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1 To když uslyšel Kananejský král v Arad, kterýž bydlil na poledne, že by táhl Izrael tou cestou, kterouž byli špehéři šli, bojoval s ním, a zajal jich množství.

2 Tedy Izrael učinil slib Hospodinu, řka: Jestliže dáš lid tento v ruce mé, do gruntu zkazím města jejich.

3 I uslyšel Hospodin hlas Izraele a dal mu Kananejské, kterýžto do gruntu zkazil je i města jejich, a nazval jméno toho místa Horma.

4 Potom hnuli se s hory Hor cestou k moři Rudému, aby obešli zemi Idumejskou; i ustával lid velice na cestě.

5 A mluvil lid proti Bohu a proti Mojžíšovi: Proč jste vyvedli nás z Egypta, abychom zemřeli na poušti? Nebo ani chleba ani vody není, a duše naše chléb tento ničemný sobě již zošklivila.

6 Protož dopustil Hospodin na lid hady ohnivé, kteříž jej štípali, tak že množství lidu zemřelo z Izraele.

7 Tedy přišel lid k Mojžíšovi a řekli: Zhřešili jsme nebo jsme mluvili proti Hospodinu a proti tobě; modl se Hospodinu, ať odejme od nás ty hady. I modlil se Mojžíš za lid.

8 I řekl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Udělej sobě hada podobného těm ohnivým, a vyzdvihni jej na sochu; a každý ušťknutý, když pohledí na něj, živ bude.

9 I udělal Mojžíš hada měděného, a vyzdvihl jej na sochu; a stalo se, když ušťkl had někoho, a on vzhlédl na hada měděného, že zůstal živ.

10 Tedy hnuli se odtud synové Izraelští, a položili se v Obot.

11 Potom pak hnuvše se z Obot, položili se při pahrbcích hor Abarim na poušti, kteráž jest naproti zemi Moábské k východu slunce.

12 Odtud brali se, a položili se v údolí Záred.

13 Opět hnuvše se odtud, položili se u brodu potoka Arnon, kterýž jest na poušti, a vychází z končin Amorejských. Nebo Arnon jest pomezí Moábské mezi Moábskými a Amorejskými.

14 Protož praví se v knize bojů Hospodinových, že proti Vahebovi u vichřici bojoval, a proti potokům Arnon.

15 Nebo tok těch potoků, kterýž se nachyluje ku položení Ar, ten jde vedlé pomezí Moábského.

16 A odtud táhli do Beer; a to jest to Beer, o němž byl řekl Hospodin k Mojžíšovi: Shromažď lid, a dám jim vodu.

17 Tedy zpíval lid Izraelský písničku tuto: Vystupiž studnice, prozpěvujte o ní;

18 Studnice, kterouž kopala knížata, kterouž vykopali přední z lidu s vydavatelem zákona holemi svými. Z pouště pak brali se do Matana,

19 A z Matana do Nahaliel, z Nahaliel do Bamot,

20 A z Bamot do údolí, kteréž jest na poli Moábském, až k vrchu hory, kteráž leží na proti poušti.

21 Tedy poslal lid Izraelský posly k Seonovi králi Amorejskému, řka:

22 Nechť jdeme skrze zemi tvou. Neuchýlíme se ani do pole, ani do vinic, ani z studnic vody píti nebudeme, ale cestou královskou půjdeme, dokavadž nepřejdeme pomezí tvého.

23 I nedopustil Seon jíti lidu Izraelskému skrze krajinu svou, nýbrž sebrav Seon všecken lid svůj, vytáhl proti lidu Izraelskému na poušť, a přitáh do Jasa, bojoval proti Izraelovi.

24 I porazil jej lid Izraelský mečem, a vzal v dědictví zemi jeho, od Arnon až do Jabok, a až do země synů Ammon; nebo pevné bylo pomezí Ammonitských.

25 Tedy vzal Izrael všecka ta města, a přebýval ve všech městech Amorejských, v Ezebon a ve všech městečkách jeho.

26 Nebo Ezebon bylo město Seona krále Amorejského, kterýž když bojoval proti králi Moábskému prvnímu, vzal mu všecku zemi jeho z rukou jeho až do Arnon.

