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Ezechiele 3

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1 Ed egli mi disse: "Figliuol d’uomo, mangia ciò che tu trovi; mangia questo rotolo, e va’ e parla alla casa d’Israele".

2 Io aprii la bocca, ed egli mi fece mangiare quel rotolo.

3 E mi disse: "Figliuol d’uomo, nutriti il ventre e riempiti le viscere di questo rotolo che ti do". E io lo mangiai, e mi fu dolce in bocca, come del miele.

4 Ed egli mi disse: "Figliuol d’uomo, va’, récati alla casa d’Israele, e riferisci loro le mie parole;

5 poiché tu sei mandato, non a un popolo dal parlare oscuro e dalla lingua non intelligibile, ma alla casa d’Israele:

6 non a molti popoli dal parlare oscuro e dalla lingua non intelligibile, di cui tu non intenda le parole. Certo, s’io ti mandassi a loro, essi ti darebbero ascolto;

7 ma la casa d’Israele non ti vorrà ascoltare, perché non vogliono ascoltar me; giacché tutta la casa d’Israele ha la fronte dura e il cuore ostinato.

8 Ecco, io t’induro la faccia, perché tu l’opponga alla faccia loro; induro la tua fronte, perché l’opponga alla fronte loro;

9 io rendo la tua fronte come un diamante, più dura della selce; non li temere, non ti sgomentare davanti a loro, perché sono una casa ribelle".

10 Poi mi disse: "Figliuol d’uomo, ricevi nel cuor tuo tutte le parole che io ti dirò, e ascoltale con le tue orecchie.

11 E va’ dai figliuoli del tuo popolo che sono in cattività, parla loro, e di’ loro: Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno; sia che t’ascoltino o non ti ascoltino".

12 E lo spirito mi levò in alto, e io udii dietro a me il suono d’un gran fragore che diceva: "Benedetta sia la gloria dell’Eterno dalla sua dimora!"

13 e udii pure il rumore delle ali degli esseri viventi che battevano l’una contro l’altra, il rumore delle ruote allato ad esse, e il suono d’un gran fragore.

14 E lo spirito mi levò in alto, e mi portò via; e io andai, pieno d’amarezza nello sdegno del mio spirito; e la mano dell’Eterno era forte su di me.

15 E giunsi da quelli ch’erano in cattività a Tel-abib presso al fiume Kebar, e mi fermai dov’essi dimoravano; e dimorai quivi sette giorni, mesto e silenzioso, in mezzo a loro.

16 E in capo a sette giorni, la parola dell’Eterno mi fu rivolta in questi termini:

17 "Figliuol d’uomo, io t’ho stabilito come sentinella per la casa d’Israele; e quando tu udrai dalla mia bocca una parola, tu l’avvertirai da parte mia.

18 Quando io dirò all’empio: Certo morrai, se tu non l’avverti, e non parli per avvertire quell’empio di abbandonar la sua via malvagia, e salvargli così la vita, quell’empio morrà per la sua iniquità; ma io domanderò conto del suo sangue alla tua mano.

19 Ma, se tu avverti l’empio, ed egli non si ritrae dalla sua empietà e dalla sua via malvagia, egli morrà per la sua iniquità, ma tu avrai salvata l’anima tua.

20 E quando un giusto si ritrae dalla sua giustizia e commette l’iniquità, se io gli pongo davanti una qualche occasione di caduta, egli morrà, perché tu non l’avrai avvertito; morrà per il suo peccato, e le cose giuste che avrà fatte non saranno più ricordate; ma io domanderò conto del suo sangue alla tua mano.

21 Però, se tu avverti quel giusto perché non pecchi, e non pecca, egli certamente vivrà, perch’è stato avvertito, e tu avrai salvata l’anima tua".

22 E la mano dell’Eterno fu quivi sopra me, ed egli mi disse: "Lèvati, va’ nella pianura, e quivi io parlerò teco".

23 Io dunque mi levai, uscii nella pianura, ed ecco che quivi stava la gloria dell’Eterno, gloria simile a quella che avevo veduta presso al fiume Kebar; e caddi sulla mia faccia.

24 Ma lo spirito entrò in me; mi fece rizzare in piedi, e l’Eterno mi parlò e mi disse: "Va’, chiuditi in casa tua!

25 E a te, figliuol d’uomo, ecco, ti si metteranno addosso delle corde, con esse ti si legherà, e tu non andrai in mezzo a loro.

26 E io farò che la lingua ti s’attacchi al palato, perché tu rimanga muto e tu non possa esser per essi un censore; perché sono una casa ribelle.

27 Ma quando io ti parlerò, t’aprirò la bocca, e tu dirai loro: Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno; chi ascolta, ascolti; chi non vuole ascoltare non ascolti; poiché sono una casa ribelle.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 945

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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the 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). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, 1 the temple, 2 the ark, 3 and the altar 4 in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; 5 the beasts; 6 the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; 7 the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; 8 and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

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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 10

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1 Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.

3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory.

5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

6 It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

7 The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

8 There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.

9 I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.

10 As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.

12 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, [even] the wheels that the four of them had.

13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

14 Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

15 The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.

17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18 The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

19 The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

21 Every one had four faces, and Every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.