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2 Mose 15

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1 Damals sangen Mose und die Kinder Israel dieses Lied dem Jehova und sprachen also: Singen will ich Jehova, denn hoch erhaben ist er (O. hoch hat er sich erhoben; so auch v 21;) das oß und seinen eiter hat er ins Meer gestürzt.

2 Meine Stärke (And.: Mein Lob, Preis) und mein Gesang ist Jah, denn er ist mir zur ettung geworden; dieser ist mein Gott, (El) und ich will ihn verherrlichen, (And.: ihm eine Wohnung machen) meines Vaters Gott, und ich will ihn erheben.

3 Jehova ist ein Kriegsmann, Jehova sein Name.

4 Die Wagen des Pharao und seine Heeresmacht hat er ins Meer gestürzt, und die Auserlesenen seiner Wagenkämpfer sind versunken im Schilfmeer.

5 Die Fluten bedeckten sie, sie sind hinuntergefahren in die Tiefen wie ein Stein.

6 Deine echte, Jehova, ist herrlich in Macht; deine echte, Jehova, hat zerschmettert den Feind.

7 Und in der Größe deiner Hoheit hast du niedergerissen, die sich wider dich erhoben; du ließest deine Zornglut los: sie hat sie verzehrt wie Stoppeln.

8 Und durch den Hauch deiner Nase türmten sich die Wasser, es standen die Strömungen wie ein Damm, es gerannen die Fluten im Herzen des Meeres.

9 Der Feind sprach: Ich will nachjagen, einholen, Beute teilen; meine Gier soll sich sättigen an ihnen; ich will mein Schwert ziehen, meine Hand soll sie vertilgen.

10 Du hauchtest mit deinem Odem-das Meer bedeckte sie; sie sanken unter wie Blei in die gewaltigen Wasser.

11 Wer ist dir gleich unter den Göttern, Jehova! Wer ist dir gleich, herrlich in Heiligkeit, furchtbar an uhm, Wunder tuend!

12 Du strecktest deine echte aus-die Erde verschlang sie.

13 Du hast durch deine Güte geleitet das Volk, das du erlöst, hast es durch deine Stärke geführt zu deiner heiligen Wohnung.

14 Es hörten’s die Völker, sie bebten; Angst ergriff die Bewohner Philistäas.

15 Da wurden bestürzt die Fürsten Edoms; die Starken Moabs, sie ergriff Beben; es verzagten alle Bewohner Kanaans.

16 Es überfiel sie Schrecken und Furcht; ob der Größe deines Armes verstummten sie gleich einem Stein, bis hindurchzog dein Volk, Jehova, bis hindurchzog das Volk, das du erworben hast.

17 Du wirst sie bringen und pflanzen auf den Berg deines Erbteils, die Stätte, die du, Jehova, zu deiner Wohnung gemacht, das Heiligtum, Herr, das deine Hände bereitet haben.

18 Jehova wird König sein immer und ewiglich! -

19 Denn die osse des Pharao mit seinen Wagen und mit seinen eitern sind ins Meer gekommen, und Jehova hat die Wasser des Meeres über sie zurückgeführt; und die Kinder Israel gingen auf dem Trockenen mitten durchs Meer.

20 Und Mirjam, die Prophetin, Aarons Schwester, nahm das Tamburin in ihre Hand; und alle Weiber zogen aus, hinter ihr her, mit Tamburinen und in eigen.

21 Und Mirjam antwortete ihnen: (d. h. den Männern im Wechselgesang) Singet Jehova, denn hoch erhaben ist er; das oß und seinen eiter hat er ins Meer gestürzt! -

22 Und Mose ließ Israel vom Schilfmeer aufbrechen, und sie zogen aus in die Wüste Sur; und sie wanderten drei Tage in der Wüste und fanden kein Wasser.

23 Und sie kamen nach Mara; aber sie konnten das Wasser von Mara nicht trinken, denn es war bitter: darum gab man ihm den Namen Mara. (Bitterkeit)

24 Und das Volk murrte wider Mose und sprach: Was sollen wir trinken?

25 Und er schrie zu Jehova, und Jehova wies ihm ein Holz; und er warf es in das Wasser, und das Wasser wurde süß. Dort stellte er ihm Satzung und echt, und dort versuchte er es;

26 und er sprach: Wenn du fleißig auf die Stimme Jehovas, deines Gottes, hören wirst, und tun, was recht ist in seinen Augen, und horchen wirst auf seine Gebote und beobachten alle seine Satzungen, so werde ich keine der Krankheiten auf dich legen, die ich auf Ägypten gelegt habe; denn ich bin Jehova, der dich heilt.

27 Und sie kamen nach Elim, und daselbst waren zwölf Wasserquellen und siebzig Palmbäume; und sie lagerten sich daselbst an den Wassern.

