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1 Und Mose stieg von den Ebenen Moabs auf den Berg Nebo, den Gipfel des Pisga, der Jericho gegenüber ist. Und Jehova ließ ihn das ganze Land sehen:

2 Das Gilead bis Dan, und das ganze Naphtali und das Land Ephraim und Manasse, und das ganze Land Juda bis zum hinteren Meere;

3 und den Süden und den Jordankreis, die Niederung von Jericho, der Palmenstadt, bis Zoar.

4 Und Jehova sprach zu ihm: Das ist das Land, welches ich Abraham, Isaak und Jakob zugeschworen habe, indem ich sprach: Deinem Samen will ich es geben. Ich habe es dich mit deinen Augen sehen lassen, aber du sollst nicht hinübergehen.

5 Und Mose, der Knecht Jehovas, starb daselbst im Lande Moab, nach dem Worte Jehovas.

6 Und er begrub ihn im Tale, im Lande Moab, Beth-Peor gegenüber; und niemand weiß sein Grab bis auf diesen Tag.

7 Und Mose war hundertzwanzig Jahre alt, als er starb; sein Auge war nicht schwach geworden, und seine Kraft nicht geschwunden.

8 Und die Kinder Israel beweinten Mose in den Ebenen Moabs dreißig Tage lang; und es wurden die Tage des Weinens der Trauer um Mose vollendet.

9 Und Josua, der Sohn Nuns, war erfüllt mit dem Geiste der Weisheit; denn Mose hatte seine Hände auf ihn gelegt; und die Kinder Israel gehorchten ihm und taten, so wie Jehova dem Mose geboten hatte.

10 Und es stand in Israel kein Prophet mehr auf wie Mose, welchen Jehova gekannt hätte von Angesicht zu Angesicht,

11 nach all den Zeichen und Wundern, die Jehova ihn gesandt hatte zu tun im Lande Ägypten, an dem Pharao und an allen seinen Knechten und an seinem ganzen Lande;

12 und nach all der starken Hand und nach all dem Großen und Furchtbaren, das Mose vor den Augen des ganzen Israel getan hat.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 474

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474. Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever. (10:6; 10:6) This symbolizes an attestation and testification of the Lord on His own authority.

The angel standing on the sea and on the land means the Lord (no. 470). Lifting up the hand to heaven symbolizes an attestation, here that there should be no more time (verse 6). Swearing symbolizes a testification, here that in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel the mystery of God would be concluded (verse 7). He who lives forever and ever means the Lord, as in Revelation 1:18; 4:9-10, and 5:14 above, and in Daniel 4:34. That the Lord swears on His own authority will be seen shortly.

It is apparent from this that the statement, "Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever," symbolizes an attestation and testification of the Lord on His own authority.

[2] That Jehovah swears or testifies on His own authority is clear from the following passages:

I have sworn by Myself; a word has gone out of My mouth (which) shall not return... (Isaiah 45:23)

I swear by Myself... that this house shall become a desolation. (Jeremiah 22:5)

Jehovah... has sworn by His soul. (Jeremiah 51:14, Amos 6:8)

...Jehovah has sworn by His holiness. (Amos 4:2)

Jehovah has sworn by His right hand and by the arm of His strength. (Isaiah 62:8)

Behold, I have sworn by My great name... (Jeremiah 44:26)

That Jehovah, which is to say, the Lord, swore by Himself or on His own authority means, symbolically, that Divine truth attests; for the Lord is Divine truth itself, and this attests of itself and on its own authority.

In addition to these passages, that Jehovah swore may be seen in Isaiah 14:24; 54:9, Psalms 89:3, 35; 95:11; 110:4; 132:11.

We are told that Jehovah swore because the church established with the children of Israel was a representational church, and the conjunction of the Lord with the church was represented by a covenant, like one made between two parties who swear to their compact. Therefore, because an oath was a part of any covenant, we are told that Jehovah swore. Still, this does not mean that He swore, but that Divine truth attests to something.

[3] That an oath was a part of any covenant is apparent from the following:

I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, so that you became Mine... (Ezekiel 16:8)

...to remember His covenant, the oath which He swore... (Luke 1:72-73; cf. Psalms 105:9, Jeremiah 11:5; 32:22, Deuteronomy 1:34; 10:11; 11:9, 21; 26:3, 15; 31:20; 34:4)

Because the covenant was representative of the conjunction of the Lord with the church, and reciprocally of the church with the Lord, and because an oath was a part of any covenant and was to be sworn on the ground of the truth in it, being sworn thus also in appeal to that truth, therefore the children of Israel were permitted to swear by Jehovah, and so in appeal to Divine truth (Exodus 20:7, Leviticus 19:12, Deuteronomy 6:13; 10:20, Isaiah 48:1; 65:16, Jeremiah 4:2, Zechariah 5:4).

After the representative constituents of the church were abrogated, however, the Lord also abrogated oaths to covenants (Matthew 5:33-37; 23:16-22).

  
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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.