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Ezequiel 37

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1 Y la mano del SEÑOR fue sobre mí, y me sacó en el Espíritu del SEÑOR, y me puso en medio de un campo que estaba lleno de huesos.

2 Y me hizo pasar cerca de ellos por todo alrededor; y he aquí que eran muchísimos sobre la faz del campo, y por cierto secos en gran manera.

3 Y me dijo: Hijo de hombre, ¿vivirán estos huesos? Y dije: Señor DIOS, tú lo sabes.

4 Me dijo entonces: Profetiza sobre estos huesos, y diles: huesos secos, oíd Palabra del SEÑOR.

5 Así dijo el Señor DIOS a estos huesos: He aquí, yo hago entrar espíritu en vosotros, y viviréis.

6 Y pondré nervios sobre vosotros, y haré subir sobre vosotros carne, y os cubriré de piel, y pondré en vosotros espíritu, y viviréis; y sabréis que yo soy el SEÑOR.

7 Profeticé, pues, como me fue mandado; y hubo un estruendo mientras yo profetizaba, y he aquí un temblor; y los huesos se llegaron cada hueso a su hueso.

8 Y miré, y he aquí nervios sobre ellos, y la carne subió, y la piel cubrió por encima de ellos; mas no había en ellos espíritu.

9 Y me dijo: Profetiza al espíritu, profetiza, hijo de hombre, y di al espíritu: Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Espíritu, ven de los cuatro vientos, y sopla sobre estos muertos, y vivirán.

10 Y profeticé como me había mandado, y entró espíritu en ellos, y vivieron, y estuvieron sobre sus pies, un ejército grande en extremo.

11 Me dijo luego: Hijo de hombre, todos estos huesos son la Casa de Israel. He aquí, ellos dicen: Nuestros huesos se secaron, y pereció nuestra esperanza, y en nosotros mismos somos del todo talados.

12 Por tanto, profetiza, y diles: Así dijo el Señor DIOS: He aquí, yo abro vuestros sepulcros, y os haré subir de vuestras sepulturas, pueblo mío, y os traeré a la tierra de Israel.

13 Y sabréis que yo soy el SEÑOR, cuando abriere vuestros sepulcros, y os sacare de vuestras sepulturas, pueblo mío.

14 Y pondré mi Espíritu en vosotros, y viviréis, y yo os haré reposar sobre vuestra tierra; y sabréis que yo, el SEÑOR, hablé, y lo hice, dijo el SEÑOR.

15 Y vino Palabra del SEÑOR a mí, diciendo:

16 Tú, hijo de hombre, tómate ahora un palo, y escribe en él: A Judá, y a los hijos de Israel sus compañeros. Toma después otro palo, y escribe en él: A José, palo de Efraín, y a toda la Casa de Israel sus compañeros.

17 Júntalos luego el uno con el otro, para que sean en uno, y serán uno en tu mano.

18 Y cuando te hablaren los hijos de tu pueblo, diciendo: ¿No nos enseñarás qué te significan estas cosas?

19 Diles: Así dijo el Señor DIOS: He aquí, yo tomo el palo de José que está en la mano de Efraín, y a las tribus de Israel sus compañeros, y yo los pondré con él, con el palo de Judá, y los haré un palo, y serán uno en mi mano.

20 Y los palos sobre los que escribieres, estarán en tu mano delante de sus ojos;

21 y les dirás: Así dijo el Señor DIOS: He aquí, yo tomo a los hijos de Israel de entre los gentiles a los cuales fueron, y los juntaré de todas partes, y los traeré a su tierra;

22 y los haré una nación en la tierra, en los montes de Israel; y un rey será a todos ellos por rey; y nunca más serán dos naciones, ni nunca más serán divididos en dos reinos;

23 nunca más se contaminarán con sus ídolos, y con sus abominaciones, y con todas sus rebeliones; y los salvaré de todas sus habitaciones en las cuales pecaron, y yo los limpiaré; y me serán por pueblo, y yo a ellos por Dios.

24 Y mi siervo David será rey sobre ellos, y a todos ellos será un pastor; y andarán en mis derechos, y mis ordenanzas guardarán, y las pondrán por obra.

25 Y habitarán en la tierra que di a mi siervo Jacob, en la cual habitaron vuestros padres, en ella habitarán ellos, y sus hijos, y los hijos de sus hijos para siempre; y mi siervo David les será príncipe para siempre.

26 Y concertaré con ellos pacto de paz, pacto perpetuo será con ellos; y yo los plantaré, y los multiplicaré, y pondré mi Santuario entre ellos para siempre.

