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Habakuk 2

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1 På min vaktpost vil jeg stå og stille mig på varden; og jeg vil skue ut for å se hvad han vil tale til mig, og hvad jeg skal få til svar på mitt klagemål.

2 Og Herren svarte mig og sa: Skriv synet op og skriv det tydelig på tavlene, så det kan leses med letthet!

3 For ennu må synet vente på sin tid; men det haster mot enden og lyver ikke. Om det dryger, så bi efter det! For komme skal det, det skal ikke utebli.

4 Se, opblåst og uærlig er hans sjel i ham*; men den rettferdige skal leve ved sin tro. / {* kaldeeren.}

5 Så er og vinen troløs; en skrytende mann - han skal ikke bli boende i ro, han som har opspilt sitt grådige svelg likesom dødsriket; han er som døden og blir ikke mett, han har sanket til sig alle folk og samlet til sig alle folkeslag.

6 Skal ikke alle disse synge nidviser og spottesanger om ham, lage gåter om ham og si: Ve den som dynger op ting som ikke hører ham til - hvor lenge? - og som lesser på sig pantegods!

7 Skal de ikke brått reise sig de som skal pine dig, og våkne op de som skal jage dig op, så du blir et rov for dem?

8 For du har plyndret mange folkeslag; således skal alle som blir igjen av folkene, plyndre dig for din blodskyld mot menneskene og for dine voldsverk mot jorden, mot staden og alle dem som bor i den.

9 Ve den som jager efter skammelig vinning for sitt hus, for å bygge sitt rede i høiden, for å redde sig fra ulykkens hånd!

10 Du har lagt op råd som blir til skam for ditt hus, lagt op råd om å gjøre ende på mange folk og dermed syndet mot dig selv;

11 for stenen i veggen skal skrike, og bjelken i treverket skal svare den.

12 Ve den som bygger en by med blod og grunnlegger en stad med urett!

13 Se, kommer det ikke fra Herren, hærskarenes Gud, at folkeslag skal arbeide sig trette for ilden, og folkeferd gjøre sig møie for intet?

14 For jorden skal fylles med kunnskap om Herrens herlighet, likesom vannet som dekker havets bunn.

15 Ve den som gir sin næste å drikke av sin brennende vredes skål, ja drikker dem drukne, for å se på deres blusel!

16 Du blir mettet med skam og ikke med ære; drikk også du og vis din forhud frem! Begeret i Herrens høire hånd skal i sin tid komme til dig, og dyp skam skal skjule din ære.

17 For ditt voldsverk mot Libanon og ødeleggelsen av dyrene, som skremte dem, skal komme over dig for din blodskyld mot menneskene og for dine voldsverk mot jorden, mot staden og alle dem som bor i den.

18 Hvad gagn gjør et utskåret billede, om enn en mester har skåret det? Eller hvad gagn gjør et støpt billede, en lærer i løgn, om enn dets mester satte sin lit til det da han gjorde målløse avguder?

19 Ve den som sier til en stokk: Våkn op! - til en målløs sten: Stå op! Skulde den være lærer? Den er jo overtrukket med gull og sølv, og det finnes ikke ånd i den.

20 Men Herren er i sitt hellige tempel; vær stille for hans åsyn, all jorden!

   

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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.