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Joel 3

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1 καί-C εἰμί-V9--FMI3S μετά-P οὗτος- D--APN καί-C ἐκχέω-VF2-FAI1S ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GSN πνεῦμα-N3M-GSN ἐγώ- P--GS ἐπί-P πᾶς-A1S-ASF σάρξ-N3K-ASF καί-C προφητεύω-VF--FAI3P ὁ- A--NPM υἱός-N2--NPM σύ- P--GP καί-C ὁ- A--NPF θυγάτηρ-N3--NPF σύ- P--GP καί-C ὁ- A--NPM πρεσβύτερος-A1A-NPM σύ- P--GP ἐνύπνιον-N2N-APN ἐνὑπνιάζω-VS--FPI3P καί-C ὁ- A--NPM νεανίσκος-N2--NPM σύ- P--GP ὅρασις-N3I-APF ὁράω-VF--FMI3P

2 καί-C ἐπί-P ὁ- A--APM δοῦλος-N2--APM καί-C ἐπί-P ὁ- A--APF δούλη-N1--APF ἐν-P ὁ- A--DPF ἡμέρα-N1A-DPF ἐκεῖνος- D--DPF ἐκχέω-VF2-FAI1S ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GSN πνεῦμα-N3M-GSN ἐγώ- P--GS

3 καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S τέρας-N3T-ASN ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM οὐρανός-N2--DSM καί-C ἐπί-P ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF αἷμα-N3M-ASN καί-C πῦρ-N3--ASN καί-C ἀτμίς-N3D-ASF καπνός-N2--GSM

4 ὁ- A--NSM ἥλιος-N2--NSM μεταστρέφω-VD--FPI3S εἰς-P σκότος-N3E-ASN καί-C ὁ- A--NSF σελήνη-N1--NSF εἰς-P αἷμα-N3M-ASN πρίν-D ἔρχομαι-VB--AAN ἡμέρα-N1A-ASF κύριος-N2--GSM ὁ- A--ASF μέγας-A1--ASF καί-C ἐπιφανής-A3H-ASF

5 καί-C εἰμί-V9--FMI3S πᾶς-A3--NSM ὅς- --NSM ἄν-X ἐπικαλέω-VA--AMS3S ὁ- A--ASN ὄνομα-N3M-ASN κύριος-N2--GSM σώζω-VC--FPI3S ὅτι-C ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSN ὄρος-N3E-DSN *σιων-N---GSM καί-C ἐν-P *ἰερουσαλήμ-N---DSF εἰμί-V9--FMI3S ἀνασώζω-V1--PMPNSM καθότι-D εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM καί-C εὐαγγελίζω-V1--PMPNPM ὅς- --APM κύριος-N2--NSM προςκαλέω-VM--XMI3S

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #422

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422. And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. (9:2) This symbolizes falsities accompanying the lusts of the natural self springing from those people's evil loves.

The bottomless pit symbolizes the hell described just above in no. 421. The smoke from it symbolizes falsities arising from lusts, and because the smoke is said to be like that of a great furnace, it means falsities accompanying lusts springing from evil loves, inasmuch as fire symbolizes love (no. 468), and the fire of hell, evil love (no. 494). A great furnace has the same symbolism, since it smokes owing to fire.

Spirits of hell are not caught up in any material fire, but in a spiritual fire, which is the fire of their love. Consequently they do not feel any other fire. On this subject, see the book Heaven and Hell, nos. 134 566-575.

When any love is aroused in the spiritual world, it appears at a distance like fire - in the hells like a brightly burning fire, and outside the hells like the smoke of a conflagration or the smoke of a furnace.

Falsities accompanying lusts springing from evil loves are described also elsewhere in the Word by smoke from a fire or from a furnace or oven, as in the following places:

(Abraham) looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah..., and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. (Genesis 19:28)

...the sun went down and it was dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between the pieces. (Genesis 15:17)

...they sin more and more... Therefore they shall be... like smoke from a flue. (Hosea 13:2-3)

...the wicked shall perish... In smoke they shall be consumed. (Psalms 37:20)

I will show wonders in heaven and on the earth: ...fire and pillars of smoke. (Joel 2:30)

(They) will cast (the evil) into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Matthew 13:41-42, 49-50)

And elsewhere.

  
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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.