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Zacharie 9

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1 Oracle, parole de l'Eternel sur le pays de Hadrac. Elle s'arrête sur Damas, Car l'Eternel a l'oeil sur les hommes Comme sur toutes les tribus d'Israël;

2 Elle s'arrête aussi sur Hamath, à la frontière de Damas, Sur Tyr et Sidon, malgré toute leur sagesse.

3 Tyr s'est bâti une forteresse; Elle a amassé l'argent comme la poussière, Et l'or comme la boue des rues.

4 Voici, le Seigneur s'en emparera, Il précipitera sa puissance dans la mer, Et elle sera consumée par le feu.

5 Askalon le verra, et elle sera dans la crainte; Gaza aussi, et un violent tremblement la saisira; Ekron aussi, car son espoir sera confondu. Le roi disparaîtra de Gaza, Et Askalon ne sera plus habitée.

6 L'étranger s'établira dans Asdod, Et j'abattrai l'orgueil des Philistins.

7 J'ôterai le sang de sa bouche, Et les abominations d'entre ses dents; Lui aussi restera pour notre Dieu; Il sera comme un chef en Juda, Et Ekron sera comme les Jébusiens.

8 Je camperai autour de ma maison pour la défendre contre une armée, Contre les allants et les venants, Et l'oppresseur ne passera plus près d'eux; Car maintenant mes yeux sont fixés sur elle.

9 Sois transportée d'allégresse, fille de Sion! Pousse des cris de joie, fille de Jérusalem! Voici, ton roi vient à toi; Il est juste et victorieux, Il est humble et monté sur un âne, Sur un âne, le petit d'une ânesse.

10 Je détruirai les chars d'Ephraïm, Et les chevaux de Jérusalem; Et les arcs de guerre seront anéantis. Il annoncera la paix aux nations, Et il dominera d'une mer à l'autre, Depuis le fleuve jusqu'aux extrémités de la terre.

11 Et pour toi, à cause de ton alliance scellée par le sang, Je retirerai tes captifs de la fosse où il n'y a pas d'eau.

12 Retournez à la forteresse, captifs pleins d'espérance! Aujourd'hui encore je le déclare, Je te rendrai le double.

13 Car je bande Juda comme un arc, Je m'arme d'Ephraïm comme d'un arc, Et je soulèverai tes enfants, ô Sion, Contre tes enfants, ô Javan! Je te rendrai pareille à l'épée d'un vaillant homme.

14 L'Eternel au-dessus d'eux apparaîtra, Et sa flèche partira comme l'éclair; Le Seigneur, L'Eternel, sonnera de la trompette, Il s'avancera dans l'ouragan du midi.

15 L'Eternel des armées les protégera; Ils dévoreront, ils vaincront les pierres de la fronde; Ils boiront, ils seront bruyants comme pris de vin; Ils seront pleins comme une coupe, Comme les coins de l'autel.

16 L'Eternel, leur Dieu, les sauvera en ce jour-là, Comme le troupeau de son peuple; Car ils sont les pierres d'un diadème, Qui brilleront dans son pays.

17 Oh! quelle prospérité pour eux! quelle beauté! Le froment fera croître les jeunes hommes, Et le moût les jeunes filles.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 397

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397. And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. (8:6) This symbolizes their being prepared and ready to examine the state of the church and consequent life in people for whom religion is faith alone.

The symbolism of trumpets follows from the statute governing their use among the children of Israel, which Moses describes in this way: Jehovah told Moses to make silver trumpets for summoning the assembly and for the setting out of the camps, and they were also to sound them on days of celebration, feasts, new moons, and over burnt offerings and sacrifices. Furthermore, when they went to war against enemies oppressing them, they were to sound an alarm with the trumpets, and then they would come into remembrance before Jehovah God and be saved from their enemies. (Numbers 10:1-10)

It can be seen from this what sounding with trumpets symbolizes. Here, that the seven angels sounding symbolizes an examination and exposure of the state of the church and its character among people for whom religion is faith alone, as is apparent from the particulars in this chapter and from the particulars in the following chapters up to chapter 16 inclusive, understood in their spiritual sense.

[2] From the ways trumpets were used among the children of Israel it can also be seen what trumpets and sounding them symbolize in the following places:

Sound a trumpet in Zion, and sound it in My holy mountain! ...For the day of Jehovah is coming... (Joel 2:1-2)

Jehovah will be seen over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning; and the Lord Jehovih will sound the ram's horn... (Zechariah 9:14)

Jehovah shall go forth like a lion... (and) sound an alarm... (Isaiah 42:13)

...on that day a great ram's horn will be sounded, and those who perish in the land of Assyria, and those who are exiled in the land of Egypt, will come and bow themselves to Jehovah on the holy mountain... (Isaiah 27:13)

He will send His angels with the great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matthew 24:31)

Blessed are the people who know the trumpet's sound! They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of Your countenance. (Psalms 89:15)

When the morning stars sing together, and... the sons of God sound the trumpet. (Job 38:7)

[3] Since the soundings of trumpets had these symbolic meanings, and in the Israelite Church everything was presented concretely in accordance with correspondences and the consequent symbolism, therefore it also came to pass, when Jehovah descended upon Mount Sinai, that there were voices and lightnings and a thick cloud, and the sound of a ram's horn, loud, with the sound of the ram's horn growing and becoming louder and louder, so that the people in the camp trembled greatly. (Exodus 19:16-25)

Therefore it also came to pass that when the three hundred men with Gideon sounded their ram's horns in the campaign against Midian, then every Midianite man's sword was set against his companion and they fled (Judges 7:16-22). Likewise that twelve thousand of the children of Israel with holy vessels and trumpets in their hands overcame Midian (Numbers 31:1-8). Also that the wall of Jericho fell after seven priests with seven ram's horns went around the city seven times (Joshua 6:1-20).

Therefore we read in Jeremiah:

Sound against (Babylon) all around..., her walls are thrown down. (Jeremiah 50:15)

And in Zephaniah:

...a day of darkness and blackness..., a day of ram's horn and its sounding against the fortified cities... (Zephaniah 1:15-16)

  
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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.