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Deuteronoomia 9

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1 Kuule, Iisrael! Sa lähed nüüd üle Jordani, et minna alistama rahvaid, kes on suuremad ja vägevamad sinust, linnu, suuri ja taevani kindlustatuid,

2 suurt ja pikakasvulist rahvast, anaklasi, keda sa tunned ja kellest sa oled kuulnud: 'Kes suudaks seista anaklaste ees?'

3 Tea siis nüüd, et Issand, su Jumal, on see, kes käib su ees nagu hävitav tuli; tema hävitab neid ja alandab nad su ees - siis ajad sa nad ära ja hukkad kiiresti, nõnda nagu Issand sulle on öelnud.

4 Kui Issand, su Jumal, ajab nad ära su eest, siis ära mõtle oma südames, öeldes: 'Minu õigsuse pärast on Issand mind toonud pärima seda maad!', vaid nende rahvaste jumalakartmatuse pärast ajab Issand nad ära su eest.

5 Mitte oma õigsuse ja südame siiruse pärast ei pääse sa nende maad pärima, vaid nende rahvaste jumalakartmatuse pärast ajab Issand, su Jumal, nad ära su eest, et pidada, mida Issand on vandega tõotanud su vanemaile, Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile.

6 Tea siis, et mitte sinu õigsuse pärast ei anna Issand, su Jumal, sulle pärimiseks seda head maad, sest sa oled kangekaelne rahvas!

7 Tuleta meelde, ära unusta, kuidas sa kõrbes vihastasid Issandat, oma Jumalat! Sellest päevast alates, mil sa lahkusid Egiptusemaalt, kuni teie tulekuni siia paika, olete osutanud vastupanu Issandale.

8 Juba Hoorebil te pahandasite Issandat ja Issand vihastus teie peale, tahtes teid hävitada.

9 Kui ma läksin üles mäele vastu võtma kivilaudu, selle seaduse laudu, mille Issand teile oli andnud, siis jäin ma mäele neljakümneks päevaks ja neljakümneks ööks, leiba söömata ja vett joomata.

10 Ja Issand andis mulle kaks kivilauda, millele oli kirjutatud Jumala sõrmega, ja nende peal olid kõik sõnad, mis Issand oli kogunemispäeval teile rääkinud mäel tule seest.

11 Neljakümne päeva ja neljakümne öö pärast andis Issand mulle need kaks kivilauda, seaduselauda.

12 Ja Issand ütles mulle: 'Tõuse ja mine siit kähku alla, sest su rahvas, kelle sa tõid Egiptusest välja, teeb pahasti: nad on juba lahkunud sellelt teelt, mida ma neid käskisin käia - nad on endale valmistanud valatud kuju!'

13 Ja Issand rääkis minuga, öeldes: 'Ma olen näinud seda rahvast, ja vaata, see on kangekaelne rahvas!

14 Jäta mind, ja ma hävitan nad ning kustutan nende nimed taeva alt, sinust aga teen ma vägevama ja suurema rahva kui see!'

15 Siis ma pöördusin ja läksin mäelt alla: mägi põles tules ja mul oli kaks seaduselauda teine teises käes.

16 Ja ma vaatasin, ja ennäe, te olite teinud pattu Issanda, oma Jumala vastu: te olite endile valmistanud valatud vasika, olite kiiresti lahkunud teelt, mida Issand teid oli käskinud käia.

17 Siis ma haarasin need kaks lauda ja viskasin need ära oma käest ning lõin need puruks teie silme ees.

18 Ja ma heitsin maha Issanda ette, olles nagu eelmiselgi korral nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd leiba söömata ja vett joomata kõigi teie pattude pärast, mis te olite teinud, tehes kurja Issanda silmis ja vihastades teda.

19 Sest ma kartsin seda viha ja raevu, mis Issandat oli vallanud teie vastu, nõnda et ta tahtis teid hävitada. Ja Issand kuulis mind ka veel seekord.

20 Ka Aaroni peale vihastus Issand väga, tahtes teda hävitada, ja ma palusin siis ka Aaroni eest.

21 Aga teie patutöö, mille te olite valmistanud, vasika, ma võtsin ja põletasin seda tulega, lõin selle puruks, jahvatasin hästi, kuni see sai peeneks põrmuks, ja viskasin selle põrmu jõkke, mis mäelt alla voolab.

22 Ka Tabeeras ja Massas ja Kibrot-Hattaavas te vihastasite Issandat.

23 Ja kui Issand teid läkitas Kaades-Barneast, öeldes: 'Minge ja vallutage maa, mille ma teile annan!', siis te panite vastu Issanda, oma Jumala käsule, ei uskunud temasse ega kuulanud ta häält.

24 Te olete olnud Issandale vastupanijad, alates sellest päevast, mil tema teid tunneb.

25 Siis ma heitsin maha Issanda ette neiks neljakümneks päevaks ja neljakümneks ööks, sest Issand oli öelnud, et ta teid hävitab.

