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Deuteronomio 11

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1 Amarás, pues, al SEÑOR tu Dios, y guardarás su ordenanza, y sus estatutos y sus derechos y sus mandamientos, todos los días.

2 Y sabed hoy; porque no hablo con vuestros hijos que no han sabido ni visto el castigo del SEÑOR vuestro Dios, su grandeza, su mano fuerte, y su brazo extendido,

3 y sus señales, y sus obras que hizo en medio de Egipto a Faraón, rey de Egipto, y a toda su tierra;

4 y lo que hizo al ejército de Egipto, a sus caballos, y a sus carros; cómo hizo ondear las aguas del mar Bermejo sobre ellos, cuando venían tras vosotros, y el SEÑOR los destruyó hasta hoy;

5 y lo que ha hecho con vosotros en el desierto, hasta que habéis llegado a este lugar;

6 y lo que hizo con Datán y Abiram, hijos de Eliab hijo de Rubén; cómo abrió la tierra su boca, y los tragó a ellos y a sus casas, y sus tiendas, y toda la hacienda que tenían en pie en medio de todo Israel;

7 mas vuestros ojos han visto todos los grandes hechos que el SEÑOR ha ejecutado.

8 Guardad, pues, todos los mandamientos que yo os mando hoy, para que seáis esforzados, y entréis y heredéis la tierra, a la cual pasáis para heredarla;

9 y para que os sean prolongados los días sobre la tierra, que juró el SEÑOR a vuestros padres que había de darla a ellos y a su simiente, tierra que fluye leche y miel.

10 Que la tierra a la cual entras para heredarla, no es como la tierra de Egipto de donde habéis salido, donde sembrabas tu simiente, y regabas con tu pie, como huerto de legumbres.

11 La tierra a la cual pasáis para heredarla, es tierra de montes y de vegas; de la lluvia del cielo ha de beber las aguas;

12 tierra de la cual el SEÑOR tu Dios procura; siempre están sobre ella los ojos del SEÑOR tu Dios, desde el principio del año hasta el fin de él.

13 Y será que, si escuchareis cuidadosamente mis mandamientos que yo os mando hoy, amando al SEÑOR vuestro Dios, y sirviéndole con todo vuestro corazón, y con toda vuestra alma,

14 yo daré la lluvia de vuestra tierra en su tiempo, la temprana y la tardía; y cogerás tu grano, y tu vino, y tu aceite.

15 Y daré hierba en tu tierra para tus bestias; y comerás, y te saciarás.

16 Guardaos, pues, que vuestro corazón no sea engañado, y os apartéis, y sirváis a dioses ajenos, y os inclinéis a ellos;

17 y se encienda el furor del SEÑOR sobre vosotros, y cierre los cielos, y no haya lluvia, ni la tierra dé su fruto, y perezcáis presto de la buena tierra que os da el SEÑOR.

18 Por tanto, pondréis éstas mis palabras en vuestro corazón y en vuestra alma, y las ataréis por señal en vuestra mano, y serán por frontales entre vuestros ojos.

19 Y las enseñaréis a vuestros hijos, para que penséis en ellas, sentado en tu casa, andando por el camino, acostado en la cama, y cuando te levantes;

20 y las escribirás en los postes de tu casa, y en tus portadas;

21 para que sean aumentados vuestros días, y los días de vuestros hijos, sobre la tierra que juró el SEÑOR a vuestros padres que les había de dar, como los días de los cielos sobre la tierra.

22 Porque si guardareis cuidadosamente todos estos mandamientos que yo os mando, para que los cumpláis; amando al SEÑOR vuestro Dios y andando en todos sus caminos, y a él os allegaréis,

23 el SEÑOR también echará todos estos gentiles de delante de vosotros y desposeeréis naciones grandes y más fuertes que vosotros.

24 Todo lugar que pisare la planta de vuestro pie, será vuestro; desde el desierto y el Líbano; desde el río, el río Eufrates, hasta el mar postrero será vuestro término.

