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Exodus 3

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1 Mooses karjatas oma äia, Midjani preestri Jitro lambaid ja kitsi. Kord ajas ta karja kõrbe taha ja jõudis Jumala mäe Hoorebi juurde.

2 Seal ilmutas ennast temale Issanda ingel tuleleegis keset kibuvitsapõõsast, ja ta vaatas, ja ennäe, kibuvitsapõõsas põles tules, aga kibuvitsapõõsas ei põlenud ära.

3 Ja Mooses mõtles: 'Ma põikan kõrvale ja vaatan seda imet, miks kibuvitsapõõsas ära ei põle.'

4 Kui Issand nägi, et ta pöördus vaatama, siis Jumal hüüdis teda kibuvitsapõõsast ja ütles: 'Mooses, Mooses!' Ja tema vastas: 'Siin ma olen!'

5 Siis ta ütles: 'Ära tule siia, võta jalatsid jalast, sest paik, kus sa seisad, on püha maa!'

6 Ja ta jätkas: 'Mina olen sinu vanemate Jumal, Aabrahami Jumal, Iisaki Jumal ja Jaakobi Jumal!' Aga Mooses kattis oma näo, sest ta kartis Jumalale otsa vaadata.

7 Ja Issand ütles: 'Ma olen küllalt näinud oma rahva viletsust, kes on Egiptuses, ja ma olen kuulnud nende kisendamist sundijate pärast; seetõttu ma tean nende valu

8 ja olen alla tulnud neid egiptlaste käest päästma ja neid sellelt maalt viima heale ja avarale maale, maale, mis piima ja mett voolab, kaananlaste, hettide, emorlaste, perislaste, hiivlaste ja jebuuslaste asupaika.

9 Vaata, nüüd on Iisraeli laste hädakisa jõudnud minuni ja ma olen ka näinud rõhumist, millega egiptlased neid rõhuvad.

10 Tule nüüd, ma läkitan su vaarao juurde, ja vii mu rahvas, Iisraeli lapsed, Egiptusest välja!'

11 Kuid Mooses ütles Jumalale: 'Kes olen mina, et võiksin minna vaarao juurde ja viia Iisraeli lapsed Egiptusest välja?'

12 Aga tema kostis: 'Mina olen sinuga, ja see olgu sulle tähiseks, et mina sind olen läkitanud: kui sa rahva Egiptusest oled välja viinud, siis te teenite Jumalat sellel mäel.'

13 Siis Mooses ütles Jumalale: 'Vaata, kui ma lähen Iisraeli laste juurde ja ütlen neile: Teie vanemate Jumal on mind läkitanud teie juurde, aga nemad küsivad minult: Mis ta nimi on?, mis ma siis neile pean vastama?'

14 Ja Jumal ütles Moosesele: 'Ma olen see, kes ma Olen!' Ja ta jätkas: 'Ütle Iisraeli lastele nõnda: 'Ma Olen' on mind läkitanud teie juurde.'

15 Ja Jumal ütles Moosesele veel: 'Ütle Iisraeli lastele nõnda: Jahve, teie vanemate Jumal, Aabrahami Jumal, Iisaki Jumal ja Jaakobi Jumal, on mind läkitanud teie juurde; see on igavesti mu nimi ja nõnda peab mind hüütama põlvest põlve!

16 Mine ja kogu kokku Iisraeli vanemad ja ütle neile: Issand, teie vanemate Jumal, on ennast mulle ilmutanud, Aabrahami, Iisaki ja Jaakobi Jumal, ja on öelnud: Ma olen tõesti pidanud silmas teid ja seda, mis teiega Egiptuses on tehtud.

17 Ja ma olen öelnud: Mina viin teid välja Egiptuse viletsusest kaananlaste, hettide, emorlaste, perislaste, hiivlaste ja jebuuslaste maale, maale, mis piima ja mett voolab.

18 Siis nad kuulavad su sõna; sina ja Iisraeli vanemad aga peate minema Egiptuse kuninga juurde ja temale ütlema: Issand, heebrealaste Jumal, kohtas meid. Lase meid nüüd minna kolme päeva tee kõrbesse ja oma Jumalale ohverdada!

19 Ma tean, et Egiptuse kuningas ei lase teid minna, isegi mitte vägeva käe sunnil.

20 Aga ma sirutan oma käe välja ja löön Egiptust kõiksugu imetegudega, mis ma seal tahan teha; pärast seda ta laseb teid minna.

