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1 Mutta kun kansa näki, että Mooses viipyi eikä tullut alas vuorelta, kokoontui kansa Aaronin ympärille ja sanoi hänelle: "Nouse, tee meille jumala, joka käy meidän edellämme. Sillä me emme tiedä, mitä on tapahtunut Moosekselle, tälle miehelle, joka johdatti meidät Egyptin maasta."

2 Niin Aaron sanoi heille: "Irroittakaa kultarenkaat, jotka ovat vaimojenne, poikienne ja tyttärienne korvissa, ja tuokaa ne minulle".

3 Ja kaikki kansa irroitti kultarenkaat, jotka heillä oli korvissaan, ja he toivat ne Aaronille;

4 ja hän otti vastaan kullan heidän käsistään, kaavaili sitä piirtimellä ja teki siitä valetun vasikan. Ja he sanoivat: "Tämä on sinun jumalasi, Israel, se, joka on johdattanut sinut Egyptin maasta".

5 Kun Aaron tämän näki, rakensi hän sille alttarin; ja Aaron julisti ja sanoi: "Huomenna on Herran juhla".

6 Ja he nousivat varhain seuraavana päivänä ja uhrasivat polttouhreja ja toivat yhteysuhreja; ja kansa istui syömään ja juomaan, ja sitten he nousivat iloa pitämään.

7 Silloin Herra sanoi Moosekselle: "Mene, astu alas, sillä sinun kansasi, jonka johdatit Egyptin maasta, on turmion tehnyt.

8 Pian he poikkesivat siltä tieltä, jota minä käskin heidän kulkea; he tekivät itselleen valetun vasikan. Sitä he ovat kumartaneet, ja sille he ovat uhranneet ja sanoneet: 'Tämä on sinun jumalasi, Israel, se, joka on johdattanut sinut Egyptin maasta'."

9 Ja Herra sanoi vielä Moosekselle: "Minä näen, että tämä kansa on niskurikansa.

10 Anna minun olla, että vihani leimahtaisi heitä vastaan, hukuttaakseni heidät; mutta sinusta minä teen suuren kansan."

11 Mutta Mooses rukoili armoa Herralta, Jumalaltansa, ja sanoi: "Herra, miksi sinun vihasi syttyy omaa kansaasi vastaan, jonka olet vienyt pois Egyptin maasta suurella voimalla ja väkevällä kädellä?

12 Miksi egyptiläiset saisivat sanoa: 'Heidän onnettomuudekseen hän vei heidät pois, tappaaksensa heidät vuorilla ja hävittääksensä heidät maan päältä'? Käänny vihasi hehkusta ja kadu sitä turmiota, jonka aioit tuottaa kansallesi.

13 Muista palvelijoitasi Aabrahamia, Iisakia ja Israelia, joille olet itse kauttasi vannonut ja sanonut: 'Minä teen teidän jälkeläistenne luvun paljoksi kuin taivaan tähdet; ja koko tämän maan, josta olen puhunut, minä annan teidän jälkeläisillenne, ja he saavat sen ikuiseksi perinnöksi'."

14 Niin Herra katui sitä turmiota, jonka hän oli uhannut tuottaa kansallensa.

15 Ja Mooses kääntyi ja astui alas vuorelta, ja hänen kädessään oli kaksi laintaulua. Ja tauluihin oli kirjoitettu molemmille puolille; etupuolelle ja takapuolelle oli niihin kirjoitettu.

16 Ja taulut olivat Jumalan tekemät, ja kirjoitus oli Jumalan kirjoitusta, joka oli tauluihin kaiverrettu.

17 Kun Joosua kuuli kansan huudon, sen melutessa, sanoi hän Moosekselle: "Sotahuuto kuuluu leiristä".

18 Mutta tämä vastasi: "Se ei ole voittajien huutoa, eikä se ole voitettujen huutoa; minä kuulen laulua".

19 Ja kun Mooses lähestyi leiriä ja näki vasikan ja karkelon, niin hänen vihansa syttyi, ja hän heitti taulut käsistänsä ja murskasi ne vuoren juurella.

20 Senjälkeen hän otti vasikan, jonka he olivat tehneet, poltti sen tulessa ja rouhensi sen hienoksi ja hajotti veteen ja juotti sen israelilaisille.

21 Ja Mooses sanoi Aaronille: "Mitä tämä kansa on tehnyt sinulle, kun olet saattanut heidät näin suureen syntiin?"

22 Aaron vastasi: "Älköön herrani viha syttykö; sinä tiedät itse, että tämä kansa on paha.

23 He sanoivat minulle: 'Tee meille jumala, joka käy meidän edellämme; sillä emme tiedä, mitä on tapahtunut Moosekselle, tälle miehelle, joka johdatti meidät Egyptin maasta'.

