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1 Godine dvanaeste, dvanaestoga mjeseca, prvoga dana, dođe mi riječ Jahvina:

2 "Sine čovječji, zaplači nad faraonom, kraljem egipatskim, i kaži mu: 'Laviću naroda, propao si! Ti bješe kao krokodil u vodi, bučio si u rijekama svojim, nogama si vodu mutio, valove joj podizao!'

3 Ovako govori Jahve Gospod: 'Gle, razapet ću mrežu nad tobom sa skupom mnogih naroda: oni će te u mojoj mreži izvući.

4 Ostavit će te na zemlji, tresnuti tobom o tlo. Sve ptice nebeske na te ću pustiti i zvijeri zemaljske tobom ću nahraniti!

5 Meso ću ti razbacat' po gorama, doline ću prekriti strvinom tvojom.

6 Istekom iz tebe zemlju ću napojiti, krvlju tvojom po gorama, i korita riječna njome napuniti.

7 A kada te utrnem, nebesa ću potamniti i zvijezde na njima ugasiti! Oblakom ću sunce zastrijeti, i mjesec svjetlošću neće svijetliti.

8 Sva ću svjetlila na nebu zbog tebe utrnuti i mrak ću nad zemljom razastrijeti!' - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

9 'Ucvilit ću srca mnogih naroda kad izgnanike tvoje odvedem u zemlje tebi nepoznate.

10 Narode će mnoge strava uhvatiti, a njihovi će se kraljevi nad tobom užasnuti njima naočigled. I na dan pada tvojega svatko će za svoj život neprestano strepiti.'

11 Jer ovako govori Jahve Gospod: 'Mač kralja babilonskoga na te će se spustiti.

12 Tvoje ću mnoštvo pobiti mačevima junaka, najljući od svih naroda opustošit će ponos Egipta i sve mnoštvo njegovo zatrijeti.

13 Svu ću stoku njegovu uništiti pokraj voda obilnih. Ljudska ih noga više neće gaziti niti će ih životinjski papak mutiti.

14 Onda ću im vode opet stišati i učinit ću da im rijeke kao ulje teku!' - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

15 'Kad zemlju egipatsku opustošim, kad bude opljačkano što je na njoj, kad udarim sve žitelje njezine, znat će da sam ja Jahve.

16 Tužaljka je to koja će se naricati. Naricat će je kćeri naroda. Naricat će je nad Egiptom i nad svim njegovim mnoštvom' - riječ je Jahve Gospoda."

17 Godine dvanaeste, prvoga mjeseca, petnaestoga dana, dođe mi riječ Jahvina:

18 "Sine čovječji, nariči za egipatskim mnoštvom, gurni ga, njega i kćeri naroda slavnih, u podzemni kraj, k onima što siđoše u jamu.

19 Od koga si bolji? Siđi i počini s neobrezanima.

20 Oni će pasti među one što ih mač pokosi. Ležaj će dobiti sa svim mnoštvom.

21 Najhrabriji junaci govorit će mu iz srca Podzemlja: 'Ti i pomoćnici tvoji siđite i počinite s neobrezanima, mačem pokošenima!'

22 Ondje je i Asirac i sva njegova gomila oko groba njegova - svi pobijeni, mačem pokošeni.

23 Grobovi im leže na dnu jame i sva mu je gomila oko grobova njegova - svi, nekoć užas u zemlji živih, sada pobijeni, mačem pokošeni.

24 Ondje Elam i sve mnoštvo njegovo oko groba njegova - svi pobijeni, mačem pokošeni, neobrezani u podzemni kraj mrtvih siđoše: nekoć užas u zemlji živih, snose sad sramotu svoju s onima što u jamu siđoše.

25 Usred pobijenih ležaj smjestiše njemu i mnoštvu oko groba njegova - sve neobrezani, mačem probodeni: nekoć užas u zemlji živih, snose sad sramotu svoju s onima što u jamu siđoše, među pobijene položeni.

26 Ondje je Mešek i Tubal i sve mnoštvo njegovo, s grobovima oko groba njegova - svi neobrezani, mačem probodeni, nekoć užas u zemlji živih.

27 Ne leže s junacima davno palima, u Podzemlje siđoše s oružjem, s mačem pod glavom i sa štitom na kostima, jer bijahu užas junacima u zemlji živih.

28 I ti ćeš ležati usred neobrezanih, mačem pokošenih.

29 Ondje je Edom i svi njegovi kraljevi i knezovi: unatoč svojemu junaštvu, i oni leže zajedno s onima što su mačem pokošeni, s neobrezanima, s onima koji u jamu siđoše.

