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Ezekiel 10

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1 And I saw, and, behold, in the expanse that was above the head of the cherubim there was seen over them as·​·it·​·were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 And He said unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go·​·in between the rolling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thy fist with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and sprinkle them over the city. And he came·​·in before my eyes.

3 And the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man came·​·in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 And the glory of Jehovah lifted·​·up from on the cherub over the threshold of the house; and the house was·​·filled with the cloud, and the court was·​·full of the brightness of the glory of Jehovah.

5 And the voice of the cherubim wings was heard even·​·to the outer court, as the voice of God Shaddai when He speaks.

6 And it was, that when He had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the rolling wheels, from between the cherubim; and he came·​·in, and stood beside the wheels.

7 And the cherub put·​·forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim, and took· it ·up, and put it into the fists of him that was clothed with linen; who took it, and went·​·out.

8 And there appeared in the cherubim the shape of a human hand under their wings.

9 And I saw, and behold the four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside the one cherub, and one wheel beside the one cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was as the aspect of a tarshish* stone.

10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if the wheel had been in the midst of the wheel.

11 When they went, they went to their four fourths; they turned· not ·around when they went, for to the place whither the head faced they went after it; they turned· not ·around when they went.

12 And all their flesh, 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 Their wheels were called Galgal* in my ears.

14 And every one had four faces; the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face a human face, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

15 And the cherubim were exalted. This is the living thing that I saw by the river of Chebar.

16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim exalted their wings to lift·​·up from on the earth, the wheels, even they turned· not ·around from beside them.

17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were exalted, these exalted themselves; for the spirit of the living thing was in them.

18 And the glory of Jehovah went·​·out from upon the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

19 And the cherubim lifted·​·up their wings, and were exalted from the earth before my eyes; when they went·​·out, and the wheels were alongside them, and every one stood at the entrance of the eastern gate of Jehovah’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

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

21 Four, even Four faces for each one, and four wings for each one; and the likeness of human hands was under their wings.

22 And the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, as to their appearance and as to themselves; each to across his face they went.*

   


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Doctrine of the Lord # 52

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52. Jehovah Himself, that is, the Lord, spoke the Word through the prophets. Regarding the prophets, we read that they were in a state of vision, and that Jehovah spoke with them.

When they were in a state of vision, they were not present in their body, but in their spirit, and in that state they saw things of the kind found in heaven. But when Jehovah spoke with them, they were then present in their body and heard Jehovah speaking.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be clearly distinguished. In a state of vision the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body closed; and they then seemed to themselves to be conveyed from place to place, their body not moving from where it was.

Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel were at times in this state, and so was John when he was writing the book of Revelation. We are also told then that they were in a state of vision or in the spirit. Ezekiel, indeed, says:

The spirit took me up and returned me in a vision (of God) by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. (So) the vision that I had seen went up from me. (Ezekiel 11:24, cf. 11:1)

He says that the spirit lifted him up, and that he heard behind him an earthquake, and other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between the earth and heaven, and brought him in the visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.).

It was in a vision of God, or in the spirit, therefore, that he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1,10). And also a new earth and a new temple, and an angel measuring them (as described in chapters 40-48). He says that he was then in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit then lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

The same experience befell Zechariah when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.); when he saw four horns, and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18, 2:1ff.); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.); when he saw a lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.); when he saw a flying scroll and an ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:3), and when he saw battles of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). We read that he saw these things in a state of vision (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13, 8:2, 10:1, 7-8); and that the angel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision and spoke with him (Daniel 9:21-22).

The same experience befell John when he was writing the book of Revelation, who says that he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day (Revelation 1:10); that he was carried away in the spirit into the wilderness (Revelation 17:3), and in the spirit onto a high mountain (Revelation 21:10); that in a vision he saw horses (Revelation 9:17). And elsewhere that he saw the things he described, thus seeing them in the spirit or in a vision (Revelation 1:12, 4:1, 5:1, 6:1, and so on in each of the following chapters).

  
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Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.