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1 Potom videh, i gle, na nebu koje beše nad glavama heruvimima pokaza se nad njima kao kamen safir na oči kao presto.

2 I progovori čoveku obučenom u platno, i reče: Uđi među točkove pod heruvimima, i uzmi pune pregršti žeravice između heruvima i razaspi na grad. I uđe na moje oči.

3 A heruvimi stajahu s desne strane doma kad uđe čovek, i oblak napuni unutrašnji trem.

4 I slava Gospodnja podiže se s heruvima na prag od doma, i napuni se dom oblaka, a trem se napuni svetlosti slave Gospodnje.

5 I lupa krila u heruvima čujaše se do spoljašnjeg trema kao glas Boga Svemogućeg kad govori.

6 I kad zapovedi čoveku obučenom u platno govoreći: Uzmi ognja između točkova između heruvima; on uđe i stade kod točkova.

7 I jedan heruvim pruži ruku svoju između heruvima k ognju koji beše među heruvimima, i uze i metnu u pregršti obučenom u platno i on primi i iziđe.

8 A viđaše se u heruvima kao ruka čovečija pod krilima.

9 I videh, i gle, četiri točka kod heruvima, po jedan točak kod jednog heruvima, i točkovi behu na oči kao kamen hrisolit.

10 I na oči behu sva četiri točka jednaka, i kao da je točak u točku.

11 Kad iđahu, iđahu sva četiri, svaki na svoju stranu, i idući ne skretahu, nego kuda gledaše glava onamo iđahu i idući ne skretahu.

12 A sve im telo i leđa i ruke i krila i točkovi, sva četiri točka njihova, behu puna očiju svuda unaokolo.

13 A točkovi se zvahu kako čuh: kola.

14 A četiri lica imaše svaka životinja: jedno lice heruvimsko, drugo lice čovečije i treće lice lavovo i četvrto lice orlovo.

15 I podigoše se heruvimi u vis; to behu iste životinje koje videh na reci Hevaru.

16 A kad iđahu heruvimi, iđahu i točkovi uz njih, i kad heruvimi mahahu krilima svojim da se podignu od zemlje, točkovi se ne odmicahu od njih.

17 Kad se oni ustavljahu, ustavljahu se i točkovi; a kad se oni podizahu, podizahu se i točkovi; jer beše duh životinjski u njima.

18 I slava Gospodnja otide iznad praga od doma, i stade nad heruvime.

19 I heruvimi mahnuvši krilima podigoše se od zemlje preda mnom polazeći, i točkovi prema njima; i stadoše na istočnim vratima doma Gospodnjeg, i slava Boga Izrailjevog beše ozgo nad njima.

20 To behu iste životinje koje videh pod Bogom Izrailjevim na reci Hevaru, i poznah da su heruvimi.

21 Svaka imaše četiri lica i četiri krila, i kao ruka čovečija beše im pod krilima.

22 I lica im behu ista koja videh na reci Hevaru; obličja behu ista, isti behu; svaki iđaše pravo na prema se.

   

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True Christianity # 157

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157. Since our spirit means our mind, therefore "being in the spirit," as the Word sometimes says, refers to the state of our mind when it is separated from our body. In this state the prophets saw the sort of things that exist in the spiritual world; therefore this state is called "a vision of God. " At those times, the prophets' state was like the state of spirits and angels in the spiritual world. In this state our spirit can move from place to place while our body stays where it is (as is also true of our mind's eye).

This is the state I myself have been in now for twenty-six years, with the difference that I am in my spirit and my body at the same time, and only sometimes out of my body.

Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and John (when he wrote the Book of Revelation) were in this state, as is clear from the following passages: Ezekiel said, "The spirit lifted me up and led me into Chaldea to the captivity in the vision of God, in the spirit of God. In this way the vision that I saw came over me" (Ezekiel 11:1, 24). The spirit lifted Ezekiel up and he heard the earth tremble behind him (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). The spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and led him away to Jerusalem where he saw abominable things (Ezekiel 8:3-4). He saw four creatures that were angel guardians and various details about them (Ezekiel 1 and 10). Then he saw a new earth in the form of a new temple, and an angel measuring the temple (Ezekiel 40-48). At that time he was in a vision and in the spirit (Ezekiel 40:2; 43:5).

[2] The same thing happened to Zechariah when an angel was with him and he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (); when he saw four horns and a man who had a string in his hand for measuring (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1-2); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots with horses headed off between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1-3).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts rising up out of the sea, and many details about them (Daniel 7:1-8); and when he saw battles between a ram and a goat (Daniel 8:1-14). He was in a vision when he saw those things (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8). In a vision he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him [].

[3] The same thing happened to John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. He said he was in the spirit on the Lord's day (Revelation 1:10); he was carried off into the wilderness in the spirit (Revelation 17:3); and he was on a high mountain in the spirit (Revelation 21:10). He was seeing things in a vision (Revelation 9:17).

Elsewhere [in the Book of Revelation] he says that he saw the things he described. For example, he saw the Son of Humankind in the middle of seven lampstands. He saw a tabernacle, a temple, an ark, and an altar in heaven; a book sealed with seven seals and horses that came out of it; four creatures around a throne; twelve thousand chosen people, some from every tribe; a lamb on Mount Zion; locusts rising up from an abyss; a dragon and its war with Michael; a woman giving birth to a male child and running away into a desert because of the dragon; two beasts, one rising up out of the sea and another out of the land; a woman sitting on a scarlet beast; a dragon thrown into a lake of fire and sulfur; a white horse and a great supper; the holy city Jerusalem coming down, with details of its entrances, its wall, and the wall's foundations; a river of living water; and trees of life producing different types of fruit every month; and so on.

Peter, James, and John were in the same state when they saw Jesus transfigured, as was Paul when he heard ineffable things from heaven.

  
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