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Zephanias 2

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1 Kayo'y magpipisan, oo, magpipisan, Oh bansang walang kahihiyan;

2 Bago ang pasiya'y lumabas, bago dumaang parang dayami ang kaarawan, bago dumating sa inyo ang mabangis na galit ng Panginoon, bago dumating sa inyo ang kaarawan ng galit ng Panginoon.

3 Hanapin ninyo ang Panginoon, ninyong lahat na maamo sa lupa, na nagsigawa ng ayon sa kaniyang kahatulan; hanapin ninyo ang katuwiran, hanapin ninyo ang kaamuan: kaypala ay malilingid kayo sa kaarawan ng galit ng Panginoon.

4 Sapagka't ang Gaza ay pababayaan, at ang Ascalon ay sa kasiraan; kanilang palalayasin ang Asdod sa katanghaliang tapat, at ang Ecron ay mabubunot.

5 Sa aba ng mga nananahanan sa baybayin ng dagat, bansa ng mga Chereteo! Ang salita ng Panginoon ay laban sa iyo, Oh Canaan, na lupain ng mga Filisteo; aking gigibain ka, upang mawalan ng mga mananahan.

6 At ang baybayin ng dagat ay magiging pastulan, na may mga dampa para sa mga pastor, at mga kulungan para sa mga kawan.

7 At ang baybayin ay mapapasa nalabi sa sangbahayan ni Juda; sila'y mangagpapastol ng kanilang mga kawan doon; sa mga bahay sa Ascalon ay mangahihiga sila sa gabi; sapagka't dadalawin sila ng Panginoon nilang Dios, at ibabalik sila na mula sa kanilang pagkabihag.

8 Aking narinig ang panunungayaw ng Moab, at ang pagapi ng mga anak ni Ammon, na kanilang ipinanungayaw sa aking bayan, at nagmalaki sila ng kanilang sarili laban sa kanilang hangganan.

9 Buhay nga ako, sabi ng Panginoon ng mga hukbo, ng Dios ng Israel, Walang pagsalang ang Moab ay magiging parang Sodoma, at ang mga anak ni Ammon ay parang Gomorra, pag-aari na mga dawag, at lubak na asin, at isang pagkasira sa tanang panahon: sila'y sasamsamin ng nalabi sa aking bayan, at sila'y mamanahin ng nalabi sa aking bansa.

10 Ito ang kanilang mapapala dahil sa kanilang pagpapalalo, sapagka't sila'y nanungayaw at nagmalaki ng kanilang sarili laban sa bayan ng Panginoon ng mga hukbo.

11 Ang Panginoo'y magiging kakilakilabot sa kanila; sapagka't kaniyang gugutumin ang lahat ng dios sa lupa; at sasambahin siya ng mga tao; ng bawa't isa mula sa kanikaniyang dako, ng lahat na pulo ng mga bansa.

12 Kayong mga taga Etiopia naman, kayo'y papatayin sa pamamagitan ng aking tabak.

13 At kaniyang iuunat ang kaniyang kamay laban sa hilagaan, at gigibain ang Asiria, at ang Nineve ay sisirain, at tutuyuing gaya ng ilang.

14 At mga bakaha'y hihiga sa gitna niyaon, lahat ng hayop ng mga bansa: ang pelikano at gayon din ang erizo ay tatahan sa mga kapitel niyaon; kanilang tinig ay huhuni sa mga dungawan; kasiraa'y sasapit sa mga pasukan; sapagka't kaniyang sinira ang mga yaring kahoy na cedro.

15 Ito ang masayang bayan na tumahang walang bahala, na nagsasabi sa sarili, Ako nga, at walang iba liban sa akin: ano't siya'y naging sira, naging dakong higaan para sa mga hayop! lahat na daraan sa kaniya ay magsisisutsot, at ikukumpas ang kaniyang kamay.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 341

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341. To this I will append the following account:

I saw some English clergymen assembled - as many as six hundred - who were praying to the Lord to allow them to ascend into one of the societies of a higher heaven, and it was granted them. So they ascended, and upon entering it, they saw their king, the grandfather of the king presently reigning, 1 and they rejoiced. The king then came over to two bishops that they had among them, whom he had known in the world, and speaking to them, he asked, "How came you here?"

They replied that they had petitioned the Lord, and that it had been granted.

The king said to them, "Why did you petition the Lord, and not God the Father?"

And the bishops said that it was what they had been told to do below.

Then the king said, "Did I not tell you this at times in the world, that one must go to the Lord, and furthermore, that charity is the primary thing. What was your answer in regard to the Lord then?"

It was then given them to remember that they had replied that when one goes to the Father, one goes also to the Son.

But the angels surrounding the king said, "You are mistaken. That's not what you thought, nor does one go to the Lord when one goes to God the Father. Rather, one goes to God the Father when one goes to the Lord, because they are one, like soul and body. Who approaches someone's soul and in that way his body? Is it not the case that when one approaches a person's body, something that he sees, he approaches also the person's soul, which he does not see?"

To this the bishops made no answer. And the king drew near to the two bishops, holding in his hand two gifts, saying, "These are gifts from heaven."

The gifts were heavenly figurines of gold, and the king tried to hand them over. But suddenly then a dusky cloud covered them and separated them, and the clergymen descended the way they had come. They then recorded this event in a book.

[2] All the other English clergymen who heard that their colleagues had been granted to ascend to a higher heaven, assembled at the foot of a mountain, where they awaited their return. And when those colleagues did return, they greeted their brethren and related what had befallen them in heaven, saying that the king had given the bishops two heavenly figurines of gold most beautiful to look at, but that these had fallen out of their hands. And then they disappeared into a nearby wood and conferred with each other, looking around to see if anyone was overhearing. But they were overheard nevertheless.

They were talking about unanimity and harmony, and then about primacy and dominion. The bishops did the speaking, and the rest favored them with their assent. But suddenly, to my surprise, they no longer appeared as many, but as one great person, with a face like that of a lion, having on his head a towering miter, and upon that a crown. And he spoke with a deep voice, and went forward with a broad step. And looking behind him he said, "Who else has a right to primacy but me?"

The king looked down from heaven and saw - seeing them all first as one, and then as many in harmony, most in secular clothing, he said.

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1. The English king presently reigning was George III (1760-1820), grandson of George II (1727-1760).

  
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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.