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Levítico 26

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1 Não fareis para vós ídolos, nem para vós levantareis imagem esculpida, nem coluna, nem poreis na vossa terra pedra com figuras, para vos inclinardes a ela; porque eu sou o Senhor vosso Deus.

2 Guardareis os meus sábados, e reverenciareis o meu santuário. Eu sou o Senhor.

3 Se andardes nos meus estatutos, e guardardes os meus mandamentos e os cumprires,

4 eu vos darei as vossas chuvas a seu tempo, e a terra dará o seu produto, e as árvores do campo darão os seus frutos;

5 a debulha vos continuará até a vindima, e a vindima até a semeadura; comereis o vosso pão a fartar, e habitareis seguros na vossa terra.

6 Também darei paz na terra, e vos deitareis, e ninguém vos amedrontará. Farei desaparecer da terra os animais nocivos, e pela vossa terra não passará espada.

7 Perseguireis os vossos inimigos, e eles cairão à espada diante de vós.

8 Cinco de vós perseguirão a um cento deles, e cem de vós perseguirão a dez mil; e os vossos inimigos cairão à espada diante de vos.

9 Outrossim, olharei para vós, e vos farei frutificar, e vos multiplicarei, e confirmarei o meu pacto convosco.

10 E comereis da colheita velha por longo tempo guardada, até afinal a removerdes para dar lugar à nova.

11 Também porei o meu tabernáculo no meio de vós, e a minha alma não vos abominará.

12 Andarei no meio de vós, e serei o vosso Deus, e vós sereis o meu povo.

13 Eu sou o Senhor vosso Deus, que vos tirei da terra dos egípcios, para que não fôsseis seus escravos; e quebrei os canzis do vosso jugo, e vos fiz andar erguidos.

14 Mas, se não me ouvirdes, e não cumprirdes todos estes mandamentos,

15 e se rejeitardes os meus estatutos, e a vossa alma desprezar os meus preceitos, de modo que não cumprais todos os meus mandamentos, mas violeis o meu pacto,

16 então eu, com efeito, vos farei isto: porei sobre vós o terror, a tísica e a febre ardente, que consumirão os olhos e farão definhar a vida; em vão semeareis a vossa semente, pois os vossos inimigos a comerão.

17 Porei o meu rosto contra vós, e sereis feridos diante de vossos inimigos; os que vos odiarem dominarão sobre vós, e fugireis sem que ninguém vos persiga.

18 Se nem ainda com isto me ouvirdes, prosseguirei em castigar-vos sete vezes mais, por causa dos vossos pecados.

19 Pois quebrarei a soberba do vosso poder, e vos farei o céu como ferro e a terra como bronze.

20 Em vão se gastará a vossa força, porquanto a vossa terra não dará o seu produto, nem as árvores da terra darão os seus frutos.

21 Ora, se andardes contrariamente para comigo, e não me quiseres ouvir, trarei sobre vos pragas sete vezes mais, conforme os vossos pecados.

22 Enviarei para o meio de vós as feras do campo, as quais vos desfilharão, e destruirão o vosso gado, e vos reduzirão a pequeno número; e os vossos caminhos se tornarão desertos.

23 Se nem ainda com isto quiserdes voltar a mim, mas continuardes a andar contrariamente para comigo,

24 eu também andarei contrariamente para convosco; e eu, eu mesmo, vos ferirei sete vezes mais, por causa dos vossos pecados.

25 Trarei sobre vós a espada, que executará a vingança do pacto, e vos aglomerareis nas vossas cidades; então enviarei a peste entre vós, e sereis entregues na mão do inimigo.

26 Quando eu vos quebrar o sustento do pão, dez mulheres cozerão o vosso pão num só forno, e de novo vo-lo entregarão por peso; e comereis, mas não vos fartareis.

27 Se nem ainda com isto me ouvirdes, mas continuardes a andar contrariamente para comigo,

28 também eu andarei contrariamente para convosco com furor; e vos castigarei sete vezes mais, por causa dos vossos pecados.

29 E comereis a carne de vossos filhos e a carne de vossas filhas.

30 Destruirei os vossos altos, derrubarei as vossas imagens do sol, e lançarei os vossos cadáveres sobre os destroços dos vossos ídolos; e a minha alma vos abominará.

31 Reduzirei as vossas cidades a deserto, e assolarei os vossos santuários, e não cheirarei o vosso cheiro suave.

32 Assolarei a terra, e sobre ela pasmarão os vossos inimigos que nela habitam.

33 Espalhar-vos-ei por entre as nações e, desembainhando a espada, vos perseguirei; a vossa terra será assolada, e as vossas cidades se tornarão em deserto.

34 Então a terra folgará nos seus sábados, todos os dias da sua assolação, e vós estareis na terra dos vossos inimigos; nesse tempo a terra descansará, e folgará nos seus sábados.

35 Por todos os dias da assolação descansará, pelos dias que não descansou nos vossos sábados, quando nela habitáveis.

36 E, quanto aos que de vós ficarem, eu lhes meterei pavor no coração nas terras dos seus inimigos; e o ruído de uma folha agitada os porá em fuga; fugirão como quem foge da espada, e cairão sem que ninguém os persiga;

37 sim, embora não haja quem os persiga, tropeçarão uns sobre os outros como diante da espada; e não podereis resistir aos vossos inimigos.

