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Hesekiel 38:12

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12 Ty du vill taga rov och göra byte och vända din hand mot ödemarker som nu åter äro bebyggda, och mot ett folk som har blivit hopsamlat från hedningarna, och som nu förvärvar sig boskap och gods, där det bor på jordens mittelhöjd.

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034 - Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)

By Jonathan S. Rose

Title: Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)

Topic: Second Coming

Summary: Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)

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References:
Revelation 19; 20:1-14; 6:9
Hebrews 9:27
Exodus 15:6, 8-10
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
Ezekiel 38:8-13, 20-23; 39:1, 4-7, 17-29

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Apocalypse Revealed #810

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810. "Both small and great!" This symbolizes those people who to a lesser or greater degree are moved by truths of faith or goods of love to worship the Lord.

In the natural sense people small and great mean people of a greater or lesser degree of status, but in the spiritual sense they are people of a greater or lesser degree of worship of the Lord, thus who are moved to worship the Lord more or less reverently or fully by truths of faith or goods of love. This is the symbolic meaning, because it follows the injunction to praise God, all His servants and those who fear Him, and it accords with the symbolic meaning of those words (no. 809). See also nos. 527, 604.

  
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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.