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Esekiel 47

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1 Så førte han mig tilbake til husets inngang, og se, det kom vann ut under husets dørtreskel mot øst, for husets forside vendte mot øst; og vannet rant ned fra husets høire side, sønnenfor alteret.

2 Så lot han mig gå ut gjennem nordporten og førte mig omkring utenfor, til den ytre port, til den port som vender mot øst, og se, det vellet vann frem fra den høire side.

3 Mannen gikk nu mot øst med en målesnor i hånden og målte tusen alen; så lot han mig vade gjennem vannet, og vannet nådde mig til anklene.

4 Atter målte han tusen alen og lot mig vade gjennem vannet; da nådde vannet mig til knærne. Atter målte han tusen alen og lot mig vade gjennem vann som nådde til lendene.

5 Så målte han atter tusen alen; da var det en bekk som jeg ikke kunde vade igjennem; for vannet var så høit at en måtte svømme der - det var en bekk som ikke lot sig vade.

6 Og han sa til mig: Har du sett det, menneskesønn? Og han førte mig tilbake igjen langs bekkens bredd.

7 Da jeg vendte tilbake, se, da stod det på bekkens bredd en stor mengde trær på begge sider.

8 Og han sa til mig: Dette vann rinner til østbygdene og videre ned til ødemarken og faller så i havet*; og når det ledes ut i havet, blir vannet der sundt. / {* det Døde Hav.}

9 Og alle levende skapninger, som det vrimler av overalt hvor dobbeltbekken* kommer, skal leve, og fiskene skal bli meget tallrike; for når dette vann kommer dit, blir der sundhet og liv overalt hvor bekken kommer. / {* d.e. den store bekk; ESK 47, 5.}

10 Og det skal stå fiskere ved havet* fra En-Gedi til En-Egla'im; det skal være et sted til å kaste fiskegarn ut; det skal finnes fisk av forskjellig slag i stor mengde, som i det store hav. / {* det Døde hav.}

11 Men myrene og pyttene der skal ikke bli sunde; de skal bare være til å utvinne salt av.

12 Ved bekken skal det på begge dens bredder vokse op allehånde frukttrær; deres blad skal ikke visne, og deres frukt skal ikke høre op; hver måned skal de bære ny frukt; for vannet til dem går ut fra helligdommen; og deres frukt skal være til mat, og deres blad til lægedom.

13 sier Herren, Israels Gud: Dette er de grenser hvorefter I skal skifte ut landet til arv for Israels tolv stammer; Josef skal ha to lodder.

14 I skal ta det til arv, den ene som den andre, fordi jeg har løftet min hånd og svoret å ville gi eders fedre det, og således skal dette land tilfalle eder som arv.

15 Dette skal være landets grenser: Mot nord fra det store hav på veien til Hetlon i retning mot Sedad,

16 Hamat, Berota, Sibra'im, som ligger mellem Damaskus' landemerke og Hamats landemerke, det mellemste Haser, som ligger bortimot Havrans landemerke.

17 Således skal grensen gå fra havet til Hasar-Enon ved Damaskus' landemerke og videre enda lenger mot nord op til Hamats landemerke. Dette er nordsiden.

18 På østsiden: Jordan, mellem Havran og Damaskus og mellem Gilead og Israels land; fra nordgrensen til det østlige hav skal I måle. Dette er østsiden.

19 På sydsiden - mot syd - skal grensen gå fra Tamar til Meribots vann ved Kades; arven skal nå til det store hav. Dette er sydsiden - grensen mot syd.

20 Og på vestsiden skal det store hav være grensen og gå fra sydgrensen til midt imot Hamat. Dette er vestsiden.

21 Dette land skal I dele mellem eder efter Israels stammer.

22 I skal lodde det ut til arv for eder og de fremmede som bor iblandt eder, og som har fått barn iblandt eder; de skal for eder være som de innfødte blandt Israels barn; de skal få arv sammen med eder blandt Israels stammer.

23 I den stamme hvor den fremmede bor, der skal I gi ham hans arv, sier Herren, Israels Gud.

   

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Conjugial Love #27

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27. MARRIAGES IN HEAVEN

People cannot accept as a matter of faith that marriages exist in heaven if they believe that a person is a soul or spirit after death, and hold to an idea of the soul or spirit as being like thin air or a puff of breath. Nor can they accept it if they believe that a person does not live again as a person until after the day of the Last Judgment.

In general, people cannot accept the existence of marriages in heaven if they know nothing about the spiritual world, the world in which angels and spirits live, consequently where the heavens and hells are. Moreover, because that world has till now remained unknown, and because it has not been known at all that the angels in heaven are people in perfect form, likewise that the spirits in hell are people in imperfect form, therefore nothing could be revealed respecting marriages in that world. Indeed, people would have said, "How can a soul be united with a soul, or a bit of breath with a bit of breath, as husbands and wives are united on earth?"

There would have been many other objections, too, which, the moment they were voiced, would have taken away and dispelled belief in the existence of marriages in the other world.

Now, however, many things have been revealed about that world, and what that world is like has been described. This I did in the book, Heaven and Hell, and also in The Apocalypse Revealed. Because of this, the existence of marriages there can be defended, even to the sight of reason, by the following arguments:

1. A person lives as a person after death.

2. A male is then still a male, and a female still a female.

3. Everyone's own love remains in him after death.

4. Especially does a love for the opposite sex remain, and in the case of people coming into heaven, namely, people who become spiritual on earth, conjugial love.

5. All of this has been fully attested by personal observation.

6. Consequently, marriages exist in heaven.

7. Spiritual marriage is meant by the Lord's words, that after the resurrection they are not given in marriage.

Development of these arguments now follows, taking them one by one:

  
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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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Luke 24

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1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

3 They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body.

4 It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

6 He isn't here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,

7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"

8 They remembered his words,

9 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

10 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.

11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them.

12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

13 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

14 They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.

15 It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.

16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

17 He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?"

18 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have happened there in these days?"

19 He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

21 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

22 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

23 and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

24 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn't see him."

25 He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

26 Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?"

27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

28 They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

29 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

30 It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.

31 Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

32 They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"

33 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

34 saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"

35 They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace be to you."

37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?

39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."

40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

41 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

42 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.

43 He took them, and ate in front of them.

44 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."

45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

46 He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

48 You are witnesses of these things.

49 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."

50 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

51 It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven.

52 They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.