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Ezequiel 46

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1 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: A porta do átrio interior, que dá para o oriente, estará fechada durante os seis dias que são de trabalho; mas no dia de sábado ela se abrirá; também no dia da lua nova se abrirá.

2 E o príncipe entrará pelo caminho do vestíbulo da porta, por fora, e ficará parado junto da ombreira da porta, enquanto os sacerdotes ofereçam o holocausto e as ofertas pacíficas dele; e ele adorará junto ao limiar da porta. Então sairá; mas a porta não se fechará até a tarde.

3 E o povo da terra adorará à entrada da mesma porta, nos sábados e nas luas novas, diante do Senhor.

4 E o holocausto que o príncipe oferecer ao Senhor será, no dia de sábado, seis cordeiros sem mancha e um carneiro sem mancha;

5 e a oferta de cereais será uma efa para o carneiro; e para o cordeiro, a oferta de cereais será o que puder dar, com um him de azeite para cada efa.

6 Mas no dia da lua nova será um bezerro sem mancha, e seis cordeiros e um carneiro; eles serão sem mancha.

7 Também ele proverá, por oferta de cereais, uma efa para o novilho e uma efa para o carneiro, e para os cordeiros o que puder, com um him de azeite para cada efa.

8 Quando entrar o príncipe, entrará pelo caminho do vestíbulo da porta, e sairá pelo mesmo caminho.

9 Mas, quando vier o povo da terra perante o Senhor nas festas fixas, aquele que entrar pelo caminho da porta do norte, para adorar, sairá pelo caminho da porta do sul; e aquele que entrar pelo caminho da porta do sul, sairá pelo caminho da porta do norte. Não tornará pelo caminho da porta pela qual entrou, mas sairá seguindo para a sua frente.

10 Ao entrarem eles, o príncipe entrará no meio deles; e, saindo eles, sairão juntos.

11 Nas solenidades, inclusive nas festas fixas, a oferta de cereais será uma efa para um novilho, e uma efa para um carneiro, mas para os cordeiros será o que se puder dar; e de azeite um him para cada efa.

12 Quando o príncipe prover uma oferta voluntária, holocausto, ou ofertas pacíficas, como uma oferta voluntária ao Senhor, abrir-se-lhe-á a porta que dá para o oriente, e oferecerá o seu holocausto e as suas ofertas pacíficas, como houver feito no dia de sábado. Então sairá e, depois de ele ter saído, fechar-se-á a porta.

13 Proverá ele um cordeiro de um ano, sem mancha, em holocausto ao Senhor cada dia; de manhã em manhã o proverá.

14 Juntamente com ele proverá de manhã em manhã uma oferta de cereais, a sexta parte duma efa de flor de farinha, com a terça parte de um him de azeite para umedecê-la, por oferta de cereais ao Senhor, continuamente, por estatuto perpétuo.

15 Assim se proverão o cordeiro, a oferta de cereais, e o azeite, de manhã em manhã, em holocausto contínuo.

16 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Se o príncipe der um presente a algum de seus filhos, é herança deste, pertencerá a seus filhos; será possessão deles por herança.

17 Se, porém, der um presente da sua herança a algum dos seus servos, será deste até o ano da liberdade; então tornará para o príncipe; pois quanto à herança, será ela para seus filhos.

18 O príncipe não tomará nada da herança do povo para o esbulhar da sua possessão; da sua propria possessão deixará herança a seus filhos, para que o meu povo não seja espalhado, cada um da sua possessão.

19 Então me introduziu pela entrada que estava ao lado da porta nas câmaras santas para os sacerdotes, que olhavam para o norte; e eis que ali havia um lugar por detrás, para a banda do ocidente.

20 E ele me disse: Este é o lugar onde os sacerdotes cozerão a oferta pela culpa, e a oferta pelo pecado, e onde assarão a oferta de cereais, para que não as tragam ao átrio exterior, e assim transmitam a santidade ao povo.

21 Então me levou para fora, para o átrio exterior, e me fez passar pelos quatro cantos do átrio; e eis que em cada canto do átrio havia um átrio.

