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Hesekiel 39

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1 Ja sinä, ihmisen poika, ennusta Gogia vastaan ja sano: näin sanoo Herra, Herra: katso, minä tulen sinun kimppuus, Gog, sinä joka olet Mesekin ja Tubalin ylimmäinen päämies;

2 Ja tahdon sinun palauttaa ja houkutella ulos , ja noudan sinun pohjan ääristä, ja annan sinun tulla Israelin vuorille:

3 Ja lyön joutsen pois sinun vasemmasta kädestäs ja heitän sinun nuoles oikiasta kädestäs.

4 Israelin vuorilla pitää sinun kaatuman, kaiken sinun joukkos kanssa ja sen väen kanssa, joka sinun tykönäs on. Minä annan sinun linnuille, kusta ikänä he lentävät, ja eläimille ruaksi.

5 Sinun pitää lankeeman kedolla; sillä minä Herra, Herra olen sen sanonut.

6 Ja minä heitän tulen Magogin päälle ja niiden päälle, jotka luodoissa surutoinna asuvat; ja heidän pitää ymmärtämän minun olevan Herran.

7 Ja minä tahdon tehdä minun pyhän nimeni tiettäväksi minun kansani Israelin seassa, ja en tahdo enään antaa minun pyhää nimeäni häväistä; vaan pakanain pitää ymmärtämän minun olevan Herran Israelin pyhän.

8 Katso, jos se on parhaallaansa tullut ja tapahtunut, sanoo Herra, Herra: se on se päivä, josta minä olen puhunut.

9 Ja Israelin kaupunkien asuvaisten pitää lähtemän ulos, ja tekemän valkian, ja polttaman sota-aseet, kaikellaiset kilvet, nuolet, seipäät ja kanget; jotka kestävät palaa seitsemän ajastaikaa.

10 Niin ettei tarvita hakea puita kedolta, eli pidä metsästä hakattaman; sillä he polttavat sota-aseita; ja pitää ryöstämän niitä, joilta he ovat ryöstetyt, ja raateleman niitä, joilta he olivat raadellut, sanoo Herra, Herra.

11 Ja sen pitää silloin tapahtuman, että minä annan Gogille paikan hautaamiseksi Israelissa, sen laakson, josta meren tykö itään päin mennään, niin että ne, jotka siitä menevät ohitse, pitää sieramensa tukitseman; ja heidän pitää Gogin joukkoinensa siihen hautaaman, ja se pitää kutsuttaman Gogin joukon laaksoksi.

12 Mutta Israelin huoneen pitää heitä hautaaman, että maa sen kautta pitää puhdistettaman koko seitsemän kuukautta.

13 Ja kaikella maakunnan kansalla pitää tekemistä oleman heidän hautaamisessansa, ja pitää saaman siitä kuuluisan nimen; että minä sinä päivänä kunnoitetuksi tulen, sanoo Herra, Herra.

14 Ja heidän pitää asettaman miehiä käymään joka päivä maata ympäri, ja heidän kanssansa kuolleiden hautain kaivajat, hautaaman jääneitä maan päällä, että se puhdistettaisiin; seitsemän kuukauden perästä pitää heidän rupeeman sitä tutkistelemaan.

15 Ja ne, jotka maata käyvät ympäri ja jossakussa paikassa ihmisen luut näkevät, heidän pitää siihen merkin paneman; siihenasti kuin haudankaivajat ne myös Gogin joukon laaksoon hautaavat.

16 Kaupunki myös pitää siellä kutsuttaman Hamonaksi: niin pitää heidän maan perkaaman.

17 Nyt sinä ihmisen poika, näin sanoo Herra, Herra: sano kaikille linnuille, kusta ikänä he lentävät, ja kaikille eläimille kedolla: kokoontukaat ja tulkaat tänne, tulkaat kokoon joka paikasta ympäriltä minun teurasuhrilleni, jonka minä teille teurastan suureksi teurasuhriksi Israelin vuorilla, ja syökäät lihaa, ja juokaat verta.

18 Teidän pitää syömän väkeväin lihaa, ja juoman maan päämiesten verta; oinaisten, karitsain, kauristen, härkäin, jotka kaikki lihavat ja hyvin syötetyt ovat.

19 Ja teidän pitää syömän lihavuutta, niin että te ravituksi tulette, ja juoman verta, niin että te juovuksiin tulette, siitä teurasuhrista, jonka minä teille teurastan.

20 Ravitkaat teitänne minun pöydälläni hevosista ja ratsastajista, väkevistä ja kaikkinaisesta sotaväestä, sanoo Herra, Herra.

21 Ja minä annan minun kunniani tulla pakanain sekaan, niin että kaikki pakanat pitää näkemän minun tuomioni, jonka minä olen tehnyt, ja minun käteni, jonka minä olen pannut heidän päällensä.

22 Ja Israelin huoneen pitää ymmärtämän, että minä Herra olen heidän Jumalansa, siitä päivästä ja aina edemmä.

23 Niin myös kaikkein pakanain pitää ymmärtämän Israelin huoneen pahain tekoinsa tähden viedyksi pois, sentähden että he minua vastaan rikkoneet ovat; ja minä peitin kasvoni heidän edestänsä, ja annoin heitä vihollistensa käsiin, niin että heidän kaikkein piti miekan kautta lankeeman.

24 Niinkuin heidän saastaisuutensa ja pahat tekonsa ansainneet olivat, tein minä heille, ja peitin minun kasvoni heidän edestänsä.

25 Sentähden näin sanoo Herra, Herra: nyt minä tahdon pelastaa Jakobin vangit, ja armahtaa koko Israelin huonetta, ja kiivoitella minun pyhän nimeni tähden.

26 Mutta heidän pitää kantaman häväistyksensä ja rikoksensa, joilla he ovat rikkoneet minua vastaan, koska he surutoinna maallansa asuvat, niin ettei kenkään heitä peljätä.

27 Ja minä olen heidät kansoista jälleen kotia tuonut, ja koonnut heitä vihollistensa maalta, ja olen heissä pyhitetyksi tullut monien pakanain silmäin edessä.

28 Ja niin pitää heidän ymmärtämän, että minä Herra olen heidän Jumalansa, joka olen antanut viedä heitä pois pakanain sekaan, ja antanut taas koota heitä maallensa, ja en antanut yhtäkään heistä sinne jäädä.

29 Ja en minä enään tahdo peittää minun kasvojani heidän edestänsä; sillä minä olen vuodattanut minun henkeni Israelin huoneen päälle, sanoo Herra, Herra.

   


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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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Ezekiel 1

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1 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

2 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

3 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.

4 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.

5 Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

6 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

7 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

8 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings [thus]:

9 their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when they went; each one went straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side; and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side; the four of them also had the face of an eagle.

11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and Two covered their bodies.

12 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn't turn when they went.

13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

14 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.

16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.

18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

22 Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth Over their heads above.

23 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.

24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings.

25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.

26 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

27 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

28 As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.