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Jeremias 31

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1 Sa panahong yaon, sabi ng Panginoon, magiging Dios ako ng lahat na angkan ni Israel, at sila'y magiging aking bayan.

2 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Ang bayan na naiwan ng tabak ay nakasumpong ng biyaya sa ilang; oo, ang Israel, nang aking papagpahingahin.

3 Ang Panginoon ay napakita nang una sa akin, na nagsasabi, Oo, inibig kita ng walang hanggang pagibig: kaya't ako'y lumapit sa iyo na may kagandahang-loob.

4 Muling itatayo kita, at ikaw ay matatayo, Oh dalaga ng Israel: muli na ikaw ay magagayakan ng iyong mga pandereta, at lalabas ka sa mga sayawan nila na nasasayahan.

5 Muli kang magtatanim ng mga ubasan sa mga bundok ng Samaria: ang mga manananim ay mangagtatanim, at mangagagalak sa bunga niyaon.

6 Sapagka't magkakaroon ng araw, na ang mga bantay sa mga burol ng Ephraim ay magsisihiyaw. Kayo'y magsibangon, at tayo'y magsisampa sa Sion na pumaroon sa Panginoon nating Dios.

7 Sapagka't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Kayo'y magsiawit ng kasayahan dahil sa Jacob, at magsihiyaw kayo dahil sa puno ng mga bansa: mangagtanyag kayo, magsipuri kayo, at mangagsabi, Oh Panginoon, iligtas mo ang iyong bayan, ang nalabi sa Israel.

8 Narito, aking dadalhin sila mula sa lupaing hilagaan, at pipisanin ko sila mula sa mga kahulihulihang bahagi ng lupa, at kasama nila ang bulag at ang pilay, at ang buntis at ang nagdadamdam na magkakasama: malaking pulutong na magsisibalik sila rito.

9 Sila'y magsisiparitong may iyakan, at may mga pamanhik na aking papatnubayan sila; akin silang palalakarin sa tabi ng mga ilog ng tubig, sa matuwid na daan na hindi nila katitisuran; sapagka't ako'y pinakaama sa Israel, at ang Ephraim ang aking panganay.

10 Inyong dinggin ang salita ng Panginoon, Oh ninyong mga bansa, at inyong ipahayag sa mga pulo sa malayo; at inyong sabihin, Ang nagpangalat sa Israel, siyang magpipisan sa kaniya, at magiingat sa kaniya, gaya ng ginagawa ng pastor sa kaniyang kawan.

11 Sapagka't tinubos ng Panginoon ang Jacob, at tinubos niya siya sa kamay ng lalong malakas kay sa kaniya.

12 At sila'y magsisiparito at magsisiawit sa kaitaasan ng Sion, at magsisihugos na magkakasama sa kabutihan ng Panginoon, sa trigo, at sa alak, at sa langis, at sa guya ng kawan at ng bakahan: at ang kanilang kaluluwa ay magiging parang dinilig na halamanan; at hindi na sila mangamamanglaw pa sa anoman.

13 Kung magkagayo'y magagalak ang dalaga sa sayawan, at ang mga binata, at ang matanda na magkakasama: sapagka't aking gagawing kagalakan ang kanilang pagluluksa, at aking aaliwin sila at aking pagagalakin sila sa kanilang kapanglawan.

14 At aking sisiyahin ang loob ng mga saserdote sa kaginhawahan, at ang aking bayan ay masisiyahan sa aking kabutihan, sabi ng Panginoon.

15 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Isang tinig ay narinig sa Rama, panaghoy, at kalagimlagim na iyak, iniiyakan ni Raquel ang kaniyang mga anak; siya'y tumatangging maaliw dahil sa kaniyang mga anak, sapagka't sila'y wala na.

16 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Iyong pigilin ang iyong tinig sa pagiyak, at ang iyong mga mata sa mga luha: sapagka't gagantihin ang iyong mga gawa, sabi ng Panginoon; at sila'y magsisibalik na mula sa lupain ng kaaway.

