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Daniel 7

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1 Belsassarin, Baabelin kuninkaan, ensimmäisenä hallitusvuotena Daniel näki unen, päänsä näyn, vuoteessansa. Sitten hän kirjoitti tämän unen.

2 Kertomuksen alku on tämä: Daniel lausui ja sanoi: Minä näin yöllä näyssäni, ja katso, taivaan neljä tuulta kuohutti suurta merta.

3 Ja merestä nousi neljä suurta petoa, kukin erilainen kuin toinen.

4 Ensimmäinen oli kuin leijona, mutta sillä oli kotkan siivet. Minun sitä katsellessani reväistiin siltä siivet, ja se nostettiin maasta pystyyn ja asetettiin kahdelle jalalle niinkuin ihminen, ja sille annettiin ihmisen sydän.

5 Ja katso, oli toinen peto, joka oli karhun näköinen. Se nostettiin toiselle kyljellensä, ja sillä oli suussa kolme kylkiluuta, hammasten välissä; ja sille sanottiin näin: "Nouse ja syö paljon lihaa".

6 Tämän jälkeen minä näin, ja katso, oli taas toinen peto, pantterin kaltainen, ja sen selässä oli neljä linnunsiipeä. Sillä pedolla oli neljä päätä, ja sille annettiin valta.

7 Sen jälkeen minä näin yöllisessä näyssäni, ja katso, oli neljäs peto, kauhea, hirmuinen ja ylen väkevä; sillä oli suuret rautaiset hampaat, ja se söi ja murskasi ja tallasi tähteet jalkoihinsa. Se oli erilainen kuin kaikki edelliset pedot, ja sillä oli kymmenen sarvea.

8 Minä tarkkasin sarvea, ja katso, eräs muu pieni sarvi puhkesi niiden välistä, ja kolme edellisistä sarvista reväistiin pois sen edestä. Ja katso, sillä sarvella oli silmät kuin ihmisen silmät, ja suu, joka herjaten puhui.

9 Minun sitä katsellessani valtaistuimet asetettiin, ja Vanhaikäinen istuutui. Hänen vaatteensa olivat valkeat kuin lumi ja hänen päänsä hiukset kuin puhdas villa. Hänen valtaistuimensa oli tulen liekkejä, ja sen pyörät olivat palavaa tulta.

10 Tulivirta vuoti, se kävi ulos hänestä; tuhannen tuhatta palveli häntä, ja kymmenen tuhatta kertaa kymmenen tuhatta seisoi hänen edessänsä. Oikeus istui tuomiolle, ja kirjat avattiin.

11 Minä katselin, ja silloin, niiden herjaavien sanojen tähden, joita sarvi puhui, minun katsellessani peto tapettiin, ja sen ruumis hävitettiin ja heitettiin tuleen palamaan.

12 Ja muiltakin pedoilta otettiin valta pois; niiden elämän pituus oli määrätty aikaa ja hetkeä myöten.

13 Minä näin yöllisessä näyssä, ja katso, taivaan pilvissä tuli Ihmisen Pojan kaltainen; ja hän saapui Vanhaikäisen tykö, ja hänet saatettiin tämän eteen.

14 Ja hänelle annettiin valta, kunnia ja valtakunta, ja kaikki kansat, kansakunnat ja kielet palvelivat häntä. Hänen valtansa on iankaikkinen valta, joka ei lakkaa, ja hänen valtakuntansa on valtakunta, joka ei häviä.

15 Minä, Daniel, tunsin henkeni tulevan murheelliseksi ruumiissani, ja minun näkemäni näyt peljättivät minua.

16 Minä lähestyin yhtä siellä seisovista ja pyysin häneltä varmaa tietoa kaikista näistä asioista. Niin hän vastasi minulle ja ilmoitti minulle niiden selityksen:

17 "Nuo suuret pedot, joita on neljä, ovat neljä kuningasta, jotka nousevat maasta.

18 Mutta Korkeimman pyhät saavat valtakunnan ja omistavat valtakunnan iankaikkisesti-iankaikkisesta iankaikkiseen."

19 Senjälkeen minä tahdoin saada varmuuden neljännestä pedosta, joka oli erilainen kuin kaikki muut ja ylen hirmuinen; jolla oli rautaiset hampaat ja vaskiset kynnet, joka söi ja murskasi ja tallasi tähteet jalkoihinsa;

20 sekä pedon pään kymmenestä sarvesta ynnä siitä sarvesta, joka puhkesi ja jonka edestä kolme putosi; jolla sarvella oli silmät ja herjauksia puhuva suu ja joka näytti suuremmalta kuin ne muut;

21 se sarvi, jonka minä näin sotivan pyhiä vastaan ja voittavan heidät,

22 siihen asti kunnes Vanhaikäinen tuli ja oikeus annettiin Korkeimman pyhille ja aika joutui ja pyhät saivat omaksensa valtakunnan.

