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Ensimäinen niinkuin jalopeura, jolla olivat kotkan siivet. Ja minä katsoin siihen asti, että siivet temmattiin pois häneltä ja hän otettiin ylös maasta, ja seisoi jaloillansa niinkuin ihminen, ja hänelle annettiin ihmisen sydän.
Daniel 7:4
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Apocalypse Revealed #664
664. "For just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!" This symbolically means that everything that emanates from the Lord is just and true, because He is Divine goodness itself and Divine truth itself in heaven and in the church.
Ways symbolize truths that lead to good (no. 176). The title "king" in reference to the Lord symbolizes Divine truth, and "O King of saints" the Divine truth derived from Him in heaven and the church; for saints symbolize people who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord (nos. 173, 586). Consequently "just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!" means symbolically that everything emanating from the Lord is just and true, because He is Divine truth itself in heaven and in the church.
The Lord is called a king in reference to His Divine humanity, because this is the Messiah, the Anointed, the Christ, the Son of God. Messiah in Hebrew is Christ in Greek, and Messiah or Christ is the Son of God, as may be seen in no. 520 above. It is well known that Messiah in Hebrew means both king and anointed.
The Lord as king is the embodiment of Divine truth because that is the symbolic meaning of the title "king" (nos. 20, 483). Kings accordingly symbolize people who possess Divine truths from the Lord (Revelation 1:6; 5:10).
It is because of this that heaven and the church are called the Lord's kingdom, and that His advent into the world is called the gospel of the kingdom.
Heaven and the church are called the Lord's kingdom in Daniel 2:44; 7:13-14, 27; Luke 1:33; 4:43; 8:1, 10; 9:2, 11, 27; 10:11; 16:16; 19:11; 21:31; 22:18; 23:51. And His advent is called the gospel of the kingdom in Matthew 4:23; 9:35; 24:14. 1
But more on this subject may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord.
[2] That the Lord is called a king is apparent from the following passages:
These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings. (Revelation 17:14)
(He who sat on the white horse) is called the Word... And... His... name (is) Lord of lords and King of kings. (Revelation 19:13, 16, cf. Daniel 2:47)
Nathanael... said..., ."..You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" (John 1:49)
When the Son of Man comes in His glory..., ...He will sit on the throne of His glory... And the King will say to those on His right hand... (and) to those on the left hand... (Matthew 25:31, 34, 41)
...they cried out: "Hosanna! 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!' The King of Israel! " (John 12:13)
Pilate (asked the Lord:) "Are You a king...?" Jesus answered, ."..I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world...." (John 18:37)
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty... ...Jehovah our King, He will save us. (Isaiah 33:17 , 22)
I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. (Isaiah 43:15)
Thus said Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: "I am the First and I am the Last, and beside Me there is no God." (Isaiah 44:6)
Jehovah shall become King over all the earth. (Zechariah 14:9, cf. Psalms 47:2, 6-8)
Lift up your heads, O you gates..., that the King of glory may come in... Jehovah of hosts, He is the King of glory. (Psalms 24:7-10)
I will raise to David a righteous Branch, (who as) a king shall reign... and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. (Jeremiah 23:5, cf. 33:15)
And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 6:5; 52:7; Jeremiah 10:7, 10; 46:18; Ezekiel 37:22, 24; Zephaniah 3:15; Psalms 20:9; 45:11, 13-14; 68:24; 74:12.
Footnotes:
Matthew 4
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Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
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The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
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But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"
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Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
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and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you.' and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don't dash your foot against a stone.'"
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Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your God.'"
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Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
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He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me."
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Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"
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Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.
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Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.
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Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
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"The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
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the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."
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From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, "Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."
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Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
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He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men."
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They immediately left their nets and followed him.
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Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.
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They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.
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Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
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The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
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Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.
