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Hesekiel 39

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1 Ja sinä, ihmisen poika, ennusta Gogia vastaan ja sano: näin sanoo Herra, Herra: katso, minä tulen sinun kimppuus, Gog, sinä joka olet Mesekin ja Tubalin ylimmäinen päämies;

2 Ja tahdon sinun palauttaa ja houkutella ulos , ja noudan sinun pohjan ääristä, ja annan sinun tulla Israelin vuorille:

3 Ja lyön joutsen pois sinun vasemmasta kädestäs ja heitän sinun nuoles oikiasta kädestäs.

4 Israelin vuorilla pitää sinun kaatuman, kaiken sinun joukkos kanssa ja sen väen kanssa, joka sinun tykönäs on. Minä annan sinun linnuille, kusta ikänä he lentävät, ja eläimille ruaksi.

5 Sinun pitää lankeeman kedolla; sillä minä Herra, Herra olen sen sanonut.

6 Ja minä heitän tulen Magogin päälle ja niiden päälle, jotka luodoissa surutoinna asuvat; ja heidän pitää ymmärtämän minun olevan Herran.

7 Ja minä tahdon tehdä minun pyhän nimeni tiettäväksi minun kansani Israelin seassa, ja en tahdo enään antaa minun pyhää nimeäni häväistä; vaan pakanain pitää ymmärtämän minun olevan Herran Israelin pyhän.

8 Katso, jos se on parhaallaansa tullut ja tapahtunut, sanoo Herra, Herra: se on se päivä, josta minä olen puhunut.

9 Ja Israelin kaupunkien asuvaisten pitää lähtemän ulos, ja tekemän valkian, ja polttaman sota-aseet, kaikellaiset kilvet, nuolet, seipäät ja kanget; jotka kestävät palaa seitsemän ajastaikaa.

10 Niin ettei tarvita hakea puita kedolta, eli pidä metsästä hakattaman; sillä he polttavat sota-aseita; ja pitää ryöstämän niitä, joilta he ovat ryöstetyt, ja raateleman niitä, joilta he olivat raadellut, sanoo Herra, Herra.

11 Ja sen pitää silloin tapahtuman, että minä annan Gogille paikan hautaamiseksi Israelissa, sen laakson, josta meren tykö itään päin mennään, niin että ne, jotka siitä menevät ohitse, pitää sieramensa tukitseman; ja heidän pitää Gogin joukkoinensa siihen hautaaman, ja se pitää kutsuttaman Gogin joukon laaksoksi.

12 Mutta Israelin huoneen pitää heitä hautaaman, että maa sen kautta pitää puhdistettaman koko seitsemän kuukautta.

13 Ja kaikella maakunnan kansalla pitää tekemistä oleman heidän hautaamisessansa, ja pitää saaman siitä kuuluisan nimen; että minä sinä päivänä kunnoitetuksi tulen, sanoo Herra, Herra.

14 Ja heidän pitää asettaman miehiä käymään joka päivä maata ympäri, ja heidän kanssansa kuolleiden hautain kaivajat, hautaaman jääneitä maan päällä, että se puhdistettaisiin; seitsemän kuukauden perästä pitää heidän rupeeman sitä tutkistelemaan.

15 Ja ne, jotka maata käyvät ympäri ja jossakussa paikassa ihmisen luut näkevät, heidän pitää siihen merkin paneman; siihenasti kuin haudankaivajat ne myös Gogin joukon laaksoon hautaavat.

16 Kaupunki myös pitää siellä kutsuttaman Hamonaksi: niin pitää heidän maan perkaaman.

17 Nyt sinä ihmisen poika, näin sanoo Herra, Herra: sano kaikille linnuille, kusta ikänä he lentävät, ja kaikille eläimille kedolla: kokoontukaat ja tulkaat tänne, tulkaat kokoon joka paikasta ympäriltä minun teurasuhrilleni, jonka minä teille teurastan suureksi teurasuhriksi Israelin vuorilla, ja syökäät lihaa, ja juokaat verta.

18 Teidän pitää syömän väkeväin lihaa, ja juoman maan päämiesten verta; oinaisten, karitsain, kauristen, härkäin, jotka kaikki lihavat ja hyvin syötetyt ovat.

19 Ja teidän pitää syömän lihavuutta, niin että te ravituksi tulette, ja juoman verta, niin että te juovuksiin tulette, siitä teurasuhrista, jonka minä teille teurastan.

