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Geremia 49

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1 Riguardo ai figliuoli di Ammon. Così parla l’Eterno: Israele non ha egli figliuoli? Non ha egli erede? Perché dunque Malcom prend’egli possesso di Gad, e il suo popolo abita nelle città d’esso?

2 Perciò, ecco, i giorni vengono, dice l’Eterno, ch’io farò udire il grido di guerra contro Rabbah de’ figliuoli d’Ammon; essa diventerà un mucchio di ruine, le sue città saranno consumate dal fuoco; allora Israele spodesterà quelli che l’aveano spodestato, dice l’Eterno.

3 Urla, o Heshbon, poiché Ai è devastata; gridate, o città di Rabbah, cingetevi di sacchi, date in lamenti, correte qua e là lungo le chiusure, poiché Malcom va in cattività insieme coi suoi sacerdoti e coi suoi capi.

4 Perché ti glori tu delle tue valli, della tua fertile valle, o figliuola infedele, che confidavi nei tuoi tesori e dicevi: "Chi verrà contro di me?"

5 Ecco, io ti fo venire addosso da tutti i tuoi dintorni il terrore, dice il Signore, l’Eterno degli eserciti; e voi sarete scacciati, in tutte le direzioni, e non vi sarà chi raduni i fuggiaschi.

6 Ma, dopo questo, io trarrò dalla cattività i figliuoli di Ammon, dice l’Eterno.

7 Riguardo a Edom. Così parla l’Eterno degli eserciti: Non v’è egli più saviezza in Teman? Gl’intelligenti non sanno essi più consigliare? La loro saviezza è dessa svanita?

8 Fuggite, voltate le spalle, nascondetevi profondamente, o abitanti di Dedan! Poiché io fo venire la calamità sopra Esaù, il tempo della sua punizione.

9 Se de’ vendemmiatori venissero a te non lascerebbero essi dei racimoli? Se de’ ladri venissero a te di notte non guasterebbero più di quanto a loro bastasse.

10 Ma io nuderò Esaù, scoprirò i suoi nascondigli, ed ei non si potrà nascondere; la sua prole, i suoi fratelli, i suoi vicini saran distrutti, ed ei non sarà più.

11 Lascia i tuoi orfani, io li farò vivere, e le tue vedove confidino in me!

12 Poiché così parla l’Eterno: Ecco, quelli che non eran destinati a bere la coppa, la dovranno bere; e tu andresti del tutto impunito? Non andrai impunito, tu la berrai certamente.

13 Poiché io lo giuro per me stesso, dice l’Eterno, Botsra diverrà una desolazione, un obbrobrio, un deserto, una maledizione, e tutte le sue città saranno delle solitudini eterne.

14 Io ho ricevuto un messaggio dall’Eterno, e un messaggero e stato inviato fra le nazioni: "Adunatevi, venite contro di lei, levatevi per la battaglia!"

15 Poiché, ecco, io ti rendo piccolo fra le nazioni, e sprezzato fra gli uomini.

16 Lo spavento che ispiravi, l’orgoglio del tuo cuore t’han sedotto, o tu che abiti nelle fessure delle rocce, che occupi il sommo delle colline; ma quand’anche tu facessi il tuo nido tant’alto quanto quello dell’aquila, io ti farò precipitar di lassù, dice l’Eterno.

17 E Edom diventerà una desolazione; chiunque passerà presso di lui rimarrà stupito, e si darà a fischiare a motivo di tutte le sue piaghe.

18 Come avvenne al sovvertimento di Sodoma di Gomorra e di tutte le città a loro vicine, dice l’Eterno, nessuno più abiterà quivi, non vi dimorerà più alcun figliuol d’uomo.

19 Ecco, egli sale come un leone dalle rive lussureggianti del Giordano contro la forte dimora; io ne farò fuggire a un tratto Edom, e stabilirò su di essa colui che io ho scelto. Poiché chi è simile a me? Chi m’ordinerà di comparire in giudizio? Qual è il pastore che possa starmi a fronte?

20 Perciò, ascoltate il disegno che l’Eterno ha concepito contro Edom, e i pensieri che medita contro gli abitanti di Teman! Certo, saran trascinati via come i più piccoli del gregge, certo, la loro dimora sarà devastata.

