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1 Evo ide dan Gospodnji, i plen će se tvoj razdeliti usred tebe.

2 Jer ću skupiti sve narode na Jerusalim u boj, i grad će se uzeti, i kuće opleniti i žene osramotiti i polovina će grada otići u ropstvo, a ostali narod neće se istrebiti iz grada.

3 Jer će Gospod izaći, i vojevaće na narode kao što vojuje na dan kad je boj.

4 I noge će Njegove stati u taj dan na gori Maslinskoj koja je prema Jerusalimu s istoka, i gora će se Maslinska raspasti po sredi na istok i na zapad da će biti prodol vrlo velika, i polovina će gore ustupiti na sever a polovina na jug.

5 I bežaćete u prodol gorsku, jer će prodol gorska dopirati do Asala, i bežaćete kao što bežaste od trusa u vreme Ozije, cara Judinog; i doći će Gospod Bog moj, i svi će sveti biti s tobom.

6 I u taj dan neće biti videlo svetlo i mračno;

7 Nego će biti jedan dan, koji je poznat Gospodu, neće biti dan i noć, jer će i uveče biti svetlost.

8 I u taj će dan proteći iz Jerusalima voda živa, pola k istočnom moru a pola k zapadnom moru, i biće i leti i zimi.

9 I Gospod će biti car nad svom zemljom, u onaj dan biće Gospod jedan i ime Njegovo jedno.

10 I sva će se zemlja pretvoriti u ravnicu od Gavaje do Rimona s juga Jerusalimu, koji će se podignuti i naseliti na svom mestu od vrata Venijaminovih do mesta gde su prva vrata, do vrata na uglu, i od kule Ananeilove do teska carevog.

11 I oni će nastavati u njemu, i neće više biti prokletstva, i Jerusalim će stajati bez straha.

12 A ovo će biti zlo kojim će Gospod udariti sve narode koji bi vojevali na Jerusalim: telo će svakom posahnuti dok još stoji na nogu, i oči će svakom posahnuti u rupama svojim, i jezik će svakom posahnuti u ustima.

13 I u to će vreme biti velika smetnja među njima od Gospoda, i hvataće jedan drugog za ruku, i ruka će se jednog podignuti na ruku drugog.

14 A i Juda će vojevati na Jerusalim, i blago svih naroda unaokolo sabraće se, zlato i srebro i odelo vrlo mnogo.

15 I zlo kao to zlo snaći će konje, mazge, kamile i magarce i svu stoku koja bude u tom logoru.

16 I ko god ostane od svih naroda koji dođu na Jerusalim, svak će dolaziti od godine do godine da se pokloni caru Gospodu nad vojskama i da praznuje praznik senica.

17 I ako koje od plemena zemaljskih ne bi došlo u Jerusalim da se pokloni caru Gospodu nad vojskama, na njih neće biti dažda;

18 I ako se pleme misirsko ne bi podiglo i došlo, na koje ne daždi, biće isto zlo kojim će Gospod udariti narode koji ne bi dolazili da praznuju praznik senica.

19 Takav će biti greh Misircima i greh svim narodima koji ne bi dolazili da praznuju praznik senica.

20 U taj će dan biti na zvoncima konjskim: Svetinja Gospodu; i lonci će u domu Gospodnjem biti kao zdele pred oltarom;

21 I svi će lonci u Jerusalimu i u Judi biti svetinja Gospodu nad vojskama, i svi koji hoće da prinesu žrtvu dolazeći uzimaće ih i kuvati u njima; i u taj dan neće više biti Hananejca u domu Gospoda nad vojskama.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 663

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663. Saying: "Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty!" This symbolically means that everything in the world, in heaven and in the church was created and formed by the Lord out of Divine love by means of Divine wisdom.

The Lord's works symbolize everything created and formed by Him, which in general is everything in the world, everything in heaven, and everything in the church, which could not possibly be enumerated in particular. These works are called great and marvelous because greatness is predicated of love, and marvelousness of wisdom, as in no. 656 above. Moreover, the Lord is also called the Lord in the Word because of the Divine goodness of His Divine love, and God because of the Divine truth of His Divine wisdom.

