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1 Ti dakle, sine čovečji, prorokuj protiv Goga, i reci: Ovako veli Gospod Gospod: Evo me na te, Gože, kneže i glavo Mesehu i Tuvalu.

2 I vratiću te natrag i vodiću te, i izvešću te iz severnih krajeva i dovešću te na gore Izrailjeve.

3 I izbiću ti luk tvoj iz leve ruke, i prosuću ti iz desne ruke strele.

4 Na gorama ćeš Izrailjevim pasti ti i sve čete tvoje i narodi koji budu s tobom; pticama, svakojakim pticama krilatim i zverima poljskim daću te da te izjedu.

5 Na polju ćeš pasti, jer ja rekoh, govori Gospod Gospod.

6 I pustiću oganj na Magoga i na one koji žive na ostrvima bez straha; i poznaće da sam ja Gospod.

7 I sveto ime svoje obznaniću usred naroda svog Izrailja, i neću više dati da se skvrni sveto ime moje, nego će poznati narodi da sam ja Gospod, Svetac u Izrailju.

8 Evo, doći će, i zbiće se, govori Gospod Gospod; to je dan za koji govorih.

9 Tada će izaći stanovnici gradova Izrailjevih, i naložiće na oganj i spaliće oružje i štitove i štitiće, lukove i strele, sulice i koplja, i ložiće ih na oganj sedam godina.

10 I neće nositi drva iz polja, niti će seći u šumi, nego će oružje ložiti na oganj, i opleniće one koji ih pleniše, i pootimaće od onih koji od njih otimaše, govori Gospod Gospod.

11 I u to ću vreme dati Gogu mesto za grob onde u Izrailju, dolinu kojom se ide na istok k moru, i ona će stisnuti usta putnicima; onde će biti pogreben Gog i sve mnoštvo njegovo, i prozvaće se dolina mnoštva Gogovog.

12 I ukopavaće ih dom Izrailjev sedam meseci, da bi očistili zemlju.

13 I ukopavaće ih sav narod, i biće im na slavu u onaj dan kad se proslavim, govori Gospod Gospod.

14 I odvojiće ljude koji će jednako ići po zemlji i s onima koji prolaze ukopavati one koji bi ostali po zemlji da je očiste; posle sedam meseca tražiće.

15 I prohodiće zemlju i ići po njoj, i ko vidi kosti ljudske, načiniće kod njih znak, dokle ih ne ukopaju grobari u dolini mnoštva Gogovog.

16 A i gradu će biti ime Amona; i tako će očistiti zemlju.

17 Ti, dakle, sine čovečji, ovako govori Gospod Gospod, reci pticama, svakojakim pticama i svim zverima poljskim: Skupite se i hodite, saberite se sa svih strana na žrtvu moju, koju koljem za vas, na veliku žrtvu na gorama Izrailjevim, i ješćete mesa i pićete krvi;

18 Ješćete mesa junačkog i pićete krvi knezova zemaljskih, ovnova, jaganjaca i jaraca i telaca, sve ugojene stoke vasanske.

19 I ješćete pretiline da ćete se nasititi, i pićete krvi da ćete se opiti od žrtava mojih što ću vam naklati.

20 I nasitićete se za mojim stolom konja i konjika, junaka i svakojakih vojnika, govori Gospod Gospod.

21 I pustiću slavu svoju među narode, i svi će narodi videti sud moj koji ću učiniti i moju ruku koju ću dignuti na njih.

22 I poznaće dom Izrailjev da sam ja Gospod Bog njihov, od onog dana i posle.

23 I narodi će poznati da se za svoje bezakonje zarobi dom Izrailjev, što meni zgrešiše, te sakrih lice svoje od njih, i dadoh ih u ruke neprijateljima njihovim, i svi padoše od mača.

24 Po nečistoti njihovoj i po prestupu njihovu učinih im i sakrih lice svoje od njih.

25 Toga radi ovako govori Gospod Gospod: Povratiću roblje Jakovljevo i smilovaću se svemu domu Izrailjevom i revnovaću za sveto ime svoje,

26 Pošto podnesu sramotu svoju i sve prestupe svoje, kojima mi prestupiše dok seđahu u svojoj zemlji bez straha i nikoga ne beše da ih plaši,

27 Kad ih dovedem natrag iz naroda i saberem ih iz zemalja neprijatelja njihovih, i posvetim se u njima pred mnogim narodima.

28 I poznaće da sam ja Gospod Bog njihov kad odvedavši ih u ropstvo među narode opet ih saberem u zemlju njihovu ne ostavivši ih nijednoga onde.

29 I neću više kriti lice svoje od njih kad izlijem Duh svoj na dom Izrailjev, govori Gospod Gospod.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 399

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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.