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1 Fizeram também de azul, púrpura e carmesim as vestes, finamente tecidas, para ministrar no lugar santo, e fizeram as vestes sagradas para Arão, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

2 Assim se fez o éfode de ouro, azul, púrpura, carmesim e linho fino torcido;

3 bateram o ouro em lâminas delgadas, as quais cortaram em fios, para entretecê-lo no azul, na púrpura, no carmesim e no linho fino, em obra de desenhista;

4 fizeram-lhe ombreiras que se uniam; assim pelos seus dois cantos superiores foi ele unido.

5 E o cinto da obra esmerada do éfode, que estava sobre ele, formava com ele uma só peça e era de obra semelhante, de ouro, azul, púrpura, carmesim e linho fino torcido, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

6 Também prepararam as pedras de berilo, engastadas em ouro, lavradas como a gravura de um selo, com os nomes dos filhos de Israel;

7 as quais puseram sobre as ombreiras do éfode para servirem de pedras de memorial para os filhos de Israel, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

8 Fez-se também o peitoral de obra de desenhista, semelhante à obra do éfode, de ouro, azul, púrpura, carmesim e linho fino torcido.

9 Quadrado e duplo fizeram o peitoral; o seu comprimento era de um palmo, e a sua largura de um palmo, sendo ele dobrado. f

10 E engastaram nele quatro fileiras de pedras: a primeira delas era de um sárdio, um topázio e uma esmeralda;

11 a segunda fileira era de uma granada, uma safira e um ônix;

12 a terceira fileira era de um jacinto, uma ágata e uma ametista;

13 e a quarta fileira era de uma crisólita, um berilo e um jaspe; eram elas engastadas nos seus engastes de ouro.

14 Estas pedras, pois, eram doze, segundo os nomes dos filhos de Israel; eram semelhantes a gravuras de selo, cada uma com o nome de uma das doze tribos.

15 Também fizeram sobre o peitoral cadeiazinhas, semelhantes a cordas, obra de trança, de ouro puro.

16 Fizeram também dois engastes de ouro e duas argolas de ouro, e fixaram as duas argolas nas duas extremidades do peitoral.

17 E meteram as duas cadeiazinhas de trança de ouro nas duas argolas, nas extremidades do peitoral.

18 E as outras duas pontas das duas cadeiazinhas de trança meteram nos dois engastes, e as puseram sobre as ombreiras do éfode, na parte dianteira dele.

19 Fizeram outras duas argolas de ouro, que puseram nas duas extremidades do peitoral, na sua borda que estava junto ao éfode por dentro.

20 Fizeram mais duas argolas de ouro, que puseram nas duas ombreiras do éfode, debaixo, na parte dianteira dele, junto à sua costura, acima do cinto de obra esmerada do éfode.

21 E ligaram o peitoral, pelas suas argolas, às argolas do éfode por meio de um cordão azul, para que estivesse sobre o cinto de obra esmerada do éfode, e o peitoral não se separasse do éfode, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

22 Fez-se também o manto do éfode de obra tecida, todo de azul,

23 e a abertura do manto no meio dele, como a abertura de cota de malha; esta abertura tinha um debrum em volta, para que não se rompesse.

24 Nas abas do manto fizeram romãs de azul, púrpura e carmesim, de fio torcido.

25 Fizeram também campainhas de ouro puro, pondo as campainhas nas abas do manto ao redor, entremeadas com as romãs;

26 uma campainha e uma romã, outra campainha e outra romã, nas abas do manto ao redor, para uso no ministério, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

27 Fizeram também as túnicas de linho fino, de obra tecida, para Arão e para seus filhos,

28 e a mitra de linho fino, e o ornato das tiaras de linho fino, e os calções de linho fino torcido,

29 e o cinto de linho fino torcido, e de azul, púrpura e carmesim, obra de bordador, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

30 Fizeram também, de ouro puro, a lâmina da coroa sagrada, e nela gravaram uma inscrição como a gravura de um selo: SANTO AO SENHOR.

31 E a ela ataram um cordão azul, para prendê-la à parte superior da mitra, como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

32 Assim se acabou toda a obra do tabernáculo da tenda da revelação; e os filhos de Israel fizeram conforme tudo o que o Senhor ordenara a Moisés; assim o fizeram.

