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Zacarias 9

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1 Ang hula na salita ng Panginoon laban sa lupain ng Hadrach, at Damasco ang magiging pahingahang dako niyaon, (sapagka't ang mata ng tao at ang lahat ng mga lipi ng Israel ay nasa Panginoon);

2 At gayon din sa Hamath, na kahangganan nito; sa Tiro at Sidon, sapagka't sila'y totoong pantas.

3 At ang Tiro ay nagtayo ng katibayan, at nagbunton ng pilak na parang alabok, at ng mainam na ginto na parang putik sa mga lansangan.

4 Narito, aalisan siya ng Panginoon, at kaniyang sisirain sa dagat ang kapangyarihan niya; at siya'y lalamunin ng apoy.

5 Makikita ng Ascalon, at matatakot; ng Gaza rin, at mamamanglaw na mainam, at ng Ecron, sapagka't ang kaniyang pagasa ay mapapahiya; at ang hari ay mamamatay sa Gaza, at ang Ascalon ay hindi tatahanan.

6 At isang anak sa ligaw ay tatahan sa Asdod, at aking puputulin ang kapalaluan ng mga Filisteo.

7 At aking aalisin ang kaniyang dugo sa kaniyang bibig, at ang kaniyang mga kasuklamsuklam sa pagitan ng kaniyang mga ngipin; at siya nama'y maiiwan para sa ating Dios: at siya'y magiging gaya ng pangulo sa Juda, at ang Ecron ay gaya ng Jebuseo.

8 At ako'y magtitirik ng kampamento sa palibot ng aking bahay laban sa hukbo, na walang makadadaan ni makababalik; at walang mamimighati na daraan pa sa mga yaon: sapagka't ngayo'y tumingin ako ng aking mga mata.

9 Magalak kang mainam, Oh anak na babae ng Sion; humiyaw ka, Oh anak na babae ng Jerusalem: narito, ang iyong hari ay naparirito sa iyo; siya'y ganap at may pagliligtas; mapagmababa, at nakasakay sa isang asno, sa isang batang asno na anak ng asnong babae.

10 At aking ihihiwalay ang karo mula sa Ephraim, at ang kabayo'y mula sa Jerusalem; at ang mga busog na pangbaka ay mapuputol; at siya'y magsasalita ng kapayapaan sa mga bansa: at ang kaniyang kapangyarihan ay magiging sa dagat at dagat, at mula sa ilog hanggang sa mga wakas ng lupa.

11 Tungkol sa iyo naman, dahil sa dugo ng iyong tipan ay aking pinalabas ang iyong mga bilanggo sa hukay na walang tubig.

12 Mangagbalik kayo sa katibayan, kayong mga bilanggo na may pag-asa, ngayo'y aking inihahayag na aking igagawad sa inyo na makalawa.

13 Sapagka't aking binaluktot ang Juda para sa akin, aking inakmaan ang Ephraim ng busog; at aking gigisingin ang iyong mga anak, Oh Sion, laban sa iyong mga anak, Oh Grecia, at gagawin kitang parang tabak ng makapangyarihang lalake.

14 At ang Panginoo'y makikita sa itaas nila; at lalabas ang kaniyang pana na parang kidlat; at ang Panginoong Dios ay hihihip ng pakakak, at yayaon na kasama ng mga ipoipo sa timugan.

15 Ipagsasanggalang sila ng Panginoon ng mga hukbo; at sila'y mangananakmal, at kanilang yayapakan ang mga batong panghilagpos; at sila'y magsisiinom, at mangagiingay na gaya ng sa alak; at sila'y mangapupunong parang mga taza, parang mga sulok ng dambana.

16 At ililigtas sila ng Panginoon nilang Dios sa araw na yaon na gaya ng kawan ng kaniyang bayan; sapagka't magiging gaya ng mga bato ng isang putong na nataas sa mataas sa kaniyang lupain.

17 Sapagka't pagkalaki ng kaniyang kabutihan, at pagkalaki ng kaniyang kagandahan! pagiginhawahin ng trigo ang mga binata, at ng bagong alak ang mga dalaga;

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 620

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620. 14:4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. This symbolically means that they did not adulterate the church's truths or defile them with the falsities of their faith, but loved the truths because they are true.

A woman symbolizes the church from an affection for truth, and so in an opposite sense the church from an affection for falsity, as may be seen in nos. 434, 533 above - here the church from an affection for truth, because we are told that they were not defiled with women. Being defiled with women has the same symbolic meaning as committing adultery and behaving licentiously. To commit adultery and behave licentiously means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word, as may be seen in no. 134 above.

For they are virgins means, symbolically, because they have loved truths because they are true, thus loving them from a spiritual affection. These are meant by virgins because a virgin symbolizes the church as a bride who desires to be conjoined with the Lord and to become a wife; and a church that desires to be conjoined with the Lord loves truths because they are true. For truths bring about conjunction when people live in accordance with them.

That is why Israel, Zion and Jerusalem are called in the Word virgins and daughters; for Israel, Zion and Jerusalem symbolize the church.

[2] People in the Lord's church who are of such a character are all meant by virgins, whether they are maidens or youths, wives or husbands, boys or old men, girls or old ladies, and this can be seen from places in the Word where virgins are mentioned, such as the virgin of Israel (Jeremiah 18:13; 31:4, 21, Amos 5:2, Joel 1:8); the virgin daughter of Judah (Lamentations 1:15); the virgin daughter of Zion (2 Kings 19:21, Isaiah 37:22, Lamentations 1:4; 2:13); the virgins of Jerusalem (Lamentations 2:10); the virgin of My people (Jeremiah 14:17).

For that reason the Lord likened the church to ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13), and we read in Jeremiah:

...I will build you, that you may be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again... go forth in the dances of those who rejoice. (Jeremiah 31:4, 13)

And in the book of Psalms:

They have seen Your goings, O God, the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary..., in the midst of maidens playing timbrels. (Psalms 68:24-25)

And elsewhere:

Kings' daughters are among Your precious ones; at Your right hand stands the queen in pure gold from Ophir.

Listen, O daughter, and see... The King will delight in your beauty... The daughter of Tyre also will bring a gift; the rich among the people will appease Your face.

The King's daughter is all precious within; her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the King in embroidered garments. The virgins after her, her companions, shall come... into the palace of the King. (Psalms 45:9-15)

The King there means the Lord; the queen the church as a wife; and the daughters and virgins affections for goodness and truth.

[3] Similar affections are symbolically meant by virgins elsewhere in the Word in places where young men are mentioned at the same time, because young men symbolize truths, and virgins affections for those truths. For instance, in the following places:

Behold, the days are coming... that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah... In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint from thirst. (Amos 8:11, 13)

Be ashamed, O Sidon; ...the sea has said..., "I have not travailed or given birth; neither have I reared young men or brought up virgins." (Isaiah 33:4)

The Lord trampled a winepress for the virgin daughter of Zion... Behold my sorrow; the virgins and the young men have gone into captivity. (Lamentations 1:4, 15, 18)

...how great is His goodness, and how great His beauty! Grain shall make the young men grow up, and new wine the young women. (Zechariah 9:17)

The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in My streets. (Zechariah 8:5)

They sit on the ground..., the virgins of Jerusalem... To what shall I liken you..., O virgin daughter of Zion... ...They lay... in the streets..., My virgins and My young men... (Lamentations 2:10, 13, 21)

And so on elsewhere, as in Jeremiah 51:20-23, Lamentations 5:11, 13, 14, Ezekiel 9:4, 6, Psalms 78:62-64, Deuteronomy 32:25.

  
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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.