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Ezekijel 48

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1 A ovo su imena plemenÄa: od krajnjega sjevera put Hetlona prema Ulazu u Hamat i Haser Enon, od damaščanskoga kraja na sjeveru duž Hamata, od istoka do zapada - dio Danov.

2 Uz područje Danovo, od istoka do zapada - dio Ašerov.

3 Uz područje Ašerovo, od istoka do zapada - dio Naftalijev.

4 Uz područje Naftalijevo, od istoka do zapada - dio Manašeov.

5 Uz područje Manašeovo, od istoka do zapada - dio Efrajimov.

6 Uz područje Efrajimovo, od istoka do zapada - dio Rubenov.

7 Uz područje Rubenovo, od istoka do zapada - dio Judin.

8 Uz područje Judino, od istoka do zapada neka bude pridržano područje koje ćete Jahvi prinijeti: dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata u širinu, a u dužinu kao svaki drugi dio, od istoka do zapada. U sredini neka bude Svetište.

9 To pridržano područje koje ćete Jahvi prinijeti neka bude dugačko dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata, široko deset tisuća.

10 To sveto, prineseno područje za svećenike neka bude na sjeveru dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata; prema zapadu široko deset tisuća, prema istoku široko deset tisuća; prema jugu dugačko dvadeset i pet tisuća. U sredini neka bude Jahvino Svetište.

11 A posvećenim svećenicima, potomcima Sadokovim, koji su mi vjerno služili i nisu, kao leviti, zastranili kad su ono zastranili sinovi Izraelovi:

12 njima će pripasti dio od toga najsvetijeg područja zemlje, uz područje levitsko.

13 A levitima, baš kao i području svećeničkom: dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata u dužinu i deset tisuća lakata u širinu - ukupno dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata u dužinu, deset tisuća u širinu.

14 Od toga se ništa ne smije prodati ni zamijeniti; ne smije se ni na koga prenijeti ta prvina zemlje, jer je Jahvi posvećena.

15 Pet tisuća lakata u širinu, što ostane od onih dvadeset i pet tisuća, neka bude opće područje: za grad, za naselje i za čistinu. grad neka bude u sredini.

16 Evo mjerÄa: sa sjevera četiri tisuće i pet stotina lakata; s juga četiri tisuće i pet stotina; s istoka četiri tisuće i pet stotina; sa zapada četiri tisuće i pet stotina.

17 A čistina oko grada: dvije stotine i pedeset lakata prema sjeveru, dvije stotine i pedeset prema jugu, dvije stotine i pedeset prema istoku, dvije stotine i pedeset prema zapadu.

18 Što ostane u dužinu, duž svetoga područja - deset tisuća lakata prema istoku i deset tisuća prema zapadu, duž svetoga područja - to neka bude za uzdržavanje onih koji služe gradu.

19 Ti koji služe gradu uzimat će se iz svih plemena Izraelovih.

20 Sve, dakle, pridržano područje - dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata sa dvadeset i pet tisuća, u četverokut - prinijet ćete Jahvi: i sveto područje i posjed gradski.

21 Knezu pripada što preostane: s obje strane svetoga područja i posjeda gradskoga - prema istoku dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata, prema istočnoj strani, i prema zapadu dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata, prema zapadnoj strani, usporedo s drugim područjima - sve je to kneževo. A u sredini je sveto područje i Svetište Doma.

22 Od levitskoga posjeda i od posjeda gradskoga - koje je usred kneževa - i između Judina i Benjaminova područja: kneževo je.

23 Ostala plemena: od istoka do zapada - dio Benjaminov.

24 Uz područje Benjaminovo, od istoka do zapada - dio Šimunov.

25 uz područje Šimunovo, od istoka do zapada - dio Jisakarov.

26 Uz područje Jisakarovo, od istoka do zapada - dio Zebulunov.

27 Uz područje Zebulunovo, od istoka do zapada - dio Gadov.

28 Uz područje Gadovo, na južnoj strani, prema jugu, ide granica od Tamara do Meripskih voda i Kadeša, pa potokom prema Velikome moru.