27 Protož říkávali v přísloví: Poďte do Ezebon, aby vystaveno bylo a vzděláno město Seonovo.

28 Nebo oheň vyšel z Ezebon, a plamen z města Seon, i spálil Ar Moábských a obyvatele výsosti Arnon.

29 Běda tobě Moáb, zahynuls lide Chámos; dal syny své v utíkání, a dcery své v zajetí králi Amorejskému Seonovi.

30 A království jejich zahynulo od Ezebon až do Dibon, a vyhladili jsme je až do Nofe, kteréž jest až k Medaba.

31 A tak bydlil Izrael v zemi Amorejské.

32 Potom poslal Mojžíš, aby shlédli Jazer, kteréž vzali i s městečky jeho; a tak vyhnal Amorejské, kteříž tam bydlili.

33 Obrátivše se pak, táhli cestou k Bázan. I vytáhl Og, král Bázan, proti nim, on i všecken lid jeho, aby bojoval v Edrei.

34 Tedy řekl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Neboj se ho; nebo v ruce tvé dal jsem jej, i všecken lid jeho, i zemi jeho, a učiníš jemu tak, jakož jsi učinil Seonovi, králi Amorejskému, kterýž bydlil v Ezebon.

35 I porazili jej i syny jeho, i všecken lid jeho, tak že žádný živý po něm nezůstal, a uvázali se dědičně v zemi jeho.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 862

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862. We have said that the nations' surrounding the camp of the saints and the beloved city means, symbolically, that these people attempted to destroy everything connected with the New Church, both its truths and goods and its fundamental doctrine regarding the Lord and life, as stated in the preceding number. This is the symbolic meaning because the camp of the saints symbolizes all the truths and goods of the church which is the New Jerusalem.

That a camp in the spiritual sense symbolizes everything connected with the church with respect to its truths and goods can be seen from the following passages:

The sun and moon grew dark, and the stars diminished their brightness. Jehovah uttered His voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for numberless are those who obey His Word. (Joel 2:10-11)

I will encamp for My house some of the army... (Zechariah 9:8)

...God has scattered the bones of them who encamp against you..., because God has rejected them. (Psalms 53:5)

The angel of Jehovah encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. (Psalms 34:7)

(An angel of God met Jacob, and said to Jacob,) "This is God's camp." Therefore he called the name of that place Mahanaim (Two Camps). (Genesis 32:1-2)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 29:3, Ezekiel 1:24, Psalms 27:3.

That an army or host in the Word symbolizes the church's truths and goods, and also its falsities and evils, may be seen in nos. 447, 826, 833; and so, too, does a camp.

[2] Since the children of Israel and their twelve tribes symbolize the church in respect to all its truths and goods (nos. 349, 350), they were therefore called the armies or hosts of Jehovah (Exodus 7:4; 12:41, 51), and the places where they stopped and assembled were called camps, as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 1; 2; 3; 4:5 ff., 5:2-4; 9:17-23; 10:1-10, 11-28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 21:10-15; 33:1-49; Deuteronomy 23:9-14; Amos 4:10.

It is apparent from this now that the nations' surrounding the camp of the saints and the beloved city means, symbolically, that these people tried to destroy all the truths and goods of the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem, and also its doctrine regarding the Lord and life.

The same symbolism is found in these verses in Luke:

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near... (At length) Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:20, 24)

This is said in reference to the end of the age, which is the final period of the church. Jerusalem here also symbolizes the church.

That Gog and Magog, that is, people who engage in external worship divorced from any internal worship, will then invade the church and try to destroy it, is something we are told also in Ezekiel 38:8-9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 39:2, and that the New Church will then be established by the Lord, Ezekiel 39:17-29.

  
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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.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 350

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350. Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed. (7:5) This symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord, and this in all those people who will be in the Lord's New Heaven and New Church.

