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Και θελεις καμει δια την σκηνην σανιδας εκ ξυλου σιττιμ ορθιας·
Apocalypse Revealed # 530
530. And there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. This symbolizes the reasonings, disturbances, and falsifications of goodness and truth then in the lower regions.
Lightnings, voices and thunderings symbolize reasonings (no. 396). Earthquakes symbolize changes in the state of the church (no. 331), here disturbances. Great hail symbolizes falsifications of truth and goodness (no. 399).
These things took place in the lower regions where evil people still remained before the Last Judgment was executed on them. For we are told in the preceding verse 18 that "the time to judge the dead" has come, "and to destroy those who are destroying the earth."
Such phenomena occur in the world of spirits owing to the presence and influx of heaven that is above them.
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Exodus 24:4-10
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Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
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He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.
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Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
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He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."
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Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
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Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
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They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