24 Niin minä sanoin heille: 'Jolla on kultaa, irroittakoon sen yltänsä'; ja he antoivat sen minulle. Ja minä heitin sen tuleen, ja siitä tuli tämä vasikka."

25 Kun Mooses näki, että kansa oli kurittomuuden vallassa, koska Aaron oli päästänyt heidät kurittomuuden valtaan, vahingoniloksi heidän vihollisillensa,

26 niin Mooses seisahtui leirin portille ja huusi: "Joka on Herran oma, se tulkoon minun luokseni". Silloin kokoontuivat hänen luoksensa kaikki leeviläiset.

27 Ja hän sanoi heille: "Näin sanoo Herra, Israelin Jumala: 'Jokainen sitokoon miekkansa vyölleen. Käykää sitten edestakaisin leirin halki portista porttiin ja tappakaa jokainen, olkoon vaikka oma veli, ystävä tai sukulainen.'"

28 Niin leeviläiset tekivät Mooseksen käskyn mukaan; ja sinä päivänä kaatui kansaa noin kolmetuhatta miestä.

29 Ja Mooses sanoi: "Koska te nyt olette olleet omia poikianne ja veljiänne vastaan, niin vihkiytykää tänä päivänä Herran palvelukseen, että hän tänä päivänä antaisi siunauksen teille".

30 Seuraavana päivänä Mooses sanoi kansalle: "Te olette tehneet suuren synnin. Minä nousen nyt Herran tykö-jos ehkä voisin sovittaa teidän rikoksenne."

31 Ja Mooses palasi Herran tykö ja sanoi: "Voi, tämä kansa on tehnyt suuren synnin! He ovat tehneet itselleen jumalan kullasta.

32 Jospa nyt antaisit heidän rikoksensa anteeksi! Mutta jos et, niin pyyhi minut pois kirjastasi, johon kirjoitat."

33 Mutta Herra vastasi Moosekselle: "Joka on tehnyt syntiä minua vastaan, sen minä pyyhin pois kirjastani.

34 Mene nyt ja johdata kansa siihen paikkaan, josta minä olen sinulle puhunut; katso, minun enkelini käy sinun edelläsi. Mutta kostoni päivänä minä kostan heille heidän rikoksensa."

35 Niin Herra rankaisi kansaa, koska he olivat teettäneet vasikan, jonka Aaron teki.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #134

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134. "'To teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality.'" This symbolically means, in consequence of which faith the truths of the church are falsified.

To teach and seduce the Lord's servants means, symbolically, to teach and seduce people who can be and are willing to be instructed in truths from the Word. That servants of the Lord are what people governed by truths are called may be seen in nos. 3 and 128 above; and to commit sexual immorality means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word. To commit sexual immorality has this symbolic meaning because every particular of the Word contains a marriage of good and truth, and this marriage is broken when goodness is divorced and estranged from truth.

To be shown that every particular of the Word contains a marriage of good and truth, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, nos. 80-90. It is because of this that to commit sexual immorality means, symbolically, to adulterate the goods of the Word and falsify its truths. Moreover, because this is spiritual licentiousness, therefore people who have employed their own reason to falsify the Word become sexually licentious people when they enter the spiritual world after death. And something as yet unrecognized in the world is the fact that people who have affirmed faith alone to the exclusion of any works of charity are prompted by the lust of an adultery of a son with his mother. In the spiritual world I have often perceived them to be impelled by the lust of so unspeakable an adultery. Remember this and inquire into it after death, and you will be convinced. I have not dared to reveal this previously, because it offends the ears.

[2] This adultery is symbolized by the adultery of Reuben with Bilhah, his father's concubine (Genesis 35:22), inasmuch as Reuben symbolizes that faith. Therefore he was cursed by his father Israel, and the birthright was subsequently taken from him. For in prophesying concerning his sons, his father Israel said of Reuben,

Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength... Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my pallet. (Genesis 49:3-4)

And therefore the birthright was taken from him:

...Reuben (was) the firstborn of Israel..., but because he defiled his father's pallet, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph... (1 Chronicles 5:1)

We will see in the explanation of Revelation 7:5 that Reuben represented truth arising from good or faith springing from charity, and afterward truth divorced from good or faith divorced from charity.

[3] That references to sexual licentiousness in the Word symbolize adulterations of good and falsifications of truth can be seen from the following passages:

...when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" And he said, "What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are many?" (2 Kings 9:22)

The harlotries of Jezebel do not mean any acts of licentiousness, but her deeds, as cited in no. 132 above.

