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Jeremija 31

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1 Sel ajal, ütleb Issand, olen ma kõigi Iisraeli suguvõsade Jumal ja nemad on mu rahvas.

2 Nõnda ütleb Issand: Rahvas, mõõgast pääsenud, on kõrbes leidnud armu: Iisrael läheb oma rahupaika.

3 Issand ilmutas ennast mulle kaugelt: Ma olen sind armastanud igavese armastusega, seepärast jääb mu osadus sinuga.

4 Mina ehitan sind jälle, et sa oleksid üles ehitatud, Iisraeli neitsi. Sa ehid ennast jälle trummidega ja lähed rõõmsatega tantsima.

5 Sa istutad jälle viinapuuaedu Samaaria mägedele; need, kes istutavad, saavad ka kasutada.

6 Sest tuleb päev, kui vahimehed hüüavad Efraimi mäestikus: 'Tõuske, mingem üles Siionisse Issanda, meie Jumala juurde!'

7 Sest nõnda ütleb Issand: Hõisake ilutsedes Jaakobi pärast ja tundke rõõmu rahvaste peast; kuulutage, kiitke ja öelge: 'Issand, päästa oma rahvas, Iisraeli jääk!'

8 Vaata, ma toon nad põhjamaalt ja kogun nad maa viimastest äärtest; nende hulgas on ka pimedaid ja jalutuid, rasedaid ja sünnitajaid: suure hulgana tulevad nad siia tagasi.

9 Nad tulevad nuttes ja ma toon neid anudes; ma viin nad veeojade äärde tasasel teel, kus nad ei komista; sest ma olen Iisraeli isa ja Efraim on mu esmasündinu.

10 Rahvad, kuulge Issanda sõna ja kuulutage kaugetel saartel ning öelge: 'Tema, kes pillutas Iisraeli, kogub ja hoiab teda nagu karjane oma karja!'

11 Sest Issand lunastab Jaakobi ja vabastab tema selle käest, kes on temast vägevam.

12 Ja nad tulevad ning hõiskavad Siioni kõrgendikul, nad säravad rõõmust Issanda headuse pärast, vilja ja veini ja õli pärast, noorte lammaste, kitsede ja veiste pärast; nende hing on nagu kastetud rohuaed ja nad ei närbu enam.

13 Siis neitsid rõõmutsevad tantsides ning noorukid ja raugad üheskoos; ma muudan nende leina rõõmuks, ma trööstin ja rõõmustan neid pärast kurvastust.

14 Ja ma kosutan preestrite südameid rasvaga ning mu rahvas küllastub mu headusest, ütleb Issand.

15 Nõnda ütleb Issand: Raamast kuuldakse häält, halinat, kibedat nuttu: Raahel nutab oma poegi. Ta ei lase ennast trööstida oma poegade pärast, sest neid ei ole enam.

16 Nõnda ütleb Issand: Keela oma häält nutmast ja silmi pisaraid valamast, sest su teol on tasu, ütleb Issand, ja nad tulevad tagasi vaenlase maalt.

17 Sul on lootust tulevikuks, ütleb Issand, su lapsed tulevad tagasi oma maale.

18 Ma olen küll kuulnud, et Efraim haletseb iseennast: 'Sina oled mind karistanud ja ma olen saanud karistuse nagu tõrges härjavärss. Too mind tagasi, et saaksin pöörduda, sest sina oled Issand, mu Jumal!

19 Sest pärast taganemist ma kahetsen, ja pärast mõistuseletoomist ma löön enesele vastu puusa; ma häbenen ja tunnen piinlikkust, sest ma kannan oma noorpõlve teotust.'

20 Eks ole Efraim mulle kalliks pojaks ja lemmiklapseks? Sest iga kord, kui ma räägin tema vastu, mõtlen ma ikka temale; seetõttu on mu süda tema pärast rahutu: ma tahan tõesti halastada tema peale, ütleb Issand.

21 Püstita enesele märgikivid, aseta teeviidad, pea meeles maanteed, rada, mida oled käinud! Tule tagasi, Iisraeli neitsi, tule tagasi oma linnadesse!

22 Kui kaua sa kõhkled, taganenud tütar? Sest Issand loob maal midagi uut: naine kaitseb meest.

23 Nõnda ütleb vägede Issand, Iisraeli Jumal: Veel kõneldakse Juudamaal ja selle linnades, kui ma pööran nende vangipõlve, seda sõna: 'Issand õnnistagu sind, sa õigluse eluase, sa püha mägi!'

24 Seal elavad üheskoos Juuda ja kõik ta linnad, põllumehed ja rändavad karjased.

25 Sest ma kosutan väsinud hinge ja täidan iga nälginud hinge.'

26 Seepeale ma ärkasin ja vaatasin, ja mul oli olnud magus uni.

27 'Vaata, päevad tulevad, ütleb Issand, mil ma külvan Iisraeli soole ja Juuda soole inimeste seemet ja loomade seemet.