25 Nadie se sostendrá delante de vosotros; miedo y temor de vosotros pondrá el SEÑOR vuestro Dios sobre la faz de toda la tierra que hollareis, como él os ha dicho.

26 Mira, yo pongo hoy delante de vosotros la bendición y la maldición:

27 La bendición, si oyereis los mandamientos del SEÑOR vuestro Dios, que yo os mando hoy;

28 y la maldición, si no oyereis los mandamientos del SEÑOR vuestro Dios, mas os apartareis del camino que yo os ordeno hoy, para andar en pos de dioses ajenos que no habéis conocido.

29 Y será que, cuando el SEÑOR tu Dios te introdujere en la tierra a la cual vas para heredarla, pondrás la bendición sobre el monte Gerizim, y la maldición sobre el monte Ebal;

30 los cuales están al otro lado del Jordán, tras el camino del occidente en la tierra del cananeo, que habita en la campiña delante de Gilgal, junto a los llanos de More.

31 Porque vosotros pasáis el Jordán, para ir a heredar la tierra que os da el SEÑOR vuestro Dios; y la cual heredaréis, y habitaréis en ella.

32 Guardaréis, pues, que hagáis todos los estatutos y derechos que yo doy delante de vosotros hoy.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #473

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473. Now when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them." (10:4) This symbolically means that these things must indeed be disclosed, but they are not accepted until after those people meant by the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet have been cast out of the world of spirits, because it would be dangerous before then.

The voices uttered by the seven thunders are declarations expressing what we have just said in no. 472 above. And because these constitute the essential doctrine of the New Church, they are mentioned three times.

In the natural sense, to write means to commit to paper and thus to record for posterity; but in the spiritual sense, to write means, symbolically, to commit to the heart for its acceptance. Sealing something up, therefore, and not writing it. This means, symbolically, not to commit it to the heart or accept it until after the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet have been cast out of the world of spirits, because it would be dangerous before then. That is because the dragon, beast and false prophet symbolize people caught up in a faith divorced from charity, and these cling steadfastly and tenaciously to their belief that one must go to God the Father and not to the Lord directly, and that the Lord is not God of heaven and earth as regards His humanity. Consequently, as regards the doctrine presented just above in no. 472, which was disclosed and continues to be disclosed, symbolized by the little book's being open - if, before the dragon was cast out, that doctrine were to be received by others than people possessing charity and its accompanying faith, who also are symbolized by John (nos. 5, 17), it would be rejected not only by them, but through them by everyone else as well. And if not rejected, still it would be falsified, even profaned.

[2] The reality of this is clearly apparent from the following chapters in Revelation when viewed in their sequence, in which we are told that they killed the Lord's two witnesses (chapter 11); that the dragon stood before the woman ready to give birth, to devour her child, and that after it fought with Michael, it pursued the woman (chapter 12); that the two beasts, one rising up from the sea and one from the earth, made common cause with him (chapter 13); that they gathered their followers together to do battle at a place called Armageddon (chapter 16); and finally that they gathered the nations Gog and Magog to do battle (chapter 20, verses 8-9); but that the dragon, beast and false prophet were cast into the lake of fire and brimstone (chapter, verse 10); and that after this took place, the New Church, which was to be the Lamb's bride, came down out of heaven (chapters 21, 22).

These are the things meant by the charge, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them." Also by the subsequent statement in this chapter, that "in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel..., the mystery of God would be concluded, as He declared to His servants the prophets" (verse 7). So, too, by this statement in the next chapter, "Then the seventh angel sounded: and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ,'" (chapter 11:, verse 15). And further, by a number of similar statements in the following chapters.

On this subject, something may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord 61.

  
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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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Revelation 16

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1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!"

2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.

3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.

6 For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."

7 I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."

8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.

9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.

10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn't repent of their works.

12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.

13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs;

14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."

16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo.

17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"

18 There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.

19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

20 Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

21 Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.