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Genesis 7

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1 Ja Issand ütles Noale: 'Mine sina ja kogu su pere laeva, sest ma olen näinud, et sa selle rahvapõlve seas minu ees õige oled.

2 Võta enesele kõigist puhtaist loomadest seitse paari, isane ja emane; ja loomadest, kes puhtad ei ole, kaks - isane ja emane.

3 Nõndasamuti lindudest taeva all seitse paari, isane ja emane, et nende sugu jääks elama kogu maa peale.

4 Sest juba seitsme päeva pärast ma lasen vihma sadada maa peale nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd, ja ma kaotan maapinnalt kõik olendid, keda ma olen teinud!'

5 Ja Noa tegi kõik nõnda, nagu Issand teda käskis.

6 Ja Noa oli kuussada aastat vana, kui uputusvesi maa peale tuli.

7 Ja Noa läks laeva, ja ta pojad ja ta naine ja ta poegade naised temaga, veeuputuse eest.

8 Puhtaist loomadest ja loomadest, kes puhtad ei ole, ja lindudest ja kõigist, kes maa peal roomavad,

9 tulid kahekesi Noa juurde laeva isane ja emane, nõnda nagu Jumal Noale oli käsu andnud.

10 Ja seitsme päeva pärast tuli veeuputus maa peale.

11 Sel aastal, mil Noa kuussada aastat vanaks sai, teise kuu seitsmeteistkümnendal päeval, otse selsamal päeval puhkesid kõik suure sügavuse allikad ja taevaluugid tehti lahti.

12 Ja sadu tuli maa peale nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd.

13 Otse selsamal päeval läksid Noa ja Noa pojad Seem ja Haam ja Jaafet ning Noa naine ja kolm ta poegade naist üheskoos laeva,

14 nemad ja kõik metsloomad oma liikide järgi, ja kõiksugu kariloomad oma liikide järgi, ja kõiksugu roomajad, kes maa peal roomavad, oma liikide järgi, ja kõiksugu lendajad oma liikide järgi, kõik linnud, kõik tiivulised.

15 Ja need tulid Noa juurde laeva kahekaupa kõigest lihast, kus eluvaim sees on.

16 Ja need, kes sisse läksid, olid isane ja emane kõigest lihast, nõnda nagu Jumal temale oli käsu andnud. Ja Issand sulges ukse tema tagant.

17 Siis tuli nelikümmend päeva veeuputust maa peale; vesi tõusis ja tõstis laeva, nõnda et see kerkis maast kõrgele.

18 Ja vesi võttis võimust ning seda sai maa peal väga palju, ja laev liikus veepinnal.

19 Ja vesi võttis maa peal väga võimust ja kõik kõrged mäed kogu taeva all kaeti.

20 Vesi tõusis neist viisteist küünart kõrgemale, nõnda et mäed olid kaetud.

21 Siis heitis hinge kõik liha, mis maa peal liikus, niihästi linnud kui kariloomad ja metsloomad ja kõik roomajad, kes maa peal roomasid, ja kõik inimesed ka.

22 Kõik, kellel eluvaimu hingus ninas oli, kõik, kes olid kuival maal, need surid.

23 Nõnda hävitati kõik olendid, kes maa peal olid; niihästi inimesed kui loomad ja roomajad, ja linnud taeva all hävitati maa pealt, järele jäid ainult Noa ja need, kes temaga laevas olid.

24 Ja vesi võimutses maa peal sada viiskümmend päeva.

   

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Seven

  

Seven, as in Revelation 15:1, signifies everything in an universal sense. The number 'seven' was considered holy, as is well known, because of the six days of creation, and the seventh, which is the celestial self, where peace, rest, and the Sabbath is. The number seven occurs so frequently in the rites of the Jewish church and is held holy everywhere.

So times were divided into seven, longer and shorter intervals, and were called weeks, like the great intervals of times till the coming of the Messiah, in Daniel 9:24-25. The time of seven years is called 'a week' by Laban and Jacob, as in Genesis 29:27-28. So wherever the number seven occurs, it is considered holy and sacred, as in Psalm 119:164, and in Isaiah 30:26.

As the periods of a person's regeneration are distinguished into six, prior to the seventh, or the celestial self, so the times of vastation are also distinguished, until nothing celestial is left. This was represented by the many captivities of the Jews, and by the last Babylonian captivity, which lasted seven decades, or seventy years. This was also represented by Nebuchadnezzar, in Daniel 4:16, 22, 29. It also refers to the vastation of the end times, in Revelation 15:1, 7-8. They should 'tread the holy city under foot, forty and two months, or six times seven,' as in Revelation 11:2 and Revelation 5:1. So the severity and increments of punishment were expressed by the number seven, as in Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 and Psalm 79:12.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 5, 7-8, 15; Arcana Coelestia 395; Daniel 9, 9:24, 9:25; Isaiah 26, 30; Psalms 119)


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Arcana Coelestia # 482

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482. Until now nobody has known what the years and the numbers of years occurring in this chapter mean in the internal sense. People who stay within the sense of the letter imagine that they are no more than chronological years. But none of the content from here down to Chapter 12 is history as it seems to be in the sense of the letter, for every single detail contains something of a different nature. What applies to names applies to numbers as well. In the Word the number three occurs frequently, and so does the number seven; and in every instance they mean something holy or inviolable as regards those states which the periods of time or whatever else that is mentioned embody or represent. This applies as much to the shortest as to the longest time-intervals; for just as parts makeup the whole, so do the shortest make up the longest. For a similarity must exist in order that a whole may emerge satisfactorily out of the parts, or that which is largest out of that which is smallest.

[2] As in Isaiah,

Jehovah has now spoken, saying, In three years, according to the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be rendered worthless. Isaiah 16:14.

In the same prophet,

The Lord said to me, Within yet a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar will be brought to an end. Isaiah 21:6.

Here both the shortest as well as the longest time-intervals are meant. In Habakkuk,

O Jehovah, I have heard Your fame; I was afraid. O Jehovah, revive Your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years do You make it known. Habakkuk 3:2.

Here 'the midst of the years' stands for the Lord's Coming. If the intervals are shorter this stands for every coming of the Lord, as when a person is being regenerated; but if longer it stands for the rising anew of the Lord's Church. It is also called in Isaiah 'the year of the redeemed', The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. Isaiah 63:4.

So too 'the thousand years' for which Satan is to be bound, Revelation 20:2-3, 7, and 'the thousand years' associated with the first resurrection, Revelation 20:4-6. These in no way mean a thousand years but the states associated with them. For just as 'days, as shown 'already, are interpreted as a state, so too are 'years', and the states are described by the number of the years. From this it becomes clear that periods of time in this chapter also embody states, for every Church experienced a different state of perception from the next, according to differences of disposition resulting from inherited and acquired characteristics.

  
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