20 Ravitkaat teitänne minun pöydälläni hevosista ja ratsastajista, väkevistä ja kaikkinaisesta sotaväestä, sanoo Herra, Herra.

21 Ja minä annan minun kunniani tulla pakanain sekaan, niin että kaikki pakanat pitää näkemän minun tuomioni, jonka minä olen tehnyt, ja minun käteni, jonka minä olen pannut heidän päällensä.

22 Ja Israelin huoneen pitää ymmärtämän, että minä Herra olen heidän Jumalansa, siitä päivästä ja aina edemmä.

23 Niin myös kaikkein pakanain pitää ymmärtämän Israelin huoneen pahain tekoinsa tähden viedyksi pois, sentähden että he minua vastaan rikkoneet ovat; ja minä peitin kasvoni heidän edestänsä, ja annoin heitä vihollistensa käsiin, niin että heidän kaikkein piti miekan kautta lankeeman.

24 Niinkuin heidän saastaisuutensa ja pahat tekonsa ansainneet olivat, tein minä heille, ja peitin minun kasvoni heidän edestänsä.

25 Sentähden näin sanoo Herra, Herra: nyt minä tahdon pelastaa Jakobin vangit, ja armahtaa koko Israelin huonetta, ja kiivoitella minun pyhän nimeni tähden.

26 Mutta heidän pitää kantaman häväistyksensä ja rikoksensa, joilla he ovat rikkoneet minua vastaan, koska he surutoinna maallansa asuvat, niin ettei kenkään heitä peljätä.

27 Ja minä olen heidät kansoista jälleen kotia tuonut, ja koonnut heitä vihollistensa maalta, ja olen heissä pyhitetyksi tullut monien pakanain silmäin edessä.

28 Ja niin pitää heidän ymmärtämän, että minä Herra olen heidän Jumalansa, joka olen antanut viedä heitä pois pakanain sekaan, ja antanut taas koota heitä maallensa, ja en antanut yhtäkään heistä sinne jäädä.

29 Ja en minä enään tahdo peittää minun kasvojani heidän edestänsä; sillä minä olen vuodattanut minun henkeni Israelin huoneen päälle, sanoo Herra, Herra.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 10033

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10033. Since the present chapter deals with the sacrifice and the burnt offering through which Aaron and his sons were consecrated to the priestly office a little more will be stated regarding the blood and the fat. All the blood of a sacrifice or of a burnt offering had to be poured out at the altar and all the fat had to be burned on the altar, as the statutes and laws in Leviticus relating to burnt offerings and sacrifices make clear. The reason why this was done to the blood and fat was that the blood meant Divine Truth and the fat Divine Good. The fact that the blood meant Divine Truth is clear from what has been shown regarding 'blood' in 4735, 6378, 6978, 7317, 7326, 7850, 9127, 9393, and that the fat meant Divine Good is clear from what has been shown in 5943.

[2] That 'blood' means Divine Truth is perfectly clear in Ezekiel,

Gather yourselves from all around to My sacrifice which I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth. You will eat fat till you are glutted, and drink blood till you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I will sacrifice for you. You will be glutted at My table with horse, chariot, the mighty, and every man of war. Thus will I set My glory among the nations. Ezekiel 39:17-22.

Anyone can see that 'blood' is not used to mean blood here, for it states that they were going to drink the blood of the princes of the earth, doing so till they were drunk, and also that they were going to eat fat till they were glutted, and then that they would be glutted with horse and chariot. From these statements it is evident that 'blood' is used to mean something other than blood, 'the princes of the earth' to mean something other than princes of the earth, and also 'fat' as well as 'horse and chariot' something other than fat, or horse and chariot. What is meant however none can know except through the internal sense. This shows that 'blood' means Divine Truth, 'the princes of the earth' the Church's primary or leading truths, 'fat' Divine Good, 'horse' the internal sense of the Word, and 'chariot' actual doctrinal teachings derived from there.

'Blood' means Divine Truth; this is clear from the places referred to above.

'The princes of the earth' means primary truths, 5044.

'The earth' means the Church, 9325.

'Horse' means the internal sense of the Word, 2760-2762.

'Chariot' means doctrinal teachings, 5321, 8215.