33 Depois trouxeram a Moisés o tabernáculo, a tenda e todos os seus utensílios, os seus colchetes, as suas tábuas, os seus travessões, as suas colunas e as suas bases;

34 e a cobertura de peles de carneiros tintas de vermelho, e a cobertura de peles de golfinhos, e o véu do reposteiro;

35 a arca do testemunho com os seus varais, e o propiciatório;

36 a mesa com todos os seus utensílios, e os pães da proposição;

37 o candelabro puro com suas lâmpadas todas em ordem, com todos os seus utensílios, e o azeite para a luz;

38 também o altar de ouro, o óleo da unção e o incenso aromático, e o reposteiro para a porta da tenda;

39 o altar de bronze e o seu crivo de bronze, os seus varais, e todos os seus utensílios; a pia e a sua base;

40 as cortinas do átrio, as suas colunas e as suas bases, e o reposteiro para a porta do átrio, as suas cordas e as suas estacas, e todos os utensílios do serviço do tabernáculo, para a tenda da revelação;

41 as vestes finamente tecidas para uso no ministério no lugar santo, e as vestes sagradas para Arão, o sacerdote, e as vestes para seus filhos, para administrarem o sacerdócio.

42 Conforme tudo o que o Senhor ordenara a Moisés, assim fizeram os filhos de Israel toda a obra.

43 Viu, pois, Moisés toda a obra, e eis que a tinham feito; como o Senhor ordenara, assim a fizeram; então Moisés os abençoou.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 39

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39. And all the tribes of the earth shall wail over him. That this signifies that the falsities of the church will resist, is evident from the signification of wailing, as denoting to lament, to grieve, to be indignant, to be angry, to be averse from, thus also to resist; and from the signification of tribes, as denoting all truths and goods in the aggregate, and, in the opposite sense, all falsities and evils in the aggregate, concerning which we shall speak in what follows; and from the signification of the earth, as being the church (on which see above, n. 29). By all the tribes of the earth, therefore, is signified the whole church, and by their wailing over Him, is signified that truths and goods are no more, because falsities and evils are about to dominate and resist. For what the state of the church will be at its end is treated of in general in this verse, when there will be no longer any faith because no charity; that is, that the Lord will then reveal Himself, and that all will acknowledge Him who are in truths from good, and that those also shall see Him who are in falsities from evil, but that the falsities of the church will resist. (That the Apocalypse does not treat of the successive states of the church, but of its last state, or when it is at its end, may be seen above, n. 5; and that its end is when there is no faith because no charity, may be seen in the small work, The Last Judgment 33-39, and following numbers. When there is no faith because no charity, then falsities from evil reign, which offer opposition to truths from good.)

[2] Tribes are often mentioned in the Word, because the Israelitish people were divided into twelve tribes; and he who is ignorant of the internal sense of the Word supposes, that by tribes are meant the tribes of Israel; nevertheless, by tribes are not meant tribes, nor is Israel meant by Israel; but tribes mean all those who are in truths from good, and Israel means the church of the Lord. He who does not know this, will easily accept the common belief that the children of Israel were chosen before all others on the whole earth, and also that they will be introduced at last into the land of Canaan. Indeed, he will believe that heaven will consist chiefly of them; although, by the names of those tribes in the Word they are not meant, but those who are in truths from good, that is, those who belong to the church; by the twelve tribes, all, and by each one of them, some special truth and good pertaining to those who belong to the church.

[3] These things being understood, it is evident what is meant by these words in the Apocalypse:

"I heard the number of them which were sealed; and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the sons of Israel. Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Naphtali were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasseh were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zebulun were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand" (7:4-8).

In this passage those who belonged to the Israelitish nation are not meant, but all those, however many they may be, who are in truths from good; for all these are sealed for heaven. The numbers one hundred and forty-four thousand and twelve thousand, also signify all, and each tribe signifies all those who are in that truth or good which is signified by its name.

(As may be evident from what is shown in Arcana Coelestia in regard to the following: what good and truth are signified by Judah, n. 3881, 6363; what by Reuben, n. 3861, 3866, 4605, 4731, 4734, 4761, 6342-6345; what by Gad, n. 3934, 3935; what by Asher, n. 3938, 3939, 6408; what by Naphtali, n. 3927, 3928 what by Manasseh, n. 3969, 5354, 6222, 6231, 6238, 6267, 6296 what by Simeon, n. 3869-3872, 4197, 4502, 4503, 5482, 5626, 5630; what by Levi, n. 3875, 3877, 4497, 4502, 4503; what by Issachar, n. 3956, 3957; what by Zebulun, n. 3960, 3961, 6383; what by Joseph, n. 3969, 3971, 4669, 6417; and what by Benjamin, n. 3969, 4592, 5411, 5413, 5443, 5639, 5686, 5688, 5689, 6440.

