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1 Opkolio me je Jefrem lažju i dom Izrailjev prevarom; ali Juda još vlada s Bogom i veran je sa svetima.

2 Jefrem se hrani vetrom, i ide za ustokom; svaki dan množi laž i pogibao; i hvataju veru s Asircem i nose ulje u Misir.

3 I s Judom ima Gospod parbu i pohodiće Jakova prema putevima njegovim, platiće mu po delima njegovim.

4 U utrobi uhvati za petu brata svog, i u sili svojoj bori se s Bogom;

5 Bori se s anđelom, i nadjača; plaka, i moli Mu se; nađe Ga u Vetilju, i onde govori s nama.

6 Ali je Gospod Bog nad vojskama, Gospod mu je spomen.

7 Ti dakle obrati se k Bogu svom, čuvaj milost i pravdu, i uzdaj se vazda u Boga svog.

8 Trgovac je Jefrem, u ruci su mu merila lažna, milo mu je da čini krivo.

9 I govori Jefrem: Baš se obogatih, stekoh blago, ni u kome trudu mom neće mi naći nepravde koja bi bila greh.

10 A ja sam Gospod Bog tvoj od zemlje misirske, još ću ti dati da sediš u šatorima kao o praznicima.

11 I govoriću preko proroka, i umnožiću utvare, i davaću priču preko proroka.

12 Doista je Galad bezakonje, postaše sama taština; u Galgalu prinose junce na žrtvu, i oltari su im kao gomile kamenja po brazdama na njivi mojoj.

13 I Jakov pobeže u zemlju sirsku, i Izrailj služi za ženu, i za ženu čuva ovce.

14 I prorokom izvede Gospod Izrailja iz Misira, i prorokom čuva ga.

15 Jefrem Ga ljuto razgnevi; zato će ostaviti na njemu krv njegovu, i vratiće mu sramotu njegovu Gospod njegov.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #572

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572. 13:2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard. This symbolizes their heresy destructive of the church, being founded on the Word's truths falsified.

Animals in general symbolize people in respect to their affections (no. 567), and a leopard symbolizes an affection or penchant for falsifying the Word's truths. Moreover, because it is a fierce beast and slaughters harmless animals, it also symbolizes a heresy destructive of the church.

A leopard symbolizes the Word's truths falsified because of its black and white spots, its black spots symbolizing falsities, and the whiteness between them symbolizing truth. Consequently, because it is a fierce and savage beast, it symbolizes the Word's truths falsified and so destroyed.

A leopard has a similar symbolism in the following places:

Shall an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Then you also can do good who have been taught to do evil. (Jeremiah 13:23)

...a lion from the forest slew (the great men), a wolf in the fields shall devastate them; a leopard is watching their cities. Everyone who goes out... shall be torn in pieces, because... their apostasies have become mighty. (Jeremiah 5:6)

A leopard lying watching their cities is to ambush doctrinal truths - a city being doctrine (no. 194).

(Because) they forgot Me... I have become to them like a lion, and like a leopard by the path I will watch them. (Hosea 13:5-7)

A path, too, symbolizes truth (no. 176).

The wolf shall tarry with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat... (Isaiah 11:6)

The subject there is the Lord's kingdom to come. The young goat is genuine truth in the church, and the leopard is that truth falsified.

(The third beast that came up from the sea) was like a leopard, which had on its back four wings... (Daniel 7:6)

On the four beasts seen by Daniel, see no. 574.

  
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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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2. Timoteju Poslanica 1:9

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9 Koji nas spase i prizva zvanjem svetim, ne po delima našim, nego po svojoj naredbi i blagodati, koja nam je dana u Hristu Isusu pre vremena večnih;