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Zechariah 14

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1 Katso, päivä tulee Herralle, jona sinun saaliis sinussa jaetaan.

2 Sillä minä olen kokoova kaikkinaiset pakanat sotaan Jerusalemia vastaan, ja kaupunki voitetaan, huoneet ryöstetään ja vaimot raiskataan. Puoli osaa kaupunkia viedään vangiksi, ja jääneitä kansasta ei ajeta ulos kaupungista.

3 Mutta Herra on lähtevä sotimaan pakanoita vastaan, niinkuin hän on tottunut sodan ajalla sotimaan.

4 Silloin hänen jalkansa pitää Öljymäellä seisoman, joka on läsnä Jerusalemia itään päin; ja Öljymäen pitää halkeeman kekeltä itään ja länteen, sangen leviältä toinen toisestansa; toinen osa mäkeä pitää erkaneman pohjoiseen päin ja toinen etelään päin.

5 Ja teidän pitää pakeneman sitä laaksoa, joka on näiden vuorten vaiheella, sillä se laakso mäkien vaiheella pitää ulottuman Atsaliin asti; ja pitää paettaman niinuin muinen paettiin maanjäristyksen tähden, Ussian Juudan kuninkaan aikana. Silloin Herra minun Jumalani on tuleva, ja kaikki pyhät hänen kanssansa.

6 Ja siihen aikaan pitää tapahtuman, ettei valkeus pidä oleman kallis eikä sumuinen.

7 Ja yksi päivä on oleva, joka Herralle tuttu on, ei päivä eikä ; vaan pitää tapahtuman, että ehtoona pitää valkeus oleman.

8 Silloin pitää Jerusalemista elävät vedet vuotaman, puoli osa itäistä merta päin, ja toinen puoli hamaan äärimäiseen mereen; ja sen pitää sekä kesällä että talvella tapahtuman.

9 Ja Herra on kaiken maan Kuningas oleva; siihen aikaan on ainoastaan yksi Herra oleva, ja hänen nimensä yksi.

10 Ja koko maakunnassa pitää käytämän ympäri niinkuin tasaisella kedolla, Gibeasta niin Rimmoniin asti, lounaan puolella Jerusalemia; sillä se korotetaan ja asutaan hänen siassansa, Benjaminin portista hamaan ensimäisen portin paikkaan, hamaan Kulmaporttiin, ja Hananeelin tornista niin kuninkaan viinakuurniin asti.

11 Ja hänessä pitää asuttaman, eikä enään pidä yhtään kirousta oleman, sillä Jerusalemin pitää turvallisesti asuman.

12 Ja tämä on rangaistus oleva, jolla Herra kaikkia kansoja on rankaiseva, jotka ovat sotineet Jerusalemia vastaan: heidän lihansa pitää raukeaman jaloillansa seisoissansa, ja heidän silmänsä pitää lävissänsä vaipuman, ja heidän kielensä suussansa raukeaman.

13 Siihen aikaan on Herra suuren metelin heidän sekaansa nostava, että jokainen pitää kumppaninsa käteen rupeeman, ja paneman kätensä kumppaninsa käden päälle.

14 Sillä Juuda on myös Jerusalemissa sotiva; ja sen ympärille kootaan kaikkein pakanain tavarat, kultaa, hopiaa ja sangen paljo vaatteita.

15 Ja niin on tämä rangaistus tapahtuva hevosille, muuleille, kameleille, aaseille ja kaikkinaisille eläimille, jotka heidän leirissänsä ovat, niinkuin tämä rangaistus on.

16 Ja kaikki jääneet kaikkein pakanain seassa, jotka läksivät Jerusalemia vastaan, menevät joka vuosi kumartamaan Kuningasta, Herraa Zebaotia, ja lehtimajan juhlaa pitämään.

17 Ja on tapahtuva, että joka maan sukukunnista ei mene ylös Jerusalemiin tätä Kuningasta, Herraa Zebaotia, kumartamaan, ei pidä heille sadetta tuleman.

18 Ja ellei Egyptiläisten sukukunta menisi ylös ja tulisi, niin ei heidänkään päällensä pidä sataman; tämä on se rangaistus, jolla Herra on pakanat rankaiseva, jotka ei tule lehtimajan juhlaa pitämään.

19 Sillä se on Egyptiläisten synti ja kaikkein pakanain synti, jotka ei tule lehtimajan juhlaa pitämään.

20 Siihen aikaan pitää hevosten kelloin päälle (kirjoitettu) oleman: Herran pyhyys; ja kattilat Herran huoneessa pitää oleman niinkuin maljat alttarin edessä.

21 Sillä kaikki kattilat Jerusalemissa ja Juudassa pitää Herralle Zebaotille pyhitetyt oleman; että kaikkein, jotka uhrata tahtovat, pitää tuleman ja ne ottaman ja niissä keittämän. Ja ei yksikään Kanaanealainen pidä enää Herran Zebaotin huoneessa oleman siihen aikaan.

