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1 En het woord des HEEREN geschiedde tot mij, zeggende:

2 Mensenkind, zet uw aangezicht tegen de bergen Israels, en profeteer tegen dezelve;

3 En zeg: Gij bergen Israels, hoort het woord des Heeren Heeren! Zo zegt de Heere Heere tot de bergen en tot de heuvelen, tot de beken en tot de dalen: Ziet, Ik, Ik breng over u het zwaard, en Ik zal uw hoogten verderven.

4 Daartoe zullen uw altaren verwoest, en uw zonnebeelden verbroken worden; en Ik zal uw verslagenen nedervellen voor het aangezicht uwer drekgoden.

5 En Ik zal de dode lichamen der kinderen Israels voor het aangezicht hunner drekgoden leggen, en Ik zal uw beenderen rondom uw altaren strooien.

6 In al uw woningen zullen de steden verwoest en de hoogten tot wildernis worden, opdat uw altaren woest en eenzaam zijn, en uw drekgoden verbroken worden en ophouden, en uw zonnebeelden afgehouwen, en uw werken uitgedelgd worden.

7 En de verslagenen zullen in het midden van u liggen, opdat gij weet, dat Ik de HEERE ben.

8 Ik zal dan nog een overblijfsel laten, als gij enigen zult hebben, die het zwaard ontkomen onder de heidenen, wanneer gij in de landen zult verstrooid worden.

9 Dan zullen uw ontkomenen Mijner gedenken onder de heidenen, waar zij gevankelijk zullen geworden zijn, omdat Ik verbroken ben door hun hoerachtig hart, dat van Mij afgeweken is, en door hun ogen, die hun drekgoden nahoereren; en zij zullen een walging aan zichzelven hebben over de boosheden, die zij in al hun gruwelen gedaan hebben.

10 En zij zullen weten, dat Ik de HEERE ben; Ik heb niet tevergeefs gesproken, van hun dit kwaad aan te doen.

11 Zo zegt de Heere Heere: Sla met uw hand, en stamp met uw voet, en zeg: Ach, over alle gruwelen der boosheden van het huis Israels; want zij zullen door het zwaard, door den honger en door de pestilentie vallen.

12 Die verre af is, zal door de pest sterven, en die nabij is, zal door het zwaard vallen; maar die overgebleven en belegerd is, zal door honger sterven; alzo zal Ik Mijn grimmigheid tegen hen volbrengen.

13 Dan zult gij weten, dat Ik de HEERE ben, als hun verslagenen in het midden hunner drekgoden rondom hun altaren wezen zullen op alle hoge heuvelen, op alle toppen der bergen, en onder allen groenen boom, en onder alle dichte eiken, de plaats, alwaar zij al hun drekgoden liefelijken reuk maakten.

14 Daarom zal Ik Mijn hand over hen uitstrekken, en zal het land woest maken, ja, woester dan de woestijn naar Diblath henen, in al hun woningen; en zij zullen bevinden, dat Ik de HEERE ben.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 336

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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.