17 At may pagasa sa iyong huling wakas, sabi ng Panginoon; at ang iyong mga anak ay magsisiparoon uli sa kanilang sariling hangganan.

18 Tunay na aking narinig ang Ephraim na nananaghoy sa kaniyang sarili ng ganito, Inyong pinarusahan ako, at ako'y naparusahan na parang guya na hindi hirati sa pamatok: papanumbalikin mo ako, at ako'y manunumbalik sa iyo; sapagka't ikaw ang Panginoon kong Dios.

19 Tunay na pagkapanumbalik ko sa iyo ay nagsisi ako; at pagkatapos na ako'y maturuan ay nagsugat ako ng hita: ako'y napahiya, oo, lito, sapagka't aking dinala ang kakutyaan ng aking kabataan.

20 Ang Ephraim baga'y aking minamahal na anak? siya baga'y iniibig na anak? sapagka't kung gaano kadalas nagsasalita ako laban sa kaniya, ay gayon ko inaalaala siya ng di kawasa: kaya't nananabik ang aking puso sa kaniya; ako'y tunay na maaawa sa kaniya, sabi ng Panginoon.

21 Maglagay ka ng mga patotoo, gumawa ka ng mga haliging tanda: ilagak mo ang iyong puso sa dakong lansangan, sa daan na iyong pinaroonan: ikaw ay magbalik uli, Oh dalaga ng Israel, ikaw ay bumalik uli rito sa mga bayang ito.

22 Hanggang kailan magpaparoo't parito ka, Oh ikaw na tumatalikod na anak na babae? sapagka't ang Panginoon ay lumikha ng bagong bagay sa lupa, Ang babae ay siyang mananaig sa lalake.

23 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon ng mga hukbo, ng Dios ng Israel, Kanilang gagamitin uli ang pananalitang ito sa lupain ng Juda at sa mga bayan niyaon, pagka aking dadalhin uli mula sa kanilang pagkabihag: Pagpalain ka ng Panginoon. Oh tahanan ng kaganapan, Oh bundok ng kabanalan.

24 At ang Juda at ang lahat na bayan niya ay tatahan doon na magkakasama; ang mga mangbubukid at ang mga lumilibot na may mga kawan.

25 Sapagka't aking bibigyang kasiyahan ang pagod na tao, at lahat na mapanglaw na tao ay aking pinasasaya.

26 Dito'y nagising ako, at ako'y lumingap; at ang aking pagkakatulog ay masarap.

27 Narito, ang mga araw ay dumarating, sabi ng Panginoon, na aking hahasikan ang sangbahayan ni Israel at ang sangbahayan ni Juda ng binhi ng tao at ng binhi ng hayop.

28 At mangyayari, na kung paanong binantayan ko sila upang alisin, at upang ibuwal, at upang madaig at upang ipahamak, at upang pagdalamhatiin, gayon babantayan ko sila upang itayo at upang itatag sabi ng Panginoon.

29 Sa mga araw na yaon ay hindi na sila mangagsasabi. Ang mga magulang ay nagsikain ng mga maasim na ubas, at ang mga ngipin ng mga bata ay nagsisipangilo.

30 Nguni't bawa't isa ay mamamatay ng dahil sa kaniyang sariling kasamaan: lahat na nagsisikain ng mga maasim na ubas ay magsisipangilo ang mga ngipin.

31 Narito, ang mga araw ay dumarating, sabi ng Panginoon, na ako'y makikipagtipan ng panibago sa sangbahayan ni Israel, at sa sangbahayan ni Juda:

32 Hindi ayon sa tipan na ipinakipagtipan ko sa kanilang mga magulang sa araw na aking kinuha sila sa pamamagitan ng kamay upang ilabas sila sa lupain ng Egipto; na ang aking tipan ay kanilang sinira, bagaman ako'y asawa nila, sabi ng Panginoon.

