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Esekiel 46

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1 sier Herren, Israels Gud: Den indre forgårds port, den som vender mot øst, skal være lukket de seks arbeidsdager; men på sabbatens dag skal den åpnes, og likeså på nymånedagen.

2 Og fyrsten skal da gå inn gjennem portens forhall utenfra og stå ved portens dørstolpe; prestene skal ofre hans brennoffer og hans takkoffer, og han skal tilbede på portens treskel og så gå ut igjen; men porten skal ikke lukkes før om aftenen.

3 Og folket i landet skal på sabbatene og nymånedagene tilbede for Herrens åsyn ved inngangen til denne port.

4 Og brennofferet som fyrsten skal ofre til Herren på sabbatens dag, skal være seks lam uten lyte og en vær uten lyte,

5 og som matoffer en efa til væren, og som matoffer til lammene så meget som han finner for godt å gi, og en hin olje til hver efa.

6 Og på nymånedagen en ung okse uten lyte og seks lam og en vær; uten lyte skal de være.

7 Og som matoffer skal han ofre en efa til oksen og en efa til væren, og til lammene så meget som han har råd til, og en hin olje til hver efa.

8 Og når fyrsten går inn, skal han gå inn gjennem portens forhall, og samme vei skal han gå ut igjen.

9 Men når folket i landet går inn for Herrens åsyn på høitidene, skal den som går inn igjennem nordporten for å tilbede, gå ut igjennem sydporten, og den som går inn igjennem sydporten, gå ut igjennem porten mot nord; han skal ikke vende tilbake gjennem den port som han gikk inn gjennem, men de skal gå ut rett frem for sig.

10 Og fyrsten skal gå inn blandt de andre, når de går inn; og når de går ut, skal de gå ut sammen.

11 Og på festene og høitidene skal matofferet være en efa til hver okse og en efa til hver vær, og til lammene så meget som han finner for godt å gi, og en hin olje til hver efa.

12 Når fyrsten vil ofre et frivillig offer - et brennoffer eller takkoffere som frivillig offer til Herren, da skal de åpne for ham den port som vender mot øst, og han skal ofre sitt brennoffer og sine takkoffer således som han gjør det på sabbatens dag; og så skal han gå ut igjen, og når han er gått ut, skal porten lukkes.

13 Som brennoffer til Herren skal du hver dag ofre et årsgammelt lam uten lyte; hver morgen skal du ofre det.

14 Og som matoffer dertil skal du hver morgen ofre en sjettedel efa og en tredjedel hin olje til å væte melet med; det er et matoffer for Herren - forskrifter som skal gjelde evig, for all tid.

15 Således skal de hver morgen ofre lammet og matofferet og oljen; det skal være et stadig brennoffer.

16 sier Herren, Israels Gud: Når fyrsten gir nogen av sine sønner en gave, så er det hans arv; det skal tilhøre hans sønner, det er deres arv og eie.

17 Men når han gir en gave av sin arv til en av sine tjenere, så skal det tilhøre ham inntil frihetsåret, men så komme tilbake til fyrsten; bare hans sønner skal hans arv tilhøre.

18 Fyrsten må ikke ta noget av folkets arv, så han driver dem bort fra deres eiendom; av sin egen eiendom skal han la sine sønner arve, så mitt folk ikke skal bli spredt ved å miste sine eiendommer.

19 Så førte han mig gjennem den inngang som var ved siden av porten, til de hellige kammer som var bestemt for prestene, og som vendte mot nord, og se, der var en plass ytterst mot vest.

20 Og han sa til mig: Dette er den plass hvor prestene skal koke skyldofferet og syndofferet, og hvor de skal bake matofferet, så de ikke har nødig å bære det ut i den ytre forgård og således hellige folket.

21 Så lot han mig gå ut i den ytre forgård, og førte mig omkring til forgårdens fire hjørner, og se, der var en mindre gård i hvert hjørne av forgården.

22 I forgårdens fire hjørner var det lukkede gårder, firti alen lange og tretti alen brede; de fire gårder i hjørnene hadde samme mål.

23 Og det gikk en muret ring rundt om i dem, rundt om i alle fire, og det var gjort kokesteder under de murede ringer rundt om.

24 Og han sa til mig: Dette er de kokehus hvor husets tjenere* skal koke folkets slaktoffer. / {* ESK 44, 11.}

   

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52. 6. Jehovah himself - that is, the Lord - spoke the Word through prophets.

We read of the prophets that they had visions and that Jehovah talked with them. When they had visions, they were not focused on their bodies but on the spirit, in which state they saw things of a heavenly nature. When Jehovah talked with them, though, they were conscious of their bodies and heard Jehovah speaking.

We need to draw a clear distinction between these two states. In a visionary state, the eyes of their spirit were open and the eyes of their body were closed; and at such times they seemed to themselves to be taken from place to place while their bodies stayed where they were. Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Daniel were in this state at times, and so was John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. They were then said to be in a vision or in the spirit. In fact, Ezekiel says,

The spirit lifted me up and brought me back into Chaldea, to the captivity, in a vision from God, in the spirit of God. In this way the vision that I saw came over me. (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

He says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard an earthquake and other things behind him (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). He also said that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven and took him off into Jerusalem in visions from God, and he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3 and following).

That is why (again in a vision of God or in the spirit) Ezekiel saw the four beasts that were angel guardians (chapters 1; 10), and he saw a new earth and a new temple with the angel measuring them, as we are told in chapters 40-48. He says in chapter 40:2, that he was then in visions from God; and in chapter 43:5, he says that the spirit lifted him up at that time.

The same thing happened with Zechariah. There was an angel inwardly present with him when he saw a man riding among myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8 and following); when he saw four horns and then a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1); when he saw Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1 and following); when he saw a lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1 and following); when he saw a flying scroll and a measuring basket (Zechariah 5:1, 6); and when he saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, along with horses (Zechariah 6:1 and following).

Daniel was in the same kind of state when he saw four beasts come up from the sea (Daniel 7:3) and when he saw battles between a ram and a goat (Daniel 8:1 and following).

We read in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8 that he saw these things in visions. We read in Daniel 9:21 that he saw the angel Gabriel in a vision and talked with him.

Much the same happened with John when he wrote the Book of Revelation. He says that he was in the spirit on the Lord’s day (Revelation 1:10), that he was carried away in the spirit into the wilderness (17:3), to a high mountain in the spirit (21:10), that he saw horses in a vision (9:17), and elsewhere that he saw what he described, being therefore in the spirit or in a vision (1:2; 4:1; 5:1; 6:1; and in the particular chapters that follow).

  
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Ezekiel 11

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1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the princes of the people.

2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.

4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.

9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:

12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.

16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

22 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.