127. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 4
Representation of the perverted church in the church. (2)
1-2 He should represent the falsities of the church, and the church besieged by them. (2)
3 He should represent the hardness of their heart, from which it is that they have no fear; (2)
4-8 he should also represent the church besieged by falsities of evil and evils of falsity. (2)
9-16 He should represent the falsification and adulteration of the sense of the letter of the Word, (2)
4
Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5
For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6
And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
7
Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8
And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
2283. There are besides prophetical influences different from these, namely that leave the persons completely in control of themselves, with their own thinking, just as at other times, the only difference being that spirits speak with them, and when they are ordered to do certain things, to make certain gestures, as the true prophets were commanded to do-like building walls, or attacking, and such things spoken of here and there in the Word-these influences occur by way of an inner conviction, namely, that one is so commanded by the Lord. When there is this conviction, one cannot possibly resist because one is convinced that the Lord has commanded it, and therefore one does it, as if from oneself. I have been taught this several times by actual experience, and I know for certain that it is really the case.
Written in the presence of spirits. 1748, 10 June.
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