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Ezekiel 29

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1 Nang ikasangpung taon, nang ikasangpung buwan, nang ikalabing dalawang araw ng buwan, ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating sa akin, na nagsasabi,

2 Anak ng tao, ititig mo ang iyong mukha laban kay Faraon na hari sa Egipto, at manghula ka laban sa kaniya, at laban sa buong Egipto;

3 Iyong salitain, at iyong sabihin, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Narito, ako'y lalaban sa iyo, Faraong hari sa Egipto, na malaking buwaya na nahihiga sa gitna ng kaniyang mga ilog, na nagsabi: Ang ilog ko ay aking sarili, at aking ginawa sa ganang aking sarili.

4 At kakawitan kita ng mga pangbingwit sa iyong mga panga, at aking padidikitin ang isda ng iyong mga ilog sa iyong mga kaliskis; at isasampa kita mula sa gitna ng iyong mga ilog, na kasama ng lahat na isda ng iyong mga ilog na magsisidikit sa iyong mga kaliskis.

5 At ikaw ay aking iiwan tapon sa ilang, ikaw at ang lahat na isda ng iyong mga ilog: ikaw ay mabubuwal sa luwal na parang; ikaw ay hindi pipisanin, o pupulutin man; aking ibinigay kang pagkain sa mga hayop sa lupa, at sa mga ibon sa himpapawid.

6 At lahat ng nananahan sa Egipto ay makakaalam na ako ang Panginoon, sapagka't sila'y naging tukod na tambo sa sangbahayan ni Israel.

7 Nang kanilang pigilan ka sa iyong kamay, iyong binali, at iyong nilabnot ang kanilang mga balikat; at nang sila'y sumandal sa iyo, iyong binalian, at iyong pinapanghina ang kanilang mga balakang.

8 Kaya't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Narito, pagdadalhan kita ng tabak sa iyo, at aking ihihiwalay sa iyo ang tao at hayop.

9 At ang lupain ng Egipto ay magiging giba at sira; at kanilang malalaman na ako ang Panginoon. Sapagka't kaniyang sinabi, Ang ilog ay akin, at aking ginawa;

10 Kaya't, narito, ako'y laban sa iyo, at laban sa iyong mga ilog, at aking lubos na gigibain at sisirain ang lupain ng Egipto, mula sa moog ng Seveneh hanggang sa hangganan ng Etiopia.

11 Walang paa ng tao na daraan doon, o paa man ng hayop ay daraan doon, o tatahanan man siyang apat na pung taon.

12 At aking gagawing sira ang lupain ng Egipto sa gitna ng mga lupain na sira; at ang kaniyang mga bayan sa gitna ng mga bayang giba ay magiging sira na apat na pung taon; at aking pangangalatin ang mga taga Egipto sa gitna ng mga bansa, at aking pananabugin sila sa mga lupain.

13 Sapagka't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Sa katapusan ng apat na pung taon ay aking pipisanin ang mga taga Egipto, mula sa mga bayan na kanilang pinangalatan;

14 At aking ibabalik uli ang mga bihag sa Egipto, at aking pababalikin sila sa lupain ng Patros, na lupain na kinapanganakan sa kanila; at sila'y magiging doo'y isang mababang kaharian.

15 Siyang magiging pinakamababa sa mga kaharian; at hindi na matataas pa man ng higit kay sa mga bansa: at aking babawasan sila, upang huwag na silang magpuno sa mga bansa.

16 At hindi na magiging pagasa pa ng sangbahayan ni Israel, na nagpapaalaala ng kasamaan, pagka kanilang lilingunin sila: at kanilang malalaman na ako ang Panginoong Dios.

17 At nangyari, nang ikadalawang pu't pitong taon, nang unang buwan, nang unang araw ng buwan, ang salita ng Panginoon ay dumating sa akin, na nagsasabi:

18 Anak ng tao, pinapaglilingkod ng mabigat ni Nabucodonosor na hari sa Babilonia ang kaniyang kawal laban sa Tiro: lahat ng ulo ay nakalbo, at lahat ng balikat ay nalabnot; gayon ma'y wala siyang kaupahan, o ang kaniyang hukbo man, mula sa Tiro, sa paglilingkod na kaniyang ipinaglingkod laban doon.

19 Kaya't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Narito, aking ibibigay ang lupain ng Egipto kay Nabucodonosor na hari sa Babilonia; at dadalhin niya ang kaniyang karamihan, at kukunin ang samsam sa kaniya, at kukunin ang huli sa kaniya; at magiging kaupahan para sa kaniyang hukbo.

