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1 Tai ėmėsi darbo Becalelis, Oholiabas ir kiti sumanūs vyrai, kuriems Viešpats davė išminties ir supratimo, kaip padaryti įvairius reikmenis šventyklai pagal visus Viešpaties nurodymus.

2 Mozė pasišaukė Becalelį, Oholiabą ir visus sumanius vyrus, kurie savo noru sutiko dirbti prie šventyklos darbų.

3 Mozė atidavė jiems visas aukas, kurias Izraelio vaikai atnešė šventyklos darbams. Tauta kas rytą vis dar nešė laisvos valios aukas.

4 Visi sumanūs vyrai, kurie darė šventyklos darbus, atėjo nuo savo darbų ir kalbėjo Mozei:

5 “Tauta aukoja daugiau negu reikia, kad įvykdytume šį Viešpaties įsakytą darbą”.

6 Tada Mozė liepė paskelbti, kad nei vyras, nei moteris nieko daugiau nebeaukotų šventyklos statybai. Tada žmonės nustojo aukoti,

7 nes visko, kas buvo sunešta, užteko visiems darbams padaryti ir dar liko.

8 Sumanūs vyrai, kurie darė palapinę, padarė iš plonos suktų siūlų drobės ir mėlynų, raudonų ir violetinių siūlų dešimt uždangalų su išsiuvinėtais cherubų vaizdais.

9 Kiekvienas jų buvo dvidešimt aštuonių uolekčių ilgio ir keturių uolekčių pločio­visi uždangalai buvo vienodo dydžio.

10 Jie sujungė penkis uždangalus vieną su kitu ir likusius penkis sujungė vieną su kitu.

11 Be to, padarė mėlynas kilpas vienam ir antram uždangalui,

12 po penkiasdešimt kilpų, kad kilpos būtų viena prieš kitą ir uždangalai galėtų būti sukabinti.

13 Nuliejo taip pat penkiasdešimt auksinių kabių, kuriomis sukabino abu uždangalus taip, kad pasidarė viena palapinė.

14 Padarė ir vienuolika uždangalų iš ožkų plaukų palapinės viršui apdengti.

15 Kiekvienas uždangalas buvo trisdešimties uolekčių ilgio ir keturių uolekčių pločio­visi vienuolika uždangalų buvo vienodo dydžio.

16 Penkis jų sujungė į vieną, kitus šešis taip pat sujungė.

17 Padarė penkiasdešimt kilpų vieno sujungto uždangalo šone ir penkiasdešimt kito šone, kad abu būtų galima sukabinti.

18 Taip pat padarė ir penkiasdešimt varinių kabių, kuriomis būtų sukabinti abu sujungti uždangalai, kad susidarytų vienas uždangalas.

19 Dar padarė palapinės uždangalą iš raudonai dažytų avinų kailių ir uždangalą iš opšrų kailių.

20 Iš akacijos medžio padarė lentas palapinei, kad jas būtų galima pastatyti.

21 Kiekviena lenta buvo dešimties uolekčių ilgio ir pusantros uolekties pločio.

22 Jos turėjo po du išsikišimus, kad vieną lentą su kita būtų galima sukabinti. Taip buvo padarytos visos palapinės lentos.

23 Ir padarė lentas palapinei: dvidešimt lentų šonui, atgręžtam į pietus,

24 su keturiasdešimt sidabrinių pakojų­kiekviena lenta turėjo po du pakojus savo apačioje.

25 Taip pat į šiaurę atgręžtam šonui buvo padaryta dvidešimt lentų

26 su keturiasdešimt sidabrinių pakojų, po du pakojus kiekvienai lentai.

27 Palapinės šonui, atgręžtam į vakarus, padarė šešias lentas

28 ir dvi lentas palapinės kampams iš abiejų pusių.