28 Ja nõnda nagu ma valvasin neid, et kitkuda ja maha kiskuda, purustada, hävitada ja tuua õnnetust, nõnda ma valvan neid, et üles ehitada ja istutada, ütleb Issand.

29 Neil päevil ei öelda enam: 'Isad sõid tooreid viinamarju, aga laste hambad on hellad',

30 vaid igaüks sureb oma süü pärast: igal inimesel, kes sööb tooreid viinamarju, lähevad ta oma hambad hellaks.

31 Vaata, päevad tulevad, ütleb Issand, mil ma teen Iisraeli sooga ja Juuda sooga uue lepingu:

32 mitte selle lepingu sarnase, mille ma tegin nende vanematega sel päeval, kui ma võtsin nad kättpidi, et viia nad välja Egiptusemaalt - selle mu lepingu nad murdsid, kuigi ma olin nad võtnud enese omaks, ütleb Issand -,

33 vaid leping, mille ma teen Iisraeli sooga pärast neid päevi, ütleb Issand, on niisugune: ma panen nende sisse oma Seaduse ja kirjutan selle neile südamesse; siis ma olen neile Jumalaks ja nemad on mulle rahvaks.

34 Siis üks ei õpeta enam teist ega vend venda, öeldes: 'Tunne Issandat!', sest nad kõik tunnevad mind, niihästi pisikesed kui suured, ütleb Issand; sest ma annan andeks nende süü ega tuleta enam meelde nende pattu.

35 Nõnda ütleb Issand, kes on pannud päikese valguseks päeval, kuu ja tähtede korrad valguseks öösel, kes liigutab merd, paneb selle lained kohama - vägede Issand on tema nimi:

36 Kui need korrad nihkuksid mu palge eest, ütleb Issand, siis lakkaks ka Iisraeli sugu alatiseks olemast rahvas mu palge ees.

37 Nõnda ütleb Issand: Kui peaks saama mõõta taevast ülal ja uurida maa aluseid all, siis hülgaksin ka mina kogu Iisraeli soo kõige selle pärast, mis nad on teinud, ütleb Issand.

38 Vaata, päevad tulevad, ütleb Issand, mil linn Issandale üles ehitatakse Hananeli tornist Nurgaväravani.

39 Ja mõõdunöör läheb veel edasi otse üle Gaarebi künka ning käändub Goa suunas.

40 Ja kogu surnukehade ja tuha org, ja kõik põllud kuni Kidroni jõeni, Hobuvärava nurgani ida suunas, on pühendatud Issandale. Iialgi enam ei kitkuta seda välja ega kista maha.'

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 610

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610. That time shall be no more, signifies that there shall be no longer any understanding of Divine truth, nor any state of the church therefrom. This is evident from the signification of "time," as being here the state of man in respect to the understanding of the Word, and thus the state of the church, because both the one and the other are treated of in this chapter. "Time" signifies state, because times in the spiritual world are determined and distinguished only by particular and general states of life. This is because the sun in that world, which is the Lord, does not move, but remains in the same place in heaven, and that place is the east; that sun does not there revolve through the heavens as the sun in the natural world appears to do. By the apparent revolution of the sun of the natural world times in general and in particular are determined, and thus have existence; in general, the year and its four seasons, called spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Moreover, these four seasons of the year are the four natural states of the natural world corresponding to the same number of states in the spiritual world, which are its general spiritual states. In particular, within these general states in the natural world, there are determined and fixed times, called months and weeks, but especially days, and days are divided into four natural states, which are called morning, noon, evening, and night, corresponding to which there are four states in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world, because the sun, as has been said, does not revolve through the heavens but remains constant and fixed in its east, there are no years, months, weeks, days, or hours, consequently there are no determinations by times, but only determinations by states of life, general and particular. Therefore it is not known there what time is, but only what state is, for the determination of a thing is what gives the idea of it, and according to the idea is the thing named. This, then, is the reason that it is not known in the spiritual world what times are, although they succeed each other there the same as in the natural world, but instead of times there are states and their changes; this is the reason also that times, when mentioned in the Word, signify states. (But respecting time and times in the spiritual world, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 162-169; and on the Changes of States of the Angels, n.154-161. [Note from the Margin:] Notice where it is said, "it shall be when there shall be neither day nor night" [Jeremiah 33:20; Zechariah 14:7.)

