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2 Mose 36

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1 Und Bezaleel und Oholiab und alle Männer, die weisen Herzens waren, in welche Jehova Weisheit und Verstand gelegt hatte, damit sie alles Werk der Arbeit des Heiligtums zu machen wüßten, taten nach allem, was Jehova geboten hatte.

2 Und Mose rief Bezaleel und Oholiab und jeden Mann, der weisen Herzens war, in dessen Herz Gott Weisheit gelegt hatte, jeden, den sein Herz trieb, ans Werk zu gehen, um es zu machen.

3 Und sie nahmen von Mose das ganze Hebopfer, das die Kinder Israel gebracht hatten zum Werke der Arbeit des Heiligtums, um es zu machen; und diese brachten ihm noch (O. fortwährend) freiwillige Gaben, Morgen für Morgen.

4 Und es kamen alle weisen Männer, die alles Werk des Heiligtums machten, ein jeder von seinem Werke, das sie machten,

5 und sprachen zu Mose und sagten: Das Volk bringt viel, mehr als genug für die Arbeit des Werkes, das Jehova zu machen geboten hat.

6 Da gebot Mose, und man ließ einen uf durchs Lager ergehen also: Weder Mann noch Weib soll ferner ein Werk machen für das Hebopfer des Heiligtums! Und so wurde dem Volke das Bringen gewehrt. (O. hörte das Volk auf zu Bringen)

7 Und des Verfertigten (W. des Werkes) war genug für das ganze Werk, um es zu machen; und es war übrig.

8 Und alle, die weisen Herzens waren unter den Arbeitern des Werkes, machten die Wohnung aus zehn Teppichen; von gezwirntem Byssus und blauem und rotem Purpur und Karmesin, mit Cherubim in Kunstweberarbeit machte er (d. h. Bazaleel. (S. Kap. 37,1 usw.)) sie.

9 Die Länge eines Teppichs war 28 Ellen, und vier Ellen die Breite eines Teppichs: ein Maß für alle Teppiche.

10 Und er fügte fünf Teppiche zusammen, einen an den anderen, und er fügte wieder fünf Teppiche zusammen, einen an den anderen.

11 Und er machte Schleifen von blauem Purpur an den Saum des einen Teppichs am Ende, bei der Zusammenfügung; also machte er es an dem Saume des äußersten Teppichs bei der anderen Zusammenfügung.

12 Fünfzig Schleifen machte er an den einen Teppich, und Fünfzig Schleifen machte er an das Ende des Teppichs, der bei der anderen Zusammenfügung war, die Schleifen eine der anderen gegenüber.

13 Und er machte fünfzig Klammern von Gold und fügte die Teppiche zusammen, einen an den anderen, mit den Klammern, so daß die Wohnung ein Ganzes wurde.

14 Und er machte Teppiche von Ziegenhaar zum Zelte über die Wohnung; elf solcher Teppiche machte er.

15 Die Länge eines Teppichs war dreißig Ellen, und vier Ellen die Breite eines Teppichs: ein Maß für die elf Teppiche.

16 Und er fügte zusammen fünf Teppiche besonders und sechs Teppiche besonders.

17 Und er machte fünfzig Schleifen an den Saum des äußersten Teppichs bei der Zusammenfügung, und fünfzig Schleifen machte er an den Saum des Teppichs der anderen Zusammenfügung.

18 Und er machte fünfzig Klammern von Erz, um das Zelt zusammenzufügen, so daß es ein Ganzes wurde.

19 Und er machte für das Zelt eine Decke von rotgefärbten Widderfellen und eine Decke von Dachsfellen oben darüber.

20 Und er machte die Bretter zu der Wohnung von Akazienholz, aufrechtstehend:

21 zehn Ellen die Länge eines Brettes, und eine und eine halbe Elle die Breite eines Brettes;

22 zwei Zapfen zu einem Brette, einer dem anderen gegenüber eingefügt: also machte er es zu allen Brettern der Wohnung.

23 Und er machte die Bretter zu der Wohnung: zwanzig Bretter an der Seite gegen Mittag, südwärts;

24 und er machte vierzig Füße von Silber unter die zwanzig Bretter: zwei Füße unter ein Brett für seine zwei Zapfen, und wieder zwei Füße unter ein Brett für seine zwei Zapfen;

25 und an der anderen Seite der Wohnung, an der Nordseite, machte er zwanzig Bretter,

26 und ihre vierzig Füße von Silber: zwei Füße unter ein Brett, und wieder zwei Füße unter ein Brett;

27 und an der Hinterseite der Wohnung gegen Westen machte er sechs Bretter;

28 und zwei Bretter machte er für die Winkel der Wohnung an der Hinterseite;

29 und sie waren zweifach von unten auf und waren an (O. bis zu) ihrem Oberteil völlig aneinander in einem inge; also machte er es mit ihnen beiden an den beiden Winkeln.

