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Amos 8

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1 Der HERR HERR zeigte mir ein Gesicht, und siehe, da stund ein Korb mit Obst.

2 Und er sprach: Was siehest du, Amos? Ich aber antwortete: Einen Korb mit Obst. Da sprach der HERR zu mir: Das Ende ist kommen über mein Volk Israel; ich will ihm nichts mehr übersehen.

3 Und die Lieder in der Kirche sollen in ein Heulen verkehret werden zur selbigen Zeit, spricht der HERR HERR; es werden viel toter Leichname liegen an allen Orten, die man heimlich wegtragen wird.

4 Höret dies, die ihr den Armen unterdrücket und die Elenden im Lande verderbet

5 und sprechet: Wann will denn der Neumond ein Ende haben, daß wir Getreide verkaufen, und der Sabbat, daß wir Korn feil haben mögen und den Epha ringern und den Sekel steigern und die Waage fälschen,

6 auf daß wir die Armen um Geld und die Dürftigen um ein Paar Schuh unter uns bringen und Spreu für Korn verkaufen?

7 Der HERR hat geschworen wider die Hoffart Jakobs: Was gilt's, ob ich solcher ihrer Werke ewig vergessen werde?

8 Sollte nicht um solches willen das Land erbeben müssen und alle Einwohner trauern? Ja, es soll ganz, wie mit einem Wasser, überlaufen werden und weggeführet und überschwemmet werden, wie mit dem Fluß in Ägypten.

9 Zur selbigen Zeit, spricht der HERR HERR, will ich die Sonne im Mittage untergehen lassen und das Land am hellen Tage lassen finster werden.

10 Ich will eure Feiertage in Trauern und alle eure Lieder in Wehklagen verwandeln; ich will über alle Lenden den Sack bringen und alle Köpfe kahl machen und will ihnen ein Trauern schaffen, wie man über einen einigen Sohn hat, und sollen ein jämmerlich Ende nehmen.

11 Siehe, es kommt die Zeit, spricht der HERR HERR, daß ich einen Hunger ins Land schicken werde, nicht einen Hunger nach Brot oder Durst nach Wasser, sondern nach dem Wort des HERRN zu hören,

12 daß sie hin und her, von einem Meer zum andern, von Mitternacht gegen Morgen umlaufen und des HERRN Wort suchen und doch nicht finden werden.

13 Zu der Zeit werden schöne Jungfrauen und Jünglinge verschmachten vor Durst,

14 die jetzt schwören bei dem Fluch Samaria und sprechen: So wahr dein Gott zu Dan lebet, so wahr die Weise zu Berseba lebet! Denn sie sollen also fallen, daß sie nicht wieder aufstehen mögen.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 956

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956. And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. This symbolically means that anyone who has any knowledge of the Lord's coming and of the New Heaven and New Church, thus of the Lord's kingdom, let him pray for the Lord's coming; and anyone who desires truths, let him pray for the Lord to come with light. And anyone who loves truths will then receive them from the Lord apart from any endeavors of his own.

"Let him who hears say, 'Come!'" symbolically means that anyone who hears about the Lord's coming and about the New Heaven and New Church, thus about the Lord's kingdom, and so has some knowledge of these, should pray for the Lord to come. "Let him who thirsts say, 'Come!'" symbolically means that anyone who longs for the Lord's kingdom and truths at that time should pray for the Lord to come with light. "Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely" symbolically means that whoever is moved by love to learn truths and assimilate them into himself will receive them from the Lord apart from any endeavors of his own. To desire symbolizes love, because whatever a person desires from the heart is something he loves, and whatever he loves is something he desires from the heart. The water of life symbolizes Divine truths obtained from the Lord through the Word (no. 932), and to obtain them freely means, symbolically, apart from any endeavors of his own.

Something similar to the symbolic meaning in this verse is that of the wish contained in the Lord's Prayer, "Your kingdom come, Your will be done, as in heaven, so upon the earth" (no. 839). The Lord's kingdom is the church that is united with heaven. So it is that we are now told, "Let him who hears say, 'Come!' And let him who thirsts come."

[2] That thirsting symbolizes a longing for truths is clear from the following:

...I will pour water on him who is thirsty...; I will pour My spirit on your offspring... (Isaiah 44:3)

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters... buy wine and milk without money... (Isaiah 55:1)

...Jesus... cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me..., out of his belly will flow rivers of living water." (John 7:37-38)

My soul thirsts... for the living God. (Psalms 42:2)

O God, You are my God...; my soul thirsts for You; ...I am weary, without water. (Psalms 63:1)

Blessed are those who... thirst for righteousness... (Matthew 5:6)

To him who thirsts I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Revelation 21:6)

The last symbolically means that to those who desire truths for some useful spiritual purpose, the Lord will give of Himself through the Word everything conducive to that useful purpose.

[3] Thirst and thirsting also symbolize perishing from a lack of truth, as is clear from the following:

...my people will go into exile, because they have no acknowledgment... their multitude dried up with thirst. (Isaiah 5:13)

...the foolish person speaks foolishness, and his heart works iniquity..., and he causes the soul... of the thirsty for drink to fail. (Isaiah 32:6)

The poor and needy seek water, but there is none, their tongues fail for thirst. I, Jehovah, will hear them. (Isaiah 41:17)

Contend with your mother..., lest I strip her naked... and slay her with thirst. (Hosea 2:2-3)

The prophet's mother there is the church.

Behold, the days are coming... when I will send a hunger on the land, not a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah... In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint from thirst. (Amos 8:11, 13)

On the other hand, not thirsting symbolically means to have no lack of truth, in the following:

Jesus... said..., "Whoever drinks... of the water that I shall give him will not thirst to eternity." (John 4:13-15)

Jesus said..., ."..he who believes in Me shall never thirst." (John 6:35)

Jehovah has redeemed... Jacob. Then they will not thirst... He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them. (Isaiah 48:20-21)

  
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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.