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Jeremia 21

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1 Das Wort, welches von seiten Jehovas zu Jeremia geschah, als der König Zedekia Paschchur, den Sohn Malkijas, und Zephanja, den Sohn Maasejas, den Priester, zu ihm sandte und sagen ließ:

2 Befrage doch Jehova für uns, denn Nebukadrezar, der König von Babel, streitet wider uns; vielleicht wird Jehova mit uns handeln nach allen seinen Wundern, daß er von uns abziehe.

3 Und Jeremia sprach zu ihnen: Also sollt ihr zu Zedekia sagen:

4 So spricht Jehova, der Gott Israels: Siehe, ich will die Kriegswaffen umwenden, die in eurer Hand sind, mit welchen ihr außerhalb der Mauer wider den König von Babel und wider die Chaldäer streitet, die euch belagern, und sie (näml. die Kriegswaffen) in diese Stadt hinein versammeln.

5 Und ich selbst werde wider euch streiten mit ausgestreckter Hand und mit starkem Arm und mit Zorn und mit Grimm und mit großer Wut.

6 Und ich werde die Bewohner dieser Stadt schlagen, sowohl Menschen als Vieh; an einer großen Pest sollen sie sterben.

7 Und danach, spricht Jehova, werde ich Zedekia, den König von Juda, und seine Knechte und das Volk, und zwar die in dieser Stadt von der Pest, vom Schwerte und vom Hunger Übriggebliebenen, in die Hand Nebukadrezars, des Königs von Babel, geben, und in die Hand ihrer Feinde und in die Hand derer, welche nach ihrem Leben trachten; und er wird sie schlagen mit der Schärfe des Schwertes, er wird ihrer nicht schonen, noch Mitleid haben, noch sich erbarmen.

8 Und zu diesem Volke sollst du sagen: So spricht Jehova: Siehe, ich lege euch den Weg des Lebens vor und den Weg des Todes.

9 Wer in dieser Stadt bleibt, wird sterben durch das Schwert und durch den Hunger und durch die Pest; wer aber hinausgeht und zu den Chaldäern überläuft, die euch belagern, wird leben, und seine Seele wird ihm zur Beute sein.

10 Denn ich habe mein Angesicht wider diese Stadt gerichtet zum Bösen und nicht zum Guten, spricht Jehova; sie wird in die Hand des Königs von Babel gegeben werden, und er wird sie mit Feuer verbrennen. -

11 Und zu dem Hause des Königs von Juda sollst du sagen: Höret das Wort Jehovas!

12 Haus David, so spricht Jehova: Haltet jeden Morgen Gericht und befreiet den Beraubten aus der Hand des Bedrückers, damit mein Grimm nicht ausbreche wie ein Feuer und unauslöschlich brenne wegen der Bosheit eurer Handlungen.

13 Siehe, ich will an dich, du Bewohnerin (d. i. Jerusalem und seine Einwohnerschaft) des Tales, des Felsens (der Berg Zion; vergl. Kap. 17,3) der Ebene, spricht Jehova; die ihr sprechet: Wer wird wider uns herabsteigen, und wer wird in unsere Wohnungen kommen?

14 Und ich will euch heimsuchen nach der Frucht eurer Handlungen, spricht Jehova; und ich will ein Feuer anzünden in ihrem (bezieht sich auf die Bewohnerin des Tales) Walde, daß es alle ihre Umgebungen verzehre.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 649

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649. Verse 7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, signifies in the end of the church, when the Divine of the Lord is no longer acknowledged, and thence there is no longer any good of love or truth of doctrine. This is evident from the signification of "testimony," as being the acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord, and thence of the good of love and truth of doctrine (of which presently), and from the signification of "to finish it," as being to bring to an end; and as this comes to an end at the end of the church; "to finish" here signifies the end of the church; and as there is then no longer any acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord, there is therefore no good of love or truth of doctrine.

[2] That this is the signification of "testimony," can be seen from what has been thus far said about "the two witnesses," namely, that by them the good of love and charity and the truth of doctrine and faith are meant, because these are what especially testify concerning the Lord, for they are from the Lord, and are His with man; therefore "their testimony" signifies preaching concerning these. That "testimony" here signifies the acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord is evident from what follows in Revelation:

That the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Revelation 19:10).

For unless a man acknowledges this from the heart, and believes it from spiritual faith, he can have no ability to receive the good of love or the truth of doctrine.

[3] At the end of the church indeed the Lord is preached, and from doctrine a Divine is also attributed to Him like the Divine of the Father; yet scarcely anyone thinks of His Divine, for the reason that they place it above or outside of His Human; therefore they do not look to the Lord when they look to His Divine, but to the Father as to another, and yet the Divine that is called the Father is in the Lord, as He Himself teaches in John 10:30, 38; 14:7. For this reason men think of the Lord in the same way as they think of a common man, and from that thought their faith flows, however much they may say with the lips that they believe in His Divine. Let anyone explore, if he can, the idea of his thought about the Lord, whether it be not such. But when it is such man cannot be conjoined to the Lord by faith and love, nor through conjunction receive any good of love or truth of faith. This, then, is why there is at the end of the church no acknowledgment of the Lord, that is, of the Divine in the Lord and from the Lord. It is believed that there is an acknowledgment of the Divine of the Lord, because such is the doctrine of the church; but so long as His Divine is separated from His Human, His Divine is yet not acknowledged interiorly but only exteriorly, and to acknowledge exteriorly is to acknowledge with the mouth only and not with the heart, or in speech only and not in faith.

[4] That this is so can be seen from Christians in the other life, where the thoughts of the heart are manifested. When they are permitted to speak from doctrine and from what they have heard from preaching they attribute a Divine to the Lord, and call it their belief; but when their interior thought and faith are explored they have no other idea of the Lord than as of a common man who has no Divine. It is man's interior thought that is the source of his faith; and as such is the thought and consequent faith of man's spirit, there is plainly no acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord and from the Lord in the Christian world at the end of the church. In other words, there is an external acknowledgment of the Divine of the Lord, but no internal, and an external acknowledgment is of the natural man alone, while internal acknowledgment is of his very spirit; and after death the external acknowledgment is put to sleep, while the internal is the acknowledgment of his spirit. From this it can in some measure be seen how what follows is to be understood, namely, "the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall overcome and kill the two witnesses," and their "bodies shall be seen upon the street of the city that is called Sodom and Egypt," and afterwards that "the spirit of life entered into them."

  
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