Apocalypsis Revelata #720
720. (Vers. 2.) "Cum qua scortati sunt Reges terrae," significat quod adulteraverit vera et bona Ecclesiae quae ex Verbo. -Per "scortari" significatur falsificare et adulterare vera, ut mox supra (719); per "reges terrae" significantur vera Ecclesiae quae ex Verbo, per "reges" vera ex bono, et per "terram" Ecclesia: quod per "reges" significentur illi qui in veris ex bono sunt ex Domino, et inde abstracte vera ex bono, videatur supra (20, 664), hic illa adulterata et prophanata. Dicitur quod "reges terrae cum Meretrice magna scortati sint, ita sicut vera Ecclesiae quae ex Verbo, quae significantur per "reges terrae;" sed hoc est secundum stylum Verbi in Sensu literae, in quo tribuitur Deo ac Divinis quae ab Ipso, quae sunt vera Verbi, quae tamen fiunt ab homine et ejus malis, ut supra saepius; quare genuinus Sensus, qui est Sensus spiritualis, est, quod Religiosum illud vera Ecclesiae, quae ex Verbo, adulteraverit, imo prophanaverit. Qui non Sensum spiritualem Verbi novit, facile potest hallucinari, credendo quod per "reges terrae" intelligantur Reges terrae; cum tamen non Reges intelliguntur, sed Vera ex bono, et in opposito sensu Falsa ex malo. Ut adhuc videatur quod per "reges terrae" non aliud quam vera aut falsa Ecclesiae intelligantur, et per "scortationes eorum" vera Ecclesiae, quae ex Verbo, falsificata, adulterata et prophanata, adducentur aliqua loca ex Apocalypsi, et ex Daniele, ex quibus quisque, qui potest reflectere, videre potest quod non Reges intelligantur; quae sint:
Jesus Christus "fecit nos Reges et Sacerdotes," (Apocalypsis 1:6);
"Fecisti nos Deo nostro Reges et Sacerdotes, ut regnemus super terra"(Apocalypsis 5:10);
"Comedetis carnes Regum, carnes chiliarchorum, carnes equorum et sedentium super illis," (Apocalypsis 19:18);
"Septem Capita" Bestiae coccineae "septem montes sunt, et Reges septem sunt; quinque ceciderunt et unus est, et Bestia Rex octavus est, et de septem est," (Apocalypsis 17:(9,) 10, 11);
"Decem cornua decem Reges sunt, qui regnum nondum acceperunt," (Apocalypsis 17:12);
etiam dicitur sicut hic, quod "Reges terrae cum Meretrice scortati et deliciati sint," (Apocalypsis 18:3, 9).
Quis, qui potest reflectere, non videt quod per "reges" hic non intelligantur Reges. Similiter apud Danielem, ut quod Per "hircum hirsutum" intelligatur "Rex," et per "cornu ejus magnum inter oculos Rex primus ; et cum ad summum venirent praevaricationes, exsurgeret Rex durus faciebus ac intelligens subtilia, (Daniel 8:21, 23);
Quod quatuor Bestiae ascendentes ex mari, "essent quatuor Reges qui surgent de terra;" et quod decem cornua Bestiae quartae "decem Reges essent," et quod "alius surgeret post eos, qui tres Reges humiliabit," (Daniel 7:17, 24);
Pariter quod Rex meridiei et Rex septentrionis pugnarent inter se; et quod Rex meridiei mitteret filiam suam ad Regem septentrionis; et quod hic Rex exaltaret se contra Deum, et quod deum alienum agnosceret: et quod illos, qui agnituri illum deum, honoraret auro, argento, lapide pretioso et desiderabilibus, et illos dominari faceret in multos, et terram divideret pretio: et quod plantaret tentoria tabernaculi sui inter maria, circa montem decoris sanctitatis; sed quod venturus sit ad finem suum; praeter plura alia, (Daniel 11); per "Regem meridiei" significatur Regnum seu Ecclesia ab illis qui in veris sunt, et per "Regem septentrionis" significatur Regnum et Ecclesia ab illis qui in falsis sunt; est enim propheticum de Ecclesiis venturis, quales futurae in principio, et quales postea. Causa quod qui in veris ex bono a Domino sunt, dicantur "reges," est quia vocantur "filii" Domini; et quia regenerati sunt ab Ipso, vocantur "nati ab Ipso," et quoque "haeredes;" et quia Dominus est Ipse Rex, ac Caelum et Ecclesia sunt Regnum Ipsius.
Revelation 16
1
I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!"
2
The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
3
The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.
4
The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
5
I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
6
For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."
7
I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."
8
The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
9
People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.
10
The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
11
and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn't repent of their works.
12
The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.
13
I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs;
14
for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
15
"Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."
16
He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo.
17
The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"
18
There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.
19
The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20
Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21
Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.
