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Apocalypse Revealed #899
899. And twelve gates. This symbolizes all the concepts of truth and goodness by which a person is introduced into the church.
Gates symbolize concepts of truth and goodness from the Word, because a person is introduced into the church by them. For the wall that had the gates symbolizes the Word, as explained just above in no. 898. Moreover we are later told that "the twelve gates were twelve pearls: each gate was of one pearl" (verse 21), and pearls symbolize concepts of truth and goodness (no. 727). Clearly it is by these concepts that people are introduced into the church, as through gates into a city.
That the number twelve symbolizes all people may be seen in no. 348 above.
Gates symbolize concepts of truth and goodness also in the following places:
I will... lay your foundations in sapphires; I will make your pinnacles of garnets, and your gates carbuncle-stones. 1 (Isaiah 54:11-12)
Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God! (Psalms 87:2-3)
Enter through His gates with confession... Confess Him, bless His name. (Psalms 100:4)
Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem is built as a city that holds fast together. (Psalms 122:2-3)
Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem! ...For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your children in your midst. (Psalms 147:12-13)
...that I may recount all Your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion. (Psalms 9:14)
Open the gates, that a righteous nation which keeps its fealties may enter in. (Isaiah 26:2)
...raise your voice... that they may enter the gate of the princes. (Isaiah 13:2)
Blessed are those who do His commandments... and enter through the gates into the city. (Revelation 22:14)
Lift up your heads, O you gates... that the King of glory may come in. (Psalms 24:7, 9)
The roads to Zion mourn... All her gates are desolate; her priests groan... (Lamentations 1:4)
Judah mourned, and her gates have been made to languish. (Jeremiah 14:2)
Jehovah has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion... Her gates have sunk into the ground. (Lamentations 2:8-9)
...who make a man to sin against the Word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate... (Isaiah 29:21)
They chose new gods; then he began to attack the gates. (Judges 5:8)
And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 3:25-26; 14:31; 22:7; 24:12; 28:6; 62:10; Jeremiah 1:15; 15:7; 31:38, 40; Micah 2:13; Nahum 3:13; Judges 5:11.
Since gates symbolize introductory truths, which are concepts from the Word, therefore the elders of the city used to sit as judges at the gates, as is apparent from Deuteronomy 21:18-21; 22:15; Lamentations 5:14; Amos 5:12, 15; Zechariah 8:16.
Примітки:
1. A name variously applied in former times to precious stones of a red or fiery color.
Isaiah 29
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Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
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then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.
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I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
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You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
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But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
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She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.
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The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
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It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
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Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
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For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
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All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:"
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and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."
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The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
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therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden."
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Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"
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You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?"
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Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
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In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
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The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
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For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off--
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who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
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Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.
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But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
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They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction."
