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Leviticus 16

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came·​·near before Jehovah, and died;

2 and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil to the face of the place of atonement, which is on the ark, that he die not; for I will appear in the cloud on the place of atonement.

3 By this shall Aaron come into the holy place; with a son of the herd, a bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt·​·offering.

4 He shall clothe· himself ·with the holy linen tunic, and there shall be linen breeches upon his flesh, and he shall be girded with a linen belt, and with the linen miter shall he be mitered; these are holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in the water, and so be·​·clothed·​·with them.

5 And he shall take of the congregation of the sons of Israel two male goats of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt·​·offering.

6 And Aaron shall offer the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make·​·atonement for himself, and for his house.

7 And he shall take the two male goats, and stand them before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tabernacle of the congregation.

8 And Aaron shall put lots on the two goats; one lot for Jehovah, and one lot for Azazel*.

9 And Aaron shall offer the goat upon which Jehovah’s lot came·​·up, and make him a sin offering.

10 But the male goat, on which the lot came·​·up for Azazel, shall be stood living before Jehovah, to make·​·atonement upon it, and to send it to be Azazel toward the wilderness.

11 And Aaron shall offer the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make·​·atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall slaughter the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself;

12 and he shall take a full censer of coals of fire from on the altar, from before Jehovah, and his fists shall be full of fragrant incense beaten thin, and bring it inside the veil;

13 and he shall put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, and the cloud of the incense shall cover the place of atonement that is upon the testimony, and he will not die;

14 and he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and spatter it with his finger before the place of the atonement on the east; and before the place of the atonement shall he spatter of the blood with his finger seven times.

15 And he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood inside the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and spatter it upon the place of atonement, and before the place of atonement;

16 and he shall make·​·atonement on the holy place, from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel, and from their transgressions for all their sins; and so shall he do for the Tabernacle of the congregation, the Habitation with them in the midst of their uncleanness.

17 And there shall be not any man in the Tabernacle of the congregation when he goes·​·in to make·​·atonement in the holy place, until he come·​·out, and have made·​·atonement for himself, and for his house, and for all the assembly of Israel.

18 And he shall go·​·out to the altar that is before Jehovah, and make·​·atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar all around.

19 And he shall spatter of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel.

20 And when he has completed making·​·atonement·​·for the holy place, and ·for the Tabernacle of the congregation, and ·for the altar, then he shall offer the live goat;

21 and Aaron shall lay his two hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions for all their sins, and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send· it ·out by the hand of a man of fate to the wilderness;

22 and the goat shall bear on him all their iniquities to a land apart*; and he shall send the goat into the wilderness.

23 And Aaron shall come into the Tabernacle of the congregation, and shall strip·​·off the linen garments, with which he clothed himself when he came into the holy place, and shall place them there;

24 and he shall bathe his flesh with water in the holy place, and clothe· himself ·with his garments, and come·​·out, and make his burnt·​·offering, and the burnt·​·offering of the people, and make·​·atonement for himself, and for the people.

25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn·​·for·​·incense on the altar.

26 And he that sends the male goat to be Azazel shall wash his garments, and bathe his flesh in the water, and after thus, come to the camp.

27 And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought to make·​·atonement in the holy place, shall one bring·​·out, to outside the camp and they shall burn·​·up in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

28 And he that burns· them ·up shall wash his garments, and bathe his flesh in the water, and after thus he shall come into the camp.

29 And this shall be for an eternal statute for you; that in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and not do any work*, the native and the sojourner sojourning in your midst.

30 for on this day shall the priest make·​·atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be·​·clean from all your sins before Jehovah.

31 It shall be a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by an eternal statute.

32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whose hand he shall·​·fill to be·​·a·​·priest in· his father’s ·stead, shall make· the ·atonement, and shall clothe· himself ·with the linen garments, even the holy garments;

33 and he shall make·​·atonement·​·for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make·​·atonement·​·for the Tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and he shall make·​·atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the assembly.

34 And this shall be an eternal statute to you, to make·​·atonement for the sons of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 862

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862. We have said that the nations' surrounding the camp of the saints and the beloved city means, symbolically, that these people attempted to destroy everything connected with the New Church, both its truths and goods and its fundamental doctrine regarding the Lord and life, as stated in the preceding number. This is the symbolic meaning because the camp of the saints symbolizes all the truths and goods of the church which is the New Jerusalem.

That a camp in the spiritual sense symbolizes everything connected with the church with respect to its truths and goods can be seen from the following passages:

The sun and moon grew dark, and the stars diminished their brightness. Jehovah uttered His voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for numberless are those who obey His Word. (Joel 2:10-11)

I will encamp for My house some of the army... (Zechariah 9:8)

...God has scattered the bones of them who encamp against you..., because God has rejected them. (Psalms 53:5)

The angel of Jehovah encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. (Psalms 34:7)

(An angel of God met Jacob, and said to Jacob,) "This is God's camp." Therefore he called the name of that place Mahanaim (Two Camps). (Genesis 32:1-2)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 29:3, Ezekiel 1:24, Psalms 27:3.

That an army or host in the Word symbolizes the church's truths and goods, and also its falsities and evils, may be seen in nos. 447, 826, 833; and so, too, does a camp.

[2] Since the children of Israel and their twelve tribes symbolize the church in respect to all its truths and goods (nos. 349, 350), they were therefore called the armies or hosts of Jehovah (Exodus 7:4; 12:41, 51), and the places where they stopped and assembled were called camps, as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 1; 2; 3; 4:5 ff., 5:2-4; 9:17-23; 10:1-10, 11-28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 21:10-15; 33:1-49; Deuteronomy 23:9-14; Amos 4:10.

It is apparent from this now that the nations' surrounding the camp of the saints and the beloved city means, symbolically, that these people tried to destroy all the truths and goods of the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem, and also its doctrine regarding the Lord and life.

The same symbolism is found in these verses in Luke:

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near... (At length) Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:20, 24)

This is said in reference to the end of the age, which is the final period of the church. Jerusalem here also symbolizes the church.

That Gog and Magog, that is, people who engage in external worship divorced from any internal worship, will then invade the church and try to destroy it, is something we are told also in Ezekiel 38:8-9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 39:2, and that the New Church will then be established by the Lord, Ezekiel 39:17-29.

  
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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.