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Joel 2

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1 Blovu per korno en Cion, kaj kriu alarmon sur Mia sankta monto; ektremu cxiuj logxantoj de la lando; cxar venas la tago de la Eternulo, gxi estas jam proksima;

2 tago de mallumo kaj senlumeco, tago de nuboj kaj nebulo; simile al la matena cxielrugxo disvastigxas sur la montoj popolo grandnombra kaj forta; tia neniam ekzistis gxis nun, kaj ankaux post gxi ne plu ekzistos tia, en iu ajn generacio.

3 Antaux gxi ekstermas fajro, kaj post gxi bruligas flamo; antaux gxi la lando estas kiel la Edena gxardeno, kaj post gxi absoluta dezerto; kaj neniu savigxos de gxi.

4 Ili aspektas kiel cxevaloj, ili kuras kiel rajdantoj.

5 Ili saltas sur la montoj, kiel bruantaj cxaroj, kiel krakado de fajro, kiam gxi ekstermas pajlon, kiel popolo potenca, pretigxinta por batalo.

6 Popoloj tremas antaux gxi, cxiuj vizagxoj paligxas.

7 Kiel herooj ili kuras, kiel kuragxaj batalistoj ili grimpas sur la muregon; cxiu iras sian vojon, ne foreraras de sia vojo.

8 Unu alian ne pusxas, cxiu iras en sia vico; sur la glavojn ili sin jxetas, sed restas sendifektaj.

9 Ili trakuras la urbon, kuras sur la muregoj, eniras en la domojn, grimpas tra la fenestroj, kiel sxtelisto.

10 Antaux ili skuigxas la tero, tremas la cxielo; la suno kaj la luno senlumigxas, kaj la steloj perdas sian brilon.

11 Kaj la Eternulo ektondras per Sia vocxo antaux Sia armeo; cxar Lia militistaro estas tre granda, kaj la plenumantoj de Lia vorto estas potencaj; cxar granda kaj tre timinda estos la tago de la Eternulo; kiu povos gxin elteni?

12 Sed ecx nun ankoraux la Eternulo diras:Returnu vin al Mi per via tuta koro, kun fastado, plorado, kaj gxemegado;

13 dissxiru vian koron, ne viajn vestojn, kaj returnu vin al la Eternulo, via Dio; cxar Li estas favorkora kaj kompatema, longepacienca kaj indulgema, kaj Li bedauxras malfelicxon.

14 Kiu scias? eble Li denove bedauxros, eble Li restigos post Si benon, farunoferojn kaj versxoferojn al la Eternulo, via Dio.

15 Blovu per korno en Cion, sanktigu faston, proklamu solenan kunvenon.

16 Kunvenigu la popolon, sanktigu la komunumon, invitu la maljunulojn, kolektu la malgrandajn infanojn kaj sucxinfanojn; fiancxo eliru el sia cxambro, kaj fiancxino el sub sia baldakeno.

17 Inter la portiko kaj la altaro ploru la pastroj, servistoj de la Eternulo, kaj ili diru:Indulgu, ho Eternulo, Vian popolon, kaj ne kovru per honto Vian heredajxon, la nacioj ne moku ilin; por kio oni diru inter la popoloj:Kie estas ilia Dio?

18 Tiam la Eternulo farigxos fervora por Sia lando kaj indulgos Sian popolon.

19 Kaj la Eternulo respondos kaj diros al Sia popolo:Jen Mi sendas al vi grenon kaj moston kaj oleon, kaj vi satigxu per ili; kaj Mi ne plu permesos al la nacioj malhonori vin.

20 Kaj la nordulon Mi malproksimigos de vi, kaj forpelos lin en landon senakvan kaj dezertan, lian antauxan parton al la maro orienta, kaj lian malantauxan parton al la maro okcidenta; kaj li putros kaj malbonodoros, cxar li faris multe da malbono.

21 Ne timu, ho tero, gxoju kaj estu gaja, cxar la Eternulo faros ion grandan.

22 Ne timu, ho bestoj de la kampo, cxar verdigxos la pasxtejoj de la stepoj; la arboj portos siajn fruktojn, la figarbo kaj vinberujo donos sian ricxajxon.

