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Hesekiel 7

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1 Och HERRENS ord kom till mig; han sade:

2 Du människobarn, så säger Herren, HERREN till Israels land: Änden! Ja, änden kommer över landets fyra hörn.

3 Nu kommer änden över dig, ty jag skall sända min vrede mot dig och döma dig efter dina gärningar och låta alla dina styggelser komma över dig.

4 Jag skall icke visa dig någon skonsamhet och icke hava någon misskund; nej, jag skall låta dina gärningar komma över dig, och dina styggelser skola vila på dig. Och I skolen förnimma att jag är HERREN.

5 säger Herren, HERREN: Se, en olycka kommer, en olycka ensam i sitt slag!

6 En ände kommer, ja, änden kommer, den vaknar upp och kommer över dig.

7 Ja se, det kommer! Nu kommer ordningen till dig, du folk som bor här i landet; din stund kommer, förvirringens dag är nära, då intet skördeskri mer skall höras på bergen.

8 Nu skall jag snart utgjuta min förtörnelse över dig och uttömma min vrede på dig, och döma dig efter dina gärningar och låta alla dina styggelser komma över dig.

9 Jag skall icke visa någon skonsamhet och icke hava någon misskund, jag skall giva dig efter dina gärningar, och dina styggelser skola vila på dig. Och I skolen förnimma att jag, HERREN, är den som slår.

10 Se, dagen är inne; se, det kommer! Ordningen går sin gång, riset blomstrar upp, övermodet grönskar;

11 våldet reser sig till ett ris för ogudaktigheten. Då bliver intet kvar av dem, intet av hela deras hop, intet av deras gods, och till intet bliver deras härlighet.

12 Stunden kommer, dagen nalkas; köparen må icke glädja sig, och säljaren må icke sörja, ty vredesglöd kommer över hela hopen därinne.

13 Säljaren skall icke få tillbaka vad han har sålt, om han ens får förbliva vid liv. Ty profetian om hela hopen därinne skall icke ryggas och ingen som lever i missgärning skall kunna hålla stånd.

14 Man stöter i basun och rustar allt i ordning, men ingen drager ut till strid; ty min vredesglöd går fram över hela hopen därinne.

15 Ute härjar svärdet och därinne pest och hungersnöd, den som är ute på marken dör genom svärdet, och den som är i staden, honom förtär hungersnöd och pest.

16 Och om några av dem bliva räddade, så skola de söka sin tillflykt i bergen och vara lika klyftornas duvor, som allasammans klaga. Så skall det gå var och en genom hans missgärning.

17 Alla händer skola sjunka ned, och alla knän skola bliva såsom vatten.

18 Människorna skola kläda sig i sorgdräkt, och förfäran skall övertäcka dem, alla ansikten skola höljas av skam, och alla huvuden skola bliva skalliga.

19 Man skall kasta sitt silver ut på gatorna och akta sitt guld såsom orenlighet. Deras silver och guld skall icke kunna rädda dem på HERRENS vredes dag, de skola icke kunna mätta sig därmed eller därmed fylla sin buk; ty det har varit för dem en stötesten till missgärning.

20 Dess sköna glans brukade man till högfärd, ja, de gjorde därav sina styggeliga bilder, sina skändliga avgudar. Därför skall jag göra det till orenlighet för dem.

21 Jag skall giva det såsom byte i främlingars hand och såsom rov åt de ogudaktigaste på jorden, för att de må ohelga det.

22 Och jag skall vända bort mitt ansikte ifrån dem, så att man får ohelga min klenod; våldsmän skola få draga därin och ohelga den.

23 Gör kedjorna redo; ty landet är fullt av blodsdomar, och staden är full av orätt.

24 Och jag skall låta de värsta hednafolk komma och taga deras hus i besittning. Så skall jag göra slut på de fräckas övermod, och deras helgedomar skola varda oskärade.

25 Förskräckelse skall komma, och när de söka räddning, skall ingen vara att finna.

26 Den ena olyckan skall komma efter den andra, det ena sorgebudet skall följa det andra. Man skall få tigga profeterna om syner, prästerna skola komma till korta med sin undervisning och de äldste med sina råd.

27 Konungen skall sörja, hövdingarna skola kläda sig i förskräckelse, och folket i landet skall stå där med darrande händer. Jag skall göra med den efter deras gärningar och skipa rätt åt dem såsom rätt är åt dem; och de skola förnimma att jag är HERREN.

   

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52. 6. Jehovah himself - that is, the Lord - spoke the Word through prophets.

We read of the prophets that they had visions and that Jehovah talked with them. When they had visions, they were not focused on their bodies but on the spirit, in which state they saw things of a heavenly nature. When Jehovah talked with them, though, they were conscious of their bodies and heard Jehovah speaking.

We need to draw a clear distinction between these two states. In a visionary state, the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body were closed; and at such times they seemed to themselves to be taken from place to place while their bodies stayed where they were. Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel were in this state at times, and so was John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. They were then said to be in a vision or in the spirit. In fact, Ezekiel says,

The spirit lifted me up and brought me back into Chaldea, to the captivity, in a vision from God, in the spirit of God. In this way the vision that I saw came over me. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard an earthquake and other things behind him (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). He also said that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven and took him off into Jerusalem in visions from God, and he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3 and following).

That is why (again in a vision of God or in the spirit) Ezekiel saw the four beasts that were angel guardians (chapters 1; 10), and he saw a new earth and a new temple with the angel measuring them, as we are told in chapters 40-48. He says in chapter 40:2, that he was then in visions from God; and in chapter 43:5, he says that the spirit lifted him up at that time.

The same thing happened with Zechariah. There was an angel inwardly present with him when he saw a man riding among myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following); when he saw four horns and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1 and following); when he saw a lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following); when he saw a flying scroll and a measuring basket (Zechariah 5:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, along with horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw four beasts come up from the sea (Daniel 7:3) and when he saw battles between a ram and a goat (Daniel 8:1 and following).

We read in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8 that he saw these things in visions. We read in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision and talked with him.

Much the same happened with John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. He says that he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day (Revelation 1:10), that he was carried away in the spirit into the wilderness (17:3), to a high mountain in the spirit (21:10), that he saw horses in a vision (9:17), and elsewhere that he saw what he described, being therefore in the spirit or in a vision (1:2; 4:1; 5:1; 6:1; and in the particular chapters that follow).

  
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Ezekiel 48

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1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.

2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.

3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.

4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.

5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.

6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.

7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.

8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.

10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.

11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.

13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.

15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

16 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.

18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.

19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.

21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.

22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.

24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.

25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.

26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.

27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.

28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.

29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.

30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.

33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.

35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.