The Lord is called almighty because He is, lives, and can do all things of Himself, and also directs all things from Himself, as may be seen in no. 31 above.

So it is that, in a universal sense, "Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty!" means symbolically that everything in the world, in heaven and in the church was created and formed by the Lord out of His Divine love by means of His Divine wisdom.

  
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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.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 586

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586. 13:7 It was granted it to make war with the saints and overcome them. This symbolically means that they attacked the Word's Divine truths and overturned them.

War symbolizes spiritual war, which is a war of falsity against truth, and of truth against falsity (no. 500). To make war, therefore, symbolically means to attack. Saints mean people who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord through the Word, and thus, abstractly from persons, Divine truths themselves (no. 173). Consequently, to overcome the saints means, symbolically, to cause truths not to prevail, thus to overturn them.

The following declaration in Daniel has a similar symbolic meaning, that the fourth beast to come up from the sea, which had a mouth speaking great words, "made war with the saints and prevailed" (Daniel 7:7-8, 21). To be shown that the male goat means faith divorced from charity, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding Faith, nos. 61-68.

The following has a similar meaning:

...a king shall arise, having fierce features, who understands intrigues... He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people... He shall even rise against the Prince of princes... He shall cause deceit to prosper under his hand. (Daniel 8:23-25)

The king is the male goat, as said in verse 21.

Very similar is symbolism found in the statement that "the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against (the two witnesses), overcome them, and kill them" (Revelation 11:7, and no. 500). They will overcome them because the laity do not see through the clergy's sophistries, which they call mysteries, for the clergy wrap them up in appearances and fallacious reasonings. That is why the people said, "Who is like the beast? Who can fight against it?" (verse 4, and nos. 579-581).

[2] That saints (or holy ones) mean people governed by truths from the Lord through the Word can be seen from the passages cited in no. 173 above, and also from the following:

(Jesus said, "Father,) sanctify them in Your truth. Your Word is truth... ...I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth... I in them, and You in Me. (John 17:17, 19, 23)

Jehovah came from Sinai..., He came from the ten thousands of the holy; from His right hand came a fiery law for them... All His saints are in Your hand...; each shall receive Your words. (Deuteronomy 33:2-3)

It is apparent from this that those people are called saints who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord through the Word. Moreover, those who live according to the commandments, that is, to the Word's truths, are called the saints or holy people of Jehovah (Leviticus 19:2, Deuteronomy 26:18-19). The Decalogue is the covenant they were to keep (see no. 529 above, and The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem60).

It was for this reason that the place in the Tabernacle where the Ark was, containing the Decalogue, was called the holy of holies or the most holy place (Exodus 26:33-34).

[3] Those people who live according to the Word's truths are called saints, not because they are holy, but because the truths in them are holy; and truths are holy when they come from the Lord in them, and they have the Lord in them when they have His truths in them (John 15:7).

Because of their truths from the Lord, angels are called holy (Matthew 25:31, Luke 9:26). So, too, are prophets, (Luke 1:70, Revelation 18:20; 22:6). And also apostles (Revelation 18:20).

It is because of this that the Temple is called a holy temple (Psalms 5:7; 65:4). That Zion is called a holy mountain (Isaiah 65:11, Jeremiah 31:23, Ezekiel 20:40, Psalms 2:6; 3:4; 15:1). That Jerusalem is called a holy city (Isaiah 48:2; 64:10, Revelation 21:2, 10, Matthew 27:53). That the church is called a holy people (Isaiah 62:12; 63:18, Psalms 149:1), and also a kingdom of saints (Daniel 7:18, 22, 27).

They are called saints because in an abstract sense angels symbolize Divine truths from the Lord; prophets symbolizes doctrinal truths; apostles symbolize the church's truths; and the Temple symbolizes heaven and the church in respect to Divine truth, as do also Zion, Jerusalem, the people, and the kingdom of God.

That no one is holy in himself, not even angels, may be seen in Job 15:14-16. But they are holy from the Lord, because the Lord alone is holy (Revelation 15:4, no.173).

  
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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.