23 Kaj vi, ho infanoj de Cion, gxoju kaj estu gajaj pri la Eternulo, via Dio; cxar Li donos al vi instruanton pri virteco, kaj Li sendos al vi pluvon, fruan kaj malfruan, kiel antauxe.

24 La grenejoj plenigxos de greno, kaj la premejoj superplenigxos de mosto kaj de oleo.

25 Kaj Mi rekompencos vin pro tiuj jaroj, kiam cxion formangxis la akridoj, skaraboj, vermoj, kaj rauxpoj, Mia granda armeo, kiun Mi sendis sur vin.

26 Kaj vi povos mangxi sate, kaj vi gloros la nomon de la Eternulo, via Dio, kiu agis kun vi mirinde; kaj Mia popolo neniam plu havos malhonoron.

27 Kaj vi ekscios, ke Mi estas meze de Izrael, ke Mi, la Eternulo, estas via Dio, kaj alia ne ekzistas; kaj Mia popolo neniam plu havos malhonoron.

28 Post tio Mi elversxos Mian spiriton sur cxiun karnon; viaj filoj kaj viaj filinoj profetos, viaj maljunuloj havos songxojn, viaj junuloj havos viziojn.

29 Ecx sur la sklavojn kaj sur la sklavinojn Mi en tiu tempo elversxos Mian spiriton.

30 Kaj Mi donos miraklajn signojn en la cxielo kaj sur la tero:sangon, fajron, kaj kolonojn da fumo.

31 La suno farigxos malluma, kaj la luno farigxos sanga, antaux ol venos la granda kaj timinda tago de la Eternulo.

32 Kaj cxiu, kiu vokos la nomon de la Eternulo, savigxos; cxar sur la monto Cion kaj en Jerusalem estos savo, kiel diris la Eternulo, ankaux por la restintoj, kiujn la Eternulo alvokos.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 51

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51. Having in His right hand seven stars. (1:16) This symbolizes all concepts of goodness and truth in the Word, which exist therefore in angels in heaven and in people in the church.

When angels are below the heavens, a great number of what look like little stars appear around them, and likewise around spirits who, when they lived in the world, acquired concepts of goodness and truth for themselves from the Word, or truths of life and doctrine. These little stars appear fixed, however, in the case of those who possess genuine truths from the Word, but wandering in the case of those who possess falsified truths.

(Regarding these little stars, and the stars appearing in the sky there, I could relate marvelous things, but that is not the subject of this work.)

It is apparent from this that stars symbolize concepts of goodness and truth from the Word.

The Son of Man's having them in His right hand means, symbolically, that they come from the Lord alone through the Word. Seven symbolically means all, as may be seen in no. 10 above.

[2] That stars symbolize concepts of goodness and truth from the Word may be seen also from the following passages:

(I will) turn the earth into a wasteland... ...the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. (Isaiah 13:9-10)

The earth that will be turned into a wasteland is the church, in which, having been laid waste, concepts of goodness and truth in the Word are not seen.

When I put out your light, I will cover the heavens... All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you, and bring darkness upon your land. (Ezekiel 32:7-8)

Darkness upon the land is the darkness of falsities in the church.

The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars diminish their brightness. (Joel 2:10; 3:15)

...after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven... (Matthew 24:29, cf. Mark 13:24)

The stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs... (Revelation 6:13)

...a star (fell) from heaven to the earth. (Revelation 9:1)

Stars falling from heaven do not mean stars, but concepts of goodness and truth perishing.

[3] This is still more apparent from the statement that a dragon swept down a third of the stars from heaven, in Revelation 12:4, and the statement that a he-goat cast down some of the stars and trampled them, in Daniel 8:8-11. That is why the next verse in Daniel goes on to say that it cast truth to the ground (Daniel 8:12).

Stars also symbolize concepts of goodness and truth in the following passages:

(Jehovah) counts... the stars; He gives all of them names. (Psalms 147:4)

Praise (Jehovah), all you stars of light! (Psalms 148:3)

The stars from their courses fought... (Judges 5:20)

From this it is apparent what is meant by the following statement in Daniel:

The intelligent shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, ...those turning many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. (Daniel 12:3)

The intelligent are people concerned with truths, and those turning many to righteousness are those concerned with goodness.