That all numbers in the Word signify things, see n. 482, 487, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175, 9488, 9659, 10217, 10253.

That twelve signifies all, and all things as to truths from good, see n. 577, 2089, 2129, 2130, 3272, 3858, 3913; also, the numbers 72, 144, 12,000, 144,000, because they arise from the number 12 by multiplication, n. 7973.

That numbers multiplied signify the same as the simple numbers from which they are produced by multiplication, see n. 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973.)

[4] He who does not know that numbers signify things, what the numbers twelve, one hundred and forty-four, and twelve thousand signify, and also what tribes and apostles signify, cannot know what is signified by those passages in the Apocalypse, where it is said, that the holy city, New Jerusalem,

"had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written which are the names of the twelve tribes of Israel; and the wall had twelve foundations, in which were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The wall was a hundred and forty and four cubits, and the length and the breadth of the city twelve thousand furlongs" (21:12, 14, 16, 17).

The signification of all these things may be seen explained in the little work, The New Jerusalem and its Doctrine, n. 1; where it is shown, that by Jerusalem is signified the church as to doctrine; by the wall, its truths of defence; by the gates, introductory truths; by the foundations, the knowledges upon which doctrine is founded; by twelve angels, and by twelve tribes, all truths and goods collectively; the same by the twelve apostles; and by the numbers twelve, one hundred and forty-four, and twelve thousand, all things and all persons.

[5] Moreover, he who knows that such things are signified by the twelve tribes may see the mystery involved in the names of the twelve tribes being engraved upon the precious stones of the Urim and Thummim, and also the signification of the breast-plate (Exodus 28:21; 39:10-15). (This arcanum may be seen unfolded in Arcana Coelestia 3858, 6335, 6640, 9863, 9865, 9873, 9874, 9905.) He may also see what is the signification of the twelve apostles sitting upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28), namely, that the Lord alone will judge every one by truths from good (n. 2129, 6397); also what things are meant by the predictions of Israel the father, concerning his sons (Gen. 49); and also the meaning of many other passages in the Word where the tribes are mentioned (as in Isaiah 19:13; 49:6; 63:17; Jeremiah 10:16; Ezekiel 48:1, and following verses; Psalm 122:3-5; Deuteronomy 32:8; Numbers 24:2; Apoc. 5:9; 7:4-9; 11:9; 13:7; 14:6; and elsewhere).

[6] And again, the meaning of the Lord's words about the consummation of the age and His coming, may be seen:

"After the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and much glory" (Matthew 14:29, 30).

(These words may be seen explained in detail in the work, Heaven and Hell 1; and in the following passages in Arcana Coelestia, where it is shown that the twelve tribes of Israel represented, and thence signified, all truths and goods collectively, thus all things of faith and love, n. 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335; that similar things are signified by the twelve apostles, n. 2129, 3354, 3488, 3858, 6397; and that they have various significations according to the order in which they are named, n. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603, 6337, 6640, 10335.)

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Heaven and Hell # 1

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1. In the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, we find the Lord talking to his disciples about the close of the age, the last time of the church. 1 At the end of his prophecies concerning the sequence of states of its love and faith 2 he says:

Immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Human-born One will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will lament. And they will see the Human-born One coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a trumpet and a loud voice, and they will gather his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens all the way to the other end. (Matthew 24:29-31)

When people understand these words according to their literal meaning, they can only believe that all these things are going to happen just as this meaning describes them, at that end of time called the Last Judgment. This does not mean only that the sun and moon will be darkened and that the stars will fall from heaven, that the sign of the Lord will appear in heaven, and that he will be seen in the clouds with angels blowing trumpets. It also includes matters prophesied elsewhere, statements that the whole visible world is going to be destroyed and that afterward a new heaven and a new earth will come into being.

