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1 Ei teidän pidä tekemän teillenne epäjumalia, ei kuvia, eikä myös patsaita pystyttämän teillenne, eikä myös yhtään merkkikiveä paneman teidän maallanne, kumartaaksenne niitä; sillä minä olen Herra teidän Jumalanne.

2 Pitäkäät minun sabbatini, ja peljätkäät minun pyhyyttäni: Minä olen Herra.

3 Jos te säädyissäni vaellatte, ja minun käskyni kätkette, ja teette ne,

4 Niin minä annan teille sateen ajallansa, ja maa antaa kasvunsa, ja kedon puut antavat hedelmänsä.

5 Ja riihen aika ulottuu viinan uutiseen asti, ja viinan uutinen ulottuu toukoaikaan asti, ja teillä pitää oleman leipää viljalta, ja saatte asua levollisesti teidän maassanne.

6 Ja minä annan rauhan teidän maallenne, ja te saatte levätä, ja ei kenkään teitä peljätä, ja minä ajan pahat pedot teidän maaltanne pois, ja miekan ei pidä käymän teidän maanne lävitse.

7 Teidän pitää vihollisianne ajaman takaa, ja heidän pitää kaatuman miekkaan teidän edessänne.

8 Viisi teistä karkottaa sata, ja sata teistä karkottaa kymmenentuhatta, ja teidän vihollisenne pitää kaatuman teidän edessänne miekkaan.

9 Ja minä käännän minuni teidän puoleenne, ja teen teidät hedelmälliseksi ja lisään teitä, ja vahvistan minun liittoni teidän kanssanne.

10 Ja te saatte syödä sitä vanhaa, joka vanhenee, ja vanhat te hylkäätte uuden tähden.

11 Ja minä panen asumasiani teidän keskellenne, ja minun sieluni ei hyljää teitä.

12 Ja minä vaellan teidän keskellänne ja olen teidän Jumalanne, ja teidän pitää oleman minun kanssani.

13 Sillä minä olen Herra teidän Jumalanne, joka johdatin teidät ulos Egyptin maalta, ettei teidän pitänyt oleman heidän orjansa. Minä olen taittanut poikki ikeenne vehmerän, ja olen antanut tiedän käydä pystyällä.

14 Mutta jos ette kuule minua, ettekä tee kaikkia näitä käskyjä,

15 Vaan suututte säätyihini, ja teidän sielunne hyljää minun oikeuteni, ettekä tee kaikkia minun käskyjäni, ja rikotte minun liittoni,

16 Niin minä teen teille nämät: minä rankaisen teitä vavistuksella, kuivataudilla, ja poltetaudilla, josta kasvonne raukeevat ja ruumiinne nääntyvät: ja teidän pitää siemenenne kylvämän turhaan, ja teidän vihollistenne pitää syömän sen.

17 Ja minä asetan kasvoni teitä vastaan, ja te lyödään vihamiehiltänne, ja ne pitää hallitseman teitä, jotka teitä vihaavat, teidän pitää myös pakeneman, koska ei kenkään teitä aja takaa.

18 Jollette vielä sittekään kuule minua, niin minä lisään sen seitsemän kertaa, rangaistakseni teitä synteinne tähden.

19 Ja minä särjen teidän ylpeytenne uppiniskaisuuden, minä teen teidän toivonne niinkuin raudan, ja teidän maanne niinkuin vasken.

20 Ja teidän voimanne pitää hukkaan kulutettaman, niin ettei teidän maanne kasvoansa anna, eikä puut maalla hedelmäänsä anna.

21 Ja jos te vielä minua vastaan vaellatte, ettekä tahdo kuulla minua, niin minä vielä sitte lisään rangaistuksen teidän päällenne seitsemän kertaa, teidän synteinne tähden.

22 Ja lähetän teidän sekaanne metsän pedot syömään lapsianne, ja karjaanne raatelemaan, ja vähentämään teitä, ja teidän tienne pitää autioksi tuleman.

23 Jollette vielä niillä anna kuritettaa teitänne, mutta käytte minua vastaan,

24 Niin minä myös käyn teitä vastaan, ja lyön teitä vielä seitsemän kertaa enemmin, teidän synteinne tähden.

25 Ja saatan päällenne kostomiekan, joka minun liittoni pitää kostaman, että te kokootte teitänne teidän kaupunkeihinne: sitte minä lähetän teidän sekaanne ruttotaudin, ja annan teitä vihamiestenne käteen.

26 Ja minä hukutan teiltä leivän aineen, niin että yhdessä pätsissä kymmenen vaimoa leipänne kypsentävät, ja punnitsevat leipänne vaalla: ja syötyänne ette tule ravituksi.

