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Deutéronome 34

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1 Moïse monta des plaines de Moab sur le mont Nebo, au sommet du Pisga, vis-à-vis de Jéricho. Et l'Eternel lui fit voir tout le pays: Galaad jusqu'à Dan,

2 tout Nephthali, le pays d'Ephraïm et de Manassé, tout le pays de Juda jusqu'à la mer occidentale,

3 le midi, les environs du Jourdain, la vallée de Jéricho, la ville des palmiers, jusqu'à Tsoar.

4 L'Eternel lui dit: C'est là le pays que j'ai juré de donner à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob, en disant: Je le donnerai à ta postérité. Je te l'ai fait voir de tes yeux; mais tu n'y entreras point.

5 Moïse, serviteur de l'Eternel, mourut là, dans le pays de Moab, selon l'ordre de l'Eternel.

6 Et l'Eternel l'enterra dans la vallée, au pays de Moab, vis-à-vis de Beth-Peor. Personne n'a connu son sépulcre jusqu'à ce jour.

7 Moïse était âgé de cent vingt ans lorsqu'il mourut; sa vue n'était point affaiblie, et sa vigueur n'était point passée.

8 Les enfants d'Israël pleurèrent Moïse pendant trente jours, dans les plaines de Moab; et ces jours de pleurs et de deuil sur Moïse arrivèrent à leur terme.

9 Josué, fils de Nun, était rempli de l'esprit de sagesse, car Moïse avait posé ses mains sur lui. Les enfants d'Israël lui obéirent, et se conformèrent aux ordres que l'Eternel avait donnés à Moïse.

10 Il n'a plus paru en Israël de prophète semblable à Moïse, que l'Eternel connaissait face à face.

11 Nul ne peut lui être comparé pour tous les signes et les miracles que Dieu l'envoya faire au pays d'Egypte contre Pharaon, contre ses serviteurs et contre tout son pays,

12 et pour tous les prodiges de terreur que Moïse accomplit à main forte sous les yeux de tout Israël.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 474

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474. Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever. (10:6; 10:6) This symbolizes an attestation and testification of the Lord on His own authority.

The angel standing on the sea and on the land means the Lord (no. 470). Lifting up the hand to heaven symbolizes an attestation, here that there should be no more time (verse 6). Swearing symbolizes a testification, here that in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel the mystery of God would be concluded (verse 7). He who lives forever and ever means the Lord, as in Revelation 1:18; 4:9-10, and 5:14 above, and in Daniel 4:34. That the Lord swears on His own authority will be seen shortly.

It is apparent from this that the statement, "Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever," symbolizes an attestation and testification of the Lord on His own authority.

[2] That Jehovah swears or testifies on His own authority is clear from the following passages:

I have sworn by Myself; a word has gone out of My mouth (which) shall not return... (Isaiah 45:23)

I swear by Myself... that this house shall become a desolation. (Jeremiah 22:5)

Jehovah... has sworn by His soul. (Jeremiah 51:14, Amos 6:8)

...Jehovah has sworn by His holiness. (Amos 4:2)

Jehovah has sworn by His right hand and by the arm of His strength. (Isaiah 62:8)

Behold, I have sworn by My great name... (Jeremiah 44:26)

That Jehovah, which is to say, the Lord, swore by Himself or on His own authority means, symbolically, that Divine truth attests; for the Lord is Divine truth itself, and this attests of itself and on its own authority.

In addition to these passages, that Jehovah swore may be seen in Isaiah 14:24; 54:9, Psalms 89:3, 35; 95:11; 110:4; 132:11.

We are told that Jehovah swore because the church established with the children of Israel was a representational church, and the conjunction of the Lord with the church was represented by a covenant, like one made between two parties who swear to their compact. Therefore, because an oath was a part of any covenant, we are told that Jehovah swore. Still, this does not mean that He swore, but that Divine truth attests to something.

[3] That an oath was a part of any covenant is apparent from the following:

I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, so that you became Mine... (Ezekiel 16:8)

...to remember His covenant, the oath which He swore... (Luke 1:72-73; cf. Psalms 105:9, Jeremiah 11:5; 32:22, Deuteronomy 1:34; 10:11; 11:9, 21; 26:3, 15; 31:20; 34:4)

Because the covenant was representative of the conjunction of the Lord with the church, and reciprocally of the church with the Lord, and because an oath was a part of any covenant and was to be sworn on the ground of the truth in it, being sworn thus also in appeal to that truth, therefore the children of Israel were permitted to swear by Jehovah, and so in appeal to Divine truth (Exodus 20:7, Leviticus 19:12, Deuteronomy 6:13; 10:20, Isaiah 48:1; 65:16, Jeremiah 4:2, Zechariah 5:4).

After the representative constituents of the church were abrogated, however, the Lord also abrogated oaths to covenants (Matthew 5:33-37; 23:16-22).

  
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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.