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3 Mosebok 24

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1 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

2 Byd Israels barn at de skal la dig få ren olje av støtte oliven til lysestaken, så lampene kan settes op til enhver tid.

3 Utenfor vidnesbyrdets forheng i sammenkomstens telt skal Aron alltid holde dem i stand fra aften til morgen for Herrens åsyn; det skal være en evig lov for eder, fra slekt til slekt.

4 lysestaken av rent gull skal han alltid holde lampene i stand for Herrens åsyn.

5 Du skal ta fint mel og bake tolv kaker av det; hver kake skal være to tiendedeler av en efa.

6 Og du skal legge dem i to rader, seks i hver rad, på bordet av rent gull for Herrens åsyn.

7 Og du skal legge ren virak på hver rad, og den skal være et ihukommelses-offer for brødene, et ildoffer for Herren.

8 På hver sabbatsdag skal brødene gjennem alle tider legges frem for Herrens åsyn; det skal være en gave fra Israels barn - en evig pakt.

9 De skal høre Aron og hans sønner til, og de skal ete dem på et hellig sted; for de er høihellige og er hans del av Herrens ildoffer - en evig rettighet.

10 En mann som var sønn av en israelittisk kvinne, men hadde en egypter til far, gikk engang ut blandt Israels barn. Da kom den israelittiske kvinnes sønn og en israelittisk mann i trette med hverandre i leiren,

11 og den israelittiske kvinnes sønn spottet Herrens navn og bannet det, og de førte ham til Moses. Hans mor hette Selomit, Dibris datter, av Dans stamme.

12 De satte ham fast, forat de kunde få avgjørelse ved et ord fra Herren.

13 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

14 Før spotteren utenfor leiren, og alle de som hørte det, skal legge sine hender på hans hode, og hele menigheten skal stene ham.

15 Og du skal tale til Israels barn og si: Når nogen banner sin Gud, skal han lide for sin synd.

16 Og den som spotter Herrens navn, skal late livet, hele menigheten skal stene ham; enten det er en fremmed eller en innfødt, skal han stenes når han spotter Herrens navn.

17 Når en slår et menneske ihjel, skal han late livet.

18 Men den som slår et stykke fe ihjel, skal godtgjøre det, liv for liv.

19 Når nogen volder sin næste mén på hans legeme, skal der gjøres det samme med ham som han selv har gjort:

20 brudd for brudd, øie for øie, tann for tann; det samme mén som han volder en annen, skal han selv få.

21 Den som slår et stykke fe ihjel, skal godtgjøre det; men den som slår et menneske ihjel, skal late livet.

22 En og samme rett skal gjelde for eder, den skal gjelde for den fremmede som for den innfødte; for jeg er Herren eders Gud.

23 Og Moses sa dette til Israels barn, og de førte spotteren utenfor leiren og stenet ham - Israels barn gjorde som Herren hadde befalt Moses.

   

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43. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands. This symbolizes a new church, which will have an enlightenment from the Lord from the Word.

We are told in the last verse of this chapter that the seven lampstands are the seven churches, and it may be seen in no. 10 above that the seven churches mean all in the Christian world who turn to the church - and this in every case according to each one's state of reception (no. 41).

The seven lampstands mean a new church because the Lord is in it and in the midst of it. For we are told that in the midst of the seven lampstands John saw one like the Son of Man, and the Son of Man means the Lord in relation to the Word.

The lampstands appeared golden, because gold symbolizes goodness, and every church is a church by virtue of the goodness that is formed through truths. That gold symbolizes goodness will be seen in subsequent explanations.

[2] These lampstands were not next to one another or placed so as to touch each other, but stood at some intervals forming a kind of circle, as it apparent from this statement in the following chapter,

These things says He who... walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands. (Revelation 2:1)

We are not told anything about the lamps on the lampstands, but later it is said that the Holy Jerusalem, which is to say, the New Church, "has no need of the sun or of the moon," because "its lamp is the Lamb, and the nations that are saved shall walk in its light" (Revelation 21:23-24). And furthermore,

They need no lamp..., for the Lord God gives them light. (Revelation 22:5)

For those people who will be constituents of the Lord's New Church are the only "lampstands" that will shine with light from the Lord.

[3] The golden lampstand in the Tabernacle represented nothing else than the church in relation to its enlightenment by the Lord. Regarding this lampstand, see Exodus 25:31-40; 37:17-24; 26:35, Numbers 8:2-4. That it represented the Lord's church as to Divine spiritual love, which is love for the neighbor, see Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), nos. 9548, 9555, 9558, 9561, 9570, 9783. See also no. 493 below.

The lampstand in Zechariah 4 also symbolizes a new church to be established by the Lord, since it symbolizes a new house of God or temple, as is apparent from what follows there; and a house of God or temple symbolizes the church, and in the highest sense, the Lord's Divine humanity, as He Himself teaches in John 2:19-21, 1 and elsewhere.

But we will say what in turn is symbolically meant in Zechariah 4, when the lampstand appeared to him:

The particulars contained in verses 1-7 symbolize the Lord's enlightenment of a new church from the goodness of love by means of truth. The olive trees there symbolize the church in regard to the goodness of love.

The particulars from 8-10 verse there mean, symbolically, that the enlightenment comes from the Lord. Zerubbabel there, who is to build the house, thus the church, represents the Lord.

The particulars from verse 11-14 mean, symbolically, that that the church will also have in it truths from a heavenly origin.

This explanation of that chapter was given to me by the Lord through heaven.

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1. Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

  
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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.