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1 Tada me podiže duh, i odnese me na istočna vrata doma Gospodnjeg, koja gledaju na istok, i gle, na vratima beše dvadeset i pet ljudi, i među njima videh Jezaniju, sina Azurovog i Felatiju sina Venajinog, poglavare narodne.

2 I reče mi: Sine čovečji, ovi ljudi smišljaju bezakonje, i zlo savetuju u tom gradu,

3 Govoreći: Nije blizu; da gradimo kuće; ovaj je grad lonac a mi meso.

4 Zato prorokuj protiv njih, prorokuj, sine čovečji.

5 I pade na me duh Gospodnji i reče mi: Reci: Ovako veli Gospod: Dome Izrailjev, tako govoriste, i znam misli srca vašeg.

6 Mnoge pobiste u tom gradu, i napuniste ulice njihove pobijenih.

7 Zato ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Koje pobiste i pobacaste usred njega, oni su meso, a on je lonac, a vas ću izvesti iz njega.

8 Bojite se mača; mač ću pustiti na vas, govori Gospod Gospod.

9 I izvešću vas iz njega, i daću vas u ruke tuđincima, i izvršiću na vama sudove.

10 Od mača ćete pasti, na međi Izrailjevoj sudiću vam, i poznaćete da sam ja Gospod.

11 Ovaj grad neće vam biti lonac niti ćete vi biti u njemu meso; na međi Izrailjevoj sudiću vam.

12 I poznaćete da sam ja Gospod, jer po uredbama mojim ne hodiste niti zakone moje izvršavaste, nego činiste po zakonima tih naroda što su oko vas.

13 A kad prorokovah, umre Felatija sin Venajin; tada padoh na lice svoje i povikah glasno i rekoh: Jaoh Gospode Gospode! Hoćeš li da istrebiš ostatak Izrailjev?

14 A glas Gospodnji dođe mi govoreći:

15 Sine čovečji, braća su tvoja, braća tvoja, rodbina tvoja i dom Izrailjev vaskoliki, kojima govoriše Jerusalimljani: Idite daleko od Gospoda, nama je data zemlja u nasledstvo.

16 Zato reci: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Ako ih i odagnah daleko među narode, ako ih i rasejah po zemljama, opet ću im biti svetinja za malo u zemljama u koje otidoše.

17 Zato reci: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Sabraću vas iz naroda i pokupiću vas iz zemalja u koje se rasejaste, i daću vam zemlju Izrailjevu.

18 I kad dođu u nju, izbaciće iz nje sve gadove njene i sve gnusobe njene.

19 I daću im jedno srce, i nov duh metnuću u njih, i izvadiću iz tela njihovog kameno srce i daću im srce mesno,

20 Da bi hodili po mojim uredbama i držali moje zakone i izvršavali ih; i biće mi narod, i ja ću im biti Bog.

21 A kojima srce ide po želji gnusoba njihovih i gadova njihovih, njihov ću put obratiti na njihovu glavu, govori Gospod Gospod.

22 Potom mahnuše heruvimi krilima svojim, i točkovi otidoše prema njima, i slava Boga Izrailjevog beše ozgo nad njima.

23 I podiže se slava Gospodnja isred grada, i stade na gori koja je s istoka gradu.

24 A mene duh podiže i odnese u utvari duhom Božjim u Haldejsku k roblju: i utvara koju videh otide od mene.

25 I kazah roblju sve reči Gospodnje što mi pokaza.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 945

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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.). When he saw Joshua, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.). When he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.). When he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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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.