God
When the Bible speaks of "Jehovah," it is representing love itself, the inmost love that is the essence of the Lord. That divine love is one, whole and complete in itself, and Jehovah also is one, a name applied only to the Lord. The divine love expresses itself in the form of wisdom. Love, then, is the essence of God -- His inmost. Wisdom -- the loving understanding of how to put love into action -- is slightly more external, giving love a way to express itself. Wisdom, however, is expressed in a great variety of thoughts and ideas, what the Writings collectively call divine truth. There are also many imaginary gods, and sometimes angels and people can be called gods (the Lord said Moses would be as a god to Aaron). So when the Bible calls the Lord "God," it is in most cases referring to divine truth. In other cases, "God" has reference to what is called the divine human. The case there is this: As human beings, we cannot engage the Lord directly as divine love. It is too powerful and too pure. Instead, we have to approach Him by understanding Him through divine truth. Divine truth, then, is the Lord in human form, a form we can approach and understand. Thus "God" is also used in reference to this human aspect, because it is an expression of truth.
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Ezekiel 19
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Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
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And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
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The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
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Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
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And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
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And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
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Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
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And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
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Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
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And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
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But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
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And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
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And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
