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joel 2

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1 Stöten i basun på Sion, och blåsen larmsignal på mitt heliga berg; må alla landets inbyggare darra! Ty HERRENS dag kommer, ja, den är nära;

2 en dag av mörker och tjocka, en dag av moln och töcken, lik en gryning som breder ut sig över bergen. Ett stort och mäktigt folk kommer, ett vars like aldrig någonsin har funnits och ej heller hädanefter skall uppstå, intill senaste släktens år.

3 Framför dem går en förtärande eld och bakom dem kommer en förbrännande låga. Likt Edens lustgård var landet framför dem, men bakom dem är det en öde öken; ja, undan dem finnes ingen räddning.

4 De te sig likasom hästar, och såsom stridshästar hasta de åstad.

5 Med ett rassel likasom av vagnar spränga de fram över bergens toppar, med ett brus såsom av en eldslåga, när den förtär strå; de äro såsom ett mäktigt folk, ordnat till strid.

6 Vid deras åsyn gripas folken av ångest, alla ansikten skifta färg.

7 Såsom hjältar hasta de åstad, lika stridsmän bestiga de murarna; var och en går sin väg rakt fram, och ingen tager miste om sin stråt.

8 Den ene tränger icke den andre, var och en går sin givna bana; mitt igenom vapnen störta de fram utan hejd.

9 I staden rusa de in på murarna hasta de åstad, i husen tränga de upp, genom fönstren bryta de sig väg, såsom tjuvar göra.

10 Vid deras åsyn darrar jorden, och himmelen bävar; solen och månen förmörkas, och stjärnorna mista sitt sken.

11 Och HERREN låter höra sin röst framför sin här ty hans skara är mycket stor, mäktig är den skara som utför hans befallning. Ja, HERRENS dag är stor och mycket fruktansvärd vem kan uthärda den?

12 Dock, nu mån I vända om till mig av allt edert hjärta, säger HERREN, med fasta och gråt och klagan.

13 Ja, riven sönder edra hjärtan, icke edra kläder, och vänden om till HERREN, eder Gud; ty nådig och barmhärtig är han, långmodig och stor i mildhet, och sådan att han ångrar det onda.

14 Måhända vänder han om och ångrar sig och lämnar kvar efter sig någon välsignelse, till spisoffer och drickoffer åt HERREN, eder Gud.

15 Stöten i basun på Sion, pålysen en helig fasta lysen ut en högtidsförsamling;

16 församlen folket, pålysen en helig sammankomst, kallen tillhopa de gamla församlen de små barnen, jämväl dem som ännu dia vid bröstet brudgummen må komma ur sin kammare och bruden ur sitt gemak.

17 Mellan förhuset och altaretprästerna, HERRENS tjänare, hålla klagogråt och säga: »HERRE, skona ditt folk, och låt icke din arvedel bliva till smälek, till ett ordspråk bland hedningarna Varför skulle man få säga bland folken: 'Var är nu deras Gud?'»

18 Så upptändes då HERREN till nitälskan för sitt land, och han ömkade sig över sitt folk;

19 HERREN svarade och sade till sitt folk: Se, jag vill sända eder säd och vin och olja, så att I fån mätta eder därav, och jag skall icke mer låta eder bliva till smälek bland hedningarna.

20 Och nordlandsskaran skall jag förjaga långt bort ifrån eder, jag skall driva den undan till ett torrt och öde Land, dess förtrupp till Östra havet och dess eftertrupp till Västra havet. Och stank skall stiga upp därav, ja, vämjelig lukt skall stiga upp därav, eftersom den har tagit sig för så stora ting.

21 Frukta icke, du land, utan fröjda dig och gläds, ty stora ting har HERREN tagit sig för

22 Frukten icke, I markens djur, ty betesmarkerna i öknen grönska, och träden bära sin frukt, fikonträden och vinträden giva sin kraft.

23 Och fröjden eder, I Sions barn, varen glada i HERREN, eder Gud; ty han giver eder höstregn, i rätt tid, han som ock förr sände ned över eder regn, både höst och vår.

