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Danilo 9

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1 Prve godine Darija, sina Asvirovog od plemena midskog, koji se zacari nad carstvom haldejskim,

2 Prve godine njegovog carovanja ja Danilo razumeh iz knjiga broj godina, koje beše rekao Gospod Jeremiji proroku da će se navršiti razvalinama jerusalimskim, sedamdeset godina.

3 I okretoh lice svoje ka Gospodu Bogu tražeći Ga molitvom i molbama s postom i s kostreti i pepelom.

4 I pomolih se Gospodu Bogu svom i ispovedajući se rekoh: O Gospode, Bože veliki i strašni, koji držiš zavet i milost onima koji Te ljube i drže zapovesti Tvoje;

5 Zgrešismo i zlo činismo i bismo bezbožni, i odmetnusmo se i odstupismo od zapovesti Tvojih i od zakona Tvojih.

6 I ne slušasmo sluga Tvojih proroka, koji govorahu u Tvoje ime carevima našim, knezovima našim i očevima našim i svemu narodu zemaljskom.

7 U Tebe je, Gospode, pravda, a u nas sram na licu, kako je danas, u Judejaca i u Jerusalimljana i u svih Izrailjaca, koji su blizu i koji su daleko po svim zemljama kuda si ih razagnao za grehe njihove, kojima Ti grešiše.

8 Gospode, u nas je sram na licu, u careva naših, u knezova naših i u otaca naših, jer Ti zgrešismo.

9 U Gospoda je Boga našeg milost i praštanje, jer se odmetnusmo od Njega,

10 I ne slušasmo glas Gospoda Boga svog da hodimo po zakonima Njegovim, koje nam je dao preko sluga svojih proroka.

11 I sav Izrailj prestupi zakon Tvoj, i odstupi da ne sluša glas Tvoj; zato se izli na nas prokletstvo i zakletva napisana u zakonu Mojsija, sluge Božijeg, jer Mu zgrešismo.

12 I On potvrdi reči svoje koje je govorio za nas i za sudije naše, koje su nam sudile, pustivši na nas zlo veliko, da tako ne bi pod svim nebom kako bi u Jerusalimu.

13 Kako je pisano u zakonu Mojsijevom, sve to zlo dođe na nas, i opet se ne molismo Gospodu Bogu svom da bismo se vratili od bezakonja svog i pazili na istinu Tvoju.

14 I Gospod nasta oko zla i navede ga na nas; jer je pravedan Gospod Bog naš u svim delima svojim koja čini, jer ne slušasmo glas Njegov.

15 Ali sada, Gospode Bože naš, koji si izveo narod svoj iz zemlje misirske rukom krepkom, i stekao si sebi ime, kako je danas, zgrešismo, bezbožni bismo.

16 Gospode, po svoj pravdi Tvojoj neka se odvrati gnev Tvoj i jarost Tvoja od grada Tvog Jerusalima, svete gore Tvoje; jer sa greha naših i s bezakonja otaca naših Jerusalim i Tvoj narod posta rug u svih koji su oko nas.

17 Sada dakle poslušaj, Bože naš, molitvu sluge svog i molbe njegove, i obasjaj licem svojim opustelu svetinju svoju, Gospoda radi.

18 Bože moj, prigni uho svoje, i čuj; otvori oči svoje, i vidi pustoš našu i grad, na koji je prizvano ime Tvoje, jer ne radi svoje pravde nego radi milosti Tvoje padamo pred Tobom moleći se.

19 Gospode usliši, Gospode oprosti, Gospode pazi i učini, ne časi sebe radi Bože moj, jer je Tvoje ime prizvano na ovaj grad i na Tvoj narod.

20 A dok ja još govorah i moljah se i ispovedah greh svoj i greh naroda svog Izrailja, i padah moleći se pred Gospodom Bogom svojim za svetu goru Boga svog,

21 Dok još govorah moleći se, onaj čovek Gavrilo, kog videh pre u utvari, dolete brzo i dotače me se o večernjoj žrtvi.

22 I nauči me i govori sa mnom i reče: Danilo, sada iziđoh da te urazumim.

23 U početku molitve tvoje iziđe reč, i ja dođoh da ti kažem, jer si mio; zato slušaj reč, i razumi utvaru.

24 Sedamdeset je nedelja određeno tvom narodu i tvom gradu svetom da se svrši prestup i da nestane greha i da se očisti bezakonje i da se dovede večna pravda, i da se zapečati utvara i proroštvo, i da se pomaže Sveti nad svetima.

25 Zato znaj i razumi: Otkada iziđe reč da se Jerusalim opet sazida do pomazanika vojvode biće sedam nedelja, i šezdeset i dve nedelje da se opet pograde ulice i zidovi, i to u teško vreme.

26 A posle te šezdeset i dve nedelje pogubljen će biti pomazanik i ništa mu neće ostati; narod će vojvodin doći i razoriti grad i svetinju; i kraj će mu biti s potopom, i određeno će pustošenje biti do svršetka rata.

27 I utvrdiće zavet s mnogima za nedelju dana, a u polovinu nedelje ukinuće žrtvu i prinos; i krilima mrskim, koja pustoše, do svršetka određenog izliće se na pustoš.

