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Zakarias 14

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1 Se, en Dag kommer, HE ENs Dag, da dit Bytte skal deles i dig.

2 Da samler jeg alle Folkene til Angreb på Jerusalem; Byen indtages, Husene plyndres, Kvinderne skændes, og Halvdelen af Byens Indbyggere vandrer i Landflygtighed; men esten af Folket skal ikke udryddes af Byen.

3 Og HE EN drager ud og strider mod disse Folk, som han fordum stred på Kampens bag.

4 På hin Dag står hans Fødder på Oliebjerget østen for Jerusalem, og Oliebjerget skal revne midt over fra Øst til Vest og danne en vældig Dal, idet Bjergets ene Halvdel viger mod Nord, den anden mod Syd.

5 I skal flygte til mine Bjerges Dal, thi Bjergdalen når til Azal. I skal fly, som l flyede for Jordskælvet i Kong Uzzija af Judas Dage. Og HE EN min Gud kommer og alle de Hellige med ham.

6 På hin Dag skal der ikke være Hede eller Kulde og Frost.

7 Det skal være een eneste Dag - HE EN kender den - ikke Dag og Nat; det skal være lyst ved Aftentide.

8 På hin Dag skal rindende Vand vælde frem fra Jerusalem; det halve løber ud i Havet mod Øst, det halve i Havet mod Vest, og det både Sommer og Vinter.

9 Og HE EN skal være Konge over hele Jorden. På hin Dag skal HE EN være een og hans Navn eet.

10 Og hele Landet bliver en Slette fra Geba til immon i Sydlandet; men Jerusalem skal ligge højt på sit gamle Sted. Fra Benjaminsporten til den gamle Ports Sted, til Hjørneporten, og fra Hanan'eltårnet til de kongelige Vinperser skal det være beboet.

11 Der skal ikke mere lægges Band derpå, og Jerusalem skal ligge trygt.

12 Men dette skal være den Plage, HE EN lader ramme alle de Folkeslag, som drager i Leding mod Jerusalem: han lader Kødet rådne på dem i levende Live, Øjnene rådner i deres Øjenhuler og Tungen i deres Mund.

13 På hin Dag skal en vældig HE ENs ædsel opstå iblandt dem, så de griber fat i og løfter Hånd mod hverandre.

14 Også Juda skal stride i Jerusalem. Og alle Folkenes igdom skal samles trindt om fra, Guld, Sølv og Klæder i såre store Måder.

15 Og samme Plage skal ramme Heste, Muldyr, Kameler, Æsler og alt Kvæg i Lejrene der.

16 Men alle de, der bliver tilbage af alle Folkene, som kommer imod Jerusalem, skal År efter År drage derop for at tilbede Kongen, Hærskarers HE E, og fejre Løvhyttefest.

17 Og dersom nogen af Jordens Slægter ikke drager op til Jerusalem for at tilbede Kongen, Hærskarers HE E, skal der ikke falde egn hos dem.

18 Og dersom Ægyptens Slægt ikke drager derop og kommer derhen, så skal de rammes af den Plage, HE EN lader ramme Folkene.

19 Det er Straffen over Ægypterne og alle de Folk, som ikke drager op for at fejre Løvhyttefest.

20 På hin Dag skal der stå på Hestenes Bjælder "Helliget HE EN". Og Gryderne i HE ENs Hus skal være som Offerskålene for Alteret;

21 hver Gryde i Jerusalem og Juda skal være helliget Hærskarers HE E, så alle de ofrende kan komme og tage af dem og koge deri. Og på hin Dag skal der ikke mere være nogen Kana'anæer i Hærskarers HE Es Hus.

   


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336. And every mountain and island was moved out of its place. This symbolically means that all goodness of love and truth of faith vanished.

No one can see that this is the symbolic meaning except by recourse to the spiritual sense. It is the symbolic meaning because mountains mean people who possess the goodness of love, inasmuch as angels dwell upon mountains - those motivated by love toward the Lord on loftier mountains, and those motivated by love for the neighbor on less lofty ones. Consequently "every mountain" symbolizes all goodness of love. Islands mean people relatively removed from the worship of God, as may be seen in no. 34 above - here people who are impelled by faith, and not so much by the goodness of love. Therefore in an abstract sense "every island" means, symbolically, all truth of faith. To be moved out of their places means, symbolically, to go away.

