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Ezequiel 48

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1 São estes os nomes das tribos: desde o extremo norte, ao longo do caminho de Hetlom, até a entrada de Hamate, até Hazar-Enom, junto ao termo setentrional de Damasco, defronte de Hamate, com as suas fronteiras estendendo-se do oriente ao ocidente, terá uma porção.

2 Junto ao termo de , desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Aser terá uma porção.

3 Junto ao termo de Aser, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Naftali terá uma porção.

4 Junto ao termo de Naftali, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Manasses terá uma porção.

5 Junto ao termo de Manassés, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Efraim terá uma porção.

6 Junto ao termo de Efraim, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Rúben terá uma porção.

7 Junto ao termo de Rúben desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Judá terá uma porção.

8 Junto ao termo de Judá, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, será a oferta que haveis de fazer de vinte e cinco mil canas de largura, e do comprimento de cada uma das porções, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental. O santuário estará no meio dela.

9 A oferta que haveis de fazer ao Senhor será do comprimento de vinte e cinco mil canas, e da largura de dez mil.

10 Será para os sacerdotes uma porção desta santa oferta, medindo para o norte vinte e cinco mil canas de comprimento, para o ocidente dez mil de largura, para o oriente dez mil de largura, e para o sul vinte e cinco mil de comprimento; e o santuário do Senhor estará no meio dela.

11 Sim, será para os sacerdotes consagrados dentre os filhos de Zadoque, que guardaram a minha ordenança, e não se desviaram quando os filhos de Israel se extraviaram, como se extraviaram os outros levitas.

12 E o oferecido ser-lhes-á repartido da santa oferta da terra, coisa santíssima, junto ao termo dos levitas.

13 Também os levitas terão, consoante o termo dos sacerdotes, vinte e cinco mil canas de comprimento, e de largura dez mil; todo o comprimento será vinte e cinco mil, e a largura dez mil.

14 E não venderão nada disto nem o trocarão, nem transferirão as primícias da terra, porque é santo ao Senhor.

15 Mas as cinco mil, as que restam da largura, defronte das vinte e cinco mil, ficarão para uso comum, para a cidade, para habitação e para arrabaldes; e a cidade estará no meio.

16 E estas serão as suas medidas: a fronteira setentrional terá quatro mil e quinhentas canas, e a fronteira do sul quatro mil e quinhentas, e a fronteira oriental quatro mil e quinhentas, e a fronteira ocidental quatro mil e quinhentas.

17 Os arrabaldes, que a cidade terá, serão para o norte de duzentas e cinqüenta canas, e para o sul de duzentas e cinqüenta, e para o oriente de duzentas e cinqüenta, e para o ocidente de duzentas e cinqüenta.

18 E, quanto ao que ficou do resto no comprimento, de conformidade com a santa oferta, será de dez mil para o oriente e dez mil para o ocidente; e corresponderá à santa oferta; e a sua novidade será para sustento daqueles que servem a cidade.

19 E os que servem a cidade, dentre todas as tribos de Israel, cultivá-lo-ão.

20 A oferta inteira será de vinte e cinco mil canas por vinte e cinco mil; em quadrado a oferecereis como porção santa, incluindo o que possui a cidade.

21 O que restar será para o príncipe; desta e da outra banda da santa oferta, e da possessão da cidade; defronte das vinte e cinco mil canas da oferta, na direção do termo oriental, e para o ocidente, defronte das vinte e cinco mil, na direção do termo ocidental, correspondente às porções, isso será a parte do príncipe; e a oferta santa e o santuário do templo estarão no meio.

22 A possessão dos levitas, e a possessão da cidade estarão no meio do que pertencer ao príncipe. Entre o termo de Judá e o termo de Benjamim será a porção do príncipe.

23 Ora quanto ao resto das tribos: desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Benjamim terá uma porção.

24 Junto ao termo de Benjamim, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Simeão terá uma porção.

25 Junto ao termo de Simeão, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Issacar terá uma porção.

26 Junto ao termo de Issacar, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Zebulom terá uma porção.

27 Junto ao termo de Zebulom, desde a fronteira oriental até a fronteira ocidental, Gade terá uma porção.

28 Junto ao termo de Gade, na fronteira sul, para o sul, o termo será desde Tamar até as águas de Meribate-Cades, até o Ribeiro do Egito, e até o Mar Grande.

