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Hesekiel 11

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1 Ja henki nosti minun ylös ja vei minun portin eteen Herran huoneen puoleen, joka itään päin on, ja katso: portissa oli viisikolmattakymmentä miestä. Ja minä näin niiden seassa Jasanian Assurin pojan, ja Pelatian Benajan pojan, kansan päämiehet.

2 Ja hän sanoi minulle: sinä ihmisen poika, näillä miehillä ovat väärät ajatukset ja vahingolliset neuvot tässä kaupungissa,

3 Jotka sanovat: ei se vielä niin läsnä ole, rakentakaamme huoneita; tämä on pata, me olemme liha.

4 Sentähden ennusta sinä heitä vastaan, ennusta, sinä ihmisen poika.

5 Ja Herran henki lankesi minun päälleni, ja sanoi minulle: sano: näin sanoo Herra: te Israelin huoneesta olette niin puhuneet: minä tiedän kyllä teidän henkenne ajatukset.

6 Te olette monta tappaneet tässä kaupungissa, ja hänen katunsa täyttäneet tapetuilla.

7 Sentähden sanoo Herra, Herra näin: ne jotka te siellä tappaneet olette, ne ovat liha, ja tämä on pata; mutta minä tahdon teitä viedä tästä ulos.

8 Miekan, jota te pelkäätte, annan minä tulla teidän päällenne, sanoo Herra, Herra.

9 Minä tahdon ajaa teitä sieltä ulos, ja antaa teitä muukalaisten käsiin, ja tehdä teille oikeuden.

10 Teidän pitää miekalla lankeeman; Israelin maan äärissä minä tahdon tuomita teitä, ja teidän pitää ymmärtämän, että minä olen Herra.

11 Mutta ei tämä pidä oleman teidän patanne, ettekä te lihana siinä; vaan Israelin maan äärissä tahdon minä tuomita teitä.

12 Ja teidän pitää ymmärtämän, että minä olen Herra; sillä ette ole vaeltaneet minun säätyini jälkeen, ja ette ole pitäneet minun oikeuksiani, mutta olette tehneet pakanain tavan jälkeen, jotka teidän ympärillänne ovat.

13 Ja kuin minä näin ennustin, niin Pelatia Benjan poika kuoli. Ja minä lankesin kasvoilleni, ja huusin korkialla äänellä ja sanoin: Voi Herra, Herra, sinä lopetat peräti Israelin jäänneet.

14 Niin tuli Herran sana minulle ja sanoi:

15 Sinä ihmisen poika, ne ovat sinun veljes, sinun veljes ja lähimmäiset lankos, ja koko Israelin huone, joille Jerusalemin asuvaiset sanoneet ovat: menkäät kauvas Herrasta, maa on meille annettu omaisuudeksi.

16 Sentähden sano sinä: näin sanoo Herra, Herra: totta minä olen antanut ajaa heitä kauvas pakanain sekaan, ja olen tosin hajoittanut heitä maakuntiin, niin tahdon minä kuitenkin äkisti olla heidän pyhityksensä niissä maakunnissa, joihinka he joutuneet ovat.

17 Sano sentähden: näin sanoo Herra, Herra: minä tahdon koota teitä niistä kansoista, ja koota teitä niistä maakunnista, joihinka te hajoitetut olette, ja tahdon antaa teille Israelin maan.

18 Sinne pitää heidän tuleman ja ottaman sieltä ulos kaiken hänen saastaisuutensa ja kaikki hänen kauhistuksensa.

19 Ja minä tahdon antaa heille yhden sydämen, ja antaa teihin uuden hengen, ja tahdon ottaa pois kivisen sydämen heidän lihastansa, ja antaa heille lihaisen sydämen;

20 Että heidän pitää vaeltaman minun säädyissäni, ja pitämän minun oikeuteni, ja tekemän sen jälkeen; ja heidän pitää oleman minun kanssani, ja minä tahdon olla heidän Jumalansa.

21 Mutta niille, jotka vaeltavat sydämensä kauhistuksen ja hirmuisuuden jälkeen, niille minä tahdon panna heidän tekonsa heidän päänsä päälle, sanoo Herra, Herra.

22 Niin nostivat Kerubimit siipiänsä, ja rattaat kävivät heidän sivussansa, ja Israelin Jumalan kunnia oli heidän päällänsä.

23 Ja Herran kunnia kävi keskellä kaupunkia ylös, ja asettui sille vuorelle, joka on itään päin kaupungista.

24 Ja henki otti minun, ja johdatti minun näyssä ja Jumalan hengessä Kaldean maalle vankien tykö; ja se näky, jonka minä näin, katosi minun edestäni.