33 Kundi ito ang tipan na aking ipakikipagtipan sa sangbahayan ni Israel pagkatapos ng mga araw na yaon, sabi ng Panginoon, Aking itatala ang aking kautusan sa kanilang kalooban, at aking isusulat sa kanilang puso; at ako'y magiging kanilang Dios, at sila'y magiging aking bayan;

34 At hindi na magtuturo bawa't isa sa kanila sa kaniyang kapuwa, at bawa't tao sa kaniyang kapatid, na magsasabi, Iyong kilalanin ang Panginoon; sapagka't makikilala nilang lahat ako, mula sa kaliitliitan sa kanila hanggang sa kadakidakilaan sa kanila, sabi ng Panginoon: sapagka't aking ipatatawad ang kanilang kasamaan, at ang kanilang kasalanan ay hindi ko na aalalahanin.

35 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, na nagbibigay ng araw na sumisikat na pinakaliwanag sa araw, at ng mga ayos ng buwan at ng mga bituin na pinakaliwanag sa gabi, na nagpapakilos sa dagat, na humugong ang mga alon niyaon; ang Panginoon ng mga hukbo ay siyang kaniyang pangalan:

36 Kung ang mga ayos na ito ay humiwalay sa harap ko, sabi ng Panginoon, ang binhi nga ng Israel ay maglilikat sa pagkabansa sa harap ko magpakailan man.

37 Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, Kung ang langit sa itaas ay masusukat, at ang mga patibayan ng lupa ay masisiyasat sa ilalim, akin ngang ihahagis ang buong lahi ng Israel dahil sa lahat nilang nagawa, sabi ng Panginoon.

38 Narito, ang mga araw ay dumarating, sabi ng Panginoon, na ang bayan ay matatayo sa Panginoon mula sa moog ni Hananeel hanggang sa pintuang-bayan sa sulok.

39 At ang panukat na pisi ay magpapatuloy na matuwid sa burol ng Gareb, at pipihit hanggang sa Goa.

40 At ang buong libis ng mga katawang patay, at ng mga abo, at ang lahat na parang hanggang sa batis ng Cedron, hanggang sa sulok ng pintuang-bayan ng kabayo sa dakong silanganan, magiging banal sa Panginoon; hindi mabubunot o mahahagis ang sinoman magpakailan pa man.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 315

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315. "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius." This symbolically means, because the value these people placed on goodness and truth was so little as to be scarcely anything.

This is the symbolic meaning because a quart, which is a measure and its contents, symbolizes the character of a thing, as shown in no. 313 above. Wheat and barley symbolize goodness and truth, and a denarius, being a very small coin, symbolizes a value so little as to be scarcely anything.

Three quarts of barley are specified because the number three symbolizes all and is predicated of truths (no. 400).

Wheat and barley symbolizes goodness and truth, here the goodness and truth of the church acquired from the Word, because everything connected with a field or vineyard symbolizes something having to do with the church - a field symbolizing the church in respect to its goodness and consequent truth, and a vineyard symbolizing the church in respect to its truth and consequent goodness. Therefore, where these are mentioned in the Word, angels, who perceive everything spiritually, have no other understanding of them - as for example in Joel:

The field is wasted, the land mourns, because the grain is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails. Ashamed are the farmers, the vinedressers wail, over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. (Joel 1:10-12)

All of these things symbolize things having to do with the church.

[2] That wheat and barley symbolize the goodness and truth of the church can be seen from the following passages:

(John said of Jesus that He would) gather his wheat into the granary and burn the chaff with fire... (Matthew 3:11-12)

(Jesus said,) "Let (weed and wheat) grow together..., and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, 'First gather together the weeds... to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.'" (Matthew 23:24-30)

...I have heard from Jehovah God... a consummation and determination... Plant the measured wheat, and the appointed barley... (Thus) He instructs him for judgment; His God teaches him. (Isaiah 28:21-26)

...Jehovah... will bring you into... a land of wheat and barley... (Deuteronomy 8:7-8)

The land of wheat and barley here is the land of Canaan, which symbolizes the church.

