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Hesekiel 27

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1 Und des HERRN Wort geschah zu mir und sprach:

2 Du Menschenkind, mach eine Wehklage über Tyrus

3 und sprich zu Tyrus, die da liegt vorn am Meer und mit vielen Inseln der Völker handelt: So spricht der HERR HERR: O Tyrus, du sprichst: Ich bin die Allerschönste.

4 Deine Grenzen sind mitten im Meer und deine Bauleute haben dich aufs allerschönste zugerichtet.

5 Sie haben all dein Tafelwerk aus Zypressenholz vom Senir gemacht und die Zedern vom Libanon führen lassen und deine Mastbäume daraus gemacht

6 und deine Ruder von Eichen aus Basan und deine Bänke von Elfenbein, gefaßt in Buchsbaumholz aus den Inseln der Chittiter.

7 Dein Segel war von gestickter, köstlicher Leinwand aus Ägypten, daß es dein Panier wäre, und deine Decken von blauem und rotem Purpur aus den Inseln Elisa.

8 Die von Sidon und Arvad waren deine Ruderknechte, und hattest geschickte Leute zu Tyrus, zu schiffen.

9 Die Ältesten und Klugen von Gebal mußten deine Risse bessern. Alle Schiffe im Meer und ihre Schiffsleute fand man bei dir; die hatten ihren Handel in dir.

10 Die aus Persien, Lud und Lybien waren dein Kriegsvolk, die ihre Schilde und Helme in dir aufhingen und haben dich so schön geschmückt.

11 Die von Arvad waren unter deinem Heer rings um die Mauern und Wächter auf deinen Türmen; die haben ihre Schilde allenthalben von deinen Mauern herabgehängt und dich so schön geschmückt.

12 Tharsis hat dir mit seinem Handel gehabt und allerlei Waren, Silber, Eisen, Zinn und Blei auf die Märkte gebracht.

13 Javan, Thubal und Mesech haben mit dir gehandelt und haben dir leibeigene Leute und Geräte von Erz auf deine Märkte gebracht.

14 Die von Thogarma haben dir Rosse und Wagenpferde und Maulesel auf deine Märkte gebracht.

15 Die von Dedan sind deine Händler gewesen, und hast allenthalben in den Inseln gehandelt; die haben dir Elfenbein und Ebenholz verkauft.

16 Die Syrer haben bei dir geholt deine Arbeit, was du gemacht hast, und Rubine, Purpur, Teppiche, feine Leinwand und Korallen und Kristalle auf deine Märkte gebracht.

17 Juda und das Land Israel haben auch mit dir gehandelt und haben Weizen von Minnith und Balsam und Honig und Öl und Mastix auf deine Märkte gebracht.

18 Dazu hat auch Damaskus bei dir geholt deine Arbeit und allerlei Ware um Wein von Helbon und köstliche Wolle.

19 Dan und Javan und Mehusal haben auch auf deine Märkte gebracht Eisenwerk, Kassia und Kalmus, daß du damit handeltest.

20 Dedan hat mit dir gehandelt mit Decken zum Reiten.

21 Arabien und alle Fürsten von Kedar haben mit dir gehandelt mit Schafen, Widdern und Böcken.

22 Die Kaufleute aus Saba und Ragma haben mit dir gehandelt und allerlei köstliche Spezerei und Edelsteine und Gold auf deine Märkte gebracht.

23 Haran und Kanne und Eden samt den Kaufleuten aus Seba, Assur und Kilmad sind auch deine Händler gewesen.

24 Die haben alle mit dir gehandelt mit köstlichem Gewand, mit purpurnen und gestickten Tüchern, welche sie in köstlichen Kasten, von Zedern gemacht und wohl verwahrt, auf deine Märkte geführt haben.

25 Aber die Tharsisschiffe sind die vornehmsten auf deinen Märkten gewesen. Also bist du sehr reich und prächtig geworden mitten im Meer.

26 Deine Ruderer haben dich oft auf große Wasser geführt; ein Ostwind wird dich mitten auf dem Meer zerbrechen,

27 also daß dein Reichtum, dein Kaufgut, deine Ware, deine Schiffsleute, deine Schiffsherren und die, so deine Risse bessern und die deinen Handel treiben und alle deine Kriegsleute und alles Volk in dir mitten auf dem Meer umkommen werden zur Zeit, wann du untergehst;

28 daß auch die Anfurten erbeben werden vor dem Geschrei deiner Schiffsherren.

