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Jeremija 23

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1 Häda karjaseile, kes hukkavad ja pillutavad mu karjamaa lambaid, ütleb Issand!

2 Seepärast ütleb Issand, Iisraeli Jumal, karjaste kohta, kes karjatavad mu rahvast, nõnda: Te olete mu lambad pillutanud ja ära ajanud ega ole vaadanud nende järele. Vaata, ma nuhtlen teid teie pahategude pärast, ütleb Issand.

3 Ja ma ise kogun oma lammaste jäägi kõigist maadest, kuhu ma olen nad ajanud, ja toon nad tagasi nende karjamaale; nad on siis viljakad ja neid saab palju.

4 Ja ma sean neile karjased ning nood karjatavad neid; siis nad enam ei ehmu ega karda, ja ühtegi neist ei jää vajaka, ütleb Issand.

5 Vaata, päevad tulevad, ütleb Issand, mil ma lasen tõusta Taavetile ühe õige võsu; tema valitseb kui kuningas ja talitab targasti, tema teeb maal õigust ja õiglust.

6 Tema päevil päästetakse Juuda ja Iisrael elab julgesti; ja see on nimi, millega teda hüütakse: 'Issand, meie õigus'.

7 Seepärast, vaata, päevad tulevad, ütleb Issand, mil enam ei öelda: 'Nii tõesti kui elab Issand, kes tõi Iisraeli lapsed ära Egiptusemaalt',

8 vaid: 'Nii tõesti kui elab Issand, kes tõi ja juhtis Iisraeli soo järglased koju põhjamaalt ja kõigist maadest, kuhu ma olin nad ajanud.' Ja nad hakkavad elama oma maal.

9 Prohvetite kohta: Mu süda on murdunud rinnus, kõik mu luud-liikmed värisevad; ma olen nagu joobnud mees, nagu veinist vallutatu - Issanda ees ja tema pühade sõnade ees.

10 Sest maa on täis abielurikkujaid. Jah, maa leinab needuse pärast, karjamaad kõrbes on kuivanud; nende püüdlused on kurjad ja nende jõuks on ebaõiglus.

11 Niihästi prohvet kui preester on jumalakartmatu; koguni omaenese kojast olen ma leidnud nende kurjust, ütleb Issand.

12 Seepärast on nende tee neile otsekui libastuskohaks pimeduses: neid tõugatakse ja nad langevad seal, sest ma toon neile õnnetuse, nende karistusaasta, ütleb Issand.

13 Ka Samaaria prohvetite juures nägin ma jõledust: nad kuulutasid prohvetlikult Baali nimel ja eksitasid mu rahvast Iisraeli.

14 Aga Jeruusalemma prohvetite juures nägin ma kohutavaid asju: abielurikkumist ja valelikku eluviisi. Nad julgustavad kurjategijaid, et ükski ei pöörduks oma kurjusest. Nad kõik on mulle nagu Soodom ja Jeruusalemma rahvas on nagu Gomorra.

15 Seepärast ütleb vägede Issand prohvetite kohta nõnda: Vaata, ma söödan neid koirohuga ja joodan mürgiveega, sest Jeruusalemma prohveteist on jumalakartmatus levinud kogu maale.

16 Nõnda ütleb vägede Issand: Ärge kuulake nende prohvetite sõnu, kes teile prohvetlikult kuulutavad - nad ainult tüssavad teid tühiste lootustega: nad räägivad oma südame kujutlustest, mitte Issanda suust.

17 Nad ütlevad ühtepuhku mu laimajaile: 'Issand on öelnud: Teil on rahu!' Ja igaühele, kes käib oma südame paadumuses, nad ütlevad: 'Teile ei tule õnnetust!'

18 Aga kes neist on olnud osaduses Issandaga ja on näinud ning kuulnud tema sõna? Kes on tähele pannud ja kuulnud tema sõna?

19 Vaata, Issanda torm, tema raev puhkeb, ja keeristorm keerutab üle õelate pea.

20 Issanda viha ei pöördu enne, kui ta on teoks teinud ja korda saatnud oma tahtmise. Viimseil päevil te mõistate seda hästi.

21 Mina ei ole neid prohveteid läkitanud, vaid nad ise jooksevad; mina ei ole neile rääkinud, vaid nad ise kuulutavad prohveti kombel.

22 Kui nad oleksid olnud osaduses minuga, siis nad kuulutaksid mu rahvale minu sõnu ning pööraksid neid nende kurjadelt teedelt ja kurjadest tegudest.

23 Kas ma ainult ligidal olen Jumal, ütleb Issand, aga kaugemal ei olegi Jumal?

24 Kas saab keegi ennast peita peidupaikadesse, ilma et mina teda näeksin? ütleb Issand. Kas see pole mina, kes täidab taeva ja maa? ütleb Issand.

25 Ma olen kuulnud, mida räägivad need prohvetid, kes minu nimel kuulutavad valet, öeldes: 'Ma nägin und, ma nägin und!'

26 Kui kaua see kestab? Ons midagi südames neil prohveteil, kes kuulutavad valet ja kes avaldavad oma südame pettekujutlusi,

27 kes mõtlevad oma unenägudega, mida nad üksteisele jutustavad, panna mu rahva unustama minu nime, nõnda nagu nende vanemad unustasid minu nime Baali pärast?

28 Prohvet, kellel on olnud unenägu, jutustagu oma unenägu, aga kellel on minu sõna, kõnelgu mu sõna kui tõde! Mis on õlgedel tegemist puhta viljaga? ütleb Issand.

29 Eks mu sõna ole nagu tuli, ütleb Issand, või nagu vasar, mis purustab kalju?

30 Sellepärast, vaata, ütleb Issand, olen ma prohvetite vastu, kes varastavad üksteiselt minu sõnu.

31 Vaata, ma olen prohvetite vastu, ütleb Issand, kes pruugivad omaenese keelt ja ütlevad: 'Issand ütleb.'

32 Vaata, ma olen nende vastu, kes prohvetlikult kuulutavad vääri unenägusid, ütleb Issand, ja jutustavad neid ning eksitavad mu rahvast oma valede ja kelkimistega. Ometi ei ole mina neid läkitanud ega käskinud ja nad ei too sellele rahvale mingit kasu, ütleb Issand.

33 Ja kui see rahvas või prohvet või preester sinult küsib, öeldes: 'Mis on Issanda ennustus?', siis vasta neile: 'Te olete mulle koormaks ja ma tõukan teid ära, ütleb Issand.'

34 Ja seda prohvetit ja preestrit ja rahvast, kes ütleb: 'Issanda ennustus', seda meest ja tema sugu ma nuhtlen.

35 Igaüks küsigu oma naabrilt ja vennalt nõnda: 'Mis Issand kostis?' või: 'Mis Issand rääkis?'

36 Aga Issanda ennustust ärge enam nimetage, sest igaühele saab koormaks omaenese sõna, sellepärast et te väänate elava Jumala, vägede Issanda, meie Jumala sõnu!

37 Küsi prohvetilt nõnda: 'Mis Issand sulle kostis?' või: 'Mis Issand sulle rääkis?'

38 Aga kui te ütlete: 'Issanda ennustus', siis ütleb Issand nõnda: Kuna te ütlete selle sõna: 'Issanda ennustus' - mina aga olen läkitanud teile ütlema: Ärge öelge: 'Issanda ennustus' -,

39 vaata, seepärast ma siis tõstan teid tõesti üles ning tõukan teid ja linna, mille ma andsin teie vanemaile, oma palge eest ära.

40 Ja ma panen teie peale igavese teotuse ja igavese häbi, mida ei unustata.'

   

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Apocalypse Explained #625

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625. Upon peoples, and nations, and tongues, and many kings, signifies with all who are in truths and goods in respect to life, and at the same time in goods and truths in respect to doctrine according to each one's religion, consequently to teach the Word in respect to the goods of life and the truths of doctrine. This is evident from the signification of "peoples and nations," as being those who are of the spiritual church and those who are of the celestial church; those who are of the spiritual church are called in the Word "peoples," but those who are of the celestial church are called "nations." Those who are of the spiritual church, who are called "peoples," are they who are in truths in respect to doctrine and life; and they who are of the celestial church, who are called "nations," are they who are in the good of love to the Lord, and thus in good in respect to life. (But on this signification of "peoples and nations" in the Word, see above, n. 175, 331.) Also from the signification of "tongues and many kings," as being those who are in goods and truths in respect to life and doctrine, but according to each one's religion; for "tongues" signify the goods of truth and confession of these according to each one's religion (See above, n. 330, 455); and "kings" signify truths that are from good, and "many kings" various truths from good, but according to each one's religion. (That "kings" signify truths from good, see above, n. 31, 553)

[2] "Many kings" signify various truths that are from good, because the peoples and nations outside of the church were for the most part in falsities as to doctrine, and yet because they lived a life of love to God and of charity towards the neighbor the falsities of their religion were accepted by the Lord as truths, for the reason that there was inwardly in their falsities the good of love, and the good of love gives its quality to every truth, and in this case it gives its quality to the falsity that such accept as truth; and moreover, the good that lies concealed within causes such when they come into the other life to perceive genuine truths and accept them. Again there are truths that are only appearances of truth, like those truths that are in the sense of the letter of the Word; these appearances of truth are accepted by the Lord as genuine truths when there is in them the good of love to the Lord and the good of charity towards the neighbor; and with such in the other life the good that lies hidden within dissipates the appearances, and makes bare the spiritual truths which are genuine truths. From this it can be seen what is here meant by "many kings." (But respecting the falsities in which there is good that exist among the Gentiles, see in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 21.)

[3] From what has been said and shown in this and the preceding article, it can be seen that "he must again prophesy upon peoples, and nations, and tongues, and many kings" signifies that the Word must still be taught to those who are in goods and truths in respect to doctrine, and thence are in life; but as it is said "upon peoples, nations, tongues, and kings," these words signify also that the Word must be taught in respect to the goods of life and the truths of doctrine, for these two are what the Word in its whole complex contains.

[4] This is the sense of these words abstracted from persons, which is the truly spiritual sense. The sense of the letter in most places has regard to persons, and mentions persons, but the truly spiritual sense is without any regard whatever to persons. For angels who are in the spiritual sense of the Word have no idea of person or of place in any particular of what they think or speak, for the idea of person or of place limits and confines the thoughts, and thereby renders them natural; it is otherwise when the idea is abstracted from persons and places. It is from this that angels have intelligence and wisdom, and that thence angelic intelligence and wisdom are ineffable. While man lives in the world he is in natural thought, and natural thought derives its ideas from persons, places, times, and material things, and if these should be taken away from man, his thought which comes to perception would perish, for without these he comprehends nothing; but angelic thought is apart from ideas drawn from persons, places, times, and material things; and this is why angelic thought and speech are ineffable, and to man also incomprehensible.

[5] And yet a man who has lived in the world a life of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbor comes, after his departure from the world, into that ineffable intelligence and wisdom; for his interior mind, which is the very mind of his spirit, is then opened, and then the man, when he becomes an angel, thinks and speaks from that mind, and consequently thinks and speaks such things as he could not utter or comprehend in the world. Such a spiritual mind, which is like the angelic mind, every man has; but because man while in the world speaks, sees, hears, and feels, by means of a material body, that mind lies hidden within the natural mind, or lives above it; and what man thinks in that mind he is wholly ignorant of; for the thought of that mind then flows into the natural mind, and there limits, bounds, and so presents itself as to be seen and perceived. So long as man is in the body in the world, he does not know that he has within him this mind, and in it possesses angelic intelligence and wisdom, because, as has been said, all things that abide there flow into the natural mind, and thus become natural according to correspondences. This has been said to make known what the Word is in the spiritual sense, which sense is wholly abstracted from persons and places, that is, from such things as derive their quality from the material things of the body and the world.

  
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27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.