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Ezechiel 30

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1 Et factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens :

2 Fili hominis, propheta, et dic : Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Ululate : væ, væ diei !

3 quia juxta est dies : et appropinquat dies Domini, dies nubis : tempus gentium erit.

4 Et veniet gladius in Ægyptum, et erit pavor in Æthiopia, cum ceciderint vulnerati in Ægypto, et ablata fuerit multitudo illius, et destructa fundamenta ejus.

5 Æthiopia, et Libya, et Lydi, et omne reliquum vulgus, et Chub, et filii terræ fœderis, cum eis gladio cadent.

6 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Et corruent fulcientes Ægyptum, et destruetur superbia imperii ejus : a turre Syenes gladio cadent in ea, ait Dominus Deus exercituum.

7 Et dissipabuntur in medio terrarum desolatarum, et urbes ejus in medio civitatum desertarum erunt :

8 et scient quia ego Dominus, cum dedero ignem in Ægypto, et attriti fuerint omnes auxiliatores ejus.

9 In die illa egredientur nuntii a facie mea in trieribus ad conterendam Æthiopiæ confidentiam : et erit pavor in eis in die Ægypti, quia absque dubio veniet.

10 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Cessare faciam multitudinem Ægypti in manu Nabuchodonosor regis Babylonis.

11 Ipse et populus ejus cum eo, fortissimi gentium, adducentur ad disperdendam terram : et evaginabunt gladios suos super Ægyptum, et implebunt terram interfectis.

12 Et faciam alveos fluminum aridos, et tradam terram in manus pessimorum : et dissipabo terram, et plenitudinem ejus manu alienorum : ego Dominus locutus sum.

13 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Et disperdam simulacra, et cessare faciam idola de Memphis : et dux de terra Ægypti non erit amplius, et dabo terrorem in terra Ægypti.

14 Et disperdam terram Phathures, et dabo ignem in Taphnis, et faciam judicia in Alexandria.

15 Et effundam indignationem meam super Pelusium, robur Ægypti : et interficiam multitudinem Alexandriæ.

16 Et dabo ignem in Ægypto : quasi parturiens dolebit Pelusium, et Alexandria erit dissipata, et in Memphis angustiæ quotidianæ.

17 Juvenes Heliopoleos et Bubasti gladio cadent, et ipsæ captivæ ducentur.

18 Et in Taphnis nigrescet dies, cum contrivero ibi sceptra Ægypti, et defecerit in ea superbia potentiæ ejus : ipsam nubes operiet, filiæ autem ejus in captivitatem ducentur.

19 Et judicia faciam in Ægypto : et scient quia ego Dominus Deus.

20 Et factum est in undecimo anno, in primo mense, in septima mensis : factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens :

21 Fili hominis, brachium Pharaonis regis Ægypti confregi, et ecce non est obvolutum ut restitueretur ei sanitas, ut ligaretur pannis, et fasciaretur linteolis, ut recepto robore posset tenere gladium.

22 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Ecce ego ad Pharaonem regem Ægypti, et comminuam brachium ejus forte, sed confractum : et dejiciam gladium de manu ejus,

23 et dispergam Ægyptum in gentibus, et ventilabo eos in terris.

24 Et confortabo brachia regis Babylonis, daboque gladium meum in manu ejus, et confringam brachia Pharaonis, et gement gemitibus interfecti coram facie ejus.

25 Et confortabo brachia regis Babylonis, et brachia Pharaonis concident : et scient quia ego Dominus, cum dedero gladium meum in manu regis Babylonis, et extenderit eum super terram Ægypti.

26 Et dispergam Ægyptum in nationes, et ventilabo eos in terras : et scient quia ego Dominus.

   

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True Christian Religion # 689

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689. The reason why John's baptising prepared the way was that by this means, as shown above, people were introduced into the coming church of the Lord, and brought into the company of those in heaven who were awaiting and longing for the Messiah. They were thus protected by angels to prevent devils breaking out of hell and destroying them. This is why it says in Malachi, 'Who will endure the day of his coming' and 'so that Jehovah may not come and strike the land with a curse' (Malachi 4:6). Likewise in Isaiah:

Look, the cruel day of Jehovah is coming, a day of wrath and an explosion of anger. I shall make the heaven tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place on the day of the explosion of His anger, Isaiah 13:6, 9, 13, 22; 22:5, 12.

Also in Jeremiah that day is called a day of laying waste, of revenge and ruin (Jeremiah 4:9; 7:32; 46:10, 21; 47:4; 49:8, 26). In Ezekiel it is called a day of wrath, of cloud and thick darkness (Ezekiel 13:5; 30:2-3, 9; 34:11-12; 38:14, 16, 18-19). Equally in Amos (Amos 5:13, 18, 20; 8:3, 9, 13); in Joel, the great and terrible day of Jehovah, and who will endure it? (Joel 2:1-2, 11; 3:2, 4). In Zephaniah:

On that day there will be a shout. The great day of Jehovah is at hand, the day of the explosion of His anger is that day, the day of anguish and affliction, the day of laying waste and devastation. On the day of the explosion of Jehovah's anger the whole earth will be consumed, and He will bring about an ending with all the inhabitants of the earth, Zephaniah 1:7-18.

There are other passages too.

[2] From these it is plain that if the way had not been prepared by baptism for Jehovah to come down into the world, the effect of which in the heavens was to shut off the hells and to protect the Jews from total extinction, [all there would have been struck with a curse and would have perished] 1 . Jehovah also says to Moses:

In a single moment, if I were to go up in your midst, I should consume the people, Exodus 33:5.

The truth of this is clearly to be seen from John's words to the crowds who came out to be baptised by him:

You brood of vipers, who has warned you to run away from the wrath to come? Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:7.

For John also teaching about Christ and His coming when he baptised, see Luke 3:16; John 1:25-26, 31-33; 3:26. These passages make it plain how John prepared the way.

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1. The sentence is incomplete; the words in brackets are restored from 688.

  
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