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Ezequiel 45

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1 Y cuando partiereis por suertes la tierra en heredad, apartaréis una suerte para el SEÑOR que le consagraréis de la tierra, de longitud de veinticinco mil cañas de medir y diez mil de ancho; esto será santificado en todo su término alrededor.

2 De esto serán para el Santuario quinientas de longitud , y quinientas de ancho , en cuadro alrededor; y cincuenta codos en derredor para sus ejidos.

3 Y de esta medida medirás en longitud veinticinco mil cañas , y en anchura diez mil, en lo cual estará el Santuario, el Lugar Santísimo.

4 Lo consagrado de esta tierra será para los sacerdotes ministros del Santuario, que son escogidos para ministrar al SEÑOR; y les será lugar para casas, y Lugar Santo para el Santuario.

5 Y otras veinticinco mil de longitud, y diez mil de anchura, lo cual será para los levitas ministros de la Casa, en posesión, con veinte cámaras.

6 Y para la posesión de la ciudad daréis cinco mil de anchura y veinticinco mil de longitud, delante de lo que se apartó para el Santuario; esto será para toda la Casa de Israel.

7 Y la parte del Príncipe será junto al apartamiento del Santuario, de una parte y de la otra, y junto a la posesión de la ciudad, delante del apartamiento del Santuario, y delante de la posesión de la ciudad, desde el rincón occidental que está hacia el occidente, hasta el rincón oriental que está hacia el oriente; y la longitud será de una parte a la otra, desde el rincón del occidente hasta el rincón del oriente.

8 Esta tierra tendrá por posesión en Israel, y nunca más mis príncipes oprimirán a mi pueblo; mas darán la tierra a la Casa de Israel por sus tribus.

9 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: Basta ya, oh príncipes de Israel; quitad la violencia y la rapiña; haced juicio y justicia; quitad vuestras imposiciones de sobre mi pueblo, dijo el Señor DIOS.

10 Peso de justicia, y efa de justicia, y bato de justicia, tendréis.

11 El efa y el bato serán de una misma medida; que el bato tenga la décima parte del homer, y la décima parte del homer el efa; la medida de ellos será según el homer.

12 Y el siclo será de veinte geras: veinte siclos, con veinticinco siclos, y quince siclos, os serán una mina.

13 Esta será la ofrenda que ofreceréis: la sexta parte de un efa de homer del trigo, y la sexta parte de un efa de homer de la cebada.

14 Y la ordenanza del aceite será que ofreceréis un bato de aceite, que es la décima parte de un coro: diez batos harán un homer; porque diez batos son un homer.

15 Y una cordera de la manada de doscientas, de las gruesas de Israel, para sacrificio, y para holocausto y para pacíficos, para ser expiados, dijo el Señor DIOS.

16 Todo el pueblo de la tierra será obligado a esta ofrenda para el príncipe de Israel.

17 Mas del príncipe será la obligación de dar el holocausto, y el sacrificio, y la libación, en las solemnidades, y en las lunas nuevas, y en los sábados, y en todas las fiestas de la Casa de Israel; él hará la expiación, y el presente, y el holocausto, y los pacíficos, para expiar la Casa de Israel.

18 Así dijo el Señor DIOS: El mes primero, al primero del mes, tomarás un becerro, hijo de vaca, sin defecto, y expiarás el Santuario.

19 Y el sacerdote tomará de la sangre del becerro de la expiación, y pondrá sobre los postes de la Casa, y sobre los cuatro ángulos del patio del altar, y sobre los postes de las puertas del atrio de adentro.

20 Así harás hasta el séptimo día del mes por los errados y engañados; y expiarás la Casa.

21 El mes primero, a los catorce días del mes, tendréis la pascua, que será fiesta de siete días; se comerá pan sin levadura.

22 Y aquel día el príncipe sacrificará por sí, y por todo el pueblo de la tierra, un becerro por el pecado.

23 Y en todos los siete días de solemnidad hará holocausto al SEÑOR, siete becerros y siete carneros sin defecto, cada día de los siete días; y por el pecado un macho cabrío cada día.

24 Y con cada becerro ofrecerá Presente de un efa de flor de harina , y con cada carnero otro efa; y por cada efa un hin de aceite.

25 En el mes séptimo, a los quince del mes, en la fiesta, hará otro tanto como en estos siete días, en cuanto a la expiación, y en cuanto al holocausto, y en cuanto al presente, y en cuanto al aceite.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #945

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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.). When he saw Joshua, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.). When he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.). When he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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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.