38 Assim perecereis entre as nações, e a terra dos vossos inimigos vos devorará;

39 e os que de vós ficarem definharão pela sua iniqüidade nas terras dos vossos inimigos, como também pela iniqüidade de seus pais.

40 Então confessarão a sua iniqüidade, e a iniqüidade de seus pais, com as suas transgressões, com que transgrediram contra mim; igualmente confessarão que, por terem andado contrariamente para comigo,

41 eu também andei contrariamente para com eles, e os trouxe para a terra dos seus inimigos. Se então o seu coração incircunciso se humilhar, e tomarem por bem o castigo da sua iniqüidade,

42 eu me lembrarei do meu pacto com Jacó, do meu pacto com Isaque, e do meu pacto com Abraão; e bem assim da terra me lembrarei.

43 A terra também será deixada por eles e folgará nos seus sábados, sendo assolada por causa deles; e eles tomarão por bem o castigo da sua iniqüidade, em razão mesmo de que rejeitaram os meus preceitos e a sua alma desprezou os meus estatutos.

44 Todavia, ainda assim, quando eles estiverem na terra dos seus inimigos, não os rejeitarei nem os abominarei a ponto de consumi-los totalmente e quebrar o meu pacto com eles; porque eu sou o Senhor seu Deus.

45 Antes por amor deles me lembrarei do pacto com os seus antepassados, que tirei da terra do Egito perante os olhos das nações, para ser o seu Deus. Eu sou o Senhor.

46 São esses os estatutos, os preceitos e as leis que o Senhor firmou entre si e os filhos de Israel, no monte Sinai, por intermédio de Moisés.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 748

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748. "And eat her flesh and burn her with fire." This symbolically means that Protestants will with hatred condemn and destroy in themselves the evils and falsities inherent in the Roman Catholic religion, and will renounce the religion itself and expunge it in themselves.

This is said of Protestants, who will deal thus with the harlot, that is, with the Roman Catholic religion. To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, about which we will say more below. And to burn her with fire means, symbolically, to renounce that religion as profane and expunge it in themselves.

This is what burning with fire means because the penalty for profaning something holy was burning. Therefore, according to Divine law, people who profaned the name of Jehovah by worshiping other gods were burned with fire - they and all their belongings (Deuteronomy 13:12-18). Therefore Moses burned with fire the golden calf that the children of Israel were profanely worshiping (Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21). Moreover, because two of Aaron's sons profaned holy things, they were consumed by fire from heaven (Leviticus 10:1-6). Nor is anything else symbolized by the fire and pyre in Tophet but the fire of hell, which awaits those who profane holy things (Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 7:11, 31-32; 19:5-6, 2 Kings 23:10), for there the people worshiped Molech with a heinous sacrifice. 1

[2] Since the fourth beast in Daniel 7 symbolizes a religion that profanes the Word and consequently the sanctities of the church (no. 717), therefore we are told that it was burned with fire (Daniel 7:11).

Now, because it is profane worship to worship a person instead of the Lord, we are accordingly told here that they burnt the harlot with fire, which symbolically means that they renounced the religion itself and expunged it in themselves.

To eat her flesh means, symbolically, with hatred to condemn and destroy in themselves the inherent characteristics of that religion, which are evils and falsities, because that is the symbolic meaning of eating her flesh. For flesh symbolizes the inherent characteristics of a thing which relate to goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, to evils and falsities, and to eat means, symbolically, to consume, thus to destroy.

That flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, which in itself is evil, is clear from the following passages:

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. (John 6:63)

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)

As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to be children of God...: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh... (John 1:12-13)

(God) remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again. (Psalms 78:39)

The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:3)

(Jerusalem) committed harlotry with the Egyptians..., great of flesh. (Ezekiel 16:26)

Jesus... said to (Peter), ."..flesh and blood has not revealed this to you...." (Matthew 16:17)

Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm... (Jeremiah 17:5)

[3] Because flesh symbolizes a person's inherent character, and people who hate others attack their personal character with the intention of destroying it, therefore to eat the flesh has also this symbolic meaning, as in the following passages:

Let the dying die, and the cut off be cut off. Those that are left eat each other's flesh. (Zechariah 11:9)

They shall devour Israel with the whole mouth... Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm - Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh. (Isaiah 9:12, 20-21)

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh... (Isaiah 49:26)

...everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend... (Jeremiah 19:9)

To eat the flesh of sons and daughters (Jeremiah 19:9, Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53) means, symbolically, to destroy truths and goods in oneself, for sons symbolize truths, and daughters goods, as may be seen in nos. 139, 543, 545, 612[1-4] above.

Moreover, in the Word we find reference to "all flesh," and this symbolically means all mankind (Genesis 6:12-13, 17, 19).

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1. The heinous sacrifice consisted of "passing infants through the fire to Molech," by burning them alive on a sacrificial altar. Vestiges of this worship have been found elsewhere, as far as northern Africa. Tophet was a site in the valley of Hinnom at the foot of Mount Zion on the south side. Because of the nature of its worship, the valley of Hinnon (Ge' Hinnom = Gehenna) became synonymous with Hades or hell.

  
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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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Exodus 32

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1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

2 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."

6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.

17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

18 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."

19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

20 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

22 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

24 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

25 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

29 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."

30 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

33 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."

35 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.