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ارميا 45

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1 الكلمة التي تكلم بها ارميا النبي الى باروخ بن نيريا عند كتابته هذا الكلام في سفر عن فم ارميا في السنة الرابعة ليهوياقيم بن يوشيا ملك يهوذا قائلا.

2 هكذا قال الرب اله اسرائيل لك يا باروخ.

3 قد قلت ويل لي لان الرب قد زاد حزنا على المي. قد غشي علي في تنهدي ولم اجد راحة

4 هكذا تقول له. هكذا قال الرب. هانذا اهدم ما بنيته واقتلع ما غرسته وكل هذه الارض.

5 وانت فهل تطلب لنفسك امورا عظيمة. لا تطلب. لاني هانذا جالب شرا على كل ذي جسد يقول الرب واعطيك نفسك غنيمة في كل المواضع التي تسير اليها

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #598

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598. 13:13 "It also performs great signs." This symbolizes certifications that their teachings are true, even though they are false.

Signs symbolize certifications that things are true, because signs once occurred to attest to a truth. But after signs and miracles ceased, their symbolism still remained, which is the certification of a truth. Here, however, signs symbolize certifications by the beast or false prophet that its falsities were true, because that is how falsities appear after they are defended.

That signs symbolize certifications that something is true can be seen from the following passages:

(At the end of the age) false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. (Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22).

There will also be fearful... signs from heaven... There will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars..., the sea and the waves roaring. (Luke 21:11, 25)

(Jehovah) frustrates the signs of liars, drives diviners mad, turning back wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish. (Isaiah 44:25)

Do not learn the way of the gentiles, and do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven. (Jeremiah 10:2)

...they are spirits of demons, performing signs..., to gather them to the battle of that great day... (Revelation 16:14)

Then the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who worked signs in its presence, (and) led astray... (Revelation 19:20)

[2] That signs were certifications that something was a truth is further apparent from the following:

(The disciples said to Jesus,) "What sign do You perform then, that we may... believe You? What work do You do?" (John 6:30-33)

The Jews, scribes and Pharisees sought a sign from the Lord, that they might know He was the Christ (Matthew 12:38-40; 16:1-4, Mark 8:11-12.

(The disciples said to Jesus,) "What will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?" (Matthew 24:3, cf. Mark 13:4)

...if they do not believe you, nor heed the message of the first sign, still they will believe the message of the latter sign. (Exodus 4:8-9)

The message of a sign is a certification.

They have set among them the messages of His signs... (Psalms 105:27)

(Jehovah said to Ahaz,) "Ask a sign for yourself from Jehovah...." (Isaiah 7:11, 14)

This is the sign to you from Jehovah...: "Behold, I will turn back the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz...." (Isaiah 38:7-8)

Hezekiah said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?" (Isaiah 38:22)

This shall be a sign to you..., that I will visit you in this place, that you may know that My words will... stand... (Jeremiah 44:29-30)

Show me a sign (O Jehovah) for good, that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed. (Psalms 86:17)

They will... announce to us what will happen..., that we may set our heart... Show the sign that is to come..., that we may know that you are gods. (Isaiah 41:22-23)

Your enemies roar in the midst of your festival; they set up their banners as signs. (Psalms 74:3-4, 9)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 45:11; 55:13; Jeremiah 32:20-21; Ezekiel 4:3; Psalms 65:6-8; 78:42, 43; Exodus 7:3; Numbers 14:11, 22; Deuteronomy 4:34; 13:1-3; Judges 6:17, 21; 1 Samuel 2:34; 14:10; Mark 16:17, 18, 20; Luke 2:11, 12, 16).

Signs of the covenant have a similar symbolic meaning in Genesis 9:13; 17:11, Ezekiel 20:12, 20.

[3] It can be clearly seen from this that the great signs that this beast of the dragon performed do not mean signs, but certifications by the clergy that their teachings are true. For every heretic who confirms himself in falsities, afterward certifies that his falsities are true. Indeed, he does not see truths any longer, since the certification of a falsity is a denial of the truth, and truth denied loses its light. Moreover, in the measure that the light of their certification causes falsities to shine with an illusory light, in the same measure the light of truth becomes darkness (as may be seen in no. 566 above).

  
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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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Apocalypse Revealed #833

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833. 19:19 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. This symbolically means that all inwardly evil people who professed faith alone will, together with their leaders and followers, attack the Lord's Divine truths in His Word and assail those who will belong to the Lord's New Church.

The beast symbolizes people caught up in a religion teaching faith alone, as may be seen in nos. 567, 576, 577, 594, 598, 601 above. That they include only those people who are inwardly evil and have professed that religion will be seen below. The kings of the earth symbolize people who more than others are caught up in the falsities of that religion, thus its leaders. For kings of the earth symbolize people governed by the church's truths from the Word, and in an opposite sense, people caught up in falsities (nos. 20, 483, 704, 737, 720, 740). Here they are people caught up in falsities. Their armies symbolize all those among them who are likewise caught up in falsities (no. 447).

To make war means, symbolically, to attack, since war in the Word symbolizes spiritual war, which is one of falsity against truth, and of truth against falsity (nos. 500, 586, 707). He that sat on the horse symbolizes the Lord in relation to the Word (nos. 820, 821). And because people cannot fight against the Lord Himself, but fight against His Divine truths found in the Word, thus fighting also against the Lord because the Lord embodies the Word, therefore this is what is meant by making war against Him who sat on the horse.

That an army or host symbolizes people who possess Divine truths, thus abstractly Divine truths themselves, accordingly people who belong to the Lord's New Heaven and New Church, because it is they who possess Divine truths, may be seen in no. 826 above.

  
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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.