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Amós 8

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1 El SEÑOR me enseñó así: Y he aquí un canastillo de fruta de verano.

2 Y dijo: ¿Qué ves, Amós? Y dije: Un canastillo de fruta de verano. Y el SEÑOR me dijo: Ha venido el fin sobre mi pueblo Israel; nunca más le pasaré.

3 Y los cantores del templo aullarán en aquel día, dijo el Señor DIOS; los cuerpos muertos serán aumentados en todo lugar echados en silencio.

4 Oíd esto, los que tragáis a los menesterosos, y taláis a los pobres de la tierra,

5 diciendo: Cuando pasare el mes, venderemos el trigo; y pasada la semana abriremos los alfolíes del pan, y achicaremos la medida, y engrandeceremos el precio, y falsearemos el peso engañoso;

6 y compraremos los pobres por dinero, y los necesitados por un par de zapatos, y venderemos los desechos del trigo.

7 El SEÑOR juró por la gloria de Jacob: No me olvidaré para siempre de todas sus obras.

8 ¿No se ha de estremecer la tierra sobre esto? ¿Y todo habitador de ella no llorará? Y subirá toda como un río, y será arrojada, y será hundida como el río de Egipto.

9 Y acaecerá en aquel día, dijo el Señor DIOS, que haré que se ponga el sol al mediodía, y la tierra cubriré de tinieblas en el día claro.

10 Y tornaré vuestras fiestas en lloro, y todos vuestros cantares en endechas; y haré poner cilicio sobre todo lomo, y peladura sobre toda cabeza; y la tornaré como en llanto de unigénito, y su postrimería como día amargo.

11 He aquí vienen días, dijo el Señor DIOS, en los cuales enviaré hambre a la tierra, no hambre de pan, ni sed de agua, sino de oír la palabra del SEÑOR.

12 E irán errantes de mar a mar; desde el norte hasta el oriente discurrirán buscando palabra del SEÑOR, y no la hallarán.

13 En aquel tiempo las doncellas hermosas y los jóvenes desmayarán de sed.

14 Los que juran por el pecado de Samaria, y dicen: Vive tu Dios de Dan; y: Vive el camino de Beerseba, caerán, y nunca más se levantarán.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 476

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476. That there should be no more time. This symbolically means that there will be no church or any state of the church unless people acknowledge one God, and that the Lord is that God.

Time symbolizes state, and because the church is the subject here, it symbolizes a state of the church. Consequently, that there should be no more time means, symbolically, that there should be no state of the church.

It follows also that it means there would be no church unless people acknowledge one God, and that the Lord is that God. But what is the case today? No one denies that there is one God, but people do deny that the Lord is that God. And yet there cannot be one God in whom there is at the same time a Trinity unless that God is the Lord. No one denies that the church originates from Him who is the Savior and Redeemer, but people do deny that they should turn to Him directly as their Savior and Redeemer.

It is apparent from this that the church will die unless a new one arises, one that acknowledges the Lord alone as God of heaven and earth and accordingly turns to Him directly (see Matthew 28:18 1 ). Consequently the statement here that there should be no more time, that is to say, no church, is related to what is said in verse 7 of this chapter, 2 and verse 7 in turn is related to what is said in chapter 11:15, 3 where we are told that there would be a church which would be the Lord's alone.

[2] Time symbolizes state because in the spiritual world time is not measured by days, weeks, months and years, but instead by states which are progressions of the inhabitants' lives, by which they recall the past. (On which subject, see the book Heaven and Hell, published in London in 1758, nos. 162-169, where we dealt with time in heaven.)

The state of the church is meant here by time because although day and night, morning and evening, summer and winter mark periods of time in the world, when interpreted in the spiritual sense they mark states of the church. Consequently, when these states come to an end, there is no church; and that is the case when there is no longer any good and truth, thus when the light of truth has become dark, and the warmth of goodness cold. That is what is meant by the statement that there should be no more time.

The following passages in the Word have similar meanings:

(The fourth beast) shall think to change times... (Daniel 7:25)

There shall be one day which is known to Jehovah - neither day nor night (and so not a period of time). (Zechariah 14:7)

...I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight (and so not in a period of time). (Amos 8:9)

...a single evil, behold, it has come! An end has come, the end has come... The morning has come upon you, who dwell in the land; the time has come... (Ezekiel 7:5-7)

The morning is the commencement of the New Church (no. 151), which is why it says, "The time has come."

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."

2. ."..in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, as He declared to His servants the prophets."

3. "Then the seventh angel sounded: and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!'"

  
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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.