Your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms... (Numbers 14:33)

The person who has regard to mediums and soothsayers, to go whoring after them..., I will cut him off... (Leviticus 20:6)

(Do not) make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, (lest) they go whoring after their gods... (Exodus 34:15).

(Jerusalem,) you trusted in your own beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, (so that) you poured out your harlotries on everyone passing by... You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very carnal neighbors, and multiplied your acts of harlotry... You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable, (with whom) you played the harlot... You multiplied your harlotry as far as... Chaldea... The adulterous woman, who in place of her husband takes strangers. All men give payment to their harlots, but you made your payments to them all, (that they may) come to you from all around for your harlotries... Therefore, harlot, hear the word of Jehovah. (Ezekiel 16:15-16, 26, 28-29, 32-33, 35ff.)

Jerusalem there is the Israelite and Jewish Church. Its harlotries mean adulterations and falsifications of the Word. And because Egypt symbolizes the knowledge of the natural self, Assyria reasoning on the basis of it, Chaldea the profanation of truth, and Babel the profanation of good, therefore the passage says that it played the harlot with them.

[4] ...two women, the daughters of one mother, committed harlotry in Egypt; in their youth they committed harlotry... (One,) my subject, played the harlot, and she doted on her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians... She committed her harlotries with them... (Yet) she has not given up her harlotries in Egypt....

(The other) became more corrupt in her loving than she, and in her harlotries more corrupt than her sister's harlotries... She increased her harlotries... She loved (Chaldeans).... Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry. (Ezekiel 23:2-3, 5, 7-8, 11, 14, 16-17ff.)

The two daughters of the same mother are likewise the Israelite and Jewish Church, whose adulterations and falsifications of the Word are described here, as above, by harlotries.

[5] So, too, in the following passages:

...you have played the harlot with many lovers... You have profaned the land with your harlotries and your wickedness... Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and... played the harlot... Treacherous Judah... went and played the harlot also. So that... by the report of her harlotry she defiled the land; ...she committed adultery with stone and wood. (Jeremiah 3:1-2, 6, 8-9)

And elsewhere:

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see... if you can find a man... who executes judgment and seeks the truth... I satiated them, and they committed harlotry and came by troops into the harlots' house. (Jeremiah 5:1, 7)

I have seen your adulteries... your neighings, the wickedness of your harlotry, your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! You will not be made clean... (Jeremiah 13:27)

I have seen a horrible obstinacy in the prophets of Jerusalem: they commit adultery and walk in a lie. (Jeremiah 23:14)

...they have committed folly in Israel, have committed adultery..., and have spoken (My) word in My name falsely... (Jeremiah 29:23)

...they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into disrepute... They committed harlotry..., because they have forsaken Jehovah. Harlotry... enslaved (their) heart... ...your daughters commit harlotry, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. (Hosea 4:7, 10-11, 13)

I know Ephraim..., (that) he has (altogether) committed harlotry, (and) Israel is defiled. (Hosea 5:3)

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: Ephraim committed harlotry there, (and) Israel is defiled. (Hosea 6:10)

Israel there is the church, and Ephraim is its understanding of the Word, from which and in accordance with which the church is formed. Therefore Ephraim is said to have committed harlotry and Israel to be defiled.

[6] Since the church had falsified the Word, the prophet Hosea was commanded to take himself a harlot as a wife, as follows:

...take yourself a woman of harlotries and children of harlotries, for the land has committed great harlotry behind Jehovah. (Hosea 1:2).

Again:

...love a woman who is loved by a companion and is an adulteress... (Hosea 3:1)

Since the Jewish Church was such as described, therefore the Lord called the Jewish nation an adulterous generation (Matthew 12:39; 16:4, Mark 8:38); and in Isaiah, the offspring of an adulterer (Isaiah 57:3).

In Nahum:

Woe to the bloody city! Full of lying... The multitude of the slain... because of the multitude of the harlotries of the harlot..., who sells nations through her harlotries... (Nahum 3:1, 3-4)

[7] Since Roman Catholicism adulterates and falsifies the Word more than any others in the Christian world, it is therefore called Babylon, the Great Harlot, and the following things are said of it in the book of Revelation:

Babylon... has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her harlotry. (Revelation 14:8)

(Babylon has made) all the nations (drink) of the wine of the wrath of her harlotry, and the kings of the earth have committed harlotry with her... (Revelation 18:3)

(The angel said,) "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot... with whom the kings of the earth committed harlotry. (Revelation 17:1-2)

...He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her harlotry. (Revelation 19:2)

It is apparent from this now that to commit adultery and to commit sexual immorality mean, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the goods and truths of the Word.

  
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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.