Many people in the church these days are of this opinion. However, people who believe such things are not aware of the hidden depths that lie within the details of the Word. There is in fact spiritual meaning in these details, for they intend not only the outward and earthly events that we find on the literal level but spiritual and heavenly events as well. This holds true not just for the meaning of phrases but even for each word. 3

The Word is in fact written in pure correspondences 4 so that there may be deeper meaning in the details. Questions about the nature of this meaning can be resolved by all the things I have set forth about it in Secrets of Heaven. A selection of these may be found also in my explanation of the white horse in the Book of Revelation. It is in this deeper sense that we are to understand what the Lord said in the passage just cited about coming in the clouds of heaven. The sun that will be darkened means the Lord in respect to love, 5 the moon means the Lord in respect to faith. 6 The stars mean insights into what is good and true, or into love and faith. 7 The sign of the Human-born One in heaven means the appearing of divine truth. The wailing tribes of earth mean all the elements of what is true and good, or of faith and love. 8 The Lord's coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory means his presence in the Word, and revelation. 9 The clouds refer to the literal meaning of the Word 10 and the glory to the Word's inner meaning. 11 The angels with a trumpet and a loud voice mean heaven, which is where divine truth comes from. 12

This enables us to see what these words of the Lord mean. They mean that at the end of the church, when there is no longer any love and therefore no longer any faith, the Lord will open the Word by disclosing its deeper meaning and will reveal the heavenly contents hidden within it. The particular hidden contents to be disclosed in the pages that follow have to do with heaven and hell and with our own life after death.

Church people these days know practically nothing about heaven and hell or their life after death, even though there are descriptions of everything available to them in the Word. In fact, many who have been born in the church deny all this. In their hearts they are asking who has ever come back to tell us about it.

To prevent this negative attitude - especially prevalent among people who have acquired a great deal of worldly wisdom - from infecting and corrupting people of simple heart and simple faith, it has been granted me to be with angels and to talk with them person to person. I have also been enabled to see what is in heaven and in hell, a process that has been going on for thirteen years. Now I am being allowed therefore to describe what I have heard and seen, in the hopes of shedding light where there is ignorance, and of dispelling skepticism.

The reason this kind of direct revelation is taking place today is that this is what the Coming of the Lord means.

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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] On the close of the age as the last time of the church: 4535, 10672 [10622?].

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] For explanations of what the Lord said in Matthew 24:25 about the close of the age, his coming, and thus the gradual destruction of the church and the Last Judgment, see the material prefaced to chapters 5-24 [ 26-40] of Genesis. In particular, see 3353-3356, 3486-3489, 3650-3655, 3751-3759 [3751-3757], 3897-3901, 4056-4060, 4129-4231 [4229-4231], 4332-4335, 4422-4424, 4535, 4635-4638, 4661-4664, 4807-4810, 4954-4959, 5063-5071.

3. [Swedenborg's footnote] There is deeper meaning in every detail of the Word: 1143, 1984, 2135, 2333, 2395, 2495, 4442, 9049, 9086.

4. [Swedenborg's footnote] The Word is composed using pure correspondences, so that its every detail points to something spiritual: 1404, 1408-1409, 1540, 1619, 1659, 1709, 1783, 2900, 9086.

5. [Swedenborg's footnote] The sun in the Word means the Lord in respect to love, and therefore love for the Lord: 1529, 1837, 2441, 2495, 4060, 4696, 4996 [4966?], 7083, 10809.

6. [Swedenborg's footnote] The moon in the Word means the Lord in respect to faith, and therefore faith in the Lord: 1529-1530, 2495, 4060, 4996 [4696?], 7083.

7. [Swedenborg's footnote] Stars in the Word mean insights into what is good and true: 2495, 2849, 4697.

8. [Swedenborg's footnote] Tribes mean all true and good elements in a single complex, or all elements of faith and love: 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335.

9. [Swedenborg's footnote] The Lord's coming is his presence in the Word, and revelation: 3900, 4060.

10. [Swedenborg's footnote] Clouds in the Word mean the Word in the letter or its literal meaning: 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343, 6752, 8106, 8781, 9430, 10551, 10574.

11. [Swedenborg's footnote] Glory in the Word means divine truth as it is in heaven and in the inner meaning of the Word: 4809, 5292 5922, 8267, 8427, 9429, 10574.

12. [Swedenborg's footnote] The trumpet or horn means divine truth in heaven and revealed from heaven: 8815, 8823, 8915."Voice" has the same meaning: 6971, 9926.

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