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Ezechiel 12

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1 I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

2 Synu člověčí, u prostřed domu zpurného ty bydlíš, kteříž mají oči, aby viděli, však nevidí; uši mají, aby slyšeli, však neslyší, proto že dům zpurný jsou.

3 Protož ty, synu člověčí, připrav sobě to, s čím bys se stěhoval, a stěhuj se ve dne před očima jejich. Přestěhuješ se pak z místa svého na místo jiné před očima jejich, zdaby aspoň viděli; nebo dům zpurný jsou.

4 Vynesa pak své věci, jakožto ty, s nimiž se stěhovati máš ve dne před očima jejich, vyjdi u večer před očima jejich, jako ti, kteříž se stěhují.

5 Před očima jejich prokopej sobě zed, a vynes skrze ni.

6 Před očima jejich na rameni nes, po tmě vynes, tvář svou přikrej, a nehleď na zemi; nebo za zázrak dal jsem tě domu Izraelskému.

7 I učinil jsem tak, jakž rozkázáno bylo. Věci své vynesl jsem, jakožto ty, s nimiž bych se stěhoval ve dne, u večer pak prokopal jsem sobě zed rukou; po tmě jsem je vynesl, na rameni nesa před očima jejich.

8 Opět stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně ráno, řkoucí:

9 Synu člověčí, zdaližť řekli dům Izraelský, dům ten zpurný: Co ty děláš?

10 Rciž jim: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Na kníže v Jeruzalémě vztahuje se břímě toto a na všecken dům Izraelský, kteříž jsou u prostřed něho.

11 Rciž jim: Já jsem zázrakem vaším. Jakož jsem činil, tak se stane jim, postěhují se a v zajetí půjdou.

12 A kníže, kteréž jest u prostřed nich, na rameni ponese po tmě a vyjde. Zed prokopají, aby jej vyvedli skrze ni; tvář svou zakryje, tak že nebude viděti okem svým země.

13 Nebo roztáhnu sít svou na něj, a polapen bude do vrše mé, a zavedu jej do Babylona, země Kaldejské, kteréž neuzří, a tam umře.

14 Všecky také, kteříž jsou vůkol něho na pomoc jemu, i všecky houfy jeho rozptýlím na všecky strany, a mečem dobytým budu je stihati.

15 I zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin, když je rozptýlím mezi národy, a rozženu je po krajinách.

16 Pozůstavím pak z nich muže nemnohé po meči, po hladu a po moru, aby vypravovali všecky ohavnosti své mezi národy, kamž se dostanou, i zvědí, že já jsem Hospodin.

17 Opět stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

18 Synu člověčí, chléb svůj s strachem jez, a vodu svou s třesením a s zámutkem pí,

19 A rci lidu země této: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin o obyvatelích Jeruzalémských, o zemi Izraelské: Chléb svůj s zámutkem jísti budou, a vodu svou s předěšením píti, aby obloupena byla země jeho z hojnosti své, pro nátisk všech přebývajících v ní.

20 Města také, v nichž bydlejí, zpustnou, a země pustá bude, a tak zvíte, že já jsem Hospodin.

21 Opět stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

22 Synu člověčí, jaké to máte přísloví o zemi Izraelské, říkajíce: Prodlí se dnové, aneb zahyne všeliké vidění?

23 Protož rci jim: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Učiním, aby přestalo přísloví toto, aniž užívati budou přísloví toho více v Izraeli. Rci jim: Nýbrž přiblížili se dnové ti a splnění všelikého vidění.

24 Nebo nebude více žádného vidění marného, a hádání pochlebníka u prostřed domu Izraelského,

25 Proto že já Hospodin mluviti budu, a kterékoli slovo promluvím, stane se. Neprodlíť se dlouho, ale za dnů vašich, dome zpurný, mluviti budu slovo, a naplním je, praví Panovník Hospodin.

26 I stalo se slovo Hospodinovo ke mně, řkoucí:

27 Synu člověčí, aj, dům Izraelský říkají: Vidění to, kteréž vidí tento, ke dnům mnohým patří, a na dlouhé časy tento prorokuje.

28 Protož rci jim: Takto praví Panovník Hospodin: Neprodlíť se dlouho všeliké slovo mé, ale slovo, kteréž mluviti budu, stane se, praví Panovník Hospodin.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #350

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350. Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed. (7:5) This symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord, and this in all those people who will be in the Lord's New Heaven and New Church.

