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Danielius 10

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1 Trečiaisiais Persijos karaliaus Kyro metais Danieliui, vadinamam Beltšacaru, buvo suteiktas apreiškimas. Tai buvo teisingas apreiškimas, bet jam skirtas laikas buvo toli. Jis suprato apreiškimą ir suvokė regėjimą.

2 Tuomet aš, Danielius, gedėjau tris savaites.

3 Skanios duonos nevalgiau, mėsos ir vyno neėmiau į burną ir nesitepiau, kol praėjo trys savaitės.

4 Pirmo mėnesio dvidešimt ketvirtą dieną stovėjau ant didelės Hidekelio upės kranto.

5 Pakėlęs akis, pamačiau ten stovintį vyrą, apsivilkusį drobiniais ir susijuosusį grynu Ufazo auksu.

6 Jo kūnas buvo kaip berilis, veidas­kaip žaibas, akys­kaip fakelai, rankos ir kojos­kaip žėrintis varis, o žodžių garsas­kaip didelės minios triukšmas.

7 Aš, Danielius, vienas temačiau tą regėjimą. Vyrai, kurie buvo su manimi, nematė jo, bet didelė baimė apėmė juos ir jie pasislėpė.

8 Aš likau vienas. Kai pamačiau šitą didingą regėjimą, manyje neliko jėgų. Mano veidas persikreipė, aš netekau jėgų.

9 Išgirdau žodžių garsą ir kritau be jausmų veidu į žemę.

10 anka palietė mane ir pastatė mane ant kelių ir delnų.

11 Jis man tarė: “Danieliau, didžiai mylimas vyre! Suprask žodžius, kuriuos tau kalbėsiu, ir stovėk, nes esu siųstas pas tave!” Jam kalbant, aš atsistojau drebėdamas.

12 Jis toliau kalbėjo: “Danieliau, nebijok! Nuo pirmos dienos, kai nusprendei širdyje suprasti ir nusižeminti savo Dievo akivaizdoje, tavo žodžiai buvo išgirsti, ir aš atėjau dėl tavo žodžių.

13 Persų karalystės kunigaikštis priešinosi man dvidešimt vieną dieną. Bet štai Mykolas, vienas iš vyresniųjų kunigaikščių, atėjo man į pagalbą. Aš palikau jį ten, prie Persijos karalių,

14 ir atėjau tau paaiškinti, kas atsitiks tavo tautai paskutinėmis dienomis, nes šitas regėjimas yra tolimai ateičiai”.

15 Jam taip kalbant su manimi, aš nuleidau akis ir negalėjau kalbėti.

16 Štai kažkas, panašus į žmogaus sūnų, palietė mano lūpas. Tada aš kalbėjau stovinčiam prieš mane: “Mano viešpatie! egėjimo metu mane apėmė skausmai ir aš netekau jėgų.

17 Kaipgi aš, viešpaties tarnas, galėčiau kalbėti su savo viešpačiu? Manyje nebėra jėgų ir aš neatgaunu kvapo”.

18 Tada mane vėl palietė ir sustiprino tas pats žmogaus pavidalas.

19 Jis tarė: “Nebijok, didžiai mylimas vyre! amybė tau! Būk stiprus. Taip, būk stiprus!” Jam kalbant su manimi, aš buvau sustiprintas ir tariau: “Tekalba mano viešpats, nes tu mane sustiprinai!”

20 Jis atsakė: “Ar žinai, kodėl atėjau pas tave? Dabar vėl grįšiu kovoti su persų kunigaikščiu ir, kai išeisiu, ateis Graikijos kunigaikštis.

21 Aš tau paskelbsiu, kas parašyta tiesos knygoje. Nėra nė vieno, kuris man padėtų prieš juos, tik Mykolas, jūsų kunigaikštis”.

   

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52. 6. Jehovah himself - that is, the Lord - spoke the Word through prophets.

We read of the prophets that they had visions and that Jehovah talked with them. When they had visions, they were not focused on their bodies but on the spirit, in which state they saw things of a heavenly nature. When Jehovah talked with them, though, they were conscious of their bodies and heard Jehovah speaking.

We need to draw a clear distinction between these two states. In a visionary state, the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body were closed; and at such times they seemed to themselves to be taken from place to place while their bodies stayed where they were. Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel were in this state at times, and so was John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. They were then said to be in a vision or in the spirit. In fact, Ezekiel says,

The spirit lifted me up and brought me back into Chaldea, to the captivity, in a vision from God, in the spirit of God. In this way the vision that I saw came over me. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard an earthquake and other things behind him (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). He also said that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven and took him off into Jerusalem in visions from God, and he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3 and following).

That is why (again in a vision of God or in the spirit) Ezekiel saw the four beasts that were angel guardians (chapters 1; 10), and he saw a new earth and a new temple with the angel measuring them, as we are told in chapters 40-48. He says in chapter 40:2, that he was then in visions from God; and in chapter 43:5, he says that the spirit lifted him up at that time.

The same thing happened with Zechariah. There was an angel inwardly present with him when he saw a man riding among myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following); when he saw four horns and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1 and following); when he saw a lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following); when he saw a flying scroll and a measuring basket (Zechariah 5:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, along with horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw four beasts come up from the sea (Daniel 7:3) and when he saw battles between a ram and a goat (Daniel 8:1 and following).

We read in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8 that he saw these things in visions. We read in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision and talked with him.

Much the same happened with John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. He 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 (17:3), to a high mountain in the spirit (21:10), that he saw horses in a vision (9:17), and elsewhere that he saw what he described, being therefore in the spirit or in a vision (1:2; 4:1; 5:1; 6:1; and in the particular chapters that follow).

  
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Ezekiel 10

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1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.

3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory.

5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

7 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

8 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.

9 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.

10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.

12 Their whole body, 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 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

14 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

15 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.

17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

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

21 Every one had four faces, and Every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.