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Miicaah 1

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1 Vorto de la Eternulo, kiu aperis al Mihxa, la Moresxetano, en la tempo de Jotam, Ahxaz, kaj HXizkija, regxoj de Judujo, kaj kiun li viziis pri Samario kaj Jerusalem.

2 Auxskultu, cxiuj popoloj, atentu, ho tero, kaj cxio, kio estas sur gxi! La Sinjoro, la Eternulo, estu atestanto kontraux vi, la Sinjoro el Sia sankta templo.

3 CXar jen la Eternulo eliras el Sia loko, iras kaj pasxas sur la altajxoj de la tero.

4 Kaj fandigxas la montoj sub Li, kaj la valoj disfendigxas, kiel vakso antaux fajro, kiel akvo, falanta de krutajxo.

5 CXio cxi tio estas pro la krimo de Jakob kaj pro la pekoj de la domo de Izrael. Kiu krimigis Jakobon? cxu ne Samario? Kiu arangxis la altajxojn de Judujo? cxu ne Jerusalem?

6 Tial Mi faros Samarion sxtonamaso sur la kampo, por plantado de vinberoj; Mi disjxetos gxiajn sxtonojn en la valon kaj nudigos gxiajn fundamentojn.

7 CXiuj gxiaj idoloj estos disbatitaj, cxiuj gxiaj promalcxastaj donacoj estos forbruligitaj per fajro, kaj cxiujn gxiajn statuojn Mi ruinigos; cxar per promalcxastaj donacoj gxi ilin arangxis, kaj promalcxastaj donacoj ili farigxos denove.

8 Pri tio mi ploras kaj gxemas, iras sensxue kaj nude; mi krias plende, kiel la sxakaloj, kaj estas malgaja, kiel la strutoj.

9 CXar senespera estas gxia plago, gxi venis gxis Judujo, atingis gxis la pordego de mia popolo, gxis Jerusalem.

10 Ne diru tion en Gat, ne ploru lauxte; en Bet-Leafra rulu vin en cindro.

11 Foriru, ho logxantino de SXafir, en nudeco kaj honto; ne eliros la logxantino de Caanan; la plorado en Bet-Ecel ne permesos al vi tie halti.

12 Afliktigxas pri sia bono la logxantino de Marot; cxar malfelicxo venis de la Eternulo al la pordego de Jerusalem.

13 Jungu al la cxaro kurcxevalojn, ho logxantino de Lahxisx; vi estas la komenco de pekoj de la filino de Cion, cxar cxe vi oni trovis la krimojn de Izrael.

14 Tial vi sendos donacojn en Moresxet-Gaton; sed la domoj de Ahxzib trompos la regxojn de Izrael.

15 Mi alkondukos al vi ankoraux la posedonton, ho logxantino de Maresxa; gxis Adulam venos la gloro de Izrael.

16 Detondu viajn harojn kaj razu vin pro viaj amataj filoj; largxigu vian kalvon kiel aglo, cxar ili estos forkaptitaj for de vi.

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79. The following passages show that spiritually understood, "adultery" means polluting what is good in the Word and distorting what is true in it:

Babylon has made all nations drink of the wine of her fornication. (Revelation 14:8)

An angel said, "I will show you the judgment of the great whore who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication." (Revelation 17:1-2)

Babylon has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. (Revelation 18:3)

God has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her fornication. (Revelation 19:2)

Fornication is associated with Babylon because Babylon means people who claim the Lord's divine power for themselves and profane the Word by polluting and distorting it. That is why Babylon is called "the Mother of Fornications and of the Abominations of the Earth" in Revelation 17:5.

[2] Fornication means much the same in the prophets - in Jeremiah, for example:

In the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen appalling obstinacy; they commit adultery and walk in a lie. (Jeremiah 23:14)

In Ezekiel:

Two women, daughters of one mother, played the whore in Egypt; in their youth they behaved wantonly. The first was unfaithful to me and took delight in lovers from neighboring Assyria. Upon them, too, she bestowed her acts of whoredom, but without giving up her wantonness in Egypt. The second became more corrupt in her love than the first, and her acts of whoredom were worse than her sister's. She increased her whoredom and made love to Chaldeans; sons of Babel came to her, into the bed of love, and defiled her with their debauchery. (Ezekiel 23:2-17)

This is about the church of Israel and Judah, who are the "daughters of one mother" in this passage. Their acts of whoredom mean their pollutions and distortions of the Word, and since in the Word Egypt means factual knowledge, Assyria reasoning, Chaldea the profanation of what is true, and Babel the profanation of what is good, it says that they committed acts of whoredom with those countries.

[3] Much the same is said in Ezekiel of Jerusalem, meaning the church in respect to its teachings:

Jerusalem, you trusted in your own beauty, and played the whore because of your fame, even to the point that you poured out your whoredom on everyone who passed by. You played the whore with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of whoredom. You played the whore with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the whore with them. You multiplied your acts of whoredom as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea. An adulterous wife takes strangers instead of her husband. All make payment to their whores, but you made payments to all your lovers to come to you from all around for your whoredom. Now then, O whore, hear the Word of Jehovah. (Ezekiel 16:15, 26, 28-29, 32-33, 35, and following)

On Jerusalem meaning the church, see Teachings on the Lord 62-63. Fornication means much the same in Isaiah 23:17-18; 57:3; Jeremiah 3:2, 6, 8-9; 5:7; 13:27; 29:23; Micah 1:7; Nahum 3:4; Hosea 4:7, 10-11; also Leviticus 20:5; Numbers 14:33; 15:39; and elsewhere.

That is why the Lord called the Jewish nation "an adulterous generation" (Matthew 12:39; 16:4; Mark 8:38).

  
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