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Hesekiel 15

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1 Ja minulle tuli tämä Herran sana:

2 "Ihmislapsi, mikä parempi on viinipuu kuin kaikki muut puut, tuo köynnös, joka on metsän puitten seassa?

3 Otetaanko siitä puuta, josta tehdään tarviskalu? Otetaanko siitä vaarnaakaan, johon ripustetaan kaikkea tavaraa?

4 Katso, se annetaan tulen kulutettavaksi. Sen molemmat päät on tuli kuluttanut, ja sen keskus on kärventynyt-kelpaako se tarviskaluksi?

5 Katso, silloinkaan, kun se eheä oli, ei siitä voinut tarviskalua tehdä, saati sitten, kun tuli on sen kuluttanut ja se on kärventynyt-silloinko siitä tehtäisiin tarviskalu?

6 Sentähden, näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Niinkuin metsän puitten seassa käy viinipuulle, jonka minä olen antanut tulen kulutettavaksi, niin minä annan käydä myös Jerusalemin asukkaille.

7 Minä käännän kasvoni heitä vastaan: tulesta he ovat päässeet, mutta tuli heidät kuluttaa; ja te tulette tietämään, että minä olen Herra, kun minä käännän kasvoni heitä vastaan.

8 Ja minä teen maan autioksi, koska he ovat olleet uskottomat; sanoo Herra, Herra."

   

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True Christian Religion # 781

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781. IX. This is the meaning of the new heaven and the new earth, and of the New Jerusalem coming down from there, as described in Revelation.

We read in Revelation:

I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the former heaven and the former earth had passed away. And I, John, saw the Holy City New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, Revelation 21:1-2.

We find something similar written in Isaiah:

Behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth. Rejoice and exult for ever. And behold, I shall make Jerusalem an exultation, and its people happiness, Isaiah 65:17-18.

I revealed above in this chapter that a new heaven is at the present time being formed by the Lord from Christians who have acknowledged in the world, or after leaving the world have been able to acknowledge, that the Lord is the God of heaven and earth, as He said in Matthew 28:18.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Zechariah 12:6-10

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6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

7 Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

8 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.

9 It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

10 I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.