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Amos 8

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1 Tämän näytti minulle Herra, Herra: Katso, oli korillinen kypsiä hedelmiä.

2 Ja hän sanoi: "Mitä sinä näet, Aamos?" Minä vastasin: "Korillisen kypsiä hedelmiä". Ja Herra sanoi minulle: "Minun kansani Israel on kypsä saamaan loppunsa: en minä enää mene säästäen sen ohitse.

3 Ja sinä päivänä palatsin laulut muuttuvat valitukseksi, sanoo Herra, Herra. Paljon on oleva ruumiita, joka paikkaan heitettyjä. Hiljaa!"

4 Kuulkaa tämä, te jotka poljette köyhiä ja tahdotte tehdä lopun maan nöyristä,

5 sanoen: "Milloin loppuu uusikuu, että saamme myydä viljaa, ja milloin sapatti, että saamme avata jyväaitan, pienentää eefa-mitan ja suurentaa painon ja pettää väärällä vaa'alla,

6 että saamme ostaa vaivaiset rahasta ja köyhän kenkäparista ja myydä akanoita jyvinä?"

7 Herra on vannonut hänen kauttansa, joka on Jaakobin kunnia: Totisesti, minä en ikinä unhota yhtäkään heidän tekoansa.

8 Eikö senkaltaisesta maa jo vapise ja kaikki sen asukkaat murehdi? Eikö se nouse kaikkinensa niinkuin Niili, kuohu ja alene niinkuin Egyptin virta?

9 Ja on tapahtuva sinä päivänä, sanoo Herra, Herra, että minä annan auringon laskea sydänpäivällä ja teen maan pimeäksi keskellä kirkasta päivää.

10 Minä muutan teidän juhlanne murheeksi ja kaikki teidän laulunne valitusvirsiksi. Minä panen kaikkien lanteille säkkipuvun ja teen kaljuksi jokaisen pään. Ja minä saatan teidät suremaan, niinkuin ainokaista poikaa surraan, ja se päättyy, niinkuin päättyy katkera päivä.

11 Katso, päivät tulevat, sanoo Herra, Herra, jolloin minä lähetän nälän maahan: en leivän nälkää enkä veden janoa, vaan Herran sanojen kuulemisen nälän.

12 Silloin he hoippuvat merestä mereen, pohjoisesta itään; he samoavat etsien Herran sanaa, mutta eivät löydä.

13 Sinä päivänä nääntyvät janoon kauniit neitsyet ja nuorukaiset,

14 ne, jotka vannovat sen nimeen, joka on Samarian syntivelka, ja sanovat: "Niin totta kuin sinun jumalasi elää, Daan, ja niin totta kuin elävät Beerseban menot!" -He kaatuvat eivätkä enää nouse.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 323

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323. With sword, with famine, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. This symbolically means, by doctrinal falsities, by evil practices, by self-love, and by lusts.

To be shown that a sword symbolizes truths fighting against evils and falsities and destroying them, and in an opposite sense, falsity fighting against goods and truths and destroying them, see nos. 52, 108, 117 above. Accordingly, because the subject is the destruction of all good in the church, a sword here symbolizes doctrinal falsities.

That a famine symbolizes evil practices - this we will confirm below.

Death symbolizes a person's self-love because death symbolizes the extinction of spiritual life, and thus natural life divorced from any spiritual life, as shown in no. 321 above, and this life is the life of a person's self-love; for this life causes a person to love nothing but himself and the world, and so to love also evils of every kind, evils which, because of that life's love, are delightful to him.

That beasts of the earth symbolize lusts arising from the love will be seen in no. 567 below.

Here we will say something about the symbolic meaning of famine. A famine symbolizes the privation and rejection of concepts of truth and goodness, springing from evil practices. It symbolizes as well an ignorance of concepts of truth and goodness, owing to an absence of these in the church. And it symbolizes also a desire to know and understand them.

[2] I. That a famine symbolizes the privation and rejection of concepts of truth and goodness, springing from evil practices, and thus symbolizes evil practices, can be seen from the following passages:

They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, so that their corpses become food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth. (Jeremiah 16:4)

These two things shall befall you...: devastation and ruin, and famine and sword... (Isaiah 51:19)

Behold, I am visiting punishment upon them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine. (Jeremiah 11:22)

...deliver up her children to famine, and cause them to flow down upon the hands of the sword..., that their men may be put to death... (Jeremiah 18:21)

...I will send on them the sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them like rough figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad. And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence. (Jeremiah 29:17-18)

I will send upon them the sword, famine, and pestilence, till they are consumed from the land... (Jeremiah 24:10)

...I proclaim liberty to you..., to the sword, to pestilence, and famine! And I will deliver you for turmoil to all nations. (Jeremiah 34:17)

...because you have defiled My sanctuary..., a third of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine...; and a third shall fall by the sword... When I send against them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for destruction... (Ezekiel 5:11-12, 16-17)

The sword is outside, and the pestilence and famine within. (Ezekiel 7:15)

...for all the evil abominations... they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. (Ezekiel 6:11-12)

...I will send My four evil judgments on Jerusalem - the sword, famine and wild beast, and pestilence - to cut off man and beast from it. (Ezekiel 14:13, 15, 21)

And so, too, elsewhere, as in Jeremiah 14:12-13, 15-16; 42:13-14, 16-18, 22; 44:12-13, 27, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:11. Sword, famine, pestilence and beasts in these places have similar symbolic meanings to those of the sword, famine, death, and beasts of the earth in the present verse. For the Word has a spiritual meaning in it in every single constituent, in which a sword means the destruction of spiritual life by falsities, in which famine means the destruction of spiritual life by evils, in which a beast of the earth means the destruction of spiritual life by the lusts accompanying falsity and evil, and in which pestilence and death means a complete destruction and thus damnation.

[3] II. That famine, or hunger, symbolizes an ignorance of concepts of truth and goodness, owing to an absence of these in the church, is clear as well from various passages in the Word, as in Isaiah 5:13; 8:19-22, Lamentations 2:19; 5:8-10, Amos 8:11-14, Job 5:17, 20, and elsewhere.

III. That famine or hunger symbolizes a desire to know and understand the church's truths and goods is apparent from the following: Isaiah 8:21; 32:6; 49:10; 58:6-7; Matthew 5:6; 25:35, 37, 44; Luke 1:53; John 6:35; and elsewhere.

  
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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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Isaiah 8

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1 Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man's pen, 'For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;'

2 and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."

3 I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, "Call his name 'Maher Shalal Hash Baz.'

4 For before the child knows how to say, 'My father,' and, 'My mother,' the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria."

5 Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,

6 "Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

8 It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.

9 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."

11 For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

12 "Don't say, 'A conspiracy!' concerning all about which this people say, 'A conspiracy!' neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.

13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."

16 Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples.

17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

19 When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

20 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.