In the highest sense Judah symbolizes the Lord in relation to celestial love; in the spiritual sense, the Lord's celestial kingdom and the Word; and in the natural sense, the doctrine of a celestial church drawn from the Word. Here, however, Judah symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord; and because it is named first in the series, it symbolizes that love in all those people who will be in the New Heaven and in the Lord's New Church. For the tribe named first is everything in the rest, being to them as though their head and serving as a universal property entering into all those that follow, tying them together, qualifying them and affecting them. This property is love toward the Lord.

To be shown that twelve thousand symbolizes all who possess that love, see no. 348 above.

[2] People know that after the death of Solomon the twelve tribes of Israel were divided into two kingdoms: the kingdom of Judah and the kingdom of Israel. The kingdom of Judah represented the celestial kingdom or the Lord's priestly kingdom, while the kingdom of Israel represented the spiritual kingdom or the Lord's royal kingdom. But the latter was destroyed when the people had nothing spiritual left in them, whereas the kingdom of Judah was preserved, for the sake of the Word, and because the Lord would be born there. However, when the people adulterated the Word completely, and thus could not recognize the Lord, then their kingdom was destroyed.

It can be seen from this that the tribe of Judah symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord. But because the people were of the character they were with respect to the Word and with respect to the Lord, the tribe of Judah symbolizes also the opposite love, which is love of self - properly speaking, a love of dominating springing from a love of self - a love which we call diabolical love.

[3] The fact that Judah and his tribe symbolize the celestial kingdom and its love, which is love toward the Lord, follows from these passages:

Judah, your brothers shall praise you... The scepter shall not be taken from Judah... until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the obedience of the people. Binding his donkey's foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his garment in wine... His eyes are redder than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. (Genesis 49:8-12)

...David shall be their prince forever, and I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them..., and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore. (Ezekiel 37:25-26)

Exult and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! ...Jehovah will make Judah an inheritance for Himself, His portion on the holy land. (Zechariah 2:10-12)

O Judah, celebrate your feasts, perform your vows. For Belial 1 shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off. (Nahum 1:15)

The Lord... will suddenly come to His temple... Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be sweet to Jehovah as in the days of old... (Malachi 3:1, 4)

Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. (Joel 3:20)

Behold, the days are coming..., that I will raise to David a righteous Branch... In His days Judah will be saved... (Jeremiah 23:5-6)

I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of My mountains, that My elect may possess it... (Isaiah 65:9)

Judah became His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. (Psalms 114:2)

Behold, the days are coming..., when I will make a new covenant... with the house of Judah... ...this will be the covenant...: I will put My law within them, and write it on their heart... (Jeremiah 31:27, 31, 33-34)

In those days ten men... shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." (Zechariah 8:23)

...as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me..., so shall your offspring and your name remain.

Kings (of the nations) shall be your foster fathers, their princesses your nursing mothers. They shall bow down to you, their faces to the ground, and lick the dust of your feet. (Isaiah 66:22; 49:23)

[4] From these and many other passages, which we do not have the space to cite because of their number, it can be clearly seen that Judah means not Judah but the church. We are told, for example, that the Lord would make a new and eternal covenant with that nation, that He would make it His heir and His sanctuary forevermore, and that kings of the nations and their princesses would bow down to them, licking the dust of their feet, and so on.

[5] That the tribe of Judah, regarded in itself, means the diabolic kingdom, which is one of a love of dominating springing from a love of self, can be seen from the following passages:

I will hide My face from them, I will see what their posterity will be. ...they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith... ...they are a nation void of counsel... ...their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; its grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. Is this not laid up in store with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? (Deuteronomy 32:20-34)

(Know that) it is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart... that Jehovah... is... giving you (the land of Canaan)..., for you are a stiff-necked people. (Deuteronomy 9:5-6)

...according to the number of your cities have been your gods, O Judah... ...according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars... to burn incense to Baal. (Jeremiah 2:28; 11:13)

You are of your father the devil, and you choose to do the desires of your father. (John 8:44)

Jews are said to be full of hypocrisy, iniquity, and uncleanness (Matthew 23:27-28.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. In the Old Testament, the personification of wickedness and destruction, originally conceived perhaps as some sort of spirit demon.

  
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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.