  
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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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Apocalypse Revealed # 10

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10. John, to the seven churches. (1:4) This symbolically means, to all who are in the Christian world where the Word exists and where through it the Lord is known, and who turn to the church.

The seven churches mean, not seven churches, but all who are constituents of the church in the Christian world. For numbers in the Word symbolize properties, and seven symbolizes all things or all people, and so also fullness and completeness, and it occurs in the Word where the subject is something holy, and in an opposite sense, something profane. Consequently this number involves holiness, and in an opposite sense, profanation.

Numbers symbolize properties, or rather they serve as a class of adjectives to substantives, assigning some attribute to their subjects, because a number in itself is a natural quantity. For natural things are measured by numbers, but spiritual things by properties and their states. Therefore someone who does not know the symbolism of numbers in the Word, and particularly in the book of Revelation, cannot know the many secrets that it contains.

Now, because seven symbolizes all things or all people, it is apparent that the seven churches mean all people in the Christian world where the Word exists and where through it the Lord is known. If these live according to the Lord's commandments in the Word, they form the real church.

[2] It is because of this that the Sabbath was instituted on the seventh day, and that the seventh year was called a sabbatical year, and the forty-ninth year the year of Jubilee, which symbolized everything holy in the church.

It is because of this, too, that a week in Daniel and elsewhere symbolizes an entire period from beginning to end and is predicated of the church.

Similar things are symbolized by seven hereafter, as for example, by the seven golden lampstands, in the midst of which was the Son of Man (Revelation 1:13); by the seven stars in His right hand (1:16, 20); by the seven spirits of God (1:4; 4:5); by the seven lamps of fire (4:5); by the seven angels to whom were given seven trumpets (8:2); by the seven angels having the seven last plagues (15:5-6); by the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues (16:1; 21:9); by the seven seals with which the book was sealed (5:1).

Likewise in the following places: That their hands should be filled for seven days (Exodus 29:35). That they should be sanctified for seven days (Exodus 29:37). That when they were inaugurated they should go in seven days, clothed in holy garments (Exodus 29:30). That for seven days they should not go out of the Tabernacle while being initiated into the priesthood (Leviticus 8:33, 35). That atonement should be made for the altar seven times on its horns (Leviticus 16:18-19), and also seven times toward the east (Leviticus 16:12-15). That the water of separation should be sprinkled seven times toward the Tabernacle (Numbers 19:4). That Passover should be celebrated for seven days and unleavened bread eaten for seven days (Exodus 12:1ff., Deuteronomy 16:4-7).

So, too, that the Jews should be punished sevenfold for their sins (Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28), on which account David says, "Requite our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom" (Psalms 79:12). "Sevenfold" means fully.

[3] Also in these places:

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver... in a furnace... purified seven times. (Psalms 12:6)

The hungry have ceased, until the barren has borne seven, while she who has many children has become feeble. (1 Samuel 2:5)

"The barren" is the church of the gentiles, who did not have the Word. "She who has many children" is the church of the Jews, who did have the Word. Similarly,

She will languish who has borne seven; she will breath out her soul. (Jeremiah 15:9)

Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will... set on fire and burn the weapons...; and they will make fires with them for seven years... ...they will bury Gog, and... for seven months... will be cleansing the land. (Ezekiel 39:9, 11-12)

(The unclean spirit) will take seven other spirits more wicked than himself... (Matthew 12:45)

Profanation is described there, and the seven spirits with which he would return symbolize all falsities of evil, thus a complete extinguishing of goodness and truth.

The seven heads of the dragon, and the seven jewels 1 on its heads (Revelation 12:3), symbolize the profanation of all goodness and truth.

This makes apparent that "seven" involves holiness or profanation, and symbolizes completeness and fullness.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The word translated as "jewels" here means diadems or crowns in the original Greek and Latin, but the writer's definitions of the term elsewhere make plain that he regularly and consistently interpreted it to mean jewels or gems.

  
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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.