21 Al rumore della loro caduta trema la terra; s’ode il loro grido fino al mar Rosso.

22 Ecco, il nemico sale, fende l’aria, come l’aquila, spiega le sue ali verso Botsra; e il cuore dei prodi d’Edom, in quel giorno, è come il cuore d’una donna in doglie di parto.

23 Riguardo a Damasco. Hamath e Arpad sono confuse, poiché hanno udito una cattiva notizia; vengon meno; è un’agitazione come quella del mare, che non può calmarsi.

24 Damasco divien fiacca, si volta per fuggire, un tremito l’ha còlta; angoscia e dolori si sono impadroniti di lei, come di donna che partorisce.

25 "Come mai non è stata risparmiata la città famosa, la città della mia gioia?"

26 Così i suoi giovani cadranno nelle sue piazze, e tutti i suoi uomini di guerra periranno in quel giorno, dice l’Eterno degli eserciti.

27 Ed io appiccherò il fuoco alle mura di Damasco, ed esso divorerà i palazzi di Ben-Hadad.

28 Riguardo a Kedar e ai regni di Hatsor, che Nebucadnetsar, re di Babilonia, sconfisse. Così parla l’Eterno: Levatevi, salite contro Kedar, distruggete i figliuoli dell’oriente!

29 Le lor tende, i loro greggi saranno presi; saranno portati via i loro padiglioni, tutti i loro bagagli, i loro cammelli; si griderà loro: "Spavento da tutte le parti!"

30 Fuggite, dileguatevi ben lungi, nascondetevi profondamente, o abitanti di Hatsor, dice l’Eterno; poiché Nebucadnetsar, re di Babilonia, ha formato un disegno contro di voi, ha concepito un piano contro di voi.

31 Levatevi, salite contro una nazione che gode pace ed abita in sicurtà, dice l’Eterno; che non ha né portesbarre, e dimora solitaria.

32 Siano i loro cammelli dati in preda, e la moltitudine del loro bestiame diventi bottino! Io disperderò a tutti i venti quelli che si tagliano i canti della barba, e farò venire la loro calamità da tutte le parti, dice l’Eterno.

33 Hatsor diventerà un ricetto di sciacalli una desolazione in perpetuo; nessuno più abiterà quivi, non vi dimorerà più alcun figliuol d’uomo.

34 La parola dell’Eterno che fu rivolta in questi termini al profeta Geremia riguardo ad Elam, al principio del regno di Sedekia, re di Giuda:

35 Così parla l’Eterno degli eserciti: Ecco, io spezzo l’arco di Elam, la sua principal forza.

36 Io farò venire contro Elam i quattro venti dalle quattro estremità del cielo; li disperderò a tutti quei venti, e non ci sarà nazione, dove non arrivino de’ fuggiaschi d’Elam.

37 Renderò gli Elamiti spaventati dinanzi ai loro nemici, e dinanzi a quelli che cercan la loro vita; farò piombare su loro la calamità, la mia ira ardente, dice l’Eterno; manderò la spada ad inseguirli, finch’io non li abbia consumati.

38 E metterò il mio trono in Elam, e ne farò perire i re ed i capi, dice l’Eterno.

39 Ma negli ultimi giorni avverrà ch’io trarrò Elam dalla cattività, dice l’Eterno.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 782

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782. 18:14 "The fruits that your soul longed for have gone from you, and all things rich and splendid have gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all." This symbolically means that all the blessings and felicities of heaven, including the external ones they wish for, will altogether fly away and be seen no longer, because these Roman Catholics do not have in them any celestial or spiritual affections for goodness and truth.

Fruits that the soul longs for symbolize nothing else than the blessings and felicities of heaven, because those are the fruits of everything having to do with the doctrine and worship that are the subject here, and because they are what people desire when they are dying, and also what they continue to desire when they first come into the spiritual world.

Things rich and splendid symbolize celestial and spiritual affections for goodness and truth - rich things affections for goodness, as we will show below, and splendid things affections for truth, which are called splendid because they develop in response to the light of heaven and its splendor in human minds, giving rise to an understanding of goodness and truth and so to wisdom.

To go and not be found anymore means symbolically that the blessings and felicities of heaven will fly away and be seen no longer, because the people here do not have any celestial or spiritual goodness and truth. Moreover, the blessings and felicities that they long for are called external, because the only blessings and felicities and affections that they long for are carnal and worldly ones, and consequently they are incapable of knowing the nature and character of the blessings and felicities that are called celestial and spiritual.

[2] But we will illustrate this by disclosing the lot of those people after death. When people impelled by a love of dominion from a love of self and so by a love of the world come from that religion into the spiritual world, as they do immediately after death, they all yearn for nothing else than dominion and the pleasures of the heart resulting from that dominion, and the pleasures of the body resulting from wealth. For a person's reigning love with its affections or lusts and desires awaits everyone after death. However, because a love of exercising dominion, springing from a love of self, over the sanctities of the church and heaven, all of which are Divine and the Lord's, is diabolical, therefore after a period of time these people are separated from their companions and cast down into various hells.

But even so, because in consequence of their religion they have participated in an external worship of God, they are first taught the nature and character of heaven, and the nature and character of the happiness of eternal life, that its blessings are pure blessings flowing in from the Lord into everyone in heaven in accordance with the character of the heavenly affection for goodness and truth in them. Yet because they have not turned to the Lord and so have not been conjoined with Him, and also lack any such affection for goodness and truth, they reject that instruction and turn away, and long for the pleasures of the love of self and the world then, which are merely natural and carnal. But because it is inherent in those pleasures to do evil, especially to people who worship the Lord, thus to angels in heaven, therefore they are deprived of those pleasures also and are thrust among their comrades in infernal workhouses in a contemptible and wretched state.

Still, these events befall them to the degree of their love of dominion over things that are Divine and the Lord's, which is the degree to which they rejected the Lord.

[3] It can now be seen from this that "the fruits that your soul longed for have gone from you, and all things rich and splendid have gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all," symbolically means that all the blessings and felicities of heaven, including the external ones they wish for, will altogether fly away and be seen no longer, because these Roman Catholics do not have in them any affections for goodness and truth.

That rich things 1 symbolize heavenly goods, and also affections for those goods and the delights of those affections, can be seen from the following passages:

Listen... to Me, eat what is good, that your soul may delight itself in richness. (Isaiah 55:2)

I will fill the soul of the priests with richness, and My people shall be satisfied with... goodness... (Jeremiah 31:14)

My soul shall be satisfied... with fatness and richness, and my mouth shall praise with singing lips. (Psalms 63:5)

They are filled with the richness of Your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your delights. (Psalms 36:8)

On this mountain Jehovah... will make for all people a feast of rich food..., of rich food full of marrow... (Isaiah 25:6)

They shall still have produce in old age; they shall be rich and green, to declare that Jehovah is upright. (Psalms 92:14-15)

(In the feast that Jehovah will make) you shall eat rich food till you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk... (Ezekiel 39:19)

(Jehovah) will regard your burnt offering as rich. (Psalms 20:3)

Because richness of fat symbolizes heavenly goodness, it was therefore a statute in Israel that all the fat of sacrificial animals should be burnt on the altar (Exodus 29:13, 22; Leviticus 1:8; 3:3-16; 4:8-35; 7:3-4, 30-31; 17:6).

In an opposite sense, the richness of fat symbolizes people who are nauseated at goodness, and who, because it is just too much, scorn it and reject it (Deuteronomy 32:15; Jeremiah 5:28; 50:11; Psalms 17:10; 20:3; 78:31; 119:70; and elsewhere).

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1. Literally, "fat things." The original words in Hebrew and Greek, translated here as "rich" or "richness," mean literally "fat" or "fatness," but metaphorically "rich" or "richness."

  
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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 18

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1 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.

2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."

4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,

5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'

8 Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

9 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, Woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'

11 The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more;

12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

13 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and souls.

14 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.

15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;

16 saying, 'Woe, Woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!

17 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like the great city?'

19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, Woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.

20 "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."

21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.

22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."