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Daniel 12

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1 Und in jener Zeit wird Michael aufstehen, der große Fürst, der für die Kinder deines Volkes steht; und es wird eine Zeit der Drangsal sein, dergleichen nicht gewesen ist, seitdem eine Nation besteht bis zu jener Zeit. Und in jener Zeit wird dein Volk errettet werden, ein jeder, der im Buche geschrieben gefunden wird.

2 Und viele von denen, die im Staube der Erde schlafen, werden erwachen: diese zu ewigem Leben, und jene zur Schande, zu ewigem Abscheu.

3 Und die Verständigen werden leuchten wie der Glanz der Himmelsfeste, und die, welche die Vielen zur Gerechtigkeit weisen, wie die Sterne, immer und ewiglich.

4 Und du, Daniel, verschließe die Worte und versiegele das Buch bis zur Zeit des Endes. Viele werden es durchforschen, und die Erkenntnis wird sich mehren.

5 Und ich, Daniel, sah: und siehe, zwei andere standen da, einer hier am Ufer des Stromes, und einer dort am Ufer des Stromes.

6 Und einer sprach zu dem in Linnen gekleideten Mann, welcher oben über dem Wasser des Stromes war: Wie lange wird dauern das Ende dieser wunderbaren Dinge?

7 Und ich hörte den in Linnen gekleideten Mann, welcher oben über dem Wasser des Stromes war, und er erhob seine Rechte und seine Linke zum Himmel und schwur bei dem, der ewig lebt: Eine Zeit, Zeiten und eine halbe Zeit; und wenn die Zerschmetterung der Kraft des heiligen Volkes vollbracht sein wird, dann werden alle diese Dinge vollendet sein.

8 Und ich hörte es, aber ich verstand es nicht; und ich sprach: Mein Herr, was wird der Ausgang von diesem sein?

9 Und er sprach: Gehe hin, Daniel; denn die Worte sollen verschlossen und versiegelt sein bis zur Zeit des Endes.

10 Viele werden sich reinigen und weiß machen und läutern, aber die Gottlosen werden gottlos handeln; und keine der Gottlosen werden es verstehen, die Verständigen aber werden es verstehen.

11 Und von der Zeit an, da das beständige Opfer abgeschafft wird, und zwar um den verwüstenden Greuel aufzustellen, sind tausend zweihundertneunzig Tage.

12 Glückselig der, welcher harrt und tausend dreihundertfünfunddreißig Tage erreicht!

13 Du aber gehe hin bis zum Ende; und du wirst ruhen, und wirst auferstehen zu deinem Lose am Ende der Tage.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 947

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947. 22:10 And he said to me, "Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand." This symbolically means that the meaning of the book of Revelation shall not remain hidden, but must be disclosed, and that this is necessary at the end of the church for anyone to be saved.

Not sealing the words of the prophecy of this book means, symbolically, that the meaning of the book of Revelation shall not remain hidden, but must be disclosed, as will be explained below. "For the time is at hand" symbolically means that this is necessary for anyone to be saved. Time symbolizes state (nos. 476, 562), here the state of the church as being such as to make it necessary. To be at hand symbolizes necessity, because to be at hand does not mean nearness or immediacy in time, but nearness in state, and nearness in state means necessity. Plainly it does not mean immediacy in time, because the book of Revelation was written at the beginning of the first century, and the Lord's advent at the time of the Last Judgment and the New Church - meant here by the time being at hand, by things which must shortly take place (verse 6), and by the Lord's coming quickly (verses 7 and 20) - has only now, after seventeen centuries, appeared and come into being.

The same words as these are found in chapter 1 - "things which must shortly take place" (Revelation 1:1) and "the time is near" (Revelation 1:3) - which may be seen explained in nos. 4 and 9 above, where they have similar meanings.

[2] That to be at hand does not mean nearness or immediacy in time, but nearness in state, shall be illustrated. In its purely spiritual sense the Word does not contain anything derived from an idea of time or from an idea of space, because although intervals of time and space in heaven seem like intervals of time and space in the world, still these do not exist there. Consequently it is impossible for angels to measure intervals of time and space there, which are appearances, except in terms of state as these progress and change.

It can be seen from this that in a purely spiritual sense immediacy and nearness do not mean an immediacy and nearness in time, but an immediacy and nearness in state.

This can admittedly seem to be without reality. That is because every idea of people's lower thought, which is merely natural, contains something derived from time and space. Not so any idea of their higher thought, which people employ when they ponder natural, civic, moral and spiritual matters in the light of their inner, rational sight. For at those times a spiritual light flows in and enlightens, a light that is independent of time and space.

You may test this and be convinced if you wish. Simply attend to your own thoughts, and you, too, will then be convinced that you have a higher and lower thought, since a single line of thought is incapable of viewing itself, but can be viewed only by a higher one. Moreover, if a person did not have a higher and lower thought, he would not be human but an animal.

[3] Not sealing the words of the prophecy of this book means, symbolically, that the meaning of the book of Revelation shall not remain hidden, but must be disclosed, because to seal means to close up, and so not to seal means to open, and the time being at hand means, symbolically, that it is necessary. For the book of Revelation is a book sealed or closed as long as it remains unexplained. Furthermore, as shown in no. 944 above, the words of the prophecy of this book mean the doctrinal truths and precepts contained in this book, now laid open by the Lord.

That this is necessary at the end of the church for anyone to be saved may be seen in no. 9 above.

It can be seen from this that not sealing the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand, means, symbolically, that the book of Revelation shall not remain hidden, but must be disclosed, and that this is necessary at the end of the church for anyone to be saved.

  
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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.