24 Så skola logarna fyllas mod säd och pressarna flöda över av vin och olja.

25 Och jag skall giva eder gottgörelse för de årsgrödor som åtos upp av gräshopporna, gräsbitarna, gräsätarna och gräsgnagarna, den stora här som jag sände ut mot eder.

26 Och I skolen få äta till fyllest och bliva mätta; och då skolen I lova HERRENS, eder Guds, namn, hans som har handlat så underbart med eder; och mitt folk skall icke komma på skam evinnerligen.

27 Och I skolen förnimma att jag bor mitt i Israel, och att jag är HERREN, eder Gud, och eljest ingen. Ja, mitt folk skall icke komma på skam evinnerligen.

28 Och det skall ske därefter att jag skall utgjuta min Ande över allt kött, och edra söner och edra döttrar skola profetera, edra gamla män skola hava drömmar edra ynglingar skola se syner;

29 också över dem som äro tjänare och tjänarinnor skall jag i de dagarna utgjuta min Ande.

30 Och jag skall låta tecken synas på himmelen och på jorden: blod och eld och rökstoder.

31 Solen skall vändas i mörker och månen i blod förrän HERRENS dag kommer, den stora och fruktansvärda.

32 Men det skall ske att var och en som åkallar HERRENS namn han skall varda frälst. Ty på Sions berg och i Jerusalem skall finnas en räddad skara, såsom HERREN har sagt; och till de undsluppna skola höra de som HERREN kallar.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #595

इस मार्ग का अध्ययन करें

  
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595. And the rainbow above his head, signifies the interior things of the Word. This is evident from the signification of the "rainbow," as being Divine truth such as the Word is in the spiritual sense (of which presently); and from the signification of "above the head," as being what is interior; for "above" and "higher" signify within and interior, as can be seen from this, that in heaven when interior is said higher is meant; for the heavens of the angels who are interior or interiorly wise appear also above the heavens of the angels who are more external or externally wise. For this reason the three heavens are distinguished from one another by their height, the inmost or third heaven appearing above the middle or second heaven, and this above the ultimate or first.

[2] "Higher" signifies interior, because when higher and lower things are together, that is, form what is simultaneous, as in the head of man, they exist together in such an order that those things that had in successive order existed above are placed within, and those that had in successive order existed below are placed without. This is why higher things signify interior things, and lower things signify exterior things. This may be illustrated to the comprehension by the idea of a surface, in the center of which are things purer, and in the circumferences things grosser; things higher and lower form such a surface when they are let down into one and make what is simultaneous. From this it can also be seen, what is signified by the "angel," spoken of just above, "encompassed with a cloud," since for the same reason and from the same idea, "to be encompassed" means by what is without and below.

[3] A "rainbow" signifies interior Divine truth, such as the Word is in the spiritual sense, because the light of heaven, like as the light of the world, according to its incidence upon objects and its modification in them, presents variegations of color and also rainbows; these it has also sometimes been granted me to see in the angelic heaven (as may be seen described in Arcana Coelestia 1623-1625). But the rainbows that appear in the angelic heaven differ from the rainbows that appear in the world, in that the rainbows of heaven are from a spiritual origin, while the rainbows of the world are from a natural origin; for the rainbows of heaven are from the light that arises from the Lord as a sun, and as that sun is in its essence the Lord's Divine love, and the light therefrom is Divine truth, the variegations of light which are presented as rainbows are variegations of intelligence and wisdom with the angels. From this it is that rainbows there signify the form and beauty of spiritual Divine truth. But the rainbows of the world are from a natural origin, namely, from the sun of the world and its light; therefore they are merely modifications and consequent variegations of light by waters that fall from a cloud. And because there are like appearances of color in the spiritual world as in the natural world, and because these correspond, therefore the rainbows of the world have a similar signification as the rainbows of heaven, namely, spiritual Divine truths in their form and beauty; these truths are such as those of the Word in the spiritual sense.

