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Ezequiel 8

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1 Y aconteció en el sexto año, en el mes sexto, a los cinco del mes, que estaba yo sentado en mi casa, y los ancianos de Judá estaban sentados delante de mí, y allí cayó sobre mí la mano del Señor DIOS.

2 Y miré, y he aquí una semejanza que parecía de fuego; desde donde parecían sus lomos para abajo, era fuego; y desde sus lomos para arriba parecía como un resplandor, como la vista de ámbar.

3 Y aquella semejanza extendió la mano, y me tomó por las guedejas de mi cabeza; y el Espíritu me alzó entre el cielo y la tierra, y me llevó en visiones de Dios a Jerusalén, a la entrada de la puerta de adentro que mira hacia el aquilón, donde estaba la habitación de la imagen del celo, la que hacía celar.

4 Y he aquí, allí estaba la gloria del Dios de Israel, como la visión que yo había visto en el campo.

5 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, alza ahora tus ojos camino del aquilón. Y alcé mis ojos camino del aquilón, y he aquí al aquilón, junto a la puerta del altar, la imagen del celo en la entrada.

6 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, ¿no ves lo que éstos hacen, las grandes abominaciones que la Casa de Israel hace aquí, para alejarme de mi Santuario? Mas vuélvete aún, y verás abominaciones mayores.

7 Y me llevó a la entrada del atrio, y miré, y he aquí un agujero que estaba en la pared.

8 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, cava ahora en la pared. Y cavé en la pared, y he aquí una puerta.

9 Y me dijo: Entra, y ve las malvadas abominaciones que éstos hacen allí.

10 Y entré, y miré, y he aquí imágenes de todas serpientes, y animales; la abominación, y todos los ídolos de la Casa de Israel, que estaban pintados en la pared alrededor.

11 Y delante de ellos estaban setenta varones de los ancianos de la Casa de Israel, y Jaazanías hijo de Safán estaba en medio de ellos, cada uno con su incensario en su mano; y del sahumerio subía espesura de niebla.

12 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, ¿has visto las cosas que los ancianos de la Casa de Israel hacen en tinieblas, cada uno en sus cámaras pintadas? Porque dicen ellos : No nos ve el SEÑOR; el SEÑOR ha dejado la tierra.

13 Y me dijo: Vuélvete aún, verás abominaciones mayores que hacen éstos.

14 Y me llevó a la entrada de la puerta de la Casa del SEÑOR, que está al aquilón; y he aquí mujeres que estaban allí sentadas endechando a Tamuz.

15 Y me dijo: ¿No ves, hijo de hombre? Vuélvete aún, verás abominaciones mayores que éstas.

16 Y me metió en el atrio de adentro de la Casa del SEÑOR; y he aquí junto a la entrada del Templo del SEÑOR, entre la entrada y el altar, como veinticinco varones, sus espaldas vueltas al Templo del SEÑOR y sus rostros al oriente, y se encorvaban al nacimiento del sol.

17 Y me dijo: ¿No has visto, hijo de hombre? ¿Es cosa liviana para la Casa de Judá hacer las abominaciones que hacen aquí? Después que han llenado la tierra de maldad, y se tornaron a irritarme, he aquí que ponen hedor a mis narices.

18 Pues también yo haré en mi furor; no perdonará mi ojo, ni tendré misericordia; y gritarán a mis oídos con gran voz, y no los oiré.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 945

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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.). When he saw Joshua, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.). When he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.). When he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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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.