They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for wheat and new wine... (Jeremiah 31:12)

(Jehovah) will fill you with the finest wheat. (Psalms 147:12-14, cf. Deuteronomy 32:13-14, Psalms 81:13, 16)

Jehovah told the prophet Ezekiel to make himself a cake of barleycorn mixed with dung and eat it (Ezekiel 4:12, 15). And He told the prophet Hosea to take to himself an adulterous woman, whom he bought for one and a half omers of barleycorn (Hosea 3:1-2). The prophets did these things to represent the falsifications of truth in the church, for barleycorns are truths, and barleycorns mixed with dung are truths falsified and profaned. An adulterous woman also symbolizes truth falsified (no. 134).

  
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Apocalypse Revealed # 134

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134. "'To teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality.'" This symbolically means, in consequence of which faith the truths of the church are falsified.

To teach and seduce the Lord's servants means, symbolically, to teach and seduce people who can be and are willing to be instructed in truths from the Word. That servants of the Lord are what people governed by truths are called may be seen in nos. 3 and 128 above; and to commit sexual immorality means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word. To commit sexual immorality has this symbolic meaning because every particular of the Word contains a marriage of good and truth, and this marriage is broken when goodness is divorced and estranged from truth.

To be shown that every particular of the Word contains a marriage of good and truth, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 80-90. It is because of this that to commit sexual immorality means, symbolically, to adulterate the goods of the Word and falsify its truths. Moreover, because this is spiritual licentiousness, therefore people who have employed their own reason to falsify the Word become sexually licentious people when they enter the spiritual world after death. And something as yet unrecognized in the world is the fact that people who have affirmed faith alone to the exclusion of any works of charity are prompted by the lust of an adultery of a son with his mother. In the spiritual world I have often perceived them to be impelled by the lust of so unspeakable an adultery. Remember this and inquire into it after death, and you will be convinced. I have not dared to reveal this previously, because it offends the ears.

[2] This adultery is symbolized by the adultery of Reuben with Bilhah, his father's concubine (Genesis 35:22), inasmuch as Reuben symbolizes that faith. Therefore he was cursed by his father Israel, and the birthright was subsequently taken from him. For in prophesying concerning his sons, his father Israel said of Reuben,

Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength... Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my pallet. (Genesis 49:3-4)

And therefore the birthright was taken from him:

...Reuben (was) the firstborn of Israel..., but because he defiled his father's pallet, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph... (1 Chronicles 5:1)

We will see in the explanation of Revelation 7:5 that Reuben represented truth arising from good or faith springing from charity, and afterward truth divorced from good or faith divorced from charity.

[3] That references to sexual licentiousness in the Word symbolize adulterations of good and falsifications of truth can be seen from the following passages:

...when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" And he said, "What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are many?" (2 Kings 9:22)

The harlotries of Jezebel do not mean any acts of licentiousness, but her deeds, as cited in no. 132 above.

Your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms... (Numbers 14:33)

The person who has regard to mediums and soothsayers, to go whoring after them..., I will cut him off... (Leviticus 20:6)

(Do not) make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, (lest) they go whoring after their gods... (Exodus 34:15).

(Jerusalem,) you trusted in your own beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, (so that) you poured out your harlotries on everyone passing by... You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very carnal neighbors, and multiplied your acts of harlotry... You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable, (with whom) you played the harlot... You multiplied your harlotry as far as... Chaldea... The adulterous woman, who in place of her husband takes strangers. All men give payment to their harlots, but you made your payments to them all, (that they may) come to you from all around for your harlotries... Therefore, harlot, hear the word of Jehovah. (Ezekiel 16:15-16, 26, 28-29, 32-33, 35ff.)

