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Sakarias 3

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1 Så lot han mig se Josva, ypperstepresten, som stod for Herrens engels åsyn, og Satan som stod ved hans høire side for å anklage ham.

2 Men Herren sa til Satan: Herren refse dig, Satan! Herren refse dig, han som har utvalg Jerusalem! Er ikke denne mann her en rykende brand, revet ut av ilden?

3 Men Josva var klædd i skitne klær der han stod for engelens åsyn.

4 Og engelen tok til orde og sa til dem som stod foran ham: Ta de skitne klær av ham! Og til ham selv sa han: Se, jeg tar din misgjerning bort fra dig og klær dig i høitidsklær.

5 Da sa jeg: Sett en ren hue på hans hode! Og de satte den rene hue på hans hode og hadde på ham andre klær mens Herrens engel stod der.

6 Da vidnet Herrens engel for Josva og sa:

7 sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Hvis du går på mine veier og holder mine bud, da skal du også få styre mitt hus og vokte mine forgårder; og jeg vil gi dig førere blandt disse som står her*. / {* blandt englene.}

8 Hør nu, Josva, du yppersteprest! Du og dine venner, som sitter her foran dig, I er varselsmenn*. For se, jeg lar min tjener Spire** komme; / {* forbilleder; JES 8, 18.} / {** Messias, spiren av Davids ætt.}

9 for se, den sten jeg har lagt foran Josva - på denne ene sten er syv øine* rettet! Se, jeg skjærer ut på den de tegn den skal ha, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, og jeg tar dette lands misgjerning bort på én dag. / {* SK 4, 10.}

10 På den dag, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, skal I innby hverandre til gjestebud under vintreet og fikentreet.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 487

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487. "But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it." (11:2) This symbolically means that the state of the church on earth, as it is still, must be set aside and not learned.

The court outside the temple symbolizes the church on earth, because that church is outside heaven, heaven being the temple (no. 486). To leave out means, symbolically, to remove, here to remove from heaven, because its state is of such a character. And not to measure means, symbolically, not to learn or investigate its character (no. 486). The reason follows: "for has been given to the gentiles, and they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months."

That the court outside the temple here symbolizes the church on earth as it is still, is apparent from the following particulars in this chapter, where it is described by the great city called Sodom and Egypt, in which the Lord's two witnesses lay dead, and which afterward fell in a great earthquake, and seven thousand people by name were killed in it - and many other particulars besides.

[2] Elsewhere in the Word the court symbolizes the outward aspect of the church. For there were two courts 1 to be crossed when entering the Temple itself in Jerusalem, and as the Temple symbolized the church in respect to its inner aspect, therefore the courts symbolized the church in respect to its outward one. Consequently strangers who came from the surrounding nations were admitted into the courts, but not into the Temple itself.

Moreover, because the court symbolized the outward aspect of the church, it symbolized therefore also the church on earth, and heaven as well in its outmost manifestations, inasmuch as the church on earth is an entryway into heaven, and so is heaven in its outmost manifestations.

[3] A court has this symbolic meaning in the following places:

Blessed is he whom You choose... He shall dwell in Your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, with the holiness of Your temple. (Psalms 65:4)

Praise the name of Jehovah..., O you... who stand in (His) house, in the courts of the house of our God. (Psalms 135:1-2)

How lovely are Your habitations, O Jehovah...! My soul... indeed faints for the courts of Jehovah. (Psalms 84:1-2)

Enter into His gates with confession, His courts with praise. (Psalms 100:4)

The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree... Those who are planted in the house of Jehovah shall sprout in the courts of our God. (Psalms 92:12-13)

...a day in Your courts is better than thousands. I have chosen to stand at the door in the house of my God... (Psalms 84:10)

And so on elsewhere, as in Psalms 96:8; 116:18-19, Isaiah 1:12; 62:9, Zechariah 3:7, Ezekiel 10:3-5.

Regarding the courts of the Temple in Jerusalem, see 1 Kings 6:36; 7:12.

Regarding the courts of the new Temple, Ezekiel 40:17-44; 42:1-14; 43:4-7.

And regarding the court outside the Tabernacle, Exodus 27:9-18.

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1. I.e., the inner court or court of priests, and the outer court or great court. See 1 Kings 6:36; 7:12

  
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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.