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numerot 17

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1 Ja Herra puhui Moosekselle sanoen:

2 "Puhu israelilaisille ja ota heiltä, kaikilta heidän ruhtinailtansa, sauva kutakin sukukuntaa kohti, heidän sukukuntiensa mukaan, kaksitoista sauvaa. Kirjoita kunkin nimi hänen sauvaansa,

3 mutta Leevin sauvaan kirjoita Aaronin nimi, sillä tämänkin sukukunnan päämiehellä olkoon sauvansa.

4 Pane ne sitten ilmestysmajaan lain arkin eteen, missä minä teille ilmestyn.

5 Ja tapahtuu, että kenen minä valitsen, sen sauva versoo. Siten minä lopetan israelilaisten napinan, niin että pääsen kuulemasta heidän napinaansa teitä vastaan."

6 Ja Mooses puhui tämän israelilaisille, ja kaikki heidän ruhtinaansa antoivat hänelle kukin sauvansa sukukunnittain, yhteensä kaksitoista sauvaa, ja Aaronin sauva oli heidän sauvainsa joukossa.

7 Ja Mooses pani sauvat lain majaan, Herran eteen.

8 Kun Mooses seuraavana päivänä meni lain majaan, niin katso, Aaronin sauva, joka oli siinä Leevin sukukunnan puolesta, oli alkanut versoa, siihen oli ilmestynyt silmuja, puhjennut kukkia ja kasvanut kypsiä manteleita.

9 Ja Mooses vei ulos kaikki sauvat Herran kasvojen edestä kaikkien israelilaisten tykö; ja he katselivat niitä ja ottivat kukin sauvansa.

10 Ja Herra sanoi Moosekselle: "Vie Aaronin sauva takaisin lain arkin eteen säilytettäväksi merkkinä uppiniskaisille, ja lopeta heidän napinansa, niin että minä pääsen sitä kuulemasta, jotta he eivät kuolisi".

11 Ja Mooses teki sen; niinkuin Herra häntä käski, niin hän teki.

12 Mutta israelilaiset sanoivat Moosekselle näin: "Katso, me menehdymme, me hukumme, kaikki me hukumme!

13 Kuka vain lähestyy, kuka ikinä lähestyy Herran asumusta, se kuolee! Onko meidän kaikkien hukkuminen?"

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 728

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728. And her offspring was caught up unto God and His throne, signifies the protection of the doctrine by the Lord, because it is for the New Church. This is evident from the signification of "the offspring" (or the son, a male) brought forth by "the woman arrayed with the sun, under whose feet was the moon, and upon whose head was a crown of twelve stars," as being doctrine from the Word, and indeed, the doctrine of truth, that is, the doctrine of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbor, and finally of faith. Also from the signification of "caught up unto God and His throne," as being protection by the Lord from "the dragon" that stood before the woman about to bring forth, with the intent and desire of devouring what was brought forth. That protection by the Lord from those who are meant by "the dragon" is here signified by these words. And as that doctrine was to be the doctrine of the church that is called the New Jerusalem, therefore it is said protection because it is for the New Church. It is said "caught up unto God and His throne," "God" meaning the Lord, and "His throne" heaven; it is caught up to the Lord and to heaven because this doctrine is from the Lord, and heaven is in this doctrine.

[2] What is here said of the offspring born of the woman, who "was caught up unto God," is also said of Enoch, the son of Jared, but in these words:

Enoch walked with God, and was no more; because God took him (Genesis 5:24).

Who are here meant by "Enoch," and what "Enoch" signifies, has been disclosed to me from heaven, namely, those of the men of the Most Ancient Church who collected together the representatives and correspondences of natural things with spiritual; for the men of the Most Ancient Church were in the spiritual understanding and perception of all things they saw with their eyes, and thence from the objects in the world they saw through to the spiritual things corresponding to the objects. Because the Lord foresaw that this spiritual perception would perish with their posterity, and with that perception also the knowledge of correspondences through which the human race has conjunction with heaven, therefore the Lord provided that some of those who lived with the most ancient people should collect together the correspondences, and gather them into a manuscript; these are here meant by "Enoch," and that manuscript is what is here signified. Because that manuscript was to serve the coming churches that were to be established by the Lord after the deluge with the knowledge and cognition of the spiritual things that are in natural things, it was preserved by the Lord for their use, and was also guarded, lest the last posterity of the Most Ancient Church, who were evil, should offer injury to it. This, therefore, is what is signified in the spiritual sense by "Enoch was no more, because God took Him." From this it can be seen what is signified by "the offspring of the woman was caught up unto God and His throne."

  
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Jeremiah 48:18

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18 You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.