29 To je zemlja koju ćete ždrijebom razdijeliti u baštinu plemenima Izraelovim, to su njihovi dijelovi - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

30 [30a] A ovo su gradska vrata

31 [31a] koja će se zvati po Izraelovim plemenima. [30b] Na sjevernoj strani - četiri tisuće i pet stotina lakata u dužinu - [31b] troja vrata: vrata Rubenova, vrata Judina, vrata Levijeva.

32 Na istočnoj strani - četiri tisuće i pet stotina lakata u dužinu - troja vrata: vrata Josipova, vrata Benjaminova, vrata Danova.

33 Na južnoj strani - četiri tisuće i pet stotina lakata u dužinu - troja vrata: vrata Šimunova, vrata Jisakarova, vrata Zebulunova.

34 Sa zapadne strane - četiri tisuće i pet stotina lakata u dužinu - troja vrata: vrata Gadova, vrata Ašerova, vrata Naftalijeva.

35 Sve uokolo: osamnaest tisuća lakata. A ime će gradu unapredak biti: 'Jahve je ovdje.'"

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #191

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191. "'I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God.'" This symbolically means that the truths they possess, springing from goodness derived from the Lord, sustain the Lord's church in heaven.

A temple symbolizes the church, and the temple of My God symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven. It is apparent from this that a pillar symbolizes what sustains and stabilizes the church, and that is the Divine truth in the Word.

In the highest sense, a temple symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, particularly in respect to Divine truth. In a representative sense, however, a temple symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, and so also the Lord's church in the world.

That a temple in the highest sense symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, and particularly in respect to Divine truth, is apparent from the following passages:

(Jesus said to the Jews,) "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ...He was speaking of the temple of His body. (John 2:19, 21)

I saw no temple in (the New Jerusalem), for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. (Revelation 21:22)

Behold..., the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire. (Malachi 3:1)

I will bow myself toward Your holy temple... (Psalms 138:2)

...I will look again toward Your holy temple... And my prayer went to You, to Your holy temple. (Jonah 2:4, 7)

Jehovah is in His holy temple. (Habakkuk 2:20)

The holy temple of Jehovah or of the Lord is His Divine humanity, for it is to this that people bow, look to, and pray, and not to the temple merely, as the temple is not, in itself, holy. It is called a holy temple, because holiness is predicated of Divine truth (no. 173).

"The temple that sanctifies the gold" in Matthew 23:16-17 means nothing else than the Lord's Divine humanity.

[2] That a temple in a representative sense symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, is apparent from the following passages:

(The) voice (of Jehovah) from the temple...! (Isaiah 66:6)

...a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven... (Revelation 16:17)

The temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. (Revelation 11:19)

...the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. And out of the temple came the seven angels... And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God... (Revelation 15:5-6, 8)

I called upon Jehovah, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple... (Psalms 18:6)

I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and His skirts filled the temple. (Isaiah 6:1)

[3] That a temple symbolizes the church in the world is apparent from these passages:

Our holy... temple... has become a conflagration... (Isaiah 64:11)

I will shake all nations..., that I may fill this house with glory... The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former... (Haggai 2:7, 9)

The new temple in Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48 describes a church to be established by the Lord. A church is also meant in Revelation 11:1 by the temple that the angel measured. So likewise elsewhere, as in Isaiah 44:28, Jeremiah 7:2-4, 9-11, Zechariah 8:9.

...the disciples (of Jesus) came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, ."..Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left... upon another, that shall not be demolished." (Matthew 24:1-2)

The temple here symbolizes the church today; and its demolition means, symbolically, that not one stone would be left upon another. This symbolizes the end of that church, when not any truth would remain. For when the disciples spoke with the Lord about the temple, the Lord foretold the consecutive states of this church, even to its last one, or the end of the age; and the end of the age means the final period of the church, which is the one that exists today. This was represented by the destruction of that temple to its foundations.

[4] A temple has these three symbolic meanings, namely the Lord, the church in heaven, and the church in the world. Because these three are bound up together, they cannot be separated. Consequently one cannot be meant without the other. Therefore anyone who divorces the church in the world from the church in heaven, or the one or the other from the Lord, is without the truth.

The temple here means the church in heaven, because reference to the church in the world follows after this (no. 194).

  
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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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