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Joil 1

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1 Reč Gospodnja koja dođe Joilu sinu Fatuilovom.

2 Čujte, starci; slušajte, svi stanovnici zemaljski; je li ovako šta bilo za vašeg vremena ili za vremena vaših otaca?

3 Pripovedajte to sinovima svojim, i sinovi vaši svojim sinovima, i njihovi sinovi potonjem kolenu.

4 Šta osta iza gusenice izjede skakavac, i šta osta iza skakavca izjede hrušt, i šta osta iza hrušta izjede crv.

5 Otreznite se, pijanice, i plačite; i ridajte svi koji pijete vino, za novim vinom, jer se ote iz usta vaših.

6 Jer dođe na zemlju moju silan narod i nebrojen; zubi su mu kao u lava i kutnjaci kao u lavice.

7 Potre vinovu lozu moju, i smokve moje pokida, sasvim ih oguli i pobaca, te im se grane bele.

8 Ridaj kao mladica opasana kostreću za mužem mladosti svoje.

9 Nesta dara i naliva iz doma Gospodnjeg; tuže sveštenici, sluge Gospodnje.

10 Opuste polje, tuži zemlja; jer je potrveno žito, usahlo vino, nestalo ulja.

11 Stidite se ratari, ridajte vinogradari, pšenice radi i ječma radi, jer propade žetva na njivi;

12 Loza posahnu i smokva uvenu; šipak i palma i jabuka i sva drveta poljska posahnuše, jer nesta radosti između sinova ljudskih.

13 Opašite se i plačite sveštenici; ridajte koji služite oltaru, dođite, noćujte u kostreti, sluge Boga mog; jer se unosi u dom Boga vašeg dar i naliv.

14 Naredite post, oglasite praznik, skupite starešine, sve stanovnike zemaljske, u dom Gospoda Boga svog, i vapite ka Gospodu:

15 Jaoh dana! Jer je blizu dan Gospodnji, i doći će kao pogibao od Svemogućeg.

16 Nije li nestalo hrane ispred očiju naših, radosti i veselja iz doma Boga našeg?

17 Seme istruhnu pod grudama svojim, puste su žitnice, razvaljene spreme, jer posahnu žito.

18 Kako uzdiše stoka! Kako su se smela goveda! Jer nemaju paše; i ovce ginu.

19 K Tebi, Gospode, vičem, jer oganj sažeže paše u pustinji, i plamen popali sva drveta u polju.

20 I zverje poljsko pogleda za tobom, jer usahnuše potoci vodeni i oganj sažeže paše u pustinji.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 435

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435. And their teeth were like lions' teeth. This symbolically means that matters of the senses, which constitute the lowest elements of the natural self's life, appeared to them to have power over all else.

Teeth symbolize the lowest elements of the natural self's life, which are called sensual, as discussed in no. 424 above. These sensual elements are of two kinds, one having to do with the will, the other with the intellect. Sensual elements having to do with the will are symbolized by women's hair, as said just above in no. 434; and sensual elements having to do with the intellect are symbolized by teeth. The latter, which is to say, sensual people caught up in falsities by conviction, appear to themselves to have power over everything, so that they cannot be overcome. Therefore the locusts' teeth, which symbolize such sensual elements, were like lions' teeth - a lion symbolizing power (no. 241).

That teeth symbolize the lowest elements of a person's life - those elements called sensual - and that when these are divorced from the interior levels of the mind, they are caught up in nothing but falsities and attack truths and destroy them, can be seen from the following passages:

With my soul I lie down among lions...; their teeth are a spear and arrows... (Psalms 57:4)

O God, destroy their teeth in their mouth! Turn aside the molars of the young lions... (Psalms 58:6)

...a nation has come up against My land, strong..., its teeth the teeth of a lion, and it has the molars of a fierce lion. (Joel 1:6)

...O Jehovah..., You have broken the teeth of the impious. (Psalms 3:7)

...a beast (came up from the sea), terrible, dreadful, and exceedingly strong, which had huge iron teeth; it was devouring and breaking in pieces... (Daniel 7:3, 7).

Blessed be Jehovah, who has not given us as prey to their teeth. (Psalms 124:6)

Since sensual people do not see any truth in its own light, but reason and argue about everything as to whether it is so, and since these altercations in the hells sound outside the hells like the gnashing of teeth, which regarded in itself is a colliding of falsity and truth, it is apparent what the gnashing of teeth symbolizes in Matthew 8:12; 13:42, 50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30, and Luke 13:28; and in some measure what to gnash with the teeth symbolizes in Job 16:9, Psalms 35:15-16; 37:12; 112:10, Micah 3:5, and Lamentations 2:16.

  
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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.