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Isus Navin 7

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1 Ali se ogrešiše sinovi Izrailjevi o prokletinju, jer Ahan sin Harmije sina Zavdije sina Zarinog od plemena Judinog, uze od prokletih stvari; zato se razgnevi Gospod na sinove Izrailjeve.

2 A Isus posla ljude iz Jerihona u Gaj, koji beše blizu Vet-Avena s istoka Vetilju, i reče im govoreći: Idite i uhodite zemlju. I ljudi odoše i uhodiše Gaj.

3 I vrativši se k Isusu rekoše mu: Neka ne ide sav narod; do dve hiljade ljudi ili do tri hiljade ljudi neka idu, i osvojiće Gaj; nemoj mučiti sav narod, jer ih je malo.

4 I ode ih onamo iz naroda oko tri hiljade ljudi; ali pobegoše od Gajana.

5 I Gajani posekoše ih do trideset i šest ljudi; i goniše ih od vrata do Sivarima, i pobiše ih na strmeni; i rastopi se srce u narodu, i posta kao voda.

6 A Isus razdre haljine svoje i pade licem na zemlju pred kovčegom Gospodnjim, i leža do večera, on i starešine Izrailjeve, i posuše se prahom po glavi.

7 I reče Isus: Jao! Gospode Bože, zašto prevede ovaj narod preko Jordana da nas predaš u ruke Amorejcima da nas pobiju? O, da htesmo ostati preko Jordana!

8 Jao! Gospode, šta da kažem, kad je Izrailj obratio pleća pred neprijateljima svojim?

9 Čuće Hananeji i svi stanovnici te zemlje, i sleći će se oko nas, i istrebiće ime naše sa zemlje; i šta ćeš učiniti od velikog imena svog?

10 A Gospod reče Isusu: Ustani: što si pao na lice svoje?

11 Zgrešio je Izrailj, i prestupio zavet moj koji sam im zapovedio: jer uzeše od prokletih stvari, i ukradoše, i zatajiše, i metnuše među svoje stvari.

12 Zato neće moći sinovi Izrailjevi stajati pred neprijateljima svojim; pleća će obraćati pred neprijateljima svojim, jer su pod prokletstvom; neću više biti s vama, ako ne istrebite između sebe prokletinju.

13 Ustani, osveštaj narod, i reci: Osveštajte se za sutra; jer ovako veli Gospod Bog Izrailjev: Prokletstvo je usred tebe, Izrailju; nećeš moći stajati pred neprijateljima svojim dokle ne uklonite prokletstvo između sebe.

14 Pristupićete ujutru po plemenima svojim; i koje pleme obliči Gospod ono će pristupiti po porodicama svojim; i koju porodicu obliči Gospod ona će pristupiti po domovima svojim; i koji dom obliči Gospod, pristupiće ljudi iz njega jedan po jedan.

15 Pa ko se nađe u prokletstvu, neka se spali ognjem i on i sve njegovo, jer prestupi zavet Gospodnji i učini bezakonje u Izrailju.

16 I ustavši Isus ujutru rano reče te pristupi Izrailj po plemenima svojim; i obliči se pleme Judino.

17 Potom reče te pristupiše porodice Judine; i obliči se porodica Zarina; potom reče te pristupi porodica Zarina, domaćin jedan po jedan, i obliči se Zavdija.

18 I reče, te pristupi njegov dom, ljudi jedan po jedan, i obliči se Ahan sin Harmije sina Zavdije sina Zarinog od plemena Judinog.

19 I reče Isus Ahanu: Sine, hajde daj hvalu Gospodu Bogu Izrailjevom, i priznaj pred Njim, i kaži mi šta si učinio, nemoj tajiti od mene.

20 A Ahan odgovori Isusu i reče: Istina je, ja zgreših Gospodu Bogu Izrailjevom, i učinih tako i tako:

21 Videh u plenu jedan lep plašt vavilonski, i dvesta sikala srebra, i jednu šipku zlata od pedeset sikala, pa se polakomih i uzeh; i eno je zakopano u zemlju usred mog šatora, i srebro odozdo.

