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Malahija 3

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1 Evo, ja ću poslati anđela svog, koji će pripraviti put preda mnom, i iznenada će doći u crkvu svoju Gospod, kog vi tražite, i anđeo zavetni, kog vi želite, evo doći će, veli Gospod nad vojskama.

2 Ali ko će podneti dan dolaska Njegovog? I ko će se održati kad se pokaže? Jer je On kao oganj livčev i kao milo beljarsko.

3 I sešće kao Onaj koji lije i čisti srebro, očistiće sinove Levijeve, i pretopiće ih kao zlato i srebro, i oni će prinositi Gospodu prinose u pravdi.

4 I ugodan će biti Gospodu prinos Judin i jerusalimski kao u staro vreme i kao pređašnjih godina.

5 I doći ću k vama na sud, i biću brz svedok protiv vračara i protiv preljubočinaca i protiv onih koji se kunu krivo i protiv onih koji zakidaju najam najamniku, i udovici i siroti i došljaku krivo čine i ne boje se mene, veli Gospod nad vojskama.

6 Jer ja Gospod ne menjam se; zato vi, sinovi Jakovljevi, ne izgiboste.

7 Od vremena otaca svojih odstupiste od uredbi mojih i ne držaste ih. Vratite se k meni, i ja ću se vratiti k vama, veli Gospod nad vojskama. Ali velite: U čem bismo se vratili?

8 Eda li će čovek zakidati Boga? A vi mene zakidate; i govorite: U čem Te zakidamo? U desetku i u prinosu.

9 Prokleti ste, jer me zakidate, vi, sav narod.

10 Donesite sve desetke u spreme da bude hrane u mojoj kući, i okušajte me u tom, veli Gospod nad vojskama, hoću li vam otvoriti ustave nebeske i izliti blagoslov na vas da vam bude dosta.

11 I zapretiću vas radi proždrljivcu, te vam neće kvariti roda zemaljskog, i vinova loza u polju neće vam biti nerodna, veli Gospod nad vojskama.

12 I zvaće vas blaženim svi narodi, jer ćete biti zemlja mila, veli Gospod nad vojskama.

13 Žestoke behu vaše reči na me, veli Gospod; a vi velite: Šta govorismo na Tebe?

14 Rekoste: Zaludu je služiti Bogu, i kakva će biti korist da držimo šta je naredio da se drži, i da hodimo žalosni pred Gospodom nad vojskama?

15 Zato hvalimo ponosite da su srećni; napreduju koji čine bezakonje, i koji iskušavaju Boga, izbavljaju se.

16 Tada koji se boje Gospoda govoriše jedan drugom, i pogleda Gospod, i ču, i napisa se knjiga za spomen pred Njim za one koji se boje Gospoda i misle o imenu Njegovom.

17 Ti će mi biti blago, veli Gospod nad vojskama, u onaj dan kad ja učinim, i biću im milostiv kao što je otac milostiv svom sinu koji mu služi.

18 Tada ćete se obratiti i videćete razliku između pravednika i bezbožnika, između onog koji služi Bogu i onog koji Mu ne služi.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 285

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285. We are told they "will reign upon the earth" because the earth here and elsewhere means the Lord's church in heaven and on earth. The church in both worlds is the Lord's kingdom. Therefore, lest anyone suppose that people who are redeemed by the Lord all become kings and priests who will reign upon the earth, it is important that we demonstrate from the Word that the earth or land symbolizes the church. This can be seen from the following passages:

Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes (the earth) waste, and will overturn its surface... The land shall be entirely emptied... The (habitable) earth will mourn and... be turned upside down... The earth will be profaned under its inhabitants... Therefore a curse shall devour the earth... and... the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men will be left... ...in the midst of the land... it shall be like the stripping of an olive tree... ...the cataracts on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth are shaken. The earth is violently broken, the earth is utterly split open, the earth is shaken exceedingly. The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard... (Isaiah 24:1-23.)

[2] The lion has come up from his thicket... to make your land desolate... I beheld the earth (when) lo, it was empty and void... ...Jehovah has said, "The whole land shall be desolate... For this shall the earth mourn... (Jeremiah 4:7, 23-28)

How long will the land mourn...? The whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart. (Jeremiah 12:4, 11-13)

The earth mourns and languishes, Lebanon is shamed and withered away. (Isaiah 33:9)

Its land shall become burning pitch...(and) it shall lie waste. (Isaiah 34:9-10)

...I have heard from the Lord... a destruction decreed upon the whole earth. (Isaiah 28:22)

Behold, the day of Jehovah comes... to lay the land desolate..., and the earth will be shaken out of its place... (Isaiah 13:9-13)

The earth shook and trembled, and the foundations of the mountains quaked... (Psalms 18:7)

...we will not fear when the earth is transformed... When He uttered His voice, the earth melted. (Psalms 46:2-3, 6, 8)

Have you not understood the foundations of the earth? (Isaiah 40:21)

O God, You have forsaken us... You have made the earth tremble...; heal its breaches, for it is shaken. (Psalms 60:1-2)

[3] The earth and all its inhabitants will melt away; I will firm up its pillars. (Psalms 75:3)

Woe to a land overshadowed by wings... Go, ...messengers, to... a nation... trodden down, whose land rivers have despoiled. (Isaiah 18:1-2)

By the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts the land is darkened... (Isaiah 9:19)

...you will be a delightful land... (Malachi 3:12)

...I have given You as a covenant of the people to restore the earth... Sing, O heavens! And exult, O earth! (Isaiah 49:8, 13)

I shall not see Yah... in the land of the living. (Isaiah 38:11)

...who caused terror in the land of the living. (Ezekiel 32:23-27)

I would not have believed I would see the goodness... in the land of life. (Psalms 27:13)

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5)

I am Jehovah, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens alone, who spreads out the earth by Myself. (Isaiah 44,24, cf. Zechariah 12:1, Jeremiah 10:11-13; 51:15, Psalm. 136:6)

Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation... ...thus said Jehovah, who created the heavens..., who formed the earth... (Isaiah 45:8, 12, 18-19)

...behold, I create new heavens and a new earth... (Isaiah 65:17, cf. 66:22)

And in many other places as well, which, if I were to cite them, would fill a page.

[4] The earth or land symbolizes the church for the reason that it very often means the land of Canaan, which is where the church was. That is the heavenly Canaan. Moreover, when the earth or land is mentioned, angels, being spiritual, do not think of the earth or land, but of the human race dwelling upon it and its spiritual state; and its spiritual state is the state of the church.

The earth or land also has an opposite meaning, and in that sense it symbolizes damnation, since when the church is not present in a person, damnation is. The earth or land is mentioned in that sense in Isaiah 14:12; 21:9; 26:19, 21; 29:4; 47:1; 63:6, Lamentations 2:2, 10, Ezekiel 26:20; 32:24, Numbers 16:29-33; 26:10, and elsewhere.

  
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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.