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Hesekiel 46

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1 So spricht der HERR HERR: Das Tor am innern Vorhof morgenwärts soll die sechs Werktage zugeschlossen sein; aber am Sabbat und am Neumonde soll man's auftun.

2 Und der Fürst soll von draußen unter die Halle des Tors treten und bei dem Pfosten am Tor stehenbleiben. Und die Priester sollen sein Brandopfer und Dankopfer opfern; er aber soll auf der Schwelle des Tors anbeten und darnach wieder hinausgehen; das Tor aber soll offen bleiben bis an den Abend.

3 Desgleichen das Volk im Lande soll an der Tür desselben Tors anbeten vor dem HERRN an den Sabbaten und Neumonden.

4 Das Brandopfer aber, so der Fürst vor dem HERRN opfern soll am Sabbattage, soll sein sechs Lämmer, die ohne Fehl seien, und ein Widder ohne Fehl;

5 Und je ein Epha zu einem Widder zum Speisopfer, zu den Lämmern aber, soviel seine Hand gibt, zum Speisopfer, und je ein Hin Öl zu einem Epha.

6 Am Neumonde aber soll er einen jungen Farren opfern, der ohne Fehl sei, und sechs Lämmer und einen Widder auch ohne Fehl;

7 und je ein Epha zum Farren und je ein Epha zum Widder zum Speisopfer, aber zu den Lämmern soviel, als er geben mag, und je ein Hin Öl zu einem Epha.

8 Und wenn der Fürst hineingeht, soll er durch die Halle des Tors hineingehen und desselben Weges wieder herausgehen.

9 Aber das Volk im Lande, so vor den HERRN kommt auf die hohen Feste und zum Tor gegen Mitternacht hineingeht, anzubeten, das soll durch das Tor gegen Mittag wieder herausgehen; und welche zum Tor gegen Mittag hineingehen, die sollen zum Tor gegen Mitternacht wieder herausgehen; und sollen nicht wieder zu dem Tor hinausgehen, dadurch sie hinein sind gegangen, sondern stracks vor sich hinausgehen.

10 Der Fürst aber soll mit ihnen hinein und heraus gehen.

11 Aber an den Feiertagen und hohen Festen soll man zum Speisopfer je zu einem Farren ein Epha und je zu einem Widder ein Epha opfern und zu den Lämmern, soviel seine Hand gibt, und je ein Hin Öl zu einem Epha.

12 Wenn aber der Fürst ein freiwilliges Brandopfer oder Dankopfer dem HERRN tun wollte, so soll man ihm das Tor gegen Morgen auftun, daß er sein Brandopfer und Dankopfer opfere, wie er's sonst am Sabbat pflegt zu opfern; und wenn er wieder herausgeht, soll man das Tor nach ihm zuschließen.

13 Und er soll dem HERRN täglich ein Brandopfer tun, nämlich ein jähriges Lamm ohne Fehl; dasselbe soll er alle Morgen opfern.

14 Und soll alle Morgen den sechsten Teil von einem Epha zum Speisopfer darauftun und den dritten Teil von einem Hin Öl auf das Semmelmehl zu träufen, dem HERRN zum Speisopfer; das soll ein ewiges Recht sein vom täglichem Opfer.

15 Und also sollen sie das Lamm samt dem Speisopfer und Öl alle Morgen opfern zum täglichen Brandopfer.

16 So spricht der HERR HERR: Wenn der Fürst seiner Söhne einem ein Geschenk gibt von seinem Erbe, dasselbe soll seinen Söhnen bleiben, und sie sollen es erblich besitzen.

17 Wo er aber seiner Knechte einem von seinem Erbteil etwas schenkt, das sollen sie besitzen bis aufs Freijahr und soll alsdann dem Fürsten wieder heimfallen; denn sein Teil soll allein auf seine Söhne erben.

18 Es soll auch der Fürst dem Volk nichts nehmen von seinem Erbteil noch sie aus ihren Gütern stoßen, sondern soll sein eigenes Gut auf seine Kinder vererben, auf daß meines Volks nicht jemand von seinem Eigentum zerstreut werde.

19 Und er führte mich durch den Eingang an der Seite des Tors gegen Mitternacht zu den Kammern des Heiligtums, so den Priestern gehörten; und siehe, daselbst war ein Raum in der Ecke gegen Abend.

20 Und er sprach zu mir: Dies ist der Ort, da die Priester kochen sollen das Schuldopfer und Sündopfer und das Speisopfer backen, daß sie es nicht hinaus in den äußeren Vorhof tragen müssen, das Volk zu heiligen.