22 Tada Isus posla poslanike, koji otrčaše u šator, i gle, beše zakopano u šatoru njegovom, i odozdo srebro.

23 I uzeše iz šatora i doneše k Isusu i svim sinovima Izrailjevim, i metnuše pred Gospoda.

24 Tada Isus i sav Izrailj uzeše Ahana sina Zarinog, i srebro i plašt i šipku zlata, i sinove njegove i kćeri njegove, i volove njegove i magarce njegove, i ovce njegove, i šator i sve što beše njegovo, i izvedoše u dolinu Ahor.

25 I reče Isus: Što si nas smeo? Gospod da te smete danas! I zasu ga kamenjem sav Izrailj, i spališe sve ognjem zasuvši kamenjem.

26 Po tom nabacaše na nj veliku gomilu kamenja, koja stoji i danas. I Gospod se povrati od žestine gneva svog. Otuda se prozva ono mesto dolina Ahor do danas.

   

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Exploring the Meaning of Joshua 7

Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff, Julian Duckworth

Joshua 7: The defeat at Ai, and the sin of Achan.

This chapter opens with the statement that Israel had sinned at Jericho, because an Israelite named Achan had kept something for himself, against the Lord's commandment. (But Joshua doesn't know this yet.)

The great victory at Jericho was quickly followed by an embarrassing defeat at Ai. The Israelites hadn't expected much difficulty in taking Ai, and sent just a few thousand men to attack it. They were routed.

Spiritually, we might say that pride goes before a fall, but more specifically, in the work of our regeneration we are never to rest on our laurels, but to always stay alert to each situation and how we are internally handling it. (Apocalypse Revealed 158)

Understandably, Joshua pours out his heart to the Lord, wondering why they have even crossed over the Jordan to simply be destroyed. The Lord tells him that their defeat at Ai was because Israel sinned by taking some of the forbidden things of Jericho. The Lord explains how to put this right, by identifying the wrongdoer and destroying him and his family.

Note the weakness of Joshua (as earlier also with Moses at times) when things go wrong and he feels confused, full of doubt, hurt and afraid. When things go well, we go well; when things go badly, we tend to go to pieces. And we ask, “Why? Why this, why me, why now?”

The Lord’s answer is a command, “Get up! Why are you lying on your face?” This is a pretty plain meaning: The Lord wants us to use such setbacks to be able to go forward, seeing the problem as a challenge and an opportunity and learning point.

Joshua is told to find the source of the wrong and the defeat. From all the tribes, one tribe will be selected by the Lord. From all its families, one family will be chosen. From all its households, one household will be chosen, and from that household, one man will be chosen. And Achan was the man and he is brought out. (Arcana Caelestia 5135)

This drawing-by-lot is a remarkable picture of our spiritual self-examination. We’re told that to make our general confession of ‘having done what we should not have done’ is almost worthless because we are likely to just carry on the same afterwards. (Arcana Caelestia 8390) Our personal inventory must be specific. What kind of thoughts have I been allowing myself recently? What did that make me feel in my heart? Did I welcome it or want nothing to do with it? It’s a kind of pinpointing, and it leads us to Achan, whose name in Hebrew means ‘trouble’ and ‘troubler’. (The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine 164)

Achan, discovered, doesn't hide or deny his wrongdoing but openly admits that he has sinned against the Lord. He'd seen a beautiful garment, much silver, and a chunk of gold, and took them, and hid them in the earth in the middle of his tent. He confesses and indeed, his confession is transparent. So must our confession be when we see things in ourselves that go against the Lord’s truths and ways. They bring forth his stolen goods from his tent.

Then, in a comprehensive way, Joshua took everything Achan owned in its entirety, including the stolen goods, to the Valley of Achor (a name again meaning ‘trouble’) and stoned him and all his family and burned them with fire and raised a heap of stones over it all. This, to us, might well sound like a brutal and an unwarranted punishment.