[3] From all this it is now evident what the meaning is of the Lord's words in John,

Jesus said, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood you will have no life in yourselves. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. John 6:53-56.

'Flesh' means Divine Good, see 3813, 7850, 9127; and 'the Son of Man' whose flesh they were to eat and blood they were to drink means the Lord in respect of Divine Truth emanating from Divine Good, 9807.

[4] But the fact that 'fat' means Divine Good is clear in Isaiah,

Jehovah will make for all peoples on this mountain a feast of fat things. Isaiah 25:6.

In the same prophet,

Attend [diligently] to Me and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:2.

And in Jeremiah,

I will fill the soul of the priests with fat, and My people will be satisfied with My goodness. Jeremiah 31:14.

From these quotations it becomes clear why all the fat of a sacrifice was burned on the altar and why all the blood was poured out at the side of it.

[5] Because blood and fat were signs of those Divine Entities the Israelite people were totally forbidden to eat fat or blood, as is clear in Moses,

[This shall be] a perpetual statute throughout your generations: You shall eat no fat and no blood. Leviticus 3:17.

In the same author,

You shall eat no fat, neither of ox, nor sheep, nor she-goat. Everyone who eats fat from a beast, from one that is offered as a fire-offering to Jehovah, that soul eating it will be cut off from his peoples. Leviticus 7:23, 25.

And again in the same author,

Whoever eats any blood, I will set My face against the soul eating blood and will cut him off from among his people. Leviticus 17:10-14; Deuteronomy 12:16, 23-25.

[6] The reason why eating blood and fat was so strictly forbidden was that eating them represented the profanation of Divine Truth and Divine Good. For the Israelite and Jewish nation was interested in outward forms but not their inner substance, so that in their faith and love there was no Divine Truth nor any Divine Good; and their worship was external devoid of these. This was because they were ruled by self-love and love of the world more than other nations; consequently they were steeped in evils gushing out of those loves, these evils being contempt for others, enmity, hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty. This also was the reason why internal truths were not revealed to them, for if these had been revealed that nation would have inevitably profaned them. Such was the character of that nation, as may be seen in the places referred to in 9320(end), 9380. Therefore they would have represented profanation if they had eaten blood and fat; for whatever was established among them was representative of the interior things of the Church and heaven.

[7] From these considerations it is even more evident what the meaning is of the words in Ezekiel 39:17-22, dealt with above, stating that they would eat fat till they were glutted and drink blood, the blood of the princes of the earth, till they were drunk. That is to say, the meaning is that when inner virtues were opened up, those with whom these virtues existed, that is, faith in and love to the Lord, would have Divine Truth and Divine Good imparted to them as their own, as happened among gentile nations when the Lord came into the world. Therefore also those words go on to say, Thus will I set My glory among the nations, 'glory' meaning Divine Truth emanating from the Lord as it exists in heaven, 9429, and 'the nations' meaning all who are governed by good, 1259, 1260, 1416, 1849, 4574, 6005, 8771, 9256.

[8] This the Lord Himself corroborates, in His declaration that His flesh was truly food and His blood was truly drink, and whoever ate His flesh and drank His blood would abide in Him, and He in that person, John 6:55-56, and also in His institution of the Holy Supper, in which they were to eat His flesh and to drink His blood, Matthew 26:26-29, by which receiving Divine Good and Divine Truth from Him and making them their own was meant. Receiving Divine Good and Divine Truth from the Lord and making them their own is possible only with those who acknowledge the Lord's Divinity, for this is the first and most essential of all matters of belief within the Church. To no others can the way to heaven be opened, because the whole of heaven assents to that belief, and therefore Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good, meant here by 'blood', cannot be imparted to them. Therefore let anyone who is within the Church beware of refusing to believe in the Lord and also His Divinity; for heaven is closed and hell opened to that refusal. For those people are separated from the Lord, and so are separated from heaven, where the Lord's Divinity is the All in all since it composes heaven. And when heaven has been closed, knowledge of the truths of faith derived from the Word and from the teachings of the Church indeed exists, but not a particle of faith that is real faith because real faith comes from above, that is, from the Lord by way of heaven.

