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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 # 8

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8. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it. (1:3) This symbolizes their communion with angels in heaven who live according to the doctrine of the New Jerusalem.

"Blessed is he" here means someone who in respect to his spirit is in heaven, thus someone who, while living in the world, is in communion with angels in heaven, inasmuch as he is in heaven in respect to his spirit.

"The words of this prophecy" mean nothing else than the doctrine of the New Jerusalem, for in an abstract sense a prophet symbolizes the doctrine of the church drawn from the Word, thus here the doctrine of the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem. The same is meant by prophecy. To read, hear and keep those things which are written in it means, symbolically, to wish to know it, to pay attention to the things written in it, and to do the things that are found in it - in sum, to live according to it. It is apparent that people are not blessed if they simply read, hear and keep or preserve in memory the things seen by John (see below, no. 944).

[2] A prophet symbolizes the doctrine of the church drawn from the Word, and the same is meant by a prophecy, because the Word was written by prophets, and in heaven a person is regarded in relation to something pertaining to his occupation or function. So, too, every person, spirit and angel mentioned in the Word. Because it was a prophet's function to write and teach the Word, therefore when a prophet is mentioned, the Word in relation to doctrine is meant, or doctrine drawn from the Word.

It is for this reason that the Lord, being the embodiment of the Word, was called a prophet (Deuteronomy 18:15-20, 1 Matthew 13:57, 2 21:11, 3 Luke 13:33 4 ).

To show that a prophet means the doctrine of the church drawn from the Word, we will cite several passages from which this may be concluded. In Matthew:

(At the end of the age) many false prophets will rise up and lead many astray... ...false christs and false prophets will rise... and lead astray, if possible, ...the elect. (Matthew 24:11, 24)

The end of the age is the final period of the church, which is the one that exists now, when there are not false prophets but doctrinal falsities.

[3] In the same gospel:

Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward. And whoever receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. (Matthew 10:41)

To receive a prophet in the name of a prophet is to accept doctrinal truth because it is true; to receive a righteous man in the name of a righteous man is to accept goodness because of its goodness; and to receive a reward is to be saved in accordance with that acceptance. Obviously no one receives a reward or is saved because he received a prophet or righteous man in the name of such.

Without a concept of what a prophet and righteous man mean, no one could understand these words, or those that follow:

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple..., shall by no means lose his reward. (Matthew 10:42)

A disciple means charity and at the same time faith from the Lord.

[4] In Joel:

...I will pour out My spirit on all flesh, so that your sons and your daughters prophesy... (Joel 2:28)

This is said of the church about to be established by the Lord, in which they did not prophesy but received doctrine, which is "to prophesy."

In Matthew:

(Jesus said,) "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name...?' But then I will confess to them, 'I have not known you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity!'" (Matthew 7:22-23)

Who does not see that they are not going to say they have prophesied, but that they have known the doctrine of the church and taught it?

In Revelation:

...the time has come to judge the dead and give the reward to... the prophets... (Revelation 11:18)

In another place:

Rejoice..., O heaven, ...you holy apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you... (Revelation 18:20)

It is plain that a reward is not to be given solely to prophets when the Last Judgment is about to take place, or that only apostles and prophets are going to rejoice, but that all will be rewarded and rejoice who have accepted doctrinal truths and lived according to them. These, therefore, are meant by apostles and prophets.

[5] In Exodus:

Jehovah said to Moses: ."..I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet." (Exodus 7:1)

"A god" means Divine truth in its reception from the Lord, and in this sense angels, too, are called gods; and a prophet means one who teaches and gives voice to that truth. It is because of this that Aaron is there termed a prophet.

A prophet has the same symbolic meaning elsewhere, as in the following:

...the law shall not perish from the priest..., nor the Word from the prophet. (Jeremiah 18:18)

...from the prophets of Jerusalem hypocrisy has gone out into all the land. (Jeremiah 23:15-16)

...the prophets will become wind, and the Word will not be in them. (Jeremiah 5:13)

The priest and the prophet err through intoxicating drink, they are swallowed up by wine..., they stumble in judgment. (Isaiah 28:7)

The sun is going down on the prophets, and the day is becoming dark upon them. (Micah 3:6)

From the prophet even to the priest, everyone works a falsehood. (Jeremiah 8:10)

[6] In these passages prophets and priests mean, in the spiritual sense, not prophets and priests but the entire church - prophets the church in respect to doctrinal truth, and priests the church in respect to goodness of life, both of which had been lost. These statements are so understood by angels in heaven when people read them in the world according to their literal sense.

To be shown that prophets represented the state of the church in respect to doctrine, and that the Lord represented it in respect to the Word itself, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, nos. 15-17.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die." And the LORD said to me: "What they have spoken is good. I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die."

2. So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house."

3. So the multitudes said, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee."

4. Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.

  
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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.