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1 Trimituokite Sione, skelbkite pavojų mano šventajame kalne. Tedreba krašto gyventojai, nes ateina Viešpaties diena, nes ji arti.

2 Tamsi, niūri ir debesuota diena. Kaip ryto migla apgaubia kalnų viršūnes, taip galinga ir didelė tauta ateina. Tokios nebuvo iki šiol ir nebebus per kartų kartas.

3 Jų priekyje­visa ryjanti ugnis, užpakalyje­siaučianti liepsna. Kraštas prieš juos kaip Edeno sodas, jiems praėjus­tuščia dykuma; niekas neišsigelbės nuo jų.

4 Jie atrodo kaip žirgai ir puls kaip kariuomenės raiteliai.

5 Jų garsas lyg kovos vežimų, riedančių kalnų viršūnėmis, kaip ūžimas liepsnos, ryjančios ražienas, kaip kariuomenės, kuri išsirikiavusi kovai.

6 Prieš juos drebės tautos, visų veidai pabals.

7 Jie bėgs kaip karžygiai, lips sienomis kaip kariai; kiekvienas eis savo keliu, nesuardydamas gretų.

8 Jie nesistumdys, bet eis kiekvienas savo taku. Jie kris ant kardo, bet nesusižeis.

9 Jie lakstys po miestą, bėgs sienomis, lips į namus, lįs pro langus kaip vagys.

10 Prieš juos drebės žemė ir svyruos dangus, saulė ir mėnulis aptems, žvaigždės nebespindės.

11 Viešpats pakels balsą priešais savo kariuomenę. Jo pulkai yra labai gausūs, ir stiprus tas, kuris vykdo Jo žodį. Viešpaties diena yra didi ir labai baisi, kas galės ją iškęsti?

12 “Todėl dabar,­sako Viešpats,­ gręžkitės į mane visa širdimi, pasninkaudami, verkdami ir dejuodami”.

13 Persiplėškite savo širdis, ne rūbus! Gręžkitės į Viešpatį, savo Dievą, nes Jis yra maloningas ir gailestingas, lėtas pykti ir didžiai geras bei susilaikantis nuo bausmės.

14 Kas žino, gal Jis sugrįš, pasigailės ir paliks palaiminimą­duonos auką ir geriamąją auką Viešpačiui, jūsų Dievui?

15 Trimituokite Sione, paskelbkite pasninką, sušaukite iškilmingą susirinkimą,

16 sukvieskite tautą ir vyresniuosius, atgabenkite vaikus ir žindomus kūdikius. Jaunavedžiai teišeina iš savo kambarių.

17 Tarp prieangio ir aukuro tegul rauda kunigai, Viešpaties tarnai, sakydami: “Viešpatie, pasigailėk savo tautos, neatiduok savo paveldo pagonių paniekai ir pajuokai! Kodėl tautos turėtų sakyti: ‘Kur yra jų Dievas’?”

18 Tada Viešpatį apims pavydas dėl savo krašto ir Jis pasigailės savo tautos.

19 Viešpats atsakys ir tars savo tautai: “Štai Aš duosiu jums javų, vyno ir aliejaus, ir jūs būsite sotūs; Aš nebeleisiu tautoms jūsų niekinti.

20 Atėjusį iš šiaurės pašalinsiu toli nuo jūsų ir nusviesiu jį į tuščią dykumą, jo veidas bus į ytų jūrą ir užpakalinė dalis­į Vakarų jūrą. Nuo jo smarvė pakils ir bjaurus kvapas, nes jis baisių dalykų padarė”.

21 Nebijok, žeme, džiaukis ir džiūgauk, nes Viešpats padarys didelių dalykų.

22 Laukiniai žvėrys, nebijokite! Ganyklos vėl žaliuoja, medžiai neša vaisių, figmedis ir vynmedis duoda derlių.

23 Siono vaikai, džiaukitės Viešpačiu, savo Dievu. Jis ištikimai duodavo jums ankstyvą lietų ir Jis siųs jums lietų, ankstyvąjį ir vėlyvąjį lietų, kaip ir anksčiau.

24 Klojimai bus pilni javų ir statinės sklidinos vyno ir aliejaus.

25 “Aš atlyginsiu jums už metus, kuriuos sunaikino vikšrai, skėriai, vabalai ir amaras­mano didžioji kariuomenė, kurią siunčiau prieš jus.

26 Jūs gausiai valgysite ir būsite sotūs, ir girsite Viešpaties, savo Dievo, vardą, kuris padarė jums nuostabių dalykų. Mano tauta nebus sugėdinta per amžius.

27 Jūs žinosite, kad Aš esu Izraelyje, Aš, Viešpats, jūsų Dievas, ir nėra kito. Mano tauta nebus sugėdinta per amžius.

28 Po to Aš išliesiu savo dvasios ant kiekvieno kūno. Jūsų sūnūs ir dukterys pranašaus, seniai sapnuos sapnus ir jaunuoliai matys regėjimus.

29 Taip pat ant vergų ir vergių tomis dienomis išliesiu savo dvasios.

30 Aš danguje ir žemėje parodysiu stebuklų­kraujo, ugnies bei rūkstančių dūmų.

31 Saulė pavirs tamsa ir mėnulis­ krauju, prieš ateinant didingai ir baisiai Viešpaties dienai.

32 Tada kiekvienas, kuris šauksis Viešpaties vardo, bus išgelbėtas. Siono kalne ir Jeruzalėje bus išgelbėjimas, kaip Viešpats sakė, likučiui, kurį Jis pašauks”.

