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Jeremia 29

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1 Detta är vad som stod i det brev som profeten Jeremia sände från Jerusalem till de äldste som ännu levde kvar i fångenskapen, och till prästerna och profeterna och allt folket, dem som Nebukadnessar hade fört bort ifrån Jerusalem till Babel,

2 sedan konung Jekonja hade givit sig fången i Jerusalem, jämte konungamodern och hovmännen, Judas och Jerusalems furstar, så ock timmermännen och smederna.

3 Han sände brevet genom Eleasa, Safans son, och Gemarja, Hilkias son, när Sidkia, Juda konung, sände dessa till Babel, till Nebukadnessar, konungen i Babel; det lydde så:

4 säger HERREN Sebaot, Israels Gud, till alla de fångar som jag har låtit föra bort ifrån Jerusalem till Babel:

5 Byggen hus och bon i dem; planteren trädgårdar och äten deras frukt.

6 Tagen hustrur, och föden söner och döttrar; och tagen hustrur åt edra söner och given edra döttrar åt män, och må dessa föda söner och döttrar; och föröken eder där, och förminskens icke.

7 Och söken den stads bästa, dit jag har fört eder bort i fångenskap, och bedjen för den till HERREN; ty då det går den väl, så går det ock eder val.

8 Ty så säger HERREN Sebaot, Israels Gud: Låten icke bedraga eder av de profeter som äro bland eder, ej heller av edra spåman, och akten icke på de drömmar som I drömmen.

9 Ty man profeterar lögn för eder i mitt namn; jag har icke sänt dem, säger HERREN.

10 Ty så säger HERREN: Först när sjuttio år hava gått till ända i Babel, skall jag se till eder och uppfylla på eder mitt löftesord att föra eder tillbaka till denna plats.

11 Jag vet väl vilka tankar jag har för eder, säger HERREN, nämligen fridens tankar och icke ofärdens, till att giva eder en framtid och ett hopp.

12 Och I skolen åkalla mig och gå åstad och bedja till mig, och jag vill höra på eder.

13 I skolen söka mig, och I skolen ock finna mig, om I frågen efter mig av allt edert hjärta.

14 Ty jag vill låta mig finnas av eder, säger HERREN; och jag skall åter upprätta eder och skall församla eder från alla de folk och alla de arter till vilka jag har drivit eder bort, säger HERREN; och jag skall låta eder komma tillbaka till denna plats, varifrån jag har låtit föra eder bort i fångenskap.

15 Detta skriver jag, därför att I sägen: »HERREN har låtit profeter uppstå åt oss i Babel.»

16 Ty så säger HERREN om den konung som sitterDavids tron, och om allt det folk som bor i denna stad, edra bröder som icke hava med eder gått bort i fångenskap,

17 ja, så säger HERREN Sebaot: Se, jag skall sända mot dem svärd, hungersnöd och pest, och låta dem räknas lika med odugliga fikon, som äro så usla att man icke kan äta dem.

18 Ja, jag skall förfölja dem med svärd, hungersnöd och pest, och göra dem till en varnagel för alla rikenjorden, till ett exempel som man nämner, när man förbannar, till ett föremål för häpnad, begabberi och smälek bland alla de folk till vilka jag skall driva dem bort --

19 detta därför att de icke ville höra mina ord, säger HERREN, när jag titt och ofta sände till dem mina tjänare profeterna. Ty I villen ju icke höra, säger HERREN.

20 Men hören nu I HERRENS ord, alla I fångna som jag från Jerusalem har sänt bort till Babel:

21 säger HERREN Sebaot, Israels Gud, om Ahab, Kolajas son, och om Sidkia, Maasejas son, som i mitt namn profetera lögn för eder: Se, jag skall giva dem i Nebukadressars, den babyloniske konungens, hand, och han skall låta dräpa dem inför edra ögon.

22 Och alla fångar ifrån Juda, som äro i Babel, skola från dem hämta ett förbannelsens ord; de skola »HERREN göre med dig såsom med Sidkia och Ahab, vilka Babels konung lät steka i eld

23 De hava ju gjort vad som är ens galenskap i Israel, de hava begått äktenskapsbrott med varandras hustrur och hava fört lögnaktigt tal i mitt namn, sådant som jag icke hade bjudit dem. Jag är den som vet det och betygar det, säger HERREN.

24 Och till nehelamiten Semaja skall du säga sålunda:

25 säger HERREN Sebaot, Israels Gud: Du har i ditt namn sänt brev till allt folket i Jerusalem och till prästen Sefanja, Maasejas son, och till alla de andra prästerna, så lydande:

26 »HERREN har satt dig till präst i prästen Jojadas ställe, för att i HERRENS hus skall finnas tillsyningsmän över alla vanvettingar som profetera, så att du kan sätta sådana i stock och halsjärn.

27 Varför har du då icke näpst Jeremia från Anatot, som profeterar för eder?

28 Därigenom att du har underlåtit detta har han kunnat sända bud till oss i Babel och låta säga: 'Ännu är lång tid kvar, byggen eder hus och bon i dem, och planteren trädgårdar och äten deras frukt.'»

