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Exodus 6

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1 Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Nüüd sa saad näha, mida ma vaaraole teen; sest vägeva käe sunnil ta laseb nad minna ja vägeva käe sunnil ta ajab nad ära oma maalt.'

2 Ja Jumal rääkis Moosesega ning ütles temale: 'Mina olen Issand.

3 Mina olen ennast ilmutanud Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile Kõigeväelise Jumalana, aga oma nime Jahve ei ole ma neile teatavaks teinud.

4 Mina olen nendega teinud ka oma lepingu, et ma annan neile Kaananimaa, nende rännakute maa, kus nad on võõrana elanud.

5 Mina olen ka kuulnud Iisraeli laste ägamist, et egiptlased neid orjastavad, ja ma olen mõelnud oma lepingule.

6 Seepärast ütle Iisraeli lastele: Mina olen Issand ja mina viin teid ära egiptlaste teoorjuse alt; ma päästan teid nende orjatööst ja lunastan teid oma väljasirutatud käsivarrega ning suurte kohtupidamistega.

7 Mina võtan teid enesele rahvaks ja olen teile Jumalaks, ja teie peate tundma, et mina olen Issand, teie Jumal, kes teid viib välja egiptlaste teoorjusest.

8 Mina viin teid sellele maale, mille pärast ma oma käe üles tõstsin, et ma annan selle Aabrahamile, Iisakile ja Jaakobile. Mina annan selle teie omandiks, mina, Issand.'

9 Ja Mooses rääkis nõnda Iisraeli lastele, aga nemad ei kuulanud Moosest rõhutud meeleolu ja ränga orjuse tõttu.

10 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

11 'Mine ütle vaaraole, Egiptuse kuningale, et ta laseks Iisraeli lapsed oma maalt ära minna!'

12 Aga Mooses rääkis Issanda ees, öeldes: 'Vaata, Iisraeli lapsed ei kuula mind, kuidas siis vaarao mind kuulda võtab? Mina olen ju huultelt ümberlõikamata.'

13 Aga Issand rääkis Moosesega ja Aaroniga ning andis neile käsu minna Iisraeli laste ja vaarao, Egiptuse kuninga juurde, et viia Iisraeli lapsed Egiptusemaalt välja.

14 Need olid nende perekondade peamehed: Ruubeni, Iisraeli esmasündinu pojad olid: Hanok, Pallu, Hesron ja Karmi; need olid Ruubeni suguvõsad.

15 Siimeoni pojad olid Jemuel, Jaamin, Ohad, Jaakin, Sohar ja Saul, kaananlanna poeg; need olid Siimeoni suguvõsad.

16 Need olid Leevi poegade nimed nende sünnijärgluses: Geerson, Kehat ja Merari; ja Leevi eluaastaid oli sada kolmkümmend seitse aastat.

17 Geersoni pojad olid Libni ja Simei oma suguvõsade kaupa.

18 Kehati pojad olid Amram, Jishar, Hebron ja Ussiel; ja Kehati eluaastaid oli sada kolmkümmend kolm aastat.

19 Merari pojad olid Mahli ja Muusi; need olid Leevi suguvõsad oma sünnijärgluses.

20 Amram võttis enesele naiseks Jookebedi, oma isa õe, ja see tõi temale ilmale Aaroni ja Moosese; ja Amrami eluaastaid oli sada kolmkümmend seitse aastat.

21 Jishari pojad olid Korah, Nefeg ja Sikri.

22 Ussieli pojad olid Miisael, Elsafan ja Sitri.

23 Aaron võttis Eliseba, Amminadabi tütre, Nahsoni õe, enesele naiseks, ja see tõi temale ilmale Naadabi, Abihu, Eleasari ja Iitamari.

24 Korahi pojad olid Assir, Elkana ja Abiasaf; need olid korahlaste suguvõsad.

25 Eleasar, Aaroni poeg, võttis enesele naise Puutieli tütreist, ja see tõi temale ilmale Piinehasi; need olid leviitide perekondade peamehed nende suguvõsade kaupa.

26 Need olid Aaron ja Mooses, kellele Issand ütles: 'Viige Iisraeli lapsed nende väehulkade kaupa Egiptusemaalt välja!'

27 Nemad olid, kes rääkisid vaaraoga, Egiptuse kuningaga, et Iisraeli lapsi Egiptusest välja viia - Mooses ja Aaron.

28 Sel päeval, mil Issand rääkis Moosesega Egiptusemaal,

29 Issand rääkis Moosesele, öeldes: 'Mina olen Issand! Räägi vaaraole, Egiptuse kuningale kõike, mis ma sulle räägin!'

30 Ja Mooses ütles Issanda ees: 'Vaata, ma olen huultelt ümberlõikamata. Kuidas siis vaarao mind kuulda võtaks?'

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 405

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405. And a third of the living creatures in the sea died. (8:9) This symbolically means that those who had lived that faith and continued to live it could not be reformed and receive life.