21 Ja ma annan sellele rahvale armu egiptlaste silmis, nõnda et te ära minnes ei lähe mitte tühje käsi:

22 iga naine küsigu oma naabrinaiselt ja võõrana ta kojas elavalt naiselt hõbe- ja kuldriistu ning riideid; pange need selga oma poegadele ja tütardele ja võtke nõnda egiptlastelt saaki!'

   

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6588. And visiting God will visit you. That this signifies that the last time will come, is evident from the signification of “being visited,” as being the last time, here the last time of the oppression of the sons of Israel in Egypt; in the internal sense, the last time of an old church, and the first of a new one. In the Word this last time is called “visitation,” and is predicated both of the church in general, and also of those who are within the church in particular; and of the new church which is being born, and of the old church which is expiring; in particular of the man of the church who is being saved, and of him who is being damned.

[2] That these things are signified in the Word by “visitation,” and the “day of visitation,” may be seen from the following passages.

In Luke:

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for He hath visited and wrought deliverance for His people. Through the bowels of mercy of our God, whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, that He may appear to them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death (Luke 1:68, 78-79); this is the prophetic utterance of Zacharias concerning the Lord when born; “to be visited” here denotes the raising up of a new church, and the enlightenment then of those who were in ignorance of the truth and good of faith, thus their deliverance; and therefore it is said, “He hath visited and wrought deliverance for His people,” “He hath visited that He may appear to them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death.”

[3] In Moses:

Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying, Visiting I will visit you, and that which is done to you in Egypt (Exodus 3:16).

Again:

The people believed; and they heard that Jehovah had visited the sons of Israel (Exodus 4:31).

“To be visited here denotes the last time when the church has ceased, and the first when it is beginning; the last with the Egyptians, and the first with the sons of Israel; thus also the deliverance of the latter.

[4] In Jeremiah:

They shall be carried away to Babylon; and there shall they be even until the day that I will visit them; then will I make to come up the vessels of the house of God, and I will bring them back unto this place (Jeremiah 27:22).

Again:

When seventy years have been fulfilled to Babylon, I will visit you, and I will establish upon you My good word, and will bring you back unto this place (Jeremiah 29:10); where “to visit” denotes to deliver; in general the last time of captivity and desolation.

[5] “Visitation” and the “day of visitation” denote the last time of the church, in Isaiah:

What will ye do in the day of visitation and of devastation? it shall come from afar; unto whom will ye flee for help? (Isaiah 10:3). Again:

Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, and of indignation, and of wrath, and of anger, to make the earth a waste. I will visit evil upon the world, and their iniquity upon the wicked (Isaiah 13:9, 11).

In Jeremiah:

They shall fall among them that fall; and in the time of their visitation they shall stumble (Jeremiah 8:12).

In Hosea:

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come (Jeremiah 9:7).

In Moses:

Jehovah said to Moses, Notwithstanding, go, lead this people in, whither I have spoken to thee; behold, Mine angel shall go before thee; but in the day of My visiting I will visit upon them their sin (Exodus 32:34).

In Luke:

Jesus said concerning Jerusalem, They shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou hast not acknowledged the time of thy visitation (Luke 19:44).

The “day of visitation” denotes the coming of the Lord, and enlightenment then; but in respect to the Jewish nation, as they did not acknowledge it, it denotes the last time of the representatives of the church with them; for when Jerusalem was destroyed, the sacrifices ceased, and that nation was scattered.

[6] In Ezekiel:

A great voice cried in mine ears, The visitations of the city have come nigh, and a man has his instrument of destruction in his hand (Ezekiel 9:1); where the sense is similar.

In Isaiah:

The Rephaim shall not rise, in that Thou hast visited, Thou hast extinguished them (Isaiah 26:14).

The “Rephaim” denote the posterity of the Most Ancient Church, which was before the flood, who are also called “Nephilim” and “Anakim” (see n. 567, 581, 1673); “Thou hast visited and extinguished the Rephaim” denotes the last time of that church, and also the casting of them into hell (n. 1265-1272). “Visitation” denotes requital, thus damnation, in Jeremiah:

Shall I not visit for this? shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (Jeremiah 5:9).

Again:

I will bring the destruction of Esau upon him in the time that I shall visit him (Jeremiah 49:8).

And in Hosea:

I will visit upon him his ways, and I will requite his works (Hos. 4:9).

  
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