29 Och prästen Sefanja har läst upp detta brev för profeten Jeremia.

30 Och nu har HERRENS ord kommit till Jeremia, han har sagt:

31 Sänd bud till alla de fångna och låt säga dem: Så säger HERREN om nehelamiten Semaja: Eftersom Semaja, utan att vara sänd av mig, har profeterat för eder och förlett eder att sätta eder lit till lögn,

32 därför säger HERREN så: Se, jag skall hemsöka nehelamiten Semaja och hans avkomlingar. Ingen av dem skall få bo ibland detta folk, och han skall icke få Se det goda som jag vill göra med mitt folk, säger HERREN. Ty han har predikat avfall från HERREN.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6588

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6588. 'And God will certainly visit you' means that the final period is about to come. This is clear from the meaning of 'being visited' as the final period, here that of the oppression of the children of Israel in Egypt, which in the internal sense is the final period of the old Church and the first of the new. In the Word this final period is called 'visitation', and this is used in reference both to the Church collectively and to those within the Church individually. It is used in reference to a new Church that is being born and an old one that is breathing its last, and to the individual member of the Church who is being saved, as well as to one who is damned.

[2] The fact that these things are meant in the Word by 'visitation' and 'the day of visitation' may be seen from the following places: In Luke,

Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and brought deliverance to His people, through the heart 1 of mercy of our God, by which the risen sun from on high has visited us, to appear to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death. Luke 1:68, 78-79.

In this prophecy of Zechariah regarding the Lord, telling what would happen after He had been born, 'being visited' stands for the raising up from death of a new Church and the enlightenment at that time of those who had no knowledge of the truth and good of faith, thus the deliverance of them. It is for this reason that the words 'He has visited and brought deliverance to His people, . . . has visited [us], to appear to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death' are used.

[3] In Moses,

Jehovah said to Moses, Gather the elders of Israel and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will certainly visit you and what has been done to you in Egypt. Exodus 3:16.

And in the same author,

The people believed and heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel. Exodus 4:31.

'Being visited' here stands for the final period when the Church has gone out of existence and for the first period when it comes into existence - for the final period among the Egyptians, and for the first among the children of Israel, and so for the deliverance of them too.

[4] In Jeremiah,

They will be carried away to Babel, and there they will be until the day [ visit them. Then I will cause the vessels of the house of God to come up, and I will bring them back to this place. Jeremiah 27:22.

In the same prophet,

When seventy years have been completed at Babel I will visit you and fulfill My promise 2 to you and bring you back to this place. Jeremiah 29:10.

'Visiting' stands for delivering, in general for the final period of captivity and desolation.

[5] 'Visitation' and 'the day of visitation' stand for the final period of the Church in Isaiah,

What will you do on the day of visitation and devastation? It will come from afar. To whom will you flee for help? Isaiah 10:3.

In the same prophet,

Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel, and one of indignation and wrath and anger, to make the earth a waste. I will visit the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. Isaiah 13:9, 11.

In Jeremiah,

They will fall among those who fall, and in the time of their visitation they will stumble. Jeremiah 8:12.

In Hosea,

The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come. Hosea 9:7.

In Moses,

Jehovah said to Moses, All the same, go, lead this people to [the place] of which I have spoken to you; behold, My angel will go before you. But on the day of My visiting, I will visit them for their sin. Exodus 32:34.

In Luke,

Jesus said regarding Jerusalem, They will not leave in you stone upon stone, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation. Luke 19:44.

'The day of visitation' stands for the Lord's Coming, and enlightenment at that time. But in reference to the Jewish nation - seeing that it did not recognize His Coming - 'the day of visitation' stands for the final period of the representative acts of the Church among them. For once Jerusalem was destroyed sacrifices came to an end and that nation was scattered abroad.

[6] In Ezekiel,

A loud voice called out in my ears, saying, The visitations of the city have drawn near, and each man has his weapon of destruction in his hand. Ezekiel 9:1.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

The Rephaim will not rise. To that end You have visited them, You have wiped them out. Isaiah 16:14.

'The Rephaim' stands for descendants of the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood. They are also called the Nephilim and the Anakim, regarding whom see 567, 581, 1673. 'You have visited and wiped out the Rephaim' stands for the final period of that Church; it also stands for the casting of them into hell, regarding which see 1265-1272. 'Visitation' stands for retribution, thus for damnation, in Jeremiah,

Shall I not visit them on account of this? Or will not My soul be avenged on a nation which is like this? Jeremiah 5:9.

In the same prophet,

I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him, at the time I visit him. Jeremiah 49:8.

In Hosea,

I will visit upon him his ways, and requite his works. Hosea 4:9.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, viscera or bowels

2. literally, establish upon you My good word

  
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Genesis 50

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1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and Bury my father, and I will come again.'"

6 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

9 There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

12 His sons did to him just as he commanded them,

13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."

16 They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,

17 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

19 Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

21 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.

24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

25 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.