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Ezechiël 9

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1 Daarna riep Hij voor mijn oren met luider stem, zeggende: Doet de opzieners der stad naderen, en elkeen met zijn verdervend wapen in zijn hand.

2 En ziet, zes mannen kwamen van den weg der Hoge poort, die gekeerd is naar het noorden, en elkeen met zijn verpletterend wapen in zijn hand; en een man in het midden van hen was met linnen bekleed, en een schrijvers-inktkoker was aan zijn lenden; en zij kwamen in, en stonden bij het koperen altaar.

3 En de heerlijkheid des Gods van Israel hief zich op van den cherub, waarop Hij was, tot den dorpel van het huis; en Hij riep tot den man, die met linnen bekleed was, die de schrijvers-inktkoker aan zijn lenden had.

4 En de HEERE zeide tot hem: Ga door, door het midden der stad, door het midden van Jeruzalem, en teken een teken op de voorhoofden der lieden, die zuchten en uitroepen over al deze gruwelen, die in het midden derzelve gedaan worden.

5 Maar tot die anderen zeide Hij voor mijn oren: Gaat door, door de stad achter hem, en slaat, ulieder oog verschone niet, en spaart niet!

6 Doodt ouden, jongelingen en maagden, en kinderkens en vrouwen, tot verdervens toe; maar genaakt aan niemand, op denwelken het teken is, en begint van Mijn heiligdom. En zij begonnen van de oude mannen, die voor het huis waren.

7 En Hij zeide tot hen: Verontreinigt het huis, en vervult de voorhoven met verslagenen; gaat henen uit. En zij gingen henen uit, en zij sloegen in de stad.

8 Het geschiedde nu, als zij hen geslagen hadden, en ik overgebleven was, dat ik op mijn aangezicht viel, en riep, en zeide: Ach, Heere Heere, zult Gij al het overblijfsel van Israel verderven, met Uw grimmigheid uit te gieten over Jeruzalem?

9 Toen zeide Hij tot mij: De ongerechtigheid van het huis van Israel en van Juda is gans zeer groot, en het land is met bloed vervuld, en de stad is vol van afwijking; want zij zeggen: De HEERE heeft het land verlaten, en de HEERE ziet niet.

10 Daarom ook, wat Mij aangaat, Mijn oog zal niet verschonen, en Ik zal niet sparen; Ik zal hun weg op hun hoofd geven.

11 En ziet, de man, die met linnen bekleed was, aan wiens lenden de inktkoker was, bracht bescheid weder, zeggende: Ik heb gedaan, gelijk als Gij mij geboden hadt.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5280

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5280. 'And the abundance of corn in the land will not be known' means that no discernment at all regarding the truth present previously will exist there. This is clear from the meaning of 'being known' as being discerned; from the meaning of 'the abundance of corn' as truth that has been multiplied, dealt with above; in 5276, 5278; and from the meaning of 'the land', in this case the land of Egypt, as the natural mind, also dealt with above, in 5276, 5278, 5279. From these meanings it is evident that 'the abundance of corn in the land will not be known means that no discernment at all regarding the truth present previously will exist in the natural.

[2] This verse deals with the final state of desolation, when despair, which comes immediately before regeneration, is experienced; and this being the matter dealt with in this verse, something must be said about the nature of it. Everyone has to be reformed, and to be born anew or regenerated, so that he may enter heaven, No one, unless he is born again, can see the kingdom of God. John 3:3, 5-6.

The human being is born into sin which has increased as it has come down in a long line of descent from ancestors, grandparents, and parents; it has become hereditary and so has been handed down to offspring. At birth a person is born into so many inherited evils which have gradually increased, as described, that he is nothing but sin; therefore unless he undergoes regeneration he remains wholly immersed in sin. But to be regenerated, he must first undergo reformation, which is effected by means of the truths of faith; for he must learn from the Word, and from teaching drawn from it, what good is. Items of knowledge regarding what is good that have been acquired from the Word - that is, from teaching drawn from there - are called the truths of faith; for all truths of faith well up out of good and flow in the direction of good, good being the end they have in view.

[3] This state comes first and is called the state of reformation. Most people within the Church are introduced into it during the period from young childhood through to adolescence, though few are regenerated because most people within the Church learn the truths of faith - or religious knowledge about what is good - for the sake of reputation and position and for the sake of material gain. Since therefore the truths of faith have been introduced through his love of these things, a person cannot be born anew or be regenerated until that love has been removed. To enable such love to be removed that person is launched into a state of temptation, which takes place in the following way: His love of reputation, position, and material gain is activated by the hellish crew, for that crew's desire is to live immersed in the love of those things. But at the same time angels activate affections for what is true and good which were implanted in the state of innocence during early childhood and then stored away interiorly and preserved there for this particular purpose. As a result conflict between evil spirits and angels takes place, and this conflict taking place within a person is experienced by him as temptation. And because the action at this time involves truths and forms of good, the actual truths which were instilled initially are so to speak banished by the falsities infused by the evil spirits - so banished that they are not seen - dealt with above in 5268-5270. And as the person allows himself at this time to be regenerated, the Lord introduces through an internal route the light of truth radiated from good in the natural, in which light the truths are restored there in their proper order.

[4] This is what happens to a person who is being regenerated, but few at the present day are permitted to enter that regenerative state. So far as they allow it to happen, all people, it is true, start to be reformed through the instruction they receive in the truths and forms of good that belong to spiritual life; but as soon as they reach adolescent years they allow the world to distract them. So they turn away into those parts where hellish spirits are, who gradually alienate these people from heaven; the spirits alienate them so completely that they scarcely believe any longer in the existence of heaven. Consequently those people cannot be launched into any spiritual temptation; for if they were they would go under instantly, in which case their latter state would be worse than their former one, Matthew 12:45. From all this one may see the nature of what the internal sense contains here, namely the state of reformation and the state of regeneration. This particular verse however describes the final state in temptation, which is a state of despair - this state being dealt with immediately above in 5279.

  
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