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Jérémie 24

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1 L'Eternel me fit voir [une vision], et voici deux paniers de figues, posés devant le Temple de L'Eternel, après que Nébucadnetsar Roi de Babylone eut transporté de Jérusalem Jéchonias fils de Jéhojakim, Roi de Juda, et les principaux de Juda, avec les charpentiers et les serruriers, et les eut emmenés à Babylone.

2 L'un des paniers avait de fort bonnes figues, comme sont d'ordinaire les figues qui sont les premières mûres; et l'autre panier avait de fort mauvaises figues, lesquelles on n'aurait pu manger, tant elles étaient mauvaises.

3 Et l'Eternel me dit : que vois-tu, Jérémie? Et je répondis : des figues, de bonnes figues, fort bonnes; et de mauvaises, fort mauvaises, lesquelles on ne saurait manger, tant elles sont mauvaises.

4 Alors la parole de l'Eternel me fut [adressée], en disant :

5 Ainsi a dit l'Eternel, le Dieu d'Israël : comme ces figues sont bonnes, ainsi je me souviendrai, pour leur faire du bien, de ceux qui ont été transportés de Juda, lesquels j'ai envoyés hors de ce lieu au pays des Caldéens.

6 Et je mettrai mes yeux sur eux pour leur faire du bien, et je les ferai retourner en ce pays, je les y rétablirai, et je ne les ruinerai plus, je les planterai, et je ne les arracherai point.

7 Et je leur donnerai un cœur pour me connaître, [pour connaître, dis-je], que je suis l'Eternel ; et ils seront mon peuple, et je serai leur Dieu : car ils se retourneront à moi de tout leur cœur.

8 Et comme ces figues sont si mauvaises qu'on n'en peut manger, tant elles sont mauvaises; ainsi certainement, a dit l'Eternel, je rendrai tel Sédécias le Roi de Juda, et les principaux de sa Cour, et le reste de Jérusalem qui sont demeurés dans ce pays, et ceux qui s'habitueront au pays d'Egypte.

9 Et je les livrerai pour être agités pour leur malheur par tous les Royaumes de la terre, et pour être en opprobre, en proverbe, en raillerie, et en malédiction par tous les lieux où je les aurai chassés.

10 Et j'enverrai sur eux l'épée, la famine, et la mortalité, jusqu’à ce qu'ils soient consumés de dessus la terre que je leur avais donnée, à eux, et à leurs pères.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 883

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883. "And He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. And He Himself will be with them their God." This symbolizes their conjunction with the Lord, which is of such a nature that the people are in Him and He in them.

His dwelling with them symbolizes a conjunction of the Lord with them, as we will see below. The people's being His people, and His being with them their God, symbolically means that they are the Lord's, and that He is their Lord. Moreover, because dwelling with them symbolizes conjunction, it symbolically means that they will be in the Lord and have the Lord in them. Otherwise there is no conjunction. That this is the nature of the conjunction is clearly apparent from the Lord's words in John:

Abide in Me, and I in you... I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (John 15:4-5)

And elsewhere:

At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. (John 14:20)

He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. (John 6:56)

[2] The Lord's assuming a humanity and uniting it with the Divinity He had in Him from birth, which is called the Father, had as its goal a conjunction with people, as is apparent also in John:

For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth..., that they may be one as We are one: I in them, and You in Me. (John 17:19, 21-23, 26)

It follows from this that the conjunction is formed with the Lord's Divine humanity, that it is a reciprocal one, and that this is the only means of conjunction with the Divine called the Father.

[3] The Lord also teaches that the conjunction is formed by the Word's truths and by living in accordance with them (John 14:20-24; 15:7).

This, then, is what is meant by the Lord's dwelling with them and their being His people, and His being with them their God. So, too, elsewhere where the same words occur: Jeremiah 7:23; 11:4; Ezekiel 14:11; Jeremiah 24:7; 30:22; Ezekiel 11:20; 36:28; 37:23, 27; Zechariah 8:8; Exodus 29:45.

[4] To dwell with them symbolizes a conjunction with them because to dwell symbolizes conjunction out of love, as may be seen from many passages in the Word. It may be seen also from the abodes of angels in heaven. Heaven is distinguished into countless societies, all of them different from each other in accordance with the differences in their love's affections, in general and in particular. Each society embodies one particular variety of affection, and the people in it have dwellings distinct from each other, depending on how close or akin they are within that variety of affection, and those who are the most closely related dwell together in the same house. Dwelling together, therefore, when said of married partners, symbolizes in the spiritual sense conjunction by love.

It should be known that conjunction with the Lord is not the same as His presence. Conjunction with the Lord is possible only with people who turn to Him directly, His presence with everyone else.

  
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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.