27 Y estará en ellos mi Tabernáculo, y seré a ellos por Dios, y ellos me serán por pueblo.

28 Y sabrán los gentiles que yo, el SEÑOR, santifico a Israel, estando mi Santuario entre ellos para siempre.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #702

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702. And there were lightnings, voices, and thunders.- That this signifies that at that time, in the lower places where the evil are, there were conflicts and disturbances of thought, and reasonings from evils and falsities concerning goods and truths, is evident from the signification of lightnings, voices, and thunders, as denoting enlightenment, thoughts, and perceptions (concerning which see above, n. 273); and, in the opposite sense, as here, conflicts and disturbances of thought, and reasonings from evils and falsities concerning the goods and truths of the church (concerning which also see above, n. 498). In a strict sense, lightnings signify darkenings of the understanding, voices, reasonings, while thunderings signify conclusions of falsity from evil; and since, according to the state of the interiors of those with whom they are, there then arise conflicts and disturbances of affections and thoughts, and consequent reasonings from evils and falsities concerning the goods and truths of the church, therefore this is the signification of these words in their logical connection with what precedes. That the lightnings, voices, and thunders, as well as the earthquake and the great hail, were in the lower parts, is clear. For it was in the higher parts that the temple and the ark of the covenant in the temple were seen, which signify the manifestation of a new heaven where there is worship of the Lord, and a representation of Divine Truth through which conjunction takes place, as is evident from the explanations of the preceding particulars. That such things took place in the lower parts through influx out of the higher heavens has been already made clear. But since these things are such as not to fall into any one's understanding except by living revelation, and consequent knowledge respecting the influx of higher things into lower things in the spiritual world, and because these things have been revealed to me, and thus made known, I will briefly explain this interior fact (arcanum).

[2] In the spiritual world - by which both the heavens and the hells are meant - the arrangement is such, that the heavens are like expanses one above the other, and under the heavens is the world of spirits, and under this are the hells, one below another. Influx from the Lord takes place according to this successive arrangement, thus through the inmost heaven into the middle, and through this into the ultimate, and from these in their order into the hells which lie beneath. The world of spirits is in the midst, and receives influx from both the heavens and the hells, each one there according to the state of his life.

[3] But this arrangement of the heavens and the hells underwent changes from one judgment to another, for the reason that the men who passed from the earths, of whom the heavens and the hells are constituted, were various in their affections, some being more or less spiritual or internal, and some more or less natural or external. And because the Lord does evil to none, but good to all, therefore He permitted those who had lived a moral and apparently spiritual life in externals from custom and habit in the world, however interiorly they were conjoined with hell, to form for themselves, in the world of spirits, a similitude of heaven in various places. And then the heavens above them, and the hells below them, were so arranged, that their interiors, through which they were conjoined with hell, might as far as possible be kept closed, while their exteriors, through which they were conjoined with the ultimate heaven, be kept open. And then it was provided that the higher heavens should not flow in immediately, for by such immediate influx their interiors, which were infernal, would be opened, and their exteriors, which were apparently spiritual, closed; for the influx of the higher heavens is into the interiors, which are the spirits' own, and not into the exteriors, which are not really their own. But when such apparent heavens had increased to such an extent that the influx from the hells had begun to prevail over the influx from the heavens, and that consequently the ultimate heaven, which was conjoined with them, had begun to totter, then the Last Judgment was at hand, and by degrees a separation of the evil from the good in those new apparent heavens took place, and this by immediate influx from the higher heavens; and by such influx their interiors, which were infernal, were opened, and their exteriors, which were apparently spiritual, were closed, as stated above.

From these things it is now clear why the temple appeared and the ark in the temple, which signifies the Divine Truth, by which the higher heavens were enlightened, in order that from them influx might pass into the lower parts, where the evil had their abode. From this influx it resulted that, in the lower parts where the evil were, lightnings were seen, and voices and thunders heard. Also there was a great earthquake, and hail fell. The influx out of the heavens, that is, through the heavens from the Lord, is nothing else but an influx of the love of good and of affection for truth; but with the evil it is turned into such things as correspond to their evils, and to the falsities therefrom, or as correspond to their love of evil and affection for falsity. And because the conflicts and disturbances of thought, and reasonings from evils and falsities concerning the goods and truths of the church, in which they were, correspond to lightnings, voices, and thunders, therefore they are here signified by these. For the subject here treated of is the state of heaven, such as it was about to become immediately before the Last Judgment. The existence of conflicts and disturbances of thought, and of reasonings from evils and falsities concerning the goods and truths of the church with those who are interiorly evil, and appear outwardly good after their interiors have been opened and their exteriors closed, arises from the conflict of their interiors with their exteriors in the first state of separation. But as soon as the exteriors have been completely closed, and they are left to their own interiors, then the conflict ceases, for then they are entirely in the love of their own evil, and in the affection for their own falsity, and thus in the delight of their life; therefore they then cast themselves down into hell to their like, which takes place at the time of a last judgment.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Jeremiah 31:31-34

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31 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.

33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all Know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.