862. "성도들의 진과 사랑하시는 성을 두르매" 앞의 항목에서 말한 바와 같이 새교회의 모든 것 곧 그 진리와 선과 심지어는 주님과 생활에 관한 교리까지도 깨뜰려고 노력하는 것을 뜻한다. 그 이유는 "성도의 진"은 새 예루살렘 교회의 모든 진리와 선을 뜻하기 때문이다. 영적 의미로 "진"(陣)이 그 진리와 선에 관련한 교회의 모든 것을 뜻하는 것은 아래 구절에 나타난다.

"해와 달이 캄캄하며 별들이 빛을 거두도다. 여호와께서 그 군대 앞에서 소리를 발하시고 그 진은 심히 크고 그 명령을 하는 자가 강하니"(요엘 2:10-11)

"내가 내 집을 둘러 진을 처서 적군을 막으리라"(스가랴 9:8)

"너를 대하여 진 친 저희의 뼈를 하나님이 흩으심이라 하나님이 저희를 버리셨음이니라"(시편 34:7)

"야곱이 하나님의 사자를 볼 때 이르기를 이는 하나님의 군대라 그 땅 이름을 미하나임이라 하였더라"(창세기 32:1-2)

그밖의 다른 곳에는 이사야 29:3; 에스겔 1:24; 시편 27:3.

말씀 가운데 "군대"는 교회의 진리와 선 또는 거짓과 악을 뜻하는 것은 447, 826, 833을 보면 알 수 있을 것이요, 진(陣)도 같은 것을 뜻한다.

이스라엘 자손과 그들의 열두 지파는 그 모든 진리와 선으로서의 교회를 뜻하므로 (349-350) 그들을 "여호와의 군대라" 하였던(출애굽기 7:4; 12:41, 51) 것이다.

또 그들이 멈춰 집합할 때는 그들을 "진"이라 하였다.

레위기 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; 민수기 1; 2; 3; 4:5; 5:2-4; 9:17-23; 10:1-10, 11-28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 21:10-15; 33:1-49; 신명기 23:9-14; 아모스 4:10

이상으로 "성도의 진과 사랑하시는 성을 두르매"는 그들이 새 예루살렘이 되는 새교회의 모든 진리와 선을 심지어는 주님과 그 생활에 관한 교리까지도 깨뜰려고 노력하는 것을 뜻하는 것이 분명하다. 누가복음의 아래 구절에도 같은 것을 뜻한다.

"너희가 예루살렘이 군대들에게 에워싸이는 것을 보거든 그 멸망이 가까운 줄을 알라 예루살렘이 이방인의 때가 차기까지 이방인들에게 밟히리라"(누가복음 21:20, 24)

이것은 교회의 종말인 말세에 관한 것이다. "예루살렘"은 여기서는 교회를 뜻한다. 곡과 마곡 곧 내적 예배를 떠난 외적 예배 안에 있는 사람들이 그때 교회를 침범하여 교회를 없애려 하리라는 것도 에스겔 38:8-9, 11-12, 15-16; 39:2에 그리고 그 다음 주님으로 말미암은 교회가 있을 것도 에스겔 39:17-29에 언급되어 있다.

2838. 'As it is said today' means that which is perpetual. This is clear from the meaning of 'today' in the Word, dealt with below. One frequently reads in the Word the phrase 'even to this day (or today)', as in what has gone before,

He is the father of Moab even to this day, and the father of Ammon even to this day. Genesis 19:37-38; and in what appears later on,

The name of the city is Beersheba even to this day. Genesis 26:33; also,

The children of Israel do not eat the sinew of that which was displaced, which is on the hollow of the thigh, even to this day. Genesis 32:32; as well as,

This is the pillar of Rachel's grave even to [this] day. Genesis 35:20.

Joseph made it a statute even to this day. Genesis 47:26.

In the historical sense 'to this day' and 'today' refer to the time when Moses was alive, but in the internal sense these expressions mean perpetuity and eternity of state. 'Day' means state, see 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, and so therefore does 'today', which is the present time. That which in the world is temporal is in heaven eternal. To give the meaning of that which is eternal, the expression today or else to this day has been added, though to those who are aware only of the historical sense it does not appear to embody anything further. Similar usages of these expressions occur elsewhere in the Word, such as Joshua 4:9; 6:25; 7:26; Judges 1:21, 26; and in other places.

[2] That 'today' means that which is perpetual and eternal may be seen in David,

I will tell of the statute: Jehovah has said to me, You are My Son; today I have begotten You. Psalms 2:7.

Here 'today' plainly stands for that which is eternal. In the same author,

For ever, O Jehovah, Your Word is fixed in the heavens, Your truth to generation after generation. You have established the earth and it stands. As for Your judgements they stand [even] today. Psalms 119:89-91.

Here also 'today' plainly stands for that which is eternal. In Jeremiah,

Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. I have set you this day (today) over nations and over kingdoms; and I have made you today into a fortified city, and into a pillar of iron, and into walls of bronze. Jeremiah 1:5, 10, 18.

This refers in the sense of the letter to Jeremiah, but in the internal sense the Lord is meant. 'I have set you this day (or today) over nations and over kingdoms, and I have made you today into a fortified city' means from eternity. In regard to the Lord one can only speak of that which is eternal.

[3] In Moses,

You are standing today, all of you, before Jehovah your God, so that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God, and into His oath, which Jehovah your God is making with you today, that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He will be God to you. Not indeed with you alone [do I make it], but with those who stand with us here today before Jehovah our God, and with those who are not with us today. Deuteronomy 29:10, 12-15.

Here in the sense of the letter 'today' means that present time when

Moses addressed the people. Yet it is clear that it nevertheless implies subsequent times and what is perpetual; for making a covenant with anyone, and with those who were there and with those who were not, implies that which is perpetual. Perpetuity itself is what is meant in the internal sense.

[4] That 'daily' and 'today' mean that which is perpetual is clear also from the sacrifice that was offered each day. This sacrifice, because of what is meant by day, daily, and today, was called the continual, or perpetual, sacrifice, Numbers 28:3, 23; Daniel 8:13; 11:31; 12:11. This may be even more plainly evident from the manna which rained from heaven, spoken of in Moses as follows,

Behold, I am causing bread to rain from heaven, and the people shall go out and gather a portion day by day. And they shall not leave any of it until the morning. That which they did leave until the morning bred worms and went rotten, except that gathered on the day before the Sabbath. Exodus 16:4, 19-20, 23.

This happened because 'the manna' meant the Lord's Divine Human, John 6:31-32, 49-50, 58, and because the Lord's Divine Human meant heavenly food, which is nothing other than love and charity, together with the goods and truths of faith. In heaven the Lord imparts this food to angels moment by moment, thus perpetually and eternally, see 2193. This is also what is meant in the Lord's Prayer by the petition, Give us today our daily bread, Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3, that is, in every moment for evermore.