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Ezequiel 10

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1 Y miré, y he aquí sobre el cielo que estaba sobre la cabeza de los querubines, como una piedra de zafiro, que parecía como semejanza de un trono que se mostró sobre ellos.

2 Y habló al varón vestido de lienzos, y le dijo: Entra en medio de las ruedas debajo de los querubines, y llena tus manos de carbones encendidos de entre los querubines, y derrama sobre la ciudad. Y entró a vista mía.

3 Y los querubines estaban a la mano derecha de la Casa cuando este varón entró; y la nube llenaba el atrio de adentro.

4 Y la gloria del SEÑOR se había levantado del querubín al umbral de la puerta; y la Casa fue llena de la nube, y el atrio se llenó del resplandor de la gloria del SEÑOR.

5 Y el estruendo de las alas de los querubines se oía hasta el atrio de afuera, como la voz del Dios Omnipotente cuando habla.

6 Y aconteció que, cuando mandó al varón vestido de lienzos, diciendo: Toma fuego de entre las ruedas, de entre los querubines, él entró, y se paró entre las ruedas.

7 Y un querubín extendió su mano de entre los querubines al fuego que estaba entre los querubines, y tomó fuego , y lo puso en las palmas del que estaba vestido de lienzos, el cual lo tomó y se salió.

8 Y apareció en los querubines la figura de una mano humana debajo de sus alas.

9 Y miré, y he aquí cuatro ruedas junto a los querubines, junto a cada querubín una rueda; y el aspecto de las ruedas era como el de piedra de Tarsis.

10 En cuanto al parecer de ellas, las cuatro eran de una forma, como si estuviera una en medio de otra.

11 Cuando andaban, sobre sus cuatro costados andaban; no se tornaban cuando andaban, sino que al lugar adonde se volvía el primero, en pos de él iban; ni se tornaban cuando andaban.

12 Y toda su carne, y sus costillas, y sus manos, y sus alas, y las ruedas, lleno estaba de ojos alrededor en sus cuatro ruedas.

13 A las ruedas, oyéndolo yo, se les gritaba: ¡Rueda!

14 Y cada uno tenía cuatro rostros. El primer rostro era de querubín; el segundo rostro, de hombre; el tercer rostro, de león; el cuarto rostro, de águila.

15 Y se levantaron los querubines; éstos son los animales que vi en el río de Quebar.

16 Y cuando andaban los querubines, andaban las ruedas junto con ellos; y cuando los querubines alzaban sus alas para levantarse de la tierra, las ruedas tampoco se volvían de junto a ellos.

17 Cuando se paraban ellos, se paraban ellas, y cuando ellos se alzaban, se alzaban con ellos, porque el espíritu de los animales estaba en ellas.

18 Y la gloria del SEÑOR se salió de sobre el umbral de la Casa, y paró sobre los querubines.

19 Y alzando los querubines sus alas, se levantaron de la tierra delante de mis ojos; cuando ellos salieron, también las ruedas estaban delante de ellos; y se pararon a la entrada de la puerta oriental de la Casa del SEÑOR, y la gloria del Dios de Israel estaba arriba sobre ellos.

20 Estos eran los animales que vi debajo del Dios de Israel en el río de Quebar; y conocí que eran querubines.

21 Cada uno tenía cuatro rostros, y cada uno cuatro alas, y figura de manos humanas debajo de sus alas.

22 Y la figura de sus rostros eran los rostros que vi junto al río de Quebar, su parecer y su ser; cada uno caminaba en derecho de su rostro.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #649

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649. Verse 7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, signifies in the end of the church, when the Divine of the Lord is no longer acknowledged, and thence there is no longer any good of love or truth of doctrine. This is evident from the signification of "testimony," as being the acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord, and thence of the good of love and truth of doctrine (of which presently), and from the signification of "to finish it," as being to bring to an end; and as this comes to an end at the end of the church; "to finish" here signifies the end of the church; and as there is then no longer any acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord, there is therefore no good of love or truth of doctrine.

[2] That this is the signification of "testimony," can be seen from what has been thus far said about "the two witnesses," namely, that by them the good of love and charity and the truth of doctrine and faith are meant, because these are what especially testify concerning the Lord, for they are from the Lord, and are His with man; therefore "their testimony" signifies preaching concerning these. That "testimony" here signifies the acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord is evident from what follows in Revelation:

That the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Revelation 19:10).

For unless a man acknowledges this from the heart, and believes it from spiritual faith, he can have no ability to receive the good of love or the truth of doctrine.

[3] At the end of the church indeed the Lord is preached, and from doctrine a Divine is also attributed to Him like the Divine of the Father; yet scarcely anyone thinks of His Divine, for the reason that they place it above or outside of His Human; therefore they do not look to the Lord when they look to His Divine, but to the Father as to another, and yet the Divine that is called the Father is in the Lord, as He Himself teaches in John 10:30, 38; 14:7. For this reason men think of the Lord in the same way as they think of a common man, and from that thought their faith flows, however much they may say with the lips that they believe in His Divine. Let anyone explore, if he can, the idea of his thought about the Lord, whether it be not such. But when it is such man cannot be conjoined to the Lord by faith and love, nor through conjunction receive any good of love or truth of faith. This, then, is why there is at the end of the church no acknowledgment of the Lord, that is, of the Divine in the Lord and from the Lord. It is believed that there is an acknowledgment of the Divine of the Lord, because such is the doctrine of the church; but so long as His Divine is separated from His Human, His Divine is yet not acknowledged interiorly but only exteriorly, and to acknowledge exteriorly is to acknowledge with the mouth only and not with the heart, or in speech only and not in faith.

[4] That this is so can be seen from Christians in the other life, where the thoughts of the heart are manifested. When they are permitted to speak from doctrine and from what they have heard from preaching they attribute a Divine to the Lord, and call it their belief; but when their interior thought and faith are explored they have no other idea of the Lord than as of a common man who has no Divine. It is man's interior thought that is the source of his faith; and as such is the thought and consequent faith of man's spirit, there is plainly no acknowledgment of the Divine in the Lord and from the Lord in the Christian world at the end of the church. In other words, there is an external acknowledgment of the Divine of the Lord, but no internal, and an external acknowledgment is of the natural man alone, while internal acknowledgment is of his very spirit; and after death the external acknowledgment is put to sleep, while the internal is the acknowledgment of his spirit. From this it can in some measure be seen how what follows is to be understood, namely, "the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall overcome and kill the two witnesses," and their "bodies shall be seen upon the street of the city that is called Sodom and Egypt," and afterwards that "the spirit of life entered into them."

  
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Jeremiah 51:36

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36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.