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Amos 9

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1 Mi vidis la Eternulon, kiu staris super la altaro; kaj Li diris:Frapu la kapitelon, ke la fostoj ekskuigxu kaj la pecoj falu sur la kapojn de cxiuj; kaj ilian naskitaron Mi mortigos per glavo, neniu el ili forkuros, neniu el ili savigxos.

2 Ecx se ili enfosus sin en SXeolon, ecx de tie Mia mano ilin prenos; ecx se ili suprenirus en la cxielon, Mi de tie depusxos ilin.

3 Se ili kasxus sin sur la supro de Karmel, Mi tie elsercxos kaj prenos ilin; se ili kasxigxus for de Miaj okuloj sur la fundo de la maro, ecx tie Mi ordonos al la serpento, ke gxi piku ilin.

4 Se ili iros en forkaptitecon antaux siaj malamikoj, ankaux tie Mi ordonos al la glavo mortigi ilin. Mi direktos sur ilin Miajn okulojn por malfelicxo, ne por bono.

5 La Sinjoro, la Eternulo Cebaot, ektusxas landon, kaj gxi tiam fandigxas, kaj cxiuj logxantoj ploras; gxi tuta ekskuigxas kiel lago, mallevigxas kiel la Rivero de Egiptujo.

6 Li konstruis Sian logxejon en la cxielo, kaj Sian firmamenton Li fundamentis sur la tero; Li vokas la akvon de la maro kaj versxas gxin sur la teron; Lia nomo estas Eternulo.

7 CXu vi ne estas por Mi kiel la Etiopoj, ho Izraelidoj? diras la Eternulo; cxu Mi ne elkondukis Izraelon el la lando Egipta, la Filisxtojn el Kaftor, kaj la Sirianojn el Kir?

8 Jen la okuloj de la Sinjoro, la Eternulo, estas direktitaj sur la pekan regnon, kaj Mi ekstermos gxin de sur la tero; tamen ne tute Mi ekstermos la domon de Jakob, diras la Eternulo.

9 Jen Mi ordonos, kaj disjxetigos la domon de Izrael inter cxiujn naciojn, kiel oni disjxetas per kribrilo, kaj ecx unu grajno ne falos sur la teron.

10 De glavo mortos cxiuj pekuloj de Mia popolo, kiuj diras:Malfelicxo ne alproksimigxos al ni kaj ne trafos nin.

11 En tiu tempo Mi restarigos la falintan tabernaklon de David, Mi resxtopos gxiajn brecxojn, Mi restarigos la detruitajxon, kaj Mi rekonstruos gxin, kiel en la tempo antikva,

12 por ke ili ekposedu la restajxon de Edom kaj ankaux cxiujn naciojn, inter kiuj estos proklamata Mia nomo, diras la Eternulo, kiu tion faras.

13 Jen venos tagoj, diras la Eternulo, kiam la pluganto renkontigxos kun la rikoltanto, la vinberpremanto kun la semanto; kaj la montoj elgutigos dolcxan sukon, kaj cxiuj montetoj farigxos fruktoportaj.

14 Kaj Mi revenigos la forkaptitojn de Mia popolo Izrael, ili rekonstruos la ruinigitajn urbojn, enlogxigxos, plantos vinbergxardenojn kaj trinkos ilian vinon, arangxos gxardenojn kaj mangxos iliajn fruktojn.

15 Kaj Mi replantos ilin sur ilia tero, kaj ili ne plu estos elsxirataj el sia tero, kiun Mi donis al ili, diras la Eternulo, via Dio.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 238

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238. Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. (4:6) This symbolizes a new heaven formed of Christians who possessed general truths taken from the literal sense of the Word.

Atmospheres are seen in the spiritual world, and also bodies of water, as in our world - ethereal atmospheres seemingly where angels of the highest heaven dwell, airy atmospheres seemingly where angels of the intermediate heaven dwell, and watery ones seemingly where angels of the lowest heaven dwell. These watery atmospheres, moreover, are seas that are seen at the borders of heaven, and the inhabitants there are people who possess general truths taken from the literal sense of the Word. To be shown that waters symbolize truths, see no. 50 above.

As the place where waters terminate and are collected, a sea therefore symbolizes Divine truth in its terminal expressions.

Accordingly, since the One sitting on the throne means the Lord (no. 230), and since the seven lamps which are the seven spirits of God before the throne mean a new church which will possess Divine truth from the Lord (no. 237), it is apparent that the sea of glass that was before the throne means the church with people who are at its peripheries.

[2] Seas at the borders of the heavens are something I have been granted to see, and it has been given me to speak with the inhabitants there and so to learn the truth of this matter through personal experience. The inhabitants appeared to me to be living in a sea, but they said that they did not live in a sea but in an atmosphere. It was apparent to me from this that a sea is an appearance of the Divine truth emanating from the Lord in its terminal expressions.

The existence of seas in the spiritual world is clearly apparent from the fact that they were often seen by John, as in the present instance, and in 5:13 verses; 7:1-3; 8:8-9; 10:2, 8; 13:1; 14:7; 15:2; 16:3; 18:17, 19, 21; 20:13.

The sea is called a sea of glass like crystal owing to the translucence of the Divine truth emanating from the Lord.

[3] Since Divine truth in its terminal expressions produces the appearance of a sea in the spiritual world, therefore a sea elsewhere in the Word has a similar symbolic meaning, as in the following passages:

On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, part of them to the eastern sea and part of them to the western sea. (Zechariah 14:8)

Living waters from Jerusalem are the church's Divine truths from the Lord. The sea is consequently where they terminate.

(Jehovah,) Your way was in the sea, and Your path in many waters. (Psalms 77:19)

Thus said Jehovah, who made a way in the sea, and a path through the many waters... (Isaiah 43:16)

(Jehovah) has founded (the world) on the seas, and established it on the rivers. (Psalms 24:2)

(Jehovah) set the earth on its foundations, so that it should not be moved to eternity. You covered it with the deep (or sea) as with a garment. (Psalms 104:5-6)

The earth was "founded on the sea" because the church, which is meant by the earth, is founded on general truths. For these are its footings and foundations.

[4] I will dry up (Babylon's) sea and make her spring dry... The sea will come up over Babylon; she will be covered with the multitude of its waves. (Jeremiah 51:36, 42)

To dry up Babylon's sea and make her spring dry means, symbolically, to extinguish all the church's truth from the firsts to the lasts of it.

They shall walk after Jehovah..., and His sons shall come with honor from the sea. (Hosea 11:10)

The sons from the sea are people who possess general truths or truths in their terminal expressions.

(Jehovah,) who builds His ascents in the heavens..., who calls the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth... (Amos 9:6)

By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made... He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap, putting the depths in storehouses. (Psalms 33:6-7)

...by My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness. (Isaiah 50:2)

And so likewise in other places.

[5] Since a sea symbolizes Divine truth with people who live on the borders of heaven, therefore Tyre and Sidon, which were on the seacoast, symbolized the church in respect to its learned concepts of goodness and truth. And therefore "the islands of the sea" 1 likewise symbolize people engaged in a relatively remote Divine worship (no. 34).

For the same reason, too, the word used for the sea in Hebrew is "the west," that is, the direction in which the sun's light turns into its evening state, or truth into haziness.

We will see in subsequent discussions that a sea also symbolizes the natural component of a person divorced from his spiritual one, thus also hell.

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1. Also called "the isles of the sea" and "the coastlands of the sea." See Isaiah 11:11; 24:15

  
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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.