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1 At si Miriam at si Aaron ay nagsalitaan laban kay Moises tungkol sa pagkapagasawa niya sa isang babaing Cusita: sapagka't siya'y nag-asawa sa isang babaing Cusita.

2 At kanilang sinabi, Ang Panginoon ba'y kay Moises lamang nakipagsalitaan? hindi ba nakipagsalitaan din naman sa atin? At narinig ng Panginoon.

3 Ang lalake ngang si Moises ay totoong maamong loob, na higit kay sa lahat ng lalaking nasa ibabaw ng lupa.

4 At sinalita agad ng Panginoon kay Moises, at kay Aaron, at kay Miriam, Lumabas kayong tatlo sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan. At silang tatlo ay lumabas.

5 At ang Panginoon ay bumaba sa isang tila haliging ulap, at tumayo sa pintuan ng Tolda, at tinawag si Aaron at si Miriam: at sila'y kapuwa lumabas.

6 At kaniyang sinabi, Dinggin ninyo ngayon ang aking mga salita: kung mayroon sa gitna ninyo na isang propeta, akong Panginoon ay pakikilala sa kaniya sa pangitain, na kakausapin ko siya sa panaginip.

7 Ang aking lingkod na si Moises ay hindi gayon; siya'y tapat sa aking buong buhay:

8 Sa kaniya'y makikipag-usap ako ng bibig, sa bibig, ng maliwanag, at hindi sa malabong salitaan; at ang anyo ng Panginoon ay kaniyang makikita: bakit nga hindi kayo natakot na magsalita laban sa aking lingkod, laban kay Moises?

9 At ang galit ng Panginoon ay nagningas laban sa kanila; at siya'y umalis.

10 At ang ulap ay lumayo sa Tolda; at narito, si Miriam ay nagkaketong, na pumuting gaya ng niebe; at tiningnan ni Aaron si Miriam, at narito, siya'y nagkaketong.

11 At sinabi ni Aaron kay Moises, Oh panginoon ko, isinasamo ko sa iyo na huwag mong iparatang ang kasalanan sa amin, sapagka't ginawa namin na may kamangmangan, at sapagka't kami ay nagkasala.

12 Huwag mong itulot sa kaniya, isinasamo ko sa iyo, na maging parang isang patay na tunaw ang kalahati ng kaniyang laman paglabas sa tiyan ng kaniyang ina.

13 At humibik si Moises sa Panginoon, na sinasabi, Pagalingin mo siya, Oh Dios, ipinamamanhik ko sa iyo.

14 At sinabi ng Panginoon kay Moises, Kung siya'y niluran ng kaniyang ama sa kaniyang mukha, hindi ba siya mahihiyang pitong araw? kulungin siyang pitong araw sa labas ng kampamento, at pagkatapos ay madadala siyang muli sa loob.

15 At si Miriam ay kinulong na pitong araw sa labas ng kampamento: at ang bayan ay hindi naglakbay hanggang si Miriam ay nadalang muli sa loob.

16 At pagkatapos nito ay naglakbay ang bayan mula sa Haseroth, at humantong sa ilang ng Paran.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 862

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862. We have said that the nations' surrounding the camp of the saints and the beloved city means, symbolically, that these people attempted to destroy everything connected with the New Church, both its truths and goods and its fundamental doctrine regarding the Lord and life, as stated in the preceding number. This is the symbolic meaning because the camp of the saints symbolizes all the truths and goods of the church which is the New Jerusalem.

That a camp in the spiritual sense symbolizes everything connected with the church with respect to its truths and goods can be seen from the following passages:

The sun and moon grew dark, and the stars diminished their brightness. Jehovah uttered His voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for numberless are those who obey His Word. (Joel 2:10-11)

I will encamp for My house some of the army... (Zechariah 9:8)

...God has scattered the bones of them who encamp against you..., because God has rejected them. (Psalms 53:5)

The angel of Jehovah encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. (Psalms 34:7)

(An angel of God met Jacob, and said to Jacob,) "This is God's camp." Therefore he called the name of that place Mahanaim (Two Camps). (Genesis 32:1-2)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 29:3, Ezekiel 1:24, Psalms 27:3.

That an army or host in the Word symbolizes the church's truths and goods, and also its falsities and evils, may be seen in nos. 447, 826, 833; and so, too, does a camp.

[2] Since the children of Israel and their twelve tribes symbolize the church in respect to all its truths and goods (nos. 349, 350), they were therefore called the armies or hosts of Jehovah (Exodus 7:4; 12:41, 51), and the places where they stopped and assembled were called camps, as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 1; 2; 3; 4:5 ff., 5:2-4; 9:17-23; 10:1-10, 11-28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 21:10-15; 33:1-49; Deuteronomy 23:9-14; Amos 4:10.

It is apparent from this now that the nations' surrounding the camp of the saints and the beloved city means, symbolically, that these people tried to destroy all the truths and goods of the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem, and also its doctrine regarding the Lord and life.

The same symbolism is found in these verses in Luke:

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near... (At length) Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:20, 24)

This is said in reference to the end of the age, which is the final period of the church. Jerusalem here also symbolizes the church.

That Gog and Magog, that is, people who engage in external worship divorced from any internal worship, will then invade the church and try to destroy it, is something we are told also in Ezekiel 38:8-9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 39:2, and that the New Church will then be established by the Lord, Ezekiel 39:17-29.

  
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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.