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Ezekijel 39

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1 Sine čovječji, prorokuj protiv Goga i reci: 'Ovako govori Jahve Gospod: Evo me na te, Gože, veliki kneže Mešeka i Tubala!

2 Namamit ću te i povesti, podići te s krajnjega sjevera i dovesti na gore Izraelove.

3 Izbit ću ti luk iz lijeve ruke i prosuti strijele iz tvoje desnice.

4 Na gorama ćeš Izraelovim pasti, ti i sve tvoje čete i narodi koji budu s tobom: pticama grabljivicama, svemu krilatom, i zvijerima dadoh te za hranu.

5 Na otvorenom ćeš polju pasti, jer ja tako rekoh - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

6 Poslat ću oganj na Magog i na sve koji spokojno žive na otocima - i znat će da sam ja Jahve.

7 A svoje sveto ime objavit ću posred naroda svoga izraelskoga i neću dati da se više oskvrnjuje moje sveto ime! I znat će svi narodi da sam ja, Jahve, Svetac Izraelov.

8 Evo dolazi i biva - riječ je Jahve Gospoda! To je dan o kojem sam govorio!

9 Izići će stanovnici izraelskih gradova, naložiti vatru i spaliti oružje, štitove, štitiće, lukove i strelice, koplja i sulice - ložit će njima vatru sedam godina.

10 Neće nositi drva iz polja ni sjeći u šumama, nego će vatru oružjem ložiti. I oplijenit će one koji su njih plijenili, opljačkati one koji su njih pljačkali - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

11 U onaj ću dan dati Gogu za grob glasovito mjesto u Izraelu: dolinu Abarim, istočno od Mora, koja zatvara put prolaznicima; ondje će pokopati Goga i sve njegovo mnoštvo. I dolina će se prozvati Hamon-Gog.

12 I ukopavat će ih dom Izraelov, sedam mjeseci, da očisti svu zemlju;

13 pokapat će ih sav narod zemlje. I bit će im slavan dan u koji se proslavim, riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

14 Izabrat će ljude da neprestano prolaze zemljom pa da s prolaznicima pokapaju one koji preostaše po zemlji, da je tako očiste.

15 I kad koji, prolazeći zemljom, vidi ljudske kosti, podignut će kraj njih nadgrobnik dok ih grobari ne ukopaju u dolini Hamon-Gog.

16 Hamona je ime i gradu. I tako će očistiti zemlju.

17 Sine čovječji, ovako govori Jahve Gospod: Reci pticama, svemu krilatom i svemu zvijerju: skupite se i dođite! Saberite se odasvud na žrtvu moju koju koljem za vas, na veliku gozbu po izraelskim gorama, da se najedete mesa i napijete krvi.

18 Najedite se mesa od junaka i napijte se krvi zemaljskih knezova, ovnova, janjaca, jaraca, junaca, ugojene stoke bašanske!

19 Najedite se do sita pretiline i napijte se krvi mojih klanica koje sam vam naklao.

20 Nasitite se za mojim stolom konja i konjanika, junaka i ratnika!' - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

21 'Tako ću se proslaviti među narodima, i svi će narodi vidjeti sud koji ću izvršiti i ruku što ću je na njih podići.

22 Znat će dom Izraelov da sam ja, Jahve, Bog njihov - od toga dana zauvijek.

23 I znat će narodi da dom Izraelov bijaše odveden u ropstvo zbog svojih nedjela: iznevjerio mi se, pa sakrih lice svoje od njih i predadoh ih njihovim neprijateljima u ruke da od mača poginu.

24 Postupih s njima po nečistoći njihovoj i nedjelima te sakrih lice svoje od njih.'

25 Stoga ovako govori Jahve Gospod: 'Sad ću vratiti roblje Jakovljevo i pomilovati sav dom Izraelov - ljubomoran na ime svoje sveto,

26 oprostit ću im svu sramotu i nevjeru kojom mi se iznevjeriše dok još spokojno življahu u zemlji i nikoga ne bijaše da ih straši.

27 A kad ih dovedem iz naroda i skupim iz zemalja dušmanskih i na njima, naočigled mnogih naroda, svetost svoju pokažem,

28 znat će da sam ja Jahve, Bog njihov, koji ih u izgnanstvo među narode odvedoh i koji ih opet skupljam u njihovu zemlju, ne ostavivši ondje nijednoga od njih.

29 I nikada više neću kriti lica od njih, jer ću duh svoj izliti na dom Izraelov' - riječ je Jahve Gospoda."

   

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Scriptural Confirmations #4

  
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4. 2. The Son of God (Romans 1:3-4).

Called after Jesus Christ, Christians (Romans 1:6) through the faith of Jesus Christ (Romans 3:22).

Faith in Christ. Through Jesus Christ we have peace toward God, and to God we have access by faith into this grace, and we glory in the hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:1-2).

By Jesus Christ were we reconciled to God (Romans 5:10,11).

As by one man sin entered into the world, so by the justice of one are we justified (Romans 5:12, 13, 15, 18-19).

There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, in order that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit (Romans 8:1-4). Christ is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us (Romans 8:34).

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, distress, hunger, death, angels, principalities, height, depth, etc. (Romans 8:35-39)?

From the fathers Christ is according to the flesh, who is over all; God blessed forever. Amen (Romans 9:5).

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved (Romans 10:13).

We are one body in Christ; all are members having different gifts according to grace (Romans 12:5-6). The gifts which belong to different members are enumerated in a long series (verses 6, 13).

Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14).

Whether we live, we live in the Lord; whether we die, we die in the Lord; therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died and rose and lived again that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living (Romans 14:8-9).

It is written, I live, saith the Lord, for every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God (Romans 14:11). Isaiah saith, there shall be a root of Jesse, and He that shall rise to rule over the nations; in Him shall the nations hope (Romans 15:12).

The Gospel of Christ (Romans 15:19-21).

Chosen and tried in the Lord, in Christ: to work and labor in the Lord (Romans 16:8-13).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.

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Romans 2

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1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

9 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

11 For there is no partiality with God.

12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

21 You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?

22 You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

24 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.