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Ezekiel 38

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1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:

4 and I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

6 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.

7 Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.

8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.

9 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:

11 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;

12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.

13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil?

14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it?

15 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;

16 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.

17 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?

18 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.

19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

21 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

22 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

23 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 512

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512. And the third part of the sea became blood.- That this signifies, that everything therein became the falsity of evil, is evident from the signification of the third part, which denotes all (see above, n. 506); and from the signification of the sea, which denotes the natural man, as explained above (n. 511); the third part of the sea therefore signifies the whole natural man, and everything therein; and from the signification of blood, which denotes the falsity of evil, concerning which also above (n. 329:2). From these things the spiritual sense of this verse can be seen, namely, that the great mountain burning with fire cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea becoming blood, signifies that the love of self, when it enters and occupies the natural man, turns every scientific therein into the falsity of evil.

[2] The love of self is merely a corporeal love, springing up from the ebullition and fermentation of effete substances, and from the irritant action of these inwardly in the body, whence the perceptive [faculty] of the mind, which requires a pure atmosphere, not only grows dull and gross, but also perishes. That the love of self is from that origin, is evident from its correspondence with human excrement. For those who have been allured by this love, in the other life, love foul smelling filth above all other things, and the stench of it is grateful to them, which is a sign that the effluvium arising therefrom affects the sensory of their smell with delight, as it before affected the common sensory, which is extended on all sides by means of interior cuticles. From this fact alone it is evident, that the love of self is gross and sordidly corporeal above all loves, and, consequently, that it takes away all spiritual perception which pertains to the truth and good of heaven and the church; it also closes the spiritual mind, and fixes its abode entirely in the natural and sensual man, which communicates most intimately with the body, and not at all with heaven. It therefore comes to pass, that all those in whom the love of self rules are sensual, and see the things which pertain to heaven and the church, only in thick darkness; and when they are alone and think in themselves, they reject and deny them. The signification of the third part of the sea being turned into blood, because the great mountain burning with fire was cast into it, is now evident from these things.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Zephaniah 1:3

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3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.