   

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8273. 'Jehovah is a man of war' means that the Lord provides protection against all evils and falsities, which come from the hells. This is clear from the meaning of 'a man of war' as one who fights against falsities and evils, that is, against the hells, and overcomes them, at this point one who provides a person protection against them. For as shown already, the Lord alone fights on behalf of a person and protects him when he is under attack from the hells; He does so constantly, especially in temptations, which are spiritual conflicts. The Lord is called 'a man of war', primarily because when He was in the world He fought alone, that is, all by Himself, against the hells, which at that time were for the most part open. They were attacking and attempting to bring under their control all without exception who were entering the next life. The reason why the devil's crew, that is, the hells, were prowling around in that way then was that the Divine passing through heaven, which was the Divine Human before the Lord's Coming, was not powerful enough to oppose the evils and falsities which had increased so enormously. Therefore the Divine was pleased to take upon Himself a Human Form and make it Divine. At the same time - through the conflicts to which He allowed Himself to be subjected - He cast the devil's crew into the hells, shut them in there, and made them subject to the heavens; also at the same time He restored the heavens themselves to order. These conflicts are the primary reason for calling the Lord 'a man of war'. And after them, when He had thereby conquered the hells and made Himself righteousness, He has been called such because with Divine power He provides people protection, doing so constantly, and especially in the conflicts brought by temptations.

[2] The truth that the Lord alone, all by Himself, fought against the hells and overcame them is presented in the following way in Isaiah,

Judgement is cast away backwards, and justice stands afar off, for truth has stumbled in the street, and uprightness cannot come in; while truth has been removed, and he who retreats from evil is insane. Jehovah saw, and it was evil in His eyes that there was no judgement. And He saw that there was no man (vir), and wondered that there was no intercessor therefore His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness lifted Him up. Consequently He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon His head. Isaiah 59:14-17.

This describes conditions at that time in both worlds and declares that the Lord all by Himself, alone, re-established things that were in a state of collapse. The like is stated elsewhere in the same prophet,

Who is this who comes from Edom, with spattered clothes from Bozra, He that is glorious in His apparel, marching in the vast numbers of His strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save. I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples not a man (vir) was with Me. Consequently their victory 1 has been sprinkled on My clothes. For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed had come. I had looked around, but there was no helper, and I wondered, but there was no one to uphold; therefore My own arm brought salvation to Me. Isaiah 63:1-5.

These quotations make it clear that when in the world, the Lord fought alone against the hells and overcame them.

[3] So far as conflicts with and victories over the hells are concerned, the truth is that anyone who overcomes them once does so for evermore; for through victory he gains power over them, since in the same measure he consolidates within himself, and makes his own, the good of love and the truth of faith against which the hells afterwards do not dare to attempt anything. When He was in the world the Lord allowed Himself to endure conflicts brought by temptations from all the hells, and through those conflicts He made Divine the Human within Him and at the same time reduced the hells to a state of obedience for evermore, see 1663, 1668, 1690, 1692, 1737, 1813, 1820, 2776, 2786, 2795, 2803, 2814, 2816, 4287. So it is that the Lord alone has power over the hells for ever, and with Divine power fights on behalf of a person. This now explains why the Lord is called 'a man of war' and also 'a mighty man', as again in Isaiah,

Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man, as a man of wars He will arouse zeal; He will prevail over His enemies. Isaiah 42:13.

And in David,

Who is this King of glory? Jehovah strong and a mighty man, Jehovah a mighty man of war. Who is this King of glory? Jehovah Zebaoth (Jehovah of Hosts or Armies). Psalms 24:8, 10.

[4] Wherever 'war' is mentioned in the Word, spiritual war against falsities and evils - or what amounts to the same thing, against the devil, that is, the hells - is meant in the internal sense, 1664, 2686. The wars or battles which the Lord fought against the hells are the subject in the internal sense both in the historical sections of the Word and in its prophetical parts; and no less the subject are the Lord's wars or battles fought on behalf of man. With the Ancients, with whom the Lord's Church existed, there also existed a Word, having both a historical section and a prophetical part, which is not extant at the present day. Its historical section was called The Book of the Wars of Jehovah and its prophetical part The Utterances. That Word is referred to in Moses, Numbers 21:14, 27. The fact that the expression used in Numbers 21:27 means prophetical utterances is evident from the meaning the expression is given at Numbers 23:7, 18; 24:3, 15. The Wars of Jehovah in that Word meant the Lord's battles against and His victories over the hells when He was in the world. They also meant the battles fought after that, and the everlasting victories won by Him, on behalf of man, the Church, and His kingdom. The hells desire constantly to puff themselves up, for they yearn only to dominate; but they are kept in check by the Lord alone. Their attempts to exert themselves are seen as bubbles boiling up or as a person arching his back. But every time they attempt such a thing a large number of them are cast further down.

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