   

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4535. The preliminary sections of previous chapters - Chapter 26 onwards - explained what the Lord foretold about His Coming or THE CLOSE OF THE AGE. Frequently in those sections it has been shown that His Coming or the Close of the Age means the last period of the Church, which in the Word is called the Last Judgement. Those who do not look beyond the literal sense cannot know of the Last Judgement as anything else than the destruction of the world, the particular source for such an idea being the Book of Revelation. There it is said that [John] saw 'a new heaven and a new earth, for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away; and there was no more sea', and in addition that he saw 'the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven', Revelation 21:1-2. Prophetical utterances in Isaiah, where similar predictions occur, are also a source of the same idea,

Behold, I am creating new heavens and a new earth; therefore the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. 1 Be glad and rejoice for ever in the things I am creating; behold, I will create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. Isaiah 65:17-18; 66:22.

[2] Those who do not look beyond the literal sense cannot conceive of anything else than this - that the whole sky together with this planet will be annihilated, and then the dead - for the first time - will rise again and dwell in the new heaven and on the new earth. But these places in the Word should not be understood in that way, as may be recognized from other places in the Word where the heavens and the earth are referred to. Those who have any belief in an internal sense can see plainly that 'a new heaven' and 'a new earth' are used to mean a new Church which takes over when the previous one passes away, 1733, 1850, 3355 (end), and that 'heaven' is the internal aspect of that new Church and 'earth' the external aspect of it.

[3] This last period of the previous Church and the first of the new one are also called the Close of the Age, about which the Lord has spoken in Matthew 24. They are called also His Coming, for at that time the Lord departs from the previous Church and comes to the new. The description of that period as the Close of the Age may also be seen from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

On that day a remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the God of power. For though your people Israel will be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of it will return. The close has been determined, overflowing with righteousness, for the Lord Jehovih Zebaoth is bringing the whole earth to its close and to its determined end. Isaiah 10:20-23.

In the same prophet,

Now do not be derisive, lest your punishments increase, for a close and a cutting off I have heard from the Lord Jehovih Zebaoth over the whole earth. Isaiah 28:22.

In Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah, The whole earth will be a waste, yet I will not bring it to a close. Jeremiah 4:27.

In Zephaniah,

I will bring men into distress, and they will go as the blind, because they have sinned against Jehovah; and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. For Jehovah will bring to a close, indeed to a hasty one, all the inhabitants of the earth. Zephaniah 1:17-18.

From each detail stated here it is evident that 'a close' means the last period of the Church and 'the earth' the Church itself.

[4] The reason why 'the earth (or land)' means the Church is that the land of Canaan was the land where the Church had existed since most ancient times, and later on where among the descendants of Jacob a representative of the Church existed. When this land is said to have been 'brought to a close' it is not the nation dwelling there that is meant but the holiness of worship which existed with the nation where the Church was. For the Word is spiritual; but the actual land is not spiritual, nor is the nation dwelling in it, only that which constitutes the Church there. For evidence that the land of Canaan was the land where the Church had existed from most ancient times, see 567, 3686, 4447, 4454, 4516, 4517; and this explains why 'the land' or 'the earth' in the Word means the Church, 566, 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 3355, 4447. From all this one may see what is meant in Isaiah by 'bringing the whole earth to a close', and in Zephaniah by 'bringing all the inhabitants of the earth to a hasty one'. It is well known that the Jewish nation which inhabited that land was not 'brought to a close' but that the holiness of worship among them was.

[5] This meaning of 'the close' is even clearer in Daniel,

Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city to bring transgression to a close and to seal up sins and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. In the middle of the week he will cause sacrifice and offering to cease. At length upon the bird of desolations will come desolation; until a close and a cutting off will it drop upon the devastation. Daniel 9:24, 27.

[6] From this one may now see that the close of the age - about which the disciples were asking when they said to the Lord 'What will be the sign of Your coming and of the close of the age?' Matthew 24:3 - does not mean anything else than the final period of the Church. The same is also meant by the Lord's words, which are the very last in the same gospel,

Jesus said to the disciples, Teaching them to observe 2 all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you at all times 3 even to the close of the age. Matthew 28:20.

The reason why the Lord said that He would be with the disciples even to the close of the age is that the Lord's twelve disciples are similar in meaning to the twelve tribes of Israel. That is to say, they mean all things of love and faith, and therefore all things of the Church, see 3354, 3488, 3858, as do the twelve tribes, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060. The fact that the Church reaches its close when no charity exists there any longer, nor consequently any faith, has been shown several times already; and that within the Church at the present day, called the Christian Church, scarcely any trace of charity or consequently of faith survives there; and that the close of the age is accordingly now at hand, will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown further on.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, come up upon the heart

2. Reading servare (to observe) for the imperative servate (observe)

3. literally, I am with you all the days

  
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Matthew 24

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1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

2 But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."

3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"

4 Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray.

5 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.

6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.

8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

11 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

13 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

15 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.

18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.

19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

23 "Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or, 'There,' don't believe it.

24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

25 "Behold, I have told you beforehand.

26 If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner rooms,' don't believe it.

27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

28 For wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures gather together.

29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

32 "Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.

33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

39 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left;

41 two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.

42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.

47 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'

49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,

51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.