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Daniel 12

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1 Siihen aikaan nousee Miikael, se suuri enkeliruhtinas, joka seisoo sinun kansasi lasten suojana. Ja se on oleva ahdistuksen aika, jonka kaltaista ei ole ollut siitä saakka, kuin kansoja on ollut, hamaan siihen aikaan asti. Mutta siihen aikaan pelastetaan sinun kansasi, kaikki, jotka kirjaan kirjoitetut ovat.

2 Ja monet maan tomussa makaavista heräjävät, toiset iankaikkiseen elämään, toiset häpeään ja iankaikkiseen kauhistukseen.

3 Ja taidolliset loistavat, niinkuin taivaanvahvuus loistaa, ja ne, jotka monta vanhurskauteen saattavat, niinkuin tähdet, aina ja iankaikkisesti.

4 Mutta sinä, Daniel, lukitse nämä sanat ja sinetöi tämä kirja lopun aikaan asti. Monet sitä tutkivat, ja ymmärrys lisääntyy.

5 Ja minä, Daniel, näin, ja katso, siellä seisoi kaksi muuta, toinen virran tällä rannalla, toinen virran tuolla rannalla.

6 Ja toinen sanoi pellavapukuiselle miehelle, joka oli virran vetten yläpuolella: "Kuinka kauan on vielä näitten ihmeellisten asiain loppuun?"

7 Ja minä kuuntelin pellavapukuista miestä, joka oli virran vetten yläpuolella, ja hän nosti oikean ja vasemman kätensä taivasta kohti ja vannoi hänen kauttansa, joka elää iankaikkisesti: "Siihen on vielä aika, kaksi aikaa ja puoli aikaa. Ja kun pyhän kansan yhden osan hajotus on loppunut, silloin nämä kaikki täyttyvät."

8 Ja minä kuulin, mutta en ymmärtänyt, ja minä sanoin: "Herrani, mikä on oleva näitten päätös?"

9 Niin hän sanoi: "Mene, Daniel, sillä ne sanat pysyvät lukittuina ja sinetöityinä lopun aikaan asti.

10 Monet puhdistetaan, kirkastetaan ja koetellaan, mutta jumalattomat pysyvät jumalattomina, eikä yksikään jumalaton ymmärrä tätä, mutta taidolliset ymmärtävät.

11 Ja siitä ajasta, jolloin jokapäiväinen uhri poistetaan ja hävityksen kauhistus asetetaan, on oleva tuhat kaksisataa yhdeksänkymmentä päivää.

12 Autuas se, joka odottaa ja saavuttaa tuhat kolmesataa kolmekymmentä viisi päivää.

13 Mutta sinä, mene, siksi kunnes loppu tulee; ja lepää, ja nouse osaasi päivien lopussa."

   

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Apocalypse Explained #1045

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1045. Having in her hand a golden cup, full of abominations and the uncleanness of whoredoms, signifies having doctrine from profaned goods and truths. This is evident from the signification of a "cup," as being falsity from hell, for a "cup" has a similar signification as "wine," and "wine" signifies truth from heaven, and in the contrary sense falsity from hell (See n. 887, 960, 1022). And as a "cup" signifies truth or falsity, and the doctrine of every church is either of truth or of falsity, for all truth or falsity of the church is contained in doctrine, so a "cup" also signifies doctrine, and "a golden cup" the doctrine of falsity from evil.

[2] As in Jeremiah:

Babylon is a golden cup in the hand of Jehovah, making the whole earth drunken (Jeremiah 51:7).

It is called "a golden cup" for the same reason that the woman is said to be "arrayed in purple and scarlet, and inwrought with gold, precious stones and pearls," that is, from the appearance in externals; and yet in internals it is like a cup "full of abominations and uncleanness." For it is like what the Lord says of the externals and internals with the Scribes and Pharisees:

Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, who cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. And ye make yourselves like unto whited sepulchers, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of bones of the dead and all uncleanness (Matthew 23:25-27).

The above is evident also from the signification of "abominations," as being the profanations of good (of which presently); also from the signification of "the uncleanness of whoredom," as being the profanation of truth. For "whoredom" signifies falsification of truth (See above), therefore its "uncleanness" signifies profanation.

[3] In regard to the profanations that are signified by "abominations," they are perversions of the holy things of the church, thus conversions of its goods into evils, and of its truths into falsities. They are called "abominations" because the angels abominate them; for so far as they have been holy things of the church, derived from goods and truths from the Word, they ascend into heaven; but so far as they have been applied to evils, and thus profaned, they carry with them what is infernal, which lies hidden within; and consequently they are perceived as things dead, in which there was once a living soul; and this is why heaven abominates and detests them.

[4] That this is the meaning of "abominations" in the Word is evident from the account of the abominations of Jerusalem in Ezekiel:

As that she took of the garments of her adorning which were given to her, and made for herself high places of various colors, and committed whoredom upon them;

That of the gold and silver given to her, she made herself images of a male, and committed whoredom with them;

That the oil, incense, bread, fine flour, and honey, that were given to her, she gave for an odor of rest;

That they sacrificed their sons and daughters;

That she committed whoredom first in Egypt, and afterwards with the sons of Assyria, and finally with the Chaldeans; besides other things that are there called abominations. (Ezekiel 16:2-63).

All these things signify profanations of the Word, of the church, and of worship. So in other passages where abominations are either recounted or mentioned (as Jeremiah 7:9, 10; 16:18; 32:35; Ezekiel 5:11; 7:19, 20; 8:6-18; 11:21; 14:6; 20:7, 8; Deuteronomy 7:25, 26; 12:31; 18:9, 10; Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14; Daniel 9:27; 11:31).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.