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Daniel 8

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1 En la tria jaro de regxado de la regxo Belsxacar aperis al mi, al Daniel, vizio, post tiu, kiu aperis al mi en la komenco.

2 Kiam mi vidis la vizion, mi estis en la kastelurbo SXusxan, kiu trovigxas en la lando Elam; sed en la vizio mi vidis, ke mi estas cxe la rivero Ulaj.

3 Mi levis miajn okulojn, kaj mi ekvidis:jen unu virsxafo staras cxe la rivero; gxi havas du kornojn, kaj ambaux kornoj estas altaj, sed unu estas pli alta ol la dua, kaj la pli alta elkreskis poste.

4 Mi vidis, ke tiu virsxafo kornopusxas okcidenten, norden, kaj suden, kaj nenia besto povas kontrauxstari al gxi, kaj neniu povas savi kontraux gxia forto; kaj gxi faras cxion, kion gxi volas, kaj gxi estas granda.

5 Dum mi atente gxin rigardis, jen de okcidente iras virkapro sur la tutan teron, kaj gxi ne tusxas la teron. Tiu virkapro havis bone videblan kornon inter siaj okuloj.

6 Kaj gxi iris al tiu kornohava virsxafo, kiun mi vidis starantan cxe la rivero, kaj jxetis sin sur gxin kun furioza forto;

7 kaj mi vidis, ke, alproksimigxinte al la virsxafo, gxi furiozigxis kontraux gxi, frapis la virsxafon, kaj rompis ambaux gxiajn kornojn; kaj la virsxafo ne havis la forton, por kontrauxstari al gxi, kaj cxi tiu jxetis gxin sur la teron kaj disbatis gxin per la piedoj; kaj neniu povis savi la virsxafon kontraux gxia forto.

8 Tiam la virkapro forte grandigxis. Kiam gxi farigxis tre forta, rompigxis la granda korno, kaj anstataux gxi eliris kvar aliaj en la direkto al la kvar ventoj de la cxielo.

9 El unu el ili eliris alia korno malgranda, kiu forte kreskis suden kaj orienten kaj al la plej bela lando.

10 Kaj gxi kreskis gxis la armeo de la cxielo, kaj gxi jxetis sur la teron parton de tiu armeo kaj de la steloj, kaj dispremis ilin per la piedoj.

11 Kaj ecx kontraux la armeestron gxi levigxis, forprenis de li la cxiutagajn oferojn, kaj ruinigis lian sanktan logxejon.

12 Forto estis donita al gxi kontraux la cxiutagaj oferoj pro peko; kaj gxi jxetis la veron sur la teron kaj laboris kun sukceso.

13 Kaj mi auxdis unu sanktulon, kiu parolis, kaj tiu sanktulo diris al iu, kiu demandis:GXis kiam havos forton la profetajxo pri la cxiutagaj oferoj kaj pri la terura peko, ke la sanktejo kaj la armeo estos piedpremataj?

14 Kaj li diris al mi:GXis pasos du mil tricent vesperoj kaj matenoj; tiam la sanktejo denove estos sanktigita.

15 Dum mi, Daniel, estis rigardanta tiun vizion kaj sercxanta gxian signifon, jen starigxis antaux mi bildo de viro.

16 Kaj el meze de Ulaj mi auxdis homan vocxon, kiu vokis kaj diris:Gabriel, klarigu al li la vizion.

17 Kaj li aliris al tiu loko, kie mi staris; kaj kiam li venis, mi eksentis teruron kaj falis vizagxaltere; kaj li diris al mi:Sciu, ho homido, ke la vizio koncernas la finon de la tempo.

18 Kiam li parolis al mi, mi kusxis senkonscie sur la tero; sed li ektusxis min kaj starigis min sur mia loko.

19 Kaj li diris:Jen mi sciigas al vi, kio estos cxe la fino de la kolero; cxar tio koncernas la finan tempon.

20 La virsxafo, kiun vi vidis kun la du kornoj, estas la regxoj de Medujo kaj Persujo;

21 kaj la vila virkapro estas la regxo de Grekujo; la granda korno inter gxiaj okuloj estas la unua regxo;

22 gxi rompigxis, kaj anstataux gxi eliris kvar aliaj; kvar regnoj formigxos el la nacio, sed ne tiel fortaj, kiel gxi estis antauxe.

23 En la fina tempo de tiuj regnoj, kiam la perfiduloj havos sukceson, aperos regxo malmodesta, lerta ruzulo.

24 Li farigxos potenca, sed ne per sia forto; li faros grandan dezertigadon, li havos sukceson en siaj faroj, li pereigos fortulojn kaj la popolon de la sanktuloj.

25 Kaj pro lia sagxeco liaj ruzajxoj sukcesos en lia mano, kaj li fierigxos, kaj meze de paco li multajn pereigos, kaj li levigxos kontraux la Princon de la princoj; sed li estos frakasita, kvankam ne per mano.

26 La vizio pri la vespero kaj la mateno, kiu estas dirita al vi, estas vera; sed tenu la vizion sekrete, cxar gxi rilatas tempon malproksiman.

27 Kaj mi, Daniel, senfortigxis, kaj estis malsana dum kelke da tagoj. Poste mi levigxis kaj komencis okupadi min per la aferoj de la regxo. Mi estis konsternita de la vizio, sed neniu tion rimarkis.

   

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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the 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). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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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 44

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1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.

2 Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

3 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face.

5 Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.

6 You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.

8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.

9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

10 But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.

13 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

14 Yet will I make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:

16 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.

17 It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

18 They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their waists; they shall not clothe themselves with [anything that causes] sweat.

19 When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

24 In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.

25 They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

27 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Yahweh.

28 They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.

29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.