L’Apocalypse Révélée # 672
672. Vers. 15:7. Et l'un des quatre Animaux donna aux sept Anges sept fioles d'or, signifie que ces vrais et ces biens, par lesquels les maux et les faux de l'Église sont découverts, sont tirés du sens de la lettre de la Parole. Que les quatre animaux, qui sont des Chérubins, signifient la Parole dans les derniers, et les gardes, de peur que ses vrais et ses biens réels ne soient violés, on le voit ci-dessus. No. 239 ; et comme les vrais et les biens intérieurs de la Parole sont gardés par le sens de sa lettre, c'est pour cela que ce sens de la Parole est signifié par l'un des quatre animaux ; par les sept fioles, il est signifié la même chose que par les sept plaies, car elles sont les contenants, et par les contenants dans la Parole sont signifiées les mêmes choses que par les contenus ; par exemple, par la coupe la même chose que par le vin, et par le plat la même chose que par le mets : que par les coupes, les calices, les fioles, les plats, il soit signifié les mêmes choses que par les contenus, on le verra dans ce qui va suivre : ce qui est signifié par les sept Anges a été dit ci-dessus : s'il leur a été donné des fioles, c'est parce qu'il s'agit de l'influx du vrai et du bien dans l'Eglise pour découvrir les maux et les faux, et que les vrais et les biens nus ne peuvent influer ; en effet, ils ne sont point reçus, mais les vrais revêtus, tels qu'ils sont dans le sens de la lettre de la Parole, sont reçus ; et, outre cela, le Seigneur opère toujours d'après les intimes par les derniers, ou dans le plein : voilà pourquoi il fut donné aux Anges des fioles, par lesquellessont signifiés les vrais et les biens contenants, tels qu'ils sont dans le sens de la lettre de la Parole, par lesquels les faux et les maux sont découverts : que le sens de la lettre de la Parole soit le contenant, on le voit dans la DOCTRINE DE LA NOUVELLE JÉRUSALEM SUR L'ÉCRITURE SAINTE, Nos. 27 à 36, et 37 à 49. Que par les fioles, les plats, les coupes et les calices, et par les outres, soient signifiées les choses qui y sont contenues, on peut le voir par les passages suivants :
— « Ainsi m'a dit Jéhovah : Prends de ma main ce CALICE de colère, et fais boire toutes les nations ; quand elles refuseront de prendre le CALICE, lu diras : Buvant vous boirez. » — Jérémie 25:15-16, 28.
— « CALICE d'or, Babel, dans la main de Jéliovah, enivrant toute la terre. » — Jérémie 51:7.
— « Je mettrai le CALICE de la sœur dans ta main ; d'ivresse et de tristesse tu seras remplie, par le CALICE de dévastation, par le CALICE de ta sœur Samarie. » — Ézéchiel 23:31-34 — . « A ta ronde ira vers toi le CALICE de Jéhovah, afin qu'un vomissement soit sur ta gloire. » — Habacuc 2:16.
— « Aussi vers toi, Fille d'Édorn, passera le CALICE ; tu t'enivreras, et tu te mettras à nu. » — Lamentations 4:21.
— « Jéliovah fera pleuvoir sur les impics ; un vent de tcm.pétes (sera) la portion de leur CALICE. » — Psaumes 11:6.
— « Un CALICE est dans la main de Jéhovah, et du vin il y a mêlé ; il l'a rempli d'un mélange, et il en a versé ; ils-en boiront, tous les impies de la terre. » — Psaumes 75:9.
— « Ceux qui adoreront lu bêle boiront du vin de la colère de Dieu, mêlé au (vin) pur dans la COUPE de son emportement. » — Apocalypse 14:10.
— « Réveille-toi, lève-toi, Jérusalem, qui as bu de la main de Jéliovah le CALICE de sa colère ; les Iles du CALICE de tremblement, tu les as bues. » — Ésaïe 51:17.
— « La femme ayant en sa main une coupe d'or, pleine d'abomination et d'impureté de sa scortalion. » — Apocalypse 17:4.
— « Doublez-lui au double ; dans la COUPE où elle a mélangé, mélangez-lui double. » — Apocalypse 18:6.
— « Moi j'établis Jérusalem en CALICE de tremblement pour tous les peuples. » — Zacharie 12:2.
— « Pharisien aveugle, nettoie premièrement l'intérieur de la coupe, afin qu'aussi l'extérieur devienne net. » — Matthieu 23:25, 20 ; Luc 11:39.
— « Jésus dit aux fils de Zébédée : Pouvez-vous boire la COUPE que je dois boire ? » — Matthieu 20:22-23 ; Marc 10:38-39.
— « Jésus dit à Pierre : La COUPE, que M'a donnée le Père, ne la boirai-je pas ? » — Jean 18:11.
— « Jésus dans Getlisémané dit : S'il est possible, qu'elle passe loin de Moi, cette COUPE! » — Matthieu 26:39, 42, 44.
— « Jésus, prenant la COUPE, dit : Buvez-en tous ; ceci est mon sang, celui du Nouveau Testament. » — Matthieu 26:27-28 ; Marc 14:23, 24. Luc 22:17.
— « Jéhovah, mon CALICE ; Toi, tu soutiens mon lot. » — Psaumes 16:5.
— « Tu dresseras devant moi la table, ma coupe aura abondance. » — Psaumes 23:5.
— « Que rendrai-je à Jéhovah ? La COUPE de saints je prendrai. » — Psaumes 106:12, 13.
— « Abreuver du CALICE de consolations. » — Jérémie 16:7.
— Semblable chose que par le calice et la coupe est aussi signifiée par la fiole, et même par l'outre, — Matthieu 9:17 ; Luc 5:37-38 ; Jérémie 13:12 ; 48:12. Habacuc 2:15.
— Par les coupes, les encensoirs et les cassolelles, dans lesquels il y avait les parfums, il est signifié la même chose que par les parfums ; en général, par les vases de tout genre, la même chose que par ce qui est en eux.
Jeremiah 50
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The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
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Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.
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For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal.
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In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.
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They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
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My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
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All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.
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Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
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For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.
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Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh.
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Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;
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your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
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Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
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Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.
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Shout against her all around: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.
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Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.
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Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
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Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
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I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
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In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
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Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
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A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.
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Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.
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Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.
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Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
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The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
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Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.
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Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.
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Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
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The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are around him.
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Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
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Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
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A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.
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A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
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A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
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A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
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Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.
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As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.
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Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
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They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.
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The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
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Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?
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Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
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At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.
