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Ezequiel 3

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1 Depois me disse: Filho do homem, come o que achares; come este rolo, e vai, fala à casa de Israel.

2 Então abri a minha boca, e ele me deu a comer o rolo.

3 E disse-me: Filho do homem, de comer ao teu ventre, e enche as tuas entranhas deste rolo que eu te dou. Então o comi, e era na minha boca doce como o mel.

4 Disse-me ainda: Filho do homem, vai, entra na casa de Israel, e dize-lhe as minhas palavras.

5 Pois tu não és enviado a um povo de estranha fala, nem de língua difícil, mas à casa de Israel;

6 nem a muitos povos de estranha fala, e de língua difícil, cujas palavras não possas entender; se eu aos tais te enviara, certamente te dariam ouvidos.

7 Mas a casa de Israel não te quererá ouvir; pois eles não me querem escutar a mim; porque toda a casa de Israel é de fronte obstinada e dura de coração.

8 Eis que fiz duro o teu rosto contra os seus rostos, e dura a tua fronte contra a sua fronte.

9 Fiz como esmeril a tua fronte, mais dura do que a pederneira. Não os temas pois, nem te assustes com os seus semblantes, ainda que são casa rebelde.

10 Disse-me mais: Filho do homem, recebe no teu coração todas as minhas palavras que te hei de dizer; e ouve-as com os teus ouvidos.

11 E vai ter com os do cativeiro, com os filhos do teu povo, e lhes falarás, e tu dirás: Assim diz o Senhor Deus; quer ouçam quer deixem de ouvir.

12 Então o Espírito me levantou, e ouvi por detrás de mim uma voz de grande estrondo, que dizia: Bendita seja a glória do Senhor, desde o seu lugar.

13 E ouvi o ruído das asas dos seres viventes, ao tocarem umas nas outras, e o banilho das rodas ao lado deles, e o sonido dum grande estrondo.

14 Então o Espírito me levantou, e me levou; e eu me fui, amargurado, na indignação do meu espírito; e a mão do Senhor era forte sobre mim.

15 E vim ter com os do cativeiro, a Tel-Abibe, que moravam junto ao rio Quebar, e eu morava onde eles moravam; e por sete dias sentei-me ali, pasmado no meio deles.

16 Ao fim de sete dias, veio a palavra do Senhor a mim, dizendo:

17 Filho do homem, eu te dei por atalaia sobre a casa de Israel; quando ouvires uma palavra da minha boca, avisá-los-ás da minha parte.

18 Quando eu disser ao ímpio: Certamente morrerás; se não o avisares, nem falares para avisar o ímpio acerca do seu mau caminho, a fim de salvares a sua vida, aquele ímpio morrerá na sua iniqüidade; mas o seu sangue, da tua mão o requererei:

19 Contudo se tu avisares o ímpio, e ele não se converter da sua impiedade e do seu mau caminho, ele morrerá na sua iniqüidade; mas tu livraste a tua alma.

20 Semelhantemente, quando o justo se desviar da sua justiça, e praticar a iniqüidade, e eu puser diante dele um tropeço, ele morrerá; porque não o avisaste, no seu pecado morrerá e não serão lembradas as suas ações de justiça que tiver praticado; mas o seu sangue, da tua mão o requererei.

21 Mas se tu avisares o justo, para que o justo não peque, e ele não pecar, certamente viverá, porque recebeu o aviso; e tu livraste a tua alma.

22 E a mão do Senhor estava sobre mim ali, e ele me disse: Levanta-te, e sai ao vale, e ali falarei contigo.

23 Então me levantei, e saí ao vale; e eis que a glória do Senhor estava ali, como a glória que vi junto ao rio Quebar; e caí com o rosto em terra.

24 Então entrou em mim o Espírito, e me pôs em ; e falou comigo, e me disse: Entra, encerra-te dentro da tua casa.

25 E quanto a ti, ó filho do homem, eis que porão cordas sobre ti, e te ligarão com elas, e tu não sairás por entre eles.

26 E eu farei que a tua língua se pegue ao teu paladar, e ficarás mudo, e não lhes servirás de repreendedor; pois casa rebelde são eles.

27 Mas quando eu falar contigo, abrirei a tua boca, e lhes dirás: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Quem ouvir, ouça, e quem deixar de ouvir, deixe; pois casa rebelde são eles.

   

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Isaías 48:4

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4 Porque eu sabia que és obstinado, que a tua cerviz é um nervo de ferro, e a tua testa de bronze.

