Apocalypse Revealed # 591
591. 13:10 Anyone who leads into captivity shall go into captivity. This symbolically means that someone who uses that heresy to draw others away from believing rightly and living rightly is drawn by his own falsities and evils into hell.
To lead into captivity means, symbolically, to persuade and win over to one's side so that people consent to and attach themselves to that heresy meant by the dragon and the beast, and thus to draw them away from believing rightly and living rightly. To go into captivity means, symbolically, to be drawn by one's own falsities and evils into hell.
Captivity here means spiritual captivity, which is to be led astray and so to be drawn away from truths and goods into falsities and evils.
That captivity in the Word means this spiritual captivity can be seen from the following passages:
Hear now, all peoples, and behold my sorrow; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity. (Lamentations 1:18)
(God) forsook His dwelling..., (and) the tent where He dwelt among men, and delivered His strength into captivity... (Psalms 78:60-61)
The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; ...then you will be ashamed... because of all your wickedness. (Jeremiah 22:22)
I will make My arrows drunk... with the blood of the slain and the captivity... (Deuteronomy 32:42)
They stooped (and) bowed down..., and their soul will go into captivity. (Isaiah 46:1-2)
(Jehovah) has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, ...to the bound, ...to the blind... (Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:18-19)
I will stir him up in righteousness...; he shall... let My captives go free, not for price nor reward... (Isaiah 45:13)
You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive... (Psalms 68:18)
Shall... the captivity of the righteous be delivered? ..."Even the captivity of the strong shall be taken away, and the captured of the violent be delivered." (Isaiah 49:24-25)
Shake yourself from the dust...; sit, O Jerusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion! (Isaiah 52:1-2)
And so on elsewhere, as in Jeremiah 48:46-47; 50:33-34, Ezekiel 6:1-10; 12:1-12, Obadiah 1:11, Psalms 14:7; 53:6.
The captivities of the children of Israel by their enemies described in the book of Judges, in 2 Kings 25, and in the prophets represented and so symbolized spiritual captivities, as discussed elsewhere.
The bound have the same symbolic meaning as captives in the following places:
...by the blood of your covenant I will set the bound free from the... pit. (Zechariah 9:11)
The groaning of the bound shall come to You. (Psalms 79:11)
...the bound shall be gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison. (Isaiah 24:22)
He made the world a wilderness..., He did not open the house to his bound ones. (Isaiah 14:17)
(The king said, "I was) in prison and you did not come to Me." (Matthew 25:43)
(Jesus said,) "Ought not this... daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound..., be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?" (Luke 13:16)
Ezekiel 11
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Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the princes of the people.
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Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
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Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
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Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
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And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
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Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
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Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
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And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
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Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
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And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
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And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
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Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
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Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
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And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
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And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
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That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
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But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
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Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
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And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
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Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
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Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.
