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Daniel 9

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1 Nang unang taon ni Dario na anak ni Assuero, sa lahi ng mga taga Media, na ginawang hari sa kaharian ng mga taga Caldea;

2 Nang unang taon ng kaniyang paghahari akong si Daniel ay nakaunawa sa pamamagitan ng mga aklat, ng bilang ng mga taon, na sinalita ng Panginoon kay Jeremias na propeta, dahil sa pagkaganap ng pagkasira ng Jerusalem, pitong pung taon.

3 At aking itiningin ang aking mukha sa Panginoong Dios upang humanap sa pamamagitan ng panalangin at ng mga samo, ng pagaayuno, at pananamit ng magaspang, at ng mga abo.

4 At ako'y nanalangin sa Panginoon kong Dios, at ako'y nagpahayag ng kasalanan, at nagsabi, Oh Panginoon, Dios na dakila at kakilakilabot, na nagiingat ng tipan at kaawaan sa nagsisiibig sa iyo at nangagiingat ng iyong mga utos,

5 Kami ay nangagkasala, at nangagasal ng kasuwalian, at nagsigawang may kasamaan, at nanganghimagsik, sa makatuwid baga'y nagsitalikod sa iyong mga utos at sa iyong mga kahatulan;

6 Na hindi man kami nangakinig sa iyong mga lingkod na mga propeta, na nangagsalita sa iyong pangalan sa aming mga hari, sa aming mga prinsipe, at sa aming mga magulang, at sa buong bayan ng lupain.

7 Oh Panginoon, katuwira'y ukol sa iyo, nguni't sa amin ay pagkagulo ng mukha gaya sa araw na ito; sa mga tao ng Juda, at sa mga nananahan sa Jerusalem, at sa buong Israel, na malapit, at malayo, sa lahat na lupain na iyong pinagtabuyan dahil sa kanilang pagsalangsang na kanilang isinalangsang laban sa iyo.

8 Oh Panginoon, sa amin nauukol ang pagkagulo ng mukha, sa aming mga hari, sa aming mga prinsipe, at sa aming mga magulang, sapagka't kami ay nangagkasala laban sa iyo.

9 Sa Panginoon naming Dios ukol ang kaawaan at kapatawaran; sapagka't kami ay nanganghimagsik laban sa kaniya;

10 Ni hindi man namin tinalima ang tinig ng Panginoon naming Dios, upang lumakad ng ayon sa kaniyang mga kautusan, na kaniyang inilagay sa harap namin sa pamamagitan ng kaniyang mga lingkod na propeta.

11 Oo, buong Israel ay sumalangsang ng iyong kautusan, sa pagtalikod, upang huwag nilang talimahin ang iyong tinig: kaya't ang sumpa ay nabuhos sa amin, at ang sumpa na nakasulat sa kautusan ni Moises na lingkod ng Dios; sapagka't kami ay nangagkasala laban sa kaniya.

12 At kaniyang pinagtibay ang kaniyang mga salita, na kaniyang sinalita laban sa amin, at laban sa aming mga hukom na nagsihatol sa amin, sa pagbabagsak sa amin ng malaking kasamaan; sapagka't sa silong ng buong langit ay hindi ginawa ang gaya ng ginawa sa Jerusalem.

13 Kung ano ang nasusulat sa kautusan ni Moises, lahat ng kasamaang ito'y nagsidating sa amin: gayon ma'y hindi namin idinalangin ang biyaya ng Panginoon naming Dios, upang aming talikuran ang aming mga kasamaan, at gunitain ang iyong katotohanan.

14 Kaya't iniingatan ng Panginoon ang kasamaan, at ibinagsak sa amin; sapagka't ang Panginoon naming Dios ay matuwid sa lahat ng kaniyang mga gawa na kaniyang ginagawa, at hindi namin dininig ang kaniyang tinig.

15 At ngayon, Oh Panginoon naming Dios, na naglabas ng iyong bayan mula sa lupain ng Egipto sa pamamagitan ng makapangyarihang kamay, at ikaw ay nabantog gaya sa araw na ito; kami ay nangagkasala, kami ay nagsigawa na may kasamaan.

16 Oh Panginoon, ayon sa iyong buong katuwiran, isinasamo ko sa iyo, na ang iyong galit at kapusukan ay mahiwalay sa iyong bayang Jerusalem, na iyong banal na bundok; sapagka't dahil sa aming mga kasalanan, at dahil sa mga kasamaan ng aming mga magulang, ang Jerusalem at ang iyong bayan ay naging kakutyaan sa lahat na nangasa palibot namin.

17 Kaya nga, Oh aming Dios, iyong dinggin ang panalangin ng iyong lingkod, at ang kaniyang mga samo, at paliwanagin mo ang iyong mukha sa iyong santuario na sira, alangalang sa Panginoon.

18 Oh Dios ko, ikiling mo ang iyong tainga, at iyong dinggin; idilat mo ang iyong mga mata, at masdan mo ang aming mga kasiraan, at ang bayan na tinatawag sa iyong pangalan: sapagka't hindi namin inihaharap ang aming mga samo sa harap mo dahil sa aming mga katuwiran, kundi dahil sa iyong dakilang mga kaawaan.

19 Oh Panginoon, dinggin mo; Oh Panginoon, patawarin mo; Oh Panginoon, iyong pakinggan at gawin; huwag mong ipagpaliban, alangalang sa iyong sarili, Oh Dios ko, sapagka't ang iyong bayan at ang iyong mga tao ay tinatawag sa iyong pangalan.

