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Daniel 12

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1 At sa panahong yaon ay tatayo si Miguel, na dakilang prinsipe na tumatayo sa ikabubuti ng mga anak ng iyong bayan; at magkakaroon ng panahon ng kabagabagan, na hindi nangyari kailan man mula nang magkaroon ng bansa hanggang sa panahong yaon: at sa panahong yaon ay maliligtas ang iyong bayan, bawa't isa na masusumpungan na nakasulat sa aklat.

2 At marami sa kanila na nangatutulog sa alabok ng lupa ay mangagigising, ang iba'y sa walang hanggang buhay, at ang iba'y sa kahihiyan at sa walang hanggang pagkapahamak.

3 At silang pantas ay sisilang na parang ningning ng langit; at silang mangagbabalik ng marami sa katuwiran ay parang mga bituin magpakailan man.

4 Nguni't ikaw, Oh Daniel, isara mo ang mga salita, at tatakan mo ang aklat, hanggang sa panahon ng kawakasan: marami ang tatakbo ng paroo't parito, at ang kaalaman ay lalago.

5 Nang magkagayo'y akong si Daniel ay tumingin, at, narito, nakatayo ang ibang dalawa, ang isa'y sa dakong ito ng pangpang ng ilog, at ang isa'y sa kabilang pangpang ng ilog sa dakong yaon.

6 At ang isa'y nagsalita sa lalaking nabibihisan ng kayong lino, na nasa ibabaw ng tubig ng ilog, Hanggang kailan mangyayari ang wakas ng mga kababalaghang ito?

7 At aking napakinggan ang lalaking nakapanamit ng kayong lino, na nasa ibabaw ng tubig ng ilog, nang kaniyang itaas ang kaniyang kanan at kaniyang kaliwang kamay sa langit, at sumumpa sa pamamagitan ng nabubuhay magpakailan man na magiging sa isang panahon, mga panahon, at kalahati ng isang panahon; at pagka kanilang natapos na mapagputol-putol ang kapangyarihan ng banal na bayan, ang lahat na bagay na ito ay matatapos.

8 At aking narinig, nguni't di ko naunawa: nang magkagayo'y sinabi ko, Oh Panginoon ko, ano ang magiging wakas ng mga bagay na ito?

9 At sinabi niya, Yumaon ka ng iyong lakad, Daniel; sapagka't ang mga salita ay nasarhan at natatakan hanggang sa panahon ng kawakasan.

10 Marami ang magpapakalinis, at magpapakaputi, at magpapakadalisay; nguni't ang masasama ay gagawa na may kasamaan; at wala sa masasama na makakaunawa; nguni't silang pantas ay mangakakaunawa.

11 At mula sa panahon na ang palaging handog na susunugin ay aalisin, at matatayo ang kasuklamsuklam na naninira, ay magkakaroon ng isang libo't dalawang daan at siyam na pung araw.

12 Mapalad siyang naghihintay, at datnin ng isang libo't tatlong daan at tatlong pu't limang araw.

13 Nguni't yumaon ka ng iyong lakad hanggang sa ang wakas ay mangyari; sapagka't ikaw ay magpapahinga, at tatayo sa iyong kapalaran, sa wakas ng mga araw.

   

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Apocalypse Revealed #949

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949. 22:12 "And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work." This symbolically means that the Lord will surely come, and His presence is heaven and the felicity of eternal life for everyone in accordance with his faith in the Lord and his life in obedience to the Lord's commandments.

"Behold, I am coming quickly" symbolically means that the Lord will surely come, namely, to execute judgment and to establish a new heaven and a new church. That immediacy in time means certainty may be seen in nos. 4, 943, 944, 947. "My reward is with Me" symbolically means that the Lord's very presence is heaven and the felicity of eternal life. That the reward is heaven and eternal happiness may be seen in no. 526. That it is the Lord's very presence will be seen below.

To give to everyone according to his work means, symbolically, to do so in accordance with a person's conjunction with the Lord through faith in the Lord and living in obedience to His commandments. This is the symbolic meaning because good works symbolize charity and faith internally, and at the same time the effects of these outwardly. And because charity and faith come from the Lord, and are received in accordance with a person's conjunction with Him, it is apparent that these are what are symbolically meant. The meaning here thus coheres as well with what has been said before.

That good works are charity and faith inwardly and at the same time the effects of these outwardly may be seen in nos. 641, 868, 871 above.

[2] People know that charity and faith come not from man, but from the Lord. And because they come from the Lord, they are received in accordance with a person's conjunction with Him, and a conjunction with Him is formed through faith in Him and living in accordance with His commandments. Faith in Him means a confidence that He will save, and this confidence is found in people who turn to Him directly and refrain from evils as being sins. Such a faith is not possible in others.

We said that "My reward is with Me" symbolically means that the Lord's very presence is heaven and the felicity of eternal life, for the reward is an inward bliss, called peace, and a consequent outer joy. This is possible only from the Lord, and whatever comes from the Lord not only emanates from Him, but also constitutes His very presence. For the Lord cannot emit anything from Himself without His being present in it. Indeed, He is omnipresent in everyone in accordance with some conjunction, and the conjunction depends on reception, and the reception on love and wisdom, or if you please, on charity and faith, and charity and faith on the person's way of life, and the person's way of life on an aversion to evil and falsity, and an aversion to evil and falsity on knowing what evil and falsity are, and on repenting then and at the same time looking to the Lord.

[3] That the reward not only comes from the Lord but also constitutes His very presence is apparent from passages in the Word where we are told that those people who are conjoined with Him are in Him and have Him in them, as may be seen in John 14:20-24, 1 15:4, 15:5ff., 2 17:19, 17:21-22, 17:26, 3 and elsewhere (see no. 883 above). And also where we are told that the Holy Spirit is in them 4 - the Holy Spirit being the Lord, for it is His Divine presence. So, too, when we pray that God may dwell in people, teaching them, leading them, giving them a tongue to preach and a body to do what is good, and other like things as well.

The Lord, indeed, is love itself and wisdom itself. These two do not exist in some location, but are present wherever they are received, in accordance with the character of the reception.

But this arcanum can be understood only by people who are wise owing to their receiving the light of heaven from the Lord. It is for them what we wrote in two works, one being Divine Providence and the other Divine Love and Wisdom, where we showed that the Lord Himself is present in people in accordance with their reception, and not some Divine quality apart from Him. This is the concept that angels have when they conceive of the Divine omnipresence, and I do not doubt that some Christians have a similar concept.

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1. "At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me."

2. "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing."

3. "And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth..., that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one... And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."

4. E.g., John 20:22

  
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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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Matthew 13:24-30

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24 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

27 The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'

28 "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

29 "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"