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Exodus 31

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

3 and I have·​·filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all the work*;

4 to think thoughts, to make in gold, and in silver, and in bronze;

5 and in crafting of stone for filling, and in crafting of wood, to do in all the work.

6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of everyone that is wise in heart I have put wisdom; and they shall make all that I have commanded thee;

7 the Tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark for the Testimony, and the place of atonement that is on it, and all the vessels of the Tabernacle;

8 and the table and its vessels, and the pure* lampstand and all its vessels, and the altar of incense;

9 and the altar of burnt·​·offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base;

10 and the garments of the ministry, and the garments of holiness for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to be·​·priests;

11 and the oil of anointing, and the fragrant incense for the holy place; according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.

12 And Jehovah said to Moses, saying,

13 And speak thou to the sons of Israel, saying, Surely you shall keep My Sabbaths; for it is a sign between Me and you to your generations, to·​·know that I am Jehovah who makes you holy.

14 And you shall keep the Sabbath; for it is holy to you; he that profanes it, dying he shall·​·die; for all who do work in it, even that soul shall be cut·​·off from among his peoples.

15 Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is the Sabbath of Sabbath*, holy to Jehovah; everyone who does work on the Sabbath day, dying he shall die.

16 And the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to make the Sabbath, for their generations, a covenant of an age.

17 It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel for an age; for in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He ceased, and refreshed· his ·soul.

18 And He gave to Moses, when He completed speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 555

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555. "And they overcame it by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony." (12:11) This symbolizes victory gained by the Divine truth of the Word and thus by an acknowledgment that the Lord is God of heaven and earth and that the Ten Commandments are commandments for life in accordance with which a person should live.

It may be seen in no. 379 above that the blood of the Lamb is the Divine truth emanating from the Lord, which is the Divine truth of the Word; in nos. 6, 16 above, that the testimony is Divine truth; and in nos. 490, 506, that it is in particular these two tenets, that the Lord is God of heaven and earth, and that the Ten Commandments are commandments to be lived. The Ten Commandments are also accordingly called the testimony in Exodus 25:22; 31:7, 18; 32:15, Leviticus 16:13, Numbers 17:4, Psalms 78:5; 132:12.

People caught up in faith alone today believe that the blood of the Lamb refers to the Lord's suffering of the cross, principally because they make the Lord's suffering of the cross the chief tenet of their dogma, saying that by this He took upon Himself the condemnation of the Law, made satisfaction to the Father, and reconciled to Him the human race, and so on.

But that is not the case. Rather the Lord came into the world to conquer the hells and glorify His humanity, and His suffering of the cross was the last battle by which He completely overcame the hells and completely glorified His humanity, as may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, nos. 12-14.

Consequently it can be seen that the blood of the Lamb does not mean here the suffering of the cross as maintained by current dogma.

That the blood of the Lamb means the Divine truth emanating from the Lord, which is the Divine truth of the Word, can be seen from the fact that the Lord embodies the Word, and that because He embodies the Word, the Divine truth in it is His blood, and the Divine goodness in it His body.

This may be clearly shown by asking whether everyone does not embody his own goodness and his own truth. And because goodness is a matter of the will, and truth a matter of the intellect, whether everyone does not embody his own will and his own intellect. What else constitutes the person? Is not a person in essence these two entities? The Lord, however, is goodness itself and truth itself, or Divine good and Divine truth, and these two also constitute the Word.

  
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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.