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1 Y CUANDO alguna persona ofreciere oblación de presente á Jehová, su ofrenda será flor de harina, sobre la cual echará aceite, y pondrá sobre ella incienso:

2 Y la traerá á los sacerdotes, hijos de Aarón; y de ello tomará el sacerdote su puño lleno de su flor de harina y de su aceite, con todo su incienso, y lo hará arder sobre el altar: ofrenda encendida para recuerdo, de olor suave á Jehová.

3 Y la sobra del presente será de Aarón y de sus hijos: es cosa santísima de las ofrendas que se queman á Jehová.

4 Y cuando ofrecieres ofrenda de presente cocida en horno, será de tortas de flor de harina sin levadura, amasadas con aceite, y hojaldres sin levadura untadas con aceite.

5 Mas si tu presente fuere ofrenda de sartén, será de flor de harina sin levadura, amasada con aceite,

6 La cual partirás en piezas, y echarás sobre ella aceite: es presente.

7 Y si tu presente fuere ofrenda cocida en cazuela, haráse de flor de harina con aceite.

8 Y traerás á Jehová la ofrenda que se hará de estas cosas, y la presentarás al sacerdote, el cual la llegará al altar.

9 Y tomará el sacerdote de aquel presente, en memoria del mismo, y harálo arder sobre el altar; ofrenda encendida, de suave olor á Jehová.

10 Y lo restante del presente será de Aarón y de sus hijos; es cosa santísima de las ofrendas que se queman á Jehová.

11 Ningun presente que ofreciereis á Jehová, será con levadura: porque de ninguna cosa leuda, ni de ninguna miel, se ha de quemar ofrenda á Jehová.

12 En la ofrenda de las primicias las ofreceréis á Jehová: mas no subirán sobre el altar en olor de suavidad.

13 Y sazonarás toda ofrenda de tu presente con sal; y no harás que falte jamás de tu presente la sal de la alianza de tu Dios: en toda ofrenda tuya ofrecerás sal.

14 Y si ofrecieres á Jehová presente de primicias, tostarás al fuego las espigas verdes, y el grano desmenuzado ofrecerás por ofrenda de tus primicias.

15 Y pondrás sobre ella aceite, y pondrás sobre ella incienso: es presente.

16 Y el sacerdote hará arder, en memoria del don, parte de su grano desmenuzado, y de su aceite con todo su incienso; es ofrenda encendida á Jehová.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 468

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468. And his feet like pillars of fire. This symbolizes the Lord's Divinity on the natural plane in respect to His Divine love, which sustains all things.

This, too, is apparent, from the explanation in no. 49 above, where it is said of the Son of Man that "His feet were like fine brass, as though fired in a furnace."

The angel's feet looked like pillars of fire because the Lord's Divinity on the natural plane - which fundamentally is the Divine humanity that He took on in the world - supports His Divinity from eternity, as the body does the soul, and likewise as the Word's natural meaning supports its spiritual and celestial meanings, on which subject see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 27-49. To be shown that feet symbolize something natural, see no. 49, and a pillar something that supports, no. 191.

Fire symbolizes love because spiritual fire is nothing else. Therefore it is customary in worship to pray that heavenly fire, that is to say, heavenly love, may kindle the worshipers' hearts. People know that there is a correspondence between fire and love from the fact that a person grows warm with love, and cold with its loss. Nothing else produces vital warmth but love, in both senses. The origin of these correspondences is owing to the existence of two suns, one in the heavens, which is pure love, and the other in the world, which is nothing but fire. This, too, is the reason for the correspondence between all spiritual and natural things.

[2] Since fire symbolizes Divine love, therefore on Mount Horeb Jehovah appeared to Moses in a bush on fire (Exodus 3:1-3). Moreover He descended upon Mount Sinai in fire (Deuteronomy 4:36). For this reason, too, the seven lamps of the lampstand in the Tabernacle were lit every evening, so as to burn before Jehovah (Leviticus 24:2-4). For the same reason fire burned continually on the altar and was not extinguished (Leviticus 6:13), and the priests took fire from the altar in their censers and burned incense (Leviticus 16:12-13).

Therefore Jehovah went before the children of Israel by night in a pillar of fire (Exodus 13:21-22). Fire from heaven consumed the burnt offerings on the altar, as a sign of His being well pleased (Leviticus 9:24, 1 Kings 18:38). The burnt offerings were called offerings by fire to Jehovah, and offerings by fire for a restful aroma to Jehovah (Exodus 29:18; Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17; 2:2, 9-11; 3:5, 16; 4:35; 5:12; 7:30; 21:6; Numbers 28:2; Deuteronomy 18:1).

Therefore in the book of Revelation the Lord's eyes looked like a flame of fire (Revelation 1:14; 2:18; 19:12, cf. Daniel 10:5-6). And seven lamps of fire burned before the throne (Revelation 4:5).

It is apparent from this what lamps containing oil and lamps without oil symbolize (Matthew 25:1-11). The oil means fire, and thus love.

And so on in many other places.

In an opposite sense fire symbolizes hellish love, and this is plain from so many passages in the Word that it would be impossible to cite them all because of their number. See something on the subject in the book Heaven and Hell, published in London, nos. 566-575.

  
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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.