   


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10303. 'And you shall beat some of it very fine' means the arrangement of truths into their own series. This is clear from the meaning of 'beating very small' - when it refers to the frankincense and spices, by which levels of truth are meant - as the arrangement of truths into their own series; for much the same is meant by 'beating' as by 'grinding', though 'grinding' is used in reference to wheat, barley, and spelt, whereas 'beating' is used in reference to oil, frankincense, and spices.

[2] What is meant specifically by 'beating' and 'grinding' no one can know without knowledge of what a person is like when the different kinds of good and truth meant by wheat, barley, flour, fine flour, oil, frankincense, and spices have been arranged into order for the uses they are to serve. For 'grinding' and 'beating' mean arranging them so that they may serve a use. When 'grinding' has reference to different kinds of good, which are meant by 'wheat' or 'barley', it means the way that good is arranged and brought forward in the form of truths, and its application in this form to one use or another. Good furthermore never presents itself within useful services except through truths; for good is arranged into order in the form of truths and in this way acquires specific quality. Unless it has been arranged in the form of truths good has no specific quality; and when it is arranged in the form of truths it is arranged into series, depending on the item under discussion, in accord with the use that item serves. The good enters those items as an affection belonging to love, and this gives rise to what is enjoyable, lovely, and pleasing. Something similar is meant here by 'beating very fine', for 'pure frankincense' means spiritual good, 10296, and the kinds of truth that are arranged into order by the good are the spices stacte, onycha, and galbanum, 10292-10294.

[3] What being arranged into series is must also be stated briefly. Truths are said to have been arranged into series when they have been arranged in accordance with the form of heaven, which consists of angelic communities. The character of that form is clear from the correspondence of all the members, internal organs, and other organs of the human being with the Grand Man, which is heaven. Regarding that correspondence, see in the places referred to in 10030(end). Within those members and organs all the individual parts are arranged into series and into series of series. Fibres and vessels form them, as is well known to those who are acquainted from anatomy with the weavings and interweavings of the more internal constituents of the body. The truths from good present in a person are arranged into similar series.

[4] So it is that a person who has been regenerated is heaven in its smallest form, corresponding to the Grand Man; and that the person's truth and good make him wholly and completely what he is.

A person who has been regenerated is heaven in its smallest form, see in the places referred to 9279.

His truth and his good constitute a person, 10298 above.

The truths with regenerate people have been arranged into series in accord with the arrangement in which angelic communities exist, 5339, 5343, 5530.

The series into which the truths with those who are good have been arranged, and the series into which the falsities with those who are evil have been arranged are meant in the Word by 'sheafs' and 'bundles', as in Leviticus 23:9-15; Psalms 126:6; 129:7; Amos 2:13; Micah 4:12; Jeremiah 9:22; Zechariah 12:6; Matthew 13:30.

[5] When therefore it is evident what 'beating' and 'grinding' mean one can know the meaning in the internal sense of the description stating that the children of Israel ground the manna in mills or beat it in mortars, and made it into cakes, Numbers 11:8. 'The manna' was a sign of celestial and spiritual good, 8464, and 'grinding' and 'beating' arranging it to serve useful purposes; for whatever is mentioned in the Word is a sign of the kinds of realities that exist in heaven and in the Church. Every detail there has an inner meaning. One can also know the meaning when it says that they should not take as a pledge the mill or the milling stone, for anyone who does so takes the [person's] soul as a pledge, Deuteronomy 24:6. 'The mill' and 'the milling stone' mean that which prepares good so that it may be applicable to one use or another. 'Barley' too and 'wheat' mean good, and 'flour' and 'fine flour' truths; and its own truths are the means by which good is applied to any such use, as stated above.

[6] From all this it may be seen what 'mill', 'millstone', and 'sitting at the mill' mean in the following places: In Matthew,

At that time two women will be grinding; one will be taken, the other left. Matthew 24:41.

In the same gospel,

Whoever causes one of these little ones believing in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if an ass's millstone 1 were hung onto his neck and he were plunged into the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6; Mark 9:42.

In the Book of Revelation,

A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus will Babylon be thrown down with violence; no sound of a mill will be heard in it any more. Revelation 18:21-22.

In Jeremiah,

I will take away from them the voice of joy, the sound of mills, and the light of the lamp. Jeremiah 25:10.

And in Isaiah,

O daughter of Babel, sit on the ground; without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. Take a mill and grind flour. Isaiah 47:1-2.

Even as 'mill' and 'grinding' in the good sense mean application to good purposes, so in the contrary sense they mean application to evil ones. Consequently when Babel and Chaldea are the subject they mean the application [of what is good and true] in favour of their own loves, which are self-love and love of the world; for with them 'barley' and 'wheat' mean adulterated good, and 'flour' the resulting falsified truth. The profanation of goodness and truth through applying them to those loves is also meant by the action of Moses when he ground up the golden calf into tiny pieces, sprinkled them on the water coming down from Mount Sinai, and made the children of Israel drink it, Exodus 32:20; Deuteronomy 9:21.

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1. i.e. the upper, rotating stone of an ass-driven mill

  
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Matthew 18:6

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6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.