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Jeremia 47

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1 Detta är vad som kom till profeten Jeremia såsom HERRENS ord om filistéerna, förrän Farao hade intagit Gasa.

2 säger HERREN: Se, vatten stiga upp norrifrån och växa till en översvämmande ström; de översvämma landet och allt vad däri är, städerna med dem som bo därinne. Och människorna ropa, alla landets inbyggare jämra sig

3 När bullret höres av hans hingstars hovslag, när hans vagnar dåna, när hans hjuldon rassla, då se ej fäderna sig om efter barnen, så maktlösa stå de

4 inför den dag som kommer med fördärv över alla filistéer, med undergång för alla dem som äro kvar till att försvara Tyrus och Sidon. Ty HERREN skall fördärva filistéerna, kvarlevan från Kaftors ö.

5 Skallighet stundar för Gasa, det är förbi med Askelon, med kvarlevan i deras dalbygd. Huru länge skall du rista märken på dig?

6 Ack ve! Du HERRENS svärd, när skall du äntligen få ro, Drag dig tillbaka i din skida, vila dig och var stilla.

7 Dock, huru skulle det kunna få ro, då det är HERRENS bud det utför? Mot Askelon, mot Kustlandet vid havet, mot dem har han bestämt det.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #437

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437. And the sound of their wings was like the sound of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle. This symbolizes their reasonings, as though founded on doctrinal truths from the Word fully understood, which they had to ardently defend.

The sound of wings symbolizes reasonings, because to fly means, symbolically, to perceive and teach (nos. 245, 415). Chariots symbolize doctrinal teachings, as we are about to show. Horses symbolize an understanding of the Word (no. 298), and many horses a full understanding. Plainly to rush into battle symbolizes an ardor to fight.

That a chariot symbolizes doctrine is clear from the following passages:

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands of peaceful ones, the Lord among them... (Psalms 68:17)

(Jehovah) makes the clouds His chariots, He walks on the wings of the wind. (Psalms 104:3)

O Jehovah..., ...You ride on Your horses, Your chariots are salvation. (Habakkuk 3:8)

...behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and like a whirlwind His chariots... (Isaiah 66:15)

You shall be filled at My table with horses and chariots... (Thus) I will set My glory among the nations. (Ezekiel 39:20-21)

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. (Zechariah 9:10)

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms... I will overthrow the chariots and those who ride in them. (Haggai 2:22)

...set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. He saw therefore a chariot, a pair of horsemen..., a chariot of camels..., and... the chariot of a man... And he... said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen!" (Isaiah 21:6-7, 9)

Since Elijah and Elisha represented the Lord in respect to the Word and thus symbolized doctrine drawn from the Word, as did all the prophets (no. 8), therefore they were called "the chariots of Israel and its horsemen;" and for the same reason Elisha saw Elijah taken up into heaven in a chariot of fire, and Elisha's servant saw chariots and horses of fire around Elisha (2 Kings 2:11-12; 6:17; 13:14).

See also elsewhere where chariots are mentioned, as in Isaiah 31:1; 37:24; 66:20; Jeremiah 17:25; 22:4; 46:2-3, 8-9; 50:37-38; 51:20-21.

  
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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.