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Daniel 10

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1 Kolmantena Koreksen, Persian kuninkaan vuonna, ilmoitettiin Danielille, joka myös Belsatsariksi kutsuttiin, totinen asia suuresta sodasta. Ja hän ymmärsi sen asian, ja ymmärrys oli hänellä näyssä.

2 Siihen aikaan murehdin minä Daniel kolme viikkoa.

3 En minä syönyt mitään herkullista ruokaa. Liha ja viina ei tullut minun suuhuni, enkä ollenkaan voidellut itsiäni siihen asti kuin kolme viikkoa loppuneet olivat.

4 Neljäntenä päivänä kolmattakymmentä ensimäisessä kuussa olin minä sen suuren Hiddekelin virran tykönä.

5 Ja nostin silmäni ja näin ja katso, siinä seisoi yksi mies liinaisissa vaatteissa, ja kultainen vyö oli hänen suolissansa.

6 Hänen ruumiinsa oli niinkuin turkos, hänen kasvonsa kuin pitkäisen tuli, hänen silmänsä niinkuin tulisoitot, hänen käsivartensa ja jalkansa niinkuin kiiltävä vaski, ja hänen puheensa ääni niinkuin suuri hyminä.

7 Ja minä Daniel näin sen näyn yksinäni, ja ne miehet, jotka minun tykönäni olivat, ei sitä nähneet. Kuitenkin tuli suuri pelko heidän päällensä, että he pakenivat ja lymyttivät heitänsä.

8 Ja minä jäin yksinäni ja näin tämän suuren näyn, ja ei minuun mitään väkeä jäänyt, ja minä tulin sangen rumaksi, ja ei minussa enää väkeä ollut.

9 Ja minä kuulin hänen puheensa äänen. Ja kuin minä kuulin hänen puheensa äänen, putosin minä näännyksiin kasvoilleni, ja minun kasvoni olivat maahan päin.

10 Ja katso, yksi käsi tarttui minuun ja autti minua ylös polvilleni ja minun kätteni päälle.

11 Ja sanoi minulle: Daniel, sinä otollinen mies. Ota näistä sanoista vaari, joita minä sinun kanssas puhun ja ojenna itses seisomaan, sillä minä olen sinun tykös nyt lähetetty. Ja kuin hän tämän sanan minun kanssani puhui, ojensin minä itseni ja vapisin.

12 Ja hän sanoi minulle: Älä pelkää Daniel, sillä siitä ensimäisestä päivästä, kuin sinä sydämestäs pyysit tietää ja vaivasit sinuas sinun Jumalas edessä, ovat sinun sanas kuullut. Ja minä olen tullut sinun sanais tähden.

13 Mutta Persian valtakunnan päämies on ollut minua vastaan yhden päivän kolmattakymmentä. Ja katso; Mikael, yksi niistä ylimmäisistä päämiehistä, tuli minun avukseni, niin minä pysyin siellä Persian kuningasten tykönä.

14 Mutta nyt minä tulen neuvomaan sinua, kuinka sinun kansalles viimeisinä aikoina tapahtuu, sillä näky pitää tapahtuman hetken ajan perästä.

15 Ja kuin hän näitä minun kanssani puhui, käänsin minä kasvoni maahan päin ja olin ääneti.

16 Ja katso, yksi ihmisen muotoinen rupesi minun huuliini, niin minä avasin suuni ja puhuin ja sanoin sille, joka seisoi minun edessäni: Minun herrani, minun jäseneni vapisevat siitä näystä, ja ei minussa ole enään ensinkään väkeä.

17 Ja kuinka taitaa minun herrani palvelia puhua minun herrani kanssa, ettei minussa ensinkään enää väkeä ole, eikä myös minussa enää henkeä ole.

18 Niin rupesi taas minuun ihmisen muotoinen ja vahvisti minua.

19 Ja sanoi: Älä pelkää, sinä otollinen mies, rauha olkoon sinulle! Vahvista sinus ja rohkaise sinus! Ja kuin hän minun kanssani puhui, vahvistuin minä ja sanoin: Puhu minun herrani, sillä sinä olet minun vahvistanut.

20 Ja hän sanoi: Tiedätkös, minkä tähden minä olen tullut sinun tykös? Nyt minä jälleen menen sotimaan Persian päämiehen kanssa. Mutta kuin minä menen pois, katso, niin tulee Grekan maan päämies.

21 Kuitenkin tahdon minä sinulle ilmoittaa, mitä kirjoitettu on, että se pitää totisesti tapahtuman. Ja ei kenkään ole, joka minua auttaa häntä vastaan, vaan teidän päämiehenne Mikael!

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 548

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548. And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and its angels fought. (12:7) This symbolizes the falsities of the previous church fighting against the truths of the New Church.

A war symbolizes a spiritual war, which is one of falsity against truth and of truth against falsity (no. 500); for that is the only war that can take place in heaven, where this war is said to have broken out. Nor can a spiritual war take place in any heaven once it is formed by angels, but it took place in the previous heaven which passed away, as said in Revelation 21:1. Regarding that heaven, see our exposition of that verse. For that heaven passed away in consequence of the Last Judgment on the dragon and his angels, which is also the symbolic meaning of the dragon's being cast out and no place for it being found in heaven any longer, as said in the next verse.

To learn what falsities are meant by the dragon which will fight against the truths of the New Church, see no. 537 above.

Michael does not mean some archangel, and neither does Gabriel or Raphael, but ministries in heaven are meant. The ministry that is Michael there is performed by people who confirm from the Word that the Lord is God of heaven and earth, that God the Father and the Lord are one as soul and body are one, that one must live according to the Ten Commandments, and that a person then possesses charity and faith. Michael is mentioned also in Daniel 10:13, 21; 12:1, and the same ministry is meant by him, as is apparent from chapters 9-11 there, and from the last verses in chapter 12.

Gabriel, on the other hand, means the ministry performed by people who teach from the Word that Jehovah came into the world and that the humanity that he took on there is the Son of God and Divine. The angel who announced this to Mary is accordingly called Gabriel (Luke 1:19, 26-35).

People who are engaged in these ministries are also called Michaels and Gabriels in heaven.

It may be seen in numbers 5, 65, 258, 342, 344, 415, 465 above that an angel in the highest sense means the Lord, and in a relative sense heaven, which is formed of angels, and also an angelic society. But here it means a ministry, because it is named; and in Daniel Michael is called a prince, 1 and a prince in the Word symbolizes a principal truth, and a king, truth itself (no. 20).

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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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Daniel 9

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1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;

6 neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;

10 neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.

12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.

14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

15 Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

17 Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

18 My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.

19 Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.

20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

22 He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to give you wisdom and understanding.

23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.