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Amos 3

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1 Höret dieses Wort, das Jehova über euch redet, ihr Kinder Israel, über das ganze Geschlecht, welches ich aus dem Lande Ägypten heraufgeführt habe!

2 Indem er spricht: Nur euch habe ich von allen Geschlechtern der Erde erkannt; darum werde ich alle eure Missetaten an euch heimsuchen.

3 Wandeln wohl zwei miteinander, es sei denn, daß sie übereingekommen sind?

4 Brüllt der Löwe im Walde, wenn er keinen Raub hat? Läßt der junge Löwe seine Stimme aus seiner Höhle erschallen, außer wenn er einen Fang getan hat?

5 Fällt der Vogel in die Schlinge am Boden, wenn ihm kein Sprenkel gelegt ist? Schnellt die Schlinge von der Erde empor, wenn sie gar nichts gefangen hat?

6 Oder wird die Posaune in der Stadt geblasen, und das Volk sollte nicht erschrecken? Oder geschieht ein Unglück in der Stadt, und Jehova hätte es nicht bewirkt?

7 Denn der Herr, Jehova, tut nichts, es sei denn, daß er sein Geheimnis seinen Knechten, den Propheten, geoffenbart habe. -

8 Der Löwe hat gebrüllt, wer sollte sich nicht fürchten? Der Herr, Jehova, hat geredet, wer sollte nicht weissagen?

9 Rufet über die Paläste in Asdod und über die Paläste im Lande Ägypten hin und sprechet: Versammelt euch auf den Bergen von Samaria, und sehet die große Verwirrung in seiner Mitte und die Bedrückungen in seinem Innern!

10 Und sie wissen nicht zu tun, was recht ist, spricht Jehova, sie, welche Gewalttat und Zerstörung häufen in ihren Palästen.

11 Darum, so spricht der Herr, Jehova: Der Feind, und zwar rings um das Land her! Und er wird deine Macht von dir herabstürzen, und dein Paläste werden geplündert werden.

12 So spricht Jehova: Gleichwie der Hirt zwei Beine oder einen Ohrzipfel aus dem Rachen des Löwen rettet, also werden gerettet werden die Kinder Israel, welche in Samaria in der Ecke des Polsters und auf dem Damaste des Ruhebettes sitzen. -

13 Höret und bezeuget es dem Hause Jakob, spricht der Herr, Jehova, der Gott der Heerscharen:

14 An dem Tage, da ich Israels Übertretungen an ihm heimsuchen werde, werde ich auch die Altäre von Bethel heimsuchen; und die Hörner des Altars sollen abgehauen werden und zu Boden fallen.

15 Und ich werde das Winterhaus zertrümmern samt dem Sommerhause; und die Elfenbeinhäuser werden zu Grunde gehen, die großen Häuser werden verschwinden, spricht Jehova.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 392

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392. Then another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer. (8:3) This symbolizes spiritual worship, which originates from the goodness of charity expressed through truths of faith.

The altar at which the angel stood, and the golden censer that he had in his hand, symbolize worship of the Lord springing from a spiritual love, which is worship that originates from the goodness of charity expressed through truths of faith.

The children of Israel had two altars, one outside the Tabernacle, the other inside the Tabernacle. The altar outside the Tabernacle was called the altar of burnt offering, because burnt offerings and other sacrifices were presented on it. The altar inside the Tabernacle was called the altar of incense, and also the golden altar.

They had these two altars because worship of the Lord originates from celestial love and from spiritual love - from celestial love in the case of angels in His celestial kingdom, and from spiritual love in the case of angels in His spiritual kingdom. Regarding these two kingdoms, see no. 387 above.

Regarding the two altars, see the following passages in the books of Moses: On the altar of burnt offering, Exodus 20:24-26; 27:1-8; 29:36-43, Leviticus 6:8-12; 8:11; 16:18-19, 33-34. On the altar of incense, Exodus 30:1-10; 31:8; 37:25-29; 40:5, 26, Numbers 7:1.

John saw altars, censers, and the burning of incense, not because things of that kind are found in heaven. They were simply images representative of the worship of the Lord there. John saw them because such things were instituted among the children of Israel, and are often mentioned, therefore, in the Word. Moreover that church was a representational church, for every aspect of their worship was representative, and therefore those things now symbolize the Lord's Divinely given celestial and spiritual elements which are connected with His church in heaven and on earth.

[2] These same things are therefore symbolically meant in the Word by these two altars in the following places:

Send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me... to Your habitations. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God... (Psalms 43:3-4)

I wash my hands in innocence, and go around your altar, O Jehovah, and I will make to be heard the voice of confession... (Psalms 26:6-7)

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron... on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars... (Jeremiah 17:1-2)

God is Jehovah, who gives us light; bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. (Psalms 118:27)

In that day there will be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt... (Isaiah 19:19)

An altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt symbolizes worship of the Lord originating from love in the natural person.

The thistle and thorn shall rise up on their altars. (Hosea 10:8)

These symbolize worship originating from evils and from the falsities accompanying evil.

See also elsewhere, such as Isaiah 27:9; 56:6-7; 60:7.

[3] Since an altar represented and so symbolized worship of the Lord, it is apparent that the altar here in the book of Revelation has no other meaning, and so, too, elsewhere. As for example:

...I saw under the altar the souls of those slain for the Word of God... (Revelation 6:9)

...the angel stood and said, ."..measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it." (Revelation 11:1)

...I heard another (angel) from the altar saying, ."..true and just are Your judgments." (Revelation 16:7)

Since representative worship was carried out principally upon the two altars, and since it was abolished by the Lord when He came into the world because He laid open the inner qualities of a church, we are accordingly told in Isaiah,

In that day a man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will regard the Holy One of Israel, and... not... to the altars, the work of his hands. (Isaiah 17:7-8)

  
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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.