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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 # 782

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782. 18:14 "The fruits that your soul longed for have gone from you, and all things rich and splendid have gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all." This symbolically means that all the blessings and felicities of heaven, including the external ones they wish for, will altogether fly away and be seen no longer, because these Roman Catholics do not have in them any celestial or spiritual affections for goodness and truth.

Fruits that the soul longs for symbolize nothing else than the blessings and felicities of heaven, because those are the fruits of everything having to do with the doctrine and worship that are the subject here, and because they are what people desire when they are dying, and also what they continue to desire when they first come into the spiritual world.

Things rich and splendid symbolize celestial and spiritual affections for goodness and truth - rich things affections for goodness, as we will show below, and splendid things affections for truth, which are called splendid because they develop in response to the light of heaven and its splendor in human minds, giving rise to an understanding of goodness and truth and so to wisdom.

To go and not be found anymore means symbolically that the blessings and felicities of heaven will fly away and be seen no longer, because the people here do not have any celestial or spiritual goodness and truth. Moreover, the blessings and felicities that they long for are called external, because the only blessings and felicities and affections that they long for are carnal and worldly ones, and consequently they are incapable of knowing the nature and character of the blessings and felicities that are called celestial and spiritual.

[2] But we will illustrate this by disclosing the lot of those people after death. When people impelled by a love of dominion from a love of self and so by a love of the world come from that religion into the spiritual world, as they do immediately after death, they all yearn for nothing else than dominion and the pleasures of the heart resulting from that dominion, and the pleasures of the body resulting from wealth. For a person's reigning love with its affections or lusts and desires awaits everyone after death. However, because a love of exercising dominion, springing from a love of self, over the sanctities of the church and heaven, all of which are Divine and the Lord's, is diabolical, therefore after a period of time these people are separated from their companions and cast down into various hells.

But even so, because in consequence of their religion they have participated in an external worship of God, they are first taught the nature and character of heaven, and the nature and character of the happiness of eternal life, that its blessings are pure blessings flowing in from the Lord into everyone in heaven in accordance with the character of the heavenly affection for goodness and truth in them. Yet because they have not turned to the Lord and so have not been conjoined with Him, and also lack any such affection for goodness and truth, they reject that instruction and turn away, and long for the pleasures of the love of self and the world then, which are merely natural and carnal. But because it is inherent in those pleasures to do evil, especially to people who worship the Lord, thus to angels in heaven, therefore they are deprived of those pleasures also and are thrust among their comrades in infernal workhouses in a contemptible and wretched state.

Still, these events befall them to the degree of their love of dominion over things that are Divine and the Lord's, which is the degree to which they rejected the Lord.

[3] It can now be seen from this that "the fruits that your soul longed for have gone from you, and all things rich and splendid have gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all," symbolically means that all the blessings and felicities of heaven, including the external ones they wish for, will altogether fly away and be seen no longer, because these Roman Catholics do not have in them any affections for goodness and truth.

That rich things 1 symbolize heavenly goods, and also affections for those goods and the delights of those affections, can be seen from the following passages:

Listen... to Me, eat what is good, that your soul may delight itself in richness. (Isaiah 55:2)

I will fill the soul of the priests with richness, and My people shall be satisfied with... goodness... (Jeremiah 31:14)

My soul shall be satisfied... with fatness and richness, and my mouth shall praise with singing lips. (Psalms 63:5)

They are filled with the richness of Your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your delights. (Psalms 36:8)

On this mountain Jehovah... will make for all people a feast of rich food..., of rich food full of marrow... (Isaiah 25:6)

They shall still have produce in old age; they shall be rich and green, to declare that Jehovah is upright. (Psalms 92:14-15)

(In the feast that Jehovah will make) you shall eat rich food till you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk... (Ezekiel 39:19)

(Jehovah) will regard your burnt offering as rich. (Psalms 20:3)

Because richness of fat symbolizes heavenly goodness, it was therefore a statute in Israel that all the fat of sacrificial animals should be burnt on the altar (Exodus 29:13, 22; Leviticus 1:8; 3:3-16; 4:8-35; 7:3-4, 30-31; 17:6).

In an opposite sense, the richness of fat symbolizes people who are nauseated at goodness, and who, because it is just too much, scorn it and reject it (Deuteronomy 32:15; Jeremiah 5:28; 50:11; Psalms 17:10; 20:3; 78:31; 119:70; and elsewhere).

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1. Literally, "fat things." The original words in Hebrew and Greek, translated here as "rich" or "richness," mean literally "fat" or "fatness," but metaphorically "rich" or "richness."

  
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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.