   

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Coronis (An Appendix to True Christian Religion) # 2

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2. PROPOSITION THE FIRST

I. THERE HAVE BEEN FOUR CHURCHES ON THIS EARTH SINCE THE TIME OF ITS CREATION: A FIRST, WHICH IS TO BE CALLED THE ADAMIC; A SECOND, THE NOACHIAN; A THIRD, THE ISRAELITISH; AND A FOURTH, THE CHRISTIAN. That four Churches have existed on this earth since the creation of the world, manifestly appears in Daniel; first, from the image seen by Nebuchadnezzar in a dream, and, afterwards, from the four beasts rising up out of the sea. On the subject of Nebuchadnezzar's image we read as follows:

Daniel said, Thou, O King, sawest, and behold a great image. And the appearance thereof, standing over against thee, was excellent, and the aspect thereof was terrible. The head of this statue was of fine gold; its breast and arms, of silver; its belly and its thighs, of brass; its legs, of iron; its feet, partly of iron and partly of clay. Thou sawest until a stone was cut out, which was cut without hands, and smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and ground them to powder. Then were the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, ground to powder together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors, so that the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them: but the stone which smote the image, became a great rock, and filled the whole earth. In these days shall the God of the heavens set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and His kingdom shall not be entrusted to another people: it shall break in pieces and consume all those kingdoms, but it shall stand for ever (Dan. 2:31-35, 44).

That this dream did not signify four political kingdoms on this earth, but four Churches, which should follow one after another, is plain from the following considerations:

(1) That such kingdoms, one after another, have not existed on this earth.

(2) That the Divine Word, in its bosom, does not treat of the kingdoms of the world, but of Churches, which constitute God's kingdom on earth.

(3) Also, because it is said that the God of the heavens shall set up a kingdom which shall not be destroyed to the ages, and that a stone, cut out, not by hands, became a great rock, which filled the whole earth.

(4) And, inasmuch as the Lord our Saviour Jesus Christ, in the Word of both Testaments, is called the "Stone" and "Rock," it is manifest that His kingdom is meant by the last words in this passage.

(5) Moreover, the state of the Church is described, in innumerable passages of the Word, by gold, silver, brass, and iron; its spiritual state as to the good of love by gold, its spiritual state as to the truth of wisdom by silver, its natural state as to the good of charity by brass, and its natural state as to the truth of faith by iron (as may be seen confirmed from the Word in the APOCALYPSE REVEALED , n. 913[2], and elsewhere).

[2] For this reason, the wise in the first ages, who knew the significations of metals, compared the ages which were to follow one another from the first to the last, to those four metals, and called the first age "golden," the second age "silver," the third age "copper," and the fourth age "iron"; and they described them thus according to goods and truths; and, since genuine goods and truths are from no other origin than from the God of heaven, they described them according to the states of the Church with those who lived in those ages; for from these and according to these, all the civil states of kingdoms in respect to justice and judgment exist, thrive and live.

[3] That the Lord the Saviour Jesus Christ is called the "Stone" and "Rock" in the Word of both Testaments, is plain from the following passages. That He is called a "Stone" from these:

Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Behold I will lay in Zion a Stone of approval, a precious corner[-stone] of settled foundation; he who hath believed will not make haste; then I will set judgment to the rule, and justice to the plummet (Isa. 28:16-17).

Jehovah will visit His flock; from Him will come forth the cornerstone (Zech. 10:3-4).

The Stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner (Psalm 118:22).

Have ye not read in the Scripture that the Stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner? (Matt. 21:42; Mark 12:10-11; Luke 20:17-18; Isa. 8:14-15).

Ye have come to the Lord, the living Stone, rejected indeed of men, but chosen of God; ye yourselves also, as living stones, are built up into a spiritual house; therefore, it is said in the Scripture, I lay in Zion a corner-stone, elect, precious, and he who believeth on Him shall not be ashamed (1 Peter 2:4, 5, 6).

Ye are built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, whose corner-stone is Jesus Christ, by whom the whole building, well cemented together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; by whom ye are built together into a habitation of God in the spirit (Ephes. 2:20-21, 22).

Jesus Christ is the Stone, rejected by the builders, which is become the head of the corner; and there is no salvation in any other (Acts 4:11-12).

That the Lord is called a "Rock," is evident from these passages in the Word:

When Jeshurun waxed fat, he kicked, and he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation (Deut. 32:15, 18).

The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spake to me (2 Sam. 23:3).

Let the words of my mouth be well-pleasing, O Jehovah, my Rock and my Redeemer (Psalm 19:14).

And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the High God their Redeemer (Psalm 78:35).

They all drank spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual Rock; the Rock was Christ (1 Cor. 10:4; Exod. 17:6).

From these passages, it is now plainly evident that by the Stone which smote the image, and became a great rock and filled the whole earth, and whose kingdom shall stand for ever, is meant our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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Isaiah 11

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1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

2 The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

3 His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.

7 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.

8 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.

9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won't envy Judah, and Judah won't persecute Ephraim.

14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.

16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

   

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