It derives from the abodes of angels on mountains and hills, therefore, that mountains and hills in the Word symbolize heaven and the church where love toward the Lord and love for the neighbor are found, and in an opposite sense, hell where self-love and love of the world are found.

[2] It is apparent from the following passages that mountains and hills symbolize heaven and the church where love toward the Lord and love for the neighbor are found, thus where the Lord is present:

Lift up your eyes to the mountains, whence comes your help. (Psalms 121:1)

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who proclaims... peace! (Nahum 1:15, cf. Isaiah 52:7)

Praise Jehovah..., you mountains and... hills...! (Psalms 148:7, 9)

A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of hills is the mountain of Bashan. Why do you leap, you mountains, you hills of the mountain? Jehovah has desired to inhabit them; (Jehovah) also will inhabit them forever. (Psalms 68:15-16)

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like the young of the flock... You travail, O earth, at the presence of the Lord... (Psalms 114:4-7)

I will bring forth a seed from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of My mountains, that My elect may inherit them, and My servants dwell there. (Isaiah 65:9)

(In the consummation of the age:) then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. (Matthew 24:16)

(O Jehovah,) Your righteousness is as the mountains of God. (Psalms 36:6)

Jehovah will go forth and fight... In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, opposite Jerusalem on the east. (Zechariah 14:3-4)

[3] Since the Mount of Olives symbolized Divine love, therefore during the days the Lord preached in the Temple, but during the nights He went out and spent the night on the Mount of Olives (Luke 21:37; 22:39, John 8:1). And therefore the Lord spoke upon that mountain with His disciples regarding His coming and the end of the age (Matthew 24:3, Mark 13:3-4).

Since a mountain symbolized heaven and love, therefore Jehovah came down upon the top of Mount Sinai and proclaimed the Law (Exodus 19:20; 24:17). And therefore the Lord was transfigured before Peter, James and John on a high mountain (Matthew 17:1). Therefore Zion also was located on a mountain, and so, too, Jerusalem, and the two were called the mountain of Jehovah and the mountain of holiness in many places in the Word.

Mountains and hills have similar symbolic meanings elsewhere, as in Isaiah 7:25; 30:25; 40:9; 44:23; 49:11, 13; 55:12; Jeremiah 16:15-16; Psalms 65:6; 80:10; 104:5-10, 13.

[4] That mountains and hills symbolize these loves can be seen still more clearly from their opposite meaning, in which they symbolize hellish loves, namely, self-love and a love of the world, as is apparent from the following passages:

...the day of Jehovah... shall come... upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up... (Isaiah 2:12, 14)

Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill brought low. (Isaiah 40:4)

The mountains shall be overthrown, and its ascents shall fall... (Ezekiel 38:20-21)

Behold, I am against you, O... mountain, that destroys all the earth... ...I will make you a burnt mountain. (Jeremiah 51:25)

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they are shaken, and all the hills are overthrown. (Jeremiah 4:23-25)

...a fire is kindled in my anger..., and it will set on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Deuteronomy 32:22)

I will lay waste the mountains and hills... (Isaiah 42:15)

Behold, (O Jacob,) I will make you like a threshing sledge... that you may thresh the mountains and crush them, and make the hills like chaff..., that the wind may carry them away. (Isaiah 41:15-16)

Give glory to Jehovah... before your feet stumble on the dark mountains... (Jeremiah 13:16)

Nor is anything else meant by the seven mountains on which the woman - namely Babylon - sat (Revelation 17:9). And so also elsewhere, as in Isaiah 14:13; Jeremiah 50:6; 9:10; Ezekiel 6:2-3; 34:6.

It can now be seen from this what is meant by the statement that "every mountain and island was moved out of its place," and later by the statement that "every island fled away, and the mountains were not found" (Revelation 16:20, no. 714).

  
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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.