwelling-place' means heaven where the Lord is, it also means the good of love and faith, since these compose heaven; and because all good comes from the Lord, and heaven is called heaven by virtue of its love to and faith in the Lord, 'the dwelling-place' also means in the highest sense the Lord, as is evident in Isaiah 63:15; Jeremiah 25:30; Ezekiel 37:26-27; Psalms 26:8; 43:3; 90:1; 91:9; Exodus 15:13; Deuteronomy 12:5, 11; and other places. From this it is clear that the tabernacle was called Jehovah's sanctuary and dwelling-place for the reason that it represented the realities mentioned above.

  
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Deuteronomy 12

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1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.

2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;

6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:

7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.

10 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;

11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

13 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

14 but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

20 When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, "I want to eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

21 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

22 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:

27 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

29 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise."

31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.