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Hesekiel 34:6

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6 Meine Schafe irren umher auf allen Bergen und auf jedem hohen Hügel; und über das ganze Land hin sind meine Schafe zerstreut worden, und da ist niemand, der nach ihnen fragt, und niemand, der sie sucht. -

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#137 Omnipresence

By Jonathan S. Rose

Title: Omnipresence

Topic: Trinity

Summary: We look at what Scripture says about God's omnipresence and how it is that God can be everywhere, and yet seem absent or distant.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Psalms 46; 139:8, 10
Jeremiah 1:4; 23:23-24
Amos 9:1-2
Acts of the Apostles 17:27-28
Ephesians 4:9-10
John 8:58; 12:37, 39
Psalms 5:6-8
Leviticus 26:11-12
Ezekiel 34:20, 25, 30
John 12:26; 14:1
2 Corinthians 6:16
1 John 4:16
Revelation 21:3
Jonah 1:1, 15, 17; 2:9-10, 3

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from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Heaven and Hell #25

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25. The angels in the Lord's celestial kingdom, from their more interior reception of the Divine of the Lord, far excel in wisdom and glory the angels that are in His spiritual kingdom; for they are in love to the Lord, and consequently are nearer and more closely conjoined to Him. 1 These angels are such because they have received and continue to receive Divine truths at once in their life, and not first in memory and thought, as the spiritual angels do. Consequently they have Divine truths written in their hearts, and they perceive them, and as it were see them, in themselves; nor do they ever reason about them whether they are true or not. 2 They are such as are described in Jeremiah:

I will put my law in their mind, and will write it in their heart. They shall teach no more everyone his friend and everyone his brother, saying, Know ye Jehovah. They shall know Me, from the least of them even to the greatest of them (Jeremiah 31:33, 34).

And they are called in Isaiah:

Taught of Jehovah (Isaiah 54:13).

That the "taught of Jehovah" are those who are taught by the Lord He Himself teaches in John ( John 6:45, 46).

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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] The celestial angels immeasurably surpass in wisdom the spiritual angels (Arcana Coelestia 2718, 9995).

The nature of the distinction between celestial angels and spiritual angels (2088, 2669, 2708, 2715, 3235, 3240, 4788, 7068, 8521, 9277, 10295).

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] The celestial angels do not reason about truths of faith, because they perceive them in themselves; but the spiritual angels reason about them whether they are true or not (202, 337, 597, 607, 784, 1121, 1384, 1898, 1919, 3246, 4448, 7680, 7877, 8780, 9277, 10786).

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