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Ezequiel 6

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1 E veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

2 Filho do homem, dirige o teu rosto para os montes de Israel, e profetiza contra eles.

3 E dize: Montes de Israel, ouvi a palavra do Senhor Deus. Assim diz o Senhor Deus aos Montes, aos outeiros, às ravinas e aos vales: Eis que eu, sim eu, trarei a espada sobre vós, e destruirei os vossos altos.

4 E serão assolados os vossos altares, e quebrados os vossos altares de incenso; e arrojarei os vossos mortos diante dos vossos ídolos.

5 E porei os cadáveres dos filhos de Israel diante dos seus ídolos, e espalharei os vossos ossos em redor dos vossos altares.

6 Em todos os vossos lugares habitáveis as cidades serão destruídas, e os altos assolados; para que os vossos altares sejam destruídos e assolados, e os vossos ídolos se quebrem e sejam destruídos, e os altares de incenso sejam cortados, e desfeitas as vossas obras.

7 E os traspassados cairão no meio de vós, e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor.

8 Contudo deixarei com vida um restante, visto que tereis alguns que escaparão da espada entre as nações, quando fordes espalhados pelos países.

9 Então os que dentre vós escaparem se lembrarão de mim entre as nações para onde forem levados em cativeiro, quando eu lhes tiver quebrantado o coração corrompido, que se desviou de mim, e cegado os seus olhos, que se vão corrompendo após os seus ídolos; e terão nojo de si mesmos, por causa das maldades que fizeram em todas as suas abominações.

10 E saberão que eu sou o Senhor; não disse debalde que lhes faria este mal.

11 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Bate com a mão, e bate com o teu , e dize: Ah! por causa de todas as péssimas abominações da casa de Israel; pois eles cairão à espada, e de fome, e de peste.

12 O que estiver longe morrerá de peste; e, o que está perto cairá à espada; e o que ficar de resto e cercado morrerá de fome; assim cumprirei o meu furor contra eles.

13 Então sabereis que eu sou o Senhor, quando os seus mortos estiverem estendidos no meio dos seus ídolos, em redor dos seus altares, em todo outeiro alto, em todos os cumes dos montes, e debaixo de toda árvore verde, e debaixo de todo carvalho frondoso, lugares onde ofereciam suave cheiro a todos os seus ídolos.

14 E estenderei a minha mão sobre eles, e farei a terra desolada e erma, em todas as suas habitações; desde o deserto até Dibla; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor.

   

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Scriptural Confirmations # 53

  
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53. 25. A day of cloud and thick darkness (Ezekiel 34:12).

(I will make Mount Seir and the cities thereof into a waste and devastation, into a waste of eternity (Ezekiel 35:3-4, 7, 9, 12, 14-15).

Then the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built (Ezekiel 36:10).

When I shall sanctify Myself among you, then I will give you a new heart, and I will give a new spirit in the midst of you and I will take away the heart of stone, and will give you a heart of flesh, and I will give a new spirit in your midst, and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God (Ezekiel 36:23, 26-28).

In the day that I have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will make you to dwell in cities, and the waste places shall be built; they shall say, This land that was devastated is become as the garden of Eden, and the desolate and devastated cities are fortified and inhabited (Ezekiel 36:33-38).

Behold I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people, and I will lead you upon the land of Israel, and I will put my spirit in you that ye may live (Ezekiel 37:12-14). Concerning the dry bones: by the inflowing of the breath among them, and their living again, regeneration is described.

After many days thou shalt be visited, and in the latter days they shall come upon the land that was made a waste (Ezekiel 38:8, 16).

They shall bury Gog in the day in which I shall be glorified (Ezekiel 39:11-12, 13). Gog is one who is in external worship, but not in internal.

Of the great sacrifices upon the mountains of Israel, and that thus He will set His glory among the nations that they may know that Jehovah is their God from that day, and hence-forward (Ezekiel 39:17-22).

Of the New Church which is described by many things in Ezekiel 40-48: of the city which is the New Jerusalem, and of its gates (40): of the temple, etc. (41): of the court and of the chambers there (42): of the eastern gate where the glory of the God of Israel is seen, and of His worship (43): next of His worship and of ministration (44): of the statutes for the prince (45, 46): of waters from the house (47) of the allotment of the land according to tribes (47, 48). That the name of the city is, Jehovah there (48:35).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.

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Elders

  
St. Stephen before the High Priest and Elders of the Sanhedrin, by Mariotto di Nardo

Like most meanings in the Bible this can change depending on context to a meaning perverted into the opposite. Instead of a mind full of knowledge and love of the neighbor, the love can be twisted around to pride in one's own self-intelligence and lead toward evil instead of good. The elders and chief priests who sat in judgment on Jesus in Caiaphas' house show the other side of the representation. Elders are mentioned in the Bible mainly in two ways: First the elders of Israel: and second the 24 elders seated about the throne of God in Revelation. In both cases, they mean wisdom, which comes from using the truths we've learned to do what's right in our everyday lives. The elders of Israel mean the chief things of wisdom in the church called Israel. The elders mentioned in Revelation 4 mean the wisdom of the highest heavens, and by extension the whole of the heavens.