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Jonas 1

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1 Ang salita nga ng Panginoon ay dumating kay Jonas na anak ni Amittai, na nagsasabi,

2 Bumangon ka, pumaroon ka sa Ninive, sa malaking bayang yaon, at humiyaw ka laban doon; sapagka't ang kanilang kasamaan ay umabot sa harap ko.

3 Nguni't si Jonas ay bumangon upang tumakas na patungo sa Tarsis mula sa harapan ng Panginoon; at siya'y lumusong sa Joppe, at nakasumpong ng sasakyan na patungo sa Tarsis: sa gayo'y nagbayad siya ng upa niyaon, at siya'y lumulan, upang yumaong kasama nila sa Tarsis mula sa harapan ng Panginoon.

4 Nguni't ang Panginoon ay nagpasapit ng malakas na hangin sa dagat, at nagkaroon ng malakas na unos sa dagat, na anopa't ang sasakyan ay halos masira.

5 Nang magkagayo'y nangatakot ang mga taong dagat at dumaing ang bawa't tao sa kanikaniyang dios; at kanilang inihagis sa dagat ang mga daladalahang nangasa sasakyan upang makapagpagaan sa kanila. Nguni't si Jonas ay bumaba sa pinakaloob na bahagi ng sasakyan; at siya'y nahiga at nakatulog ng mahimbing.

6 Sa gayo'y lumapit sa kaniya ang puno ng sasakyan, at sinabi sa kaniya, Ano ang inaakala mo, O matutulugin? bumangon ka, tumawag ka sa iyong Dios, baka sakaling alalahanin ng Dios tayo, upang huwag tayong mangamatay.

7 At sinabi ng bawa't isa sa kanila sa kaniyang kasama, Magsiparito kayo at tayo'y mangagsapalaran, upang ating maalaman kung dahil kanino dumating ang kasamaang ito sa atin. Sa gayo'y nangagsapalaran sila, at ang palad ay nahulog kay Jonas.

8 Nang magkagayo'y sinabi nila sa kaniya, Isinasamo namin sa iyo na iyong saysayin sa amin, kung dahil kanino dumating ang kasamaang ito sa atin; ano ang iyong hanap-buhay? at saan ka nanggaling? ano ang iyong lupain? at taga saang bayan ka?

9 At kaniyang sinabi sa kanila, Ako'y isang Hebreo; at ako'y natatakot sa Panginoon, sa Dios ng langit, na siyang gumawa ng dagat at ng tuyong lupain.

10 Nang magkagayo'y nangatakot na mainam ang mga tao, at sinabi sa kaniya, Ano itong iyong ginawa? Sapagka't talastas ng mga tao na siya'y tumatakas mula sa harapan ng Panginoon, sapagka't isinaysay niya sa kanila,

11 Nang magkagayo'y sinabi nila sa kaniya, Anong gagawin namin sa iyo, upang ang dagat ay tumahimik sa atin? sapagka't ang dagat ay lalo't lalong umuunos.

12 At sinabi niya sa kanila, Ako'y inyong buhatin, at ihagis ninyo ako sa dagat; sa gayo'y ang dagat ay tatahimik sa inyo: sapagka't talastas ko na dahil sa akin dumating ang malaking unos na ito sa inyo.

13 Gayon ma'y ang mga lalake ay nagsisigaod na mainam upang bumalik sa lupa; nguni't hindi nila magawa; sapagka't ang dagat ay lalo't lalong umuunos laban sa kanila.

14 Kaya't sila'y nagsidaing sa Panginoon, at nangagsabi, Ipinamamanhik namin sa iyo, Oh Panginoon, ipinamamanhik namin sa iyo, huwag mo kaming ipahamak dahil sa buhay ng lalaking ito, at huwag mong ihulog sa amin ang walang salang dugo; sapagka't ikaw, Oh Panginoon, iyong ginawa ang nakalulugod sa iyo.

15 Sa gayo'y kanilang binuhat si Jonas, at inihagis sa dagat; at ang dagat ay tumigil sa kaniyang poot.

16 Nang magkagayo'y nangatakot na mainam ang mga tao sa Panginoon; at sila'y nangaghandog ng isang hain sa Panginoon, at nagsipanata.

17 At inihanda ng Panginoon ang isang malaking isda upang lamunin si Jonas; at si Jonas ay napasa tiyan ng isda na tatlong araw at tatlong gabi.

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Apocalypse Revealed #191

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191. "'I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God.'" This symbolically means that the truths they possess, springing from goodness derived from the Lord, sustain the Lord's church in heaven.

A temple symbolizes the church, and the temple of My God symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven. It is apparent from this that a pillar symbolizes what sustains and stabilizes the church, and that is the Divine truth in the Word.

In the highest sense, a temple symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, particularly in respect to Divine truth. In a representative sense, however, a temple symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, and so also the Lord's church in the world.

That a temple in the highest sense symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity, and particularly in respect to Divine truth, is apparent from the following passages:

(Jesus said to the Jews,) "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." ...He was speaking of the temple of His body. (John 2:19, 21)

I saw no temple in (the New Jerusalem), for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. (Revelation 21:22)

Behold..., the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire. (Malachi 3:1)

I will bow myself toward Your holy temple... (Psalms 138:2)

...I will look again toward Your holy temple... And my prayer went to You, to Your holy temple. (Jonah 2:4, 7)

Jehovah is in His holy temple. (Habakkuk 2:20)

The holy temple of Jehovah or of the Lord is His Divine humanity, for it is to this that people bow, look to, and pray, and not to the temple merely, as the temple is not, in itself, holy. It is called a holy temple, because holiness is predicated of Divine truth (no. 173).

"The temple that sanctifies the gold" in Matthew 23:16-17 means nothing else than the Lord's Divine humanity.

[2] That a temple in a representative sense symbolizes the Lord's church in heaven, is apparent from the following passages:

(The) voice (of Jehovah) from the temple...! (Isaiah 66:6)

...a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven... (Revelation 16:17)

The temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. (Revelation 11:19)

...the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. And out of the temple came the seven angels... And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God... (Revelation 15:5-6, 8)

I called upon Jehovah, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple... (Psalms 18:6)

I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and His skirts filled the temple. (Isaiah 6:1)

[3] That a temple symbolizes the church in the world is apparent from these passages:

Our holy... temple... has become a conflagration... (Isaiah 64:11)

I will shake all nations..., that I may fill this house with glory... The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former... (Haggai 2:7, 9)

The new temple in Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48 describes a church to be established by the Lord. A church is also meant in Revelation 11:1 by the temple that the angel measured. So likewise elsewhere, as in Isaiah 44:28, Jeremiah 7:2-4, 9-11, Zechariah 8:9.

...the disciples (of Jesus) came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, ."..Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left... upon another, that shall not be demolished." (Matthew 24:1-2)

The temple here symbolizes the church today; and its demolition means, symbolically, that not one stone would be left upon another. This symbolizes the end of that church, when not any truth would remain. For when the disciples spoke with the Lord about the temple, the Lord foretold the consecutive states of this church, even to its last one, or the end of the age; and the end of the age means the final period of the church, which is the one that exists today. This was represented by the destruction of that temple to its foundations.

[4] A temple has these three symbolic meanings, namely the Lord, the church in heaven, and the church in the world. Because these three are bound up together, they cannot be separated. Consequently one cannot be meant without the other. Therefore anyone who divorces the church in the world from the church in heaven, or the one or the other from the Lord, is without the truth.

The temple here means the church in heaven, because reference to the church in the world follows after this (no. 194).

  
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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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Jonah 2:7

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7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.