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Jeremiah 48:9

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9 Give wings to Moab, that it may flee and get away: for its cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them.

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Apocalypse Revealed #317

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317. When He opened the fourth seal. (6:7) This symbolizes an examination by the Lord of those people on whom the Last Judgment would fall, as to their states of life, as in nos. 295, 302 above, with the difference described in what follows.

  
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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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Amos 9:13-14

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13 "Behold, the days come," says Yahweh, "that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.

14 I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.