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1 Opet mi dođe reč Gospodnja govoreći:

2 Sine čovečji, usred doma odmetničkog sediš, koji ima oči da vidi i ne vidi, ima uši da čuje i ne čuje; jer su dom odmetnički.

3 Zato ti, sine čovečji, spremi šta treba za seobu, i seli se obdan na njihove oči; i iseli se iz svog mesta na drugo mesto na njihove oči, ne bi li videli, jer su dom odmetnički.

4 I iznesi stvari svoje kao kad se ko seli obdan na njihove oči, a sam iziđi uveče na njihove oči kao oni koji se sele.

5 Na njihove oči prokopaj zid i iznesi svoje stvari.

6 Na njihove oči digni na ramena i iznesi po mraku, lice svoje pokrij da ne vidiš zemlje, jer te dadoh da budeš znak u domu Izrailjevom.

7 I učinih tako kako mi se zapovedi; stvari svoje iznesoh obdan kao kad se seli; a uveče prokopah zid rukom; i po mraku iznesoh na ramenima noseći na njihove oči.

8 A u jutru dođe mi reč Gospodnja govoreći:

9 Sine čovečji, reče li ti dom Izrailjev, dom odmetnički: Šta radiš?

10 Reci im: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Ovo je breme za kneza, koji je u Jerusalimu, i za sav dom Izrailjev što je onde.

11 Reci: Ja sam vam znak, kako ja učinih tako će im biti; preseliće se i otići u ropstvo.

12 I knez koji je među njima noseći na ramenima po mraku će izaći; oni će prokopati zid da iznesu, on će pokriti lice svoje da ne vidi zemlje očima.

13 Ali ću mu razapeti mrežu svoju i uhvatiće se u zamku moju, i odvešću ga u Vavilon, u zemlju haldejsku, ali je neće videti, a onde će umreti.

14 I sve koji su oko njega, pomoćnike njegove, i svu vojsku njegovu, rasejaću u sve vetrove, i izvući ću mač za njima.

15 I poznaće da sam ja Gospod, kad ih rasejem po narodima, i razaspem po zemljama.

16 A ostaviću ih nekoliko ljudi koji će ostati od mača i od gladi i od pomora da pripovedaju sve gadove svoje među narodima u koje otidu; i poznaće da sam ja Gospod.

17 Opet mi dođe reč Gospodnja govoreći:

18 Sine čovečji, hleb svoj jedi prezajući i vodu svoju pij drhćući i brinući se.

19 I reci narodu zemaljskom: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod za stanovnike jerusalimske, za zemlju Izrailjevu: hleb će svoj jesti u brizi i vodu će svoju piti prepadajući se, jer će zemlja opusteti i ostati bez svega što je u njoj za bezakonje svih koji žive u njoj.

20 I gradovi u kojima žive opusteće, i zemlja će biti pusta, i poznaćete da sam ja Gospod.

21 Opet mi dođe reč Gospodnja govoreći:

22 Sine čovečji, kakva je to priča u vas o zemlji Izrailjevoj što govorite: Protežu se dani, i od utvare neće biti ništa?

23 Zato im reci: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Ukinuću tu priču i neću je više govoriti u Izrailju; nego im reci: Blizu su dani i reč svake utvare.

24 Jer neće više biti u domu Izrailjevom zaludne utvare ni gatanja kojim se laska.

25 Jer ću ja, Gospod, govoriti i šta kažem zbiće se; neće se više odgađati, nego za vašeg vremena, dome odmetnički, reći ću reč i izvršiću je, govori Gospod Gospod.

26 Opet mi dođe reč Gospodnja govoreći:

27 Sine čovečji, gle, dom Izrailjev govori: Utvara koju taj vidi, do nje ima mnogo vremena, i za daleko vreme taj prorokuje.

28 Zato im reci: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Neće se više odgađati ni jedna moja reč; reč koju kažem zbiće se, govori Gospod Gospod.

   

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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.

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Revelation 14:15

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15 Another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send forth your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!"