[4] "Rainbows" have a similar signification in Ezekiel:

Above the expanse that was over the head 1 of the cherubim was the appearance of a sapphire stone, the likeness of a throne; and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as of the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as it were the appearance of a living coal like the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins and upward; but from the appearance of his loins even downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about, as the appearance of a rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain so was the appearance of the glory round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah (Ezekiel 1:26-28).

As the "cherubim" signify providence and guard that the Lord be not approached except through the good of love, there appeared a throne, and upon the throne the appearance of a man; "throne" signifying the universal heaven, and the "man upon the throne," the Lord Himself; "the appearance of a living coal, like the appearance of fire from the appearance of his loins and upward," signifies celestial Divine love, which reigns in the higher heavens, for the higher heavens are represented by the upper part of the body, from the loins upward, to which they correspond, for these heavens constitute that part in the Greatest Man, which is heaven; "fire like a living coal" signifies that love, so do the "loins," for the "loins" correspond to the marriage of good and truth, which those have who are in the higher heavens; this is why heaven is called a "marriage," and the Lord is called the "bridegroom" and "husband," and heaven and the church the "bride" and "wife." "From his loins downward he appeared like the brightness of fire which was like a rainbow" signifies the spiritual Divine love, which reigns in the lower heavens, for the region of the body from the loins down to the soles of the feet corresponds to that love; and because that love proceeds from celestial Divine love it is called "fire and its brightness;" Divine truth from the Divine good of love is what is bright and presents the appearance of a rainbow. This makes evident also that the translucence of spiritual Divine truth through natural Divine truth is what produces that appearance in the heavens, and consequently that is what it signifies (as was said above; but this can be more clearly understood from what is said on Heaven in the work on Heaven and Hell; that from the Lord's Divine Human it represents One Man, n. 59-86; on the Correspondence of all Things of Heaven with all Things of Man, n. 87-102; and in the Arcana Coelestia, on the correspondence of the loins, n. 3021, 4280, 4462, 5050-5062).

[5] "The bow in the cloud" or the rainbow, has a similar signification in the book of Genesis:

God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I give between Me and you and every living soul that is with you, unto the generations of an age. I have given My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. And it shall be in clouding Myself with a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living soul in all flesh; and the waters shall no more be for a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I see it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul in all flesh that is upon the earth (Genesis 9:12-17).

Unless it is known that there is a spiritual sense in every particular of the Word it may be supposed that the bow in the cloud, which is called a rainbow, appears for a sign that the earth shall no more be destroyed by a flood, and yet that bow exists from causes in nature, and is produced mediately when rays of light from the sun pass through the watery particles of rain from a cloud, which shows that like bows or rainbows existed before the flood. For this reason, in consequence of the correspondence between spiritual and natural things, such rainbows as are seen from the earth by men mean such rainbows as are seen by angels in the spiritual world, all of which arise from the light of heaven and its modification in the spiritual-natural sphere there, and thus from spiritual Divine truth, and its translucence in natural Divine truth; for all light in heaven is spiritual, and in its essence is the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord. From this it can be seen that "the bow in the cloud or rainbow" signifies spiritual Divine truth translucent through natural Divine truth, and there is such a translucence with those who are being reformed and regenerated by the Lord by means of Divine truth and a life according to it. In the heavens also this very translucence appears as a rainbow. "The sign of a covenant" signifies the Lord's presence and conjunction with such, for "covenant" signifies conjunction. This sign was given because the "flood," by which the human race was then destroyed, signifies the direful falsities of evil, from which the posterity of the Most Ancient Church perished. The restoration and the establishment of a new church, called the Ancient Church, by Divine truth conjoined to spiritual good, which in its essence is charity, are what rainbows representatively manifest in heaven and thence signify in the world. (But as these words involve more arcana than can be explained briefly, see for a detailed explanation of them Arcana Coelestia 1031-1059.)

फुटनोट:

1. Latin has "expanse," the Hebrew "the head," as is also found in AE 253, 280, 297.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.