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Ezekiel 4

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1 Kaj vi, ho filo de homo, prenu al vi brikon kaj kusxigu gxin antaux vi, kaj desegnu sur gxi urbon, nome Jerusalemon.

2 Kaj faru cxirkaux gxi siegxon, arangxu kontraux gxi bastionon, sursxutu kontraux gxi remparon, faru kontraux gxi tendaron, kaj starigu cxirkaux gxi muregrompilojn.

3 Kaj prenu al vi feran paton kaj starigu gxin kiel feran muron inter vi kaj la urbo, kaj direktu vian vizagxon kontraux gxin; gxi estu sub siegxo, kaj vi siegxu gxin. Tio estu signo por la domo de Izrael.

4 Kaj vi kusxigxu sur vian maldekstran flankon, kaj metu sur gxin la malpiecon de la domo de Izrael; dum tiom da tagoj, kiom vi kusxos sur gxi, vi portos sur vi ilian malpiecon.

5 La jarojn de ilia malpieco Mi kalkulos al vi kiel tagojn:dum tricent nauxdek tagoj vi portos sur vi la malpiecon de la domo de Izrael.

6 Kiam vi tion plenumos, tiam denove kusxigxu sur vian dekstran flankon, kaj portu sur vi la malpiecon de la domo de Jehuda dum kvardek tagoj; cxiun tagon Mi kalkulos al vi kiel jaron.

7 Kaj kontraux la siegxatan Jerusalemon direktu vian vizagxon kaj vian etenditan brakon, kaj profetu kontraux gxi.

8 Kaj jen Mi metos sur vin sxnurojn, ke vi ne povu turni vin de unu flanko sur la alian, gxis vi finos la tagojn de via siegxado.

9 Kaj prenu al vi tritikon kaj hordeon, fabojn kaj lentojn, milion kaj spelton, kaj sxutu tion en unu vazon, kaj faru al vi el tio panon laux la nombro de la tagoj, dum kiuj vi kusxos sur via flanko:dum tricent nauxdek tagoj mangxu gxin.

10 Kaj vian mangxajxon, kiun vi mangxos, uzu lauxpeze, po dudek sikloj cxiutage; de tempo al tempo mangxu gxin.

11 Kaj akvon trinku lauxmezure, po sesono de hino trinku de tempo al tempo.

12 En formo de hordeaj platkukoj mangxu tion, kaj sur ekskrementoj de homoj baku ilin antaux iliaj okuloj.

13 Kaj la Eternulo diris:Tiele la Izraelidoj mangxados sian panon malpure inter la popoloj, al kiuj Mi ilin dispelos.

14 Kaj mi diris:Ho Sinjoro, ho Eternulo! jen mia animo ne malpurigxis, kadavrajxon aux dissxiritajxon mi ne mangxis de mia juneco gxis nun, kaj nenia abomeninda viando eniris iam en mian busxon.

15 Kaj Li diris al mi:Jen Mi permesas al vi uzi ekskrementojn de brutoj anstataux ekskrementoj de homoj, kaj sur ili pretigu vian panon.

16 Kaj Li diris al mi:Ho filo de homo! jen Mi rompos la panan apogon en Jerusalem, kaj oni mangxos panon lauxpeze kaj en zorgoj, kaj akvon oni trinkos lauxmezure kaj kun afliktoj;

17 cxar mankos al ili pano kaj akvo, kaj ili kun teruro rigardos unu la alian, kaj ili konsumigxos pro sia malpieco.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 486

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486. And the angel stood by, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there." This symbolizes the Lord's presence and His command to see and learn the state of the church in the New Heaven.

The Lord is meant by the angel, here as in nos. 5, 415, and elsewhere, since an angel does nothing of himself but is impelled by the Lord. That is why the angel said, "I will give power to my two witnesses" (verse 3), when they were the Lord's witnesses. The angel's standing by symbolizes the Lord's presence, and his speaking symbolizes the Lord's command. To rise and measure means, symbolically, to see and learn. We will see below that to measure means, symbolically, to learn and investigate the character of a state.

The temple, altar, and those who worship there symbolize the state of the church in the New Heaven - the temple symbolizing the church in respect to its doctrinal truth (no. 191), the altar symbolizing the church in respect to the goodness of its love (no. 392), and those who worship there symbolizing the church in respect to its formal worship as a result of those two elements. Those who worship symbolize here the reverence that is a part of formal worship, since the spiritual sense is a sense abstracted from persons (nos. 78, 79, 96), as is apparent here also from the fact that John is told to measure the worshipers. These three elements are what form the church: doctrinal truth, goodness of love, and formal worship as a result of these.

[2] That the church meant is the church in the New Heaven is apparent from the last verse of this chapter, where we are told that "the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple" (verse 19).

This chapter begins with the measuring of the temple in order that the state of the church in heaven might be seen and learned before its conjunction with the church in the world. The church in the world is meant by the court outside the temple, which John was not to measure, because it had been given to the gentiles (verse 2). The same church is then described by the great city called Sodom and Egypt (verses 7, 8). But after that great city fell (verse 13), it follows that the church became the Lord's (verses 15ff.).

It should be known that the church exists in the heavens just as on earth, and that the two are united like the inner and outer selves in people. Consequently the Lord provides the church in heaven first, and from it, or by means of it, then the church on earth. That is why the New Jerusalem is said to come down from God out of the New Heaven (Revelation 21:1-2).

The New Heaven means a new heaven formed from Christians, as described several times in the following chapters.

[3] To measure means, symbolically, to learn and investigate the character of a thing because the measure of something symbolizes its character or state. All the measurements of the New Jerusalem (chapter 21) have this symbolic meaning, as does the statement there that the angel who had the gold reed measured the city and its gates, and that he measured the wall to be one hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man which is that of an angel (verses 15, 17). Moreover, because the New Jerusalem symbolizes the New Church, is it apparent that to measure it and its component parts means, symbolically, to learn its character.

Measuring has the same symbolic meaning in Ezekiel, where we read that an angel measured the house of God: the temple, the altar, the court, and the chambers (Ezekiel 40:3-17; 41:1-5, 13-14, 22; 42:1-20, and 43:1-27). Also that he measured the waters (47:3-5, 9). Therefore the prophet is told:

...show the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the pattern... and... its exits and its entrances, and all its patterns..., so that they may keep its whole design... (Ezekiel 43:10-11)

Measuring has the same symbolic meaning in the following places:

I raised my eyes..., and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem...." (Zechariah 2:1-2)

He stood and measured the earth. (Habakkuk 3:6)

(The Lord Jehovih) has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and gauged heaven with a span... and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance. (Isaiah 40:12)

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? ...Who determined its measurements? ...Or who stretched the line upon it? (Job 38:4-5)

  
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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.