[2] Since "time" means the things pertaining to time in the natural world, as those pertaining to the year and the day (those of the year are seedtime and harvest, and those of the day are morning and evening), by these things pertaining to time states of the church are described in the Word, "seedtime" describing and signifying the establishment of the church; "harvest" its fruit bearing; "morning" its first time, and "noon to evening" its progression. These natural states (or conditions) also correspond to spiritual states, which are states of heaven and the church. As concerns the church, the church in general passes through these states, so does each man of the church in particular. Moreover, each man of the church from his earliest age is also inaugurated into these states, but when the church is at its end he can no more be inaugurated, for he does not receive Divine truth, but either rejects or perverts it, therefore he has neither seedtime nor harvest, that is, no establishment and no fruit bearing, nor has he morning or evening, that is, neither beginning nor progression. These states are meant and signified by "times" in the Word; and as in the end of the church these states cease with men of the church, therefore it is here said that "time shall be no more;" and this signifies that there shall be no further understanding of Divine truth or the Word, consequently not any state of the church.

[3] The like is signified by "time" in Ezekiel:

The evil, behold one evil cometh; the end is come, the end is come, it hath awakened upon thee. Behold, the morning is come upon thee, O inhabitant of the land, the time is come (Ezekiel 7:5-7).

This, too, was said of the state of the church. The end of the former church is first described, and the establishment of a new church afterwards, the end of the former church by this, "One evil, behold the evil cometh; the end is come, the end is come;" the establishment of a new church by this, "Behold, the morning is come upon thee, O inhabitant of the land, the time is come," "morning" signifying the state of a new or commencing church, and "time" its progressive state; accordingly the meaning is similar as that of "seedtime and harvest" and "morning and evening," mentioned above, consequently it means the state of the church in respect to the understanding of truth and the will of good.

[4] In Daniel:

The fourth beast shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, for he shall think to change times and the right; and they shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time (Daniel 7:25).

"The fourth beast" means the evil that was about to vastate the church completely; falsities destroying the truths of the church are meant by "the words that he shall speak against the Most High," and by "the saints of the Most High whom he will wear out," "the saints of the Most High" signifying in the abstract sense Divine truths. That the truths of the Word and its goods will then be turned into falsities and evils is signified by "he shall change the times and the right," "times" meaning the states of the church in respect to the understanding of truth. The duration of that state in relation to the end of the church is signified by "for a time and times and half a time," which means a full state of vastation.

[5] So, too, in the following words in Daniel:

And I heard the man clothed in linen, that he lifted up his right hand and his left hand unto the heavens, and sware by Him that liveth unto the ages of the ages that it shall be for a fixed time of fixed times, and a half, when they are to make an end of dispersing the people of holiness, all these things shall be finished (Daniel 12:7).

"Time" here signifies state; and "time, times and a half" signifies a full state of vastation; therefore it is said, "when they are to make a full end of dispersing the people of holiness," "the people of holiness" meaning those of the church who are in Divine truths; or in an abstract sense Divine truths. With a similar meaning it is said in Revelation:

That the woman should be nourished in the wilderness for a time and times and half a time (Revelation 12:14).

[6] As by "time" things pertaining to time are meant, such as spring, summer, autumn, and winter, these signifying the states of one who is to be regenerated, or is regenerated, also the things pertaining to these times, such as seedtime and harvest, these signifying the state of the church in respect to the implantation of truth and the fructification of good therefrom, and as like things are signified by the times of the day, which are morning, noon, evening, and night, so these times have this signification in the following passages. In Genesis:

During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease (Genesis 8:22).

This may be seen explained in Arcana Coelestia 930-937). In David:

The day is Thine, the night also is Thine; thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter hast Thou formed (Psalms 74:16, 17).

In Jeremiah:

Jehovah giveth the sun for a light of the day, and the statutes of the moon and stars for a light of the night. If these statutes shall depart from before Me, the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me all the days (Jeremiah 31:35, 36).

In the same:

Jehovah said, If I shall not have set My covenant of day and night, the statutes of heaven and earth, I will reject also the seed of Jacob and of David 1 My servant (Jeremiah 33:25, 26).

"The statutes of the sun, moon, and stars," also "the covenant of day and night," and "the statutes of heaven and earth," have a similar signification as "times," since "times" exist from those statutes. That "seedtime and harvest, summer and winter," also "day and night," have a similar signification as "times" has been said above.

[7] It follows that "times" have the same signification in these words in Genesis:

God said, Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years (Genesis 1:14-19).

The two "luminaries," the sun and moon, signify love and faith; for that chapter treats in the spiritual sense of the new creation, or the regeneration of the man of the church, and the things said respecting the sun and moon signify the things that chiefly regenerate man and make the church; therefore these words and those that follow describe the process by which regeneration is effected, and afterwards it describes their states. This makes evident what is signified by "time shall be no more."

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1. Latin has "Israel," Hebrew "David," as found in 527, 768.

  
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