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Apocalypse Explained # 397

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397. Until their fellow-servants as well as their brethren, who were to be killed, as they also were, should be fulfilled, signifies until evils were consummated. This is evident from the signification of "until they should be fulfilled," as being until they were consummated; also from the signification of "their fellow-servants as well as their brethren, who were to be killed, as they also were," as being evils, for to kill these denotes evil, "fellow-servants" meaning those who are in truths, and "brethren" those who are in goods, and "fellow-servants" and "brethren" together those who are in truths from good; for in the internal sense the two are conjoined into one.

"Consummation" is mentioned in some passages in the Word, likewise "when evils are consummated," but scarcely anyone at this day knows what this signifies. In three articles above (n. 391, 392, 394) it is said that the former heaven consisted of such as had led a moral life in externals, and yet were internally evil, and that these dwelt in high places in the spiritual world, and therefore thought themselves to be in heaven.

These, because they were interiorly evil, would not tolerate among them those that were interiorly good, and this because their affections and thoughts were discordant, for all consociations in the spiritual world are effected according to agreement of affections and thence of thoughts; for angels and spirits are nothing but affections and thoughts therefrom in a human form; and as those who then were in the high places could not endure the presence of those who were interiorly good, they cast them out from among them, and wherever they saw them, treated them wrongfully and shamefully, consequently the good were delivered by the Lord from this violence and concealed under heaven and preserved; and this was taking place from the time when the Lord was in the world even until this time when the judgment was accomplished; then those who were on high places were cast down, and those who were under heaven were elevated. The evil were tolerated so long on the high places, and the good were detained so long under heaven, in order that both "might be fulfilled," which means that there might be a sufficient number of the good to form a new heaven, and also that the evil might sink down of themselves into hell; for the Lord casts no one down into hell, but the evil itself which is with evil spirits casts them down (as may be seen in the work on Heaven and Hell 545-550). This takes place when evils are consummated, that is, fulfilled.

[2] This also is what is meant by the Lord's words in Matthew:

The servants of the householder coming, said, Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? whence then are the tares? And they said, Wilt thou therefore that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay, lest in gathering the tares ye root up at the same time the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them into bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into the barn. So shall it be in the consummation of the age (Matthew 13:27-30, 37-42).

"The consummation of the age" is the last time when judgment takes place; "the time of harvest" is when all things are consummated, that is, are fulfilled; "the tares" mean evils or those in whom evils are, and "the wheat" means goods or those in whom goods are. (But of these see further in the small work on The Last Judgment 65-72.) From all this it can in some measure be known why it was said to them "that they should rest yet a little time, until their fellow-servants, as well as their brethren, who were to be killed, as they also were, should be fulfilled;" "to be killed" has here the like signification as "to be slain" above n. 392, namely, to be rejected by the evil because of Divine truth, and because of their confession of the Lord.

[3] When this is known it can be known what is signified by "consummation" and by "iniquity consummated" in the following passages. In Moses:

Jehovah said, I will go down and see whether they have made a consummation, according to the cry that is come unto Me (Genesis 18:20-21).

This is said of Sodom. In the same:

For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet consummated [fulfilled] (Genesis 15:16).

In Isaiah:

A consummation and decision I have heard from the Lord Jehovih of Hosts upon the whole earth (Isaiah 28:22).

In the same:

A consummation is determined, righteousness has overflowed. For the Lord Jehovih of Hosts is making a consummation and a decision in the whole earth (Isaiah 10:22-23).

In Zephaniah:

In the fire of the zeal of Jehovah of Hosts the whole land shall be devoured; for He shall make a consummation, even a speedy one, with all the inhabitants of the land (Zephaniah 1:18).

In Daniel:

At last upon the bird of abominations shall be desolation, and even to the consummation and decision it shall drop upon the devastation (Daniel 9:27);

and elsewhere. "Consummation" and "decision" in these passages signify the last state of the church, a state in which there is no longer any truth because there is no good, or in which there is no longer any faith because there is no charity; and when this is the state of the church, then comes the Last Judgment. The Last Judgment then comes, for the further reason that the human race is the basis or foundation of the angelic heaven, for the conjunction of the angelic heaven with the human race is perpetual, the one subsisting by means of the other; when therefore the basis does not correspond the angelic heaven totters; consequently there must then be a judgment upon those who are in the spiritual world, that all things in the heavens as well as in the hells, may be reduced to order. (That the human race is the basis and foundation of the angelic heaven, and that the conjunction is perpetual, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 291-310.) From this it can be known that "consummation" means the last state of the church, when there is no longer any faith because there is no charity. This state of the church is also called in the Word "vastation" and "desolation," and by the Lord "the consummation of the age" (Matthew 13:39, 40, 49; 24:3; 28:20).

  
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