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Ezekiel 4

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1 Hỡi con người, hãy lấy một tấm ngói, đặt nó trước mặt ngươi, và vẽ thành Giê-ru-sa-lem ở trên.

2 Ngươi khá vây hãm nó; dựng đồn, đắp lũy nghịch cùng nó; đóng quân vây bọc lấy, và đặt máy phá thành xung quanh nghịch cùng nó.

3 Lại hãy lấy một chảo sắt, đặt nó làm cái tường sắt giữa ngươi và thành; rồi ngươi xây mặt lại cùng nó; nó sẽ bị vây, và ngươi sẽ vây nó. Ðó sẽ là một điềm cho nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên.

4 Kế đó, ngươi khá nằm nghiêng mình bên tả, và để tội lỗi nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên tại đó. Ngươi nằm như vậy bao nhiêu ngày, thì mang lấy tội lỗi chúng nó cũng bấy nhiêu.

5 Vì ta đã định cho ngươi một số ngày bằng với số năm của tội lỗi chúng nó, là ba trăm chín mươi ngày, ngươi sẽ mang lấy tội lỗi nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên như vậy.

6 Vả lại, khi những ngày ấy đã mãn, ngươi khá nằm nghiêng mình bên hữu, và mang lấy tội lỗi của nhà Giu-đa, trải bốn mươi ngày, ta định cho ngươi mỗi một ngày thay vì một năm.

7 Ngươi khá xây mặt và quay cánh tay trần về sự vây hãm thành Giê-ru-sa-lem; ngươi khá nói tiên tri nghịch cùng nó.

8 Nầy, ta dùng dây trói ngươi, và ngươi sẽ chẳng quay bên nầy bên kia, cho đến những ngày ngươi vây thành đã trọn.

9 Cũng hãy lấy lúa mì, mạch nha, đậu, biển đậu, kê và đại mạch, để vào một bình, dùng làm bánh cho mình; ngươi nằm nghiêng bao nhiêu ngày, thì ngươi sẽ ăn bánh ấy trong bấy nhiêu ngày, tức là ba trăm chín mươi ngày.

10 Ðồ ăn ngươi sẽ ăn, cứ mỗi ngày nặng hai mươi siếc-lơ; ngươi sẽ ăn theo thì giờ.

11 Nước ngươi uống cũng sẽ lường, là một phần sáu hin; theo thì giờ mà uống.

12 Ngươi sẽ ăn bánh ấy như bánh mạch nha, mà phải dùng phân ngươi nấu chín trước mắt chúng nó.

13 Ðức Giê-hô-va lại phán: Ấy con cái Y-sơ-ra-ên sẽ ăn bánh dơ bẩn của chúng nó như vậy, trong các nước mà ta sẽ đuổi chúng nó đến.

14 Ta bèn nói: Ôi! hỡi Chúa Giê-hô-va, nầy, linh hồn tôi chẳng hề bị ô uế. Từ lúc còn nhỏ đến bây giờ, tôi chẳng hề ăn con vậy đã chết tự nhiên, hoặc bị thú vật ; và chẳng có thịt gớm ghiếc nào đã vào trong miệng tôi.

15 Ngài đáp rằng: Ta cho phép ngươi lấy phân bò thay phân người; ngươi khá dùng nó mà hấp bánh.

16 Ðoạn, Ngài lại phán: Hỡi con người, nầy, ta sẽ bẻ gậy bánh trong Giê-ru-sa-lem đi; chúng nó sẽ cân bánh mà ăn, và sợ hãi, lường nướcuống, và sững sờ.

17 Thế thì chúng nó thiếu bánh và nước, cùng nhau thất kinh, và hao mòn trong tội lỗi mình.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #610

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610. And its number is 666. This symbolically means, their character being this, that by them all the Word's truth has been falsified.

The number of the beast symbolizes the character of the arguments the clergy use from the Word to defend their doctrine and faith (nos. 608, 609). Six hundred and sixty-six symbolizes every truth having to do with goodness, and because the statement is made in application to the Word, it symbolizes every truth in the Word having to do with goodness, in this case that truth falsified, because the number is the number of the beast.

This is the symbolic meaning because six has the same symbolism as three multiplied by two, and three symbolizes completeness and all and is predicated of truths (no. 505), while two symbolizes the marriage of truth and good. So, because six is composed of these two numbers multiplied together, therefore it symbolizes every truth in the Word having to do with goodness, in this case that truth falsified. That it also was falsified by the clergy may be seen in no. 566 above.

The number is said to be 666, because it contains the number six repeated three times, and tripling it makes it complete. Multiplying six by one hundred to make six hundred, and by ten to make sixty, does not change the number's symbolic meaning, as may be seen in no. 348 above.

[2] That the number six symbolizes completeness and all, and is used when the subject is truths having to do with goodness, may be seen from passages in the Word where that number is mentioned. However, the symbolism of the number appears clearly only to people who see the things contained in the spiritual sense. As for instance, the Lord's saying that the seeds that fell on good ground yielded fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred (Mark 4:8, 20, Matthew 13:8, 23); and that a landowner went out and hired laborers for his vineyard at the third hour and at the sixth hour (Matthew 20:3, 5). Also that the table in the Tabernacle had on it cakes of showbread arranged in two rows, each containing six cakes (Leviticus 24:6). That there were set six waterpots for the purification of the Jews (John 2:6). That there were six cities of refuge or of asylum (Numbers 35:6-7, Deuteronomy 19:1-9). That the measuring reed with which the angel measured all parts of the new temple and new city was six cubits long (Ezekiel 40:5). That the prophet drank water by measure, a sixth of a hin (Ezekiel 4:11). That they took as an offering a sixth of an ephah of a homer of wheat (Ezekiel 45:13).

Since the number six symbolizes completeness, therefore words for separating a sixth part came into use, which in the spiritual sense symbolizes something that is complete and entire, as that they gave a sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley (Ezekiel 45:13). And regarding Gog, "I will turn you around and leave but a sixth part of you" (Ezekiel 39:2). This last symbolically means that in Gog all truth in the Word having to do with goodness is destroyed. Just who are meant by Gog may be seen in no. 859.

  
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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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Ezekiel 38

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1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:

4 and I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.

7 Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.

8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.

9 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:

11 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;

12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.

13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil?

14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it?

15 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;

16 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.

17 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?

18 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.

19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

21 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

22 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

23 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.