23 Hän vastasi näin: "Neljäs peto on neljäs valtakunta, joka syntyy maan päälle, erilainen kuin kaikki muut valtakunnat. Se syö kaiken maan ja tallaa ja murskaa sen.

24 Ja ne kymmenen sarvea ovat kymmenen kuningasta, jotka nousevat siitä valtakunnasta. Ja heidän jälkeensä nousee eräs muu, ja hän on erilainen kuin edelliset, ja hän kukistaa kolme kuningasta.

25 Hän puhuu sanoja Korkeinta vastaan ja hävittää Korkeimman pyhiä. Hän pyrkii muuttamaan ajat ja lain, ja ne annetaan hänen käteensä ajaksi ja kahdeksi ajaksi ja puoleksi ajaksi.

26 Sitten oikeus istuu tuomiolle, ja hänen valtansa otetaan pois ja hävitetään ja tuhotaan loppuun asti.

27 Ja valtakunta ja valta ja valtakuntien voima kaiken taivaan alla annetaan Korkeimman pyhien kansalle. Hänen valtakuntansa on iankaikkinen valtakunta, ja kaikki vallat palvelevat häntä ja ovat hänelle alamaiset."

28 Tähän loppuu kertomus. Minua, Danielia, peljättivät minun ajatukseni suuresti, ja minun kasvoni kalpenivat, ja minä kätkin asian sydämeeni.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #36

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36. I became in the spirit on the Lord's day. (1:10) This symbolizes a spiritual state then owing to Divine influx.

"I became in the spirit" means, symbolically, a spiritual state, the state in which John was while he was experiencing the visions, and which we will take up in the following exposition. "On the Lord's day" symbolizes influx from the Lord then, for that day brings the Lord's presence, as it is a holy day.

Concerning the prophets we read that they were in the spirit or in vision, and that the Word came to them from Jehovah.

When they were in the spirit or in vision, they were not in the body, but in their spirit, a state in which they saw phenomena such as are found in heaven. But when the Word came to them, they were then in the body and heard Jehovah speaking.

These two states of the prophets must be properly distinguished. In the state of vision the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body closed; and they heard then what angels said, and what Jehovah said through angels, and also saw representations produced for them in heaven. Moreover, they sometimes seemed to themselves to be taken then from place to place, their body remaining where it was.

[2] This was the state in which John was when he wrote the book of Revelation, and the state sometimes experienced by Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel. They also said that they were then in vision or in the spirit. For Ezekiel says,

The Spirit lifted me up... and brought me back into Chaldea, to those in captivity, in a vision (of God), in the spirit of God. (Thus) went up from me the vision that I had seen. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He also says that the Spirit lifted him up, and he heard behind him an earthquake, and more (Ezekiel 3:12, 24). So, too, that the Spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, that it brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, and that he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3f.). He was likewise in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw the four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1; 10), as also when he saw a new earth and a new temple, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). That he was then in the visions of God, he himself says (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] The same was the case with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time, when he saw a man riding a horse among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.); when he saw the four horns, and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.); when he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.); when he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6); when he saw the four chariots coming from between two mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in a like state when he saw the four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat between the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). He himself says that he saw these things in visions (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8), and that the angel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

[4] The same was the case with John, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands (Revelation 1), and finally, the new heaven and the new earth, and then the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven (Revelation 21, 22. John himself says that he saw these things in the spirit and in vision (1:10; 4:2; 9:17; 21:10). This, too, is meant by the statement, "I saw," everywhere it occurs in this book.

[5] It is clearly apparent from this that to be in the spirit is to be in a state of vision, which is brought about by an opening of the sight of a person's spirit; and when this is opened, phenomena found in the spiritual world are as clearly visible as those in the natural world are to the sight of the body.

The reality of this is something I can attest to from many years' experience.

The disciples were in this state when they saw the Lord after His resurrection, which is why are told that their eyes were opened (Luke 24:30-31).

Abraham was in a like state when he saw the three angels and spoke with them. 1

So, too, Hagar, Gideon, Joshua and others, when they saw angels of Jehovah. Likewise when Elisha's lad saw the mountain full of fiery chariots and horses all around Elisha, for Elisha prayed and said,

"Jehovah, open, I pray, his eyes that he may see." And Jehovah opened the eyes of the lad, and he saw. (2 Kings 6:17)

As regards the Word, however, it was not revealed in a state of the spirit or of vision, but the Lord dictated it to the prophets in an audible voice. Consequently we are nowhere told that the prophets spoke it from the Holy Spirit, but from Jehovah. See The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, no. 53.

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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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Ezekiel 41

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1 He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent.

2 The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

3 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.

4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

6 The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house.

7 The side rooms were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [room] to the highest by the middle [room].

8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

10 Between the rooms was a breadth of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

11 The doors of the side rooms were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around.

12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

14 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

17 to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

18 It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;

19 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house all around:

20 from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.

21 As for the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance [of the temple].

22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.

23 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

24 The doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

25 There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

26 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side rooms of the house, and the thresholds.