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Deuteronomy 34

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1 And Moses went·​·up from the deserts of Moab to the mountain of Nebo, the head of Pisgah, that is against the faces of Jericho. And Jehovah showed him all the land, Gilead, even·​·to Dan,

2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, even·​·to the sea behind,

3 and the south, and the plain of the vale of Jericho, the city of the palm·​·trees, even·​·to Zoar.

4 And Jehovah said to him, This is the land which I promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to thy seed; I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not cross·​·over thither.

5 And Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, by the mouth of Jehovah*.

6 And He buried him in a ravine in the land of Moab, next·​·to Beth-peor; but no man knows of his grave even·​·to this day.

7 And Moses was a son of a hundred and twenty years in his death; his eye was· not ·dim, and his freshness had not fled.

8 And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the deserts of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were finished.

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him; and the sons of Israel hearkened to him, and did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

10 And there has not, as·​·yet, arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah knew face to face,

11 in all the signs and the miracles, which Jehovah sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

12 and as·​·to all the firm hand, and as·​·to all the great fear, which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 474

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474. Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever. (10:6; 10:6) This symbolizes an attestation and testification of the Lord on His own authority.

The angel standing on the sea and on the land means the Lord (no. 470). Lifting up the hand to heaven symbolizes an attestation, here that there should be no more time (verse 6). Swearing symbolizes a testification, here that in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel the mystery of God would be concluded (verse 7). He who lives forever and ever means the Lord, as in Revelation 1:18; 4:9-10, and 5:14 above, and in Daniel 4:34. That the Lord swears on His own authority will be seen shortly.

It is apparent from this that the statement, "Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever," symbolizes an attestation and testification of the Lord on His own authority.

[2] That Jehovah swears or testifies on His own authority is clear from the following passages:

I have sworn by Myself; a word has gone out of My mouth (which) shall not return... (Isaiah 45:23)

I swear by Myself... that this house shall become a desolation. (Jeremiah 22:5)

Jehovah... has sworn by His soul. (Jeremiah 51:14, Amos 6:8)

...Jehovah has sworn by His holiness. (Amos 4:2)

Jehovah has sworn by His right hand and by the arm of His strength. (Isaiah 62:8)

Behold, I have sworn by My great name... (Jeremiah 44:26)

That Jehovah, which is to say, the Lord, swore by Himself or on His own authority means, symbolically, that Divine truth attests; for the Lord is Divine truth itself, and this attests of itself and on its own authority.

In addition to these passages, that Jehovah swore may be seen in Isaiah 14:24; 54:9, Psalms 89:3, 35; 95:11; 110:4; 132:11.

We are told that Jehovah swore because the church established with the children of Israel was a representational church, and the conjunction of the Lord with the church was represented by a covenant, like one made between two parties who swear to their compact. Therefore, because an oath was a part of any covenant, we are told that Jehovah swore. Still, this does not mean that He swore, but that Divine truth attests to something.

[3] That an oath was a part of any covenant is apparent from the following:

I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, so that you became Mine... (Ezekiel 16:8)

...to remember His covenant, the oath which He swore... (Luke 1:72-73; cf. Psalms 105:9, Jeremiah 11:5; 32:22, Deuteronomy 1:34; 10:11; 11:9, 21; 26:3, 15; 31:20; 34:4)

Because the covenant was representative of the conjunction of the Lord with the church, and reciprocally of the church with the Lord, and because an oath was a part of any covenant and was to be sworn on the ground of the truth in it, being sworn thus also in appeal to that truth, therefore the children of Israel were permitted to swear by Jehovah, and so in appeal to Divine truth (Exodus 20:7, Leviticus 19:12, Deuteronomy 6:13; 10:20, Isaiah 48:1; 65:16, Jeremiah 4:2, Zechariah 5:4).

After the representative constituents of the church were abrogated, however, the Lord also abrogated oaths to covenants (Matthew 5:33-37; 23:16-22).

  
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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.