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1 Opet mi dođe reč Gospodnja govoreći:

2 Sine čovečji, okreni lice svoje prema Gogu u zemlji Magogu, knezu i glavi u Mesehu i Tuvalu, i prorokuj na nj;

3 I reci: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: evo me na tebe, Gože, kneže i glavo Mesehu i Tuvalu;

4 I vratiću te natrag, i metnuću ti žvale u čeljusti, i izvešću tebe i svu vojsku tvoju, konje i konjike, sve dobro odevene, zbor veliki sa štitovima i štitićima, sve koji mačem mašu,

5 S njima Persijance, Etiopljane i Puteje, sve sa štitovima i pod šlemovima,

6 Gomera i sve čete njegove, dom Togarmin sa severnog kraja i sve čete njegove, mnoge narode s tobom.

7 Pripravi sve i spremi se ti i sve ljudstvo tvoje, što se sabralo kod tebe, i budi im stražar.

8 Posle mnogo vremena bićeš pohođen, i poslednjih godina doći ćeš u zemlju izbavljenu od mača i sabranu iz mnogih naroda, u gore Izrailjeve, koje behu jednako puste, a oni će izvedeni iz naroda svi živeti bez straha.

9 I podignućeš se, i doći ćeš kao bura, bićeš kao oblak da pokriješ zemlju ti i sve čete tvoje i mnogi narodi s tobom.

10 Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: i tada će ti doći u srce stvari, i smišljaćeš zle misli.

11 I reći ćeš: Idem na zemlju gde su sela, i udariću na mirni narod koji živi bez straha, koji svi žive u mestima bez zidova i nemaju ni prevornica ni vrata,

12 Da napleniš plena i nagrabiš grabeža, da posegneš rukom svojom na pustinje naseljene i na narod sabrani iz naroda, koji se bavi stokom i imanjem, i živi usred zemlje.

13 Sava i Dedan i trgovci tarsiski i svi lavići njegovi kazaće ti: Jesi li došao da pleniš plen? Jesi li skupio ljudstvo svoje da grabiš grabež? Da odneseš srebro i zlato, da uzmeš stoku i trg, da napleniš mnogo plena?

14 Zato prorokuj, sine čovečji, i reci Gogu: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: U ono vreme, kad će moj narod Izrailj živeti bez straha, nećeš li znati?

15 I doći ćeš iz svog mesta, sa severnog kraja, ti i mnogi narodi s tobom, svi jašući na konjima, mnoštvo veliko i vojska velika.

16 I podignućeš se na moj narod Izrailja kao oblak da pokriješ zemlju, u poslednje vreme dovešću te na zemlju svoju da me poznadu narodi kad se posvetim u tebi pred njima, Gože!

17 Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Nisi li ti onaj o kome govorih u staro vreme preko sluga svojih, proroka Izrailjevih, koji prorokovaše u ono vreme godinama da ću te dovesti na njih.

18 A kad dođe Gog na zemlju Izrailjevu, govori Gospod Gospod, onda će se podignuti jarost moja u gnevu mom.

19 I u revnosti svojoj, u ognju gneva svog govoriću: doista, tada će biti drhat veliki u zemlji Izrailjevoj.

20 I ribe morske i ptice nebeske i zveri poljske i sve što gamiže po zemlji, i svi ljudi po zemlji zadrhtaće od mene, i gore će se razvaliti i vrleti popadati, i svi će zidovi popadati na zemlju.

21 I dozvaću na nj mač po svim gorama svojim, govori Gospod Gospod: mač će se svakog obratiti na brata njegovog.

22 I sudiću mu pomorom i krvlju; i pustiću na nj i na čete njegove i na mnoge narode, koji budu s njim, silan dažd, kamenje od grada, oganj i sumpor.

23 I proslaviću se i posvetiću se i biću poznat pred mnogim narodima, i poznaće da sam ja Gospod.

   

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399. And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood. This symbolizes falsity springing from a hellish love, destroying goodness and truth and falsifying the Word.

Hail symbolizes falsity destroying goodness and truth. Fire symbolizes hellish love. And blood symbolizes the falsification of truth.

The reason that hail symbolizes falsity destroying goodness and truth will be seen below. To be shown that fire is love in both senses, heavenly and hellish, see no. 468; and that blood is the Lord's Divine truth, which is also the Word, and in an opposite sense, the Word falsified, no. 379.

When these are assembled into a single meaning, it is apparent that "hail and fire followed, mingled with blood," symbolizes falsity springing from a hellish love, destroying goodness and truth and falsifying the Word.

This is the symbolic meaning because these are the kinds of things that appear in the spiritual world when the atmosphere of the Lord's Divine love and wisdom dips down from heaven into societies where there are falsities springing from hellish love and these are used to falsify the Word.

[2] Hail and fire together have the same symbolism in the following places:

From the brightness before Him, ...clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire... ...the Most High uttered His voice, hailstones and coals of fire. And He sent out His (many) arrows and scattered them... (Psalms 18:12-14)

I will dispute... with pestilence and blood, and I will rain down on (them)...hailstones, fire, and brimstone. (Ezekiel 38:22)

Then Jehovah will cause His... voice to be heard..., with the flame of a devouring fire... and hailstones. (Isaiah 30:30)

He made their rain hail, a flaming fire in their land..., and splintered the trees of their border. (Psalms 105:32-33)

He smote their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with heavy hail, and... their cattle with burning coals... He sent in the wrath of His anger... an incursion of evil angels. (Psalms 78:47-49)

The latter passages refer to Egypt, of whom we read in the books of Moses the following:

Moses stretched out his rod... and Jehovah sent voices and hail... And there was hail and fire together proceeding in the midst of heavy hail... And the hail struck every herb of the field and broke every tree of the field. (Exodus 9:23-35)

All the miracles done in Egypt symbolized those evils and falsities, springing from a hellish love, that existed in the Egyptians, each miracle symbolizing some evil and falsity. For the church with them had been representational, as it was in many Asiatic kingdoms, but one that became idolatrous and given to sorcery. The Red Sea symbolizes hell, in which the Egyptians finally perished.

[3] The hailstones which killed many more of the enemy than the sword in Joshua 10:11 have a similar symbolism. So, too, hail in the following passages:

Woe to the crown of pride... ...strong is the Lord, like an inundation of hail... The hail overturns the refuge of lies... (Isaiah 28:1-2, 17)

It will hail until it flattens the forest... (Isaiah 32:19)

The temple of God was opened in heaven..., and there were lightnings, voices, and thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail. (Revelation 11:19)

And great hail with the weight of a talent fell from heaven upon men. (Revelation 16:21)

...have you seen the treasuries of hail, which have been reserved... for the day of battle and war? (Job 38:22-23)

Say to those who plaster the unsuitable that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, in which you, hailstones, shall fall. (Ezekiel 13:11)

To plaster the unsuitable is to defend falsity so that it appears as true. Consequently people who do this are called hailstones.

  
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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.