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Daniyel 11

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1 ואני בשנת אחת לדריוש המדי עמדי למחזיק ולמעוז לו׃

2 ועתה אמת אגיד לך הנה־עוד שלשה מלכים עמדים לפרס והרביעי יעשיר עשר־גדול מכל וכחזקתו בעשרו יעיר הכל את מלכות יון׃

3 ועמד מלך גבור ומשל ממשל רב ועשה כרצונו׃

4 וכעמדו תשבר מלכותו ותחץ לארבע רוחות השמים ולא לאחריתו ולא כמשלו אשר משל כי תנתש מלכותו ולאחרים מלבד־אלה׃

5 ויחזק מלך־הנגב ומן־שריו ויחזק עליו ומשל ממשל רב ממשלתו׃

6 ולקץ שנים יתחברו ובת מלך־הנגב תבוא אל־מלך הצפון לעשות מישרים ולא־תעצר כוח הזרוע ולא יעמד וזרעו ותנתן היא ומביאיה והילדה ומחזקה בעתים׃

7 ועמד מנצר שרשיה כנו ויבא אל־החיל ויבא במעוז מלך הצפון ועשה בהם והחזיק׃

8 וגם אלהיהם עם־נסכיהם עם־כלי חמדתם כסף וזהב בשבי יבא מצרים והוא שנים יעמד ממלך הצפון׃*

9 ובא במלכות מלך הנגב ושב אל־אדמתו׃

10 [כ= ובנו] [ק= ובניו] יתגרו ואספו המון חילים רבים ובא בוא ושטף ועבר וישב [כ= ויתגרו] [ק= ויתגרה] עד־[כ= מעזה] [ק= מעזו]׃

11 ויתמרמר מלך הנגב ויצא ונלחם עמו עם־מלך הצפון והעמיד המון רב ונתן ההמון בידו׃

12 ונשא ההמון [כ= ירום] [ק= ורם] לבבו והפיל* רבאות ולא יעוז׃

13 ושב מלך הצפון והעמיד המון רב מן־הראשון ולקץ העתים שנים יבוא בוא בחיל גדול וברכוש רב׃

14 ובעתים ההם רבים יעמדו על־מלך הנגב ובני פריצי עמך ינשאו להעמיד חזון ונכשלו׃

15 ויבא מלך הצפון וישפך סוללה ולכד עיר מבצרות וזרעות הנגב לא יעמדו ועם מבחריו ואין כח לעמד׃

16 ויעש הבא אליו כרצונו ואין עומד לפניו ויעמד בארץ־הצבי וכלה בידו׃

17 וישם פניו לבוא בתקף כל־מלכותו וישרים עמו ועשה ובת הנשים יתן־לו להשחיתה ולא תעמד ולא־לו תהיה׃

18 [כ= וישב] [ק= וישמ*] פניו לאיים ולכד רבים והשבית קצין חרפתו לו בלתי חרפתו ישיב לו׃

19 וישב פניו למעוזי ארצו ונכשל ונפל ולא ימצא׃

20 ועמד על־כנו מעביר נוגש הדר מלכות ובימים אחדים ישבר ולא באפים ולא במלחמה׃

21 ועמד על־כנו נבזה ולא־נתנו עליו הוד מלכות ובא בשלוה והחזיק מלכות בחלקלקות׃

22 וזרעות השטף ישטפו מלפניו וישברו וגם נגיד ברית׃

23 ומן־התחברות אליו יעשה מרמה ועלה ועצם במעט־גוי׃

24 בשלוה ובמשמני מדינה יבוא ועשה אשר לא־עשו אבתיו ואבות אבתיו בזה ושלל ורכוש להם יבזור ועל מבצרים יחשב מחשבתיו ועד־עת׃

25 ויער כחו ולבבו על־מלך הנגב בחיל גדול ומלך הנגב יתגרה למלחמה בחיל־גדול ועצום עד־מאד ולא יעמד כי־יחשבו עליו מחשבות׃

26 ואכלי פת־בגו ישברוהו וחילו ישטוף ונפלו חללים רבים׃

27 ושניהם המלכים לבבם למרע ועל־שלחן אחד כזב ידברו ולא תצלח כי־עוד קץ למועד׃

28 וישב ארצו ברכוש גדול ולבבו על־ברית קדש ועשה ושב לארצו׃

29 למועד ישוב ובא בנגב ולא־תהיה כראשנה וכאחרנה׃

30 ובאו בו ציים כתים ונכאה ושב וזעם על־ברית־קודש ועשה ושב ויבן על־עזבי ברית קדש׃

31 וזרעים ממנו יעמדו וחללו המקדש המעוז והסירו התמיד ונתנו השקוץ משוםם׃

32 ומרשיעי ברית יחניף בחלקות ועם ידעי אלהיו יחזקו ועשו׃

33 ומשכילי עם יבינו לרבים ונכשלו בחרב ובלהבה בשבי ובבזה ימים׃

34 ובהכשלם יעזרו עזר מעט ונלוו עליהם רבים בחלקלקות׃

35 ומן־המשכילים יכשלו לצרוף בהם ולברר וללבן עד־עת קץ כי־עוד למועד׃

36 ועשה כרצונו המלך ויתרוםם ויתגדל על־כל־אל ועל אל אלים ידבר נפלאות והצליח עד־כלה זעם כי נחרצה נעשתה׃

37 ועל־אלהי אבתיו לא יבין ועל־חמדת נשים ועל־כל־אלוה לא יבין כי על־כל יתגדל׃

38 ולאלה מעזים על־כנו יכבד ולאלוה אשר לא־ידעהו אבתיו יכבד בזהב ובכסף ובאבן יקרה ובחמדות׃

39 ועשה למבצרי מעזים עם־אלוה נכר אשר [כ= הכיר] [ק= יכיר] ירבה כבוד והמשילם ברבים ואדמה יחלק* במחיר׃

40 ובעת קץ יתנגח עמו מלך הנגב וישתער עליו מלך הצפון ברכב ובפרשים ובאניות רבות ובא בארצות ושטף ועבר׃

41 ובא בארץ הצבי ורבות יכשלו ואלה ימלטו מידו אדום ומואב וראשית בני עמון׃

42 וישלח ידו בארצות וארץ מצרים לא תהיה לפליטה׃

43 ומשל במכמני הזהב והכסף ובכל חמדות מצרים ולבים וכשים במצעדיו׃

44 ושמעות יבהלהו ממזרח ומצפון ויצא בחמא גדלה להשמיד ולהחרים רבים׃

45 ויטע אהלי אפדנו בין ימים להר־צבי־קדש ובא עד־קצו ואין עוזר לו׃

   

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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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Genesis 46

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1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."

3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

23 The son of Dan: Hushim.

24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'

34 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."