In the highest sense Judah symbolizes the Lord in relation to celestial love; in the spiritual sense, the Lord's celestial kingdom and the Word; and in the natural sense, the doctrine of a celestial church drawn from the Word. Here, however, Judah symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord; and because it is named first in the series, it symbolizes that love in all those people who will be in the New Heaven and in the Lord's New Church. For the tribe named first is everything in the rest, being to them as though their head and serving as a universal property entering into all those that follow, tying them together, qualifying them and affecting them. This property is love toward the Lord.

To be shown that twelve thousand symbolizes all who possess that love, see no. 348 above.

[2] People know that after the death of Solomon the twelve tribes of Israel were divided into two kingdoms: the kingdom of Judah and the kingdom of Israel. The kingdom of Judah represented the celestial kingdom or the Lord's priestly kingdom, while the kingdom of Israel represented the spiritual kingdom or the Lord's royal kingdom. But the latter was destroyed when the people had nothing spiritual left in them, whereas the kingdom of Judah was preserved, for the sake of the Word, and because the Lord would be born there. However, when the people adulterated the Word completely, and thus could not recognize the Lord, then their kingdom was destroyed.

It can be seen from this that the tribe of Judah symbolizes celestial love, which is love toward the Lord. But because the people were of the character they were with respect to the Word and with respect to the Lord, the tribe of Judah symbolizes also the opposite love, which is love of self - properly speaking, a love of dominating springing from a love of self - a love which we call diabolical love.

[3] The fact that Judah and his tribe symbolize the celestial kingdom and its love, which is love toward the Lord, follows from these passages:

Judah, your brothers shall praise you... The scepter shall not be taken from Judah... until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the obedience of the people. Binding his donkey's foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his garment in wine... His eyes are redder than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. (Genesis 49:8-12)

...David shall be their prince forever, and I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them..., and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore. (Ezekiel 37:25-26)

Exult and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! ...Jehovah will make Judah an inheritance for Himself, His portion on the holy land. (Zechariah 2:10-12)

O Judah, celebrate your feasts, perform your vows. For Belial 1 shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off. (Nahum 1:15)

The Lord... will suddenly come to His temple... Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be sweet to Jehovah as in the days of old... (Malachi 3:1, 4)

Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. (Joel 3:20)

Behold, the days are coming..., that I will raise to David a righteous Branch... In His days Judah will be saved... (Jeremiah 23:5-6)

I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of My mountains, that My elect may possess it... (Isaiah 65:9)

Judah became His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. (Psalms 114:2)

Behold, the days are coming..., when I will make a new covenant... with the house of Judah... ...this will be the covenant...: I will put My law within them, and write it on their heart... (Jeremiah 31:27, 31, 33-34)

In those days ten men... shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." (Zechariah 8:23)

...as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me..., so shall your offspring and your name remain.

Kings (of the nations) shall be your foster fathers, their princesses your nursing mothers. They shall bow down to you, their faces to the ground, and lick the dust of your feet. (Isaiah 66:22; 49:23)

[4] From these and many other passages, which we do not have the space to cite because of their number, it can be clearly seen that Judah means not Judah but the church. We are told, for example, that the Lord would make a new and eternal covenant with that nation, that He would make it His heir and His sanctuary forevermore, and that kings of the nations and their princesses would bow down to them, licking the dust of their feet, and so on.

[5] That the tribe of Judah, regarded in itself, means the diabolic kingdom, which is one of a love of dominating springing from a love of self, can be seen from the following passages:

I will hide My face from them, I will see what their posterity will be. ...they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith... ...they are a nation void of counsel... ...their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; its grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. Is this not laid up in store with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? (Deuteronomy 32:20-34)

(Know that) it is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart... that Jehovah... is... giving you (the land of Canaan)..., for you are a stiff-necked people. (Deuteronomy 9:5-6)

...according to the number of your cities have been your gods, O Judah... ...according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars... to burn incense to Baal. (Jeremiah 2:28; 11:13)

You are of your father the devil, and you choose to do the desires of your father. (John 8:44)

Jews are said to be full of hypocrisy, iniquity, and uncleanness (Matthew 23:27-28.

Footnotes:

1. In the Old Testament, the personification of wickedness and destruction, originally conceived perhaps as some sort of spirit demon.

  
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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 4

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1 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.

7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

8 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

9 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.

12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

13 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.

14 Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

15 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.

16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

   

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