30 Ondje su knezovi sjevera i svi Sidonci, i oni siđoše među probodene. Unatoč užasu svojega junaštva, leže neobrezani, s mačem probodenima, snoseći svoju sramotu s onima što u jamu siđoše.

31 Vidjet će ih faraon i utješit će se zbog svog mnoštva - faraon i sva vojska njegova mačem pokošena, riječ je Jahve Gospoda!

32 Jer je zadavao strah u zemlji živih, faraon i sve mnoštvo njegovo leže s neobrezanima, s mačem pokošenima - riječ je Jahve Gospoda."

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #285

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285. We are told they "will reign upon the earth" because the earth here and elsewhere means the Lord's church in heaven and on earth. The church in both worlds is the Lord's kingdom. Therefore, lest anyone suppose that people who are redeemed by the Lord all become kings and priests who will reign upon the earth, it is important that we demonstrate from the Word that the earth or land symbolizes the church. This can be seen from the following passages:

Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes (the earth) waste, and will overturn its surface... The land shall be entirely emptied... The (habitable) earth will mourn and... be turned upside down... The earth will be profaned under its inhabitants... Therefore a curse shall devour the earth... and... the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men will be left... ...in the midst of the land... it shall be like the stripping of an olive tree... ...the cataracts on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth are shaken. The earth is violently broken, the earth is utterly split open, the earth is shaken exceedingly. The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard... (Isaiah 24:1-23.)

[2] The lion has come up from his thicket... to make your land desolate... I beheld the earth (when) lo, it was empty and void... ...Jehovah has said, "The whole land shall be desolate... For this shall the earth mourn... (Jeremiah 4:7, 23-28)

How long will the land mourn...? The whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart. (Jeremiah 12:4, 11-13)

The earth mourns and languishes, Lebanon is shamed and withered away. (Isaiah 33:9)

Its land shall become burning pitch...(and) it shall lie waste. (Isaiah 34:9-10)

...I have heard from the Lord... a destruction decreed upon the whole earth. (Isaiah 28:22)

Behold, the day of Jehovah comes... to lay the land desolate..., and the earth will be shaken out of its place... (Isaiah 13:9-13)

The earth shook and trembled, and the foundations of the mountains quaked... (Psalms 18:7)

...we will not fear when the earth is transformed... When He uttered His voice, the earth melted. (Psalms 46:2-3, 6, 8)

Have you not understood the foundations of the earth? (Isaiah 40:21)

O God, You have forsaken us... You have made the earth tremble...; heal its breaches, for it is shaken. (Psalms 60:1-2)

[3] The earth and all its inhabitants will melt away; I will firm up its pillars. (Psalms 75:3)

Woe to a land overshadowed by wings... Go, ...messengers, to... a nation... trodden down, whose land rivers have despoiled. (Isaiah 18:1-2)

By the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts the land is darkened... (Isaiah 9:19)

...you will be a delightful land... (Malachi 3:12)

...I have given You as a covenant of the people to restore the earth... Sing, O heavens! And exult, O earth! (Isaiah 49:8, 13)

I shall not see Yah... in the land of the living. (Isaiah 38:11)

...who caused terror in the land of the living. (Ezekiel 32:23-27)

I would not have believed I would see the goodness... in the land of life. (Psalms 27:13)

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5)

I am Jehovah, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens alone, who spreads out the earth by Myself. (Isaiah 44,24, cf. Zechariah 12:1, Jeremiah 10:11-13; 51:15, Psalm. 136:6)

Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation... ...thus said Jehovah, who created the heavens..., who formed the earth... (Isaiah 45:8, 12, 18-19)

...behold, I create new heavens and a new earth... (Isaiah 65:17, cf. 66:22)

And in many other places as well, which, if I were to cite them, would fill a page.

[4] The earth or land symbolizes the church for the reason that it very often means the land of Canaan, which is where the church was. That is the heavenly Canaan. Moreover, when the earth or land is mentioned, angels, being spiritual, do not think of the earth or land, but of the human race dwelling upon it and its spiritual state; and its spiritual state is the state of the church.

The earth or land also has an opposite meaning, and in that sense it symbolizes damnation, since when the church is not present in a person, damnation is. The earth or land is mentioned in that sense in Isaiah 14:12; 21:9; 26:19, 21; 29:4; 47:1; 63:6, Lamentations 2:2, 10, Ezekiel 26:20; 32:24, Numbers 16:29-33; 26:10, and elsewhere.

  
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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.

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Isaiah 24

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1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

2 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

9 They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

13 For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

14 These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.

15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

17 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth.

18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

20 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

21 It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

22 They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.

23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory.