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Ezequiel 43

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1 Então me levou à porta, à porta que dá para o oriente.

2 E eis que a glória do Deus de Israel vinha do caminho do oriente; e a sua voz era como a voz de muitas águas, e a terra resplandecia com a glória dele.

3 E a aparência da visão que tive era como a da visão que eu tivera quando ele veio destruir a cidade; eram as visões como a que tive junto ao rio Quebar; e caí com o rosto em terra.

4 E a glória do Senhor entrou no templo pelo caminho da porta oriental.

5 E levantou-me o Espírito, e me levou ao átrio interior; e eis que a glória do Senhor encheu o templo.

6 Então ouvi uma voz que me foi direita de dentro do templo; e um homem se achava de pé junto de mim.

7 E disse-me: Filho do homem, este é o lugar do meu trono, e o lugar das plantas dos meus pés, onde habitarei no meio dos filhos de Israel para sempre; e os da casa de Israel não contaminarão mais o meu nome santo, nem eles nem os seus reis, com as suas prostituições e com os cadáveres dos seus reis, nos seus altos,

8 pondo o seu limiar ao pé do meu limiar, e os seus umbrais junto aos meus umbrais, e havendo apenas um muro entre mim e eles. Contaminaram o meu santo nome com as abominações que têm cometido; por isso eu os consumi na minha ira.

9 Agora lancem eles para longe de mim a sua prostituição e os cadáveres dos seus reis; e habitarei no meio deles para sempre.

10 Tu pois, ó filho do homem, mostra aos da casa de Israel o templo, para que se envergonhem das suas iniqüidades; e meçam o modelo.

11 E se eles se envergonharem de tudo quanto têm feito, faze- lhes saber a forma desta casa, a sua figura, as suas saídas e as suas entradas, e todas as suas formas; todas as suas ordenanças e todas as suas leis; escreve isto à vista deles, para que guardem toda a sua forma, e todas as suas ordenanças e as cumpram.

12 Esta é a lei do templo: Sobre o cume do monte todo o seu contorno em redor será santíssimo. Eis que essa é a lei do templo.

13 São estas as medidas do altar em côvados (o côvado é um côvado e um palmo): a parte inferior será de um côvado de altura e um côvado de largura, e a sua borda, junto a sua extremidade ao redor, de um palmo; e esta será a base do altar.

14 E do fundo, desde o chão até a saliência de baixo, será de dois côvados, e de largura um côvado; e desde a pequena saliência até a saliência grande será de quatro côvados, e a largura de um côvado.

15 E o altar superior será de quatro côvados; e da lareira do altar para cima se levantarão quatro pontas.

16 E a lareira do altar terá doze côvados de comprimento, e doze de largura, quadrado nos quatro lados.

17 E a saliência terá catorze côvados de comprimento e catorze de largura, nos seus quatro lados; e a borda, ao redor dela, será de meio côvado; e o fundo dela será de um côvado, ao redor; e os seus degraus darão para o oriente.

18 E disse-me: Filho do homem, assim diz o Senhor Deus: São estas as ordenanças para o altar, no dia em que o fizerem, para oferecerem sobre ele holocausto e para espargirem sobre ele sangue.

19 Aos sacerdotes levitas que são da linhagem de Zadoque, os quais se chegam a mim para me servirem, diz o Senhor Deus, darás um bezerro para oferta pelo pecado.

20 E tomarás do seu sangue, e o porás sobre as quatro pontas do altar, sobre os quatro cantos da saliência e sobre a borda ao redor; assim o purificarás e os expiarás.

21 Então tomarás o novilho da oferta pelo pecado, o qual será queimado no lugar da casa para isso ordenado, fora do santuário.

22 E no segundo dia oferecerás um bode, sem mancha, para oferta pelo pecado; e purificarão o altar, como o purificaram com o novilho.

23 Quando acabares de o purificar, oferecerás um bezerro, sem mancha, e um carneiro do rebanho, sem mancha.

24 Trá-los-ás, pois, perante o Senhor; e os sacerdotes deitarão sal sobre eles, e os oferecerão em holocausto ao Senhor.

25 Durante sete dias prepararás cada dia um bode como oferta pelo pecado; também prepararão eles um bezerro, e um carneiro do rebanho, sem mancha.

26 Por sete dias expiarão o altar, e o purificarão; assim o consagrarão.

27 E, cumprindo eles estes dias, será que, ao oitavo dia, e dali em diante, os sacerdotes oferecerão sobre o altar os vossos holocaustos e as vossas ofertas pacíficas; e vos aceitarei, diz o Senhor Deus.

   

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True Christian Religion # 157

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157. Since a person's spirit means his mind, 'being in the spirit', a phrase which occurs a number of times in the Word, means the state in which the mind is separated from the body. That was the state the Prophets were in when they saw the kind of things which happen in the spiritual world, so it is called 'the vision of God.' They were then in the same state as that of the spirits and angels of that world. In that state a person's spirit, as the visual capacity of his mind, can be transported from place to place while his body remains in one place. This is the state in which I have been for the last twenty-six years, with the difference that I have been simultaneously in the spirit and in the body, and only at times outside the body. Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel and John the writer of Revelation were evident from the following passages.

Ezekiel says: 'A spirit lifted me up, and brought me back to Chaldaea to the captives in a vision, in the spirit of God; so the vision which I had seen went up from me' (Ezekiel 11:1, 24). A spirit lifted him up and he heard behind him an earthquake (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). A spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and carried him off to Jerusalem, and he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff). He saw four creatures, which were Cherubim, and various sights with them (Ezek. chapters 1, 10); also a new earth and a new temple, and an angel measuring them (Ezek. chapters 40-48). He was then in receipt of a vision and in the spirit (Ezekiel 40:2; 13:5).

[2] Similar things happened to Zechariah, when he was with an angel and saw a man riding a horse among myrtles (Zechariah 1:8ff); four horns [Zechariah 1:18] and a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 2:1, 5ff); Joshua the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff); four chariots coming out between two mountains, and their horses (Zechariah 6:1ff). Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up out of the sea and various other details about them (Daniel 7:1ff); the fights between a ram and a he-goat (Daniel 8:1ff). He saw these things in a vision (Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8); the angel Gabriel appeared to him in a vision and spoke with him (Daniel 9:21).

[3] It was the same with John when he wrote Revelation. He says that he was in the spirit on the Lord's day (Revelation 1:10); that he was carried in the spirit into the desert (Revelation 17:3); onto a high mountain in the spirit (Revelation 21:10); that he saw [horses] in a vision (Revelation 9:17). Elsewhere he says that he saw what he described, as for instance the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; a tabernacle, a temple, an ark and an altar in heaven; a book sealed with seven seals, and horses that came out of it; four creatures around the throne; twelve thousand chosen from each tribe; then the Lamb upon Mount Zion; locusts coming up from the abyss; the dragon and his battle with Michael; a woman bearing a son, and fleeing into the desert because of the dragon; two beasts, one coming up from the sea, the other from the earth; a woman sitting on a scarlet beast; the dragon cast out into a lake of fire and brimstone; a white horse and a great banquet; the Holy City of Jerusalem coming down, with a description of its gates, wall and the foundations of the wall; a river of living water, and trees of life which bear fruit in every month; and much else besides. Peter, James and John were in a similar state when they saw Jesus transfigured; and so was Paul when he heard from heaven things past telling.

  
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Ezekiel 11

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1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

2 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

3 who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

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

5 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of its midst.

8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.

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

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

11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in its midst; I will judge you in the border of Israel;

12 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.

13 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

14 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

15 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.

16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come.

17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

18 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all its abominations from there.

19 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 a heart of flesh;

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

21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.

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

23 The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the 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 spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh had shown me.