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Hosea 1:4

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4 Und Jehova sprach zu ihm: Gib ihm den Namen Jisreel; denn noch um ein Kleines, so werde ich die Blutschuld von Jisreel an dem Hause Jehus heimsuchen und dem Königtum des Hauses Israel ein Ende machen.

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Apocalypse Revealed #133

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133. "'Who calls herself a prophetess.'" This symbolically means, and who make that faith the central doctrine of the church and found their whole theology upon it.

A prophet in the Word symbolizes the doctrine of the church, as may be seen in no. 8 above, and so likewise does a prophetess.

As people know, the Protestant Reformed Christian Church has accepted faith alone as the only means of salvation, and therefore works of charity have been divorced from faith as being not saving. As a result, the entire doctrine of human salvation, called theology, consists today of that faith, and accordingly is "the woman Jezebel."

  
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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.