[9] The Lord spoke in this manner, that is to say, He called the Divine Good emanating from Himself His flesh, and the Divine Truth emanating from His Divine Good His blood, because the Word, which sprang from Him, was His Divinity filling the whole of heaven. Such a Word must manifest itself through the use of correspondences, as a result of which it is representative and carries a spiritual meaning in every single part; for in this and no other way could it link members of the Church to angels in heaven. For when people in the world understand the Word according to its literal meaning angels understand it according to its inner meaning. Thus instead of the Lord's flesh they understand Divine Good, and instead of His blood they understand Divine Truth, both emanating from the Lord. As a consequence that which is holy flows in by way of the Word.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3355

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3355. In the internal sense 'an earthquake' is an alteration of the state of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the earth' as the Church, dealt with in 566, 662, 1066, 1068, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 2928, and from the meaning of 'a quake' as an alteration of state, here an alteration as regards the things that constitute the Church, namely good and truth. This is also evident from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

It will happen, that he who is fleeing from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit, and he who is climbing out of the middle of the pit will be caught in the snare, for the floodgates from on high have been opened and the foundations of the earth have been made to tremble, the earth has been utterly shattered. The earth has been made to quake thoroughly, the earth staggers like a drunken man, it sways to and fro like a hut, and heavy upon it is its transgression, and it will fall and not rise again. And it will be on that day, that Jehovah will visit the host of the height on high and the kings of the ground on the ground. Isaiah 24:18-21.

Here it is quite evident that 'the earth' is the Church, for the subject is a Church whose 'foundations' are said to 'have been made to tremble', while the Church itself, having been 'shattered' and 'made to quake', 'staggers' and 'sways to and fro' when good and truth are not known any longer. 'The kings of the ground' are truths, in this case falsities, upon which visitation will take place. As regards 'kings' meaning truths and in the contrary sense falsities, see 1672, 2015, and as regards 'the ground' being similar in meaning to 'the earth', namely the Church, though there is a difference, see 566, 1068.

[2] In the same prophet,

I will make a man (homo) more rare than pure gold, and a man (homo) than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make heaven quake and the earth will quake out of its place, at the wrath of Jehovah Zebaoth and in the day of His fierce anger. Isaiah 13:12-13.

Here also, the subject being Judgement Day, 'the earth' plainly stands for the Church which is said to 'quake out of its place' when it undergoes a change of state - 'place' meaning state, see 1273-1275, 1377, 2625, 2837. In the same prophet,

Is this the man who, making the earth quake, making the kingdoms quake, makes the world into a wilderness and destroys its cities? Isaiah 14:16-17.

This refers to Lucifer. 'The earth' stands for the Church, which is said 'to quake' when it lays claim to all things as its own. For 'kingdoms' means the truths accepted by the Church, see 1672, 2547.

[3] In Ezekiel,

It will be on that day, that Gog will come over the land of Israel. My wrath will come up in My anger and in My zeal. In the fire of My wrath I will say, Surely on that day there will be a great earthquake on Israel's ground. Ezekiel 38:18-20.

'Gog' stands for external worship that has been separated from internal and so made idolatrous, 1151. 'Israel's land' or 'ground' stands for the spiritual Church, 'an earthquake' for an alteration of its state. In Joel,

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled. The sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars withdrew their shining. Joel 2:10.

This also refers to Judgement Day. 'The earth quaked' stands for an altered state of the Church, 'the sun and moon' for the good of love and the truth of faith, 1529, 1530, 2441, 2495, which are said to be 'darkened' when goods and truths are not acknowledged any longer. 'The stars' stands for cognitions of good and truth, 2495, 2849. In David,

The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook and trembled because He was angered. Psalms 18:6-7.

'The earth trembled and quaked' stands for the Church when its state has become perverted.

[4] In John,

When he opened the sixth seal I looked again, and behold, a great earthquake took place, and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became like blood, and the stars in the sky fell to the earth. Revelation 6:12-13.

Here 'an earthquake', 'the sun', 'the moon', and 'the stars' have a similar meaning to that which they have above in Joel. In the same book,

At that hour a great earthquake took place, and a tenth part of the city fell, and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand people. 1 Revelation 11:13.

From all these places it is evident that 'an earthquake' means nothing other than an alteration of the state of the Church, and that 'the earth' has no other meaning in the internal sense than the Church. And since 'the earth' is the Church it is clear that 'the new heaven and the new earth' which are to take the place of the previous heaven and earth, Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; Revelation 21:1, means nothing other than a new Church, internal and external, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end).

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1. literally, seven thousand names of people

  
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