29 Jos buvo sujungtos apačioje ir viršuje ir sudarė vieną sunėrimą. Taip jis padarė abiejuose kampuose.

30 Ir buvo iš viso aštuonios lentos ir šešiolika sidabrinių pakojų, po du pakojus kiekvienai lentai.

31 Ir padarė užkaiščius iš akacijos medžio. Penkis užkaiščius vienos palapinės pusės lentoms,

32 penkis užkaiščius kitos palapinės pusės lentoms ir penkis užkaiščius palapinės galui vakarų pusėje.

33 Ir padarė vidinį užkaištį, kuris eitų per lentas nuo vieno galo iki kito.

34 Aptraukė lentas auksu, nuliejo auksines grandis užkaiščiams ir užkaiščius aptraukė auksu.

35 Padarė uždangą iš mėlynų, raudonų, violetinių siūlų ir plonos suktų siūlų drobės ir ant jos išsiuvinėjo cherubus.

36 Jai pakabinti padarė keturis stulpus iš akacijos medžio, aptrauktus auksu, su auksiniais kabliais ir sidabriniais pakojais.

37 Palapinės įėjimui padarė užuolaidą iš mėlynų, raudonų, violetinių siūlų ir plonos suktų siūlų drobės, visą išsiuvinėtą,

38 ir penkis stulpus su jų kabliais. Jų pagrindus ir skersinius aptraukė auksu, bet jų penki pakojai buvo variniai.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 585

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585. And against His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. This symbolizes scandalous assertions against the Lord's celestial church and against heaven.

The Tabernacle has almost the same symbolic meaning as the Temple, namely, in the highest sense, the Lord's Divine humanity, and in a relative sense, heaven and the church (nos. 191, 529). But in the latter sense the Tabernacle symbolizes the celestial church, which is impelled by the goodness of love toward the Lord received from the Lord; and the Temple symbolizes the spiritual church, which is impelled by truths of wisdom received from the Lord. Those who dwell in heaven symbolize heaven.

The Tabernacle symbolizes the celestial church because the Most Ancient Church, being impelled by love toward the Lord, was a celestial church and held sacred worship in tents. And the Ancient Church was a spiritual church and held sacred worship in temples.

Tents used wood in their construction, while temples used stone, and wood symbolizes goodness, and stone truth.

[2] That the Tabernacle symbolizes the Lord's Divine humanity in respect to Divine love, and a heaven and a church that is impelled by love toward the Lord, can be seen from the following passages:

Jehovah, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy mountain? He who walks uprightly, and practices righteousness, and speaks the truth... (Psalms 15:1-2)

(Jehovah) shall hide me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tabernacle He shall conceal me; He shall set me high... (Psalms 27:4-5)

I will abide in Your tabernacle forever. (Psalms 61:4)

Look upon Zion...; let your eyes behold Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that will not be dispelled... (Isaiah 33:20)

(Jehovah) who... spreads (the heavens) out like a tent to dwell in. (Isaiah 40:22)

...you have made Jehovah..., the Most High, your dwelling place..., no plague shall come near your tent. (Psalms 91:9-10)

(Jehovah) set (His) tabernacle among (them).... (He) will walk among (them).... (Leviticus 26:11-12)

(Jehovah) forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tabernacle in which He dwelled among men. (Psalms 78:60)

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them...." (Revelation 21:3)

...My tabernacle has been laid waste... (Jeremiah 4:20; 10:20)

He shall... pluck you out of your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. (Psalms 52:5)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 16:5; 54:2, Jeremiah 30:18, Lamentations 2:4, Hosea 9:6; 12:9, Zechariah 12:7.

[3] Since the Most Ancient Church, which was a celestial church, being impelled by love toward the Lord and being thus in conjunction with Him, held sacred worship in tents, therefore by the Lord's command Moses erected a tent or tabernacle, in which everything relating to heaven and the church was represented. And it was so holy that no one was permitted to enter except Moses, Aaron, and Aaron's sons; and if any of the people were to do so, they would die (Numbers 17:12-13; 18:1, 22-23; 19:14-19).