30 Und es waren acht Bretter, und ihre Füße von Silber: sechzehn Füße, je zwei Füße unter einem Brette.

31 Und er machte iegel von Akazienholz: fünf zu den Brettern der einen Seite der Wohnung,

32 und fünf iegel zu den Brettern der anderen Seite der Wohnung, und fünf iegel zu den Brettern der Wohnung an der Hinterseite gegen Westen;

33 und er machte den mittleren iegel in der Mitte der Bretter durchlaufend von einem Ende zum anderen.

34 Und er überzog die Bretter mit Gold; und ihre inge, die Behälter für die iegel, machte er von Gold, und überzog die iegel mit Gold.

35 Und er machte den Vorhang von blauem und rotem Purpur und Karmesin und gezwirntem Byssus; in Kunstweberarbeit machte er ihn, mit Cherubim.

36 Und er machte zu demselben vier Säulen von Akazienholz und überzog sie mit Gold, ihre Haken von Gold, und er goß zu denselben vier Füße von Silber.

37 Und er machte für den Eingang des Zeltes einen Vorhang von blauem und rotem Purpur und Karmesin und gezwirntem Byssus, in Buntwirkerarbeit;

38 und seine fünf Säulen und ihre Haken; und er überzog ihre Köpfe und ihre Bindestäbe mit Gold; und ihre fünf Füße waren von Erz.

   

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Tabernacle

  

In 1 Samuel 1:9, the tabernacle signifies the truth of faith with man. (Arcana Coelestia 2048)

A temple signifies the Lord's spiritual church; in a universal sense, the spiritual kingdom; in the highest sense, the Lord as to His Divine Truth. (Arcana Coelestia 3720)

In 1 Samuel 3:3, when the lamp had not been put out, and Samuel was sleeping in the tabernacle, this signifies that the extinction of truth in worship had not yet been fully accomplished. (Apocalypse Explained 403[18])

In Psalm 65:4, being satisfied with the goodness of the holy place of the temple signifies to be intelligent from divine truth, and to realize heavenly joy therefrom. (Apocalypse Explained 630[11])

In Revelation 21:22, that there is no temple in the New Jerusalem signifies that in that new church, the external worship will not be separate from internal. (Apocalypse Explained 918)

'The Tabernacle,' as in Revelation 13, signifies the church regarding doctrine and worship. 'The tabernacle' has almost the same meaning as 'temple,' that is, in the highest sense, the Lord's divine humanity, and in a relative sense, heaven and the church. But 'tabernacle' as heaven and the church signifies the celestial church, which is in the good of love from the Lord to the Lord, and 'temple,' the spiritual church, which is in the truths of wisdom from the Lord. 'The tabernacle' signifies the celestial kingdom, because the most ancient church, which was celestial, in a state of love to the Lord, performed divine worship in tabernacles. The ancient church, which was a spiritual church, performed divine worship in temples. Tabernacles were made of wood, and temples, stone. 'Wood' signifies good, and 'stone,' truth. Since the most ancient church, a celestial church, because of their love to the Lord, and resulting conjunction with Him, celebrated divine worship in tabernacles, so the Lord commanded Moses to build a tabernacle, which represented everything of heaven and the church. It was so holy, that it was not lawful for anyone to go into it, except Moses, Aaron, and his sons. If any of the people entered, they would die, as in Numbers 17:12-13, 18:1, 22, 23, and 19:14-19. The ark was in its center, which contained the two tables of the Decalogue, and was topped with the mercy seat and the cherubim. Outside of the veil, there were the table for the shew-bread, the altar of incense, and the candlestick with seven lamps. All of these things represented heaven and the church. The Tabernacle is described Exodus 26:7-16 and 36:8-37, and its design was shown to Moses on Mount Sinai, as in Exodus 25:9 and 26:30. Anything seen from heaven is representative of heaven, and so of the church. The feast of tabernacles was instituted in memory of the most holy worship of the Lord in tabernacles by the most ancient people, and of their conjunction with Him by love, as mentioned in Leviticus 23:39-44, Deuteronomy 16:13-14 and Zechariah 14:16-19.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 585; Numbers 18:22-23, 19:14-19; Zechariah 14)


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Apocalypse Explained # 397

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397. Until their fellow-servants as well as their brethren, who were to be killed, as they also were, should be fulfilled, signifies until evils were consummated. This is evident from the signification of "until they should be fulfilled," as being until they were consummated; also from the signification of "their fellow-servants as well as their brethren, who were to be killed, as they also were," as being evils, for to kill these denotes evil, "fellow-servants" meaning those who are in truths, and "brethren" those who are in goods, and "fellow-servants" and "brethren" together those who are in truths from good; for in the internal sense the two are conjoined into one.

