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Hesekiel 48

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1 Nämät ovat sukukuntain nimet: pohjoisesta Hetlonin tien vierestä, siihenasti kuin tullaan Hamatiin, HatsarEnoniin, Damaskun rajaan pohjaan päin, Hamatin sivulle; sen pitää Danin pitämän osaksensa, itään ja länteen päin.

2 Likin Danin rajaa pitää Asserin osa oleman, idän puolesta länteen.

3 Likin Asseria pitää Naphtalin osa oleman, idän puolesta länteen.

4 Likin Naphtalin rajaa pitää Manassen osa oleman, idän puolesta länteen,

5 Likin Manassen rajaa pitää Ephraim osansa saaman, idän puolesta länteen.

6 Likin Ephraimin rajaa pitää Rubenin osa oleman, idän puolesta länteen.

7 Likin Rubenin rajaa pitää Juudan osan oleman, idän puolesta länteen.

8 Mutta likin Juudan rajaa pitää teidän eroittaman yhden osan idästä niin länteen, joka on viisikolmattakymmentä tuhatta riukua pitkä ja leveä, niinkuin muu osa on idästä niin länteen: siinä pitää pyhän oleman.

9 Ja siitä pitää teidän eroittaman uhriksi Herralle osan, viisikolmattakymmentä tuhatta riukua pitkän ja kymmenentuhatta riukua leveän.

10 Ja sen pyhän osan pitää pappein oleman, viisikolmattakymmentä tuhatta riukua pitkä, pohjoiseen ja etelään päin, ja kymmenentuhatta leveä, itään ja länteen päin. Ja Herran pyhän pitää siinä keskellä oleman.

11 Se pitää papeille pyhitetty oleman Zadokin lapsista, jotka minun säätyni pitäneet ovat, ja ei ole Israelin lasten kanssa luopuneet, niinkuin Leviläiset luopuivat.

12 Ja sentähden pitää heillä oleman oma osa eroitetusta maasta, se kaikkein pyhin, joka on Leviläisten rajan tykönä.

13 Mutta Leviläisillä pitää myös osa oleman, viisikolmattakymmenentuhatta leveä, pappein rajan tykönä; sillä kaikki pituus pitää oleman viisikolmattakymmentä tuhatta riukua ja leveys kymmenentuhatta riukua.

14 Ja ei pidä siitä mitään muutämän pois eikä vaihetettaman, ei myös maan uutisesta pidä mitään tuleman pois; sillä se on pyhitetty Herralle.

15 Mutta ne viisituhatta riukua, jotka jäävät leveydelle, viidestäkolmattakymmenestä tuhannesta riukumitasta pituudelle, pitää oleman kaupungille yhteiseksi asuinsijaksi ja esikaupungiksi; ja sen keskellä pitää kaupungin oleman.

16 Ja tämän pitää oleman hänen mittansa: neljätuhatta ja viisisataa riukua pohjoiseen ja lounaaseen päin, niin myös itään ja länteen päin neljätuhatta ja viisisataa.

17 Mutta esikaupunkia varten pitää oleman kaksisataa ja viisikymmentä riukua, pohjaan ja lounaan päin, niin myös itään ja länteen kaksisataa ja viisikymmentä riukua.

18 Mutta mitä jää pituudesta pyhän ylennysuhrin osan kohdalle, kymmenentuhatta riukua itään päin ja kymmenentuhatta riukua länteen päin, juuri pyhän ylennysuhrin osan kohdalla, sen sisälletulo pitää oleman kaupungin palvelioille elatukseksi.

19 Ja jotka kaupungissa palvelevat, ne pitää oleman kaikista Israelin sukukunnista.

20 Ja kaikista näistä eroitetuista osista, joka on molemmilta puolilta pituudelle ja leveydelle viisikolmattakymmentä tuhatta riukua, pitää teidän eroittaman neljännen osan; sen pitää kaupungin oman oleman.

21 Mutta mitä vielä jää molemmille puolille siitä eroitetusta pyhästä osasta ja kaupungin osasta, viisikolmattakymmentä tuhatta riukua sekä itään että länteen, se pitää päämiehen oma oleman; mutta pyhä maa, jossa pyhä huone on, pitää siitä eroitettu oleman.

22 Mutta mitä on Leviläisten osan ja kaupungin osan välillä, joka keskellä on, mitä jää Juudan ja Benjaminin rajan välille, se pitää päämiehen oma oleman.

23 Sitte pitää muut sukukunnat oleman: Benjaminin osa idän puolesta länteen.

24 Mutta Benjaminin rajan tykönä pitää Simeonin osa oleman idän puolesta länteen.

25 Simeoinin rajan vieressä pitää Isaskarin osan oleman, idän puolesta länteen.

26 Isaskarin rajalla pitää Zebulonin osan oleman, idän puolesta länteen.

27 Zebulonin rajalla pitää Gadin osan oleman, idästä länteen.

28 Mutta likin Gadia on lounaan raja, Temanin, Tamarista niin Kadeksen riitaveteen saakka, niin ojaan asti, joka isoon mereen juoksee.

29 Näin pitää maa jaettu oleman Israelin lasten sukukuntain perinnöksi; ja sen pitää oleman heidän osansa, sanoo Herra, Herra.

30 Ja näin leveltä pitää kaupungin oleman; neljätuhatta ja viisisataa riukua pohjoista päin.

31 Ja kaupungin portit pitää Israelin sukukuntain nimeltä nimitetyt oleman: kolme porttia pohjoista päin: ensimäinen Rubenin, toinen Juudan, kolmas Levin.

32 Niin myös itään päin neljätuhatta ja viisisataa riukua, ja kolme porttia: ensimäinen Josephin, toinen Benjaminin, kolmas Danin.

33 Etelään päin myös neljätuhatta ja viisisataa riukua, ja kolme porttia: ensimäinen Simeonin, toinen Isaskarin, kolmas Zebulonin.

34 Niin myös länteen päin neljätuhatta ja viisisataa riukua, ja kolme porttia: ensimmäinen portti Gadin, toinen Asserin, kolmas Naphtalin.

35 Näin pitää tämä kaikki ympäri oleman, kahdeksantoistakymmentä tuhatta riukua: ja niin pitää kaupunki tästä päivästä kutsuttaman: tässä on Herra.

   


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Divine Providence # 134

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134a. 2. No one is reformed by visions or by conversations with the dead, because they compel. There are two kinds of visions, divine and demonic. Divine visions are given by means of portrayals in heaven, while demonic visions are effected though magical events in hell. There are imaginary visions as well, visions that are the illusions of a mind that has lost its bearings.

Divine visions (which as just noted are given by means of portrayals in heaven) are the kind that happened to the prophets. When they were having these visions they were not in the body but in the spirit, because visions cannot happen to us while we are physically awake. So when the prophets saw visions, it says that they were in the spirit, as the following passages show.

Ezekiel said, "The spirit lifted me up and took me back to Chaldea to the captivity in a vision of God, in the spirit of God; so the vision that I saw came over me" (Ezekiel 11:1, 24). Then too, spirits held him up between earth and heaven and brought him to Jerusalem in visions of God (Ezekiel 8:3 and following). The same thing happened in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw the four animals that were cherubim (Ezekiel chapters 1 and 10) and when he saw the new temple, the new earth, and the angel measuring them (Ezekiel chapters 40-48). It says in chapter Ezekiel 40:2, 26 that he was in visions of God at the time, and in chapter Ezekiel 43:5 that he was in the spirit.

[2] Zechariah was in the same kind of state when he saw the man on horseback among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following), when he saw the four horns and the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18, 20, 21; Zechariah 2:1 and following), when he saw the lampstand and the two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following), when he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6), and when he saw the four chariots coming out from the four mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw the four beasts rising from the sea (Daniel 6:1 [7:1] and following), and when he saw the battles of the ram and the goat (Daniel 8:1 and following). It says in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, and 13; in Daniel 8:2; and in Daniel 10:1, 7, and 8 that he saw these things in the vision of his spirit, and it says in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision.

[3] John was in the vision of the spirit when he saw the things he describes in the Book of Revelation--for example, when he saw the seven lampstands with the Human-born One in their midst (Revelation 1:12-16), when he saw the throne in heaven with someone sitting on it, surrounded by the four animals that were cherubim (Revelation 4), when he saw the book of life taken by the Lamb (Revelation 5), when he saw the horses come out of the book (Revelation 6), when he saw the seven angels with their trumpets (Revelation 8), when he saw the pit of the abyss opened with the locusts coming out of it (Revelation 9), when he saw the dragon and its battle with Michael (Revelation 12), when he saw the two beasts rise up, one from the sea and one from the land (Revelation 13), when he saw the woman sitting on the scarlet beast (Revelation 17) and the destruction of Babylon (Revelation 18), when he saw the white horse with someone riding it (Revelation 18 [19]), when he saw the new heaven and the new earth and the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven (Revelation 21), and when he saw the river of water of life (Revelation 22). It says that he saw these things in the vision of his spirit in Revelation 1:11 [1:10]; Revelation 4:2; Revelation 5:1; Revelation 6:1; and Revelation 21:12 [21:10].

These were the kinds of visions that were visible from heaven to the sight of their spirits and not to their physical sight.

Things like this do not happen nowadays, because if they did they would not be understood, since they happen by means of images whose details are pointing to inner features of the church and secrets of heaven. It was foretold in Daniel 9:24 that they would stop when the Lord came into the world.

However, demonic visions have sometimes occurred. They are brought about by spirits who inspire deceptive passions and visions and who call themselves the Holy Spirit because of a mental confusion that engulfs them. Now, however, these spirits have been gathered in by the Lord and consigned to a hell separate from the other hells.

We can see from all this that no one can be reformed by any visions except the ones that are in the Word. There are imaginary visions as well, but these are nothing but the illusions of a mind that has lost its bearings.

134b. The story that the Lord told about the rich man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham's lap shows that no one is reformed by conversations with the dead. The rich man said, "Father Abraham, I beg you to send Lazarus to my father's house where I have five brothers, to bear witness to them so that they do not come to this place of torment." Abraham said to him, "They have Moses and the prophets: let them heed them." But he said, "No, father Abraham, but if someone came to them from the dead, they would repent." He answered him, "If they do not heed Moses and the prophets, they would not be convinced if someone rose from the dead" (Luke 16:27-31).

Conversations with the dead may lead to the same results as miracles that I have just described. That is, we may be convinced and be constrained to worship for a short while. However, since this deprives us of rational functioning at the same time that it hems in our evils, as already noted [130-131, 133], this spell or inner restraint is released and the pent-up evils erupt in blasphemy and profanation. Still, this happens only when spirits have imposed some religious dogma. No good spirit--let alone any angel of heaven--would ever do this.

  
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Revelation 17

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1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."

3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

5 And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

7 The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

9 Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.

10 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.

11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.

12 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.

13 These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."

15 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."