Spiritually, the Lord does not punish us, ever. Rather, he commands that we turn from our evils, and suffer the consequences if we don't. The Lord does this to help and encourage us to stop following our own way and to commit ourselves to following and living His way. We can only conquer Canaan, representing heaven, when we do this. (Arcana Caelestia 8622)

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Arcana Coelestia # 3183

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3183. 'And her nurse' means from the innocence belonging to that affection, that is to say, which also they sent away, or separated from themselves. This is clear from the meaning of 'a nurse' or wet nurse, as innocence. Sucklings and those who suckle them are mentioned frequently in the Word, where they mean the first state that young children pass through, which is plainly a state of innocence. For as soon as anyone is born he is brought into a state of innocence. This state then serves as the basis of all other states and is the inner core of them all; and this state is meant in the Word by 'a suckling'. After he has been brought into a state of innocence he is led into a state of affection for celestial good, that is, into a state of love towards parents, which with them exists in place of love to the Lord; this state is meant by 'a young child'. After that he is led into a state of affection for spiritual good, which is mutual love, or charity towards those who are children like himself, which state is meant by the expression 'boys'. When he grows up further still he is led into a state of affection for truth; this is meant by the expression 'young men'. Subsequent states however are meant by 'men' and at last 'old men'. This final state, which is meant by the expression 'old men', is a state of wisdom which has the innocence of earliest childhood within it, and so the first state and the last are united. And when he is old, being so to speak a small child again yet one who is now wise, that person is led into the Lord's kingdom.

[2] From this it becomes clear that innocence is the first state, which is that of 'a suckling'. A woman who suckles an infant other than her own also means innocence therefore, for the state of giver and receiver, as with the one who acts and the other who is acted upon, is perceived as being similar. The reason why here it is said that they sent away 'the nurse' or wet nurse too is so that the affection for truth might be described, that is to say, that it sprang from innocence; for it is not the affection for truth unless it has innocence within it, 2526, 2780, 3111. Indeed it is by means of innocence that the Lord flows into that affection, doing so together with wisdom since true innocence is wisdom itself, see 2305, 2306; and those who possess it are seen in the eyes of angels as infants or small children, 154, 2306.

[3] That 'a suckling' in the Word means innocence is also evident from other places, as in David,

Out of the mouth of infants and sucklings You have founded strength. Psalms 8:2; Matthew 21:16.

Here 'infants' stands for celestial love, 'sucklings' for innocence. In Jeremiah,

Why are you committing great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling from the midst of Judah, so that I cause no remnant to be left to you? Jeremiah 44:7.

Here similarly 'infant and suckling' stands for celestial love and its innocence. When these cease to exist no remnants exist any longer, that is, no good or truth that has been stored away by the Lord in the internal man remains any longer, remnants being good and truth stored away there by Him, see 1906, 2284. For when innocence perishes so do all goods and truths, for innocence comes directly from the Divine Himself, and so is the essential element in them. In the same prophet,

The infant and the suckling faint in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:11.

Here the meaning is similar. In the same prophet,

The sea monsters give the breast, they suckle their young; the daughter of My people is cruel, the tongue of the suckling has cleaved to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the little children begged for bread, none held it out to them. Lamentations 4:3-4.

Again 'suckling' stands for innocence, 'little children' for affections for good. In Moses,

Outside the sword will bereave - and out of the chambers terror - both young man and virgin, and suckling together with old man. Deuteronomy 32:25.

'The sword will bereave young man, virgin, and suckling together with old man' stands for the fact that falsity will destroy the affection for truth and the affection for good, and also innocence together with wisdom. In Isaiah,

They will bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters will be carried on their shoulder; and kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your wet nurses. Isaiah 49:22-23.

'Kings as foster fathers' stands for intelligence, 'queens as wet nurses' for wisdom, which, as stated above, is the wisdom that goes with innocence.

  
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