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Амос 8

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1 Ovo mi pokaza Gospod: Gle, kotarica letnjeg voća.

2 I reče: Šta vidiš, Amose? A ja rekoh: Kotaricu letnjeg voća. A Gospod mi reče: Dođe kraj narodu mom Izrailju, neću ga više prolaziti.

3 I pesme će crkvene biti ridanje u onaj dan, govori Gospod; biće mnoštvo mrtvih telesa, koja će se svuda pobacati ćuteći.

4 Čujte ovo, koji proždirete uboge i satirete siromahe u zemlji,

5 Govoreći: Kad će proći mladina da prodajemo žito? I subota da otvorimo pšenicu? Umanjujući efu i povećavajući sikal i varajući lažnim merilima;

6 Da kupujemo siromahe za novce i ubogog za jedne opanke, i da prodajemo očinke od pšenice.

7 Zakle se Gospod slavom Jakovljevom: Neću nikada zaboraviti nijedno delo njihovo.

8 Neće li se zemlja potresti od toga, i protužiti svaki koji živi na njoj? I neće li se sva razliti kao reka? I neće li se odneti i potopiti kao od reke misirske?

9 I u onaj dan, govori Gospod Gospod, učiniću da sunce zađe u podne, i pomračiću zemlju za belog dana.

10 I pretvoriću praznike vaše u žalost i sve pesme vaše u plač, i metnuću kostret oko svih bedara, i učiniću da svaka glava oćelavi i da bude žalost kao za jedincem, i kraj će joj biti kao gorak dan.

11 Gle, idu dani, govori Gospod Gospod, kad ću pustiti glad na zemlju, ne glad hleba ni žeđ vode, nego slušanja reči Gospodnjih.

12 I potucaće se od mora do mora, i od severa do istoka trčaće tražeći reč Gospodnju, i neće je naći.

13 U to će vreme obamirati lepe devojke i mladići od žeđi,

14 Koji se kunu krivicom samarijskom i govore: Tako da je živ Bog tvoj, Dane, i tako da je živ put u Virsaveju. I pašće, i neće više ustati.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 476

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476. That there should be no more time. This symbolically means that there will be no church or any state of the church unless people acknowledge one God, and that the Lord is that God.

Time symbolizes state, and because the church is the subject here, it symbolizes a state of the church. Consequently, that there should be no more time means, symbolically, that there should be no state of the church.

It follows also that it means there would be no church unless people acknowledge one God, and that the Lord is that God. But what is the case today? No one denies that there is one God, but people do deny that the Lord is that God. And yet there cannot be one God in whom there is at the same time a Trinity unless that God is the Lord. No one denies that the church originates from Him who is the Savior and Redeemer, but people do deny that they should turn to Him directly as their Savior and Redeemer.

It is apparent from this that the church will die unless a new one arises, one that acknowledges the Lord alone as God of heaven and earth and accordingly turns to Him directly (see Matthew 28:18 1 ). Consequently the statement here that there should be no more time, that is to say, no church, is related to what is said in verse 7 of this chapter, 2 and verse 7 in turn is related to what is said in chapter 11:15, 3 where we are told that there would be a church which would be the Lord's alone.

[2] Time symbolizes state because in the spiritual world time is not measured by days, weeks, months and years, but instead by states which are progressions of the inhabitants' lives, by which they recall the past. (On which subject, see the book Heaven and Hell, published in London in 1758, nos. 162-169, where we dealt with time in heaven.)

The state of the church is meant here by time because although day and night, morning and evening, summer and winter mark periods of time in the world, when interpreted in the spiritual sense they mark states of the church. Consequently, when these states come to an end, there is no church; and that is the case when there is no longer any good and truth, thus when the light of truth has become dark, and the warmth of goodness cold. That is what is meant by the statement that there should be no more time.

The following passages in the Word have similar meanings:

(The fourth beast) shall think to change times... (Daniel 7:25)

There shall be one day which is known to Jehovah - neither day nor night (and so not a period of time). (Zechariah 14:7)

...I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight (and so not in a period of time). (Amos 8:9)

...a single evil, behold, it has come! An end has come, the end has come... The morning has come upon you, who dwell in the land; the time has come... (Ezekiel 7:5-7)

The morning is the commencement of the New Church (no. 151), which is why it says, "The time has come."

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."

2. ."..in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, as He declared to His servants the prophets."

3. "Then the seventh angel sounded: and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!'"

  
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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.