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1 I izvede me u spoljašnji trem prema severu, i dovede me ka kletima, koje behu prema odeljenoj strani i prema građevini na severu.

2 S lica beše u dužinu sto lakata kod severnih vrata, a u širinu pedeset lakata.

3 Prema unutrašnjem tremu od dvadeset lakata i prema podu spoljašnjeg trema behu kleti prema kletima u tri reda.

4 I pred kletima beše hodnik u širinu od deset lakata, unutra, put k njima od jednog lakta, i vrata behu prema severu.

5 A najgornje kleti behu tešnje, jer kleti donje i srednje u zgradi izlažahu većma nego one.

6 Jer behu na tri poda, ali nemahu stupova kao u tremu, i zato se sužavaše iznad donjeg i srednjeg od zemlje.

7 A ograda koja beše spolja prema kletima k tremu spoljašnjem pred kletima imaše u dužinu pedeset lakata.

8 Jer dužina kletima, koje behu u tremu spoljašnjem, beše pedeset lakata. I gle, pred crkvom beše sto lakata.

9 A pod tim kletima beše ulaz s istoka, kojim se ulažaše u njih iz spoljašnjeg trema.

10 U širini ograde tog trema k istoku pred odeljenom stranom i pred građevinom behu kleti.

11 A pred njima beše put kao kod severnih kleti; jednake dužine i jednake širine behu, i izlazi im i vrata behu jednaka.

12 I kakva behu vrata u kleti koje behu prema jugu, takva behu vrata gde se počinjaše put pred ogradom pravo k istoku, kad se ide k njima.

13 I reče mi: Severne kleti i južne kleti pred odeljenom stranom jesu svete kleti, gde sveštenici koji pristupaju ka Gospodu jedu presvete stvari, onde će ostavljati presvete stvari i dar i prinos za greh i prinos za krivicu, jer je sveto mesto.

14 Kad sveštenici uđu, neće izlaziti iz svetinje u spoljašnji trem, nego će onde ostavljati haljine svoje u kojima služe, jer su svete, i oblačiće druge haljine, pa onda izlaziti k narodu.

15 I izmerivši dom unutrašnji odvede me na vrata istočna i izmeri svuda unaokolo.

16 Izmeri istočnu stranu trskom meračkom, i beše pet stotina trsaka, trskom meračkom unaokolo.

17 Izmeri severnu stranu, i beše pet stotina trsaka, trskom meračkom unaokolo.

18 Izmeri južnu stranu, i beše pet stotina trsaka, trskom meračkom.

19 I okrenuvši se na zapadnu stranu, izmeri, i beše pet stotina trsaka, trskom meračkom.

20 Izmeri sa četiri strane, i beše zid unaokolo pet stotina trsaka dug i pet stotina širok da razdvaja sveto mesto od svetskog.

   

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52. 6. Jehovah himself - that is, the Lord - spoke the Word through prophets.

We read of the prophets that they had visions and that Jehovah talked with them. When they had visions, they were not focused on their bodies but on the spirit, in which state they saw things of a heavenly nature. When Jehovah talked with them, though, they were conscious of their bodies and heard Jehovah speaking.

We need to draw a clear distinction between these two states. In a visionary state, the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body were closed; and at such times they seemed to themselves to be taken from place to place while their bodies stayed where they were. Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel were in this state at times, and so was John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. They were then said to be in a vision or in the spirit. In fact, Ezekiel says,

The spirit lifted me up and brought me back into Chaldea, to the captivity, in a vision from God, in the spirit of God. In this way the vision that I saw came over me. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard an earthquake and other things behind him (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). He also said that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven and took him off into Jerusalem in visions from God, and he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3 and following).

That is why (again in a vision of God or in the spirit) Ezekiel saw the four beasts that were angel guardians (chapters 1; 10), and he saw a new earth and a new temple with the angel measuring them, as we are told in chapters 40-48. He says in chapter 40:2, that he was then in visions from God; and in chapter 43:5, he says that the spirit lifted him up at that time.

The same thing happened with Zechariah. There was an angel inwardly present with him when he saw a man riding among myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following); when he saw four horns and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1 and following); when he saw a lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following); when he saw a flying scroll and a measuring basket (Zechariah 5:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, along with horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw four beasts come up from the sea (Daniel 7:3) and when he saw battles between a ram and a goat (Daniel 8:1 and following).

We read in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8 that he saw these things in visions. We read in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision and talked with him.

Much the same happened with John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. He says that he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day (Revelation 1:10), that he was carried away in the spirit into the wilderness (17:3), to a high mountain in the spirit (21:10), that he saw horses in a vision (9:17), and elsewhere that he saw what he described, being therefore in the spirit or in a vision (1:2; 4:1; 5:1; 6:1; and in the particular chapters that follow).

  
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