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Sakarias 7

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1 Så var det i kong Darius' fjerde år, da kom Herrens ord til Sakarias på den fjerde dag i den niende måned, i måneden kislev.

2 For Betel hadde sendt Sareser og egem-Melek og hans menn for å bønnfalle Herren

3 og spørre prestene i Herrens, hærskarenes Guds hus og profetene: Skal vi gråte og faste i den femte måned, som vi nu har gjort i så mange år?

4 Da kom Herrens, hærskarenes Guds ord til mig, og det lød så:

5 Si til alt folket i landet og til prestene: Når I har fastet og klaget i den femte* og i den syvende** måned, og det nu i sytti år***, er det da for min skyld I har fastet? / {* da blev templet ødelagt; 2KG 25, 8 fg.} / {** da blev Gedalja myrdet; 2KG 25, 25. JE 41, 2.} / {*** SK 1, 12. JE 25, 11.}

6 Og når I eter og drikker, er det da ikke I selv som eter, og I selv som drikker?

7 Minnes I ikke de ord Herren lot utrope ved de forrige profeter, da Jerusalem lå der i ro og fred med sine byer rundt om, og likeså sydlandet og lavlandet?

8 Og Herrens ord kom til Sakarias, og det lød så:

9 sa Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Døm rettferdige dommer og vis miskunnhet og barmhjertighet mot hverandre,

10 og undertrykk ikke enker og farløse, fremmede og arminger, og tenk ikke ut ondt mot hverandre i eders hjerte!

11 Men de vilde ikke akte på det, men satte i sin gjenstridighet skulderen imot, og sine ører gjorde de døve, så de ikke hørte,

12 og sitt hjerte gjorde de hårdt som en diamant, så de ikke hørte på loven og de ord Herren, hærskarenes Gud, sendte ved sin Ånd gjennem de forrige profeter; derfor kom det en stor vrede fra Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

13 Og likesom han ropte, og de ikke hørte, således, sa Herren, hærskarenes Gud, skal de rope, og jeg vil ikke høre,

14 men jeg vil sprede dem som i en stormvind blandt alle hedningefolkene, som de ikke kjenner, og landet skal ligge øde efter dem, så ingen drar frem eller tilbake der. Og således gjorde de det herlige land til en ørken.

   

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Doctrine of the Lord # 65

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65. In the book of Revelation we read of a new heaven and a new earth, and we are afterwards told, “Behold, I make all things new.” These verses have no other meaning than this, that in the church to be established now, there will be a new doctrine, which did not exist in the previous church. It did not exist because if it had, it would not have been accepted. For the Last Judgment had not yet been accomplished, and prior to that the power of hell prevailed over the power of heaven. Consequently, if the doctrine had been given before, out of the Lord’s own mouth, it would not have remained among the people. Nor does it remain at this day, other than with a few who turn to the Lord alone and acknowledge Him to be the God of heaven and earth (see no. 61 above).

This same doctrine was indeed given previously in the Word. But because not long after its inception the church was turned into Babylon, and later, among some, into Philistia, therefore the doctrine could not be seen in the Word. For the church sees the Word only in accord with the principal tenet of its religion and its doctrine.

The new tenets found in this short book are in general the following:

1. God is one in person and essence, and that God is the Lord.

2. The Holy Scripture throughout has Him alone as its subject.

3. The Lord came into the world to conquer the hells and glorify His humanity. And He accomplished both by undergoing temptations or trials, and did so completely by the last of these, which was His suffering of the cross. By this He became our Redeemer and Savior, and in consequence of it, the merit and righteousness are His alone.

4. His fulfilling all things of the Law means that He fulfilled all things of the Word.

5. By His suffering of the cross He did not take away sins, but bore them as a prophet, which is to say that He suffered it so as to represent in His person the church and how it had abused the Word.

6. An imputation of merit is without reality unless one takes it to mean a forgiveness of sins following repentance.

These tenets are contained in the present short work. Still more new ones will be found in the works to follow, works entitled The Sacred Scripture, The Doctrine of Life, Faith, and Divine Love and Wisdom.

  
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Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.

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Zechariah 12:6

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6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.