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Yechezchial 1

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1 ויהי בשלשים שנה ברביעי בחמשה לחדש ואני בתוך־הגולה על־נהר־כבר נפתחו השמים ואראה מראות אלהים׃

2 בחמשה לחדש היא השנה החמישית לגלות המלך יויכין׃

3 היה היה דבר־יהוה אל־יחזקאל בן־בוזי הכהן בארץ כשדים על־נהר־כבר ותהי עליו שם יד־יהוה׃

4 וארא והנה רוח סערה באה מן־הצפון עןן גדול ואש מתלקחת ונגה לו סביב ומתוכה כעין החשמל מתוך האש׃

5 ומתוכה דמות ארבע חיות וזה מראיהן דמות אדם להנה׃

6 וארבעה פנים לאחת וארבע כנפים לאחת להם׃

7 ורגליהם רגל ישרה וכף רגליהם ככף רגל עגל ונצצים כעין נחשת קלל׃

8 [כ= וידו] [ק= וידי] אדם מתחת כנפיהם על ארבעת רבעיהם ופניהם וכנפיהם לארבעתם׃

9 חברת אשה אל־אחותה כנפיהם לא־יסבו בלכתן איש אל־עבר פניו ילכו׃

10 ודמות פניהם פני אדם ופני אריה אל־הימין לארבעתם ופני־שור מהשמאול לארבעתן ופני־נשר לארבעתן׃

11 ופניהם וכנפיהם פרדות מלמעלה לאיש שתים חברות איש ושתים מכסות את גויתיהנה׃

12 ואיש אל־עבר פניו ילכו אל אשר יהיה־שמה הרוח ללכת ילכו לא יסבו בלכתן׃

13 ודמות החיות מראיהם כגחלי־אש בערות כמראה הלפדים היא מתהלכת בין החיות ונגה לאש ומן־האש יוצא ברק׃

14 והחיות רצוא ושוב כמראה הבזק׃

15 וארא החיות והנה אופן אחד בארץ אצל החיות לארבעת פניו׃

16 מראה האופנים ומעשיהם כעין תרשיש ודמות אחד לארבעתן ומראיהם ומעשיהם כאשר יהיה האופן בתוך האופן׃

17 על־ארבעת רבעיהן בלכתם ילכו לא יסבו בלכתן׃

18 וגביהן וגבה להם ויראה להם וגבתם מלאת עינים סביב לארבעתן׃

19 ובלכת החיות ילכו האופנים אצלם ובהנשא החיות מעל הארץ ינשאו האופנים׃

20 על אשר יהיה־שם הרוח ללכת ילכו שמה הרוח ללכת והאופנים ינשאו לעמתם כי רוח החיה באופנים׃

21 בלכתם ילכו ובעמדם יעמדו ובהנשאם מעל הארץ ינשאו האופנים לעמתם כי רוח החיה באופנים׃

22 ודמות על־ראשי החיה רקיע כעין הקרח הנורא נטוי על־ראשיהם מלמעלה׃

23 ותחת הרקיע כנפיהם ישרות אשה אל־אחותה לאיש שתים מכסות להנה ולאיש שתים מכסות להנה את גויתיהם׃

24 ואשמע את־קול כנפיהם כקול מים רבים כקול־שדי בלכתם קול המלה כקול מחנה בעמדם תרפינה כנפיהן׃

25 ויהי־קול מעל לרקיע אשר על־ראשם בעמדם תרפינה כנפיהן׃

26 וממעל לרקיע אשר על־ראשם כמראה אבן־ספיר דמות כסא ועל דמות הכסא דמות כמראה אדם עליו מלמעלה׃

27 וארא כעין חשמל כמראה־אש בית־לה סביב ממראה מתניו ולמעלה וממראה מתניו ולמטה ראיתי כמראה־אש ונגה לו סביב׃

28 כמראה הקשת אשר יהיה בעןן ביום הגשם כן מראה הנגה סביב הוא מראה דמות כבוד־יהוה ואראה ואפל על־פני ואשמע קול מדבר׃ ס

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Scriptural Confirmations # 51

  
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51. 23. (This city [Jerusalem] shall be devastated so that there is no inhabitant (Jer. 26:9). This city shall become a devastation (Jeremiah 27:17).)

That great day there is none like it, a time of trouble (Jeremiah 30:7).

Behold the tempest of the anger of Jehovah shall go forth, a tempest rushing upon the head of the impious. In the latter days ye shall understand it (Jeremiah 30:23-24).

(Jerusalem and the cities of Judah are a desolation, nor is there an inhabitant in them (Jeremiah 44:2, 6, 22).)

(Because of the day that cometh to lay waste all the Philistines (Jeremiah 47:4). Throughout the chapter the vastation of the Philistines is treated of, who are those that are in some understanding of truth but not in the will of good, whence there is profanation of the truth by falsities, as with those who are in faith alone.)

(Of the vastation of those who adulterate the goods of the Word and the church, who are described by Moab: of their vastation the whole chapter treats (Jeremiah 48). And there vastation, desolation and visitation are mentioned (verses 1, 3, 8-9, 15, 20, 32, 34), visitation (verse 44). Again, of the desolation of those who adulterate the truths of the church; who is the man of Edom (49:7-22). Vastation and desolation are named (49:10, 13, 17, 20). Moreover, of those who falsify truths, who are the sons of Ammon, Damascus and Elam (Jeremiah 49, particularly verses 2-3 seq.).

Of those who vastate the church by the love of self and the love of dominion, who are Babel (Jeremiah 50:1 to the end), where in particular vastation and desolation are named (verses 3, 13, 23, 27, 45).

(Of the vastation of the Word and the church by Babel, throughout the chapter (Jeremiah 51) where vastation and desolation in particular are named and described (verses 26, 29, 41, 43, 48, 53, 55-56, 62).

Everywhere in the prophets vastation and desolation are described by the sword, famine, and pestilence. By the "sword" is meant falsity, by "famine" the loss of truth and good, by "pestilence" the evil of that life; they are also called the "slain" and many times it is said they are without bread and water, as in Ezekiel 11:6-7, and elsewhere.

  
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Ezekiel 10

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1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.

3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory.

5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

7 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

8 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.

9 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.

10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.

12 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, [even] the wheels that the four of them had.

13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

14 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

15 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.

17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

21 Every one had four faces, and Every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.