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Yechezchial 38

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1 ויהי דבר־יהוה אלי לאמר׃

2 בן־אדם שים פניך אל־גוג ארץ המגוג נשיא ראש משך ותבל והנבא עליו׃

3 ואמרת כה אמר אדני יהוה הנני אליך גוג נשיא ראש משך ותבל׃

4 ושובבתיך ונתתי חחים בלחייך והוצאתי אותך ואת־כל־חילך סוסים ופרשים לבשי מכלול כלם קהל רב צנה ומגן תפשי חרבות כלם׃

5 פרס כוש ופוט אתם כלם מגן וכובע׃

6 גמר וכל־אגפיה בית תוגרמה ירכתי צפון ואת־כל־אגפיו עמים רבים אתך׃

7 הכן והכן לך אתה וכל־קהלך הנקהלים עליך והיית להם למשמר׃

8 מימים רבים תפקד באחרית השנים תבוא אל־ארץ משובבת מחרב מקבצת מעמים רבים על הרי ישראל אשר־היו לחרבה תמיד והיא מעמים הוצאה וישבו לבטח כלם׃

9 ועלית כשאה תבוא כעןן לכסות הארץ תהיה אתה וכל־אגפיך ועמים רבים אותך׃ ס

10 כה אמר אדני יהוה והיה ביום ההוא יעלו דברים על־לבבך וחשבת מחשבת רעה׃

11 ואמרת אעלה על־ארץ פרזות אבוא השקטים ישבי לבטח כלם ישבים באין חומה ובריח ודלתים אין להם׃

12 לשלל שלל ולבז בז להשיב ידך על־חרבות נושבת ואל־עם מאסף מגוים עשה מקנה וקנין ישבי על־טבור הארץ׃

13 שבא ודדן וסחרי תרשיש וכל־כפריה יאמרו לך הלשלל שלל אתה בא הלבז בז הקהלת קהלך לשאת כסף וזהב לקחת מקנה וקנין לשלל שלל גדול׃ ס

14 לכן הנבא בן־אדם ואמרת לגוג כה אמר אדני יהוה הלוא ביום ההוא בשבת עמי ישראל לבטח תדע׃

15 ובאת ממקומך מירכתי צפון אתה ועמים רבים אתך רכבי סוסים כלם קהל גדול וחיל רב׃

16 ועלית על־עמי ישראל כעןן לכסות הארץ באחרית הימים תהיה והבאותיך על־ארצי למען דעת הגוים אתי בהקדשי בך לעיניהם גוג׃ ס

17 כה־אמר אדני יהוה האתה־הוא אשר־דברתי בימים קדמונים ביד עבדי נביאי ישראל הנבאים בימים ההם שנים להביא אתך עליהם׃ ס

18 והיה ביום ההוא ביום בוא גוג על־אדמת ישראל נאם אדני יהוה תעלה חמתי באפי׃

19 ובקנאתי באש־עברתי דברתי אם־לא ביום ההוא יהיה רעש גדול על אדמת ישראל׃

20 ורעשו מפני דגי הים ועוף השמים וחית השדה וכל־הרמש הרמש על־האדמה וכל האדם אשר על־פני האדמה ונהרסו ההרים ונפלו המדרגות וכל־חומה לארץ תפול׃

21 וקראתי עליו לכל־הרי חרב נאם אדני יהוה חרב איש באחיו תהיה׃

22 ונשפטתי אתו בדבר ובדם וגשם שוטף ואבני אלגביש אש וגפרית אמטיר עליו ועל־אגפיו ועל־עמים רבים אשר אתו׃

23 והתגדלתי והתקדשתי ונודעתי לעיני גוים רבים וידעו כי־אני יהוה׃ ס

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 331

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331. And behold, there was a great earthquake. This symbolizes the state of the church among those people completely changed, and their terror.

Earthquakes symbolize changes in the state of the church because the earth symbolizes the church (no. 285), and because in the spiritual world, when the state of the church is corrupted somewhere and a change is made, an earthquake occurs. And because this presages the people's destruction, they are in terror. For lands in the spiritual world are in appearance like lands in the natural world (no. 260). But because lands there, like everything else in that world, have a spiritual origin, therefore those lands change in accordance with the state of the church among the inhabitants upon them, and when the state of the church is corrupted, the lands tremble and quake, even sinking down and being moved from their location.

That this is what happened when the Last Judgment was imminent and taking place may be seen in the short work, The Last Judgment.

It can be seen from this what quakes, shakings and removals of the earth symbolize in the following places:

...there will be pestilences, famines, and earthquakes in various places. (Matthew 24:7, cf. Mark 13:8, Luke 21:11)

(These things are said there of the Last Judgment.)

...in the fire of My wrath I have spoken, if in that day there is not a great earthquake... so that... every person on the face of the earth shakes... and the mountains are overthrown... (Ezekiel 38:18-20).

...there was a great earthquake, such as had not occurred since people came on the earth. (Revelation 16:18)

...I will shake the heavens, and the earth will be moved out of her place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts... (Isaiah 13:13)

...the foundations of the earth are shaken... The earth is shaken exceedingly...(because) its transgression is heavy upon it... (Isaiah 24:18-20)

The earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the hills..., because He was angry. (Psalms 18:7)

The mountains quake before (Jehovah)...and the rocks are overthrown... (Nahum 1:5-6)

So likewise in other places, as in Jeremiah 10:10; 49:21, Joel 2:10, Haggai 2:6-7, Revelation 11:19, and elsewhere.

These things, however, must be understood as taking place in the spiritual world, and not in the natural world. In the natural world they symbolize such things as stated above.

  
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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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Revelation 6

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1 I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!"

2 And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.

3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!"

4 Another came forth, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.

5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come and see!" And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.

6 I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"

7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!"

8 And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

11 A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

12 I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

14 The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"