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Ezekiel 48

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1 Følgende er navnene på stammerne: Yderst i nord fra havet i retning af Hetlon til det sted, hvor Vejen går til Hamat, og videre til Hazar-Enon, med Damaskuss Område mod Nord ved Siden af Hamat, fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Dan, een Stammelod;

2 langs Dans Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Aser, een Stammelod;

3 langs Asers Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Naftali, een Stammelod;

4 langs Naftalis Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Manasse, een Stammelod;

5 langs Manasses Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Efraim, een Stammelod;

6 langs Efrainms Område fma Østsiden til Vestsiden: uben, een Stammelod;

7 langs ubens Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Juda, een Stammelod.

8 Langs Judas Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden skal Offerydelsen, som I yder, være 25000 Alen bred og lige så lang som hver Stammelod fra Østsiden til Vestsiden; og Helligdommen skal ligge i Midten.

9 Offerydelsen, som I skal yde HE EN, skal være 25 000 Alen lang og 20800 Alen bred;

10 og den hellige Offerydelse skal tilhøre følgende: Præsterne skal have et Stykke, som mod Nord er 25 000 Alen langt, mod Vest 10.000 Alen bredt, mod Øst 10000 Alen bredt og mod Syd 25.000 Alen langt; og HE ENs Helligdom skal ligge i Midten.

11 De helligede Præster, Zadoks Efterkommere, som tog Vare på, hvad jeg vilde have varetaget, og ikke som Leviterne for vild, da Israeliterne gjorde det,

12 skal det tilhøre som en Offerydelse af Landets Offerydelse, et højhelligt Område langs Leviternes.

13 Og Leviterne skal have et lige så stort Område som Præsterne, 25000 Alen langt og 10000 Alen bredt; den samlede Længde bliver således 25000 Alen, Bredden 20000.

14 De må ikke sælge eller bortbytte noget deraf eller overdrage denne førstegrøde af Landet til andre, thi den er helliget HE EN.

15 Det Stykke på 5000 Alens Bredde, som er tilovers af Offerydelsens Bredde langs de 25000 Alen, skal være uindviet Land og tilfalde Byen til Boliger og Græsgang, og Byen skal ligge i Midten;

16 dens Mål skal være følgende: Nordsiden 4500 Alen, Sydsiden 4500, Østsiden 4500 og Vestsiden 4500.

17 Byens Græsgang skal være 250 Alen mod Nord, 250 mod Syd, 250 mod Øst og 250 mod Vest.

18 Af det Stykke, som endnu er tilovers langs med den hellige Offerydelse, 10000 Alen mod Øst og 10000 mod Vest, skal Afgrøden tjene Byens indbyggere til Mad.

19 Byens Befolkning skal sammensættes således, at Folk fra alle israels Stammer bor der:

20 I alt skal I som Offerydelse yde en Firkant på 25000 Alen, den hellige Offerydelse foruden Byens Grundejendom.

21 Men esten skal tilfalde Fyrsten; hvad der ligger på begge Sider af den hellige Offerydelse og Byens Grundejendom, østen for de 25000 Alen hen til Østgrænsen og vesten for de 25000 Alen hen til Vestgrænsen, langs Stammelodderne, skal tilhøre Fyrsten; den hellige Offerydelse, Templets Helligdomn i Midten

22 og Leviternes og Byens Grundejendom skal ligge midt imellem de Stykker, som tilfalder Fyrsten mellem Judas og Benjamins Område.

23 Så følger de sidste Stammer: Fra Østsiden til Vestsiden Benjammmin, een Stammelod;

24 langs Benjamins Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Simeon, een Stammelod;

25 langs Simeons Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Issakar, een Stammelod;

26 langs Issakars Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Zebulon, een Stammelod;

27 langs Zebulons Område fra Østsiden til Vestsiden: Gad, een Stammelod;

28 og langs Gads Område på Sydsiden skal Grænsen gå fra Tamar over Meribas Vandved Kadesj til Bækken ud til det store Hav.

29 Det er det Land, I ved Lodkastning skal udskifte som Arvelod til Israels Stammer, og det er deres Stammelodder, lyder det fra den Herre HE EN.

30 Følgende er Byens udgange; Byens Porte skal opkaldes efter Israels Stammer:

31 På Nordsiden, der måler 4500 Alen, er der tre Porte, den første ubens, den anden Judas og den tredje Levis;

32 på Østsiden, der måler 4500 Alen, er der tre Porte, den første Josefs, den anden Benjamins og den tredje Dans;

33 på Sydsiden, der måler 4500 Alen, er der tre Porte, den første Simeons, den anden Issakars og den tredje Zebulons;

34 på Vestsiden, der måler 4500 Alen, er der tre Porte, den første Gads, den anden Asers og den tredje Naftalis.

35 Omkredsen er 18000 Alen. Og Byens Navn skal herefter være: HE EN er der.

   


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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.). When he saw Joshua, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.). When he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.). When he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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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.