26 Ja ma palusin Issandat ning ütlesin: 'Issand Jumal, ära hukka oma rahvast ja oma pärisosa, kelle sa oled lunastanud oma suurusega ja kelle sa tõid Egiptusest välja vägeva käega!

27 Mõtle oma sulastele, Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile, ära pane tähele selle rahva kangust, ta nurjatust ja pattu,

28 et ei öeldaks maal, kust sa meid välja tõid: 'Sellepärast et Issand ei suutnud neid viia sellele maale, mille ta neile oli lubanud, ja et ta neid vihkas, viis ta nad välja, et neid kõrbes surmata!'

29 Ometi on nad ju sinu rahvas ja sinu pärisosa, kelle sa tõid välja oma suure rammuga ja väljasirutatud käsivarrega.'

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 350

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350. Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed. (7:5) This symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord, and this in all those people who will be in the Lord's New Heaven and New Church.

In the highest sense Judah symbolizes the Lord in relation to celestial love; in the spiritual sense, the Lord's celestial kingdom and the Word; and in the natural sense, the doctrine of a celestial church drawn from the Word. Here, however, Judah symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord; and because it is named first in the series, it symbolizes that love in all those people who will be in the New Heaven and in the Lord's New Church. For the tribe named first is everything in the rest, being to them as though their head and serving as a universal property entering into all those that follow, tying them together, qualifying them and affecting them. This property is love toward the Lord.

To be shown that twelve thousand symbolizes all who possess that love, see no. 348 above.

[2] People know that after the death of Solomon the twelve tribes of Israel were divided into two kingdoms: the kingdom of Judah and the kingdom of Israel. The kingdom of Judah represented the celestial kingdom or the Lord's priestly kingdom, while the kingdom of Israel represented the spiritual kingdom or the Lord's royal kingdom. But the latter was destroyed when the people had nothing spiritual left in them, whereas the kingdom of Judah was preserved, for the sake of the Word, and because the Lord would be born there. However, when the people adulterated the Word completely, and thus could not recognize the Lord, then their kingdom was destroyed.

It can be seen from this that the tribe of Judah symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord. But because the people were of the character they were with respect to the Word and with respect to the Lord, the tribe of Judah symbolizes also the opposite love, which is love of self - properly speaking, a love of dominating springing from a love of self - a love which we call diabolical love.

[3] The fact that Judah and his tribe symbolize the celestial kingdom and its love, which is love toward the Lord, follows from these passages:

Judah, your brothers shall praise you... The scepter shall not be taken from Judah... until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the obedience of the people. Binding his donkey's foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his garment in wine... His eyes are redder than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. (Genesis 49:8-12)

...David shall be their prince forever, and I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them..., and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore. (Ezekiel 37:25-26)

Exult and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! ...Jehovah will make Judah an inheritance for Himself, His portion on the holy land. (Zechariah 2:10-12)

O Judah, celebrate your feasts, perform your vows. For Belial 1 shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off. (Nahum 1:15)

The Lord... will suddenly come to His temple... Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be sweet to Jehovah as in the days of old... (Malachi 3:1, 4)

Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. (Joel 3:20)

Behold, the days are coming..., that I will raise to David a righteous Branch... In His days Judah will be saved... (Jeremiah 23:5-6)

I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of My mountains, that My elect may possess it... (Isaiah 65:9)

Judah became His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. (Psalms 114:2)

Behold, the days are coming..., when I will make a new covenant... with the house of Judah... ...this will be the covenant...: I will put My law within them, and write it on their heart... (Jeremiah 31:27, 31, 33-34)

In those days ten men... shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." (Zechariah 8:23)

...as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me..., so shall your offspring and your name remain.

Kings (of the nations) shall be your foster fathers, their princesses your nursing mothers. They shall bow down to you, their faces to the ground, and lick the dust of your feet. (Isaiah 66:22; 49:23)

[4] From these and many other passages, which we do not have the space to cite because of their number, it can be clearly seen that Judah means not Judah but the church. We are told, for example, that the Lord would make a new and eternal covenant with that nation, that He would make it His heir and His sanctuary forevermore, and that kings of the nations and their princesses would bow down to them, licking the dust of their feet, and so on.

[5] That the tribe of Judah, regarded in itself, means the diabolic kingdom, which is one of a love of dominating springing from a love of self, can be seen from the following passages:

I will hide My face from them, I will see what their posterity will be. ...they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith... ...they are a nation void of counsel... ...their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; its grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. Is this not laid up in store with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? (Deuteronomy 32:20-34)

(Know that) it is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart... that Jehovah... is... giving you (the land of Canaan)..., for you are a stiff-necked people. (Deuteronomy 9:5-6)

...according to the number of your cities have been your gods, O Judah... ...according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars... to burn incense to Baal. (Jeremiah 2:28; 11:13)

You are of your father the devil, and you choose to do the desires of your father. (John 8:44)

Jews are said to be full of hypocrisy, iniquity, and uncleanness (Matthew 23:27-28.

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1. In the Old Testament, the personification of wickedness and destruction, originally conceived perhaps as some sort of spirit demon.

  
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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.