A third symbolizes all such, as said above. Creatures mean people who can be reformed (no. 290). The reason is that to create means, symbolically, to reform (no. 254). Their living means, symbolically, to be able by reformation to receive life. That they died means, symbolically, that people who live that faith alone cannot receive life. They cannot, because people are all reformed by a faith united to charity, thus by a faith accompanying charity, and none by faith alone; for charity is the life of faith.

[2] Since in the spiritual world the affections and consequent perceptions and thoughts of spirits and angels appear at a distance in the forms of animals or creatures on the earth called beasts, of creatures in the air called birds, and of creatures in the sea called fish, therefore the Word so often mentions beasts, birds, and fish, which nevertheless have precisely the meaning stated. So for example in the following places:

...Jehovah has a quarrel with the inhabitants of the land, for there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God... And everyone who dwells in it will waste away along with the beast of the field and the bird of the air; even the fish of the sea will be gathered up. (Hosea 4:1, 3)

I will consume man and beast..., the bird of the heavens, the fish of the sea, ...the stumbling blocks along with the impious... (Zephaniah 1:3)

There shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, and the fish of the sea, the bird of the heavens, and the beast of the field... shall tremble before Me. (Ezekiel 38:18-20)

You have made Him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet... the beasts of the fields, the bird of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the path of the seas. (Psalms 8:6-8)

The latter is said of the Lord.

Pray ask the beasts, and they will teach you; or the birds of the air, and they will inform you...; and the fish of the sea will tell you. Who of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this? (Job 12:7-9)

And in many other places as well.

[3] Fish, moreover, and creatures of the sea, as they are called here, mean the affections and consequent thoughts of such people as are concerned with general truths, and so who take more from a natural source than from a spiritual one. These people are meant by fish in the preceding passages, and also in the following ones:

By My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink... and die of thirst. (Isaiah 50:2)

...the king of Egypt, a great whale, you who lie in the midst of your rivers, you said, "The river is mine; I made myself..".. (Therefore) I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales..., and I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. (Ezekiel 29:3-5)

This was addressed to the king of Egypt, because Egypt symbolizes the natural level divorced from the spiritual one, and so the fish of his rivers mean people governed by doctrines, who because of them are caught up in faith separated from charity, a faith that is simply knowledge.

Because of that separation, moreover, one of the miracles in Egypt was the turning of their waters into blood, so that the fish died (Exodus 7:17-25, Psalms 105:29).

[4] Furthermore:

Why do You make mankind like fish of the sea...? Everyone draws them up with a hook, and gathers them in a net... (Habakkuk 1:14-16)

Fish here stand for people concerned with general truths and caught up in faith divorced from charity. In contrast, fish stand for people concerned with general truths and governed by a faith conjoined with charity in Ezekiel:

He said to me: "These waters flowing to the eastern boundary... enter the sea, (from which comes) every living soul that creeps... and very much fish... ...fishermen will stand by it... with a spreading of their nets. Its fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. (Ezekiel 47:1, 8-10)

In Matthew:

(Jesus said,) the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea, and they gathered (fish).... And they put the good ones into vessels and threw the bad away. (Matthew 13:47-49)

And in Jeremiah:

I will bring (the children of Israel) back into their land... And I will send for many fishermen...(who) shall fish them. (Jeremiah 16:15-16)

[5] Consequently, anyone who knows that fish symbolize people and things of the kind stated, can see the following: Why the Lord chose fishermen to be His disciples, and said,

Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men. (Matthew 4:18-19)

Why the disciples, with the Lord's blessing, caught a huge multitude of fish, and the Lord said to Peter,

Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men. (Luke 5:2-10)

Why, when they wished to exact tribute from the Lord, He told Peter to go to the sea and draw out a fish, and to give them the coin found in it for Him and for himself (Matthew 16:24-27).

Why, after His resurrection, the Lord gave His disciples fish and bread to eat (John 21:2-13).

And why He told them to "go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). For the nations they were converting possessed only general truths, and were concerned more with natural things than spiritual ones.

  
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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.

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Revelation 7

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1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

2 I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,

3 saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"

4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

5 of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,

6 of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,

7 of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,

8 of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

11 All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God,

12 saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen."

13 One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?"

14 I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.

15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

16 They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;

17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."