20 Ibinigay ko sa kaniya ang lupain ng Egipto na pinakaganti sa kaniya dahil sa kaniyang ipinaglingkod, sapagka't sila'y nagsipagpagal ng dahil sa akin, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

21 Sa araw na yao'y aking palilitawin ang isang sungay upang tumulong sa sangbahayan ni Israel, at aking papangyayarihin ang iyong salita sa gitna nila: at kanilang malalaman na ako ang Panginoon.

   

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730. 'Forty days and nights' means the duration of temptation. This is quite clear from the Word of the Lord. The reason 'forty' means the duration of temptation is the fact that the Lord allowed Himself to be tempted for forty days, as is clear in Matthew 4:1-2; Luke 4:2; Mark 1:13. And because every single requirement in the Jewish Church and in all other representative Churches before the Lord's Coming was merely a type and shadow of Him, so too were forty days and nights. In general they represented and meant all temptation, and in particular however long its duration. And since anyone undergoing temptation experiences vastation of all things that belong to the proprium and of things that are bodily - for things of the proprium and those that are bodily have to die, doing so indeed through conflict and temptation, before he is reborn a new man, that is, before he becomes spiritual and celestial - 'forty days and nights' therefore also means the duration of vastation. The same applies here where the subject is both the temptation of the member of the new Church called Noah and also the destruction of those who lived before the Flood.

[2] That 'forty' means not only the duration of temptation but also of vastation, whether long or short, is clear in Ezekiel,

You shall lie on your right side and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, a day for each year I assign you. Ezekiel 4:6.

This stands for the duration of the vastation of the Jewish Church and also for a representation of the Lord's temptation, for it is said that he was 'to bear the iniquity of the house of Judah'. In the same prophet,

I will make the land of Egypt waste places, an utter desolation. The foot of man will not pass through it, and the foot of beast will not pass through it, and it will be uninhabited for forty years. And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands, and her cities in the midst of devastated cities will be a lonely place for forty years. Ezekiel 29:10-11.

This too stands for the duration of vastation and desolation. Here the meaning in the internal sense is not forty years but solely the desolation of faith in general, whether within a short or a long period of time. In John,

The court outside the Temple, leave that out and do not measure it, for it has been given over to the nations 1 who will trample over the holy city for forty-two months. Revelation 11:2.

[3] And in the same author,

The beast was given a mouth uttering great things and blasphemies, and it was given power to act for forty-two months. Revelation 13:5.

This stands for the duration of vastation, for a period of forty-two months is not meant at all, as anyone may see. In these quotations the number is in fact forty-two, but this has the same meaning as forty. It is obtained from 'seven days' meaning the finish of vastation and a new beginning, and from 'six' meaning labour because of the six days of labour or conflict. Consequently seven multiplied by six, which produces the number 'forty-two', means the duration of vastation and the duration of temptation, that is, the labour and conflict of someone who is to be regenerated, which period of time involves holiness. The round number forty however has been adopted instead of the less round number forty-two, as is clear in these quotations from the Book of Revelation.

[4] The people of Israel's being led about in the wilderness for forty years before being brought into the land of Canaan in a similar way represented and meant the duration of temptation, and also the duration of vastation - the duration of temptation by the fact that they were subsequently brought into the Holy Land, and the duration of vastation by the fact that, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, all who were more than twenty years old when they left Egypt died in the wilderness. And temptations are also meant by the things they grumbled about so often, and vastations by the plagues and destruction they suffered so often. The fact that temptations and vastations are meant will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown in their proper places. They are referred to in Moses as follows,

You shall remember all the way that Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness to afflict you, to tempt you, to know what is in your heart, whether you will keep His commandments or not. Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 16.

Moses' forty days and forty nights on Mount Sinai similarly mean the duration of temptation - that is, the temptation of the Lord - as is clear in Moses,

He was on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights, eating no bread, drinking no water, pleading for the people not to be destroyed. Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 18, Deuteronomy 9:25-end; Deuteronomy 10:10.

[See also]Numbers 14:33-35; 32:8-14

[5] The reason 'forty days' means the duration of temptation is, as has been stated, that the Lord allowed Himself to be tempted by the devil for forty days. Consequently in the days when all things were representatives of the Lord, whenever the idea of temptation existed with angels, that idea was represented in the world of spirits by such things as exist in the world - as happens with all angelic ideas when they come down into the world of spirits and manifest themselves there in a representative fashion. The same accordingly applies to the number forty, for the Lord was to be tempted for forty days. With the Lord, and consequently in the angelic heaven, the future and the present are one and the same, for what is future is already present, or what is to take place has taken place. This is the origin of the representation of temptations and also of vastations by forty in the representative Church. But these matters cannot as yet be understood satisfactorily because people do not know about the influx of the angelic heaven into the world of spirits or the nature of it.

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