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Avakum 2

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1 Na straži svojoj stadoh, i stajah na kuli, i motrah da vidim šta će mi reći i šta bih odgovorio onome koji me koraše.

2 I odgovori mi Gospod i reče: Piši utvaru, i da bude razgovetno na pločama da se lako čita.

3 Jer će još biti utvara do određenog vremena, i govoriće šta će biti do kraja i neće slagati; ako okleva, čekaj je, jer će zacelo doći, i neće odocniti.

4 Gle, ko se ponosi, njegova duša nije prava u njemu; a pravednik će od vere svoje živ biti.

5 A kako vino vara, takav je čovek ohol, niti ostaje u stanu; jer raširuje duh svoj kao grob, i kao smrt je, koja se ne može nasititi i zbira k sebi sve narode i skuplja k sebi sva plemena.

6 Neće li ga svi oni uzeti u priču i u zagonetke, i reći: Teško onom koji umnožava šta nije njegovo! Dokle će? I koji trpa na se gusto blato.

7 Neće li najedanput ustati oni koji će te gristi? I neće li se probuditi oni koji će te rastrzati, i kojima ćeš biti grabež?

8 Što si ti oplenio mnoge narode, tebe će opleniti sav ostatak od naroda, za krv ljudsku i za nasilje učinjeno zemlji, gradu i svima koji žive u njemu.

9 Teško onome koji se lakomi na gadan dobitak kući svojoj, da postavi gnezdo svoje na visokom mestu i sačuva se oda zla.

10 Smislio si sramotu kući svojoj da zatreš mnoge narode, i ogrešio si se o svoju dušu.

11 Jer će kamen iz zida vikati, i čvor iz drveta svedočiće.

12 Teško onome koji gradi grad krvlju i osniva grad nepravdom.

13 Gle, nije li od Gospoda nad vojskama da ljudi rade za oganj i narodi se trude nizašta?

14 Jer će se zemlja napuniti poznanja slave Gospodnje kao što je more puno vode.

15 Teško onome koji poji bližnjeg svog, dodaje meh svoj da bi ga opojio i gledao mu golotinju.

16 Nasitićeš se sramote mesto slave, pij i ti, i otkrij golotinju svoju; doći će k tebi čaša u desnici Gospodnjoj, i bljuvotina će sramna biti na slavi tvojoj.

17 Jer nasilje učinjeno Livanu pokriće te i pustoš među zverjem koja ga je plašila, za krv ljudsku i nasilje učinjeno zemlji, gradu i svima koji žive u njemu.

18 Šta pomaže rezan lik što ga izreza umetnik njegov? Šta liven lik i učitelj laži, te se umetnik uzda u delo svoje gradeći neme idole?

19 Teško onome koji govori drvetu: Preni se! I nemom kamenu: Probudi se! Hoće li on učiti? Eto, obložen je zlatom i srebrom, a nema duha u njemu.

20 A Gospod je u svetoj crkvi svojoj; ćuti pred Njim sva zemljo!

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 459

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459. And idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood. This symbolically means that thus they engage in worship founded on nothing but falsities.

Idols in the Word symbolize falsities in worship, and therefore worshiping them symbolizes worship founded on falsities. Worshiping idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, then, symbolizes worship founded on falsities of every kind, and when taken in combination, worship founded on nothing but falsities. Moreover, the materials, figures, and garments of the idols among ancient peoples represented the falsities of religion on which they founded their worship. Idols of gold symbolized falsities regarding matters pertaining to God; idols of silver, falsities regarding matters pertaining to the spirit; idols of brass, falsities regarding charity; idols of stone, falsities regarding faith; and idols of wood, falsities regarding good works.

All of these falsities are held by people who do not repent, that is, who do not refrain from evils as being sins against God.

[2] Idols, which were carved and cast images, have this symbolic meaning in the spiritual sense in the following passages:

Everyone has been made stupid by knowledge; every metalsmith is has been put to shame by a carved image; for his cast image is a falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are futile, a work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish. (Jeremiah 10:14-15; 51:17-18)

(Carved images are) the work of the hands of the workman... They do not speak... They are both foolish and stupid; the wood is a worthless teacher... They are all the work of skillful men. (Jeremiah 10:3-5, 8-10)

What profit is the carved image, that its maker has carved it, ...and a teacher of lies, that the maker of the lie trusts in it...? ...in it there is no breath. (Habakkuk 2:18-19)

In that day a man will cast away to the moles and bats his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship... (Isaiah 2:18, 20)

...they made for themselves cast images of their silver, idols according to their skill, all of it the work of craftsmen. (Hosea 13:2)

I will sprinkle clean water on you, that you may be cleansed... from all your uncleanness and from all your idols. (Ezekiel 36:25)

Clean waters are truths; idols are falsities in worship.

You shall judge unclean the covering of your graven images of silver, and the attire of your cast images of gold. You will throw them away as a menstrual cloth; you will call it excrement. (Isaiah 30:22)

[3] Falsities in religion and thus in worship are precisely what are symbolically meant by the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that Belshazzar, king of Babylon, praised (i.e., worshiped) when with his great men, wives and concubines he drank wine from the vessels of gold and silver taken from the temple in Jerusalem, on which account he was driven from mankind and became as a beast (Daniel 5:1-5ff.).

And so also in many other places, as in Isaiah 10:10-11; 21:9; 31:7; 40:19-20; 41:29; 42:17; 48:5, Leviticus 26:30.

Properly speaking, idols symbolize falsities in worship springing from people's own intelligence. How a person fashions them and afterward adapts them so that they appear to be true is fully described in Isaiah 44:9-20.

  
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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.