29 Und alle, die an den Rudern ziehen, samt den Schiffsknechten und Meistern werden aus ihren Schiffen ans Land treten

30 und laut über dich schreien, bitterlich klagen und werden Staub auf ihre Häupter werfen und sich in der Asche wälzen.

31 Sie werden sich kahl scheren über dir und Säcke um sich gürten und von Herzen bitterlich um dich weinen und trauern.

32 Es werden auch ihre Kinder über dich wehklagen: Ach! wer ist jemals auf dem Meer so still geworden wie du, Tyrus?

33 Da du deinen Handel auf dem Meer triebst, da machtest du viele Länder reich, ja, mit der Menge deiner Ware und deiner Kaufmannschaft machtest du reich die Könige auf Erden.

34 Nun aber bist du vom Meer in die rechten, tiefen Wasser gestürzt, daß dein Handel und all dein Volk in dir umgekommen ist.

35 Alle die auf den Inseln wohnen, erschrecken über dich, und ihre Könige entsetzen sich und sehen jämmerlich.

36 Die Kaufleute in den Ländern pfeifen dich an, daß du so plötzlich untergegangen bist und nicht mehr aufkommen kannst.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #502

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502. Which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt. This symbolizes the two hellish loves, namely, a love of ruling springing from a love of self, and a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, loves which are present in the church where there is not one God and where the Lord is not worshiped, and where people do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

Sodom symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, a love of ruling springing from a love of self, as we shall presently see; and Egypt symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, as we shall also presently see. So, because these two loves are symbolized, therefore the city is called, spiritually speaking, Sodom and Egypt.

These two loves are present in the church where there is not one God and where the Lord is not worshiped, and where people do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, because people are born with these two loves, and they come into them as they grow up. Nor can these loves be removed except by God the Savior and by a life in accordance with His commandments, and God cannot remove them unless people turn to Him, and neither is a life in accordance with His commandments possible unless a person is led by Him. Actually it is possible, but not a life that contains anything of heaven and so of the church.

A life like that is possible only from Him who is life. That the Lord is that life may be seen in John 1:1, 4; 5:26; 6:33-35ff., 11:25-26; 14:6, 19, and in many other places.

[2] A love of ruling springing from a love of self, and a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, are the principal loves of all the loves in hell, and so are the origin of all the evils and thus of all the falsities in the church. This is something unknown at the present day. The delights of these loves, which surpass the delights of all the heart's pleasures, cause it to be unknown, even though they are, spiritually, Sodom and Egypt.

That Sodom is a love of ruling springing from a love of self can be seen from the description of Sodom in Genesis, where we are told that when angels arrived there, the inhabitants tried to forcibly assault them at the house of Lot, and that fire and brimstone rained down on them from heaven (Genesis 19:1ff.). Fire and brimstone symbolize that love, together with its appetites.

I saw similar sights when cities and societies of people like that were overthrown at the time of the Last Judgment and their inhabitants cast into hell.

These loves and their accompanying evils are symbolized by Sodom and Gomorrah in the following passages: Isaiah 1:10; 3:8-9; 13:19.

[3] That this love is symbolically meant by Sodom is unknown in the world, but remember it and recall it when you come after death into the world of spirits and you will be completely convinced.

It should be known, however, that a love of ruling springing from a love of self and a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services are two different things. The latter love is a heavenly love, while the first is a hellish one. Consequently, when one is in first place, the other is in last place; which is to say, when a love of ruling springing from a love of self forms the head, then a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services - which is a love of serving the neighbor originating from the Lord - forms first the feet, then the soles of the feet, and finally is trampled underfoot.

On the other hand, when a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services - which, as we said, is a heavenly love - forms the head, then a love of ruling springing from a love of self - which, as we said, is a hellish love - forms first the feet, then the soles of the feet, and finally is trampled underfoot.

Still, these two loves can hardly be distinguished by a person in the world. That is because in outward appearance they are similar. But they can be told apart by this, that a heavenly love is present in people who turn to the Lord and live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, while a hellish love is present in people who do not turn to the Lord, and who do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

  
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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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Exodus 14

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.

3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'

4 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." They did so.

5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

6 He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;

7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

9 The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

10 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

13 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.

14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still."

15 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.

17 I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."

19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.

21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

22 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

24 It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"

26 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."

27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.