29 Esta é a terra que sorteareis em herança para as tribos de Israel, e são estas as suas respectivas porções, diz o Senhor Deus.

30 E estas são as saídas da cidade: da banda do norte quatro mil e quinhentos côvados por medida;

31 e as portas da cidade serão conforme os nomes das tribos de Israel; três portas para o norte; a porta de Rúben a porta de Judá, e a porta de Levi.

32 Da banda do oriente quatro mil e quinhentos côvados, e três portas, a saber: a porta de José, a porta de Benjamim, e a porta de .

33 Da banda do sul quatro mil e quinhentos côvados, e três portas: a porta de Simeão, a porta de Issacar, e a porta de Zebulom.

34 Da banda do ocidente quatro mil e quinhentos côvados, e as suas três portas: a porta de Gade, a porta de Aser, e a porta de Naftali.

35 Dezoito mil côvados terá ao redor; e o nome da cidade desde aquele dia será Jeová-Samá.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 191

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191. "'I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God.'" This symbolically means that the truths they possess, springing from goodness derived from the Lord, sustain the Lord's church in heaven.

A temple symbolizes the church, and the temple of My God symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven. It is apparent from this that a pillar symbolizes what sustains and stabilizes the church, and that is the Divine truth in the Word.

In the highest sense, a temple symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, particularly in respect to Divine truth. In a representative sense, however, a temple symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, and so also the Lord's church in the world.

That a temple in the highest sense symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, and particularly in respect to Divine truth, is apparent from the following passages:

(Jesus said to the Jews,) "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ...He was speaking of the temple of His body. (John 2:19, 21)

I saw no temple in (the New Jerusalem), for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. (Revelation 21:22)

Behold..., the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire. (Malachi 3:1)

I will bow myself toward Your holy temple... (Psalms 138:2)

...I will look again toward Your holy temple... And my prayer went to You, to Your holy temple. (Jonah 2:4, 7)

Jehovah is in His holy temple. (Habakkuk 2:20)

The holy temple of Jehovah or of the Lord is His Divine humanity, for it is to this that people bow, look to, and pray, and not to the temple merely, as the temple is not, in itself, holy. It is called a holy temple, because holiness is predicated of Divine truth (no. 173).

"The temple that sanctifies the gold" in Matthew 23:16-17 means nothing else than the Lord's Divine humanity.

[2] That a temple in a representative sense symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, is apparent from the following passages:

(The) voice (of Jehovah) from the temple...! (Isaiah 66:6)

...a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven... (Revelation 16:17)

The temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. (Revelation 11:19)

...the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. And out of the temple came the seven angels... And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God... (Revelation 15:5-6, 8)

I called upon Jehovah, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple... (Psalms 18:6)

I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and His skirts filled the temple. (Isaiah 6:1)

[3] That a temple symbolizes the church in the world is apparent from these passages:

Our holy... temple... has become a conflagration... (Isaiah 64:11)

I will shake all nations..., that I may fill this house with glory... The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former... (Haggai 2:7, 9)

The new temple in Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48 describes a church to be established by the Lord. A church is also meant in Revelation 11:1 by the temple that the angel measured. So likewise elsewhere, as in Isaiah 44:28, Jeremiah 7:2-4, 9-11, Zechariah 8:9.

...the disciples (of Jesus) came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, ."..Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left... upon another, that shall not be demolished." (Matthew 24:1-2)

The temple here symbolizes the church today; and its demolition means, symbolically, that not one stone would be left upon another. This symbolizes the end of that church, when not any truth would remain. For when the disciples spoke with the Lord about the temple, the Lord foretold the consecutive states of this church, even to its last one, or the end of the age; and the end of the age means the final period of the church, which is the one that exists today. This was represented by the destruction of that temple to its foundations.

[4] A temple has these three symbolic meanings, namely the Lord, the church in heaven, and the church in the world. Because these three are bound up together, they cannot be separated. Consequently one cannot be meant without the other. Therefore anyone who divorces the church in the world from the church in heaven, or the one or the other from the Lord, is without the truth.

The temple here means the church in heaven, because reference to the church in the world follows after this (no. 194).

  
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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.

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Ezekiel 42

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1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the room that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north.

2 Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

3 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and Over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.

4 Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

6 For they were in three stories, and they didn't have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.

7 The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.

8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.

9 From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.

11 The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

12 According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

13 Then he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

14 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people.

15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around.

16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.

18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

20 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.