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Захария 9

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1 Пророческое слово Господа на землю Хадрах, и на Дамаске оно остановится, – ибо око Господа на всех людей, как и на все колена Израилевы, –

2 и на Емаф, смежный с ним, на Тир и Сидон, ибо он очень умудрился.

3 И устроил себе Тир крепость, накопил серебра, как пыли, и золота, как уличной грязи.

4 Вот, Господь сделает его бедным и поразит силу его в море, и сам он будет истреблен огнем.

5 Увидит это Аскалон и ужаснется, и Газа, и вострепещет сильно, и Екрон; ибо посрамится надежда его: не станетцаря в Газе, и Аскалон будет необитаем.

6 Чужое племя будет жить в Азоте, и Я уничтожу высокомерие Филистимлян.

7 Исторгну кровь из уст его и мерзости его из зубов его, и он достанется Богу нашему, и будет как тысяченачальник в Иуде, и Екрон будет, как Иевусей.

8 И Я расположу стан у дома Моего против войска, против проходящих вперед и назад, и не будет более проходить притеснитель, ибо ныне Моими очами Я буду взирать на это.

9 Ликуй от радости, дщерь Сиона, торжествуй, дщерь Иерусалима: се Царь твой грядет к тебе, праведный и спасающий, кроткий, сидящий на ослице и на молодом осле, сыне подъяремной.

10 Тогда истреблю колесницы у Ефрема и коней в Иерусалиме, и сокрушен будет бранный лук; и Он возвестит мир народам, ивладычество Его будет от моря до моря и от реки до концов земли.

11 А что до тебя, ради крови завета твоего Я освобожу узников твоих изо рва, в котором нет воды.

12 Возвращайтесь на твердыню вы, пленники надеющиеся! Что теперь возвещаю, воздам тебе вдвойне.

13 Ибо как лук Я натяну Себе Иуду и наполню лук Ефремом, и воздвигну сынов твоих, Сион, против сынов твоих, Иония, и сделаю тебя мечом ратоборца.

14 И явится над ними Господь, и как молния вылетит стрела Его, и возгремит Господь Бог трубою, и шествовать будет в бурях полуденных.

15 Господь Саваоф будет защищать их, и они будут истреблять и попирать пращные камни, и будут пить и шуметь как бы от вина, и наполнятся как жертвенные чаши, как углы жертвенника.

16 И спасет их Господь Бог их в тот день, как овец, народ Свой; ибо, подобно камням в венце, они воссияют на земле Его.

17 О, как велика благость его и какая красота его! Хлеб одушевит язык у юношей и вино –у отроковиц!

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 447

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447. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million. (9:16) This symbolizes their reasonings concerning faith alone, with which they had filled the interiors of their minds, springing from nothing but an abundance of falsities accompanying evil.

Armies symbolize goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, evils and falsities - here falsities accompanying evil, as we will see presently. Horsemen symbolize reasonings concerning faith alone, because a horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word (no. 298) and also a destroyed understanding of the Word (nos. 305, 312, 320). Horsemen consequently symbolize reasonings based on a destroyed understanding of the Word - here reasonings concerning faith alone, because the subject is people caught up in that faith. Two hundred million does not mean two hundred million, but an abundance. The number two is used because two is said in application to goodness, and in an opposite sense, to evil (no. 322); and a hundred million, or ten thousand times ten thousand, is said in application to truths, and in an opposite sense, to falsities (no. 287).

It can be seen from this that the number of the army of horsemen being two hundred million symbolizes reasonings concerning faith alone, with which these people had filled the interiors of their minds, springing from nothing but an abundance of falsities accompanying evil.

[2] That armies in the Word symbolize the goods and truths of heaven and the church, and in an opposite sense, evils and falsities, can be seen from passages where the sun, moon and stars are called armies or hosts, and where the sun symbolizes the goodness of love, the moon the truth of faith, and stars concepts of goodness and truth, and the antithesis in an opposite sense (nos. 51, 53, 332, 413). All of these are called armies or hosts in the following passages:

Praise (Jehovah), all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars...! (Psalms 148:2-3)

My hands stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded. (Isaiah 45:12)

By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. (Psalms 33:6)

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. (Genesis 2:1)

(The male goat's horn) grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground... He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host... And the host was sent under the yoke for its transgression, (because) it cast truth to the ground... Then... a holy one said..., "How long will... the sanctuary and the host be trampled under foot?" (Daniel 8:10-14)

Jehovah has given forth His voice before His army. (Joel 2:11)

...(on the roofs of the houses) they have burned incense to all the host of heaven... (Jeremiah 19:13)

(Lest you bow down to and serve) the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the host of heaven... (Deuteronomy 4:19; cf. 17:3, Jeremiah 8:2)

So, too, Isaiah 13:4; 34:4; 40:26, Jeremiah 33:22, Zechariah 9:8, Revelation 19:14.

[3] Since the hosts of heaven symbolize the goods and truths of heaven and the church, therefore the Lord is called Jehovah Zebaoth, or Jehovah of Hosts. And therefore the ministry of the Levites was called military service (Numbers 4:3, 23, 30, 39).

Moreover, we read in the book of Psalms,

Bless Jehovah, all you His hosts, you ministers of His, who do His will. (Psalms 103:21)

Evils and falsities in the church are symbolically meant by the armies of the nations in Isaiah 34:2; and by the army of the king of the north with which he came against the king of the south, in Daniel 11:13, 15, 20. The king of the north is the falsity accompanying evil in the church, and the king of the south is the truth accompanying goodness in it.

The Lord says,

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its devastation is near. (Luke 21:20)

Jerusalem there symbolizes the church, and the armies symbolize the evils and falsities that will devastate it. The subject is the end of the age, which is the final period of the church.

Evils and falsities are symbolically meant by armies in Joel,

I will restore to you the years that the locust, the beetle grub, the locust's larva, and the caterpillar has eaten, My great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25)

To be shown that the locust and the rest symbolize falsity of the lowest sort, see no. 424 above.

  
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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.