21 Darnach führte er mich hinaus in den äußeren Vorhof und hieß mich gehen in die vier Ecken des Vorhofs.

22 Und siehe, da war in jeglicher der vier Ecken ein anderes Vorhöflein, vierzig Ellen lang und dreißig Ellen breit, alle vier einerlei Maßes.

23 Und es ging ein Mäuerlein um ein jegliches der vier; da waren Herde herum gemacht unten an den Mauern.

24 Und er sprach zu mir: Dies sind die Küchen, darin die Diener des Hauses kochen sollen, was das Volk opfert.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 36

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36. I became in the spirit on the Lord's day. (1:10) This symbolizes a spiritual state then owing to Divine influx.

"I became in the spirit" means, symbolically, a spiritual state, the state in which John was while he was experiencing the visions, and which we will take up in the following exposition. "On the Lord's day" symbolizes influx from the Lord then, for that day brings the Lord's presence, as it is a holy day.

Concerning the prophets we read that they were in the spirit or in vision, and that the Word came to them from Jehovah.

When they were in the spirit or in vision, they were not in the body, but in their spirit, a state in which they saw phenomena such as are found in heaven. But when the Word came to them, they were then in the body and heard Jehovah speaking.

These two states of the prophets must be properly distinguished. In the state of vision the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body closed; and they heard then what angels said, and what Jehovah said through angels, and also saw representations produced for them in heaven. Moreover, they sometimes seemed to themselves to be taken then from place to place, their body remaining where it was.

[2] This was the state in which John was when he wrote the book of Revelation, and the state sometimes experienced by Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel. They also said that they were then in vision or in the spirit. For Ezekiel says,

The Spirit lifted me up... and brought me back into Chaldea, to those in captivity, in a vision (of God), in the spirit of God. (Thus) went up from me the vision that I had seen. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He also says that the Spirit lifted him up, and he heard behind him an earthquake, and more (Ezekiel 3:12, 24). So, too, that the Spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, that it brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, and that he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3f.). He was likewise in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw the four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1; 10), as also when he saw a new earth and a new temple, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). That he was then in the visions of God, he himself says (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] The same was the case with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time, when he saw a man riding a horse among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.); when he saw the four horns, and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.); when he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.); when he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6); when he saw the four chariots coming from between two mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in a like state when he saw the four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat between the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). He himself says that he saw these things in visions (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8), and that the angel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

[4] The same was the case with John, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands (Revelation 1), and finally, the new heaven and the new earth, and then the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven (Revelation 21, 22. John himself says that he saw these things in the spirit and in vision (1:10; 4:2; 9:17; 21:10). This, too, is meant by the statement, "I saw," everywhere it occurs in this book.

[5] It is clearly apparent from this that to be in the spirit is to be in a state of vision, which is brought about by an opening of the sight of a person's spirit; and when this is opened, phenomena found in the spiritual world are as clearly visible as those in the natural world are to the sight of the body.

The reality of this is something I can attest to from many years' experience.

The disciples were in this state when they saw the Lord after His resurrection, which is why are told that their eyes were opened (Luke 24:30-31).

Abraham was in a like state when he saw the three angels and spoke with them. 1

So, too, Hagar, Gideon, Joshua and others, when they saw angels of Jehovah. Likewise when Elisha's lad saw the mountain full of fiery chariots and horses all around Elisha, for Elisha prayed and said,

"Jehovah, open, I pray, his eyes that he may see." And Jehovah opened the eyes of the lad, and he saw. (2 Kings 6:17)

As regards the Word, however, it was not revealed in a state of the spirit or of vision, but the Lord dictated it to the prophets in an audible voice. Consequently we are nowhere told that the prophets spoke it from the Holy Spirit, but from Jehovah. See The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, no. 53.

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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.

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2 Kings 6

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1 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we dwell before you is too small for us.

2 Please let us go to the Jordan, and every man take a beam from there, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell." He answered, "go!"

3 One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go."

4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."

6 The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.

7 He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took it.

8 Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, "My camp will be in such and such a place."

9 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you not pass such a place; for the Syrians are coming down there."

10 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.

11 The heart of the king of Syria was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, "Won't you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?"

12 One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."

13 He said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." It was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan."

14 Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.

15 When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"

16 He answered, "Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."

17 Elisha prayed, and said, "Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see." Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

19 Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." He led them to Samaria.

20 It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, "Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?"

22 He answered, "You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master."

23 He prepared great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.

24 It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"

27 He said, "If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"

28 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son."

30 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.

31 Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day."

32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?"

33 While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, "Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?"