27 Ja jollette vielä sitte kuule minua, mutta vaellatte minua vastaan,

28 Niin minä myös hirmuisuudessa vaellan teitä vastaan, ja minä rankaisen teitä seitsemän kertaa enemmin, teidän synteinne tähden,

29 Että teidän pitää syömän poikainne ja tytärtenne lihaa,

30 Ja minä kukistan teidän kukkulanne ja hävitän teidän kuvanne, ja panen teidän raatonne epäjumalainne raatoin päälle, ja minun sieluni kuoittaa teitä.

31 Ja teen kaupunkinne autioiksi ja kirkkonne hävitän, enkä myös teidän lepytyshajuanne haista.

32 Ja minä tahdon hävittää maan, niin että vihollisenne, jotka siinä asuvat, pitää siitä hämmästymän.

33 Ja hajoitan teitä pakanain sekaan, ja vedän ulos miekan teidän jälkeenne, ja maanne pitää tuleman kylmille ja kaupunkinne kukistetuksi.

34 Silloin kelpaa maalle hänen leponsa, niinkauvan kuin hän autiona on, ja te olette vihollisten maalla. Ja silloin vasta maa lepää ja pyhää pitää.

35 Niinkauvan kuin se autiona on, saa hän levätä, ettei hän saanut pyhää pitää, silloin koska teidän piti hänen pyhäänsä antaman pitää, koska te asuitte siellä.

36 Ja niille, jotka jäävät teistä, teen minä vapisevan sydämen heidän vihollistensa maalla, niin että kapisevan lehden ääni karkottaa heitä, ja pitää pakeneman sitä niinkuin miekkaa, ja pitää kaatuman siinä, kussa ei kenkään heitä aja takaa.

37 Ja heidän pitää lankeeman toinen toisensa päälle, niinkuin miekan edestä, vaikka ei yksikään karkota heitä, ja ette tohdi nousta vihamiehiänne vastaan.

38 Ja teidän pitää hukkuman pakanain seassa, ja vihollisten maa pitää teitä syömän.

39 Ne kuin jäävät teistä, pitää vaipuman pahuudessansa, teidän vihollistenne maalla. Ja isäinsä pahoissa teoissa pitää teidän vaipuman.

40 Silloin pitää heidän tunnustaman pahat tekonsa ja isäinsä pahat teot, joilla he ovat minun mieleni rikkoneet, ja vaeltaneet minua vastaan.

41 Sentähden minä myös vaellan heitä vastaan ja vien heitä vihollistensa maalle, että edes silloin heidän ympärileikkaamatoin sydämensä nöyryyttäis itsensä; silloin myös heidän pahan tekonsa rangaistus heille kelpaa.

42 Ja minä muistan minun liittoni Jakobin kanssa, niin myös minun liittoni Isaakin kanssa, ja myös minun liittoni Abrahamin kanssa muistan minä, muistan myös maan,

43 Joka heiltä jätetty on, ja sille kelpaa lepopäivänsä, niinkauvan kuin se autiona on heiltä, ja heidän pahan tekonsa rangaistus heille kelpaa, että he hylkäsivät minun oikeuteni, ja heidän sielunsa on kuoittanut minun säätyjäni.

44 Ja vaikka he vielä vihollistensa maalla ovat, en minä kuitenkaan ole heitä hyljännyt, ja en heitä niin kurittanut, että minä olisin heidän peräti hukuttanut, ja minun liittoni heidän kanssansa tyhjäksi tehnyt; sillä minä olen Herra heidän Jumalansa.

45 Ja minä muistan ensimäisen liittoni heistä, koska minä johdatin heidät Egyptin maalta pakanain silmäin edestä, ollakseni heidän Jumalansa: minä Herra.

46 Nämät ovat ne säädyt ja oikeudet ja käskyt, jotka Herra antoi itsensä ja Israelin lasten vaiheelle, Sinain vuorella, Moseksen käden kautta.

   


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485. CHAPTER 11

1. Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood by, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there.

2. But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.

3. And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

4. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.

5. And if anyone wants to harm them, fire will proceed from their mouth and devour their enemies. And if anyone wants to do them injury, he must be killed in this manner.

6. These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

7. Then, when they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.

8. And their bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

9. Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their bodies for three and a half days, and not allow their bodies to be put into tombs.

10. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and be glad, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

11. But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

12. And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.

13. In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth part of the city fell. And in the earthquake seven thousand people by name were killed, and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14. The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

15. Then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!"

16. And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,

17. saying: "We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who are and who were and who are to come, because You have taken Your great power and entered Your kingdom.

18. The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time to judge the dead, and to reward Your servants the prophets and saints, and those who fear Your name, small and great, and to destroy those who are destroying the earth."

19. Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

THE SPIRITUAL MEANING

The Contents of the Whole Chapter

The subject continues to be the state of the church among the Protestant Reformed and the character of those inwardly caught up in faith alone in opposition to the two essential elements of the New Church, namely, that the Lord alone is God of heaven and earth, whose humanity is Divine, and that people ought to live in accordance with the Ten Commandments. These two essential elements were proclaimed before them (verses 3-6). But they were utterly rejected (verses 7-10). The Lord revived them (verses 11, 12). Those people perished who rejected them (verse 13). From the New Heaven the state of the New Church was shown (verses 15-19).

The Contents of the Individual Verses:

Verse ContentsSpiritual Meaning
1. Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod.John was given the ability and power to learn and see the state of the church in heaven and in the world.
And the angel stood by, saying, "Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there.The Lord's presence and His command to see and learn the state of the church in the New Heaven.
2. But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it,The state of the church on earth, as it is still, must be set aside and not learned.
for it has been given to the gentiles.Because, owing to evil practices, the state of that church has been lost and forsaken.
And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.It has dispelled every truth of the Word to the point that none remains.
3. And I will give power to my two witnesses,Those people who confess and acknowledge from the heart that the Lord is God of heaven and earth, whose humanity is Divine, and who are conjoined with Him by a life in accordance with the Ten Commandments.
and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days,These two - an acknowledgment of the Lord and a life in accordance with the Ten Commandments, which are the two essential elements of the New Church - must be taught until the end and a new beginning.
clothed in sackcloth."The grief experienced meanwhile over the truth's not being accepted.
4. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.The love and intelligence, or charity and faith, that people have in them from the Lord.
5. And if anyone wants to harm them, fire will proceed from their mouth and devour their enemies.Anyone who wishes to destroy these two essential elements perishes from a hellish love.
And if anyone wants to do them injury, he must be killed in that way.Anyone who condemns the two essential elements is likewise condemned.
6. These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy;People who turn away from these two essential elements cannot receive any truth from heaven.
and they have power over waters to turn them to blood,People who turn away from these two essential elements falsify the Word's truths.
and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.People who wish to destroy these two essential elements propel themselves into evils and falsities of every kind, as often as, and in the measure that, they do so.
7. Then, when they finish their testimony,After the Lord has taught these two essential elements of the New Church,
the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.those people who are caught up in the interior tenets of the doctrine regarding faith alone will reject these two elements.
8. And their bodies will lie in the street of the great cityThese two elements have been utterly rejected.
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,The two hellish loves, namely, a love of ruling springing from a love of self, and a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, loves which are present in the church where there is not one God and where the Lord is not worshiped, and where people do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments.
where also our Lord was crucified.A failure to acknowledge the Lord's Divine humanity, and thus a state in which He is rejected.
9. Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their bodies for three and a half days,All those who were or who would be caught up in doctrinal falsities and evil practices at the end of the church still existing, when they have heard and later hear about these two essential elements at the beginning of the New Church,
and not allow their bodies to be put into tombs.have condemned them and will continue to condemn them.
10. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and be glad,The delight of the heart and soul's affection among those people in the church caught up in faith alone.
and send gifts to one another,Their consociation by love and friendship.
because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.These two essential elements of the New Church, opposed as they are to the two essential elements accepted in the Protestant Reformed Church, are objects of contempt, distress, and repugnance.
11. But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet,As the New Church commences and grows, these two essential elements are made living by the Lord in people who accept them.
and great fear fell on those who saw them.A disturbance of the mind and alarm at Divine truths.
12. And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here."The two essential elements of the New Church raised by the Lord into heaven, where they originate and where they remain, and where they are protected.
And they ascended to heaven in a cloud,Their elevation into heaven and conjunction with the Lord there through the Divine truth of the Word in its literal sense.
and their enemies saw them.People caught up in a faith divorced from charity heard of these, but remained in their falsities.
13. In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth part of the city fell.A considerable change of state occurring then in those people, and their being plucked away from heaven and sinking into hell.
And in the earthquake seven thousand people by name were killed,All those people who professed faith alone and for that reason made works of charity of no account, perished.
and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.People who saw their destruction acknowledged the Lord and were set apart.
14. The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.A lamentation over the corrupted state of the church, and lastly a final lamentation, as depicted after this.
15. Then the seventh angel sounded,An examination and exposure of the state of the church after its end, at the time of the Lord's advent and the advent of His kingdom.
and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!"Celebrations on the part of angels, that heaven and the church had become the Lord's, as they had been from the beginning, and that they had now become those of His Divine humanity, thus that the Lord would reign over heaven and earth as regards both aspects of Him to eternity.
16. And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,An acknowledgment on the part of all the angels in heaven that the Lord is God of heaven and earth, and their highest adoration of Him.
17. saying: "We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who are and who were and who are to come,A confession and glorification on the part of the angels in heaven, that the Lord is He who exists, lives, and has power of Himself, and who governs all things, because He alone is eternal and infinite.
because You have taken Your great power and entered Your kingdom.The New Heaven and New Church, where people will acknowledge Him alone as God.
18. The nations were angry,People who were caught up in faith alone and thus in evil practices were enraged, and harassed those who opposed their faith.
and Your wrath has come, and the time to judge the dead,Their destruction, and the last judgment on those people who were without any spiritual life.
and to reward Your servants the prophets and saints,The happiness of eternal life for people who possess doctrinal truths from the Word and live in accordance with them.
and those who fear Your name, small and great,People who love things having to do with the Lord, in a lesser or greater degree.
and to destroy those who are destroying the earth."The casting down into hell of the people who destroyed the church.
19. Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple.The New Heaven, in which the Lord is worshiped in His Divine humanity, and where people live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, which constitute the two essential elements of the New Church that are the means of conjunction.
And there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.The reasonings, disturbances, and falsifications of goodness and truth then in the lower regions.

