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Amos 4

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1 Auxskultu cxi tiun vorton, vi grasaj bovinoj, kiuj estas sur la monto de Samario, kiuj turmentas senhavulojn, premas malricxulojn, kaj kiuj diras al siaj mastroj:Venu, ni drinku.

2 La Sinjoro, la Eternulo, jxuris per Sia sankteco, ke jen venos sur vin tagoj, kiam oni forportos vin per hokoj kaj viajn idojn per fisxhokoj.

3 Kaj tra brecxoj vi eliros, cxiu aparte, kaj estos jxetitaj sur Harmonon, diras la Eternulo.

4 Iru en Bet-Elon, por peki, en Gilgalon, por multe krimi; alportu viajn oferojn cxiumatene kaj vian dekonajxon en cxiu tria tago.

5 Incensu lauxdoferon el fermentajxo, kriu pri memvolaj oferoj, auxdigu pri ili; cxar tion vi amas, ho Izraelidoj, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

6 Tial Mi donis al vi purecon de la dentoj en cxiuj viaj urboj kaj mankon de pano en cxiuj viaj lokoj; vi tamen ne revenis al Mi, diras la Eternulo.

7 Mi ankaux rifuzis al vi la pluvon, kiam estis ankoraux tri monatoj antaux la rikolto; Mi donis pluvon super unu urbo, kaj super alia Mi ne donis pluvon; unu kampo estis pripluvata, kaj alia, ne pripluvita, elsekigxis.

8 Kaj du, tri urboj iris al unu urbo, pro trinki akvon, kaj ne povis trinki suficxe; vi tamen ne revenis al Mi, diras la Eternulo.

9 Mi frapis vin per brulsekigxo kaj velkigxo de la greno; viajn multajn gxardenojn, vinbergxardenojn, figarbojn, kaj olivarbojn formangxis rauxpoj; vi tamen ne revenis al Mi, diras la Eternulo.

10 Mi sendis sur vin peston sur la vojo al Egiptujo, Mi mortigis per glavo viajn junulojn kaj forkondukis viajn cxevalojn, kaj Mi levis la malbonodoron de via tendaro en viajn nazotruojn; vi tamen ne revenis al Mi, diras la Eternulo.

11 Mi faris inter vi renverson, kiel Dio renversis Sodomon kaj Gomoran, kaj vi farigxis kiel brulanta sxtipo, savita el brulo; vi tamen ne revenis al Mi, diras la Eternulo.

12 Tial tiele Mi agos kun vi plue, ho Izrael; kaj cxar Mi tiele agos kun vi, tial pretigu vin renkonte al via Dio, ho Izrael.

13 CXar Li estas Tiu, kiu faras montojn, kreas venton, diras al la homo, kion cxi tiu intencas; Li faras la cxielrugxon kaj la nebulon; Li iras sur la altajxoj de la tero; Lia nomo estas Eternulo, Dio Cebaot.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 862

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862. We have said that the nations' surrounding the camp of the saints and the beloved city means, symbolically, that these people attempted to destroy everything connected with the New Church, both its truths and goods and its fundamental doctrine regarding the Lord and life, as stated in the preceding number. This is the symbolic meaning because the camp of the saints symbolizes all the truths and goods of the church which is the New Jerusalem.

That a camp in the spiritual sense symbolizes everything connected with the church with respect to its truths and goods can be seen from the following passages:

The sun and moon grew dark, and the stars diminished their brightness. Jehovah uttered His voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for numberless are those who obey His Word. (Joel 2:10-11)

I will encamp for My house some of the army... (Zechariah 9:8)

...God has scattered the bones of them who encamp against you..., because God has rejected them. (Psalms 53:5)

The angel of Jehovah encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. (Psalms 34:7)

(An angel of God met Jacob, and said to Jacob,) "This is God's camp." Therefore he called the name of that place Mahanaim (Two Camps). (Genesis 32:1-2)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 29:3, Ezekiel 1:24, Psalms 27:3.

That an army or host in the Word symbolizes the church's truths and goods, and also its falsities and evils, may be seen in nos. 447, 826, 833; and so, too, does a camp.

[2] Since the children of Israel and their twelve tribes symbolize the church in respect to all its truths and goods (nos. 349, 350), they were therefore called the armies or hosts of Jehovah (Exodus 7:4; 12:41, 51), and the places where they stopped and assembled were called camps, as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 1; 2; 3; 4:5 ff., 5:2-4; 9:17-23; 10:1-10, 11-28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 21:10-15; 33:1-49; Deuteronomy 23:9-14; Amos 4:10.

It is apparent from this now that the nations' surrounding the camp of the saints and the beloved city means, symbolically, that these people tried to destroy all the truths and goods of the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem, and also its doctrine regarding the Lord and life.

The same symbolism is found in these verses in Luke:

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near... (At length) Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:20, 24)

This is said in reference to the end of the age, which is the final period of the church. Jerusalem here also symbolizes the church.

That Gog and Magog, that is, people who engage in external worship divorced from any internal worship, will then invade the church and try to destroy it, is something we are told also in Ezekiel 38:8-9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 39:2, and that the New Church will then be established by the Lord, Ezekiel 39:17-29.

  
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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.

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Numbers 10

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.

3 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.

6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.

8 "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.

9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

10 "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God."

11 It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.

12 The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.

13 They first went forward according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

14 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.

15 Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.

16 Eliab the son of Helon was over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun.

17 The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.

18 The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.

19 Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.

20 Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.

21 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

22 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.

23 Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.

24 Abidan the son of Gideoni was over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.

25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.

26 Pagiel the son of Ochran was over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher.

27 Ahira the son of Enan was over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali.

28 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.

29 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel."

30 He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives."

31 He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

32 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you."

33 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

34 The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.

35 It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, "Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!"

36 When it rested, he said, "Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel."