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Oseas 3

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1 Y me dijo otra vez el SEÑOR: Ve, ama una mujer amada de su compañero, y adúltera, como el amor del SEÑOR para con los hijos de Israel; los cuales miran a dioses ajenos, y aman frascos de vino.

2 La compré entonces para mí por quince dineros de plata, y un homer y medio de cebada;

3 y le dije: Tú estarás para mí muchos días; no fornicarás, ni tomarás otro varón; también estaré yo para ti.

4 Porque muchos días estarán los hijos de Israel sin Rey, y sin Señor, y sin sacrificio, y sin estatua, y sin efod, y sin terafín.

5 Después volverán los hijos de Israel, y buscarán al SEÑOR su Dios, y a David su rey; y temerán al SEÑOR y a su bondad en el fin de los días.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #705

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705. 16:15 "Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and preserves his garments." This symbolizes the Lord's advent and heaven then for people who look to Him and remain steadfast in a life in accordance with His precepts, which are the Word's truths.

To come as a thief, when said of the Lord, symbolizes His advent, and heaven then for people who have lived a good life, but hell for those who have lived an evil life, as may be seen in no. 164 above. That person is called blessed who receives eternal life (no. 639). To watch means, symbolically, to live spiritually, that is, to possess truths and live in accordance with them and look to the Lord (no. 158). And to preserve one's garments means, symbolically, to remain steadfast in those truths to the end of one's life. For garments symbolize truths that clothe (nos. 166, 212, 328), thus the Lord's precepts in the Word, because these are truths.

This meaning now follows in sequence from the preceding ones, for the subject before was the Lord's advent and a new church, and then an attack on that church by people of the former church; and because the conflict is at hand, those people who possess truths from the Word are admonished to remain steadfast in them, lest they succumb in the battle that is the subject of the following verse.

  
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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.

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Isaiah 52:6

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6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I."