THE EXPOSITION

Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. (11:1) This symbolically means that the Lord gave John the ability and power to learn and see the state of the church in heaven and in the world.

A reed symbolizes weak power, the kind a person has of himself, and a rod symbolizes strong power, the kind a person has from the Lord. Consequently John's being given a reed like a measuring rod symbolizes power from the Lord. That it was the ability and power to learn and see the state of the church in heaven and in the world is apparent from the events that follow in this chapter to the end.

[2] That a reed or length of cane symbolizes weak power such as a person has of himself is apparent from the following:

Look, you are relying on the staff of (a) broken reed, on Egypt, which, when a man leans on it, will go into his hand and pierce it. (Isaiah 36:6)

That... the inhabitants of Egypt may know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. When they took hold of you with the hand, you broke and punctured all their shoulders... (Ezekiel 29:6-7)

Egypt symbolizes the natural person who relies on his own powers, and that is why it is called the staff of a broken reed.

A reed symbolizes weak power, in Isaiah:

A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not extinguish. (Isaiah 42:3)

[3] A rod, on the other hand, symbolizes strong power, which comes from the Lord, here the power to learn the state of the church, because John used the rod to measure the temple and altar, and to measure means, symbolically, to learn, and the temple and altar symbolize the church, as depicted next.

A rod symbolizes power because in olden times people in the church made wooden rods, and wood symbolizes goodness. It also substituted for the right hand and supported it, and the right hand symbolizes power. It is owing to this that a scepter is a shortened rod, and a scepter symbolizes the power of a king. Moreover, "scepter" and "rod" in Hebrew are the same word. 1

[4] That a rod symbolizes power is apparent from the following passages:

Say, "How the strong staff is broken, the beautiful rod!" ...Come down from your glory, and sit in thirst. (Jeremiah 48:17-18)

Jehovah shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. (Psalms 110:2)

You punctured with his shafts the head of the faithless. (Habakkuk 3:14)

...Israel the rod of (Jehovah's) inheritance. (Jeremiah 10:16; 51:19)

Your rod and Your staff will comfort me. (Psalms 23:4)

Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked... (Isaiah 14:5, cf. Isaiah 9:4, Psalms 125:3)

My people consult a piece of wood, and their staff answers them. (Hosea 4:12)

...Jehovah... takes away from Jerusalem... the whole staff of bread and the whole staff of water. (Isaiah 3:1, cf. Ezekiel 4:16; 5:16; 14:13, Psalms 105:16, Leviticus 26:26)

A staff of bread and of water symbolizes the power of goodness and truth, and Jerusalem symbolizes the church.

The rod of Levi with the name of Aaron on it, which in the Tabernacle blossomed with almonds (Numbers 17:2-10), symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, nothing else than the power of truth and goodness, because Levi and Aaron symbolized the truth and goodness of the church.

[5] That a rod symbolizes power is apparent from the power of Moses' rod: On being stretched out it turned water into blood (Exodus 7:20). It caused frogs to come up on the land of Egypt (Exodus 8:1ff.). It produced lice (Exodus 8:16f.). It summoned thunder and hail (Exodus 9:23ff.). It caused locusts to come (Exodus 10:12ff.). It caused the Red Sea to be parted and the waters to return (Exodus 14:16, 21, 26). It caused water to flow from the rock at Horeb (Exodus 17:5ff., Numbers 20:7-13). In Moses' hand it enabled Joshua to prevail over the Amalekites (Exodus 17:9-12).

And an angel's staff caused fire to come forth from a rock (Judges 6:21).

It is apparent from these instances that a rod or staff symbolizes power, and also elsewhere, as in Isaiah 10:5, 24, 26; 11:4; 14:29; 30:31-32, Ezekiel 19:10-14, Lamentations 3:1, Micah 7:14, Zechariah 10:11, Numbers 21:18.

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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.