22 Nos quatro cantos do átrio havia átrios fechados, de quarenta côvados de comprimento e de trinta de largura; estes quatro cantos tinham a mesma medida.

23 E neles havia por dentro uma série de projeções ao redor; e havia lugares para cozer, construídos por baixo delas ao redor.

24 Então me disse: Estas são as cozinhas, onde os ministros da casa cozerão o sacrifício do povo.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 36

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36. I became in the spirit on the Lord's day. (1:10) This symbolizes a spiritual state then owing to Divine influx.

"I became in the spirit" means, symbolically, a spiritual state, the state in which John was while he was experiencing the visions, and which we will take up in the following exposition. "On the Lord's day" symbolizes influx from the Lord then, for that day brings the Lord's presence, as it is a holy day.

Concerning the prophets we read that they were in the spirit or in vision, and that the Word came to them from Jehovah.

When they were in the spirit or in vision, they were not in the body, but in their spirit, a state in which they saw phenomena such as are found in heaven. But when the Word came to them, they were then in the body and heard Jehovah speaking.

These two states of the prophets must be properly distinguished. In the state of vision the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body closed; and they heard then what angels said, and what Jehovah said through angels, and also saw representations produced for them in heaven. Moreover, they sometimes seemed to themselves to be taken then from place to place, their body remaining where it was.

[2] This was the state in which John was when he wrote the book of Revelation, and the state sometimes experienced by Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel. They also said that they were then in vision or in the spirit. For Ezekiel says,

The Spirit lifted me up... and brought me back into Chaldea, to those in captivity, in a vision (of God), in the spirit of God. (Thus) went up from me the vision that I had seen. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He also says that the Spirit lifted him up, and he heard behind him an earthquake, and more (Ezekiel 3:12, 24). So, too, that the Spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, that it brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, and that he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3f.). He was likewise in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw the four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1; 10), as also when he saw a new earth and a new temple, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). That he was then in the visions of God, he himself says (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] The same was the case with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time, when he saw a man riding a horse among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.); when he saw the four horns, and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.); when he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.); when he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6); when he saw the four chariots coming from between two mountains, and the horses (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in a like state when he saw the four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat between the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). He himself says that he saw these things in visions (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8), and that the angel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

[4] The same was the case with John, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands (Revelation 1), and finally, the new heaven and the new earth, and then the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven (Revelation 21, 22. John himself says that he saw these things in the spirit and in vision (1:10; 4:2; 9:17; 21:10). This, too, is meant by the statement, "I saw," everywhere it occurs in this book.

[5] It is clearly apparent from this that to be in the spirit is to be in a state of vision, which is brought about by an opening of the sight of a person's spirit; and when this is opened, phenomena found in the spiritual world are as clearly visible as those in the natural world are to the sight of the body.

The reality of this is something I can attest to from many years' experience.

The disciples were in this state when they saw the Lord after His resurrection, which is why are told that their eyes were opened (Luke 24:30-31).

Abraham was in a like state when he saw the three angels and spoke with them. 1

So, too, Hagar, Gideon, Joshua and others, when they saw angels of Jehovah. Likewise when Elisha's lad saw the mountain full of fiery chariots and horses all around Elisha, for Elisha prayed and said,

"Jehovah, open, I pray, his eyes that he may see." And Jehovah opened the eyes of the lad, and he saw. (2 Kings 6:17)

As regards the Word, however, it was not revealed in a state of the spirit or of vision, but the Lord dictated it to the prophets in an audible voice. Consequently we are nowhere told that the prophets spoke it from the Holy Spirit, but from Jehovah. See The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, no. 53.

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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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Ezekiel 46

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1 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

2 The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

3 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

4 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

5 and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

6 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish:

7 and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

8 When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by its way.

9 But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go forth straight before him.

10 The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them; and when they go out, he shall go out.

11 In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

12 When the prince shall prepare a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

13 You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning by morning you shall prepare it.

14 You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.

15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.

16 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

17 But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his possession.

19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.

20 He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, [and] where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.

21 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

22 In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four in the corners were of one measure.

23 There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around.

24 Then he said to me, These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.