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Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
470. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land. This symbolically means that the Lord has the entire church under His auspices and governance, both those people in it who concern themselves with its external elements, and those in it who concern themselves with its internal ones.
The sea and land symbolize the entire church - the sea the external church, or those people who concern themselves with its external elements, and the land the internal church, or those people who concern themselves with its internal ones (no. 398). To set His feet on them means, symbolically, to have all these subject to Him, thus to have them under His Divine auspices and governance.
Since the Lord's church on earth is beneath the heavens, therefore it is called His footstool, as in the following passages:
He cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel...; He does not remember His footstool... (Lamentations 2:1)
...the earth is My footstool. (Isaiah 66:1)
Let us go into His tabernacle; let us worship at His footstool. (Psalms 132:7)
...do not swear... by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth, for it is His footstool. (Matthew 5:34-35)
I will make the place of My feet honorable. (Isaiah 60:13)
You have made Him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under His feet... (Psalms 8:6)
These things are said of the Lord.
He placed His right foot on the sea and His left on the land because those people who concerned themselves with the external elements of the church did not confirm falsities in themselves to the same extent as those who concerned themselves with its internal elements.
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Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
2
Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
3
Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; and the king, what can he do for us?"
4
They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
5
The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
6
It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.
7
Samaria and her king float away, like a twig on the water.
8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!"
9
"Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah.
10
When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.
11
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
13
You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
14
Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
15
So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
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