20 At samantalang ako'y nagsasalita, at nananalangin, at nagpapahayag ng aking kasalanan at ng kasalanan ng aking bayang Israel, at naghaharap ng aking samo sa harap ng Panginoon kong Dios dahil sa banal na bundok ng aking Dios;

21 Oo, samantalang ako'y nagsasalita sa panalangin, ang lalaking si Gabriel, na aking nakita sa pangitain nang una, na pinalipad ng maliksi, hinipo ako sa panahon ng pagaalay sa hapon.

22 At kaniya akong tinuruan, at nakipagsalitaan sa akin, at nagsabi, Oh Daniel, ako'y lumabas ngayon upang bigyan ka ng karunungan at kaunawaan.

23 Sa pasimula ng iyong mga samo ay lumabas ang utos, at ako'y naparito upang saysayin sa iyo; sapagka't ikaw ay totoong minahal: kaya't gunitain mo ang bagay, at unawain mo ang pangitain.

24 Pitong pung sanglinggo ang ipinasiya sa iyong mga tao at sa iyong banal na bayan, upang tapusin ang pagsalangsang, at upang wakasan ang pagkakasala, at upang linisin sa kasamaan, at upang dalhan ng walang hanggang katuwiran, at upang tatakan ang pangitain at ang panghuhula, at upang pahiran ang kabanalbanalan.

25 Iyo ngang talastasin at bulayin, na mula sa paglabas ng utos na isauli at itayo ang Jerusalem sa pinahiran na prinsipe, magiging pitong sanglinggo, at anim na pu't dalawang sanglinggo: ito'y matatayo uli, na may lansangan at kuta, sa makatuwid baga'y sa mga panahong mabagabag.

26 At pagkatapos ng anim na pu't dalawang sanglinggo, mahihiwalay ang pinahiran, at mawawalaan ng anoman: at gigibain ang bayan at ang santuario ng mga tao ng prinsipeng darating; at ang wakas niyaon ay sa pamamagitan ng baha, at hanggang sa wakas ay magkakaroon ng digma; mga pagkasira ay ipinasiya na.

27 At pagtitibayin niya ang tipan sa marami sa isang sanglinggo: at sa kalahati ng sanglinggo ay kaniyang ipatitigil ang hain at ang alay; at sa pakpak ng mga kasuklamsuklam ay paroroon ang isang maninira; at hanggang sa wakas, at pagkapasiya ay mabubuhos ang poot sa maninira.

   

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True Christian Religion #851

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851. I foresee that many readers of the accounts of experiences which come at the end of the chapters will think that they are fictions of the imagination. But I declare in truth that they are no fictions, but things I have truly seen and heard; and not things seen and heard in some state of mental somnolence, but in full wakefulness. For it has pleased the Lord to show Himself to me, and to send me to teach the doctrines of His new church, which is meant by the New Jerusalem in Revelation. For this purpose He opened the interiors of my mind or spirit, thus allowing me to be with angels in the spiritual world and at the same time with people in the natural world; and this has continued now for twenty-seven years.

Would anyone in the Christian world have known anything about heaven and hell if it had not been the Lord's pleasure to open the sight of someone's spirit, and show and teach him?

[2] It is quite plain that things of the kind described in the accounts of experiences are to be seen in the heavens from the similar things seen and described by John in Revelation, as well as those seen and described by the prophets in the Old Testament Word.

Examples in Revelation are: his seeing the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; seeing a tabernacle, a temple, an ark and an altar in heaven; the book sealed with seven seals and its opening, and the horses coming out of it; the four creatures around the throne; the twelve thousand chosen from each tribe; the locusts coming up out of the abyss; the woman giving birth to a male child, and fleeing into the desert because of the dragon; the two beasts coming up, one from the sea and one from the land; the angel flying in mid-heaven holding the everlasting gospel; the sea of glass mixed with fire; the seven angels having the seven last plagues; the bowls which they poured out on the earth, the sea, the rivers, the sun, the throne of the beast, the Euphrates and the air; the woman seated upon the scarlet beast; the dragon cast out into a lake of fire and brimstone; the white horse; the great dinner; the new heaven and the new earth; the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven, with the description of its gates, its wall and the foundations of the wall; also the river of the water of life, and the trees of life which bear fruit every month; and many things besides which were all seen by John, while he was in his spirit in the spiritual world and in heaven.

There are also the things seen by the Apostles after the Lord's resurrection, as well as those seen by Peter (Acts 11) and seen and heard by Paul. There are too the experiences of the Old Testament prophets. For instance, Ezekiel saw four creatures, which were the Cherubim (Ezekiel 1, 10); a new temple and a new earth, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40 to Ezekiel 48); he was carried away to Jerusalem and saw abominations there, and also to Chaldaea (Ezekiel 8, 11).

[3] Likewise it happened to Zechariah to see a man riding a horse among the myrtles (Zechariah 1:8-11); four horns, and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 2); a flying scroll and an ephah (Zechariah 5:6); four chariots between the two mountains, and their horses (Daniel 7:1-8; 7:13-14); the battles of the ram and the he-goat (Daniel 8; 9). Likewise Elisha's lad saw chariots and horses of fire around Elisha, and he saw them when his eyes had been opened (2 Kings 6:17).

From these and many other passages in the Word it is established that the things which come into existence in the spiritual world have been seen by many people before and after the Lord's coming. What is surprising then if it happens when a new church is beginning, or the New Jerusalem is coming down from heaven?

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Daniel 9

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1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;

6 neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;

10 neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.

12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.

14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

15 Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

17 Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

18 My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.

19 Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.

20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

22 He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to give you wisdom and understanding.

23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.