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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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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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