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Daniel 12

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1 På den tid skal Mikael stå frem, den store fyrste som verner om ditt folks barn, og det skal komme en trengselstid som det ikke har vært fra den dag noget folk blev til, og like til den tid. Men på den tid skal alle de av ditt folk bli frelst som finnes opskrevet i boken.

2 Og de mange som sover i jordens muld, skal våkne op, somme til evig liv og somme til skam og evig avsky.

3 Men de forstandige skal skinne som himmelhvelvingen skinner, og de som har ført de mange til rettferdighet, skal skinne som stjernene, evindelig og alltid.

4 Og du, Daniel, gjem disse ord og forsegl boken inntil endens tid! Mange skal granske den, og kunnskapen skal bli stor.

5 Så fikk jeg, Daniel, i mitt syn se to andre som stod der, en på den ene elvebredd og en på den andre elvebredd.

6 Og en av dem sa til den mann som var klædd i linklær, og som stod ovenover elvens vann: Hvor lenge vil det vare før disse underfulle ting er til ende?

7 Og jeg hørte hvad den mann sa som var klædd i linklær, og som stod ovenover elvens vann; han løftet sin høire hånd og sin venstre hånd op mot himmelen og svor ved ham som lever evindelig: En tid og tider og en halv tid*, og når det hellige folks makt er fullstendig knust, skal alle disse ting fullendes. / {* DNL 7, 25.}

8 Og jeg hørte det, men forstod det ikke, og jeg sa: Herre! Hvad er det siste av disse ting?

9 sa han: Gå bort, Daniel! For disse ord skal være gjemt og forseglet inntil endens tid.

10 Mange skal bli renset og tvettet og prøvd; men de ugudelige skal bli ved å være ugudelige, og ingen ugudelig skal forstå det; men de forstandige skal forstå det.

11 Og fra den tid det stadige offer blir avskaffet, og den ødeleggende vederstyggelighet blir stilt op, skal det gå tusen, to hundre og nitti dager.

12 Salig er den som bier og når frem til tusen, tre hundre og fem og tretti dager.

13 Men gå du din ende i møte! Du skal hvile og stå op til din lodd ved dagenes ende.

   

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10505. 'And if not, blot me out, I beg You, from Your book which You have written' means that the internal side of the Word, the Church, and worship will not be destroyed. This is clear from the representation of Moses, who says these words, as the internal side of the Word, the Church, and worship, dealt with in 10468; from the meaning of 'book which You have written' as what exists there from the Lord, for 'book' means that which is present in the internal, while 'writing' - when attributed to Jehovah, that is, to the Lord - means what exists there from the Lord; and from the meaning of 'blotting out of it' as being destroyed. But at this point not being destroyed is meant because the reply which follows - 'him who has sinned against Me I will blot out of My book' - means that the internal side of the Word, the Church, and worship will not be destroyed but those who turn themselves away from the Divine, thus those whose interest lies in external things and not in what is internal.

[2] The reason why the book written by Jehovah, which in the next verse is called 'My book' or Jehovah's book, and elsewhere 'the book of life', means what is internal is that a person's internal resides in heaven, thus where the Lord is. Consequently the things within his internal are derived from heaven and exist from the Lord, and all are Divine and celestial or spiritual. They are able to be received by the person's internal, but not by his external separated from his internal. This is because his external resides in the world and has been fashioned to receive natural things existing in the world, which without influx through the internal things possess no heavenly life and are therefore said to be dead.

[3] All this helps to show what should be understood in the Word by 'the book of life' and who exactly should be understood by those written in that book, namely those who lead a life of truth and good, thus who in love and faith obey Divine commandments. A life in keeping with those commandments opens and fashions the internal man; and what has been inscribed there has been inscribed by the Lord and remains forever. They are the ones who should be understood by 'those written in the book of life' in the following places: In Daniel,

At that time Your people will be rescued, every one who is found written in the book. Daniel 12:1.

In John,

He who conquers will be clad in white garments; I will not blot his name out of the book of life. Revelation 3:5.

In the same book,

None will enter 1 the new Jerusalem except those who have been written in the Lamb's book of life. Revelation 21:27.

In the same book,

I saw that the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged by the things written in the books, according to their works. And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:12-13, 15.

In the same book,

All will worship the beast whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life. Revelation 13:8; 17:8.

There are other places in addition to these.

[4] It should be remembered that everything inscribed on a person's internal has been inscribed by the Lord; that what is inscribed there constitutes the person's actual spiritual and celestial life; and also that every single thing inscribed there has been inscribed on his love. See also 2474, 8620, 9386.

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1. Reading Non ingredietur (He will not enter or None will enter), which Sw. has in his rough draft and in 8620, for Non ingrediuntur (They do not enter)

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.