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1 Efter at HE ENs Tjener Moses var død, sagde HE EN til Moses's Medhjælper Josua, Nuns Søn:

2 "Min Tjener Moses er død; bryd nu op tillige med hele dette Folk og gå over Jordan derhenne til det Land, jeg vil give dem, Israeliterne.

3 Ethvert Sted, eders Fod betræder, giver jeg eder, som jeg lovede Moses.

4 Fra Ørkenen og Libanon til den store Flod, Eufratfloden, hele Hetiternes Land, og til det store Hav i Vest skal eders Landemærker nå.

5 Så længe du lever, skal det ikke være muligt for nogen at holde Stand imod dig; som jeg var med Moses, vil jeg være med dig; jeg vil ikke slippe dig og ikke forlade dig.

6 Vær frimodig og stærk, thi du skal skaffe dette Folk det Land i Eje, som jeg tilsvor deres Fædre at ville give dem.

7 Vær kun helt frimodig og stærk. så du omhyggeligt handler efter hele den Lov, min Tjener Moses pålagde dig, vig ikke derfra til højre eller venstre, for at du må have Lykken med dig i alt, hvad du tager dig for.

8 Denne Lovbog skal ikke vige fra din Mund, og du skal grunde over den Dag og Nat, for at du omhyggeligt kan handle efter alt, hvad der står skrevet i den; thi da vil det gå dig vel i al din Færd, og Lykken vil følge dig.

9 Har jeg ikke budt dig: Vær frimodig og stærk; vær ikke bange og bliv ikke forfærdet, thi HE EN din Gud er med dig i alt, hvad du tager dig for!"

10 Josua bød derpå Folkets Tilsynsmænd:

11 "Gå omkring i Lejren og byd Folket: Sørg for ejsetæring, thi om tre Dage skal I gå over Jordan derhenne for at drage ind og tage det Land i Besiddelse, som HE EN eders Gud vil give eder i Eje!"

12 Men til ubeniterne, Gaditerne og Manasses halve Stamme sagde Josua:

13 "Husk på, hvad HE ENs Tjener Moses bød eder, da han sagde: HE EN eders Gud bringer eder nu til Hvile og giver eder Landet her!

14 Eders Kvinder og Børn og Kvæg skal blive i det Land, Moses gav eder hinsides Jordan; men I selv, alle våbenføre, skal væbnet drage over i Spidsen for eders Brødre og hjælpe dem,

15 indtil HE EN har bragt eders Brødre til Hvile ligesom eder, når også de har taget det Land i Besiddelse, som HE EN eders Gud vil give dem. Så kan I vende tilbage til eders eget Land og tage det i Besiddelse, det, som HE ENs Tjener Moses gav eder østpå hinsides Jordan!"

16 Da svarede de Josua: "Alt, hvad du har pålagt os, vil vi gøre, og vi vil gå overalt, hvor du sender os;

17 som vi har adlydt Moses i alt, vil vi adlyde dig. Måtte kun HE EN din Gud være med dig, som han var med Moses!

18 Enhver, som sætter sig op imod dine Befalinger og ikke adlyder dine Ord i alt, hvad du pålægger ham, skal . Vær kun modig og uforsagt!"


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The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings # 279

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279. The divine design. The divine truth that emanates from the Lord is the origin of the divine design, and divine goodness is what constitutes its essence: 1728, 2258, 8700, 8988. The Lord himself, then, is the divine design, because divine goodness and divine truth come from the Lord and in fact are the Lord in the heavens and on earth: 1919, 2011, 5110, 5703, 10336, 10619. The laws of the design are divine truths: 2447, 7995. Where there is order the Lord is present; where there is no order the Lord is not present: 5703. Since divine truth is [the basis of] the design and divine goodness constitutes its essence, absolutely everything in the universe must go back to goodness and truth in order to be anything at all, for the very reason that everything goes back to the design: 2451, 3166, 4390, 4409, 5232, 7256, 10122, 10555. Since goodness is the essence of the design, it arranges the truths that form the design; the truths do not arrange the goodness: 3316, 3470, 4302, 5704, 5709, 6028, 6690. The entire heaven, with all its angelic communities, is arranged by the Lord according to his divine design, since the divine nature of the Lord in and among the angels is what constitutes heaven: 6338, 7211, 9338, 10125, 10151, 10157. So heaven's form is a form in keeping with the divine design: 4040-4043, 6607, 9877.

[2] To the extent that we live according to the design-that is, to the extent that we are devoted to doing what is good in response to the divine truths that are the laws of the design-to that extent we are human: 4839. The more we live this way, the more perfectly proportioned and beautiful we will look in the other life; the less we live this way, the more monstrous we will look: 4839, 6605, 6626. Clearly then, all the elements of the divine design have been gathered together in human beings; we have been created to be the divine design in form: 4219, 4220, 4223, 4523, 4524, 5114, 6013, 6057, 6605, 6626, 9706, 10156. Because angels are receptive to the divine design from the Lord, they are in the human form-and in a form that is more perfect and beautiful the more receptive they are: 322, 1880, 1881, 3633, 3804, 4622, 4735, 4797, 4985, 5199, 5530, 6054, 9879, 10177, 10594. Not only that, the angelic heaven, taken as a whole, is like a human being in respect to its form; and this is because the whole heaven, with all its angelic communities, is arranged by the Lord according to the divine design: 2996, 2998, 3624-3649, 3636-3643, 3741-3745, 4625. We can see from this that the Divine-Human Being is the source of all the above: 2996, 2998, 3624-3649, 3741-3745. It also follows from this that the Lord is the only human being, and that we are human only if we are receptive to what is divine from him: 1894. The more receptive we are, the more we become images of the Lord: 8547.

[3] We are born not with goodness and truth but with evil and falsity, so we are not born into the divine design but into something contrary to that design. That is why we are born in utter ignorance and why, in order to be brought into the divine design and thus become human, we must of necessity be born again-that is, regenerated-which is accomplished by means of divine truths from the Lord and by a life in accord with them: 1047, 2307, 2308, 3518, 3812, 8480, 8550, 10283, 10284, 10731. When the Lord is regenerating us, he arranges everything in us according to the divine design-that is, according to the form of heaven: 5700, 6690, 9931, 10303. Anyone who is being led by the Lord is being led according to the divine design: 8512. Those who are in the divine design have deeper levels of the mind that are opened into heaven all the way to the Lord; those who are not in the divine design have deeper levels of the mind that are closed: 8513. The more we live according to the divine design, the more intelligence and wisdom we have: 2592.

[4] The Lord governs everything from the inmost to the outermost elements of the design; he governs the inmost elements from the outermost and the outermost from the inmost, and this is how he keeps everything connected and coordinated: 3702, 3739, 6056, 9828. On sequential order and on the last stage of that order, in which sequential elements are all together and yet the order of their succession is preserved: 634, 3691, 4145, 5114, 5897, 6239, 6326, 6465, 8603, 9216, 9828, 9836, 10044, 10099, 10335.

[5] Things that are evil and false are contrary to the design, and yet the Lord still governs them, not according to the design but based on their opposition to it: 4839, 7877, 10778. Things that are evil and false are governed through the laws of permission, and this is done for the sake of the design: 7877, 8700, 10778. Some things are impossible because they are contrary to the divine design-for example, it is impossible for someone whose life is devoted to evil to be saved out of pure mercy, and it is impossible for evil people to be in the company of good people in the other life, among many other things: 8700.

  
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