Jerusalem there is the Israelite and Jewish Church. Its harlotries mean adulterations and falsifications of the Word. And because Egypt symbolizes the knowledge of the natural self, Assyria reasoning on the basis of it, Chaldea the profanation of truth, and Babel the profanation of good, therefore the passage says that it played the harlot with them.

[4] ...two women, the daughters of one mother, committed harlotry in Egypt; in their youth they committed harlotry... (One,) my subject, played the harlot, and she doted on her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians... She committed her harlotries with them... (Yet) she has not given up her harlotries in Egypt....

(The other) became more corrupt in her loving than she, and in her harlotries more corrupt than her sister's harlotries... She increased her harlotries... She loved (Chaldeans).... Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry. (Ezekiel 23:2-3, 5, 7-8, 11, 14, 16-17ff.)

The two daughters of the same mother are likewise the Israelite and Jewish Church, whose adulterations and falsifications of the Word are described here, as above, by harlotries.

[5] So, too, in the following passages:

...you have played the harlot with many lovers... You have profaned the land with your harlotries and your wickedness... Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and... played the harlot... Treacherous Judah... went and played the harlot also. So that... by the report of her harlotry she defiled the land; ...she committed adultery with stone and wood. (Jeremiah 3:1-2, 6, 8-9)

And elsewhere:

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see... if you can find a man... who executes judgment and seeks the truth... I satiated them, and they committed harlotry and came by troops into the harlots' house. (Jeremiah 5:1, 7)

I have seen your adulteries... your neighings, the wickedness of your harlotry, your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! You will not be made clean... (Jeremiah 13:27)

I have seen a horrible obstinacy in the prophets of Jerusalem: they commit adultery and walk in a lie. (Jeremiah 23:14)

...they have committed folly in Israel, have committed adultery..., and have spoken (My) word in My name falsely... (Jeremiah 29:23)

...they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into disrepute... They committed harlotry..., because they have forsaken Jehovah. Harlotry... enslaved (their) heart... ...your daughters commit harlotry, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. (Hosea 4:7, 10-11, 13)

I know Ephraim..., (that) he has (altogether) committed harlotry, (and) Israel is defiled. (Hosea 5:3)

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: Ephraim committed harlotry there, (and) Israel is defiled. (Hosea 6:10)

Israel there is the church, and Ephraim is its understanding of the Word, from which and in accordance with which the church is formed. Therefore Ephraim is said to have committed harlotry and Israel to be defiled.

[6] Since the church had falsified the Word, the prophet Hosea was commanded to take himself a harlot as a wife, as follows:

...take yourself a woman of harlotries and children of harlotries, for the land has committed great harlotry behind Jehovah. (Hosea 1:2).

Again:

...love a woman who is loved by a companion and is an adulteress... (Hosea 3:1)

Since the Jewish Church was such as described, therefore the Lord called the Jewish nation an adulterous generation (Matthew 12:39; 16:4, Mark 8:38); and in Isaiah, the offspring of an adulterer (Isaiah 57:3).

In Nahum:

Woe to the bloody city! Full of lying... The multitude of the slain... because of the multitude of the harlotries of the harlot..., who sells nations through her harlotries... (Nahum 3:1, 3-4)

[7] Since Roman Catholicism adulterates and falsifies the Word more than any others in the Christian world, it is therefore called Babylon, the Great Harlot, and the following things are said of it in the book of Revelation:

Babylon... has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her harlotry. (Revelation 14:8)

(Babylon has made) all the nations (drink) of the wine of the wrath of her harlotry, and the kings of the earth have committed harlotry with her... (Revelation 18:3)

(The angel said,) "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot... with whom the kings of the earth committed harlotry. (Revelation 17:1-2)

...He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her harlotry. (Revelation 19:2)

It is apparent from this now that to commit adultery and to commit sexual immorality mean, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the goods and truths of the Word.

  
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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.