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Jezekilj 39

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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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15. To show that the prophetic books of the Word of the Old Testament are in many places unintelligible apart from their spiritual meaning, I should like to cite just a few. This from Isaiah, for example:

Then Jehovah will rouse up a whip against Assyria, like the blow against Midian on the rock Oreb; his staff will be stretched out over the sea, and he will lift it against the way of Egypt. And it will happen on that day that his burden will depart from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck. He will come against Aiath; he will cross over into Migron. He will command his weapons against Michmash; they will cross Mabara. Gibeah will be a place of lodging for us; Ramah will tremble with fear; Gibeah of Saul will flee. Wail with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen to Laishah, unfortunate Anathoth! Madmenah will wander; the inhabitants of Gebim will gather together. In Nob is it still a day for standing firm? The mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem, will move its hand. Jehovah will cut down the tangled places in the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by means of the Mighty One. (Isaiah 10:24-34)

All we find here are names from which we can draw no sense without the aid of the spiritual meaning, in which all the names in the Word point to matters of heaven and the church. We gather from this meaning that this passage refers to the ruin of the whole church by information that corrupted every true teaching and supported every false teaching.

[2] In another passage from the same prophet,

On that day the rivalry of Ephraim will wane and the enemies of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will not compete with Judah, and Judah will not trouble Ephraim, but they will swoop down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the sea. Together they will plunder the children of the east. Edom and Moab will be [subject to] the stretching out of their hand. Jehovah will curse the tongue of the sea of Egypt and will shake his hand over the river with the vehemence of his spirit; and he will strike it into seven streams, to make a pathway [that can be trodden] with sandals. Then there will be a highway for the rest of his people, the remnant from Assyria. (Isaiah 11:11, 13-16)

Here too, only those who know what these particular names mean will see anything divine, when in fact this is about the Lord’s Coming and what will happen then, as is perfectly obvious from the first ten verses of the chapter. So without the aid of the spiritual meaning, who would see what these statements in this sequence mean, namely, that if people are caught up in false beliefs because of ignorance but have not let themselves be led astray by evil tendencies, they will find their way to the Lord, and that the church will then understand the Word, so that their false beliefs will no longer harm them?

[3] It is much the same in other passages where there are no names, as in Ezekiel:

Thus says the Lord Jehovih: “Son of Humanity, say to every winged bird and to every beast of the field, ‘Gather and come. Gather yourselves from all around for my sacrifice, which I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth. You will eat fat until you are full and drink blood until you are drunk, from my sacrifice, which I am sacrificing for you. At my table you will eat your fill of horses and chariots and the mighty and every man of war. This is how I will establish my glory among the nations.’” (Ezekiel 39:17-21)

If readers do not know from the spiritual sense the meaning of a sacrifice, of flesh and blood, of horses, chariots, the mighty, and men of war, all they can conclude is that they are going to eat and drink things like this. The spiritual meaning, though, tells us that eating flesh and drinking blood from a sacrifice that the Lord Jehovih offers on the mountains of Israel means taking divine goodness and divine truth into ourselves from the Word. This passage is about summoning everyone to the Lord’s kingdom, specifically the Lord’s establishment of a church among the nations. Can anyone fail to see that flesh does not mean flesh and that blood does not mean blood in this text? The same holds true for drinking blood until we are drunk and eating our fill of horses, chariots, the mighty, and every man of war.

There are passages like this in a thousand other places in the prophets.

  
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