"Consummation" is mentioned in some passages in the Word, likewise "when evils are consummated," but scarcely anyone at this day knows what this signifies. In three articles above (n. 391, 392, 394) it is said that the former heaven consisted of such as had led a moral life in externals, and yet were internally evil, and that these dwelt in high places in the spiritual world, and therefore thought themselves to be in heaven.

These, because they were interiorly evil, would not tolerate among them those that were interiorly good, and this because their affections and thoughts were discordant, for all consociations in the spiritual world are effected according to agreement of affections and thence of thoughts; for angels and spirits are nothing but affections and thoughts therefrom in a human form; and as those who then were in the high places could not endure the presence of those who were interiorly good, they cast them out from among them, and wherever they saw them, treated them wrongfully and shamefully, consequently the good were delivered by the Lord from this violence and concealed under heaven and preserved; and this was taking place from the time when the Lord was in the world even until this time when the judgment was accomplished; then those who were on high places were cast down, and those who were under heaven were elevated. The evil were tolerated so long on the high places, and the good were detained so long under heaven, in order that both "might be fulfilled," which means that there might be a sufficient number of the good to form a new heaven, and also that the evil might sink down of themselves into hell; for the Lord casts no one down into hell, but the evil itself which is with evil spirits casts them down (as may be seen in the work on Heaven and Hell 545-550). This takes place when evils are consummated, that is, fulfilled.

[2] This also is what is meant by the Lord's words in Matthew:

The servants of the householder coming, said, Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? whence then are the tares? And they said, Wilt thou therefore that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay, lest in gathering the tares ye root up at the same time the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them into bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into the barn. So shall it be in the consummation of the age (Matthew 13:27-30, 37-42).

"The consummation of the age" is the last time when judgment takes place; "the time of harvest" is when all things are consummated, that is, are fulfilled; "the tares" mean evils or those in whom evils are, and "the wheat" means goods or those in whom goods are. (But of these see further in the small work on The Last Judgment 65-72.) From all this it can in some measure be known why it was said to them "that they should rest yet a little time, until their fellow-servants, as well as their brethren, who were to be killed, as they also were, should be fulfilled;" "to be killed" has here the like signification as "to be slain" above n. 392, namely, to be rejected by the evil because of Divine truth, and because of their confession of the Lord.

[3] When this is known it can be known what is signified by "consummation" and by "iniquity consummated" in the following passages. In Moses:

Jehovah said, I will go down and see whether they have made a consummation, according to the cry that is come unto Me (Genesis 18:20-21).

This is said of Sodom. In the same:

For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet consummated [fulfilled] (Genesis 15:16).

In Isaiah:

A consummation and decision I have heard from the Lord Jehovih of Hosts upon the whole earth (Isaiah 28:22).

In the same:

A consummation is determined, righteousness has overflowed. For the Lord Jehovih of Hosts is making a consummation and a decision in the whole earth (Isaiah 10:22-23).

In Zephaniah:

In the fire of the zeal of Jehovah of Hosts the whole land shall be devoured; for He shall make a consummation, even a speedy one, with all the inhabitants of the land (Zephaniah 1:18).

In Daniel:

At last upon the bird of abominations shall be desolation, and even to the consummation and decision it shall drop upon the devastation (Daniel 9:27);

and elsewhere. "Consummation" and "decision" in these passages signify the last state of the church, a state in which there is no longer any truth because there is no good, or in which there is no longer any faith because there is no charity; and when this is the state of the church, then comes the Last Judgment. The Last Judgment then comes, for the further reason that the human race is the basis or foundation of the angelic heaven, for the conjunction of the angelic heaven with the human race is perpetual, the one subsisting by means of the other; when therefore the basis does not correspond the angelic heaven totters; consequently there must then be a judgment upon those who are in the spiritual world, that all things in the heavens as well as in the hells, may be reduced to order. (That the human race is the basis and foundation of the angelic heaven, and that the conjunction is perpetual, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 291-310.) From this it can be known that "consummation" means the last state of the church, when there is no longer any faith because there is no charity. This state of the church is also called in the Word "vastation" and "desolation," and by the Lord "the consummation of the age" (Matthew 13:39, 40, 49; 24:3; 28:20).

  
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