Inmostly in that tabernacle, containing the two tables of the Decalogue, was the Ark, on which was the mercy seat and over it the cherubim. And outside the veil was the table holding the showbread, the altar of incense, and the lampstand having seven lamps. All of these things were representative objects relating to heaven and the church. The tabernacle itself is described in Exodus 26:7-16; 36:8-37.

We also read that the design of the Tabernacle was shown to Moses upon Mount Sinai (Exodus 25:9; 26:30); and whatever he was given to see from heaven is a representation relating to heaven and the church.

In memory of the most ancient people's sacred worship of the Lord in tents, and of their conjunction with Him through love, Israel was commanded to observe the Feast of Tabernacles, as recorded in Leviticus 23:39-44, Deuteronomy 16:13-14.

  
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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.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 191

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191. "'I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God.'" This symbolically means that the truths they possess, springing from goodness derived from the Lord, sustain the Lord's church in heaven.

A temple symbolizes the church, and the temple of My God symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven. It is apparent from this that a pillar symbolizes what sustains and stabilizes the church, and that is the Divine truth in the Word.

In the highest sense, a temple symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, particularly in respect to Divine truth. In a representative sense, however, a temple symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, and so also the Lord's church in the world.

That a temple in the highest sense symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, and particularly in respect to Divine truth, is apparent from the following passages:

(Jesus said to the Jews,) "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ...He was speaking of the temple of His body. (John 2:19, 21)

I saw no temple in (the New Jerusalem), for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. (Revelation 21:22)

Behold..., the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire. (Malachi 3:1)

I will bow myself toward Your holy temple... (Psalms 138:2)

...I will look again toward Your holy temple... And my prayer went to You, to Your holy temple. (Jonah 2:4, 7)

Jehovah is in His holy temple. (Habakkuk 2:20)

The holy temple of Jehovah or of the Lord is His Divine humanity, for it is to this that people bow, look to, and pray, and not to the temple merely, as the temple is not, in itself, holy. It is called a holy temple, because holiness is predicated of Divine truth (no. 173).

"The temple that sanctifies the gold" in Matthew 23:16-17 means nothing else than the Lord's Divine humanity.

[2] That a temple in a representative sense symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, is apparent from the following passages:

(The) voice (of Jehovah) from the temple...! (Isaiah 66:6)

...a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven... (Revelation 16:17)

The temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. (Revelation 11:19)

...the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. And out of the temple came the seven angels... And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God... (Revelation 15:5-6, 8)

I called upon Jehovah, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple... (Psalms 18:6)

I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and His skirts filled the temple. (Isaiah 6:1)

[3] That a temple symbolizes the church in the world is apparent from these passages:

Our holy... temple... has become a conflagration... (Isaiah 64:11)

I will shake all nations..., that I may fill this house with glory... The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former... (Haggai 2:7, 9)

The new temple in Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48 describes a church to be established by the Lord. A church is also meant in Revelation 11:1 by the temple that the angel measured. So likewise elsewhere, as in Isaiah 44:28, Jeremiah 7:2-4, 9-11, Zechariah 8:9.

...the disciples (of Jesus) came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, ."..Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left... upon another, that shall not be demolished." (Matthew 24:1-2)

The temple here symbolizes the church today; and its demolition means, symbolically, that not one stone would be left upon another. This symbolizes the end of that church, when not any truth would remain. For when the disciples spoke with the Lord about the temple, the Lord foretold the consecutive states of this church, even to its last one, or the end of the age; and the end of the age means the final period of the church, which is the one that exists today. This was represented by the destruction of that temple to its foundations.

[4] A temple has these three symbolic meanings, namely the Lord, the church in heaven, and the church in the world. Because these three are bound up together, they cannot be separated. Consequently one cannot be meant without the other. Therefore anyone who divorces the church in the world from the church in heaven, or the one or the other from the Lord, is without the truth.

The temple here means the church in heaven, because reference to the church in the world follows after this (no. 194).

  
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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.