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Daniel 8

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1 Im dritten Jahre der egierung des Königs Belsazar erschien mir, Daniel, ein Gesicht, nach demjenigen, welches mir im Anfang erschienen war.

2 Und ich sah im Gesicht; und es geschah, als ich sah, da war ich in der Burg (O. Hauptstadt) Susan, welche in der Landschaft Elam ist; und ich sah im Gesicht, und ich war am Flusse Ulai.

3 Und ich erhob meine Augen und sah: und siehe, ein Widder stand vor dem Flusse, der hatte zwei Hörner; und die zwei Hörner waren hoch, und das eine war höher als das andere, und das höhere stieg zuletzt empor.

4 Ich sah den Widder nach Westen und nach Norden und nach Süden stoßen, und kein Tier konnte vor ihm bestehen, und niemand rettete aus seiner Hand; und er handelte nach seinem Gutdünken und wurde groß.

5 Und während ich achtgab, siehe, da kam ein Ziegenbock von Westen her über die ganze Erde, und er berührte die Erde nicht; und der Bock hatte ein ansehnliches Horn zwischen seinen Augen.

6 Und er kam bis zu dem Widder mit den zwei Hörnern, welchen ich vor dem Flusse hatte stehen sehen; und er rannte ihn an im Grimme seiner Kraft.

7 Und ich sah ihn bei dem Widder anlangen, und er erbitterte sich gegen ihn, und er stieß den Widder und zerbrach seine beiden Hörner; und in dem Widder war keine Kraft, um vor ihm zu bestehen. Und er warf ihn zu Boden und zertrat ihn, und niemand rettete den Widder aus seiner Hand.

8 Und der Ziegenbock wurde groß über die Maßen; und als er stark geworden war, zerbrach das große Horn, und vier ansehnliche Hörner wuchsen an seiner Statt nach den vier Winden des Himmels hin.

9 Und aus dem einen von ihnen kam ein kleines Horn (Eig. ein Horn aus kleinem Anfang) hervor; und es wurde ausnehmend groß gegen Süden und gegen Osten und gegen die Zierde (d. i. das Land der Zierde (Palästina); vergl. Kap. 11,16. 41. 45..)

10 Und es wurde groß bis zum Heere des Himmels, und es warf von dem Heere und von den Sternen zur Erde nieder und zertrat sie.

11 Selbst bis zu dem Fürsten des Heeres tat es (Eig. er, so auch in v 12. Viell. auf die durch das kleine Horn dargestellte Person hinweisend) groß; und es nahm ihm das beständige Opfer weg (Nach and. Les.: und das beständige Opfer wurde ihm weggenommen,) und die Stätte seines Heiligtums wurde niedergeworfen.

12 Und das Heer wurde dahingegeben samt dem (And. üb.: Und eine Zeit der Mühsal wurde auferlegt dem) beständigen Opfer, um des Frevels (O. des Abfalls) willen. Und es warf (O. wird dahingegeben… wirft usw.) die Wahrheit zu Boden und handelte und hatte Gelingen. -

13 Und ich hörte einen Heiligen reden; und ein Heiliger sprach zu jenem, welcher redete: Bis wann geht das Gesicht von dem beständigen Opfer und von dem verwüstenden Frevel (O. von dem verwüstenden Abfall,) daß sowohl das Heiligtum als auch das Heer zur Zertretung hingegeben ist?

14 Und er sprach zu mir: Bis zu 2300 Abenden und Morgen (W. Abend-Morgen;) dann wird das Heiligtum gerechtfertigt werden.

15 Und es geschah, als ich, Daniel, das Gesicht sah, da suchte ich Verständnis darüber; und siehe, da stand vor mir wie die Gestalt eines Mannes.

16 Und ich hörte eine Menschenstimme zwischen den Ufern des Ulai (Eig. zwischen dem Ulai,) welche rief und sprach: Gabriel, gib diesem das Gesicht zu verstehen!

17 Und er trat an den Ort, wo ich stand; und als er herzutrat, erschrak ich und fiel nieder auf mein Angesicht. Und er sprach zu mir: Merke auf, Menschensohn! denn das Gesicht geht auf die Zeit des Endes.

18 Und als er mit mir redete, sank ich betäubt auf mein Angesicht zur Erde. Er aber rührte mich an und stellte mich auf meinen früheren Standort.

19 Und er sprach: Siehe, ich will dir kundtun, was in der letzten Zeit des Zornes geschehen wird; denn es geht auf die bestimmte Zeit des Endes.

20 Der Widder mit den zwei Hörnern, welchen du gesehen hast, sind die Könige von Medien und Persien.

21 Und der zottige Ziegenbock ist der König von Griechenland; und das große Horn, das zwischen seinen Augen war, ist der erste König.

22 Und daß es zerbrach und vier an seiner Statt aufkamen: vier Königreiche werden aus dieser Nation aufstehen, aber nicht mit seiner Macht.

23 Und am Ende ihres Königtums, wenn die Frevler (Eig. die Abtrünnigen) das Maß voll gemacht haben werden, wird ein König aufstehen, frechen Angesichts und der änke kundig.

24 Und seine Macht wird stark sein, aber nicht durch seine eigene Macht; und er wird erstaunliches Verderben anrichten, und Gelingen haben und handeln; und er wird Starke und das Volk der Heiligen verderben.

25 Und durch seine Klugheit wird der Trug in seiner Hand gelingen; und er wird in seinem Herzen großtun und unversehens viele verderben. Und gegen den Fürsten der Fürsten wird er sich auflehnen, aber ohne Menschenhand zerschmettert werden.

26 Und das Gesicht von den Abenden und von den Morgen (S. v 14,) wovon gesprochen worden, ist Wahrheit; und du, verschließe das Gesicht, denn es sind noch viele Tage bis dahin (W. es ist auf viele Tage hin.)

27 Und ich, Daniel, war dahin und war einige Tage krank. Dann stand ich auf und verrichtete die Geschäfte des Königs. Und ich war entsetzt über das Gesicht, und niemand verstand es.

   

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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.). When he saw Joshua, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.). When he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.). When he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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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.

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Ezekiel 44

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1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.

2 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

3 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face.

5 Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.

6 You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.

8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.

9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

10 But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.

13 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

14 Yet will I make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:

16 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.

17 It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

18 They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their waists; they shall not clothe themselves with [anything that causes] sweat.

19 When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

24 In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.

25 They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

27 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Yahweh.

28 They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.

29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.