25 Ja minä sanoin vangeille kaikki Herran sanat, jotka hän minulle osoittanut oli.

   


SWORD version by Tero Favorin (tero at favorin dot com)

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Divine Providence # 134

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134a. 2. No one is reformed by visions or by conversations with the dead, because they compel. There are two kinds of visions, divine and demonic. Divine visions are given by means of portrayals in heaven, while demonic visions are effected though magical events in hell. There are imaginary visions as well, visions that are the illusions of a mind that has lost its bearings.

Divine visions (which as just noted are given by means of portrayals in heaven) are the kind that happened to the prophets. When they were having these visions they were not in the body but in the spirit, because visions cannot happen to us while we are physically awake. So when the prophets saw visions, it says that they were in the spirit, as the following passages show.

Ezekiel said, "The spirit lifted me up and took me back to Chaldea to the captivity in a vision of God, in the spirit of God; so the vision that I saw came over me" (Ezekiel 11:1, 24). Then too, spirits held him up between earth and heaven and brought him to Jerusalem in visions of God (Ezekiel 8:3 and following). The same thing happened in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw the four animals that were cherubim (Ezekiel chapters 1 and 10) and when he saw the new temple, the new earth, and the angel measuring them (Ezekiel chapters 40-48). It says in chapter Ezekiel 40:2, 26 that he was in visions of God at the time, and in chapter Ezekiel 43:5 that he was in the spirit.

[2] Zechariah was in the same kind of state when he saw the man on horseback among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following), when he saw the four horns and the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18, 20, 21; Zechariah 2:1 and following), when he saw the lampstand and the two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following), when he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6), and when he saw the four chariots coming out from the four mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw the four beasts rising from the sea (Daniel 6:1 [7:1] and following), and when he saw the battles of the ram and the goat (Daniel 8:1 and following). It says in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, and 13; in Daniel 8:2; and in Daniel 10:1, 7, and 8 that he saw these things in the vision of his spirit, and it says in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision.

[3] John was in the vision of the spirit when he saw the things he describes in the Book of Revelation--for example, when he saw the seven lampstands with the Human-born One in their midst (Revelation 1:12-16), when he saw the throne in heaven with someone sitting on it, surrounded by the four animals that were cherubim (Revelation 4), when he saw the book of life taken by the Lamb (Revelation 5), when he saw the horses come out of the book (Revelation 6), when he saw the seven angels with their trumpets (Revelation 8), when he saw the pit of the abyss opened with the locusts coming out of it (Revelation 9), when he saw the dragon and its battle with Michael (Revelation 12), when he saw the two beasts rise up, one from the sea and one from the land (Revelation 13), when he saw the woman sitting on the scarlet beast (Revelation 17) and the destruction of Babylon (Revelation 18), when he saw the white horse with someone riding it (Revelation 18 [19]), when he saw the new heaven and the new earth and the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven (Revelation 21), and when he saw the river of water of life (Revelation 22). It says that he saw these things in the vision of his spirit in Revelation 1:11 [1:10]; Revelation 4:2; Revelation 5:1; Revelation 6:1; and Revelation 21:12 [21:10].

These were the kinds of visions that were visible from heaven to the sight of their spirits and not to their physical sight.

Things like this do not happen nowadays, because if they did they would not be understood, since they happen by means of images whose details are pointing to inner features of the church and secrets of heaven. It was foretold in Daniel 9:24 that they would stop when the Lord came into the world.

However, demonic visions have sometimes occurred. They are brought about by spirits who inspire deceptive passions and visions and who call themselves the Holy Spirit because of a mental confusion that engulfs them. Now, however, these spirits have been gathered in by the Lord and consigned to a hell separate from the other hells.

We can see from all this that no one can be reformed by any visions except the ones that are in the Word. There are imaginary visions as well, but these are nothing but the illusions of a mind that has lost its bearings.

134b. The story that the Lord told about the rich man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham's lap shows that no one is reformed by conversations with the dead. The rich man said, "Father Abraham, I beg you to send Lazarus to my father's house where I have five brothers, to bear witness to them so that they do not come to this place of torment." Abraham said to him, "They have Moses and the prophets: let them heed them." But he said, "No, father Abraham, but if someone came to them from the dead, they would repent." He answered him, "If they do not heed Moses and the prophets, they would not be convinced if someone rose from the dead" (Luke 16:27-31).

Conversations with the dead may lead to the same results as miracles that I have just described. That is, we may be convinced and be constrained to worship for a short while. However, since this deprives us of rational functioning at the same time that it hems in our evils, as already noted [130-131, 133], this spell or inner restraint is released and the pent-up evils erupt in blasphemy and profanation. Still, this happens only when spirits have imposed some religious dogma. No good spirit--let alone any angel of heaven--would ever do this.

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

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Revelation 21

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1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."

5 He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."

6 He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

7 He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride."

10 He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it was a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

13 On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

15 He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.

16 The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand Twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.

17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

18 The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.

19 The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.

21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.

23 The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

24 The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

25 Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

26 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.

27 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.