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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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True Christian Religion # 82

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82. (i) JEHOVAH GOD CAME DOWN AND TOOK UPON HIMSELF HUMAN FORM, IN ORDER TO REDEEM AND SAVE MANKIND.

Christian churches today believe that God the Creator of the universe fathered a Son from eternity, who came down and took upon Himself human form to redeem and save mankind. But this is an error and collapses of its own accord, so long as the mind concentrates on the oneness of God, and the reason looks upon as fiction or worse the idea that the one God fathered a Son from eternity, and also that God the Father together with the Son and the Holy Spirit, each of whom is severally God, is one God. This fiction is utterly exploded, like a meteorite in the atmosphere, when it is shown from the Word that it was Jehovah God Himself who came down and became man and also was the Redeemer.

[2] The first point, that it was Jehovah God Himself who came down and became man, is established by these passages:

Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, who shall be called God with us, Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23.

A boy is born for us, a son is given to us, on whose shoulder the dominion shall be; and his name shall be called Wonderful, God, Hero, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace, Isaiah 9:6-7.

On that day it will be said, Behold, He is our God, whom we have awaited to free us. He is Jehovah, whom we have awaited. Let us exult and rejoice in His salvation, Isaiah 25:9.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way for Jehovah, make smooth in the desert a path for our God; and all flesh shall see it together, Isaiah 40:3, 5.

Behold, the Lord Jehovih comes in strength, and His arm shall bear dominion for Him. Behold, His recompense comes with Him; He will tend His flock like a shepherd, Isaiah 40:10-11.

Jehovah said, Shout for joy and rejoice, daughter of Zion; behold, I come to dwell in your midst; then shall many nations cleave to Jehovah on that day, Zechariah 2:10-11.

I Jehovah have called you in righteousness, and I will give you to be a covenant with the people. I am Jehovah, this is my name; my glory I shall not give to another, Isaiah 42:1, 6-8.

Behold, the days will come when I will raise up for David a righteous shoot, who will reign as king and do judgment and righteousness upon earth; and this is His name, Jehovah our righteousness, Jeremiah 23:5-6; 33:15-16.

There are also the passages where the Lord's coming is called 'the day of Jehovah', as Isaiah 13:6, 9, 13, 22; Ezekiel 31:15; Joel 1:15; 2:1-2, 11, 29, 31; 3:1, 14, 18; Amos 5:13, 18, 20; Zephaniah 1:7-18; Zechariah 14:1, 4-21; and elsewhere.

[3] It is openly stated in Luke that Jehovah Himself came down and took upon Himself human form.

Mary said to the angel, How shall this happen, since I have no knowledge of a man? The angel answered her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, so that the holy thing that is born of you will be called the Son of God, Luke 1:34-35.

And in Matthew the angel said in a dream to Joseph, who was betrothed to Mary, that that which was born of her was of the Holy Spirit; and Joseph did not know her until she had borne a son, and he called His name Jesus, Matthew 1:20, 25. The Holy Spirit means the Divine which proceeds from Jehovah God, as will be seen in Chapter 3 of this book. Everyone knows that a child gets its soul and life from the father, its body from the mother. 1 So how could it be more openly stated that the Lord's soul and life were from Jehovah God, and because the Divine cannot be divided, that the Father's Divine itself was His soul and life? That is why the Lord so many times called Jehovah God His Father, and Jehovah God called Him His Son. Can anything more ridiculous be said than the idea that our Lord's soul was from His mother Mary? Yet such is the dream of both Roman Catholics and Protestants today, and they have not woken up to what is said in the Word.

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1. Reading ex matre 'from the mother' for ex anima 'from the soul', apparently a repetition from the preceding clause, cf. 92[1]; 103[1].

  
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Zechariah 14:4-21

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4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.

6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.

8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.

10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.

11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.

12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.

13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.

15 So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague.

16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.

17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.

18 If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.

19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.

20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in YAHWEH's house will be like the bowls before the altar.

21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.